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Bix Barton #BixBarton #RumAndUncanny
Bix Barton Master of the Rum and Uncanny, Barton works for the Department of the Irrational in Whitehall. Accompanied by his talking walking stick Michael Cane, Barton takes the cases too bizarre for anyone else.
https://shop.2000ad.com/series/bix-barton
Wikipedia
Bix Barton is a fictional comic book character featured in the British science fiction anthology magazine 2000 AD. The character was created by artist Jim McCarthy and writer Peter Milligan, and first appeared in print in 1990.
The Barton stories are humorous in nature and deal with the adventures of the character in his role as sole employee of Her Majesty's Government's Department of the Irrational where he uses Holmes-like abilities to solve cases relating to weird and supernatural ("rum and uncanny") events.
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They're incubating in the Sun! #ProjectHailMary
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2000AD was a constant tour of cultures by allegory (with explosions).
Don't know where the design ideas came from for "Old Horny" but this is the nearest I've seen.
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from 2000 AD comic, 20 JAN 1990, PROG 662