2000 AD - November 1987.

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We all love a good Christmas movie.

The trouble is it's not Christmas. It's November 1987.

But I know what! In the face of that disappointment, let's cheer ourselves up by going to the pictures!

And what might we find when we get there? 

We might find Cry Freedom, Made in Heaven, Russkies, Steel Dawn, The Running Man, Laguna Heat, Flowers in the Attic, The Last Emperor, Nuts, Sign o' the Times, Teen Wolf Too, Housekeeping, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Three Men and a Baby because they were all released in that month.

And I'm sure they were all fine examples of the cinematic arts.

But, of course, they all pale besides the true masterpiece which was unveiled that November.

And that was The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones. I've not even seen it and can still tell it was the high watermark of Western Civilisation.

Meanwhile, in the world of transportation, the UK's InterCity 125 broke the world speed record for a diesel-powered train by reaching 238 km/h which also happens to be 147.88 mph.

Elsewhere, the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in mainland China opened in Beijing, near Tiananmen Square.

Less thrillingly, it was the month in which London Underground's King's Cross fire killed 31 people and injured 100 others.

Mysteriously, persons unknown hijacked the signal of the United States' WGN-TV and WTTW stations to broadcast a video of an individual pretending to be Max Headroom.

But what if he actually was Max Headroom? Have the authorities ever considered that?

Have they?   

When it came to the UK singles chart, November began with the Bee Gees' You Win Again at Number One before it then lost to the sounds of T'Pau's China in Your Hand.

When it came to the accompanying album chart, the month arrived with Fleetwood Mac's Tango in the Night on top before being toppled by George Michael's Faith which then gave way to T'Pau's Bridge of Spies which then subsided before the might of Rick Astley's Whenever You Need Somebody which was then dethroned by Now That's What I Call Music! 10. Somehow, there were five weeks in that month, despite it only being 30 days long.

But what of the galaxy's greatest comic?

I have little to report on that score but I do know Tharg was still giving us a steady diet of Zenith, Bad Company, Judge Dredd, Nemesis The Warlock, Strontium Dog and Freaks.