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davy francis shoebox part two oink blog oink blog search primary menu skip to content about writing diary oink ipc fleetway super naturals wildcat ring raiders marvel uk transformers g i joe visionaries dragon s claws death s head the sleeze brothers havoc mighty marvel checklists dark horse int aliens dracula jurassic park annuals retrospectives christmas socials bluesky instagram facebook search for oink contributors davy francis shoebox part two 7 june 2026 phil boyce 4 comments electric soup was scotland s adult humour comic with 17 issues released between 1989 and 1992 followed by a 10th anniversary special a while later in 1999 think viz but with thick regional accents in every panel and plenty of jabs at local politicians celebrities and even whole scottish cities there was quite the collection of these inside davy francis shoebox so i was looking forward to seeing plenty from the cowpat county creator unfortunately as i began to flick through them i soon came to realise this was a case of davy s friends being inside rather than the man himself thankfully eventually his unique art style popped up in 16 the penultimate issue of the run and the last of the regular issues in this box he also returned for the 10th anniversary special altogether we ve got three new strips from davy and one spoof i m sure fans of the blog will enjoy first up a rather more adult and scottish spin on one of oink s favourite spoof targets desperate dan of the dandy although fans of another oink blog comic should get a kick out of this too as a pig pal it s strange to see bad language in one of davy s strips but i m not for one second saying it shouldn t have been this is an adult comic after all there are less of the usual background gags than we were used to with his oink pages but i did laugh at the picture of mother davy s predator isn t half bad though right obviously look beyond the glasses his desperate dan is how i imagine a 90s hollywood live action take on the character would be so it feels perfect for the time of this comic moving on to the anniversary special and i have to warn you about this next strip it s blurred until you click on it for a reason it s very adult and i didn t want the images just sitting out there on the blog for all to see as you scroll on your morning commute originally drawn by tommy somme in the regular comic for the 10th anniversary special davy took over art duties for helmetman now you know this is an adult viz like comic so just think about what that superhero name could mean for a second before deciding to click i ll admit this is only here because it was drawn by davy who was creating a follow up for an established strip one that readers had an expectation of i ve never been a fan of this type of humour though maybe oink spoiled me yes oink could be cheeky at times but it was done in a genuinely original funny way and the comic was hilarious at all times whether it was one of those moments or not humour that relied solely on shocking the reader is a one trick pony to me and grows tired very quickly unfortunately for me the vast majority of electric soup is like this frustratingly it needn t have been this way in the few strips that don t use overly adult themes as the sole gag ooh nude bits and extreme language in a comic hehehe aren t we hilarious there are some genuinely brilliant moments davy himself supplies one in the y front which apart from the occasional rude joke reminds me very much of his oink strips by this i mean every panel has something to laugh at with plenty of sight gags that take the narrative captions and turn them into something else entirely leaning heavily into the ridiculously bizarre it s just gloriously stupid if electric soup had more of this kind of adult enough humour i d have loved these comics davy wasn t the only contributor capable of realising there s more to comedy for grown ups than boobs and genitalia while frank quitely could be just as guilty as the rest he also had the ability to see beyond the shallow schoolboy jokes and give us something properly funny in fact the final strip i want to show you is his but with the sheer amount of gags and silliness you d swear davy had written the script it s a spoof of alien³ so for the second time there s something here that readers of the aliens section of the blog should find funny i really enjoyed this film as a teen and as an adult i think the special edition is fantastic so much so i d rank it right alongside the first two movies thankfully i can still have a giggle at the things i love when their spoofs are done well and this is done very well indeed much like davy s y front oo er every panel had me chortling it s just relentless especially if you know the film well see no need for the so called adult humour that just ends up being adolescent and childish this alien³ strip and davy s non blurred pages above show that at least some of the people behind electric soup were genuine comedic talents it s just a shame their work is hidden amongst such unfunny nonsense maybe if i was a teenager i d have laughed at the rudeness here the first time i saw it but after growing up with the quality of oink i doubt it you can thank me later for trawling through all of these for the few gems within looking at some of the magazines still inside the shoebox i m a bit concerned about having to do so all over again with titles such as sweet fa and uc but then again i knew this going in and having a quick flick through they seem more professional genuinely aimed at adults with a proper sense of humour and include more oink contributors so while the subject matter of football or the sunday sport might not appeal to me i m still looking forward to the gems i can locate for you in the next part of this series later in the summer back to part one davy s shoebox menu oink contributors menu main oink menu share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share 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the phrases jings and crivens so we surmised they were maybe local slang from dundee i m from yorkshire so it never occurred to me that scottish people didn t sound exactly like those portrayed in dc thomason s comics etc like like reply phil boyce says 8 june 2026 at 17 41 i m no prude i enjoy crudeness if it s also funny beyond just being crude i m often laughing out loud and very loud at family guy every week but with the majority of electric soup i found it a bit of a one trick pony as the saying goes like liked by 1 person reply elliesdadgeoffbarker says 8 june 2026 at 19 07 i am unsurprisingly also a fan of viz in fact i ve even had a few words included in the profanisaurus like like elliesdadgeoffbarker says 7 june 2026 at 21 32 thanks spellchecker obviously i meant dc thomson like like reply leave a comment cancel reply δ follow oink blog on wordpress com type your email subscribe latest posts june 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 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