Ed Fortune

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Journalist/Columnist for Starburst Magazine, print & online. Popculture media type, covering books, games,TV, films,theatre & tech. Podcaster, D&D person, that sort of thing. He/Him. Edinburgh.

From 1991's Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgment on Gotham. A frame of Judge Anderson with wild red/ginger hair saying 'SOMEDBODY LOOK'N FOR ME?'. Anderson looks more like Ania Magliano here, rather than the more common 'Debbie Harry but taller' take. Ania Magliano was born in 1998 btw, so no way was this deliberate.
Snipped image of a google search for the excellent Black Bright Theatre's show, The Hunger. The Starburst Magazine link has, thanks to Google's unique search system, the wrong image attached. Instead of a woman toting a shotgun (seriously, see this play), we have an image of Paddington bear.
Review from Starburst Magazine .com by Ed Fortune. Features Doherty looking demonic as the lead image. 3 Stars. Review reads One-man shows can be tricky, as it’s always a balance between performance and storytelling. Juggling genres is even harder, and Andrew Doherty’s latest show, Gay Witch Sex Cult, tries jolly hard to pull off a campy horror parody. The plot behind Gay Witch Sex Cult is a sort of 1970s-style spooky shaggy dog story that tends to delight STARBURST readers. Andrew Doherty embraces the role of an incredibly shallow real estate agent who falls in love with the wrong man and gets themselves in a spot of bother when he’s sent to check out a potential sale on a decidedly cursed Norfolk island. This is a very silly show, in both premise and execution, and it’s a delight to watch Doherty fling themselves across the stage with gay abandon. Our intrepid storyteller spins a tale of talking creatures, weird plants, insane locals and, of course, a gay witch sex cult. Doherty’s character is placed in such horrible situations that in any other story, you’d feel a pang of sympathy at times for them, but Doherty has created a truly unlikeable and funny central character. Calling the lead shallow is an understatement. And though this is played for laughs, that’s the main issue with the show; the main lead isn’t so much one-dimensional as entirely lacking; fortunately, Doherty plays this for laughs as hard as he can. Doherty turns what should be a creepy little Hammer Horror-style short into something truly dumb and rather fun to watch. The narrative does rely heavily on everyone being cartoonishly daft, but this a silly, spooky fun for grown-ups and utterly brilliant for anyone with a sense of humour that leans toward the queer.
Andrew Doherty: Reviewers Welcome... TO DIE! Cut and Paste from the Edinburgh Fringe website. Can I just say Andrew looks lovely here. Show blurb is as follows. When know-nothing, home-owning reviewer Felix Chatelier is invited to be a special guest at a new fringe festival, he is thrilled. But when he becomes embroiled with creepy townsfolk and horrific twists he must fight for his life and more importantly, his reputation, as he desperately seeks to answer the question 'Why oh why did I only give Andrew Doherty three stars?' Reviewers welcome at their peril.
Game of Thrones cast, but muppets. Plus Grover. From Sesame Street's A Game of Chairs.
Chart explaining common misconceptions about the Green Party (of England and Wales). This misinformation is wild; For example the false claim that the party wants 'end meat and diary' is actually 'support better farming standards', Open borders is actually 'manage migration' etc.
Wannabe Prime Minister, Transphobe and dickhead Wes Streeting with Super Creep Peter Mandelson.
Stack of prominent SF novels including Frankenstein and a Wrinkle in Time. Some spines spell out 'This Genre Kills Fascists'. Promo for tge Wiscon Members Assistance Fund.
Comic strip depicting Optimus Prime's Soul being stored on floppy disck.
Friday, 3 April 2026 16:30 Supernatural Comes of Age Salisbury-Wellington,Starts: 16:30Duration: 60 mins Saturday, 4 April 2026 10:30 Andor, fascism and resistance Pavilion,Starts: 10:30Duration: 60 mins Sunday, 5 April 2026 12:00 Agatha All Along Gladstone-Churchill,Starts: 12:00Duration: 60 mins 21:00 Outrageous Liars Pavilion,Starts: 21:00Duration: 60 mins
A Greggs Sausage Roll
Crisp packet - space raiders- bite sized bits of bootybeef flavour crispy corn snacks. Art from Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy. An elf like alien space pirate, behind bars, arrested by a 'police' with a huge shoulder bad.
Crisp packet - space raiders, cheese flavour crispy corn snacks. Art from Brett Ewins and Jim McCarth. An elf like alien space pirate and their crew.
Cover of Space Raiders crisps by Brett Ewins. A elf like space raider leads a gang of alien deliquents.
Still from the 1973 movie The Wicker Man. Actor Edward Woodward plays Officer Howie. In this picture, the officer is trapped in a wicker cage, pleading to be released. Fun fact; when they filmed this their was a goat in the cage above, and it urinated on the Edward Woodward during filming.
A yellow pouffe or footstool. This one has a lid, and the lid has 'teeth', making it look like a monster. It also has flat round 'monster feet'.
Two owls, well camouflaged in a tree. Gorgeous greys. They are superb.
Rowling describing Lolita as a 'romance'. It is not. This is a red flag.
Screenshot of a news article in regards Rowling's charity Lumos.
Splash page of Starburst Magazine 2025 interview with George Takei. It is called 'To Boldly Go'. A version of the cover from George's biography "It Rhymes With Takei dominates the right hand signed, and is drawing of many versions of the Star Trek actor, all tumbling out onto a pride rainbow.
A model of the Wicker Man, from the movie the wicker man. Approximately the right size for certain train sets or miniature games.
Post from David Allen Green, which says 'Bless those who think the Home Office can succesfully carry out a huge IT procurement exercise for digital ID cards for implementation before the next general election.' Green has closed retweets to reduce noise, but welcomes people contacting him on this platform to discuss.
Mascot costume; a sporty child reimagined as a humanoid horse. It has a unicron horn, but it's a traffice cone. It's called Finnie, a unicorn with a traffic cone for a horn. Mascot for Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026
A snake monster - it has arms and is armed with a sword, but is mostly snake. This creature can be found in D&D and other TTRPGs and has a specific name, which is being used a pun in this context.
The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England. (Just outside Manchester's gay village.) It is a bronze sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Alan is sitting on bench. The memorial is covered in flowers, as it is his birthday today.
Roman Fort (reconstruction) and Roman ruins, from the English town of South Shields. A red bio-hazard symbol is projected onto the fort.
String of text in a font known to a limited number of people. The obscurity is relevant to the post, which does mean this ALT description isn't very helpful, sorry.
The Iridescence 2026, which is a orange and yellow phoenix on a blue background.
Grant Morrison Meeting the character Animal Man.
Tailbacks of traffic being caused by the current ongoing work. SCOTS parents have been left fuming after queues of traffic and delays left their children late for school - due to J.K. Rowling's hedge being trimmed. The Harry Potter author has had the road adjacent to her 17th century home in Barnton, Edinburgh restricted this week whilst work is carried out on her towering Leylandii hedge. The 58-year-old billionaire has had four-way temporary traffic lights installed outside her £2.2m home with sections of the road closed to allow for a cherry picker to work on the shrubbery. Ongoing work to the 30-foot bushes this morning (WED) is the third day of arborists working at the home in the plush area of the capital, with works expected until the end of the week.
A screenshot from a recent BBC trailer promoting Doctor Who. The Doctor and companion have been translated into Hey Dugee, a pre-school childrens animation. Duggee, a big friendly dog and the leader of the Squirrel Club. Duggee reads a book while children play (these children are depicted as animals). The TARDIS (a blue police box), is present, as is The Doctor (as a bear) and the new companion (as a beaver?)
Flyer for the New York City Fringe. The picture is of a giant penguin, hanging off a skyscraper, King Kong style. The image is a little art deco. It contains dates for the fringe April 2 - 20.
Screen shot of 'The Simpsons - Lisa's Wedding'. Hugh and Homer are at Moe's Tavern. We can see an elderly Moe (with an eyepatch), the side of Homer's head and the back of Hugh's head. (Hugh is Lisa's fiance, an English Man based broadly on a young Hugh Grant.)
Screenshot of pig and junk stacking video game. One pig has a traffic cone on it's head.
Pink Tentacles on a Black Background. Tentacles grab a microphone. Title reads The Fifth London Lovecraft Festival. Event Details. With the horrors of a cold, damp, dark and stormy January fading, we march into February prepared to face fresh monstrous horrors, in the form of the returning London Lovecraft Festival. Taking over the Drayton Arms Theatre in South Kensington on the 16th and 17th of February, this is the fifth outing for what has become a favourite event amongst fans of all things Lovecraft and theatre. Starburst has attended previous iterations of the festival and had a fantastic, mind-scrambling time, immersing ourselves in the entertainment on offer. For 2025, the Festival launches at 2pm on the afternoon of Sunday, February 16th, with the interactive ‘Painting Pickman’s Model’. Director Leo Doulton, who was an Associate Director of immersive horror piece, The Key of Dreams, will lead attendees through a process of creating art, whilst discussing what makes a monster, and, we are promised, other topics that will be of interest to the audience. Described as ‘A Life Drawing Class with a difference’, we’d expect participants to be captivated by the tale Doulton will undoubtedly weave. See website for more
Twitter post from Robert Galbraith/ JKR, claiming that the SF community (which she calle the literary crowd) have been silent on Gaiman. A post above this points out that they've been quite vocal in their condemnation of Neil Gaiman, and she wouldn't know. TLDR: JK Rowling took her head out of the trough of mind-rotting substances today to post on twitter and talk utter bum water. Again.
Crude screen shot from Terry Pratchett's The Abombinable Snowbaby. Picture is in a cartoon style (it's from an animated short). A "framed photo" of the main character hugging a bearded older man who looks a lot like the late great Terry Pratchett.
Black and white cartoon; Judd Winicks's Barry Ween Scene: Two small boys (Barry and Jeremy) surrounded by hippos. Caption: "And even the inadvertent incident when I gave Hippopotamus the reproductive capabilities of rats" Barry: "Stop Humping , You Fat Fucks!!" Jeremy " Dude, There is a MOUNTAIN of hippo shit in Mrs Roenblatt's pool."
Extract from the Starburst Magazine Letter's column. In which a reader praises a previous article about Phillip K Dick written by Ed Fortune, lauding Ed's love of Dick.
YouTube splash page - Headline is Games Workshop (tm) is now bigger than Greggs! 4.6 Billion Pound Company. Subheader 'Games Workshop is BIGGER than Greggs! Insane new Report. Image is mostly headline, wiht a picture of Space Marine Ultramarine Marneue Calgar squeezed in as almost an after thought.
The prize winners from 1983's Krull Promotion to win a wedding About a dozen people eiter in white wedding dresses or white Tuxedos, crowded around a dairly small wedding cake.
The wedding honour guard, a promotion for the movie Krull. Black and white photo of six sinister looking 'storm trooper like' guards.
Black background, large multi-coloured font letter in a clear 'chalk on blackboard style', saying 'Toilets: A Place For Peace'. Also features a yellow dove of peace. Sign for World Toilet Day, which is on the 19th of November.
From Traffic Scotland's Gritter Tracker site. A road map of Scotland, showing the location and names of gritters and snow ploughs. Names include Skid Vicious, Spready Mercury, Thistle Grit Through, Gritty Gritty Bang Bang and so on.
The Bad Penny by Iain J Clark. Sorry, Hugo Award nominated artist, Iain J Clark. A black white illustration of a man (a vampire) crouching in alleyway. They hold a 'penny' in their hand, and are surrounded by either shadows or arcane glyphs. Based on photos from 90's era Vampire LARP, this illutration would have been the cover art for Signs And Portents. It was a regular zine that covered the local 'Vampire The Masquerade' LARP game in the North East of England.
Snoopy, the popular dog shaped popculture character, in a space suit. This is a medallion cast in silver, as it is an award issued by NASA. The Silver Snoopy best symbolizes the intent and spirit of Space Flight Awareness. An astronaut always presents the Silver Snoopy because it is the astronauts' own award for outstanding performance, contributing to flight safety and mission success
A kitten of a Scottish Wildcat ( Felis silvestris silvestris. Or Felis silvestris haggis, apparently). A small, black and grey striped cat looking pensive. The kitten is in what appears to be a sem-wild environment, but is probably actually a zoo as most Scottish Wildcats are in captivity.
Two flyers and a 'script book', all roughly the same size. The Script Book is for 'The King In Yellow (Act I ), Author Unknown. It is yellow with a simple geometric depiction of a city in bold black lines. Next to it is a yellow and black flyer. Written on it is says 'Have You Seen The Sign?'. A QR code leads to a booking website. It also contains 'the yellow sign', a pop culture symbol from the Cthulhu Mythos. It is a roughly two question marks and a 'wiggly' exclamation mark, assembled as a triskelion, with the QR code in the center. The second flyer is in the middle, partially obscured by the other two items. It is for the Edinburgh Horror Festival. We can partially see a picture of Edinburgh Castle, and the top of zombie's head. We assume the zombie is Scottish.