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This is tough like time machine. I am Andy Hot Body Dawson. Pow, pow, pow.

I'm Sam Nifty Delaney, so what? Welcome along to the Melchester Odyssey once again. I have in my

left hand the issue dated 5th of March 1983. It says on the front cover, wow it says super new

story starts to day. Now what I'm going to do with regards to that is refer back to the previous

issue and give you a bit of backstory on what happened. And it was in the the the Roy's what's

called Roy's message the week before he says hi pals. The most important fact about next week's

issue, March the 8th, sorry March the 5th, is that it sees the start of a super brand new story

entitled Who Is Arrow. It replaces space invader which due to a repeatedly poor response

for readers finally had to be axed. Oh my god imagine if you're the writer of space invader

that would be so getting. I mean I've had columns before that of you know sort of done their

time, lived their cycle and then been dropped. And I mean that's happened to me yeah I can't

remember like loads of times you know because you do a column for a magazine sometimes it's a year

sometimes it's ten if you're lucky but in the end everything ends and it's a bit and it's

gutting at the time it ends and it's like a bit you're a bit bruised from it because someone has

to go on with we're not going to carry on with your your column anymore but they rarely are as

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