I mean the Max Normal thing specifically.

I think what it ultimately comes down to its how you feel about the stuff that Who was doing in the eighties. This story was definitely in the style of stuff like Paradise Towers or The Happiness Patrol where it's all about a sort of absurdly shaded slightly askew society.

Oh my god I have never made that connection before.

Gridlock works for me because it captures the JG Ballard meets 2000AD nature of a lot of the more interesting McCoy stories. Then again, I really like Paradise Towers.

I dunno, the time jump helped distance it from the gas leak year, which is nice.

M'not British, and it's genuinely not that hard to tell the accents apart.

That is, I think, how a lot of people feel about Griffiths. Lovecraft looms over Night Vale. It's not in a specific way, it's more in terms of how Lovecraft looms over all weird fiction. Either way, like Griffiths, he's a racist turd. He's also got a lot of shitty prose. You don't want to be seen as following in his…

As far as most people in the US are concerned, English is English and if someone's working class they're a cockney. Actual class signifiers be damned.