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Fantastic Four Has All Gone Pear Shaped

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Fantastic Four Has All Gone Pear Shaped

Matt Fraction recently visited Leeds for Thought Bubble. (No, apparently not, my mistake) And it appears took a little of the lingo back with him in today's Fantastic Four #3.

"Pear-shaped" is British slang for something going wrong, no longer a circle – when you are looking at a European pear, anyway. Which, in Europe, we do all the time.

Wikipedia states that Margaret Thatcher used the term when talking to Ronald Reagan but a) it doesn't sound like her at all and b) outside if Wikipedia I've found no evidence that this is true.

But where did Mr Fantastic pick up the expression?

Fantastic Four Has All Gone Pear Shaped

And hell, where did Ben Grimm? Too many late night sessions watching Peep Show? Will Reed start referring to his wife as Big Suze?

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London.

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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