What's the WORST thing about your PhD topic?

That is a very interesting topic. I remember thinking about impact when I saw the series of programmes on TV:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/comicsbritannia/comics-britannia.shtml

It must be difficult to be taken seriously, but then do you want to ?

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I remember watching quite casually and then getting sucked-in to the explanation of the socio-political background of the country at the times the comics were released, and how they changed over the years. I also have memories of a discussion of violence in comics especially the "Victor" "Battle", "Commando" and "Warlord". As a kid I used to love this stuff.

Also I remember recently seeing a documentary about the way in which war movies changed in the 20th century: before the war, the heroes were officers and gentlemen, but during the war it became necessary to motivate the troops and the focal characters were tommy infantryman. This reverted again once the war was safely won..Your take on this (being in Germany) may be slightly different to mine, but even though I have watched hundreds of them, I have never realised...

They have a very good War Studies department at Kings College which may be able to provide some resources for your research.

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Just starting a review on Chemotaxis models which so far doesn't seem particularly interesting...

But it sounds so impressive! To me at least...

Having to read blackletter Gothic for some of my primary texts. A few hundred pages' worth of blackletter Gothic.

Doing an experiment one day and repeating the exact same experiment the following day only to get entirely different results. Drives me nuts.