Genius

John Glashan was an artist and cartoonist, In 1978 the Observer magazine gave him a regular half page, in which, for 228 episodes, he recorded the absurd and epic adventures of Anode Enzyme and his employer Lord Doberman, under the title Genius. Released from the petty encumbrances of normal life - Enzyme by his superlative IQ (12,794, though he lost a few points when he watched television) and Doberman by his superlative wealth - these two embark on a programme of esoteric research, performing laboratory experiments on sex therapists, exploring the vulgar extremities of wealth and poverty, isolating pure guilt in a flask, inventing such useful devices as the Doom module, which runs in terror from anything that moves, and a machine which lobs portable television sets into the sea. Who couldn't make a film about a man cutting up a grand piano with a chainsaw?