Running Jokes and Repeated Themes
- Each story begins with members of the Provisional IRA or the Ulster Volunteer Force attempting (and failing) to assassinate Kev in order to "avenge (their) noble brothers".
- The start of each story also has a scene in which Kev loses money on a horse-race because the horse becomes incapacitated. This happens in more and more ludicrous ways each time.
- Another running joke sees Kev seemingly commenting on a terrible tragedy in a newspaper, only for it to be revealed that he is reading a sports article.
- The first three stories also featured ongoing arguments between Kev and Froggett, the man assigned to clear up the bodies of everyone that tries to kill Kev.
- Kev often finds out that a friend of his is gay when he goes on a gay-bashing rant.
- The Carrier (The Authority's sentient shiftship/base of operations) is usually introduced in mainstream Authority books with a piece of prose listing its capabilities and/or current location. For example, from The Authority #1: 'The Carrier: Moving downwake through the devachanic realm at a speed of twenty-five dreams per second...' However in books and stories involving Kev a suitably earthier piece of text is used. For example: 'The Carrier: The Death Star can suck its big fat c**k.'
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