If so, how long have you been reading? Do you collect your progs?
How’s about favourite strips.
There have been some excellent stories rising their heads every so often like Glimmer Rats and Necronauts and the artists that penned them but Dredd still comes out tops. A recent strip Relentless was magnificent. Judge Dredd, despite the movie, is the Law.
So, do any fans of the galaxy’s greatest thrills inhabit the boards?
I was a huge 2000AD fan for about a year, just following 1999, but now it just seems so last year.
I was a big Dredd fan from way back in the early days, I have a copy of 2000AD with Dredd’s first appearance, god how long ago was that? I even have some assorted Dredd trinkets like a 14" plastic model of Dredd (unassembled new in box) and other Dredd 2’ action figures. Am I a nut? No, but I knew a lot of nutty otaku who always found dredd stuff, they knew I liked it so they always bought stuff for me.
But I lost track of all that after Necropolis, when some cheap US company bought it and rewrote the whole mythos. I should keep up with 2000AD, but I just want pure Dredd. How is it lately?
Hey…
Cool.
I developed a major thing for Rogue Trooper. I loved that strip. My main encounter was with a collection book (#2 I think in which… lemme see… I know Rogue hooked up with a foxy female in it who eventually turned out to be a traitor. And it had two blokes in it who were loosely based on Mr Bradford and Mr Bingley, from the TV ads for the Bradford & Bingley building society. But the guys in the strip were mercenary merchants, if you will: they had the flags of both sides, anyway, in case either showed up, and they planned foolishly to knock Rogue on the head and sell his eyeballs (or some such nonsense). I believe they got their asses whupped.
Never really read much of the rest of the story, although 'm told Rogue did eventually find the traitor, his dead buddies on his equipment all got new bodies, and everybody lived happily ever after.
Dredd mainly inspired me to make several abortive attempts on Sylvester Stallone’s life. I’m still doing the community service for that one. I miss 2000AD but I just never could get into the mag itself. Such depth and beauty, in such SMALL PORTIONS. Three or four pages an issue? I’m sorry. I’d go crazy.
Anybody remember when Viz ran a story a while ago about disappointed citizens who’d been looking forward to living in cities on the moon and having their own personal hovercrafts and shit by the year 2000 - and the government offering an apology for the late arrival of these cities and other goodies, and officially moving the CITIES ON THE MOON DATE to 2020?
Damn that was a long sentence. I’m going to bed.
My brother started collecting 2000AD when it joined with Starlord back in 1977. He collected right up to 1984 or so. I started re-collecting from around 1986 to Prog 900, which was around 1997 or so.
I was a fan of the mid eighties stuff - the new direction of Nemesis the Warlock, Dredd drawn by Will Simpson or Carlos Ezquerra or Steve Dillon. Then there was the PJ Maybe stories drawn by Liam Sharp, and Rogue Trooper, and Strontium Dog, and ABC Warriors (Steve Bisley when he did black and white was masterful, but he turned into boring very rapidly)… and there were tons of other uniquely cool stuff. Like Ace trucking Co, and Hewligan’s Haircut.
Apparently the new Editor is revamping 2000AD into a bit of a retro feel - trying to bring back the charm and originality of its heydey. It may be worth me trying to find a copy of it here someplace.
I read it at junior school, and even had a letter published in it (some infantile gibberish no doubt). I used to love Rogue Trooper and that one about the two bounty hunter types (can’t remember the name of it - one was a bearded Viking type who died, the other had unfeasibly large handguns). Could have been Strontium Dog. Slaine was also quite good, especially when it got silly with all of the odd monsters and energy weapons.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I had a drawing published in about 1996, called ‘Kiwilander’, which was my interpretation of a Judge from New Zealand. It was a pretty crappy issue otherwise, unfortunately.
I loved 2000AD - read all my brother’s progs (he’s the collectr) up until oh, I don’t know - that Armoured Gideon stuff and the wussification of Rogue Trooper - he’s the last GI, people, not some assembly line blue rent-a-soldier doin’ good all over the galaxy…sigh
Lessee, my favourites would be:
Slaine
Dredd
Anderson, Psi Division (babe of note)
RoboHunter
Rogue Trooper
Nemesis/ABC Warriors, esp. the crossover piece
and Strontium Dogs
I also rate Ace Trucking, and Hewligan was good
Was there ever a story about this Nubian Roman gladiator/soldier who had his soul stolen by some alien and went out there looking for it? Or did I imagine that one?