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What's going on in 2000AD these days?

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21:37 / 28.10.03

I was a pretty solid 2000AD reader when I was younger (my dad liked to read it) and remained reasonably solid after that... but it's not something I seem to see much around where I am in the US. For "much" read "at all". Maybe I've just been unlucky.

I was thinking of taking out a subscription, seeing as how I'm moving into a new place. Question is, is it worth it at the moment? Is it in one of its semi-regular "shit" periods?

I'll probably subscribe anyway, but I'm curious.

Dan Fish - @Fish1k

08:42 / 29.10.03

I don't buy it at the moment, but I have been known to flick through it in the newsagents, and the quality looks pretty decent on some of the strips.

I believe there is a new US comic coming out, reprinting some of the stories - 2000ad showcase I think it may be called. You should take a look around www.2000adonline.com

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

09:15 / 29.10.03

It's been shit for years. Shame, so many good memories. It's been taken over by retroist snobs, the sort of people who hated the morrison/millar/smith period. And they still haven't sacked Dan Abnett.

10:19 / 29.10.03

2000AD are ramping up for another non-shit period and have taken producing graphic novels In house (and out of the hands of Titan) This means that over the coming months a lot of classic strips that have been out of print for a long time/never been collected will be coming (excluding Zenith...).

11:04 / 29.10.03

Not exactly related but I noticed that the 2000AD Megazine was republishing Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun's Charley's War whilst browsing the racks.

Not sure how much they will reprinting but if you've not seen this it's worth picking up -- a realistic portrayal of World War I seen through the eyes of a Working Class Soldier in the infantry.

More Details here:

http://charleyswar.tripod.com/

20:08 / 04.11.03

WHaaaa? Charley's war reprinted? Why didn't anyone tell me?
[Sets alarm early to make sure he can get to comic shop (any) first thing tomorrow]

Earlier than I thought

20:46 / 04.11.03

They've also reprinted Darkie's mob, which scared the living shit out of me years ago and proceded to do the same again on re-reading it.

10:43 / 08.05.04

Just bumping this up to say I picked up 2000AD last week (the first issue of the new spring offensive) and I really enjoyed it.

The Dredd Strip was simple, but incrediblely funny - Wagner showing just how good his comic timing is and the black and white Bill savage strip looks promising. The only strip that really annoyed me was the Moby Dick in space strip, A.H.A.B. But 4 strips out of 5 were enjoyable - that's got to be good.

13:19 / 08.05.04

I miss Sinister/Dexter

21:12 / 08.05.04

...must...not...reply...to...thread...

2k hasn't been shit for years. It was shit, then it got better.

The current Assault is pretty good so far. Dredd, Chopper, Savage (the modern version of Invasion), a wally squad strip called Low Life, and A.H.A.B. Best line up of strips for a while, great artists on it. Give it a go.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

12:59 / 09.05.04

I picked up 2000 AD Extreme at the local recently, since they6 had been stuck with a copy and said I could get it on deep deep discount, and I liked it. It's still cheap, even without the discount, is 100 pages and collected the entire PJ Maybe story.

Are the other issues of it this good? And if so, anyone know where I can get them here in the states? I'd even be willing to send money to people who could get them for me, since they aren't on eBay.

13:09 / 09.05.04

Rose - subscribe, and they’ll post it to your door every week. I warn you though, the quality regularly waxes and wanes, whatever DavidXBrunt says. When it’s good, it’s very very good, but when it’s bad it’s Hilary Robinson.

Actually, I really like 2000AD at the moment. I dig the whole idea of it. It’s cool again.

13:32 / 09.05.04

Outside of the quality of the strips one of the other things I really like about 2000AD is that, in the UK at least, its available in newsagents and WHSmiths - not just a few specialist comic shops. You can pick it up along with other mags in train stations as an impulse buy...

16:08 / 09.05.04

Nah, I never said it doesn't go through rough patches, it's just come oout of a slump. I just think it's better now than it has been in a long time. Even at it's current worst it's better than any random issue from the 90's.

17:21 / 09.05.04

Did anyone read the 13-issue mega arc involving some crime baron taking over Megacity 1, exiling Dredd, killing off most of the Judges and ex-Judge deMarco (Dredd's girlfriend!) leading a guerilla war to take back the city? That was fucking awesome.

19:59 / 09.05.04

Sorry, Dave, I couldn’t resist having a tease. Probably there should be a smiley sticking it’s tongue out or something. I know you never said that: just pulling your leg, is all. Apologies.

20:24 / 10.05.04

Fair enough, let's face it I keep meaning to post on other threads but never get round to it. Teasing is fair game, I think.

Anyway, what with the possibility of Jock drawing Batman/Judge Dredd 5, a decent line-up in the weekly, Charlies War in the Megazine, and Tyranny Rex due back in the next few weeks things are pretty good for Tharg at the moment.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

08:10 / 11.05.04

Oh shit, the Nerco Nacros arc with Orlock. That fucking ruled. I was always disapointed that they never followed the implications of that strip that the justice department was utterly decimated and most of the Judges were dead. Oh, and DeMarco survived to get her own shit spin off in the megazine.

The summer offensive is pretty meh. The paper's still shitty, the scripts still dull (Pat Mills: fuck off you boring tosser), the decisions to resurrect obscure strips that ran for 20 issues or so in 1977 still utterly inexplicable. There's no decent art talent save Henry Flint.

08:39 / 11.05.04

I for one would take Pat Mills over Dan Abnett any day of the week.

lonely as a cloud...

09:46 / 11.05.04

Tyranny Rex coming back? *drools*
Hmmm, I should keep an eye out for that...

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

08:23 / 12.05.04

Man, what? She died, it was an awesome storyline, let it be. First time I truly realised I was going to die was when I read that issue, so it's kind of a milestone for me.

16:16 / 12.05.04

"And they still haven't sacked Dan Abnett."

I know fucking amazing.

I just starting buying it (again) two issues ago mainly for the Pat Mills scripted Savage. It was pretty good.

23:54 / 12.05.04

I for one would take Pat Mills over Dan Abnett any day of the week.

Who fucking wouldn't?

Not I. But you can have neither, as I do.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

10:33 / 13.05.04

New Chopper's nice. I can't be arsed to read the words in that new Wally Squad strip, I just gaze at Henry Flint's amazing art and sigh whistfully. AWFUL Gordon Rennie Dredd this issue but that seems par for the course these days.

That new Ahab strip is done buy the guys who wrote most of the Sonic the Hedgehog UK comic series, phact phans!

19:18 / 14.05.04

Ahab isn't as bad as it could be. Except yet again the entire Earth has to be in dire danger.

11:31 / 17.05.04

well i got this weeks to see if there was owt to shout about like everyone seems to be saying.

dredd - balls. really fucking bad strip that.

savage - quite good. the concept is high and mighty enough that mills can probably pull it off.

ahab - the 'gedditt?' moments are very annoying, but the bit where the captain ('hobbs'> groan) got his head punched in half was the highlight of the prog.

wally squad - must..find...strength...to turn...page... is this the guy who drew dredd/aliens last year? blimey - good days and bad days for him isn't it?

chopper - poor jug. nice to see a few familiar faces of course, but this episode was pretty boring really

overall - hrrrm... 6/10? or about that? three stories set in MC1 is two too many. much evidence that the mills/wagner brain trust is being mined to death. very little in the way of new talent to make me think a genuine upswing is in progress. the anthology format, condensed storytelling and sheer variety of art styles are all very welcome, and will get for next two progs to see if anything changes, but far from convinced as yet. someone tell me what they thought.

11:34 / 17.05.04

looking upthread, i see tyranny is back. when? will be buying tharg's handkerchief at least until the first few eps of that are out. always count on smith.(john, not ron, tho ron's okay too)

19:26 / 22.01.06

So then, what's going on in 2000AD these days?
C'mon, Brunt, I know you know, and I know you want to tell me.

20:01 / 22.01.06

Heh heh. Well the big news is Origin a 50 part mega epic to end all mega epics where Dredd investigates the Fargo bloodline.

Newer strips like Nikolai Dante and Sinister Dexter are both building to finales of their respective arcs, and the A.B.C.'s and Slaine are both coming to the end of their current arcs as well, there's a new series set in the same universe as Rogue Trooper (though Rogue and Nu Earth aren't in it).

In the weekly at the present there's a strip that explores a world torn apart by superpowered heroes (sort of what if Zenith and St John hadn't saced the world from the Lloigers), Slaine has been re-united with Ukko and Kai, Cabalistics Inc is back and Johnny and Wulf are having a silly adventure that involves them depilating with extreme prejudice.

More of the same really, with the recent hits like Red Seas, Lobster Random, and Low Life all having upcoming stories and new serials in the pipeline.

It's pretty damn good, thanks for asking.

20:29 / 22.01.06

Do you know, I might just start buying it again.

12:00 / 23.01.06

Newer strips like Nikolai Dante and Sinister Dexter

Laughing smiley.

A fall of geckos

14:00 / 23.01.06

What's Red Seas like?

There's a hardback out for a tenner or so which I was pretty tempted by last time I was in Gosh. A 2000AD pirate book either has to be excellent or bloody awful.

So is it worth a look?

17:40 / 23.01.06

Hmmm, that'll teach me to chop and change a paragraph lazily. Originally that started with the A.B.C.'s and Slaine and then said comparatively newer strips like Dante and Sin Dex. I'm sure you knew what I meant.

As for Red Seas I really like it. I don't like everything they publish but Red Seas is a whole heap of fun. It's more Harryhausen than Pirates of the Carribian, though the first story does have Zombies in it. It's got a nice fun script, decent characterisation, and lovely Steve Yeowell art.

If you're interested the second series wasn't as good as the first but the latest one was one of the most gosh darn funnest things I've read in a long time.

18:02 / 23.01.06

I'm sure you knew what I meant.

Heh. Actually, I thought you meant 'newer' in the sense of their being new storylines in those series, but yeah. It's just that the idea of Sinister Dexter still being present turns me off completely - for one thing, I'm sure I remember somebody, somewhere saying that it was going into retirement a couple of years back, for another it seems to suggest that the reasons I had for dropping 2000AD are still ongoing concerns. Poor editorial judgment, far too many filler (or just plain shit) strips, far too many mediocre/rubbish ongoing series (Sinister Dexter, Durham Red, Rogue Trooper, etc.) - lack of anything truly new or exciting, basically.

I did pick up an issue last time a couple of people here said good things, but came away from the experience feeling fairly nonplussed.

I'll prolly give it a flick through in WHSmiths this week if I see it.

20:50 / 23.01.06

Red Seas is a return to form for Youewel art, unhampered as it is from unsympathetic couloring - that is almost reson enough for its existence there...

I tend to pick up 2000AD sporadically on a whim... usually in train stations to read on the train...

if there are two strips in there that i really like then it's a good week... three strips and i'll be ver impressed and may even buy the next issue.

If Sinister Dexter is in it I'll be disappointed... and that usuall effects my enjoyment of the rest of the issue...

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