I've read those progs and they're good, fun interludes but far from the corruscating anticapitalist satire you'd expect from Pat Mills. The storyline of The Cursed Earth doesn;t suffer from their excision.
In terms of recommendations, I stopped reading 2000AD many years ago, but I still remember Peter Milligan's many excellent contributions with great fondness - the aforementioned Hewligan's Haircut, Sooner or Later, Tribal Memories, The Dead, which was an extraordinary and hallucinatory story with wonderfully grotesque art by Belardinelli, and perhaps the best, Bad Company, a trip into the heart of darkness depicting Earth fighting an unwinnable war in space with The Krool. Possibly the darkest thing ever printed in 2000AD, also very funny at the same time.
Also worth chasing down are the first run of stories by Pat Mills featuring the ABC Warriors, and "The Rise and Fall of Ro-Jaws and Hammer-Stein", an epic storyline in the Ro-Busters series. Both are long and rewarding stories about robots in human society that rival the best Science Fiction writing on the subject.
I'm getting all nostalgic thinking about these - I must try and find my Titan Books collections of them. |
