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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 8:57:29 GMT
2000 AD is forty years old this month. So I thought I'd provide a link to a celebratory article... as we all love 2000AD, don't we? 2000 A.D.
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Post by Timelord007 on Feb 24, 2017 9:27:43 GMT
I fought the law & Dredd kicked my ass, pity Big Finish couldn't reissue there audios on CD there's a few i need to get.
And give Karl Urban another Dredd movie he's awesome in the role.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 13:57:19 GMT
I am the law!
Yeah, I found it strange that the 2000 AD audios that Big Finish produced never sold that well. I always thought Judge Dredd was popular. (?) It was a good range.
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Post by doomlord on Feb 24, 2017 15:52:32 GMT
I still have my first issue bought from all that time ago (I was 6½ at the time), in fact I still have every issue from 1977 to 1997 (I stopped at Prog:1000). I'm more of a fan of the comic's first ten years, they to me are the classic years of 2000AD. Although I was sci-fi/space/monster mad at that age, I must admit it was the red Space Spinner that attracted me to the comic first and foremost. I presume I only understood the strips on a basic level but never the less I got the gist of the stories and loved the gore of Flesh. I remember losing my red Space Spinner on the same day, it fell victim to some roof guttering in a neighbouring block and I was too timid to ask if the owner could nudge it down with a broomstick or something I still have my (Prog:2) Biotronic Stickers still intact on their backing sheet still though, so that's at least one saving grace. It was my first introduction to Dan Dare and I remember my Dad saying, 'Hmm, it's not quite how I remember him', which subsequently led to him going over to his mother's and sifting through a few boxes in her attic and pulling down complete volumes of his own Eagle comics from the 1950s which I never knew he had! The Eagles were a little too precious for him to handover at that age and it wasn't until the new Eagle relaunch in 1982 that he handed them down to me properly and look after and now that my father has since passed away, they remain some of my prised possessions.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 21:02:05 GMT
I must admit it was the red Space Spinner that attracted me to the comic first and foremost. I presume I only understood the strips on a basic level but never the less I got the gist of the stories and loved the gore of Flesh. I remember losing my red Space Spinner on the same day, it fell victim to some roof guttering in a neighbouring block and I was too timid to ask if the owner could nudge it down with a broomstick or something I still have my (Prog:2) Biotronic Stickers still intact on their backing sheet still though, so that's at least one saving grace. Ahhhh... those days of British comics and their free gifts... While the US Marvel comics on Irish racks just had adverts for plastic soldiers, Sea Monkeys and X-Ray glasses, the British comics of the 1970's came with free gifts, like those Space Spinners, boomerangs, cut-out X-Fighters and plastic whistles, etc... I remember them well. If this was a comic site I'd start a discussion about what our favourite comic freebies were! But we'll just leave it at celebrating 40 years of 2000 AD.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 10:50:47 GMT
I was ten years old when 2000ad first occured, and I got it mainly because my dear old Dad was interested in the new Dan Dare. In the event, I think I was more impressed than he was, but it wasn't until Judge Dredd moved in with Issue 2 that it really took off for me. MACH 1 was excellent when it moved away from the Six Million Dollar Man format into more sinister waters, Flesh was always a favourite ... and the list goes on.
Possibly my favourite story was Black Hawk, which began in Tornado comic, and then transferred to 2000ad when the two publications merged. Throwing off its historical trappings, bit became a showcase for the exceptional, psychedelic, epic artwork of Bellardinelli. Absolutely brilliant, barmy, escapist thrills.
I've drifted away from it partly because my flat is full of too many books and graphic novels already, but wish it well. I've ordered the 'Thrill Power Overload' anniversary book and can't wait to read it.
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