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2000AD is 36 years old today

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Okay this one is for the comic nerds tragics.

Written by Sinclair Davidson

February 27th, 2013 at 12:00 am

Posted in Libertarians don't live by argument alone

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  1. I read Dan Dare in the late 50s and early 60s in the Eagle boy’s newspaper and their annuals.

    Brian J. Gladish

    27 Feb 13 at 5:24 am

  2. I started reading this once it merged with Starlord in 79, was a big Ro-Busters fan but Dredd in now one of my favourites, still have a few copies sitting in my comic collection.

    Tator

    27 Feb 13 at 6:45 am

  3. The monsters are light weight compared to the horror of the TLS infestation in Canberra.

    WhaleHunt Fun

    27 Feb 13 at 6:50 am

  4. My favourite stories were The VCs, Halo Jones, and DR and Quinch. Least favourite was Bad Company. Best Judge Dredd story was “America”. Loved the Dredd movie, been watching the ‘kills’ clips on YouTube over and over.

    Sinclair Davidson

    27 Feb 13 at 7:55 am

  5. I liked Donald Duck and the nephews.
    And the Beagle Boys.

    And Scrooge.

    Poor Old Rafe

    27 Feb 13 at 8:56 am

  6. I’m going back and rewatching some old classics that have been trashed through my lifetime.

    The entire Rambo series is good.

    If you take the cheese out of Rocky III and IV (admittedly they’re triple cheeseburgers), and ignore V, the entire franchise is good.

    Conan is actually a hell of a movie, if you can put up with “sluts” and camel beat downs. The music actually seems to be what dates this film.

    The thing is, I don’t reckon I could sit through Judge Dredd. I reckon it was made for the fanboys.

    .

    27 Feb 13 at 9:08 am

  7. One for the tragics indeed.

    Ive been reading the things on and off since the days of “Flesh” (man eating dinosaurs, yes please).. Halo Jones, America, Time Flies, Zenith (someone make it into a movie), the comic has had an abundnce of gems.

    They had Dredd called the “greatest muderer in the world” in a recent edition, which, given he nuked the Sovs, is correct..

    thrfrollickingmole

    27 Feb 13 at 9:24 am

  8. The rule of Mad magazine: it’s best era was when you discovered it, and it’s been on a downhill slide since then.

    Steve D

    27 Feb 13 at 9:29 am

  9. Steve D

    200AD seems to miss that, there will be average stories, sometimes a month or 2 of them, but they always seem to pop up with something new.

    They just finished a story arc where a fanatic Sov unleashed hell on the city as revenge for Dredds nuking them 20 years ago.

    thrfrollickingmole

    27 Feb 13 at 9:36 am

  10. I still have a copy of number 2! (Crappy condition tho’)

    DMS

    27 Feb 13 at 10:06 am

  11. Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals Everybody’s happy as the dead come home Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis No one move a muscle as the dead come home

    Frankie

    27 Feb 13 at 10:08 am

  12. Dan Dare and Eagle.
    No one else comes close.

    Winston SMITH

    27 Feb 13 at 10:08 am

  13. Tator – that’s when I started reading it! Then scrambled for back issues – never got a number 1. I think I was about 10-11.

    Sinc – you just went up in my estimations (and probably down in that of some).

    DMS

    27 Feb 13 at 10:09 am

  14. …except Biggles, and I never saw them in the same room at the same time. Reckon they were the same bloke.

    Winston SMITH

    27 Feb 13 at 10:09 am

  15. The rule of Mad magazine: it’s best era was when you discovered it, and it’s been on a downhill slide since then.

    As a pre-teen discovered many forms of humour in Mad that I didn’t know existed.

    Of course in those days it was seen as scandulous and was banned from many of my friend’s households. Today it would be boring as it is too mild.

    Token

    27 Feb 13 at 10:20 am

  16. Bad Company – one of my favourites. Had to search through a lot of comic shops to put the entire series together.

    boy on a bike

    27 Feb 13 at 2:23 pm

  17. Doom Lord – how about putting together a graph of 2000AD cover prices over the 36 years. I notice it started at 9p and had reached 60p by 1993.

    boy on a bike

    27 Feb 13 at 2:40 pm

  18. Good idea – just under the whip at the minute.

    Bad company is out as a graphic novel – saw it yesterday at Minotour. Don’t know where you get it in Sydney – Galaxy isn’t as good as Minotour here. Not sure if it is both series or just the first (or second). i had forgotten about Zenith – that was the worst series. Also loved Skizz.

    Sinclair Davidson

    27 Feb 13 at 2:52 pm

  19. Zenith…

    That was brilliant, you might be thinking of one of the other forgettable series..

    Link here for Zenith artwork
    Wiki.

    thrfrollickingmole

    27 Feb 13 at 3:57 pm

  20. Crikey, I had forgotten all about Zenith. That was magnificent.

    boy on a bike

    27 Feb 13 at 4:44 pm

  21. They need to bring back The Muzak Killer.

    In real life.

    Adrien

    27 Feb 13 at 6:53 pm

  22. Sláine rivals Conan the Barbarian, particularly the Barry Smith editions.

    2000AD is almost the counterpart for the bright and bushy tailed Marvel comics, with The Punisher excepted and arguably far more inventive especially in its liberal use of pantropy, although the X-Men does have its moments.

    Great stuff.

    cohenite

    27 Feb 13 at 8:38 pm

  23. “pantropy” – word of the day.

    boy on a bike

    27 Feb 13 at 8:51 pm

  24. “pantropy” – word of the day.

    I would like wings but the hollow bones necessary to fly would be a drag; perhaps gills.

    cohenite

    27 Feb 13 at 9:04 pm

  25. DMS,
    I sort of went off it once I discovered sport as a teenager, plus the local newsagent stopped stocking it as I was the only one who bought it in a very small country town. Restarted buying comics seriously once I started at the Police Academy, got around 2000 comics (mainly DC with a good smattering of Marvel and 2000AD’s thrown in) in very good nick, especially after how some of them have been stored by the ex wife for a year or so whilst going through the divorce, have got them better protected now. Now I am corrupting my 10 year old boy with my fathers day pressie which is a subscription to a series of hard cover Marvel graphic novels.

    Tator

    27 Feb 13 at 9:22 pm

  26. Was a huge Colin Wilson (Rogue Trooper artist) fan in the early 80s. Snuck out and bought an old xBox recently after discovering a copy of the Rogue Trooper game in the Darwin Cash Convertors. (Then had to play it secretly at night while wifey was asleep.) Not a great game, but brought back lots of good memories.

    Just checked out Colin’s website – amazing artist – influences of Moebius and Juan Gimenez – and apparently living in Oz.

    PoliticoNT

    28 Feb 13 at 12:37 pm

  27. You’re a perfect father Tator.

    Yeah I had problems getting good comics in rural SA, but worked for the local newsagent as a newsboy (mostly to fund my habit) and badgered him to order them for me.

    DMS

    28 Feb 13 at 2:07 pm

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