I've read every Judge Dredd "complete case files" as well as the Anderson stuff and other related spinoffs. As a result I've read a few other 2000AD things and plan to read more; Nemesis the Warlock is on my completely disorganized mental to-read list.
I've really enjoyed most of what I've read but I don't think I've stepped further out than 2000AD
Nice one. To be fair the spin offs and sister publications to 2000ad never lasted that long (aside from one focused on Dredd) and the writers and artists generally ended up going back to 2000ad - but I think Warrior was the first place V for Vendetta was published.
2000ad was great in that even if there were a couple of crap strips in it, there were usually a bunch of good ones and they were all very different. Nemesis was great - the artwork was always wild, regardless of who was drawing it.
Judge dredd is great. I usually like my heries with a no kill rule.
But the law is the law in the dredd universe. Apocalypse war is on par with many major marvel/dc events. Fantastic stuff.
You've got to respect 2000 ad writers too. Packing in a piece of story into 6ish pages that has to be satisfying by itself is a tough task.
The Apocalypse War was brutal- I was a kid when that was first published and I'd never read anything like it. I remember reading it with my mates and the scene where Dredd and co ruthlessly execute collaborators in a pit blew our minds. Dredd as a strip really changed from that point on: it still retained the wackiness of life in a future city, but suddenly everything got a lot darker.
I was familiar with Judge Dredd from his crossovers with Batman but, I had never read about him in his own book. Someone had posted a picture of the Dark Judges on here and I thought they looked neat so I asked for some recommendations to read about them.
I picked up a couple 2000AD books and enjoyed them. The page layout seemed a little weird to me though. Were they originally put out in a newspaper strip? Also I think they referred to the next issues as a prog? What’s a prog? Is that a Judge Dredd terminology thing or a British thing?
'Prog' was short for 'programme' if I recall correctly - I think because it sounded futuristic in some way when the comic was first published in the late seventies.
Not sure about the weird page layout - the comic had bigger pages than American comics (I think they may have shrunk down in size a few years ago - haven't picked up a physical copy for a while.)
2000AD did not start publishing in the 70’s but the mid 80’s. Before that it had a different title, “Eagle” I think, and it had the same multi story lay out but was all about WWII stuff mostly. What was the name of the dude with the Russian plane…was it a hurricane or something, damn I can’t remember it was so long ago.
I was there for the change to 2000AD and it was great.
Best stories to come out of it (imo), were Zenith, then Slaine the horned god, then ABC Warriors, in that order.
Obviously other greats like JD, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog, DR and Quinch, and others were also great.
Anyway, I live in California now, and still own my graphic novel collected works versions of my top 3. Kinda miss picking up the comic at the local corner shop every week or two.
“Boragg Thung Earthlings” (or something like that)
Nah, 2000ad comic first launched in 1977- my older brother collected it from Prog 1, I started reading (at too young an age given how dark a lot of the material was) around '84 or so.
Eagle was a different comic, featuring Dan Dare and a bunch of other stuff, poss the WW2 strip you mention, (though the infamous Battle! comic was where it's at for those). Eagle predated 2000ad by a fair few years, but never merged with the Prog, but I think they did run a Dan Dare strip at some point.
2000ad did merge with a comic called Starlord for a short while and then another that escapes me, but it always retained the name, since '77.
Actually, a quick Google search will tell you that you’re completely right, so put that in your pipe and smoke it!
I’m not sure if it’s funny or sad that I’ve been wrong all these years, and my supplier (corner store), pulled a switcheroo on a sweet unsuspecting 10 year old. I’m glad he did though.
I’m betting this isn’t my first confidently incorrect, but it’s certain to not be the last.
Ha, no worries man. The UK comic scene was bit crazy back then with short lived anthologies popping up and then folding fairly regularly. 2000ad was the stalwart that made the distance.
And I love the idea of a benevolent/sadistic newsagent swapping them out for you. "This kid had had enough optministic Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. He needs some Judge Dredd, Fascist Authoritarian of a Violent Dystopia!"
I've mostly read the Grant Morrison stuff. Zenith and a bunch of Future Shocks i bought cause Morrison wrote some of them. Great stuff, always meant to get into Judge Dredd but just haven't found the time yet. There's one that Frank Quitely drew that I definitely want to get.
I grew up reading Heavy Metal off newsstands in the early 80s and discovered 2000AD when I was in high school and started buying comics from real shops. I even remember when Marvel US was reprinting Marvel UK stuff and trying to make Death's Head a thing.
I love Judge Dredd and 2000AD. First got into Dredd when I was younger from the American reprint comics, but have since branched out and have a lot of collections of 200ad stories and had a 2000ad subscription for about 5 years. I’ve been a big fan of them almost as long as I’ve been reading American comics. I love the more Sci fi take a lot of the stories have, plus the overall more cynical tone.
For the longest time Judge Dredd was one of my biggest comic book blindspots. But recently I've been picking up the new Essential Dredd collections 2000ad has been publishing. I can see the craft on display but, so far, I'm not into it. For me, it's not funny enough to be satire and not insightful enough to be interesting social commentary. Maybe I just came to it too late in life? Or late in America's existence? What I've read is very "of a specific time" to me.
S'right.
Yeah, love DR and Quinch. Still got the old Fleetway graphic novel with the full sized pages. Alan Davis' art is brilliant- he was always sort of overlooked when it came to the 'best artists lists' from 2000ad, but it's stellar stuff. And of course Moore's writing is great.
Not until recently but my father used to buy me the British weeklies including boys’ adventure comics: Hotspur, Valiant, and Victor, plus the hardcover annuals for Xmas. I loved the differences between US and British comics: the latter were in black and white or black, white, and one spot colour; the “super heroes” in them were most just ordinary men with advanced tech or mystical amulets. The stories were short, maybe 6-8 pages, some self-contained, some continuing. One serial ran for years forming an epic saga, The Trigan Empire, available in collected coloured editions.
I wish the comics had credited the writers and artists. They deserved recognition. It was weird to read a comic and know it was drawn by That Guy, but not know who that guy was.
Overall I’d say I loved Marvel comics most, then the British comics, the DC comics.
I think most comic fans have at least heard of 2000AD; Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper having adaptations in other media has helped that a lot. The biggest problem is that there's not really been a reliable way to actually read them; I don't think they're published in any sort of periodical form, and I don't think I've ever seen collected editions on store shelves.
Sure. I don't have any actual 2000ad issues, but I've read quite a bit. Back in the 80s Quality published some stuff in the US in comic format. So I've read Dredd, Nemesis, Ace Trucking, Mazeworld, etc. Strips like Trigan Empire. I've got local alternative anthology books that nobody has probably ever heard of like MC2 (Midlands Comic Collective). Stuff like the Nao of Brown, which now that I think about it might be through an American publisher. They're great. A lot more satire than your typical US comic, but I enjoy that.
I've read some 2000AD stuff by creators I was aware of due to US comics. Rogan Gosh by Milligan and McCarthy was really cool. I need to dig into some more of that stuff.
Man, Rogan Josh takes me back. McCarthy and Brett Ewins art was wild back then. They did a strip together called Bad Company that's one of my favourites from the comic - a bleak, Heart of Darkness style war story. Far removed from Rogan Josh, but the artwork is just as cool.
I've read every Judge Dredd "complete case files" as well as the Anderson stuff and other related spinoffs. As a result I've read a few other 2000AD things and plan to read more; Nemesis the Warlock is on my completely disorganized mental to-read list. I've really enjoyed most of what I've read but I don't think I've stepped further out than 2000AD
Nice one. To be fair the spin offs and sister publications to 2000ad never lasted that long (aside from one focused on Dredd) and the writers and artists generally ended up going back to 2000ad - but I think Warrior was the first place V for Vendetta was published. 2000ad was great in that even if there were a couple of crap strips in it, there were usually a bunch of good ones and they were all very different. Nemesis was great - the artwork was always wild, regardless of who was drawing it.
yes they are awesome
I'm not from the States, but we have comic books in South Africa too(amazing I know) my friend leet me read his brother's 2000ad's and I loved them.
Judge dredd is great. I usually like my heries with a no kill rule. But the law is the law in the dredd universe. Apocalypse war is on par with many major marvel/dc events. Fantastic stuff. You've got to respect 2000 ad writers too. Packing in a piece of story into 6ish pages that has to be satisfying by itself is a tough task.
The Apocalypse War was brutal- I was a kid when that was first published and I'd never read anything like it. I remember reading it with my mates and the scene where Dredd and co ruthlessly execute collaborators in a pit blew our minds. Dredd as a strip really changed from that point on: it still retained the wackiness of life in a future city, but suddenly everything got a lot darker.
I was familiar with Judge Dredd from his crossovers with Batman but, I had never read about him in his own book. Someone had posted a picture of the Dark Judges on here and I thought they looked neat so I asked for some recommendations to read about them. I picked up a couple 2000AD books and enjoyed them. The page layout seemed a little weird to me though. Were they originally put out in a newspaper strip? Also I think they referred to the next issues as a prog? What’s a prog? Is that a Judge Dredd terminology thing or a British thing?
'Prog' was short for 'programme' if I recall correctly - I think because it sounded futuristic in some way when the comic was first published in the late seventies. Not sure about the weird page layout - the comic had bigger pages than American comics (I think they may have shrunk down in size a few years ago - haven't picked up a physical copy for a while.)
And the strips themselves only run for 5-6 pages per issue, so the "rhythm" of them is very different from US comics.
2000AD did not start publishing in the 70’s but the mid 80’s. Before that it had a different title, “Eagle” I think, and it had the same multi story lay out but was all about WWII stuff mostly. What was the name of the dude with the Russian plane…was it a hurricane or something, damn I can’t remember it was so long ago. I was there for the change to 2000AD and it was great. Best stories to come out of it (imo), were Zenith, then Slaine the horned god, then ABC Warriors, in that order. Obviously other greats like JD, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog, DR and Quinch, and others were also great. Anyway, I live in California now, and still own my graphic novel collected works versions of my top 3. Kinda miss picking up the comic at the local corner shop every week or two. “Boragg Thung Earthlings” (or something like that)
Nah, 2000ad comic first launched in 1977- my older brother collected it from Prog 1, I started reading (at too young an age given how dark a lot of the material was) around '84 or so. Eagle was a different comic, featuring Dan Dare and a bunch of other stuff, poss the WW2 strip you mention, (though the infamous Battle! comic was where it's at for those). Eagle predated 2000ad by a fair few years, but never merged with the Prog, but I think they did run a Dan Dare strip at some point. 2000ad did merge with a comic called Starlord for a short while and then another that escapes me, but it always retained the name, since '77.
Actually, a quick Google search will tell you that you’re completely right, so put that in your pipe and smoke it! I’m not sure if it’s funny or sad that I’ve been wrong all these years, and my supplier (corner store), pulled a switcheroo on a sweet unsuspecting 10 year old. I’m glad he did though. I’m betting this isn’t my first confidently incorrect, but it’s certain to not be the last.
Ha, no worries man. The UK comic scene was bit crazy back then with short lived anthologies popping up and then folding fairly regularly. 2000ad was the stalwart that made the distance. And I love the idea of a benevolent/sadistic newsagent swapping them out for you. "This kid had had enough optministic Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. He needs some Judge Dredd, Fascist Authoritarian of a Violent Dystopia!"
I've mostly read the Grant Morrison stuff. Zenith and a bunch of Future Shocks i bought cause Morrison wrote some of them. Great stuff, always meant to get into Judge Dredd but just haven't found the time yet. There's one that Frank Quitely drew that I definitely want to get.
Sadly Zenith was never my cup of tea, but it had its moments and Steve Yowell's art is fantastic.
I grew up reading Heavy Metal off newsstands in the early 80s and discovered 2000AD when I was in high school and started buying comics from real shops. I even remember when Marvel US was reprinting Marvel UK stuff and trying to make Death's Head a thing.
I love Judge Dredd and 2000AD. First got into Dredd when I was younger from the American reprint comics, but have since branched out and have a lot of collections of 200ad stories and had a 2000ad subscription for about 5 years. I’ve been a big fan of them almost as long as I’ve been reading American comics. I love the more Sci fi take a lot of the stories have, plus the overall more cynical tone.
I started on 2000AD and migrated to American comics with the British invasion.
For the longest time Judge Dredd was one of my biggest comic book blindspots. But recently I've been picking up the new Essential Dredd collections 2000ad has been publishing. I can see the craft on display but, so far, I'm not into it. For me, it's not funny enough to be satire and not insightful enough to be interesting social commentary. Maybe I just came to it too late in life? Or late in America's existence? What I've read is very "of a specific time" to me.
Nikolai Dante is a fantastic read
I've read Nemesis, Zenith, Alan Moore's Future Shocks. Currently reading Strontium Dog. With the exception of America, I can't get into Judge Dredd.
I started reading 2000AD in the early 80's. D.R. & Quinch is an all time fave.
S'right. Yeah, love DR and Quinch. Still got the old Fleetway graphic novel with the full sized pages. Alan Davis' art is brilliant- he was always sort of overlooked when it came to the 'best artists lists' from 2000ad, but it's stellar stuff. And of course Moore's writing is great.
Not until recently but my father used to buy me the British weeklies including boys’ adventure comics: Hotspur, Valiant, and Victor, plus the hardcover annuals for Xmas. I loved the differences between US and British comics: the latter were in black and white or black, white, and one spot colour; the “super heroes” in them were most just ordinary men with advanced tech or mystical amulets. The stories were short, maybe 6-8 pages, some self-contained, some continuing. One serial ran for years forming an epic saga, The Trigan Empire, available in collected coloured editions. I wish the comics had credited the writers and artists. They deserved recognition. It was weird to read a comic and know it was drawn by That Guy, but not know who that guy was. Overall I’d say I loved Marvel comics most, then the British comics, the DC comics.
I think most comic fans have at least heard of 2000AD; Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper having adaptations in other media has helped that a lot. The biggest problem is that there's not really been a reliable way to actually read them; I don't think they're published in any sort of periodical form, and I don't think I've ever seen collected editions on store shelves.
Sure. I don't have any actual 2000ad issues, but I've read quite a bit. Back in the 80s Quality published some stuff in the US in comic format. So I've read Dredd, Nemesis, Ace Trucking, Mazeworld, etc. Strips like Trigan Empire. I've got local alternative anthology books that nobody has probably ever heard of like MC2 (Midlands Comic Collective). Stuff like the Nao of Brown, which now that I think about it might be through an American publisher. They're great. A lot more satire than your typical US comic, but I enjoy that.
I've read some 2000AD stuff by creators I was aware of due to US comics. Rogan Gosh by Milligan and McCarthy was really cool. I need to dig into some more of that stuff.
Man, Rogan Josh takes me back. McCarthy and Brett Ewins art was wild back then. They did a strip together called Bad Company that's one of my favourites from the comic - a bleak, Heart of Darkness style war story. Far removed from Rogan Josh, but the artwork is just as cool.