Have a Drokking good Christmas
Posted: 22 Dec 2012, 12:28
Now that 2000 AD is one of the very few ongoing UK comics left on the shelves, I've been looking through it's colourful History in-depth.....it's dated pretty well, even the very early strips like FLESH, M.A.C.H. 1, INVASION and others are still eminently entertaining, with a delicious period charm as way of bonus.
The early Dredd Epics CURSED EARTH, JUDGE CALIGULA, JUDGE CHILD and APOCALYPSE WAR are the stirring stuff of comics-legend, and I'd go so far to say that 2000 AD, at it's peak, was the most inventive comic in UK History---looking through it's now-vast archives, it's an astonishing body of work [in the main: naturally, the creators also put out some dross, or they wouldn't be human]
---oh, all right, editor-in-chief Tharg is not of this planet!------.
Just this past weeks, I've finally caught up with latter Dredd epics JUDGEMENT DAY , DAY OF CHAOS, etc etc, and although there is point of interest in there [with the usual mind-blowing artwork], Wagner and other writers seem to be retreading older ground, although further revealing facets of life in MEGA CITY ONE is always worthy of a looksee.... there was a pretty good later extended story called ORIGINS that focused on Dredd's early life as a cadet, and also how WW3---and the Judge system----came about via Faro and 'Bad Bob' Booth.
For all it's sci-fi paraphanalia, Dredd and 2000 AD always managed to usher in unlikely but welcome festive jolities:
The early Dredd Epics CURSED EARTH, JUDGE CALIGULA, JUDGE CHILD and APOCALYPSE WAR are the stirring stuff of comics-legend, and I'd go so far to say that 2000 AD, at it's peak, was the most inventive comic in UK History---looking through it's now-vast archives, it's an astonishing body of work [in the main: naturally, the creators also put out some dross, or they wouldn't be human]
---oh, all right, editor-in-chief Tharg is not of this planet!------.
Just this past weeks, I've finally caught up with latter Dredd epics JUDGEMENT DAY , DAY OF CHAOS, etc etc, and although there is point of interest in there [with the usual mind-blowing artwork], Wagner and other writers seem to be retreading older ground, although further revealing facets of life in MEGA CITY ONE is always worthy of a looksee.... there was a pretty good later extended story called ORIGINS that focused on Dredd's early life as a cadet, and also how WW3---and the Judge system----came about via Faro and 'Bad Bob' Booth.
For all it's sci-fi paraphanalia, Dredd and 2000 AD always managed to usher in unlikely but welcome festive jolities: