Well, clearly I could because I did, which means I totally forgot to to do this feature in April, meaning I'm now a month behind.
Then again, 2000 AD is still for sale in 2015 AD which makes it a full fifteen years behind, so at least I'm not that bad.
It's all gone a bit Weird War Tales.
I assume MACH MAN was M.A.C.H.1 and had temporarily forgotten his own name at the sight of rampaging skeletons heading towards him.
Dan Dare having trouble with his Biogs.
It's the first issue of 2000 AD I ever owned.
I was so impressed by it that I cut the cover off it and glued it in my scrapbook. I like to think that did wonders for the value of the comic.
It's nice to see Deathlok paying a visit to the 2000 AD universe.
I think this might be the Harlem Heroes' first cover.
Bill Savage has yet to make a front cover. Has all his fighting against the Volgans been in vain? Did he blow up the Channel Tunnel for nothing?
You see? This is what should have been in those Judge Dredd movies. Did the people who made them not have a clue?
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A great series of covers - Nazi skeletons, weird aliens, dinosaurs, zombie cyborgs... what more could you want from a comic?
Issue 10...erm, excuse me, prog 10 was the start of the Robot Wars storyline - "Death to the Fleshy Ones!!!" - when the Judge Dredd strip first gave a hint of what it would become. Saw that last film version on tv recently, and I have to agree with you, Steve - the makers are indeed clueless. Some people just have no sense of humour.
Btw, prog 9 was the first cover by the mighty Dave Gibbons, which I reckon is a more notable milestone than being the first Harlem Heroes, a story I wasn't much into ... mainly because it seemed to be a straight lift from Death Game 1999 in Action, even down to the same player turned into a homicidal zombie cyborg assassin subplot. If I'm honest, though, it was more likely due to the post-Action clean cut approach - when HH was rebooted with mindless violence as Inferno, I thought it was great, even though it was just as derivative... Sad, eh?
-sean
Hmm... went on a bit there; sorry about that, Steve.
-sean
It's OK, Sean, I fully appreciated your comments. :)
You''re only a couple of weeks behind schedule, Steve, not a full month. After a weak start, the Robot Wars is where Dredd started to pick up. I haven't seen the second Dredd film yet, but from the clips I've seen, I haven't a clue what it's about!
John, the second Dredd film is pretty straightforward. Basically, Dredd and Anderson have to make their way to the top of a skyscrapercity without getting killed by the bad guys. It's not a bad film but it lacks the quirks and foibles we've come to expect of the strip.
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