Tag Archive | "2000AD"

The horror… the horror of it all…

Monday, October 31, 2011

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As a ghoulish Halloween treat we thought the blog crew could have a rake through their repressed memories of terrifying moments from their comics reading. I’m a huge horror fan, from reprints of the old EC comics when I was a kid to Hammer films, then that first wave of Video Nasties during the home [...]

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Krill Tro Thargo

Thursday, October 6, 2011

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British comics institution 2000 AD has announced a new award for loyal readers – - regular readers are already known as Squaxx dek Thargo, or ‘friends of Tharg, the alien editor of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. The next level up is the coveted Krill Tro Thargo, which will be awarded to those fans who have [...]

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Bolland Blogs!

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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(new Dredd cover art by the great Brian Bolland, Dredd (c) Rebellion) Tom at Comic Reporter brings us news that will make a huge slew of comics readers, most especially those of us who have grown up with The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, very, very happy – the brilliant Brian Bolland has begun blogging. It seems [...]

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After Hokusai

Monday, September 19, 2011

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I love D’Israeli’s cover for this week’s new 2000 AD (Prog 1752). He explains that it is influenced by the great Hokusai, although looking at the stripey bag flying like a makeshift flag I’m thinking there is also a wee nod in there to Banksie’s famous image of kids saluting a Tesco bag flag. And [...]

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Blogging the Future Shocks right from the start

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Thanks to Matthew Badham for the heads up on this…. Tharg’s Future Shocks is “a small blog reviewing every 2000AD ‘Future Shock’, ‘Terror Tale’ ‘Time Twister’ and other one-shot  stories from ‘The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’ in chronological order”. They’ve been going for a little while now and they’re up to FS 28 from Prog 58. [...]

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Tharg interviewed

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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World of Superheroes‘ Rob Richardson interviews the current Earthly incarnation of The Mighty Tharg, Matt Smith, editor of British comics mainstay 2000 AD, with a fair bit discussing the advantages of the anthology format that is common to many British comics (link via that man Citizen Badham): (one of my favourite recent covers from 2000 [...]

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Croydon Block Wars….

Monday, August 15, 2011

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Bound to happen sooner or later…. someone at the Poke website repurposes classic Bolland Dredd for the riots…. (Via 2000AD Online)

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Mazeworld from Rebellion… thanks to fan pressure?

Friday, August 12, 2011

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The fans asked for Alan Grant and Arthur Ranson‘s Mazeworld to be brought out as a collection… and Rebellion listened it seems. The collection is now on the schedules, a colour volume due in November 2011. Daniel Clifford (of Sugar Glider Comics) ably assisted by Lee Grice (Small Press Big Mouth) started the Facebook campaign “Let’s [...]

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Zarjaz is…. well, not quite Zarjaz, but pretty damn good.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

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Zarjaz Issue 12 – The 2000AD Fanzine Edited by Dave Evans and Richmond Clements Contributors: Alex Ronald (cover), Paul Glasswell, Dave Thomson, Chris Denton, David Frankum, Liam Sharp, Alexi Conman, Luis Chichon, Richard McAuliffe, Mark Chilcott, David Withers, Phillip Vaughan. FutureQuake Press I’d been aware of Zarjaz, as Joe had featured it on the FPI [...]

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“They experimented on my brain!”

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Oh ye four coloured comics gods but I just love this Henry Flint cover for this week’s 2000 AD (Prog 1746) with Zombo. Just brilliant. On racks today. (cover to Prog 1746, Zombo by Al Ewing and Henry Flint – we love a bit of Zombo – 2000 AD (c) Rebellion)

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Fancy Dress sorted then….

Sunday, August 7, 2011

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Announced earlier in the week – Planet Replicas have a treat for the 2000AD fans amongst you, and possibly have just solved all of those fancy dress / Halloween costume headaches. Because now you too could be dressed like this: Yes, those look really rather good – faithful replicas of Dredd and Anderson uniforms (Thanks [...]

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Dredd Again: An interview with John Tomlinson

Friday, August 5, 2011

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During his career, John Tomlinson has worked for just about everyone in British comics publishing as either a writer or editor (including Marvel UK, 2000 AD and Tundra). This conversation has been compiled from the unused parts of a 5000-word interview with John Tomlinson conducted by Matt Badham recently for the Judge Dredd Megazine, and [...]

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Dredd!

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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Everthing Comes Back to 2000 AD has posted up some scans from the upcoming Judge Dredd movie, one of those flicks Brit comics fans are hoping will be good while at the same time worrying about it, given the previous dire Stallone version and the iconic importance of Dredd in Brit comics (but fingers crossed, [...]

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Zenith meets Invasion in the new issue of Zarzaz (and added Liam Sharp!)

Saturday, July 16, 2011

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Latest issue of the 2000AD fanzine Zarjaz is out now from FutureQuake Press, and underneath that rather tasty cover by Alex Ronald is what looks like a strong line up, including Liam Sharp (and like they say in the solicit – Yes, Liam Sharp! Constable Dredd-The Cursed Beat (Writer) Richard McAuliffe (Art) Mark Chilcott (letters) Bolt-01 Zenith-Invasion  (Writer)  Chris Denton [...]

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Scalped – McCarthy style

Friday, July 1, 2011

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The excellent DC/Vertigo series Scalped by Jason Aaron reached the landmark 50th issue this week and as part of the celebrations for reaching this milestone the great Brendan  McCarthy was asked by Jason to contribute a page – the magnificent result (which to me is hinting at Ghost Riders in the Sky, after at least [...]

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