> A new Millenium an new beginning, eh Jim.
> Sounds like he's got his dander up!!
> I don't know what's wrong with 2000AD, maybe it's that the readership has
> grown up and that in it's current form it doesn't appeal to the youngsters
> with all their segamegaplaystationdrives. Isn't it just the way, I
> remember in my day (sic, I sound middle aged!!) that there where a
> plethora of WWII mini graphic novels (commando, warlord) running stories
> that wouldn't pass the censor these days, suffice to say it was all about
> fighting Jerry the Hun who just used to exclaim "Achtung" and "Die
> Englander" a lot.
> What is the secret formula?
> I don't know I can't analyse what I saw in 2000AD, part of it was social,
> part of it was the genuinely creative storylines, part was the quality
> artwork.
> How do you recreate something so subjective as your individual
> recollection of a childhood fantasy hero? (Oh God, I'm going all maudlin
> now)
> My favourite character was of course JD, because he was really a bastard,
> a cold analytical machine that dispensed whitty retort with as much ease
> as he dispensed death. The hairline cracks in his character gave you the
> glimmer of hope that he was human, but it never lasted. Apart from that
> dodgy period when he was accompanied by Walter the Wobot
> The villains were somehow more interesting, it was like a desperate
> struggle for JD to keep up with the latest fad that overtook the citizens
> of MC1.
> None of the other characters really did it for me in the same way,
> Strontium Dog was OK, same for Rogue Trooper and Slainé. I loved the old
> style ABC warriors stories with the classic RO-JAWS & HAMMERSTEIN dual act
> and when it went all Si Bisley, but when the artwork switched it wasn't
> the same.
> It always suprises me how jaded I've become to things like this.
> I mean when they revived Dr.Who for the TV Movie it just did not live up
> to expectations. Is it that my expectations of a decent bit of SCI-FI
> were too much or whas it that it was just plain crap execution. I think
> the latter, as I have read at least 1 fabulous New Adventures of Dr.Who
> novel since "Legacy of the Daleks" - fucking brilliant, you must read it.
> If 2000AD is to get better then it has to bring back some of it's
> ultra-violently best characters, e.g the Kleggs, and Caligula, what about
> a clone of Judge Caligula storyline. Or an alien invasion story. The
> odds have to be massively stacked against JD and he then pulls off an
> amazing victory that just makes you think "what a guy/bastard!!" (Delete
> as applicable"
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