2000AD documentary

CastorTroy

For anyone interested, "Future Shock! The history of 2000AD" is on Film4 at 11:25 tonight

Tony EH

Saw this tonight and loved it. Really nice putting faces and personalities to all those names from my childhood.

Interesting too, that it illustrated why I liked British comics rather than American ones. The nihilistic, dystopian and downright miserable approach to comic "heroes" as opposed to the shiny, upbeat and rather silly approach that the likes of Marvel had.

For me, anti-heroes like Dredd, Nemesis or Strontium Dog spoke volumes and weren't always people who you cheered for, but had to live in a world where their base characteristics were often drawn out of them by circumstance.

Superman, OTOH, fought for bullshit like "The American Way" . American heroes were fighting obvious crime, while the crime in 2000AD wasn't always clear cut.

Maybe that's why I take to film's like 'Man of Steel'. That's essentially Superman written for 2000AD. :pac:

CastorTroy

I found it interesting that Vertigo comics were pretty much set up just for former 2000AD writers/artists.

Tony EH

I think if the destructive period in the 90's hadn't have happened and the staff were treated better by Fleetway, then a lot would have stayed.

That was all after my time anyway. I stopped reading on the early 90's. The stories were becoming more and more stupid and I spose I was "growing up". 'Dead Man' was essentially the last long story that I remember reading and I was probably only buying 2000AD for Dredd at that point. There seemed to be so many split offs, too, that I hadn't a clue what was going on.