2000AD Prog 2003 / Megazine 201

Shinji

Guys,

I don't know if we have any 2000AD fans in the house (or lapsed fans) but for anyone remotely interested in it, or interested in getting into it, the current issues of both the weekly comic and the Judge Dredd Megazine are WELL worth buying. Cover price may be a little high in Ireland but regardless....

The current 2000AD weekly starts a whole new batch of comics, so it's a perfect place to start or restart the comic - and it's the best line-up of stuff they've had in ages, with a Dredd Vs Aliens story, a standalone VCs story (leading into a full length series starting soon apparently), the start of a new series of Slaine (beautiful painted artwork, dark as hell and as ever, stunning use of Celtic symbolism) and loads more (well-written Sinister Dexter short story and the start of a new Nikolai Dante series spring to mind). Basically it's very newbie friendly, with every story arc being a new one and just about every truly excellent 2000AD series represented.

The Megazine is almost as good. Two self-contained Dredd stories, both pretty decent (although the humour in the first is a little juvenile), start of a new Devlin Waugh strip (and a really great short story based on him), a pile of other decent features and strips, and a full seperate mag featuring the "Fiends of the Eastern Front" classic 2000AD strip in its entirety - I'd never seen it before and it's really rather good

All in all there's a hell of a lot of reading there (2000AD is 100 pages this prog, and the Megazine is 148 plus the supplement) and it's mostly very, very good stuff. I took out a subscription to both mags a few months back on a whim (£9 a month, direct debit - can't go far wrong) and I've been really enjoying it ever since.... It's a really fun, dark publication with an excellent sense of humour and satire and regular infusions of exceptionally clever Sci-Fi or fantasy ideas. I was never a regular reader as a kid, but as a science fiction loving adult, it's a superb publication and so very, very different from US or Japanese comics.

Draco

the latest incarnation of the Megazine has been excellent - especially because of the series on the development of 2000AD over the years. 2000AD itself has been pretty good of late, with only the occassional klunker.

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I just missed a really good auction of 2000AD back issues on Ebay too....

The guy was selling them about 20 at a time for around £1 per batch. He had what must have been a few hundred. I had lent all of mine out and never got them back

Must give it a look Shinji cause I always loved that as a kid - thanks for the heads up.

BioHazRd

I actually bought issue 1 as a kid

/me bangs head on wall - if only I still had it

I think I will go buy them now, it brings great memories back - plus the stories rocked. Does Rogue Trooper still feature ??

Bio

Draco

Actually, there were some new Rogue stories (with original rogue on Nu-earth) in 2000AD and they reprinted some of the old stories in the Megazine.

Nevyn

Ah Bio i really can not believe you let that go .

I'm still a big 200AD fan have most of the Durham Red issues, Nikolai Dante and Slaine rock. and there is nothing like Sinister & Dexter.

200Ad retails for about 2.65 euros
depending on where you buy it.
the mail order cost for outside the UK are a pain.

Tusky

hmm i used to like 2000 ad but its too pricey for the size of it nowadays - but i was tempted to buy that one with the sexy vampire on cover who is she ?

deezoid

Nice one Shinji. i used toread 2000Ad as a kid - havent picked it up in ages. I still buy the thrade paperbacks occasionally though. And I picked up progs 1-5 for about 20 squids each last year for the sheer thrill of it.

Draco

Originally posted by Tusky
hmm i used to like 2000 ad but its too pricey for the size of it nowadays - but i was tempted to buy that one with the sexy vampire on cover who is she ?

That would be Durham Red.