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felneymike wrote:
And Comic Heroes, with a few articles about British Comics. As I was half expecting it's writen by and for the 2000AD generation and is ready to write off everything that went before as worthless.
Not at all Mike. They're open to ideas for contributions on comics of any era. In previous issues I've contributed an article on the history of UK humour comics (leading off the feature with a full page Ally Sloper cover from 1892) and one on British superheroes prior to Captain Britain. I'll be writing one on a 1960s strip for issue 7.
Besides, the original 2000AD generation are in their mid-forties now at least.
Digifiend wrote:As I thought, and a 10 year old in 1977 would be 43 or 44 now.
Which is what I said: "the original 2000AD generation are in their mid-forties now at least".
When it first came out, I was eight, so I'll let you all do the maths... There were several of us that were 2000AD fans. Whether many of us kept up with it is another story. So, if we were outside the target audience then so be it. But as many of our alternatives seemed pretty lame at the time, it's no real surprise that we latched on to it as quickly as possible. I still remember having those biotronic stickers on my arm and they hurt like anything when you ripped them off! And the Ian Kennedy Vulcan is still one of my favourite pieces of his vast output. It just looked so fast.
I started to say something sensible but my parents took over my brain!
From Amazon this morning. Daniel Tatarsky's Dan Dare - The Biography. I already have his interesting 2004 book Flick To Kick - an illustrated history of Subbuteo so I decided to give his take on the Pilot of the Future a whirl. Also in the parcel The Best Of The Victor - 50th Anniversary Edition. As I have the complete run of this story paper, I don't really need it but I thought I might as well see what all the fuss was about.
won over the last 100 nutty comics curse you ebay,this weeks beano & dandy,the latest viz and the derek the sheep book finally was in my local poundland
A small collection of Romance Digests (Star, True Life etc)
X-Men 138 15 Pence Edition
Beano Comic Library 3
Commando 1666
Hotspur Annual 1982
Super Heroes Annual 1982
Commando 1664, 1575, 1665, 1647, 1679, 1641, 1617, 1619, 1669
Fantastic Four (Marvel UK 1982 Series) 5, 6, 12
Merlin Prophesies 0
Elfquest 8
Several issues of Arddens recent Flash Gordon series
The relaunched Sigil from Marvel
The Three Musketeers Marvel Illustated Hardcover
The Last of the Mohicans Hardcover
The Man in the Iron Mask Hardcover
X-Men 62 and 71
Robo Hunter 1 and 3 from Eagle Comics
Several of the Relaunched Atlas comics line.
There were several of us that were 2000AD fans. Whether many of us kept up with it is another story. So, if we were outside the target audience then so be it. But as many of our alternatives seemed pretty lame at the time, it's no real surprise that we latched on to it as quickly as possible. I still remember having those biotronic stickers on my arm and they hurt like anything when you ripped them off! And the Ian Kennedy Vulcan is still one of my favourite pieces of his vast output. It just looked so fast.
