DG is a saddo, or should I subscribe to 2000AD or not?

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It's £9 a month for both 2000AD(weekly) and the Dredd Megazine (monthly), but I haven't read either for years. Is there anyone who has read them recently and can vouch for the papers' quality?

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I MUST KNOW!

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you'd be better off with pornography.

― jess, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmm...if you've not read them in years, why the sudden desire to subscribe? You'd be better off with a subscription to the Fortean Times I think.

― jel, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"proper" magazines = okay (sometimes.)

but comics always = gREAT, even when they're bad.

i stand by my original statement.

― jess, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Borang Thung! (or whatever it was) (sorry)
I used to read 2000AD (is it still called that??) between the ages of 8 and 11, fantastic stuff. Don't know if I would appreciate it as much now though. Probably all changed to heck [grumble, grumble, not like it was in my day etc].

Zarjaz: Sam Slade: Robo Hunter, Strontium Dog, Ro-Jaws, Tharg's Future Shocks

Drekk: Judge Dredd, Slaine.

― DavidM, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Borag thungg DavidM you mentalist: how can Tharg's Future Shocks be zarjaz when it was THE SAME STORY EVERY WEEK!

― mark s, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BORING THREAD! lets discuss Yorkie bars!

― Pennysong Hanle y, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my ex had a yorkie. it's name was coco. i miss that dog.

(and jess = no fan of small dogs.)

― jess, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is NOT a boring thread! It concerns me spending money, which is a good thing.

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess, I hear some of this 'porn' business is readily available on the interweb,no? ( Side issue: When the fuck did everyone start calling the internet the inter"web"? I mean, I am familiar with the internet, the 'net, the web, but the interweb?)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dredd and Slaine: Zarjaz also! Apart from the dreddful po-faced stuff they used to do in the Megazine. And I suppose I mean that dimension jumping, crom cruac story in the early 400s for Slaine, and not the new age hocus pocus.

What is truly Drokk, though, is Kelly's Eye, Kola Commandos and that sci-fi basketball team that seemed to go on for about two years without a plot.

I suspect that there are much better comics you can get for £9 a month, but I wouldn't really know what they are any more. Transmetrapolitan and Hitman are always fun.

― Magnus, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mitch. i know not of pornography. it was suggested to me by my sainted mother, when i asked, "mother dear, what should dg the pirate captain buy with his loot? a subscription to 2000ad?"

― jess, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aaar, and don't ye ferget it! Splice the main brace!

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This thread is truly ghafflebette.

― Tom, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mitch, I think Interweb is an importation from the Sinister mailing list, but I've never been a member of that so I don't know for sure. I also think I picked it up from Sarah initially.

― Tom, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

2000AD will be good when I start writing for them. I'm trying. Don't blame me.

In the meantime, until Television Man, or SO23, or R.I.P. or Power Club or Science Stunners or Jack Zero or Angstman or The Revenge Of Wolfie Smith or Buster Fuck or Dirk Punish or Behemoth or Adam-12 or The Inquisition or Go-Machine get six pages in 2000AD, try reading New X-Men, War Story by Garth Ennis, Flowers for Rhino, 100 Bullets, X-Force, Fury...

2000AD stories aren't published in 2000AD anymore. If any company does them, it's Marvel.

― Al, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

PG TIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Pennysong Hanle y, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tone down the violence and swearing and absolutely no sex or drugs references. They are my tips for getting a PG.

Magnus. Hitman finished a year ago.

― Pete, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did it? Oh bollocks. I don't have the last issue - those guys at Gosh comics must surely have disassembled my standing order stash by now.

― Magnus, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I just point out to my lunatic brother that Tharg is unlikely ever to publish a story called 'Buster Fuck'.

Splundig Vur Thrigg, Earthlets.

― Tom, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I haven't been a squaxx dex thargo for many many years now - I last bought it when they had that Big Dave story that came out just after the Gulf War.

It was a wonderful piece of satire, Big Dave being the perfect encapsulation of every jingoistic bigoted tabloid reading bootboy in the country. I sort of lost interest after that, that story was so relevant and so contentious that everything else just paled in comparison.

― Trevor, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I nicked "modern interweb" from my pal Joss. And then infected the Sinister list. THEN THE LOT OF YERS hur hur.

I went to a comic shop and bought a Powerpuff Girls comic, I don't really gerrit.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You should buy 2150 A.D. (novel)

― 1 1 2 3 5, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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