Harlem Heroes - classic or dud

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"2000 AD Extreme" is reprinting 'Harlem Heroes', about the exciting future sport of Aeroball. Essentially it is like a cross between Rollerball and Basketball, only with jetpacks.

Should I be excited?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 4 December 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! It's classic. I got it and it really is ace - Gibbons and Bellardinelli doing some beautiful stuff, next prog lines that rhyme, substitutes dropping like flies.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Sunday, 4 December 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

And a classic of the "it's not just for whitey" genre, I'll wager.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 4 December 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

You're going to have to explain to me what genre that is. If it's got something to do with Tom Tully trying to do 70s Blaxploitation stuff, then certain episodes do have some of that, yes. Particularly those involving Zack, the Tough Kid From The Streets.

(Annoying as Zack is, he does have more personality than poor Hairy, whose entire personality is that he's bald. Hence the name.)

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

I only ever read the Michael Fleisher-penned revival and it was dreadful.

Could Michael Fleisher be the worst comic writer ever?

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

No! Because Michael Fleisher wrote The Spectre and Jonah Hex, which bizarrely had 100% Thrill Power. When he wrote for 2000AD, he bizarrely had none at all, so presumably his and Tharg's thrill power cancelled each other out.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I've only read Fleisher's 2000AD stuff. The revelation that he has done good work leaves me reeling.

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

I know! You can get his SPECTRE run as WRATH OF THE SPECTRE or something and it's completely zarjaz.

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Monday, 5 December 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

It seems that the court case completely removed his thrill-power, so determined was he to prove the offending epithet incorrect.

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

VF - basically you have the INJFW genre down pat. It's when something that is very much for whitey tries somewhat unconvincingly to gain some cred among other ethnicities. I suppose another example in 2000AD would be Judge Giant (who is of course the son of someone in Harlem Heroes).

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 5 December 2005 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

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