Top Ten UK Comics

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A post I made on a 2000ad messageboard discussion on the subject.

Top Ten UK Comics (being actual comics, not stories that have been in comics):

10. WHIZZER AND CHIPS - double comic goodness! Be ye whizzkid or chip-ite?
9. VIZ - used to be good! Still is on the pages with Cat Sullivan and the Drunken Bakers man! And Gilbert Ratchet man! Let down badly by the rest.
8. SPIDER-MAN AND ZOIDS - Early Morrison madness and the best of the 80s Spidey!
7. DEADLINE - making lots of noise messing around with the art school boys.
6. POW - the comic with Nick Fury and Dare A Day Davy - together again for the first time!
5. THE DAREDEVILS/CAPTAIN BRITAIN - Early Alan Moore strips and text features! And CapBrit! Double Plus Good!
4. TOXIC - Blood, gore and perversion!
3. ACTION - The same ONLY FOR KIDS!
2. 2000AD - Some say this was the greatest comic of all!
1. EAGLE PHOTO COMIC - But they are WRONG! For 2000AD never had Doomlord or Saddle Tramp in it! Not to mention Sergeant Streetwise and the Tower King! And Joe Soap!

Although that was done in the heat of the moment ie before I remembered the existence of OINK.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking you'd missed out Oink, actually.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

1. EAGLE PHOTO COMIC - But they are WRONG! For 2000AD never had Doomlord or Saddle Tramp in it! Not to mention Sergeant Streetwise and the Tower King! And Joe Soap!

this all falls down on the fact that the drawn stories in Eagle were better, viz. THE TOWER KING (man with mullet lives in Tower of London and saves England after electricity stops) and Dan Dare (before it petered out).

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Toxic? Wasn't that, er, a bit rub?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think memory may be kinder to Toxic than reality. Remember it was only good for about 6 issues and then Sex Warrior came in.

This is a great list though. In yr face DC Thomson! TBH the Beano should be in there though, also only one IPC humour comic seems harsh, Whizzer and Chips is the best one alright but no room for Monster Fun :(:( And as you say Oink.

Also where are the GURLS COMICS?

No Megazine, and rightly so.

Any chance of a link to the discussion?

BTW DV - yes the Tower King is amazing (tho with a very unamazing ending), Dan Dare was a bit rub though. The best Eagle non-photo story was House of Daemon. But these are easily beaten by Joe Soap, Saddle Tramp*, Sgt Streetwise, MANIX and Doomlord. The less said about Thunderbolt and Smokey the better.

*Saddle Tramp is particularly awesome - the decision to do yr western strip as a photo-story set clearly in darkest Essex was a remarkable one.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 May 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

gd list, but no war comics - eg Battle w/ Charley's War? or even Commando Digest etc?

also, Warrior?

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 25 May 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=fan&page=messagethread&choice=17169&Comic=&skipto=-1&Replies=29

You might have to register.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Thursday, 25 May 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ward is OTM here, the obvious things missing to me are Commando and Battle, possibly even Victor. And I think there's an argument to be made for Warrior replacing Deadline in the list.

GURLS COMICS - I bought Frances a Jinty annual off ebay for Christmas this year and it's ALL ACTION ALL THE TIME PAT MILLS ACENESS.

I might be tempted to say the Look & Learn needs to be in there just for the Trigan Empire serialisation.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 25 May 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

An actual history of UK comics shd also include LOOK-IN and its badly drawn caricatures of Grange Hill bods. Loads of people I know who 'never read comics' used to get Look-In, on closer investigation. Maybe this is why they stopped reading comics tho!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 May 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

Look-In had comic adventures starring Adam Ant and Five Star. Adam Ant played Chess with Death, Seventh Seal stylee.

2000Ad surely trumps Eagle for consistency. And yes, Battle should definitely be present, as should Roy of the Rovers...

― David N (David N.), Thursday, 25 May 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Look-In also had a Sapphire and Steel strip, drawn by Arthur Ransome!

http://www.lookinarchive.com/homepages/sapphireandsteel/picturestripindex.html

― eyeless in gazza (Phil A), Thursday, 25 May 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

and the bionic woman by john bolton!

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 25 May 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

That's what happens when you make a list in 5 minutes. My real proper actual Top Ten would take me 8 weeks and drive me mad, but I will say that I agree totally with pretty much everything that's been said. And also that there needs to be a TOP TEN UK COMIC FREE GIFTS.

Would space spinner be number 1? Or the free sachet of vile-flavoured 'drink' that came with COR?

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Thursday, 25 May 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

It wasn't a comic, but does anyone remember that periodical which was trying to MAKE HISTORY FUN where you got a magazine and a cut out model of Shakespeare's globe or Queen Elizabeth's ruff, or whatever? That was strangely cool in my school.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't it called "Quest"? Typically came in a cardboard folder, maybe with a disastrous-to-assemble 3-D model of an oil rig.

Transformers, surely, somewhere?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

The Eddie Campbell thread reminded me - Escape!

and why oh why has nobody mentioned Redfox????

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

The educational history magazine - I think that was called "Discovery". I remember the first issue came with a free tape that had a specially-recorded radio drama on it, with two kids travelling back and forth in time meeting various historical characters, with the aid of a talking computer that may or may not have been voiced by the bloke who narrated Button Moon. "Quest" was the thing about science. I collected about five issues of that before I got fed up.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Thursday, 25 May 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Discovery! That's it. I remember the tape now, as well. It was about debunking stereotypes - they met Richard III and he was actually quite nice, etc.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 25 May 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Thursday, 25 May 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

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