Before widespread complaints about the violent and frequently yobbish elements it contained shut it down, Action firmly established that a strong, youthful readership existed for material of this ilk.Īt this point the writers Pat Mills and John Wagner, under the senior editorial direction of John Sanders, were the key creative force injecting new life into British boys comics at IPC. In this, 2000 AD captured the style and mood pioneered in the short-lived 'Action' (IPC,1976) – the comic which had directly spawned it. Consequently, the comic shared with Punk, then only recently emerged, an aggressive attitude, full of violent energy and laced with a gritty, cynical and very British sense of humour. It was a product of the grim economic climate of Britain in the 1970s, reflecting an essentially urban landscape beset by social and industrial strife. But whereas these predecessors had an essentially benign, utopian take on technological fantasies of the future – catching the optimistic mood of the Britain of their period – 2000 AD was an animal of an entirely different nature. sources.Īs such, it can now be seen somewhat as the natural successor to the The Eagle from the 1950s and TV21 from the 1960s – both of which had fed the appetite for science fiction action yarns in their respective generations. 2000 AD (IPC/Fleetway,1977), although in most respects a typical product of that system, was crucially different in one significant way: in spirit, it was clearly of its time not behind it.Ĭonsciously designed to exploit an adolescent market weaned on the fad for Science Fiction films (the vogue for which had been steadily growing during that decade) its stories and characters recycled and re-mixed elements discernible in existing S.F. Thompson and IPC/Fleetway, who dominated the British market, did so with a raft of titles created by a factory production-line style editorial system which had changed little since the war. Instead, they continued to churn out formularised genre stories, in over-familiar formats reflecting cheap production values.īoth the publishers D.C. Beset by competition from sharper, more glamorous American imported titles, British publishers failed to recognise that the increased demands being made on the pocket money of its traditionally youthful readership was likely to go to products capable of matching the visceral appeal of film and television. ![]() When 2000 AD first appeared in 1977, the market for British comics had been in steady decline since the mid 1960s. He got banned from the intfiction.Specially commissioned illustration by Mike McMahon for the 'Art droids: 2000 AD' exhibition at the V&A museum Background by fkldsfjsalfjsalkfjsalkjfdslajfsd, 4:14pm PDT Holy crap what a god damn dangerous lunatic by MTW is a dickless crazy cunt, 11:56pm PDT Re: Somehow context makes MTW seem like more of a lunatic. Somehow context makes MTW seem like more of a lunatic. Re: Saved in case Google deletes it again by MTW, 3:18pm PDT Saved in case Google deletes it again by Unbelievably Fat Man, 9:51am PDT by Concered Citizen, 8:09am PDTįUCK YOU FOR TRYING TO HELP ME, FAG! NT by Help! Help! My genre's dying!, 9:22am PDT I think this is like when Zseni found those future serial killers by Kirahu Nagasawa, 4:28pm PDTĬoncerned Citizen got verbally abused for his efforts. Re: Marshal Tenner Winter responds by Academi, 5:56am PST Who is this retard? by Ulrachi, 4:25pm PDT Marshal Tenner Winter responds by blackwater, 2:53pm PDT ![]() Re: Meet an asshole one day, you met an asshole. Meet a dozen assholes every day, NT by you're the asshole. ![]() Meet an asshole one day, you met an asshole. by Concered Citizen, 8:42pm PDTĮqual time to Marshal Tenner Winter. This is a concerned citizen who wants to give equal time. Is this ICJ? NT by Mischief Maker, 5:29pm PDT Marshal Tenner Winter's blog has been removed. Occasionally lags behind because, well, life, but I update it as time allows. by Patrick Mooney, 1:04am PDTĬannot imagine why anyone *would* be interested, but I track MTW's stalking in this Atom feed: Caltrops - Urban Strife - Re: We know him too well unfortunately.
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