2000 AD - The Fanboy's View
Aug. 31st, 2012 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxWish I could describe just how much I love 2000 AD.
I follow the characters in their ongoing stories as I follow no other ongoing fictional characters. The narratives of the likes of Judge Dredd, Anderson: Psi Division, the Black Museum, Aquila, Lenny Zero, strips such as Absalom, The Red Seas, Kingdom, Defoe, the one-off Terror Tales, Future Shocks and 3Rillers, and past thrills which are no longer with us such as Shakara and Nikolai Dante have kept me hooked.
Each week I go in and grab my regular weekly copy and/or the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine from the newsagent, sit down in the nearest cafe and read. I'm actually damned proud to be a 2000 AD reader.
I suppose, if I bumped into one of the art or script droids, I'd be just another aging fanboy. "What have you got for me to sign? Here you go. Move along."
But during the worst times of my life, those strips have been there, and given me the strength to carry on - and after a while, their anarchic humour and distinctly punk mentality has kept me rebellious and iconoclastic to this day, never letting myself go stale as so many around me two-thirds my age have gone as flat as month-old 7Up.
And so I feel that they have been there, not necessarily as my guides but definitely as my inspirations. My heroes, real and fictional, and as ordinary as you and I - yet, without knowing it, lifesavers, in their way.
So, in this 35th anniversary year of 2000 AD, I can only say: Thank you.
I follow the characters in their ongoing stories as I follow no other ongoing fictional characters. The narratives of the likes of Judge Dredd, Anderson: Psi Division, the Black Museum, Aquila, Lenny Zero, strips such as Absalom, The Red Seas, Kingdom, Defoe, the one-off Terror Tales, Future Shocks and 3Rillers, and past thrills which are no longer with us such as Shakara and Nikolai Dante have kept me hooked.
Each week I go in and grab my regular weekly copy and/or the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine from the newsagent, sit down in the nearest cafe and read. I'm actually damned proud to be a 2000 AD reader.
I suppose, if I bumped into one of the art or script droids, I'd be just another aging fanboy. "What have you got for me to sign? Here you go. Move along."
But during the worst times of my life, those strips have been there, and given me the strength to carry on - and after a while, their anarchic humour and distinctly punk mentality has kept me rebellious and iconoclastic to this day, never letting myself go stale as so many around me two-thirds my age have gone as flat as month-old 7Up.
And so I feel that they have been there, not necessarily as my guides but definitely as my inspirations. My heroes, real and fictional, and as ordinary as you and I - yet, without knowing it, lifesavers, in their way.
So, in this 35th anniversary year of 2000 AD, I can only say: Thank you.
