Sorry, I don't make the rules...what, I do? Anyway, I got a pile of comics from
Midtown Comics, like 85 books for 90 bucks! There were a couple Nightcrawler variant covers, but everything else was probably under a buck: a Kelley Jones mini-series I hadn't seen before, most of the manga
Grey, a couple last issues, a few IDW reprints, and a mountain of mid-grade Fleetway/Quality reprint books! Big chunks of
Rogue Trooper,
Judge Anderson, and the occasional Dredd himself: from 1988,
Judge Dredd 21/22, reprinting 1977's
2000 AD #20, "The Comic Pusher!" Written by John Wagner, art by Mike McMahon. (Ooh, that prog had the first appearance of
Shako!)
Dredd's informant Max Normal puts the law on the tail of one of Mega-City One's "lowest forms of crime," a comics ring! Get kids hooked young, then jack the price up, presumably forcing them into crime to fund their habit. Sounds familiar--I mean, how, um, horrible. The comic book guys put up a fight, but are gunned down by Dredd. Still, reviewing the microfilm comics, even the Justice Department has to respect how valuable they are, namely old progs of
2000 AD! Wait, was this an ad? Man, there oughta be a law.
Per the
GCD, the odd numbering on this one was because they got out of sync between the British and American reprints, and they had to rejigger it to get back in line, although Americans may have missed two months of reprints? We was robbed! We'll see how it goes when I hit other issues, but this particular issue the paper and print quality wasn't as grotty as I remember these reprints sometimes being. Although, admittedly, my standards are probably kind of low; and I'd rather have a ton of cheap reprints than fancy paper, color, and so forth.
I'd be fine with that- 2000 AD is a great comic and the reprints are good quality (although some purists would disagree). Hope you got some Robo-Hunters and Strontium Dogs in that pile- they're the best as far as I'm concerned. Nemesis is good too, but harder to find.
ReplyDeleteAlso, good call on Shako- anyone who respects the only bear on the CIA's death list has good taste.
What no ABC Warriors? Slaine? Nemesis the Warlock?
ReplyDeleteAnd this whole comic that's really a sneaky ad thing? Definitely some meta/4th wall shit right there. Clever. Very clever.
Nemesis and the ABC Warriors reprints were all over the damn place, they are kind of a bother to read here; but I don't know if 'continuity' was a big concern.
ReplyDeleteScavengers was another one I was interested in, although I think it reads like they got the sales numbers back, and the next installment was "AND THEY ALL DIED."
Need to get some more modern 2000 AD stuff, though. I've wanted to read Zombo for a bit.
There was a 7 issue miniseries of Nemesis reprints that were really good. Kevin O'Neill retouched his original art for them. They were used for a color reprint trade a few years back.
ReplyDeleteThe series in Scavengers were part of a group of early 2000 AD series that had a formula of 'at least one person dies every week', whether it be by dinosaur or polar bear or what have you.
Zombo's a good read but it goes into overdrive pretty quickly. You really have to pay attention, especially in the last storyline. I'd recommend starting with Shakara if you can. It's a similar sensibility and the same artist as Zombo but builds a bit slower and the stories (at least the first three) are more self-contained.