I hate these threads, I never know what to write.
Just throw out a few basics I guess.
Long time 2000AD reader from Australia here (Tasmania actually). Can't say I collected every issue growing up, but I grabbed every issue I could find, from the early 80's onwards, and picking up back issues and fills for my collection at a local second hand bookstore that used to get a lot of comics in. Then in the 90's, with the comic shop boom, I was able to collect far more regularly, and fill in a lot more gaps. Then the internet opened up even more gap filling options. These days my collection is a straight run as far as 2000AD is concerned, from 1 to current. Megazines, annuals and specials are in a pretty healthy (largely complete) state too. So, yeah, guess I'm a fan.
Favourite characters/strips? Call me a populist, but Judge Dredd (and Anderson), Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper, ABC Warriors, and Nemesis the Warlock would have to be top of my list.
Because my reading was so fragmented over so many years, there are strips and stories that I never actually read, and I'm actually currently doing something that I've been meaning to do for years now, ever since getting my collection into a decent run, but just never quite gotten around to. That is, reading every story of my favourite characters in sequence, from the start of 2000AD (or Starlord in one case) through to whatever the current prog is by the time that I finish. I'm starting with Dredd (and related characters), Strontium Dog, and Rogue Trooper, as they are my absolute favourites. And once I'm all the way through with those, I may do likewise with certain other strips (if I'm not too burnt out). Basically when I need a break from Dredd, I read a bunch of one of the others. I'm currently up to somewhere in 1985 with my Dredd reading, but have taken a break for now and started in on Strontium Dog for a bit. Haven't started Rogue yet, probably won't until SD is exhausted as my current backup read. Kind of wanted to get Dredd and SD up to about the same point before the crossovers anyhow.
Um, what else. I used to lurk the 2000Ad forums and site a couple years back, but never joined in large part due to certain individual who still seems to be a plague on the net (but thankfully, not here any longer) to this very day. Had a couple of run ins with him elsewhere, wasn't interested in any more. So I just lurked on and off.
So why now? I dunno. Boredom. New movie. New merchandise. The fact that I'm finally doing my long delayed big read through. Boredom again. The fact that the forum seems pretty grounded these days, while a great deal of others seem to be going way off the rails and into destination crazyville. Plus, boredom. I may have mentioned that one.
I also tend to ramble, sorry about that.
Anyway, greetings and salutations. And once my eventual citizenship comes through, I guess I'll see you all around the boards.
Just throw out a few basics I guess.
Long time 2000AD reader from Australia here (Tasmania actually). Can't say I collected every issue growing up, but I grabbed every issue I could find, from the early 80's onwards, and picking up back issues and fills for my collection at a local second hand bookstore that used to get a lot of comics in. Then in the 90's, with the comic shop boom, I was able to collect far more regularly, and fill in a lot more gaps. Then the internet opened up even more gap filling options. These days my collection is a straight run as far as 2000AD is concerned, from 1 to current. Megazines, annuals and specials are in a pretty healthy (largely complete) state too. So, yeah, guess I'm a fan.
Favourite characters/strips? Call me a populist, but Judge Dredd (and Anderson), Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper, ABC Warriors, and Nemesis the Warlock would have to be top of my list.
Because my reading was so fragmented over so many years, there are strips and stories that I never actually read, and I'm actually currently doing something that I've been meaning to do for years now, ever since getting my collection into a decent run, but just never quite gotten around to. That is, reading every story of my favourite characters in sequence, from the start of 2000AD (or Starlord in one case) through to whatever the current prog is by the time that I finish. I'm starting with Dredd (and related characters), Strontium Dog, and Rogue Trooper, as they are my absolute favourites. And once I'm all the way through with those, I may do likewise with certain other strips (if I'm not too burnt out). Basically when I need a break from Dredd, I read a bunch of one of the others. I'm currently up to somewhere in 1985 with my Dredd reading, but have taken a break for now and started in on Strontium Dog for a bit. Haven't started Rogue yet, probably won't until SD is exhausted as my current backup read. Kind of wanted to get Dredd and SD up to about the same point before the crossovers anyhow.
Um, what else. I used to lurk the 2000Ad forums and site a couple years back, but never joined in large part due to certain individual who still seems to be a plague on the net (but thankfully, not here any longer) to this very day. Had a couple of run ins with him elsewhere, wasn't interested in any more. So I just lurked on and off.
So why now? I dunno. Boredom. New movie. New merchandise. The fact that I'm finally doing my long delayed big read through. Boredom again. The fact that the forum seems pretty grounded these days, while a great deal of others seem to be going way off the rails and into destination crazyville. Plus, boredom. I may have mentioned that one.
I also tend to ramble, sorry about that.
Anyway, greetings and salutations. And once my eventual citizenship comes through, I guess I'll see you all around the boards.