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2000 AD => Welcome to the board => Topic started by: PEO on 13 July, 2012, 01:31:50 PM

Title: Hi
Post by: PEO on 13 July, 2012, 01:31:50 PM
Hi, i've never been one for forums or computers really but i registered with 2000ad online in 2010 and promptly made a fool out of myself by spelling Drokk as Drock and have been too embarassed to return after such a mistake. I didn't introduce myself either and just made a few posts before my epic fail so i appologise for that. Another reason i haven't returned is that i haven't felt worthy because i stopped reading 2000ad in the mid nineties after leaving home ( big mistake, as when it went pearshaped i returned home to find all my saved weekly and monthly progs from the early eighties to mid nineties had been thrown out). I wont pretend i know whats been happening in my absence as but i can comment on what i know of the early years, if thats ok?
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 13 July, 2012, 02:29:21 PM
Hello, and dont worry, you can spell 'drokk' anyway you like. We embrace all types here- see cyberleader2000's posts for more of that.

As far as quitting the prog back then goes, well, you're back now and that's what matters. Check out a few of the threads hereabouts, which will point you towards stuff you've missed. Otherwise stuff your wallet with cash, wander into waterstones or comic shop, and take a chance on a number of trades.

Welcome!

SBT
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Beeks on 13 July, 2012, 02:43:25 PM
Welcome back to the fold...it's comfy
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: PEO on 13 July, 2012, 03:02:52 PM
Phew, thanks for the welcome.
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Post by: Emp on 14 July, 2012, 04:50:54 PM
Welcome aboard, again. :D
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Post by: TordelBack on 14 July, 2012, 05:09:33 PM
Welcome back, PEO.  There's no shame about jumping ship in the mid-90s.  Only the weirdest of obsessives hung on to the wreckage through that storm. What hideous mental surgery they must have performed on their own critical faculties to keep buying week after depressing week and call it 'loyalty'.  They know who they are.
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Post by: Mark Taylor on 14 July, 2012, 05:25:02 PM
Hi, I too jumped ship in the mid-nineties. It was a bad time for 2000AD for various reasons and it was a bad time for me personally, too. However I have since redeemed myself (I hope). I started reading 2000AD and the Megazine again in mid-2007, and also collected all of the trades I could get my hands on. I haven't looked back. I highly recommended it. Just jump in to the prog and meg at any time, even if it's in the middle of a bunch of stories. You won't regret it!
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Spikes on 14 July, 2012, 05:56:16 PM
Quote from: PEO on 13 July, 2012, 01:31:50 PM
I wont pretend i know whats been happening in my absence as but i can comment on what i know of the early years, if thats ok?


Hello and welcome, and you could always start buying the prog again, as i recently have.
Its not called the 'Galaxy's Greatest Comic' for nowt, you know.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Frank on 14 July, 2012, 06:33:02 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 14 July, 2012, 05:09:33 PM
Welcome back, PEO.  There's no shame about jumping ship in the mid-90s.  Only the weirdest of obsessives hung on to the wreckage through that storm. What hideous mental surgery they must have performed on their own critical faculties to keep buying week after depressing week and call it 'loyalty'.  They know who they are.

Hiya, PEO. Wagner fanboyism saw me through the worst of the Nineties. That, and the fact that a regular order at my local newsagents meant I never actually had to physically buy the fucking thing- Mercy Heights and Witch World just plopped through my letter box every week, like jobbies.

Can't blame you.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: PEO on 15 July, 2012, 12:47:56 AM
As this is the only forum i've ever joined im unsure of how to reply to each post seperately ( a bit sad for a bloke my age i know!) but i'll suss it out. Thanks for the replies and comments, considering my lack of loyalty. I used to live for saturdays progs and back in the day i felt i knew as much about 2000ad as anyone alive and yet it now feels like im back with an old girlfriend and i know nowt about her!(or where she's been!) I recently lost my job so i can't splash any cash on back issues just yet but i will take all your advice onboard, read plenty of threads and get back into the habit of purchasing weekly progs. Thanks again.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 15 July, 2012, 01:23:21 AM
Welcome back PEO, hope you are finding the forum a good read, informative, funny and insane at times.

Sorry to hear about the job front, hope something comes your way soon!
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 15 July, 2012, 10:06:56 AM
Yeah, hope you find something soon. In the meantime- get yourself to your local library! Every libary in the country can and will get you any 2000AD trade you want, including the hard to find ones like the nikolai dante ones everyone's worrying about over on that other thread. Many libraries already have whole shelves of thrill-power, i know mine does. And it's free.

SBT
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Frank on 15 July, 2012, 11:18:36 AM
Quote from: PEO on 15 July, 2012, 12:47:56 AM
I recently lost my job so i can't splash any cash on back issues just yet but i will take all your advice onboard, read plenty of threads and get back into the habit of purchasing weekly progs. Thanks again.

Sorry to hear that. The digital prog's only £1.49 from Clickwheel:

http://www.clickwheel.net/features/219 (http://www.clickwheel.net/features/219)
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: judgefloyd on 15 July, 2012, 01:08:56 PM
hi there Peo and welcome! Comment on any period of the galaxy's greatest you like - I don't think anyone gets snubbed for being out of date (I hope not, since my knowledge stops about three years ago).  I don't mind the mid-90s myself. Probably my judgement is skewed by that being the time when I first discovered the progs.  I have good memories of my first Rogue Trooper and Venus Blue Genes stories, Amoured Gideon, Canon Fodder and of liking Ennis' Dredd stories before I knew who Ennis was.
  Sorry the move didn't work out and that you lost your collection - that is indeed rough.  As someone else here said, libraries are wonderful.

cheers,

Floyd
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: PEO on 16 July, 2012, 09:00:32 PM
Nice one gents, kind words indeed, and thanks for the tip about libraries i'll let you know how i get on.
Think the forums great by the way!
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: darnmarr on 26 July, 2012, 11:47:26 AM
Hello PEO,
"I reckon 'drock'  looks more like a real word than 'drokk' and have written several strongly-worded letters about this: I really ought to send them somewhere.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Charlie boy on 26 July, 2012, 01:31:51 PM
Hey up, PEO.
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Post by: GordyM on 26 July, 2012, 03:36:14 PM
Hi!
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: 8-Ball on 03 August, 2012, 10:41:36 PM
Quote from: PEO on 13 July, 2012, 01:31:50 PM
Hi, i've never been one for forums or computers really but i registered with 2000ad online in 2010 and promptly made a fool out of myself by spelling Drokk as Drock and have been too embarassed to return after such a mistake. I didn't introduce myself either and just made a few posts before my epic fail so i appologise for that. Another reason i haven't returned is that i haven't felt worthy because i stopped reading 2000ad in the mid nineties after leaving home ( big mistake, as when it went pearshaped i returned home to find all my saved weekly and monthly progs from the early eighties to mid nineties had been thrown out). I wont pretend i know whats been happening in my absence as but i can comment on what i know of the early years, if thats ok?

You seem to have the same life story as me. I'm a new old-timer as well. Greetings.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Judge MANSON on 10 August, 2012, 09:09:27 PM
Welcome back from your run into the Cursed Earth!!

For myself, I have not had the opportunity to buy 2000 AD when I was young: in these years, in France, US comic books were so expensive and none were coming from the UK.

I was Blessed By The Glorious Light Of The Mighty Tharg when I have had the luck and the huge joy to subscribe to my favorite comic magazine ever!!!

I want to thank here the Droid Denise, who has helped me to realize my dream!!! Thank you very much Denise!!!

My true first issue was with the Prog 1606, and since, I am buying old issues and I am still a subscriber to the two Greatest Comic magazines ever!!!

For the missing informations, this forum and the database are perfect references.

See you in the streets. Perps are meeting. I need to do a new painting on my Lawstick...
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: vzzbux on 11 August, 2012, 08:43:32 AM
It's DROKK You muppet, DROKK.

Just kidding, welcome and enjoy. Mispellings can end up in the prog or stuck in our community as norm, we're looking at you CL2K.




V
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: QuickQuag on 11 August, 2012, 11:31:32 AM
Hi PEO!

I think our stories are similar (I'm a mid-90s abandoner, myself), although I never lost any old progs and in fact spent both my non-regular periods quietly accuring back issues from any second hand shops and fairs I could find. So now I have a storage issue, and I'm still not up to date!

I do recommend the trades though - we're really spoiled for back catalogue stuff and new stuff at the moment.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: The Sherman Kid on 14 August, 2012, 07:36:02 PM
Hi PEO, sorry to hear about losing your job, it's happened to me before, thankfully in the distant past, so I know how shit it can be.I've upgraded my collection and have hundreds of high quality duplicates ,including the Megazine and you know what you can have them for nothing. I'll be glad enough they've gone to a good home.I live nr Blackpool but travel around a lot -I'll send you a PM  to arrange a drop off.

Welcome back.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: PEO on 15 August, 2012, 07:24:51 PM
Quote from: The Sherman Kid on 14 August, 2012, 07:36:02 PM
Hi PEO, sorry to hear about losing your job, it's happened to me before, thankfully in the distant past, so I know how shit it can be.I've upgraded my collection and have hundreds of high quality duplicates ,including the Megazine and you know what you can have them for nothing. I'll be glad enough they've gone to a good home.I live nr Blackpool but travel around a lot -I'll send you a PM  to arrange a drop off.

Welcome back.
Eh up, I got your PM mate and have replied, thanks a lot.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: PEO on 15 August, 2012, 11:30:28 PM
Quote from: QuickQuag on 11 August, 2012, 11:31:32 AM
Hi PEO!

I think our stories are similar (I'm a mid-90s abandoner, myself), although I never lost any old progs and in fact spent both my non-regular periods quietly accuring back issues from any second hand shops and fairs I could find. So now I have a storage issue, and I'm still not up to date!

I do recommend the trades though - we're really spoiled for back catalogue stuff and new stuff at the moment.
Guard your progs with your life because relationships come and go but losing all that nostalgia will hurt like nothing else!
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: PEO on 15 August, 2012, 11:36:55 PM
Quote from: vzzbux on 11 August, 2012, 08:43:32 AM
It's DROKK You muppet, DROKK.

Just kidding, welcome and enjoy. Mispellings can end up in the prog or stuck in our community as norm, we're looking at you CL2K.




V
Thanks for reminding me, gggrrreat days.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: PEO on 15 August, 2012, 11:43:07 PM
Quote from: darnmarr on 26 July, 2012, 11:47:26 AM
Hello PEO,
"I reckon 'drock'  looks more like a real word than 'drokk' and have written several strongly-worded letters about this: I really ought to send them somewhere.
Nice one, gonna have to be a gag theif and add that to my repertoir!
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Post by: maryanddavid on 16 August, 2012, 12:00:13 AM
Hello Peo and nice one Sherman.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 16 August, 2012, 12:08:24 AM
I saw an old picture of Dredd on Facebook yesterday and he said 'Drekk'  :o
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Post by: adogg4629 on 28 August, 2012, 06:00:13 AM
I've been posing in the IMDB forums for the film for awhile, but was playing catch up with the progs and was deftly avoiding spoilers.  But am now (thanks to iTunes and digital copies) caught up (well, about half a dozen progs behind, but finished DOC-might I say WOW). Looking forward to taking part in the community here.

Title: Re: Hi
Post by: hazy efc on 28 August, 2012, 12:49:37 PM
hi there peo hows it crackin  :D
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: PEO on 10 September, 2012, 12:56:18 PM
It's all good, I'm told.
Title: Re: Hi
Post by: Cursed Earth Dweller on 10 September, 2012, 07:29:58 PM
No worries, I had the same problem when I spelt Cursed Eartch wrong. No big deal.