++hands up who enjoys 2000ad for its gritty realism....oh, thats nobody then is it?++
Whoh, hold your horses there boy! Gritty realism, perhaps not. But then gritty realism I experience everyday and wish that it were only fiction.
However, I do read 2000AD for the same reason I started reading it - the stories are, in general, quite intelligent and, rather than the directive moral message of many American books (in the past) the messages in 2000AD are often ambigious and ask the reader the moral/ethical/social questions. This is what the best of the 'Vertigo wave' brought to American comics. The worst (most) simply brought a 'mature readers' tag.
I'm happy with Dredd staying on the street as long as the comic doesn't go 'dumb' to allow it.
