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I really enjoyed the two wildcat books - absolutely agree hibernia should jump in.

Considering that this is all as lame as "Judge Dredd: Regicide", my new suggestion for the identity of Ken Niemand has to be Arthur Wyatt & Rob Williams.  I don't know if anyone else has suggested that he could be more than one person, but remember: Niemand is an island.

I think it's pretty well established at this point that Mr Nobody is not an existing 2000AD script droid, and that the only reason he uses a pseudonym is to distinguish his comics work from his work in other media.

It's very unfortunate that Ken Niemand and another 2000ad writer get hospitalised at the same time then.

And very generous of the same 2000ad writer to give Ken credit for creating one of the most popular additions to Dreddverse in the last decade when it was he.

John Wagner
Dan Abnett
Henry Flint
Mark Harrison
Simon Davis
Colin McNeil
Simon Frazier
Rob Williams
Ian Edginton
Phil Winslade
Dom Reardon
Boo Cook
Tazio Bettin
D'israeli
Ian culbard
Garth Ennis
Patrick Goddard
Simon Coleby
Jimmy Broxton
Carl Critchlow
Jake Lynch
Eoin Coveney
And that PJ Holden guy

Reasons I'll always buy 2000ad.

That angle was never from a rooftop tho.

[Death Gap]

Excuse the necroposting but yes I'm that far back in my Meg-reading. Anyway besides enjoying Death Gap - mainly for Boo Cooks fantastic art I noticed a certain fan-film shout-out went un-noticed...

Feel free to DM me

lol, I've told people in the past conclusive evidence as to who it is and since then even more proof came to pass but hey let people believe what they want.

'Right, let's get this done! The night is short and I have toddlers to fry!'


Classic.

[The creator]

The creator features some bomb-bots that are very early robusters ' Ashley woods 3a.

Terrible star child bobbins story but well acted and looks fantastic. A cinema rather than home watch.

Sin/Dex is a strip that's heavily art dependant for me - the best stories overlapping with Simon Davis' work (The marriage.., last train..) and certain artists read well together as a collected story but aren't so engaging on a weekly basis (Steve 'The Dude' Yeowell) while it's nadir was one verrrrrry long stretch in the 2010s with a certain artist I'll not name.

Of late it's been in good hands and the whole AI/on the run / Azimuth stuff has been very enjoyable.

The idea that there was little to no kid-focused kid-protagonist material in the 70s and 80s is laugh out loud funny. The Red Hand Gang, Tripods, Grange Hill, Box of Delights, Chronicles of Narnia even down to kid-focused dramas at the end of schools programming such as Words & Pictures.

As I kid I thought they were mostly lame and much preferred being 'allowed' to watch Blake's 7.

When I did legal stuff relating to publishing back in the 90s the rule of thumb was everything is mostly consumed by the age group below it's target market - just 17 was read by 12-15, Cosmo was read by 15-20, vogue was read by 19-30. All well below their target markets. Now adults have more leisure money and disposable income the impact of nostalgia and eternal-youth syndrome means CW shows (30 year old actors pretending they are early 20s) are mainly watched by 40-50 year olds. Meanwhile kids reading manga are au fair with pretty much full on BDSM and kink because adults haven't a clue what's in the vast spectrum of manga. Does regened have a market? Well obviously as it's still with us but what that actual market is age wise I doubt very much is going to drive future 2000ad readers.

But like I've said it's 4 issues a year, have at it rebellion - how you've kept the Prog going gives you a lot of kudos in my books.

Most of 2000ads readership are too old to have kids who would read regened if placed in their hands (and if they did read the first one 4 years ago they would now be too old to likely still be interested).

So it's only really there to give a stock to material to be collected and resold and essentially the progs audience are being used to kickstart this outside bet.

Personally I just ignore them the same way I do a strip I can't take to. But please Tharg no more than the established 4 a year (and stop transferring the stories over - despite their professional finish they really don't land as stories for me).

Well 2023's event was just as great as the previous years Wagner, Ennis, Finley-Day, Williams, Dorey, PJ, will Simpson, Staz, paddy Goddard, Keith burns, Dani, Dan Cornwell, Hibernia all just chilling and chatting. Beautiful day by the lakes in 26 degree sun.  Is there a better 2000ad convention out there?

Always annoys me that doesn't apply to webshop exclusive editions. 3rd party stuff I can understand but in-house stuff either give a discount or don't.

Got to say the square bound format of the Meg is just LOVELY. Chunky big comics format. Love it. Great decision to transition Mr Tharg.