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Excellent! Thanks. Will seek out those progs...

[Bob Wakelin]

After a long but hard-fought battle with leukemia, Bob Wakelin, promotional and cover artist for so many 8 and 16-bit computer games whose artworks are still seared into my brain, from Where Time Stood Still to Renegade to Operation Wolf to Cabal to Wizball, when people talk of underwhelming 48-128k games whose audience were suckered in by fantastic cover images, there's a good chance they were talking specifically about one of Bob's fantastic renderings.
Even if you weren't into gaming or home computers, if you were reading pop culture and/or sci-fi magazines in the early 1980s to the mid-90s, you'd have seen some of his work on the cover, in an advertisement, or possibly you remember one of his covers for Starlord, or some of his Marvel UK covers/posters.

A slow response here but wow - I remember that Star Lord cover. Clearly a great talent.

I expect this has been discussed before but has anyone had any letters in 2000AD?
(Or while we're on the subject, anywhere else, interesting?)
I had two in - both quite silly ones - both circa 1993.
One under the name F Hallam, Peterborough (incorrect) asking whether 2000AD was planning an Abba special.
Another better one under the name C Hallam, Peterborough (correct) based on an anagram of Tharg's name.
I'd quite like to know the exact prog numbers they're in actually.
I was 16 and received a 2000AD mug each time. Sadly, the pictures on both mugs faded quickly after a few trips in the dishwasher.
My younger brother also broke one of them.
But I was pleased to get in. I still am!

Great! Thanks everyone. Will certainly check that podcast out.

Yes. Quite a memory test for most people, I appreciate! Thanks.

"Well, I think that depends if you mean official or unofficial."
Officially, really! I know Robohunter was a bit like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and The VCs owed a lot to the novel of Starship Troopers. But just official adaptations, yes.
Thanks everyone!

Does anyone recall if they were very fateful to the novels?

Gosnell (who adapted it) was the editor at the time. Perhaps he was friends with Harry Harrison?

Hi there!
Does anyone know much about The Stainless Steel Rat strip which ran in the Eighties?
Are there any other 2000AD strips which have been adapted directly from books?

Yes. In a bit of a timewarp 2000AD wise I admit.
Did Hewligan's Haircut ever come back?

Am actually from Peterborough originally. But thanks!

Hello all!
Am a big fan of 80s and 90s 2000AD although not read it much since then.
I had two letters published in the Nerve Centre in about 1993. I got two mugs - both faded quite quickly and my brother broke one of them.
Loved The Ballad of Halo Jones, Robohunter, Dredd, Bad Company, Zenith and many more.
Live in Devon. Was 23 in the year 2000AD and about three months old when the comic started.
Used to have well over a thousand progs.
And I didn't think it too many...