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Be Pure. Be Vigilant. Be Trouble: In Remembrance of the Great Kevin O'Neill
https://www.thegutterreview.com/be-pure-be-vigilant-be-trouble-in-remembrance-of-kevin-oneill/

https://2000ad.com/news/kevin-oneill-1953-2022/

Very nicely written tribute. Great art choices.

One of the all time greatest. To be remembered for so many things, including having their style of artwork banned by the Comics Code Authority, it's probably true that without their influence on the early Progs we wouldn't have the 2000ad we have today.

@Art: Got any examples?

The Raina Telgemeier books would be the biggest one.

Are the Oni and Scholastic books from Middle Readers and Young Adults not big in the UK? Here they're bigger than "regular" comics (though probably not as big as Manga).

To my knowledge and to his credit Pat Mills has not dropped out of communication midway through any projects, leaving artists and editor in the lurch, so that would be a different situation.

What I want to know is why does Dredd seem to have glowy zombie eyes, when his eyes are meant to be bionic and therefore should look how they normally* look?

Zom-borg eyes. It's science.

You guys really like Choose Your Own Adventure stuff in comics eh? Noted.

So what we are saying here is that Pat highly values editorial contributions...

The Megazine interview that Bish-OP did is great for that sort of thing, also a lot of dirt dishing (mainly on 90s DC editorial), him not thinking much of Grant Morrison and a clue to why he never got on the Vertigo bandwagon with other Brits (he thinks magic is stupid). Also some great stuff about bringing Alan Moore into the 2000ad fold.

2000AD sold best in the 80s, it should be the 80s again.

Oh I went through the exact same process...

Bloody Thatcher.

There was a TV show in the early 2000s (CGI, so probably holds up as well as anything CGI around then holds up) and a film announcement a few years back that just kind of disappeared. Though it's theoretically a big IP I'm honestly not sure it's the world really cares that much about stiff upper lip British officers defending the space commonwealth anymore, and if you move too far from that it stops being Dare.

Very much enjoying the general cover theme of "things that would get you discussed in Parliament in 1976".