Do you know this 2000AD story?

[adamb]

Hello,

I've not read 2000AD for a long time and haven't been on this forum before, so apologies if I'm breaking any etiquette by posting this here, but:

I'm trying to identify a story I remember reading in 2000AD when I was a child - it would have been early to mid-90s

All I remember about it is that it involved people who were somehow trapped, Tron-style, inside a company's computer, or computer network. The landscape inside the computer was, unlike Tron's techy style, a luridly coloured wilderness, with big sweeps of colour kind of smeared across the sky. The people trapped were like wandering refugees, and I think the plot involved their attempt to bring down the company from inside the computer.

Does this ring any bells?

[Colin YNWA]

I think you're refering to Shadows.

Not much info on Barney alas

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=SHADOWS

But a really fun story from Milligan and as a yet perfected Elson Droid

[Mikey]

Wireheads? I remeber bugger all about it

I'm checking Barney for info...

EDIT; Ah, Colin got in first. Was it Shadows?

[adamb]

That's it! Thanks so much Colin, I've been wondering about it for years.

This pic stayed with me really vividly

http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?Comic=scans&choice=681

Now to see if I can track down the back issues

[House of Usher]

I think it's Wireheads and its sequel Para-Sites.

Funny that anyone should start a thread to remind themselves about Shadows, Wireheads or Para-Sites. Seems more likely one would volunteer to undergo hypnosis to forget any and all of them.

Shadows was a cautionary tale about the dangers of digitizing credit and identity details and what if your records got erased and you disappeared off the grid. It wasn't about living in a funky virtual reality world, that was the other two.

[Colin YNWA]

But more importantly Mikey you could be right and I could well be wrong!

[Mikey]

Gah! I don't remember much about Shadows either, so was bowing to what I presumed was a superior knowledge!

Here's what we've got on site; any familair looking covers adamb?

http://www.2000adonline.com/vault/series/wireheads/story/book_1

M.

EDIT; Missed adamb's second post. Shadows it is then.

[TordelBack]

Shadows was brilliant!  (Although I still find it hard to believe that it's Richard Elson lurking under all that garish murk).  As for the other two, are you sure they were in 2000AD, I seem to have no memory of either...  

Paul Rainey had this to say about it on the Prog Slog (http://progslog.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html):

Shadows is like The Net movie starring Sandra Bullock except from five years earlier and much better (probably. I've never seen The Net, actually). In it, Nina Coltrane, whilst surfing "The Zone" for information gets too close to uncovering a secret project called "Falls The Shadow" and, as a result, is dropped as if she never existed. Consequently, her boyfriend and mother have been mysteriously killed and she is now a "Shadow" (or a tramp) who has teamed up with the frustratingly enigmatic Hood to uncover the reason for her excommunication.

[adamb]

No, I'm certain it was Shadows now.

So I take it Wireheads was a pretty similar story?

[House of Usher]

The only (thumbnail) images of Wireheads I could find on the internet are on writer Mark Eyles's (old?) website:

http://www.eyles.co.uk/old-site/comics.html

[adamb]

Again, thank you all for the information. This forum's making me think I should start buying 2000AD again.

[James Stacey]

Again, thank you all for the information. This forum's making me think I should start buying 2000AD again.

The quality of the comic at the moment is what should make you start buying it again. It's arsom.

[Colin YNWA]

Gah! I don't remember much about Shadows either, so was bowing to what I presumed was a superior knowledge!

Christ that's not the sort of thing you hear in reference to me!

Anyway have to agree with Tordelback as I mentioned on my review thread pestering 'Shadows' was a great strip, typical Milligan.

Likewise since I'm in an agreeing frame of mind James Stacey is spot on. Get the Prog cos its blooming fantastic at the moment and there's a nice little jumping on point (I assume) in the shape of prog 1700 just around the corner. So buy the prog now so you're fully warmed up for the new stories when they start.

[Colin Zeal]

It's been a long time since I read Shadows, but I seem to remember the story being pretty average while having a half decent twist at the end.