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[PEO]

Hi, i've never been one for forums or computers really but i registered with 2000ad online in 2010 and promptly made a fool out of myself by spelling Drokk as Drock and have been too embarassed to return after such a mistake. I didn't introduce myself either and just made a few posts before my epic fail so i appologise for that. Another reason i haven't returned is that i haven't felt worthy because i stopped reading 2000ad in the mid nineties after leaving home ( big mistake, as when it went pearshaped i returned home to find all my saved weekly and monthly progs from the early eighties to mid nineties had been thrown out). I wont pretend i know whats been happening in my absence as but i can comment on what i know of the early years, if thats ok?

[SmallBlueThing]

Hello, and dont worry, you can spell 'drokk' anyway you like. We embrace all types here- see cyberleader2000's posts for more of that.

As far as quitting the prog back then goes, well, you're back now and that's what matters. Check out a few of the threads hereabouts, which will point you towards stuff you've missed. Otherwise stuff your wallet with cash, wander into waterstones or comic shop, and take a chance on a number of trades.

Welcome!

SBT

[Beeks]

Welcome back to the fold...it's comfy

[PEO]

Phew, thanks for the welcome.

[Emp]

Welcome aboard, again.

[TordelBack]

Welcome back, PEO.  There's no shame about jumping ship in the mid-90s.  Only the weirdest of obsessives hung on to the wreckage through that storm. What hideous mental surgery they must have performed on their own critical faculties to keep buying week after depressing week and call it 'loyalty'.  They know who they are.

[Mark Taylor]

Hi, I too jumped ship in the mid-nineties. It was a bad time for 2000AD for various reasons and it was a bad time for me personally, too. However I have since redeemed myself (I hope). I started reading 2000AD and the Megazine again in mid-2007, and also collected all of the trades I could get my hands on. I haven't looked back. I highly recommended it. Just jump in to the prog and meg at any time, even if it's in the middle of a bunch of stories. You won't regret it!

[Spikes]

I wont pretend i know whats been happening in my absence as but i can comment on what i know of the early years, if thats ok?

Hello and welcome, and you could always start buying the prog again, as i recently have.
Its not called the 'Galaxy's Greatest Comic' for nowt, you know.

[Frank]

Welcome back, PEO.  There's no shame about jumping ship in the mid-90s.  Only the weirdest of obsessives hung on to the wreckage through that storm. What hideous mental surgery they must have performed on their own critical faculties to keep buying week after depressing week and call it 'loyalty'.  They know who they are.

Hiya, PEO. Wagner fanboyism saw me through the worst of the Nineties. That, and the fact that a regular order at my local newsagents meant I never actually had to physically buy the fucking thing- Mercy Heights and Witch World just plopped through my letter box every week, like jobbies.

Can't blame you.

[PEO]

As this is the only forum i've ever joined im unsure of how to reply to each post seperately ( a bit sad for a bloke my age i know!) but i'll suss it out. Thanks for the replies and comments, considering my lack of loyalty. I used to live for saturdays progs and back in the day i felt i knew as much about 2000ad as anyone alive and yet it now feels like im back with an old girlfriend and i know nowt about her!(or where she's been!) I recently lost my job so i can't splash any cash on back issues just yet but i will take all your advice onboard, read plenty of threads and get back into the habit of purchasing weekly progs. Thanks again.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Welcome back PEO, hope you are finding the forum a good read, informative, funny and insane at times.

Sorry to hear about the job front, hope something comes your way soon!

[SmallBlueThing]

Yeah, hope you find something soon. In the meantime- get yourself to your local library! Every libary in the country can and will get you any 2000AD trade you want, including the hard to find ones like the nikolai dante ones everyone's worrying about over on that other thread. Many libraries already have whole shelves of thrill-power, i know mine does. And it's free.

SBT

[Frank]

I recently lost my job so i can't splash any cash on back issues just yet but i will take all your advice onboard, read plenty of threads and get back into the habit of purchasing weekly progs. Thanks again.

Sorry to hear that. The digital prog's only £1.49 from Clickwheel:

http://www.clickwheel.net/features/219

[judgefloyd]

hi there Peo and welcome! Comment on any period of the galaxy's greatest you like - I don't think anyone gets snubbed for being out of date (I hope not, since my knowledge stops about three years ago).  I don't mind the mid-90s myself. Probably my judgement is skewed by that being the time when I first discovered the progs.  I have good memories of my first Rogue Trooper and Venus Blue Genes stories, Amoured Gideon, Canon Fodder and of liking Ennis' Dredd stories before I knew who Ennis was.
  Sorry the move didn't work out and that you lost your collection - that is indeed rough.  As someone else here said, libraries are wonderful.

cheers,

Floyd

[PEO]

Nice one gents, kind words indeed, and thanks for the tip about libraries i'll let you know how i get on.
Think the forums great by the way!