>It just seems anachronistic to have something that is essentially about the future, to be innately named after the past...
Not when it's an established publication with 1505 progs under it's belt and well established characters.
You can consider the title to mean life after 2000AD which can still mean the future, depends on your perception of it, not how someone sells it to you.
I mean Star Wars sounds like a crap, hokey 70's sci-fi title to me but I can't imagine those films being called anything else, the original films get away with it now because they were good and different & higly enjoyable, the new ones don't cos' they're crap.
Should the league of extraordinary gentlemen be called something else because no one titles heroic team-ups in a wordy, victorian type english anymore?
2000AD is not strictly about the future & when it's stories are in a futuristic setting they aren't usually concerned with predition or a "we're all going to live this way someday" attitude. They're just stories of human interest or crazy possibilities. If someone really belived all humans would end up living under a misogynistic theocracy like in Nemesis, I would consifer them mad but as a story it's enjoyable, entertaining & thought provoking. A mad possibility.
2000AD is fiction not fact. Don't take the title literally, that's not what it's meant for.
Not when it's an established publication with 1505 progs under it's belt and well established characters.
You can consider the title to mean life after 2000AD which can still mean the future, depends on your perception of it, not how someone sells it to you.
I mean Star Wars sounds like a crap, hokey 70's sci-fi title to me but I can't imagine those films being called anything else, the original films get away with it now because they were good and different & higly enjoyable, the new ones don't cos' they're crap.
Should the league of extraordinary gentlemen be called something else because no one titles heroic team-ups in a wordy, victorian type english anymore?
2000AD is not strictly about the future & when it's stories are in a futuristic setting they aren't usually concerned with predition or a "we're all going to live this way someday" attitude. They're just stories of human interest or crazy possibilities. If someone really belived all humans would end up living under a misogynistic theocracy like in Nemesis, I would consifer them mad but as a story it's enjoyable, entertaining & thought provoking. A mad possibility.
2000AD is fiction not fact. Don't take the title literally, that's not what it's meant for.