Heya guys!
I'm new to the forum here.
I've been reading 2000 AD off and on since 2003. My first issues were 1343 thru 1346.
I didn't know what to expect and I had only pre-ordered for that month.
I'm about to get back in to 2000 AD and I'm trying to decide whether to go print or digital.
I currently have the following issues (I bought all of these either through pre-ordering at a nearby comic shop or through DCBS):
Progs 1343-1346, 1365-1368, 1400-1417, 1638-1641
Megs 224 and 286
I recently started getting digital copies and I've purchased through Clickwheel:
Progs 2006 and 1469
I was thinking of starting with 2006 and moving forward from there. Especially would be nice if I had an iPad (or a vertical monitor). But at the same time it would be nice to be current with everyone else.
Hell... I may work my way up from 2006 AND subscribe through Clickwheel..
I love 2000 AD's format and wish more companies would release regular anthology series.
Hey and Welcome :D
No doubt the guys/gals here will get you up to speed! Graphic Novels can be a great way to catch up on a story in bulk if you're particularly keen on getting up to date ;)
Welcome to Tharg's lovenest.
Personally, I can't get on with digital - I jsut like to hold the pages in my hand, it's no fun reading off a screen, but then I'm a middle aged luddite!
Hey buddy. You, a long-standing resident of Texas? 'Cos it's fab to know you are into the format I take for granted as the staple.2000ad is unique in its whole approach to this medium. Its so good to get word from deep America!
Yey-haw, Good Buddy an' get some Ace Trucking & Co read, pront-ho.
Mornin'.
Well I'd defo go subscription. Personnaly don't like digital yet (but I may catch up eventually) but now would be a great time to get on board whatever the format as Prog 1700 out to subscribers this weekend has a whole bunch of new stories and will be a great jumping on point. Once you've settled in working back will be a delight.
Whatever you decide welcome aboard and have fun.
Wow. You guys really know how to make a person feel welcome!
I was expecting maybe one reply. :-)
Thanks!
I think I decided to go digital. The main reason for this would be something I'm already familiar with. See the holes in my collection? That's from not ordering a few months. Tracking down back issues in the States is virtually impossible.
I figured with digital I wouldn't have that problem.
It's also a wee bit cheaper.
Quote from: w3bz on 25 August, 2010, 08:41:55 AM
No doubt the guys/gals here will get you up to speed! Graphic Novels can be a great way to catch up on a story in bulk if you're particularly keen on getting up to date ;)
Strangely enough... I'm more inclined to read the issues digitally than I am to read the trades.
I've always had a sort of discomfort when it came to trades. I would end up wanting the original issues in fear that I'm missing something.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 25 August, 2010, 08:46:20 AM
Personally, I can't get on with digital - I jsut like to hold the pages in my hand, it's no fun reading off a screen, but then I'm a middle aged luddite!
I'm pushin' 40, myself...
I agree. I would much rather hold the actual issues in my hand. I like to be able to be able to take in the whole page... to be able to plop down just anywhere to read it.
I had a very hard time coming to that decision. I think if I lived in the UK I would go with real paper.
Quote from: Krombasher on 25 August, 2010, 09:24:13 AM
Hey buddy. You, a long-standing resident of Texas? 'Cos it's fab to know you are into the format I take for granted as the staple.2000ad is unique in its whole approach to this medium. Its so good to get word from deep America!
Yey-haw, Good Buddy an' get some Ace Trucking & Co read, pront-ho.
Born and raised, Krombasher.
I love 2000 AD's serial format. I'm actually planning to use a similar format with an indie comic I'm working on.
Here in the States, DC and Marvel have both tried the anthology format with various serials running from issue to issue. They end up not working because the stories used are throwaway stories and they don't bother to put top creators on it.
People try them out, complain that the stories are sub-par and eventually they get canceled.
This leads to speculation (industry-wide, not just the big two) that the format doesn't work when obviously they just didn't try hard enough.
Something else I wish we had over here..?
BBC Radio 7. Something like that is unheard of here.
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 August, 2010, 09:48:50 AM
Mornin'.
Mornin'
:-)
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 25 August, 2010, 10:36:53 AM
Well I'd defo go subscription. Personnaly don't like digital yet (but I may catch up eventually) but now would be a great time to get on board whatever the format as Prog 1700 out to subscribers this weekend has a whole bunch of new stories and will be a great jumping on point. Once you've settled in working back will be a delight.
Whatever you decide welcome aboard and have fun.
Thanks, Colin.
And thanks for the heads-up about 1700. I went ahead and picked up Meg 300 and the two August Progs available, 1696 and 1697. (I just looked and saw 1698 was just uploaded. So I'm about to get that one, too.)
I was trying to figure out where to start because a few of the stories in 1697 had been going for quite some time. Think I'll just continue on then and enjoy the endings of them and then start fresh with 1700.
So here's my plan:
2000 AD from 1696-up
Megazine 300-up
2000 AD (Classic) from 2006-up (eventually to be connected to 2000 AD 1696)
Welcome.
Now for the newer reader survey: What made you start reading in 2003 and what made you return now?
Quote from: kossori on 25 August, 2010, 02:39:31 PMI think I decided to go digital. The main reason for this would be something I'm already familiar with. See the holes in my collection? That's from not ordering a few months. Tracking down back issues in the States is virtually impossible.
I figured with digital I wouldn't have that problem.
It's also a wee bit cheaper.
Yes I'm sure the other American readers can sympathise - Diamond have been doing a terrible job and so quite a few of them have switched to digital.
Quote from: kossori on 25 August, 2010, 02:39:31 PMI love 2000 AD's serial format. I'm actually planning to use a similar format with an indie comic I'm working on.
Good stuff - keep us informed of progress. I think the world needs more anthologies, it means you can take risks and introduce people to comics that they might not usually pick up.
Quote from: kossori on 25 August, 2010, 02:39:31 PMSo here's my plan:
2000 AD from 1696-up
Megazine 300-up
2000 AD (Classic) from 2006-up (eventually to be connected to 2000 AD 1696)
And a good plan it looks - the end of year specials (the last one being Prog 2010) are designed as jumping on points, where all the new stories start in that issue, and there are sometimes mid-year ones too, like 1700 and 1650 before that (that was the start of Tour of Duty). So for those who are wary of jumping into an anthology they can nip back to those points and catch up pretty easily. However, most of the current readers who didn't start with #1 just jumped in mid-stories and it hasn't done us any harm. Hasn't done us any harm. It seems less of a big deal these days when comic books are usually written for the trade with longer story arcs rather than done-in-one (or possibly two) stories in the good old days - people seem able to cope with that ;) The only real danger is trying to read too many comics as you catch up, Thrill-Power Overload can be deadly (it is also a great book on the history of 2000 AD but that is a story for another thread) so take it steadily and if you hear your synapses starting to fry you might want to take a lie down in an ice cold bath with a tin bucket on your head.
Anyway, if you have any questions just ask - the Hivemind has not yet failed to provide an answer. Pus if you want to give your thoughts on particular issues and/or stories you can usually find a thread in the reviews section.
Welcome, brother!
Quote from: Emperor on 25 August, 2010, 06:13:13 PM
Welcome.
Now for the newer reader survey: What made you start reading in 2003 and what made you return now?
Well.. Near as I can remember I had dropped mainstream stuff and got hooked on Crossgen. They had these two books, Edge and Forge, where they reprinted all their monthlies into. It made it to where you only had to get those two books each month to get everything. The books were set up like an anthology with issues being called "episodes".
I loved it but when Crossgen went bottom up there was nothing else out there like it.
I had heard about 2000 AD before but never really tried it. I just knew it was British, had Judge Dredd in it and almost all the good Vertigo creators had worked in it at some time.
I was already a fan of British stuff. I like Dr. Who and enjoy British comedies (more than most of the stuff on networks here).
My fave shows of all time are The Prisoner and The Avengers.
So I really felt I would have no problem getting into it.
But as I mentioned if I missed a month I missed four issues. At the time I never used DCBS. I hadn't discovered them, yet. So my ordering was done through my local comic shop. That shop is an hour away and I started having trouble getting there with my job. To the point that I had stopped going altogether.
Then last year (or the year before?) I found DCBS. Went through a period of trying to decide what to buy each month as I was starting fresh. Somehow ended up back to 2000 AD.
But last year I also discovered Clickwheel.
I downloaded Prog 2006 about that time. Tried to convince myself that digital was better than nothing... But unfortunately about that time my roommate moved out and my bills doubled until I moved into an apartment.
Then early this year I began trying to "find my place" again in comics. I'm not big on the big guns. So Batman, Superman, Spider-man and X-men were out.
I finally settled on Marvel's Agents of Atlas and DC's Legion. Atlas got cancelled shortly after I got the first issue.
So when I did a re-evaluation of what comics have interested me in the past and what books do I wish to actually support by buying them, I remembered 2000 AD.
And that's what brings us the present and my decision to go digital. The iPad being released help push it a little, too, because there's hope that one day I may be able to read them on a vertical screen.
QuoteYes I'm sure the other American readers can sympathise - Diamond have been doing a terrible job and so quite a few of them have switched to digital.
It's good to know others are doing it for similar reasons. I hope it brings a wider audience to 2000 AD.
QuoteGood stuff - keep us informed of progress. I think the world needs more anthologies, it means you can take risks and introduce people to comics that they might not usually pick up.
True.
I think I suffer from a condition that was brought upon me by my living conditions when I was a child.
For a time when I was a kid we only had one station to watch. So every night you watched the same network (ABC).
This later resulted in me doing things like following all of DC's Impact comics back in the '90s or all of Crossgen's stuff through the Compendiums.
I don't know what to call it. Ocd perhaps? But I would follow an imprint like most follow a creator.
'Nuther World Comics, my comic, I started back in 2003 also. At the time I learned that anyone could make comics and the best way to get better is by doing.
My old stuff is on Clickwheel. It just so happens to fall right under 2000 AD because of the apostrophe (what luck!). I've just recently started working on some new stuff. My job, however, doesn't give me much time to devote to it.
My approach towards the new version is sort of like a network prime-time line-up/comics anthology.
I will stop there and post something about it over in the proper forum for it later.
QuoteAnd a good plan it looks - the end of year specials (the last one being Prog 2010) are designed as jumping on points, where all the new stories start in that issue, and there are sometimes mid-year ones too, like 1700 and 1650 before that (that was the start of Tour of Duty). So for those who are wary of jumping into an anthology they can nip back to those points and catch up pretty easily. However, most of the current readers who didn't start with #1 just jumped in mid-stories and it hasn't done us any harm. Hasn't done us any harm. It seems less of a big deal these days when comic books are usually written for the trade with longer story arcs rather than done-in-one (or possibly two) stories in the good old days - people seem able to cope with that ;) The only real danger is trying to read too many comics as you catch up, Thrill-Power Overload can be deadly (it is also a great book on the history of 2000 AD but that is a story for another thread) so take it steadily and if you hear your synapses starting to fry you might want to take a lie down in an ice cold bath with a tin bucket on your head.
Anyway, if you have any questions just ask - the Hivemind has not yet failed to provide an answer. Pus if you want to give your thoughts on particular issues and/or stories you can usually find a thread in the reviews section.
Thanks, Emperor!
I'm going to read a couple thrills a night to keep from getting overwhemed. Just read the Dredd story from 300 last night. Will comment on it when I get home.
My apologies on the quoting errors. I'm doing this on my Blackberry.
I also failed to mention another reason I like 2000 AD. Another one of my quirks, if you will.
I like cliffhangers and/or serials. It takes me FOREVER to read a book because I will stop after each chapter and let it linger.
I picked this up when I was a kid. When I read comics before bed I would have two or three comics by the bed and I would read each one until I reached an ad. I would then put it down and go to the next. Then after the last one I would go to bed. The next night I would resume after the ad and read to the next.
Quote from: kossori on 25 August, 2010, 08:27:07 PM
...I like cliffhangers and/or serials. It takes me FOREVER to read a book because I will stop after each chapter and let it linger...
SUCH a good idea lol, if I weren't such a gluton I'd probably opt for that too :D
While I should be all "power to the man" being the admin and all that, I have to say that I wouldn't subscribe to Clickwheel, just get the individuals for now... ::)
Quote from: kossori on 25 August, 2010, 08:27:07 PM
My apologies on the quoting errors. I'm doing this on my Blackberry.
Fixed it for you - an extra opening quote tag had sneaked in there.
Thanks!
Quote from: kossori on 25 August, 2010, 08:27:07 PM
When I read comics before bed I would have two or three comics by the bed and I would read each one until I reached an ad. I would then put it down and go to the next. Then after the last one I would go to bed. The next night I would resume after the ad and read to the next.
Wow these days, particularly coming up to X-Mas that could mean reading a US comic could take weeks!
Welcome to the board.
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Greetingsssssssss.
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