Okay, after I don't know how long, I think I've finally sussed it. I can't remember when I joined this forum, might be a year ago might be longer, I can't remember! I'm an old man now, in my forties, and can't be expected to remember anything that happened more than a week ago!
When I originally joined I tried posting but couldn't find out how to do it, didn't realise I needed to go into the newbie section first. Had no joy and thought 'bollocks to this' and gave up. I have continually 'sat' in on various discussions and have received both enjoyment and edification on various topics.
Then one day I decided to look in on the 'Welcome to the board' bit and finally the penny dropped that I should be posting here first. Really, a welcome e-mail saying 'You've got to post in this section first, idiot!!' would have been appreciated! What you can deduce from this is that I am old, have a bad memory and give up easily!
Anyway, I'm hardly a newbie to the prog itself, having read from issue one up to one I can no longer recall (see comment above about being forty odd (nearly fifty now)). I can chart my life from 1977 up to the mid nineties by which prog was out at the time. As you can guess, I, like many others, gave up in the nineties. But it wasn't through choice! Money was tight and toothy was a bit rubbish compared to how it had been, but the deciding factor was a losing all my issues that I had built up for nearly two decades. All my progs were stored at my mums while I was off being married somewhere. Then my mum passed away from cancer and the council cleared her flat and I lost everything. I had everything as well, all the issues, the annuals, Starlord, the specials, Crises, Revolver etc. I know I should have taken them myself earlier but was living in a tiny flat with my wife and had no room for it all. I didn't have the heart to carry on reading after that, and as I said, the prog wasn't at it's best so I learned to live with it.
I have been pulled back from time to time and am now back in the fold full time (too many uses of the word time there). As it turned out I didn't quite loose everything, for some reason I still have all the Starlord issues, two volumes of the VC's trade paperbacks which were issued in the late eighties by Titan, the Bisley drawn Batman/Dredd crossover 'Judgement on Gotham' and the metal badge which came with prog 178 (had to look that up on the Barney website, again, see the comment on my memory above).
All is not bad news however! I am now no longer married and have amassed somewhere in the region of 100 2000ad graphic novels with 7 on their way in the post!! Yes I am now addicted bad, just the way I used to be.
I now have a girlfriend who encourages me in my 2000ad addiction, I'm not kidding! My ex-wife used to be a bit sniffy towards comics but not my new girl. If we are in a bookshop and I'm browsing the trades she will say something like "Have you got that one? Get it, we can afford it!". Seriously! What planet has she beamed down from? She also likes rock, goth and metal music which suits me just fine.
Actually what I haven't told her is that I have spent £100 pre-ording the Zenith collection, hopefully it won't have the price on it when it arrives as that might be a £100 too much!
My favourite comics (apart from 2000ad) are: Cerebus, Love and Rockets, Furry Freak Brothers, Tintin, Luther Arkwright (anything by Talbot actually), Bone, From Hell (definitely anything by Moore, he and 2000ad are the only reason I still read comics at this advanced age), Tomb of Dracula, Master Of Kung Fu, any Conan from the seventies and a smattering of Sixties marvels (from the time I used to read Mighty World Of Marvel and various UK marvel mags), Invisibles and Doom Patrol (actually my favourite Morrison is Flex Mentallo). I also still have a complete collection of the Axa albums from First Comics in the eighties which I am pretty fond off (because of the story and art, nothing to do with the semi-naked blonde which appears throughout, honest!)
My favourite bands are The Sisters Of Mercy, Dead Can Dance, Hawkwind, Fields Of The Nephilim, Motorhead, Future Sound Of London, and others!!!
Anyway hope this earns me the right to post on other areas of the forum, not that I will that often but it is nice to think that I can if I want to! Plus it will be nice to have an avatar of my own! Please look kindly upon me Mods!
Yours, Gavin the born again Dredd head.
When I originally joined I tried posting but couldn't find out how to do it, didn't realise I needed to go into the newbie section first. Had no joy and thought 'bollocks to this' and gave up. I have continually 'sat' in on various discussions and have received both enjoyment and edification on various topics.
Then one day I decided to look in on the 'Welcome to the board' bit and finally the penny dropped that I should be posting here first. Really, a welcome e-mail saying 'You've got to post in this section first, idiot!!' would have been appreciated! What you can deduce from this is that I am old, have a bad memory and give up easily!
Anyway, I'm hardly a newbie to the prog itself, having read from issue one up to one I can no longer recall (see comment above about being forty odd (nearly fifty now)). I can chart my life from 1977 up to the mid nineties by which prog was out at the time. As you can guess, I, like many others, gave up in the nineties. But it wasn't through choice! Money was tight and toothy was a bit rubbish compared to how it had been, but the deciding factor was a losing all my issues that I had built up for nearly two decades. All my progs were stored at my mums while I was off being married somewhere. Then my mum passed away from cancer and the council cleared her flat and I lost everything. I had everything as well, all the issues, the annuals, Starlord, the specials, Crises, Revolver etc. I know I should have taken them myself earlier but was living in a tiny flat with my wife and had no room for it all. I didn't have the heart to carry on reading after that, and as I said, the prog wasn't at it's best so I learned to live with it.
I have been pulled back from time to time and am now back in the fold full time (too many uses of the word time there). As it turned out I didn't quite loose everything, for some reason I still have all the Starlord issues, two volumes of the VC's trade paperbacks which were issued in the late eighties by Titan, the Bisley drawn Batman/Dredd crossover 'Judgement on Gotham' and the metal badge which came with prog 178 (had to look that up on the Barney website, again, see the comment on my memory above).
All is not bad news however! I am now no longer married and have amassed somewhere in the region of 100 2000ad graphic novels with 7 on their way in the post!! Yes I am now addicted bad, just the way I used to be.
I now have a girlfriend who encourages me in my 2000ad addiction, I'm not kidding! My ex-wife used to be a bit sniffy towards comics but not my new girl. If we are in a bookshop and I'm browsing the trades she will say something like "Have you got that one? Get it, we can afford it!". Seriously! What planet has she beamed down from? She also likes rock, goth and metal music which suits me just fine.
Actually what I haven't told her is that I have spent £100 pre-ording the Zenith collection, hopefully it won't have the price on it when it arrives as that might be a £100 too much!
My favourite comics (apart from 2000ad) are: Cerebus, Love and Rockets, Furry Freak Brothers, Tintin, Luther Arkwright (anything by Talbot actually), Bone, From Hell (definitely anything by Moore, he and 2000ad are the only reason I still read comics at this advanced age), Tomb of Dracula, Master Of Kung Fu, any Conan from the seventies and a smattering of Sixties marvels (from the time I used to read Mighty World Of Marvel and various UK marvel mags), Invisibles and Doom Patrol (actually my favourite Morrison is Flex Mentallo). I also still have a complete collection of the Axa albums from First Comics in the eighties which I am pretty fond off (because of the story and art, nothing to do with the semi-naked blonde which appears throughout, honest!)
My favourite bands are The Sisters Of Mercy, Dead Can Dance, Hawkwind, Fields Of The Nephilim, Motorhead, Future Sound Of London, and others!!!
Anyway hope this earns me the right to post on other areas of the forum, not that I will that often but it is nice to think that I can if I want to! Plus it will be nice to have an avatar of my own! Please look kindly upon me Mods!
Yours, Gavin the born again Dredd head.