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Honestly, its now Sister Sledge, the Scan Sector Dancing Queen, Venus and now bubble girl as bad uns... it is worse than the casual comedy racism for me as a "hard to justify to modern eyes" flaw of those early progs.

In a comic aimed at young boys, the 'Ugh! Girls!" aspect of Rogue Trooper is more akin to Calvin's G.R.O.S.S. club than anything. I've long found it amusing how much the bio-chips echo the playground attitudes of the prog's then-contemporary readers: "Stop being all mushy and hanging out with girls, Rogue! Get back to shooting people!"

You could read that as a reflection of the GI's training and development - they've been designed, built and trained to be organic killing machines, but otherwise have the emotional maturity of children.

I don't think Rogue Trooper was ever that deep, though, and that would make Venus Bluegenes' status in Millicom Memories even more disturbing (the visiting officers appear to be using the Dolls as little more than comfort girls, after all).

Post 'Eye of the Traitor', it increasingly looks like Rogue Trooper has forgotten about the Main Quest and has become determined to finish all the Side Missions, even the stupid ones and the weird off kilter dream sequence one.  He even dodges out of an NPC trying to railroad him back into hunting for the Traitor at one point...

The Complete Skizz is half price in the 2000 AD Shop right now...

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB611

...and I'm seriously tempted to buy even though it'll eventually turn up as part of the Hachette Ultimate Collection, as those particular progs were the ones I used to loan out to my RPG group as part of my Introduction to Dredd and they're subsequently in a pretty tatty state...

Die Hard on a space ship is Space Mutiny. They've stolen hours of effects footage from Battlestar Galactica and they're not afraid to go up to speeds of 3!

The Undercity as a D&D campaign setting, you say? Why not try The Rookie's Guide to the Undercity (wot I wrote).  It's out of print, but Amazon has a used copy in good condition for the bargain price of £10,202.51...

Wow - it seems that all the pictures on this thread and the does my art look big thread are back!

Have Photobucket ditched their stupid pricing system? I don't think I EVER saw a forum where someone had actually paid them.

Got my Dante v3 yesterday. I get mine from my local comic shop, who orders me a copy alongside my prog. Strangely enough I seem to be ahead of subscribers at present. Is this some glitch?

They send them in pairs, so subscribers won't get the Dante one until the Strontium Dog one comes out.

Fantastic run of books there.
Surprised to see Kenny Who? collection here, and not in the Dredd collection, but I ain't complaining!

Well, obviously they're going to put that in volume 1, everyone knows Who?'s on first.

I don't know what's in volume three.

Issue 15 and 16 have arrived at last, along with the (very nice) covers book, which I wasn't even expecting!

Cor, this prize just keeps getting bigger...

The Last Wizard By Writer Matt Sharp and artist Brian Corcoran

I described a character as 'having the smug but bewildered expression of someone who's painfully dim but believes he's extremely clever' in that script; consequently, Brian produced a character that looks just like me, even though we've never met and he'd never seen a picture of me...

Anybody who enjoys this period of 2000ad should definitely check out the first book at least. Thinking about it, one of those stories ('The Star Beast'), would make an interesting double-feature with Skizz...

Nonsense! Everybody knows there's no thrills worth sucking at Marvel UK...

Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing didn't start until January 1984, but by coincidence in 1983 he was singing a jaunty tune alongside Northampton Goth group Bauhaus that includes a line from the 1983 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGL8Fx6SOjg

Quite a lot of the references seem to have been aimed at comic reading parents, IMO.

Oh, and 'The Reversible Man' was the first 2000 AD Story that kept me awake at night thinking about it afterwards.  I was eight years old in 1983.

Oh boy!  I hope Fox was prepared for the Authorised Retaliation to a correctly performed First of the Month Ritual!

'A slap and a kick, for being so quick!' supersedes the 'no returns!' clause...

Also, Fox's vision of the next Royal Wedding left me laughing so much that I missed the whole of the Harry 20 review and had to rewind it.

Skizz is my absolute favourite of Alan Moore's 2000AD work, even though it's probably the most 'bafflingly British' things you're likely to see. And pay very close attention, as nearly everything you see (including tiny background details) is Important Later.

And also getting close to the Best Prog Ever... I'm excited to see what you guys make of late 1983!

Which prog is this?

335. Just my opinion, obviously! I'm sure there's a thread on that somewhere...

Statistically speaking, the prog that had the highest rating on Barney (back when Barney still had ratings!) was prog 324...

Brian Clough's surname was pronounced 'Kluff' - the English also have a lot of frankly baffling rules for pronouncing names as well as the Irish and the Welsh.

Be thankful that there's no 2000 AD stories set in Loughborough...