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Is there a more 2000AD thing on TV right now than this (that I've only just seen because I'm constantly playing catch-up with the TV planner)?
It's just like that well-drawn and fairly amusing story with the stoner students, name of which eludes me right now. Surely I can't be the only one to have noticed this.
If you haven't seen it... I'm sure you have the wherewithal to do so.

Have any of you ever come close to giving up 2000AD or the Meg?
Maybe for one of the following reasons:

1. Strapped for cash, and can no longer justify the expense
2. Grown out of it
3. Stories/art not what they used to be

Personally the answer is that at darker moments I've been tempted to give up one or the other, possibly for reason 1 or 3, certainly not 2 (I'm 42 and now my kids would never let me stop). Even when it's not at it's best there's always some redeeming factor and the good times always outweigh the bad. And 30 years is quite a habit to break.

But I'm just curious: Did you ever go away, and why, and what made you come back?

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I mean, not only is he the worst-drawn strip in play at the moment but the plot is shockingly dull. And as if this wasn't bad enough it has to be the vehicle for redressing imbalances elsewhere in 2000AD land: so it gets the black lesbian. How about making her disabled?
Armitage - how Dredd would look if designed by Gordon Brown and Mandy.

Mod edit: Thread title changed to be less abrasive. You can obviously see what it was, just changed it to be more respectful.

As a newbie I was just wondering. Do any of you old hands have any stories of suggestions from here that have actually materialised in print? Or is it just a way of letting us all vent our spleens or a forum for discussing "wouldn't it be great ifs"?

[Defoe, Red Seas, Nikolai Dante]

Hello Tharg, hello members of the 2000AD online community.
I'm 42, have been reading 2000AD since I was 12, I am a loyal subscriber, my wife and kids all read and love 2000AD. So this criticism comes from the heart and is intended to be helpful:

There are now 3 stories (Defoe, Red Seas, Nikolai Dante) which regularly feature flintlock muskets or variations of, and none of the artists are getting the mechanism quite right.

As a Napoleonic re-enactor I'm regularly firing a Brown Bess and it's French counterpart, the Charleville. The most common mistake the artists seem to make is in the flint itself. It is either completely absent (see attached Defoe cover of prog. 1640 where Damned(?) frizen is open and he has no flint in the jaws) or is a shapeless blob deep within the jaws of the hammer as appeared in a recent Red Seas.



I don't suppose it makes much difference to most readers but I'm sure the artists would like to get it right, and are presumably working from web images from museums which would not necessarily display guns with flints in.

I've put a short video on Youtube to show how the mechanism actually works.
I've also got some still pictures to show the three positions the hammer can be in relation to the frizzen, but I've got nowhere to upload them to except Facebooks so I don't know how to link them.

This is the You tube link. And yes, the flint falls out. But I couldn't be bothered to get my 11 year old daughter to re-film it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXpLk6ihflo

Hope this helps. Keep up the good work.

Richard Delingpole
Worcester