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I like the idea of a completely out-of-character death for JD. Perhaps going the same way as Pope Paul II.

I'm with Moly and Dandontdare on this one. Thoroughly underwhelmed. Half the quality of tooth and twice the price.

On balance I wouldn't move into the Meg right now, if you're wavering. It may sound like heresy, but although I've got a long-standing dual subscription, I keep the Meg out of habit and in hope that it throws up the occasional doozie. But when the two magazines arrive together, it's 2000AD I reach for and the Meg often lies by my bedside or in the magazine rack in the loo for weeks before being read. That must say something. The supplements are of little interest if you've been reading this stuff since near the start.

Fair enough.

Virgil - with an avatar like that you must be about the same age as me (born 1967?). That must have been my first ever album and I played it to death.

Everyone else: I too liked Tank Girl, have loved her since the first edition of Deadline. Okay, these stories haven't been her at her best, but still good. And I hate Armitage in the same way that most of you hate Tank Girl.

So nyer.

mmm. I could have sworn I started this thread under a different title. But it seems the thought police have caught up with me.

Home book: Iain M Banks - Inversions
Work book: Stephen E. Ambrose - D-Day

Recently read the excellent "Coward at the Bridge" - a WWII adventure set at Arnhem, by someone called James Delingpole.

No relation.

Honest.

Nice to see so many replies.
One thought that hit me one day while looking at something awesome from D'Israeli in the Meg: If I'd given up the Meg I'd have missed it. I think it was one of his full-page city scapes in all it's Victorian craziness. It was worth the cover price on it's own. When you get moments like that you can forgive the hit and miss nature of both comics.

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?

Hello Commando Forces and Proudhuff. (A month on I just noticed this thread had resurfaced).

I've been made to feel very welcome and it's been a steep learning curve on this site.

I've found that if you actually know what you're talking about you're okay, but if you just dislike the current Armitage storyline and artwork you've got to be prepared to be met with fierce opposition

I've learned that nothing is loved by everyone or hated by everyone and that the general level of intelligence displayed is very high.
I find the same level of anorakism on the "Flames of War" website (the brand of WWII Wargame I do) and within the better elements of re-enactment. I've always been a stickler (to quote Chief Judge Cal) and hopefully set as high standards for myself as I do for those who provide the products I buy.

I know I started this thread but I wish it would just die and slump into the silt at the bottom of the posting lake as I do feel a little bit guilty about the title. But it bears out my point about catchy/provocative titles. There's more life in 'em.

However, much as I've tried to take your comments on board I still think the current Armitage artwork is pants. I've tried to like it, really I have. I've tried to see some artistic merit in the heavy-handed grey shading, that awful profile of Armitage with the "Bigmouth Billy Bass" lower lip and no teeth, and all I can conclude is that it is really not very good when compared to just about anything else in 2000AD or the Meg. Sorry but there it is.

The sci-fi geek in me loves wind turbines.

But every other particle of me hates them with a vengeance. They're expensive, they're a blight on our beautiful landscape, they kill birds, they require vast amounts of concrete make, they energy needed to make them alone will never be replaced by the energy they produce... oh, and they don't work.

But then I'm part of the much villified and hated AGW denying group.

Just in case I ever get accused of only being negative on the forum:

2000AD in on one of it's period highs at the moment and I'm loving it, especially Dredd, which has an exceptionally clever slow burning plot and yet manages to pack action into it.
The art is top notch as well.

Take any one one of the current 2000AD stories and compare it the art to Armitage. Quality speaks for itself.

Sorry Dark Jimbo, it's just that when you said:

Thread title's a bit harsh, though. Can we get it changed?

I thought you might have some sort of bowdlerising capabilities. You are, after all, a Battle Hardened War Robot and I'm languishing on Mek Quake's trash heap.

Dark Jimbo - "Can we change the thread title" - Seriously? Some of you out there are so easily offended that you'd change the title of someone else's thread?

How many people would have read it if it had been less (deliberately) provocative?

And when it boils down to it I'm with Dan don't Dare - I want to like Armitage, it's just that he David Jason in Frost without the humour. His main weapon is grumpiness. Treasure Steel's main characteristic is "tough single mum". I'm interested in the possibilities of Brit Cit and it's Judges but when we get crass revelations like "All the senior judges turn out to be Freemasons" I lose interest quickly and get back to a story with some action.

I feel future Britain has been sold short.