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The Journal of Luke Kirby.  I caught the last printed story of Luke Kirby and was again drawn in by the artwork.

"Summer Magic" is one of my all-time favourite stories, along with "Song of the Surfer".

*sniff*

Eee, I remember when it was 8p (earth money).

I ain't proud.

Wonder why Tharg (or anyone else) didn't make more use of him?

SMS design for an -- as yet unspecified -- project with John Freeman...

Hehe, I used to work with John Freeman (we worked at ROK together in Lancaster, he was mostly doing ROK Comics stuff as I recall). He used to do a strip called The Really Heavy Greatcoat, years ago.

Hmm, I'm going to have to dig out Progs 828-840 and have a re-read.

For me, probably the mid-late 80s & early 90s. There were loads of strips then that I particularly liked. The Journal of Luke Kirby has always stuck in my mind, as has Dragonheist (a Sláine strip that I think was mid-80s). Also Oz and Song of the Surfer (although that takes us into 1990). And Bisley's Sláine art.

Maybe it's just because that's when I was reading most avidly though - and I'm sure I've missed loads of great stuff in the past 8 years.

Never heard of Paltalk, but I shall Google it. =)

You'll always be Friday to me! :-)

Hehehe. \o/  Actually, when I joined The Justice Department (TJD - the Quake 2 clan I've been in for the past 12 years), I did start as "Friday". But there was also another UK Quake 2 player who was playing as FR1DAY, and I reckoned "Rico" was a bit more in line with the theme of a clan of Mega City Judges.

We even had skins based on the Judge uniform. Here's mine, and the standard deathmatch skin:



I had the large eagle 'cause I was Chief Judge (clan leader) at the time.

In fact, quite a lot had their own customised skins:




Obviously, we kinda trod on copyright a bit, but I did actually email Egmont (as it was at the time IIRC), asking if it was OK. Never got a response, so I figured no one cared too much.

At one point, we merged with another clan for a while and TJD became "The Judges of Death", with new skins:



Ah, those were the days.

Hi, everyone.  Thought I should really get round to posting something on this forum, seeing as I finally got round to joining it some time ago.

I think I've probably encountered some posters here before. Many years ago -- more than a decade, in fact -- I created the Usenet newsgroup alt.comics.2000ad.  Last time I swung by, it was largely full of spam and velveeta; the fate of much of the Usenet hierarchy, I fear.

I remember some names in particular. Wakefield L. Carter was one of the prolific posters in those early days, along with Barny Shergold. He had an email address made out of sapient pearwood, as I recall. The third name that really stuck in my mind was Windigo The Feral (NYAR!)/Follower of the Clawed Albino.

Anyway, I know Wakefield is still doing 2000AD-related stuff. Gonna get me one of those Dredd badges at some point. Came across Barny's name very recently as well, when I bought the latest 4 issues of FutureQuake, and he's listed as the webmaster. I assume it's the same guy; surely there can't be more than one Barny Shergold who's in to comics/2000AD. =) As for Windigo The Feral; no idea!

Somewhere on a hard disk, I've still got the original charter and FAQ for the newsgroup.

I haven't regularly read 2000AD for quite a while. Maybe 7 or 8 years.  But I've been in a 2000AD-themed Quake 2 clan since 1998. And as you can see, I still go by my Quake 2 clan name online. Quite annoying when people assume it's Rico from Starship Troopers, rather than Rico Dredd. Ho hum.

Renewing my subscription tomorrow, I think. I can't wait to catch up with all the old characters, and discover some new ones. \o/