New Poll: "2000AD readers are Desert Island Discs listeners who have a tattoo just in case" True or

[Byron Virgo]

"If there was blood everywhere, Byron, he shouldn't have been on the razzle the night before. Thins the blood, you see - most decent tattooists will point this out to you because the scabs can make you scratch at your new ink, causing it to be patchy"

Actually, that's what he told me too.

I don't think the Summer Offensive was bad at all: I only read it in the last couple of years, but I quite enjoyed it. The Dredd wasn't amazing, but Ezquerra art was nice, and I liked the return of Walter. I enjoyed Really & Truly: Rian Hughes was often an artist not best used in the comic. But Big Dave and the John Smith dinosaur serial killer story were the best ones, and stories I'd be more than happy to see in the comic today.

Even Garth Ennis mentioned the Summer Offensive as being the only bright period during this creative wilderness.

[Richmond Clements]

Really and Truly was the only thing in the Summer Offensive that I didn't like.

[Wils]

I have a body art

Felt tip doesn't count as a tattoo, I'm afraid.

;)

[Max Kon]

I meant peircings.

[House of Usher]

I don't get why people hate the Summer Offensive so much. I even liked Really and Truly.

I must read that Steve Parkhouse interview.

[Max Kon]

They hate it because it is offensive.

cringe

[Bico]

No, we hated it because it was a bit of bandwagon jumpery, rather than a prolonged creative direction for the comic.  If they'd stuck at it, dumped the crappy fifth-form english essay approach to writing Dredd, defended Big Dave more than they did, and maybe excercised a bit more editorial control over Miller's unshakeable ability to write unlikeable main characters, it might have been better regarded than it is now.
As it stands, it was just a few writers who made promises they never kept and f*cked off to America to write for DC the first chance they got, rather than try to win over the readership they'd alienated because that would have required more effort than they were willing to make.  Morrison and Ennis in particular have produced some fantastic stuff post-2000ad - why the hell didn't they write some of that when they worked over here?
A lot of bad feeling probably stems from the sneaking suspicion that we were shortchanged, too.

[Noisybast]

"I DON'T have a tattoo but do play in a 'metal band, drink, have sex, take drugs & smoke.
"

That's got to be the most interesting live show I've herard about in a while...