2000AD mentions in the media

[feridian]

The Guardian TV reviewer on Saturday (name not to hand) began his column, 'If Judge Dredd burst into your house and demanded that you name daytime TV stars...', which seems to suppose a level of recognition among Guardian readers at least.

Is 2000AD really that high up in the public consciousness, or is it becoming more common to find journalists namechecking it?

[lisataylor]

I buy the Guardian every day and have seen dredds name dropped in articles a number of times this year. Could it be something to do with the fact that most 2000ad readers are bohemian lefties ( as are guardian readers.) or is it just coincidence.

[Byron Virgo]

I think Charlie Brooker (author of TV Go Home, and who wrote the Screen Burn article in question in Saturday's Guardian Guide) used to be a fan of 2000AD as a child, which would explain the reference.

[Smiley]

Is 2000AD really that high up in the public consciousness

Uh, yes and no. I think. "Judge Dredd" seems to have become mainstream journalese (?!) for overzealous policing since that big-Hollywood-movie-a-lot-of-people-saw some years ago. However, when the word fascist gets trotted out in bluffer's guides for the strip you can't help but cringe and think "Did this guy do his homework?"

Aside from that there's the usual cult tags applied to the comic whenever there was a record or play inspired by it, and the odd quiz question on the telly, I guess.

[Richmond Clements]

I'm in a pub qiuz team with a guy who's in his late 60s.
Around the time my interview with PJ went up on the review site, I was talking to him about the comic.
He'd never heard of 2000ad, 'What's in it?' he said.
'Judge Dredd.'
'Oh, I know who that is.'

So yeah, even if the comic itself hasn't leeched itself into the fabric of society, Dredd certainly has.

[mondocoyote]

guardian seems to try to inform.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,662302,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,662302,00.html

[Bico]

That article's from 2002, Mondo.
By my reckoning, that makes it almost as up-to-date as their music coverage.

Hmmm... get people who hate guitar-led music to review rock bands - and hope no-one notices the barely concealed hostility.  Gotta admit, it would never occur to *me* to run music coverage like that in a supposedly balanced newspaper.  That must be why I'm not a journalist.

[Andrew_J]

Article in today's Irish Times. Worth a read if you have time, but basically a nostalgia piece pointing out what we all know anyway; its okay to enjoy stuff that other people don't get.

TLDR: 2000AD was way better than it ought to have been.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/patrick-freyne-s-favourite-art-things-that-should-be-trash-but-are-actually-brilliant-1.4436643

[Woolly]

I think Charlie Brooker (author of TV Go Home, and who wrote the Screen Burn article in question in Saturday's Guardian Guide) used to be a fan of 2000AD as a child, which would explain the reference.

He also did little one panel gags for Oink! comic, when he was... 15 I think?

[Woolly]

(I appreciate this is four panels!)

[Andrew_J]

I remember this episode of Black Mirror