Let's appreciate the Megazine

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

So, we had a 37th birthday for the Prog. And that is a fine and right thing to do. 37 years for a print comic is some going, especially for a weekly anthology.

And yet, it has just occured to me that the Meg is 24 years old this year.

Yep, that's right: 24 years old.

My understanding is that Meg has danced with death quite a few times, yet it has outlasted so many of its peers (by which I mean monthly anthologies), from Crisis to Revolver to Clint.

It's a gem, the endurance of which is dimmed simply because it has to bask in the radiance of the Prog. Yet its own achievements should not be ignored.

So, let's take a little moment to realise we have two, not one, treasures.

And if you only subscribe to the Prog, then shame on you!

[ZenArcade]

Ah the heady days of Young Death, Devlin Waugh and America. I smile when I think back....24 years wow. Z

[Frank]

Williams and D'Israeli's Ordinary was the best thing Tharg published last year.

[The Adventurer]

The Meg has been in top form lately. Great line-up and great reprints (doofy reprint of the second Lobster Random story instead of the first notwithstanding). Hope things keep up that level of quality for a while.
You know, at least until the inevitable return of Sexy Ostriches...


EDIT: Really looking forward to Demon-Nic.

[James Stacey]

I've always had a lot of love for the Meg. I came to the prog late but it was just before the Meg started so I was there from the start. I remember the excitement of coming home with the first meg and reading it cover to cover. Ok so it was a dumping ground for some real shite along the way but it has been consistently excellent (sexy ostriches not withstanding) for a long while.

[Leigh S]

The Meg kept me reading 2000AD during the period Wagner had sworn off it - if the outlet of the Meg hadnt been there to keep a supply of Wagner based goodness, I imagine I would have pulled the plug on the prog

[ZenArcade]

I did for almost 20 years! Z

[Trout]

Now I feel guilty. I've only bought it twice in the last year. I'll try to get it more often.

[Krakajac]

I distinctly remember when Issue 1 of the Meg was released in New Zealand.

For some reason, I had no idea that it was coming out and was very surprised when I saw it sitting on the newstand next to my weekly prog.  I remember sitting on the school-bus on the way home and reading that first issue - all that impressive painted art!

[CrazyFoxMachine]

I started reading the meg about half a year after getting into the prog and haven't put it down ever since - to me the two are inseparable and the meg is constantly changing which is quite refreshing. So for all the bad (I used to skim some of the more superfluous articles a few years ago, they used to have garbage opinion columns and *ahem* I don't want to be the third person on this thread to say sexy ostriches but yes, that seemingly consistently-disliked-but-still-going photo story thing that gobbles up a billion pages per issue) and the good (the much-missed small press section (!!!!), those Dredd archives they used to have, I do love the mini-floppies (fnarr), and the sheer weight of interesting experimental one-offs and the more than frequent high quality prog-level stories are irresistible). Miss it, miss out as live and kicking used to say with annoying frequency.

Long live the Meg - let's hope something magic for the 25th is in store next year!

[Dash Decent]

let's hope something magic for the 25th is in store next year!

Magic?  Now how do I get this vision of a Dredd-Mandrake the Magician crossover out of my head?

[sheldipez]

I frequently prefer the contents of the Meg over the Prog. It has consistently great content and the digital Meg is the most 'bang for buck' on the market!

I'll drink to the Meg.

[Colin Zeal]

The Meg has been on an excellent run for a while now and it deserves a lot of praise for that. My only problem is that I frequently can't remember what happened in the previous issue when reading the latest part of an on-going story. This says more about my poor memory than anything else though.

[Link Prime]

Long term Meg reader here, and strong advocate that it's probably the best value monthly comic on the planet.

24 years, eh?
I distinctly remember that first volume of the Meg (Vol 1, issues 1-20).
I don't know if it was just that I was a young guy at the time, and a lot of the content seemed more 'adult' than the Prog, but to me that early run had a certain something.
Must plan a re-read sooner than later.

[Buttonman]

Early fan but later dropped when they started 50% Preacher reprints. Now a loyal subber and I have a full run. Always a Curate's egg but always enough to justify the purchase. Let's also remember they are more inclined to run reader letters. Who has the record for the most Megazine letters printed in the history of the august 24 year old organ? Can't remember but what an achievement that is!