The story you skipped....and never liked

[ZenArcade]

I loved the dead. Ps again any Ace Harp haters: give the Tucker trucker another go. Z

[Judge Nutmeg]

I find the majority of strips i have disliked in the past tend to end up as floppies in the meg.And rarely like them again on another reading.

[ZenArcade]

The floppies are pretty poor in my opinion. Ps apologies for my predictive spell typo: Garp not Harp (which is a reasonably good Irish larger beer.....oh and a musical instrument). Z

[Frank]

I find the majority of strips i have disliked in the past tend to end up as floppies in the meg.And rarely like them again on another reading

The floppies generally appear to be composed of strips that aren't likely to ever be republished in trade collections, whether that's because there just isn't a large enough potential audience for them or because there isn't enough material there to warrant a dedicated book.

[Fungus]

I was genuinely on the edge of myself with excitement at the prospect of every new Prog numbered from about 700-950, perhaps the definiton of 2000AD's supposed nadir

Yep, you have pretty much nailed my slog, 700-960 (+1000). It's not called a slog for nothing.
And it's not one I can avoid, in all conscience, since the majority of those (possibly vast majority...) are effectively unread.

So it's with minty-fresh confidence that I can add Tao de Moto and anything by Fleischer to this list. And while we're dissing the pretensions of some old strips, Hewligan's Haircut. Guff ^*

* It seems that around '91 the TPBs started coming out. On that very short list, Hewligan's Haircut. Why? I wonder if it sold....

[Frank]

Hewligan's Haircut. Guff ^* * It seems that around '91 the TPBs started coming out. On that very short list, Hewligan's Haircut. Why? I wonder if it sold....

Hewlett was a bona fide superstar by that point, with a loyal audience outside fandom. I can't say I've ever felt the need to go back and do anything other than look at the pictures, but Hewligan's Haircut was alright for a laugh - certainly by the usual standards of Tharg's gag material. Now we're being treated to new/old thrills like Ulysses Sweet and Sam Slade, I wouldn't bet against seeing Lee Carter and Guy Adams's New Adventures Of Hewligan's Haircut.

[ZenArcade]

True, at that stage the universe literally seemed to orbit around Hewlett. I never really bought into it but it was passable enough fare in an early 90's trippy sort of way. The art that really alienated me was stuff like Shaky 2000's Dredd and soul gun warrior....uuugh I'm still wincing at the memories. Z

[Dash Decent]

Dash Decent 

Nah, you're thinking of Captain Klep!

[JayzusB.Christ]

I really liked Hewligan's Haircut. Also loved The Dead (and have just realised that it's so called because of Pete Milligan's Joyce fetish) and Dash Decent, which was a right old larf and beautifully drawn by the 2000ad-est of all artists, Kev O'Neill.

Rose O'Rion I couldn't get my head around; and the sequel to Mean Team.

[judgerufian]

I'm afraid I didn't have the patience today to read all four pages of this thread, so apologies if this has already been said or if it is no longer on topic, but:

Just because you didn't enjoy The Dead when you were 14 doesn't mean you wouldn't enjoy it now. It was one of the best strips of the last 37 years, and it deserves another chance. You'll thank me one day.

(And if you STILL don't like it, then the experience will have been character-building.)

If 'The Dead' is ever collected as a floppy, its being read from start to finish! Unless I dig out the particular progs...you've convinced me to give it another chance!

[Richard]

Good man!

[Skullmo]

There is a Monthly with the Dead in and also an Extreme Edition (much nicer printing).

I really enjoyed Hewligan's Haircut - it was a lovely story and actually had a bit of love in it for once, I get tired of gritty loner war stories every now and then.

[O Lucky Stevie!]

True, at that stage the universe literally seemed to orbit around Hewlett.

Hear hear! Such was Tank Girl's & the Hewl's attendant ascension to superstardom at the time that actual, genuine girls began venturing into comic stores. *shudder*

Stevie even once picked up a pretty young minx with a bob haircut & a copy of prog 701 tucked under her arm.

In a library.

BAN THIS SICK FILTH.

[Frank]

the sequel to Mean Team

That sucked, but not as much as BRING BACK THE CAT! Didn't disingenuous Tharg try to frame that atrocity as a response to reader demand to see more of Henry Moon? And was that the first example of a Wagner and Grant strip being farmed out to another writer?

[TordelBack]

Oh dear, Mean Team 2, not Alan Hebden's finest hour - I keep managing to forget that seemingly-endless story existed.  Although I didn't mind Survivor that much - short and sweet, and rather pretty.  Did I dream it, or did Tharg reprint this lot in a collection a year or two ago?