Thrills 101

[Emperor]

Perhaps:

2000 AD is a weekly anthology comic published in the UK by Rebellion Developments (and in the past by IPC and Fleetway). The comics usually consists of five different stories per issue (or "prog") with each instalment being 5 or 6 pages long. This means that each story can average the same monthly page count as an American comic book but usually told in a more compressed form with a faster pace.

Although the order has varied over the years, the first slot is now taken by Judge Dredd. The dimensions and paper quality have also changed through its history from the rougher paperstock of the early years, with the only colour being on the front/back and centre pages, to the modern shinier paper and the ability to print all stories in full colour, although there are usually a couple in black and white (during the major upgrade in printing the entire comic would be in colour with heavy emphasis on fully-painted art, although now it is almost always separate pencils, inks and colours, even if the same artist does it all).

[Mikey]

OK - point taken on Rogue, I'll accept it's maybe my nostalgia.

Liking the description Mike & Emp. Would there be any merit in pointing out it's 'Boys Weekly' heritage and that it's now more mature in outlook? ...

'Whilst the comic was originally created to compete in the jumble of 'Boys adventure' weeklies, it's current content reflects a more mature outlook that reflects the majority of it's readers.'

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[Emperor]

While reading through I did wonder about the need for a glossary, as having a number of invented jargons (cants??*) can be good fun for the insider but is off-putting for the new-comer. There was one on Wikipedia (deleted in 2007, round about the time the damn fine "list of made-up swearwords" went to the wall) and this is the rough copy and paste:

and I accidentally found that it has been transwikied to Wiktionary where it lives on and anyone can expand it:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Concordance:2000_AD

Previous thread:
http://www.2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,17436.0.html

[vzzbux]

I see Arsom has yet to make it there.






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