...2000AD Loaded advert, its not for girls...

ARRISARRIS · 13 July, 2007, 08:33:42 AM

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ARRISARRIS · 13 July, 2007, 08:36:15 AM

...so how many of these ads are there? from what was said in the book i thought there was only one, but then this over one turns up, any ideas peeps???...

davidbishop · 13 July, 2007, 08:57:06 AM

These two were the lot. Two too many, IMHO.

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Adrian Bamforth · 13 July, 2007, 11:35:11 AM

There was a connection between the editors wasn't there? I seem to remember it mentioning it in another Loaded article about 2000AD, it was a bit of opportunistic networking. I think the one with Dredd on the cover had comic-themed photoshoots with Durham Red, that worked better I recall.

The Monarch · 13 July, 2007, 03:41:23 PM

Yeah that first one was the one that I saw in an issue of cvg round about the time which I actually still have it is really scary to think someone actually thought this was a good idea brr. Full credit though for mister Bishop and diggle who wanted nothing to do with them

davidbishop · 13 July, 2007, 06:31:31 PM

The Loaded cover and feature were a 20th anniversary tie-in. Those two repugnant ads came later, IIRC. IPC owed Egmont Fleetway money and it was easier for them to give Egmont some free ads. 2000 AD got the ad space - hurrah! But some genius in marketing deciding to use those two pages to insult half the population of the country. Bizarrely, Egmont Fleetway had a female managing director.

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davidjatt · 14 July, 2007, 01:36:47 AM

I can see why sexist drivel like those ads appeared in Loaded, but that still doesn't explain the appearance in Gamesmaster. It was a page beside the PC cheats, I think, back when I enjoyed reading it.
Surely a Dredd picture would have served better in a magazine like that? I'm probably talking arse though.

Peter Wolf · 14 July, 2007, 02:08:49 AM

It was better when you had to click on something to see this picture.

Now she jumps out of the screen at you.

VampiraJen · 14 July, 2007, 07:15:46 PM

*jen grinds her teeth...*

Queen Firey-Bou · 15 July, 2007, 01:56:33 PM

...sigh....

theres a few things i don't get right enough, but well written & drawn comics isnt one of them.

satchmo · 15 July, 2007, 06:34:42 PM

I read about these ads of course but I haven't seen before until now. Jesus...
I'm showing them to my sister next time she wants to read Zenith :)

Adrian Bamforth · 15 July, 2007, 07:03:24 PM

Ironically, with much of Grant Morrison's writing since, NOBODY gets it.