2000 AD Essential Series: Cover Art

2000 AD Essential: Cover Art

Judge Anderson / Judge Dredd / Judge Death / Rogue Trooper [1]

2000 AD: A Personal Retrospective

2000 AD: A Personal Retrospective

(aka An Authentic Cover Story)

Like everyone around my age, the ratio of what I've forgotten in relation to what I can remember about my life has a much higher numerical value on the forgotten side of the equation. That's just the nature of aging (and cognitive processes). But I can remember with some clarity the day I first bought an issue of the weekly anthology comic 2000 AD.

It was on a cold October morning, as I walked to school with my cousin and a mutual friend. The journey, somewhere between two-and-a-half and three miles, took me through a part of town that was mostly shops, pubs, hairdressers, and banks.

The town's biggest (and perhaps only) toy shop was also a newsagent, a two-storey building whose first floor stocked, among other things, stationery, candles, shiny glass trinkets, greetings cards, tobacco, and all manner of magazines.

2000 AD Profiles: The Clown

The Clown

Creators: Igor Goldkind + Robert Bliss | Appearances to date: 16

''Clothes make the man' is how the old saying goes. Of course the apparel we assume doesn't always reflect the pattern of our intentions. Garments conceal as much as they reveal. And for some there is no difference between the costume and the man...'

2000 AD Profiles: Brigand Doom

Brigand Doom

Creators: Alan McKenzie + Dave D'Antiquis | Appearances to date: 36

'Thirty-four souls cast adrift. Thirty-four citizens freed from their municipal bonds. Life in this crushing machine called the city is ugly enough. Who’s to say that death is any less so? But this is not the time for the question. There is only the job.'