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2000AD comics (Early 80's stuff)

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As a kid when I used to get in from school or at sometime over a weekend and flipped the TV on and if I saw this image below I would actually GROAN! It meant that box in the corner was off duty from entertaining me. Funny how an image can bring back such a nostalgic glow.

Never did get into Look in and preferred Blue Peter to Magpie.

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Just googled another fave of mine, "button man" and found out Leonardo Di Caprio is going to play him in a new film...... best not f**k it up !
 
Edcraft said:
Just googled another fave of mine, "button man" and found out Leonardo Di Caprio is going to play him in a new film...... best not f**k it up !
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His role in 'Blood Diamond' suggests he may be able to pull it off but I reckon Leo needs another good 10+ years to get a good 'Mans Face' , he still sometimes looks like a teenager to me.

< Sorry Leo>
 
TeeDee said:
His role in 'Blood Diamond' suggests he may be able to pull it off but I reckon Leo needs another good 10+ years to get a good 'Mans Face' , he still sometimes looks like a teenager to me.

< Sorry Leo>
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The departed is one brilliant film. I think he might pull it off yaknow :)
 
Edcraft said:
The departed is one brilliant film. I think he might pull it off yaknow :)
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Don't get me wrong I think he is currently and will be a really great actor ( watch him in 'Whats eating Gilbert Grape' for some young quality acting ) I just feel that he needs a few years to get a better face. In the same way I think Connery looks better now ( Hunt for Red October , Entrapment , The Rock ) than he did as a young 007.

I think the same will be true of Daniel Radcliffe , who was good in 'The lady in Black' but needs a few more years I think before he gets a role that will become him. ( at least he won't become a 'Mark Hamill' of the film world. )
 
I've just got to say seeing those 2000ADs bought back some great memories of my childhood - anyone remember the free 'bionic' stickers you got with issue 3?

God I used to love Rogue Trooper and Strontium Dog - Carlos Esquerra was by far the best artist they ever had....

And what do my kids read? Moshi Monsters and Club Penguin - it's just not the same I tell you!

Nige
 
Carlos Esquerra was by far the best artist they ever had....
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I agree Carlos was brilliant with SD and Dredd, but what about Mike McMahon and Glenn Fabry's Slaine? Or Kevin O'Neills Nemesis?

What about Alan Davis' DR and Quinch?

More great artists than I can remember - Brian Bolland, Massimo Bellardinelli, Dave (Watchmen) Gibbons.
 
mmm 2000AD has some great memories. Was it "Ace-Trading Co"? Quite liked that one. Future Shocks were entertaining quite often too. I remember loving SD, but can't actually recall it at all.. :( However "Sláine" sticks in my mind very well... :)


edit: Ace Trucking Co, it seems.
 
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Ace-trading Co it was - I loved that one too. Ace Garp, GBH and Speedo Gost, the ship.

Future Shocks was great for up and coming writers - Alan Moore etc

SD was truely excellent and would make a great film, as would Slaine.

Remember Halo Jones?
 
Brilliant!

Armoured Gideon
Bad Company
Durham Red
Flesh
Harlem Heroes
Ro Busters
Robo Hunter
Stainless Steel Rat
The V.C's
Zenith

Great memories. The one thing I always hated about 2000ad was Tharg.
 
This is weird, y'know I only collected those particualr 2000AD series because it had The Stainless Steel rat story in it as well as a couple of other memorable ones. The Nemesis was good in the alternate Victorian era, I really liked that story. The graphic novels (as I was corrected by Teedee) that I really enjoyed around that time were those thick volumes of Savage Sword of Conan by Marvel, they were SOOO well drawn too. The artwork on 2000AD and others back then was just beautiful when compared to some of the s#it they churn out today. To me this more recent stuff resembles graffitti. I find it jangles rather than lets the story flow. Maybe I'm just old. :confused:

Judge Death was my fav Judge Dredd story, finally bought that in hardback cover graphic novel in the end.

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Biker said:
This is weird, y'know I only collected those particualr 2000AD series because it had The Stainless Steel rat story in it as well as a couple of other memorable ones. The Nemesis was good in the alternate Victorian era, I really liked that story. The graphic novels (as I was corrected by Teedee) that I really enjoyed around that time were those thick volumes of Savage Sword of Conan by Marvel, they were SOOO well drawn too. The artwork on 2000AD and others back then was just beautiful when compared to some of the s#it they churn out today. To me this more recent stuff resembles graffitti. I find it jangles rather than lets the story flow. Maybe I'm just old. :confused:
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I was listening to Radio 2 whilst shooting some arrows down at the club last night, it was Jo Wiley. Not usually my cup of tea but the music was good, I flicked over to Radio 1 - some muppet was blathering on about "embarassing moments". I thought to myself - when did Radio 1 become cooler than Radio 2. Then I thought. "I've just grown old" - but then I corrected myself. We haven't grown old - we've just grown up.
 
mountainm said:
I was listening to Radio 2 whilst shooting some arrows down at the club last night, it was Jo Wiley. Not usually my cup of tea but the music was good, I flicked over to Radio 1 - some muppet was blathering on about "embarassing moments". I thought to myself - when did Radio 1 become cooler than Radio 2. Then I thought. "I've just grown old" - but then I corrected myself. We haven't grown old - we've just grown up.
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I mean Radio 2 cooler than Radio 1 - why can't I edit my thread anymore?
 
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