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Living up to its outdated title, British cult comic 2000AD is heading into 2008 by adopting technology equally un-new: The Adobe PDF. That's what you'll be getting if you sign up to the new downloadable version of the weekly anthology, which is like Japanese weekly comic anthology Shonen Jump except with storylines about Judge Dredd and the mutant Strontium Dog. 2000AD is also where comic book greats Grant Morrison and Alan Moore started back in the. The first PDF of the new book, the year-end Holiday Special, was designed to hook new readers with tons of "pilot episodes," but it could run into trouble.
2000AD's publishers, Rebellion, hope that this move will help the comic break into international markets where irregular distribution and expensive import costs have kept it from mainstream success. But with the $2.99 price tag, fan complaints that Rebellion ignored the easier (and more pirate-friendly) .cbr format, the PDF only had just over 500 downloads in the first two weeks of availability. So it's looking likely that this non-innovative innovation will be as successful for the title as Sly Stallone's lamentable Judge Dredd movie.
2000AD for download [Clickwheel.net]
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THE DISTANT FUTURE
THE YEAR 2000
Judge Dredd - all the ridiculousness of Tank Girl, in non-parody form
Judge Dredd used to be my favourite comic back in the 80's. On top of my list is the episodes where mad chief judge Cal (take a wild guess at the inspiration there) takes control of Mega City One and reigns in terror. And I had such a crush on judge Hersey!
I AM THE LAW!
Man! I used to rib my mate who had all the copies up to 1986, if he kept collecting, he could have retired early by now!
Strontium Dog.. Now theres a film that should be made! Milton Keynes mutant ghetto? Electroknucks?
get in!
What the hell is it with this publication? I have yet to find a comic store that actually A) gets the issues in order, instead of randomly inserting progs from the last eight weeks, or B) understands that it's a weekly.
Which is a shame, because 2000AD has some really awesome stuff in it, and it's a great format.
Oh, I'm pretty sure all the ridiculousness in JUDGE DREDD is satirical.
Unless OMG-Ponies is referring to the movie. Yeah, it was unmitigated sh*te.
But the strip is great. In fact, John Wagner's run on the strip must be some kind of record for sustained quality. I can't think of anyone who's worked on a comic strip for that long (off and on since the start in '77), without it dipping deeply into the turgid.
*cough*Claremont*cough*
'Fans' complain about a $2.99 price tag? They demand them in the cbr format?!?
Jeez.
I doubt .cbr/cbz is ever going to catch up as the distributors' format of choice. Though I'm all for non-DRM files, cbr has nothing going for it except that's it being used by a lot of people to pirate comics. That's not exactly an outstanding feature for the distribs...
Wow! I didn't know 2000AD was still around. Loved it! Judge Dredd is still my favorite comic character of all time with Rogue Trooper coming in second. Storylines, violence, art, everything was over-the-top. I'm pretty sure Lobo's second incarnation was in part owed to the Judge Dredd character.
Deja freakin vu! I still have a few issues hidden away in a box in my basement. I need to dig those babies out.
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