BUSY BEES IN THE TREE SHOULD AGREE
I’ve been hurled into a state of feverish work this week, which the Freaky Trigger version of Tharg pointed out was the wrong response to actually being published in something for once. The correct response is to immediately post on the Brown Wedge – natch! Rather than slapping up a weedy notice on ILC and trusting to luck.
So GO OUT AND BUY A 2000AD before the new ones come out on Wednesday. Beg, borrow or steal a copy, all of you, and turn instantly to the black-and-white Terror Tale which is one of my better efforts and has been turned into a proud thing of beauty by the master touch of the very lovely Cam Smith.
Next week, Bill Savage returns with his ‘shootah’ and all the fans are squeaking with delight. How bringing back all of the old, crusty fan faves can help the trembling, coughing 2000AD to pull itself back on its feet and square up to the new video-gaming little bastard generation is something that eludes me. It gives the nasty impression that ‘Tooth’ as they call it is appealing mostly to an ever-narrowing coalition of people who read it once and never gave up the habit. Who are the readership? Dults? Juves? Crocks? ‘Metal Hammer’-reading bikers? This kind of thing worries me, because 2000AD is basically all we’ve got left in this country unless you
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