2000 AD Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
- Note: This is an article about the British comic book "2000 AD", rather than the year 2000
The publication, which serialises a number of separate stories each "prog" (short for programme — a term used by the comic in place of "edition") was established by Fleetway Publishing (later IPC) in 1977. Fleetway/IPC continued to produce the title until 1999, when it was bought by Rebellion Developments.
It has been a successful launchpad for getting United Kingdom talent into the larger American comics market, and has also been the source of a number of film licences.
The editor of 2000 AD is Tharg the Mighty, a green alien who terms his readers "Earthlets". Tharg uses other unique alien expressions and even appears in his own comic strips. Readers sometimes play along with this: for example, in Prog 200 a pair of readers wrote to Tharg claiming that they preferred to be called "Terrans"; the resulting controversy ended in Tharg's accepting a challenge for a duel at a galactic location.
A second running theme, or joke, is Tharg's supposed use of robots to draw and write the strips — some of which may bear a marked resemblance to actual writers and artists. A fictional reason for Tharg to use mechanical assistance was given when the robots "went on strike" (reflecting real-life industrial action that occasionally halted IPC's comics production during the 1970s and 1980s). Tharg wrote and drew a whole issue himself, but when he ran it through the quality-control "Thrill-meter", the device melted down on extreme overload. The offending issue had to be taken away, by blindfolded security guards, to a lead-lined vault where there was no danger of anyone seeing it accidentally.
See: British comics
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Popular characters from the comic include:
Well known creators who have worked for 2000 AD include:
Popular Characters
Famous Creators
Related Publications
Starlord was a weekly title launched in 1978 following much the same format as 2000 AD and included Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters which introduced characters from the ABC Warriors. The two titles were merged in 1979.
Tornado was a weekly title launched in 1979. There was less emphasis on Science Fiction series and when it was merged with 2000 AD a year later only one story Black Hawk made the transfer.
Sister publications to 2000 AD include the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine, focusing on expanding the world of Judge Dredd, and the quarterly 2000 AD Extreme Edition focusing on reprints. In the past 2000 AD has been accompanied by a variety of reprint publications.
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