Heartland

Very sweary trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jStxzQ8g_n0

I remember buying the first issue when I was ten.... it felt to me then it was from another world. Never got into any traditional Marvel comics at all but with 2000AD you never knew what was going to be in it.
Wonderfully diverse. thanks mark.

culprit wrote:I remember buying the first issue when I was ten.... it felt to me then it was from another world. Never got into any traditional Marvel comics at all but with 2000AD you never knew what was going to be in it.
Wonderfully diverse. thanks mark.

I remember buying the first issue when I was 7 (purely for the free "space spinner").

I was aware of it but didn't really buy it until Starlord merged into it in 1978, which would have been about a year and a half down the line. It's weird because I do seem to remember it as something that had been around forever even at that time.

My other main recollection is that I viewed it as something that was quite thrashy and poor, whereas Starlord was the Real Thing. Undoubtedly the strips from Starlord that survived the merger did strengthen it a lot.

lazarus corporation wrote: I remember buying the first issue when I was 7 (purely for the free "space spinner").

same as. like michael i didnt buy it regularly until Starlord merged into it .
Starlord was great and deserves more historical recognition IMHO.

I didn't get the very first one but I was reading from prog 5 or so. I recently re-subscribed actually; Judge Dredd is still as insanely ultraviolent* as ever, and the whole comic is still as innovative as it ever was. (Apart from a period in the doldrums in the mid-to-late 90s.)

Didn't Strontium Dog start off in Starlord? And Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein? It was pretty much the same creative team behind Starlord anyway.

I look back now at some of that stuff (I've bought a load of the reprint collections) and wonder what my parents were thinking, letting me read it! It's not like they didn't know what was in it too; I remember my Dad (who was called Ken and quite a keen amateur woodworker) being very amused by the leader of the robot rebellion in Judge Dredd: Call-Me-Kenneth the carpenter droid.

*Sample panel from the currently running Dredd story, illustrated by Carlos Ezquerra:

yes strontium dog and ro-busters were starlord strips. and i sort of agree with you about the violence, but then i was also reading a lot of "real-life" world war II comics; not just warlord and victor but those litlle "commando" comics which my grandad passed to my dad and then he passed on to me. in comparison 2000ad wasn't half as violent. at least the attrocities depicted weren't based on actual events and were as often as not committed on droids. and with humour.