Dunno about that one. Mr X Brunt would probably have an opinion, though.
Weird and uncomfortable, yeah, 2000AD tends to get people like that. It was, and quite possibly is, very weird and uncomfortable. The star of the book is a superhuman fascist ideologue cop, for cryeye, and one of its primary concerns, at least in those early days, was the place of the other within culture*. 2000AD was what the X-Men wanted to be if it could've brought itself to leave Westchester, the jets, and that lovely mansion. God, and that doesn't even cover a 10th of the comic's thematic range. It's war stories - Rogue Trooper and Bad Company, inparticular - almost certainly played a big role in forming my opinions about military conflict, and Halo Jones gave me a framework on which to hang mundane existential problems.
2000AD gets an 8 or 9 out of 10, alright.
*Muties, fatties, puglies, etc… (Judge Dredd); stronts (Strontium Dog), aliens (Nemesis), Robots (Sam Slade), the lower working class (Halo Jones) |
