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unusual facts about 2000 AD



Adrian Bamforth

Adrian Bamforth is a British comic book artist who has worked for 2000 AD as well as producing work for British small press comics like FutureQuake.

Angel Gang

The Angel Gang is a group of villains in the Judge Dredd comic strip, published in 2000 AD magazine in the UK.

Atavar

Atavar is a 2000 AD comic strip, created by Dan Abnett and Richard Elson about the last human alive caught in a war between alien species.

Chief Judge Fargo

After armed gangs stormed the White House and were able to avoid jail sentences by intimidating juries, Fargo outlined a New Deal to scrap the principle of due process and create a combined police and judicial force who could fairly dispense instant justice – the Judges.

Dermot Power

"Book of the Dead" (with Grant Morrison and Mark Millar, in 2000 AD #859-866, 1993, tpb, Hamlyn, 1996, ISBN 0-7493-9692-X)

Graham Higgins

He has drawn cartoons and covers for Punch including the Chandleresque comic-strip "Luke Carew, Lone Wolf Detective - The Hogfather", Radio Times, Q magazine and others, and has also drawn for DC Comics, Marvel Comics and 2000 AD He is an associate artist with Comic Company, illustrating educational publications featuring health and social advice for children and young people.

Guerilla Records

The label's distinctive blue camouflage generic sleeve was designed by graphic designer Steve Cook, known for his design and art direction of the British comic 2000 AD.

Judge Dredd: Crime Chronicles - Double Zero

Judge Dredd: Crime Chronicles - Double Zero is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the character Judge Dredd in British comic 2000 AD.

Judge Dredd: Wanted: Dredd or Alive

Judge Dredd: Wanted: Dredd or Alive is the first audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions based on the character Judge Dredd in British comic 2000 AD.

Judge Sinfield

When Sinfield's clone, Judge March, was given his Final Assessment, Judge Rico found him wanting and failed him, incurring Sinfield's ire.

Mark Donovan

He has appeared in the The Tomorrow People, Dalek Empire, 2000 AD, Sarah Jane Smith, Bernice Summerfield and Luther Arkwright plays, but is best known for his various appearances in the Doctor Who range, most notably as the companion Shayde in the Fifth Doctor play No Place Like Home.

Neptune Distribution

The proved to be successful with the company expanding into publishing in 1988 with Trident Comics and later help found Apocalypse Ltd, publishing Toxic!, a weekly title meant to compete with 2000 AD.

The Hunters Club

The band were named after a short-lived Judge Dredd sub-plot in the sci-fi comic 2000 AD, and were nicknamed "The Black Hole of Rock 'n' Roll".

Thrill-Power Overload

The book started life as series of articles written by David Bishop and serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine, forming the most comprehensive history of the comic 2000 AD yet written.

Thrill Power Overload, or TPO is a book about the history of the British comic 2000 AD written by David Bishop, one of its editors.

Volgans

The Volgans are a fictional fascist Russian government appearing in 2000 AD in the Invasion!/Savage and the Ro-Busters/ABC Warriors by Pat Mills.


see also

Boo Cook

In 2005, Cook graduated to regular work on the flagship story on 2000 AD, Judge Dredd, mostly to scripts by Gordon Rennie and Simon Spurrier.

Button man

Button Man, a story that has appeared in the comics anthology 2000 AD

Colin Mason

A Short History of Asia: Stone Age to 2000 AD, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 978-0-312-23060-9

Damnation Alley

The 2000 AD comic had a long running Judge Dredd story arc that was an adaptation of the story (with the journey in the reverse direction), in which Dredd and Spikes Harvey Rotten (the greatest Punk alive) journeyed across the Cursed Earth between Megacity 1 (on the U.S. East Coast) to Megacity 2 (on the West coast) to deliver a vaccine to the 2T(Fru)T virus.

Diggle

Andy Diggle, British comic book writer and former editor of 2000 AD

For 2000 AD

For 2000 AD is the fourth studio album from rock singer Kim Kyung Ho, released on Samsung Music in 1999.

Judge McGruder

Her first names are a reversal of the first names of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time the character was introduced to 2000 AD.

M.A.C.H. 1

A spoof, entitled B.L.A.I.R. 1, a satire on Tony Blair, appeared in 2000 AD in the late 1990s, and gained considerable media attention at the time.

Massimo Belardinelli

He also drew "The Angry Planet", a sci-fi serial set on colonised Mars, written by Alan Hebden, for Tornado in 1979, and then took over "Blackhawk", Gerry Finley-Day's strip about a Nubian slave who became a Roman centurion, when Tornado merged into 2000 AD later in the year.

Old stone face

Judge Dredd - Futuristic policeman from 2000 AD comic; also called "Old Stony Face"

President Robert L. Booth

Booth first appeared in 2000 AD #67 and 68, in "The Cursed Earth."

Rico Dredd

Rico first appeared in "The Return of Rico" in 2000 AD #30 (1977), written by Pat Mills and drawn by Mike McMahon.

Special Squad

Special Judicial Squad, in the fictional Judge Dredd stories appearing in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, are sometimes referred to as the Judges who judge the Judges

The V.C.s

"The VCs" (with Gerry Finley-Day and Steve MacManus as Ian Rogan (6); Art: Mike McMahon (1), Garry Leach (2, 5, 8–9, 14–15, 21–22 and 25–26), Cam Kennedy (3–4, 6,-7, 10–13, 16–20, 23–24 and 27) and John Richardson (28–32), in 2000 AD #140–175, 1979–1980, collected in You're Hit, You're Dead!, 144 pages, December 2008, ISBN 1-905437-83-8)

Volgans

The Volgans have featured in many 2000 AD stories created by Pat Mills, and he has linked them into the Judge Dredd universe.