2000 AD (comics)
| 2000 AD | |
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Cover of the first issue of 2000 AD, 26 February 1977.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher |
Formerly IPC Magazines, Fleetway Publications Currently Rebellion Developments |
| Schedule | Weekly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | 26 February 1977 to present |
| Number of issues | 2,020 regular issues, plus 59 specials and 36 annuals (as of February 2017) |
| Main character(s) | Judge Dredd, Tharg the Mighty, Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper, Nikolai Dante, Sláine |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | John Wagner, Alan Grant, Pat Mills, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Ian Edginton, Alan Moore |
| Artist(s) | Mike McMahon, Carlos Ezquerra, Dave Gibbons, Massimo Belardinelli, Jock, Frank Quitely, Frazer Irving, Dom Reardon, Ian Gibson |
| Creator(s) | Kelvin Gosnell, Pat Mills, John Wagner |
2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-orientated comic. As a comics anthology it serialises stories in each issue (known as "progs") and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary which was sold to Robert Maxwell in 1987 then Egmont UK in 1991. Fleetway continued to produce the title until 2000, when it was bought by Rebellion Developments.
It is most noted for its Judge Dredd stories, and has been contributed to by a number of artists and writers who became renowned in the field internationally, such as Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Brian Bolland and Mike McMahon. Other characters in 2000 AD include Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog and the ABC Warriors.
2000 AD has been a successful launchpad for getting British talent into the larger American comics market.
A long-running theme is that the editor of 2000 AD is Tharg the Mighty, a green extraterrestrial from Betelgeuse 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 201 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, and the term "Terran" became an accepted term for readers' letters in the Nerve Centre.
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