The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic reached its 40th anniversary in this stretch, commemorated by a special birthday issue that brought back some very early strips and did a lot of 4th-wall breaking. Tharg’s 3rillers was an expanded version of the one-and-done Future Shocks that often served as a launch pad for...

Over this 3-year stretch, the Megazine’s cover price went from £5.49 to £5.60 and the features held steady with four regular strips accompanied by creator interviews, various articles, and book/comic/movie reviews. Each issue was bundled with a separate 64-page reprint of 2000AD or Megazine content; usually collected comics, but also...

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Yep, Yamato was supposed to be in the background on this cover. When it came to the finished version, I clean forgot to add it. D’OH! Continue to part 4 Back to main article

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“There might still be survivors,” Dale said cautiously. “Yeah.” I opened the door on the left side of the bridge with my gun at the ready. At that moment, I heard a woman scream, “AAAAH!” It looked like a cabin. There were five filthy chairs and a table with one...

As the cover price rose from £2.45 to £2.55, the hits kept on coming. The last annual Christmas issue numbered for the upcoming year was Prog 2015; after this, these annual issues would maintain regular numbering since it wouldn’t be much longer before an actual prog 2015 (et al) arrived....

This stretch included two nearly-synchronous landmarks; issue 300 and the 20th anniversary issue (302) with a dream team cover collaboration by two of the best 2000AD artists of the 80s: Glenn Fabry and Simon Bisley. There was another facelift with issue 275, where the price jumped from £2.99 to £4.99,...

It was six months after the hundred-year war ended that I began to drive Berserga and chase after the Black A.T. The Hundred Years’ War — that’s right, the war that divided the Astragius galaxy into two star systems, Gilgameth and Balarant. For about a hundred years, all the people...

From September 2012 to September 2014, the cover price only rose 10p (£2.35 to £2.45) and the perennial favorites kept coming back. A stealth crossover occurred when Judge Dredd found himself on the same case as characters in two other stories (all set in the same universe). ABC Warriors, Strontium...

The 15th anniversary of the Megazine kicked off a revealing multi-part historical overview that looked under rocks and behind furniture to lay bare all the untold stories of what a tumultuous ride it had been. At last, the multiple changes in format and content choices were explained, all of which...

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A little over an hour after entering the arena, a red lamp lit up in the dim waiting room. – Five minutes before the match starts — I slipped into the khaki pressure suit that was lying on the floor. I didn’t really think about it, but I was quick...

After Armored Trooper Votoms wrapped up its original TV broadcast in March 1984, fans of the show continued worldbuilding in the pages of Takara’s Dual Magazine. This became the platform for the first Votoms side story, Blue Knight Berserga. Dual ceased publication before the story could reach its conclusion, but...

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45 TV productions including Xabungle, Baxinger, Macross, Space Cobra, and Captain Harlock: Endless Road SSX. 23 feature films including Gundam III, Queen Millennia, My Youth in Arcadia, and an Ideon double feature January Animec No. 21 Animage Vol. 44 The Anime Vol. 27 Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of...

45 TV productions including Urashiman, Dunbine, Votoms, Orguss, Govarian, Cat’s Eye, Mospeada, and Vifam 19 feature films including Urusei Yatsura Only You, Crusher Joe, Harmagedon, and Final Yamato This was the year OVAs made their debut with Dallos as the first original production on the new format. January Animec No....

BELOW: this was a color proof of my first idea for the issue 3 cover (work in progress), which I drew and colored myself. I thought it would be disturbingly goofy if B-ko’s father was flying overhead with his generous package outlined (hence A-ko’s word balloon). Regrettably, I was the...