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Of particular note is that a huge chunk of the most zarjaz British writer droids currently contributing to American comics got started within the pages of ''2000 AD''. Basically, if he's British and popular in America, he probably wrote a few strips here.

 

'''[[Comics]] Which Have Run In This Mag Include:'''

* ''[[Dan Dare]]''

* ''Defoe''

* ''Flesh''

* ''Indigo Prime''

* ''[[Comicbook/Kingdom|Kingdom]]''

* ''[[Lobster Random]]''

* ''[[Shakara]]''

* ''[[Sinister Dexter]]''

* ''[[Strontium Dog]]''

* ''Tharg's Future Shocks''

* [[Neil Gaiman]]

* [[Mark Millar]]

* [[Grant Morrison]]

* Dave Gibbons

 

* Just about every British comic writer or artist you've ever heard of... except [[Warren Ellis]] (though he did get a letter printed once back in the mists of time).

 

* [[Anthology Comic]]

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Apparently, the stories Tharg publishes for us create a type of energy called "Thrill Power." Reading too many epic stories at any one time can lead to something called "[[Phlebotinum Overload|Thrill Power Overload]]," and Tharg occasionally has to protect the comic from enemies called "Thrill Suckers" who seek to steal said "Thrill Power."

** Resurrections defying the one exception above have occured though ( {{spoiler|Mean Machine, Junior, and Pa Angel}} in ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' and, most recently, {{spoiler|[[Nikolai Dante|Dmitri Romanov]] and [[Strontium Dog|Johnny Alpha]]}}), albeit it's still generally uncommon.

* [[Doujinshi]]: There are three popular fanzines, which Tharg encourages the readers to buy and which sometimes have work by the comic's creators. ''Zarjaz'' is a general-focus zine, ''Dogsbreath'' centres on ''Strontium Dog'', and the just-launched ''Tales from the Emerald Isle'' focuses on Irish characters.

* [[Excuse Question]]: Lampshaded. ("To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is answer this brain-bustingly easy question.")

* [[Future Slang]]: It's mostly used in stories set in the future to create unique swear words to get past the censors (e.g. "Drokk" and "Stomm" in ''[[Judge Dredd]]'', "Sneck" in ''[[Strontium Dog]]'', "Funt" in ''[[Sinister Dexter]]'', et. al.)

* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: The ''Vector 13'' guys replaced Tharg as the editor for a while in late 1996 and early 1997.

* [[Humans Are Morons]]: As of September 2010, every single example for this trope underneath the comics tab on that page comes from something published in this magazine.

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Issues are called "progs."

** While those of the ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' are called "megs."

** There was also a gag on the letters page where readers confused by the familiar design of the Rosette of Sirius emblem Tharg wears on his head would write in asking "Why do you have a telephone dial on your forehead?", a question that would always annoy Tharg ("There's always some dipstick Earthlet who thinks the phrase "telephone dial" is inherently hilarious."). Sadly, the real-life death of the rotary phone killed this joke off. Its final mention was a letter asking "Why does my telephone have a Rosette of Sirius on it?"

* [[Schedule Slip]]: The comic is distributed in America by Diamond in a monthly pack. Unfortunately for American readers, the issues in the pack tend to be out of order, and any given pack often has issues originally published ''before'' some of those in a previous pack.

** A more limited version appears as the Dreddverse, primarily consisting of the Judge Dredd series, but including many spin-off series such as ''Judge Anderson'' and ''Lowlife'', and shared-universe stories such as ''Armitage'' and ''Insurrection''.

* [[Superhero]]: Generally in a satirical or parodic form, such as ''[[Zenith]]'' or the various [[Superman]] [[Captain Ersatz|clones]] in ''Judge Dredd''.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Tharg's favorite thing to eat is polystyrene cups.

 

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[[Category:British Comics]]

[[Category:The Seventies]]

[[Category:Science Fiction Comic Books]]