It’s good to test new ground when the opportunity comes up – it’s the thing that’s kept 2000 AD going for as long as it has. We have 2000 AD for the established adult fanbase, and 2000 AD Regened for younger people, so why not try reaching out to teenagers with a 2000 AD that speaks to them too? VVG: The style and tone of 2000 AD has been so varied over the years that something like MCM fits pretty naturally in the pantheon. And isn’t that more exciting? 40 years of trying new things is how you get new hits and new favourites. Even just within Dredd, Ezquerra’s Dredd isn’t McMahon’s Dredd, which isn’t Flint’s Dredd. If you look at the history of 2000 AD, it’s been so many things, there have been so many series with so many tones over the last 40 years, and so many of the best of them have been the ones that try to tread new ground and be fresh and exciting. Mega-City Max is proving that the worlds of 2000 AD don’t have to be one thing – that it can be anything, as long as it’s got the right fire and energy behind it. In this particular case, though, I think it’s more actively exciting than a ‘do this or die’ situation. Comics need to draw in new readers and change with the times, or the audience only ever gets smaller as people gradually lose interest, and that’s bad for everyone. OG: Generally, I think it’s a great idea. What are your general thoughts on the idea and the concept? When it comes to Mega-City Max, the whole idea behind it is to broaden the readership, aiming for a slightly older readership than Regened, the troublesome teen market. I’ve had so much fun working on this, and I’d kill to do it again. Honestly, it’s only the fact that I don’t live anywhere near the 2000 AD offices that’s stopping me from camping outside the door until they let me back in. 2000 AD has such a huge stable of characters who could be great fun in this context. OG: I really hope this has a future – as a reader, I want to see other characters reimagined like this. Youth culture in the technofash future must be absolutely off the wall.Īnd returning? Of course! Wild horses etc. Dredd (etc.) strips stick to adult casts for obvious reasons, but there’s a lot you can do with everyone else who exists in that world. And I’d like to see this and Regened keep going as a general thing not just reimagining existing characters, but giving us storylines about Mega-City teenagers/kids, even if that needs to be separate from the usual output. VVG: I really hope it carries on, it’s got a lot of potential as something playing with & speaking back to the years of material we have. Oh, absolutely V – and following on from that, what are your hopes for the future of Mega-City Max and would you return? It’s weird (good) being at the origin point of something without knowing where it’s going to go – you never know, in another 45 years people might be looking back at this issue as the start of something big. VV GLASS: I worked on a few Rebellion anthologies before – a bit of the regular issues, a bit of the Tammy & Jinty and the Misty specials, but this is the first that’s its own distinct property, and the first to be a reimagining of existing concepts rather than a continuation of them. It’s a chance to help shape something fresh and exciting, while still being an opportunity to play with the old toys.Īnd let me tell you, getting to write the classic 2000 AD fake swears into a script made me grin like a complete idiot. OLIVER GERLACH: This is the first time I’ve written for 2000 AD and being in on the launch of a new comic, with the characters and universe that I’ve grown up loving, feels like a really special opportunity. Oliver, V, welcome! So good to read your Devlin Waugh strip in Mega-City Max! We’ll get to him in just a moment, but first – what does it mean to you to be here at the launch of a new 2000 AD comic? (Okay, okay, it’s only a Special right now, but we have hope, right?)
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