Name: Scott Montgomery
Blog or web site: www.commandocomics.com
Currently working as:
Deputy Editor, Commando
First memory of 2000AD?
The first issue I got was Prog 231, in September 1981. I was aged nine at the time and it was the best 16p ever spent! Rogue Trooper and a big tank on the cover. I couldn’t get my head around the idea that Rogue’s gun (and backpack and helmet) could talk!
Favourite Character or Story?
It’s got to be Judge Dredd, really. Sorry if that’s a bit of an obvious choice. The character and his world was just mind-blowing, with amazing stuff like Block Mania and The Apocalypse War. I also loved Strontium Dog, Nemesis The Warlock, Rogue Trooper and Bad Company.
What do you like most about the 2000AD?
The fact that each week there will always be something new. And ultraviolent. And darkly humorous.
What would you most like to see in 2000AD as it heads to its Forties?
It’s just reassuring that it’s still going strong, and doing what it does best. Happy birthday to Tharg and the droids, past and present!
If you worked on 2000AD, do you have an anecdote you’d like to share about your experience of Tharg and his minions?
Just over 15 years ago, when I was a young freelance journo, would-be comic writer and 2000AD geek, I was thrilled when the phone rang one day and Tharg himself (disguised as editorial droid John Tomlinson) asked if I’d be interested in writing an article about the complete chronology of everyone’s favourite blue-skinned super soldier for the 1996 Rogue Trooper Action Special. Of course I said yes. And the rest was future history.
• This post is one in a series of tributes to 2000AD to mark its 35th birthday on 26th February 2012. More about 2000AD at www.2000adonline.com
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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