Interview: 2000 AD's Michael Molcher On The UK's Greatest Export
Aug 24, 2019
If you're in the know then it's no secret that some of comics' biggest and boldest talents cut their teeth at 2000 AD. We're talking Grant Morrison, Alan Davis, Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Peter Milligan, Brian Bolland, Mark Millar, Alan Moore...the list is seemingly endless. So why is it that so many American readers are painfully unaware of the UK publisher? The answer is complicated but that's all about to change.
With Day of Dredd right around the corner, it's time for U.S. readers and comic shops to experience the adrenaline-spiking rush that is 2000 AD! Fortunately, the publisher's consumer marketing man-at-arms, Michael Molcher, has been enlisted to bring the good fight to America's shores!
"[2000 AD is] the comics world you've never heard of but you'll love when you read it," Molcher explains in the above video. "There's such an appetite for our stuff over here, and we like to put out such an incredible range of books because we're not just Dredd."
The critically-acclaimed and fan-lauded latest Judge Dredd tale which sent shockwaves through the universe and Mark Millar called "one of the best runs ever!" Everything is at stake and no-one is safe - in the critically-acclaimed storyline from Rob Williams and Henry Flint, as Judge Dredd and his team of hand-picked allies finally takes on the nefarious Judge Smiley, Mega-City One's behind-the-scenes manipulator! But who will be left standing at the end?
Since 1977, one man has dominated the British comic scene. He is judge, jury and executioner; a merciless far-future lawman delivering justice with an iron fist on the mean streets of Mega-City One. He is Judge Dredd! US readers can discover the roots of this legendary character in this vast and thrill-packed series of graphic novels, which collect together all of Judge Dredd's adventures in chronological order.
(W) Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Mark Millar, Alan Davis (A) Various
These self-contained short stories from the pages of 2000 AD have been the testing ground for many of comics greatest writers and artists. From the far reaches of the galaxy to the lowest depths of hell, discover what lurks within the fevered imaginations of such luminaries as Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Kevin O'Neill, Brian Bolland, Alan Grant, Peter Milligan, John Higgins, Alan Davis, and Mark Millar to name but a few.
Berlin, 1945: The allies unleashed the World War II hero Maximan upon the German super soldier Masterman. Maximan's defeat was only kept secret by the nuclear bomb which destroyed both men. Forty-plus years later, and twenty years after a generation of '60s British superpowered heroes came and went, the teenage pop star Zenith is the only superhuman left - and his only interest in women, drugs, alchohol and fame. So when he is contacted about the threat from the many-angled ones and the impending destruction of our world, his first reaction is to steer well clear. But the superhumans of the past have other plans!
In Mega-City One, the Judges are the law, acting as judge, jury, and executioner - and the most famous Judge is the implacable Judge Dredd. These collections, from creators including Alan Grant, Mark Millar, Grant Morrison, and John Wagner, collect some of his greatest adventures!
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