{"id":770,"date":"2009-07-19T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T09:19:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-24T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T05:33:09","slug":"80s-british-comic-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/770\/","title":{"rendered":"80s British comic nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up reading a bunch of comics.<\/p>\n<p>I initially started with the Marvel \/ DC types, then moved on to the British comics such as 2000AD and Tiger whilst in secondary school, and returned to Marvel \/ DC after that when i studied in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>I have a whole range of comic reading materials, but today had a bit of a nostalgia time googling the 80s British comics. I have not seen these comics for a long time now. And of the characters I remember reading, only Judge Dredd and Dan Dare remain in recent memory. So i decided to check out the titles i used to read. So here are some of them (i would be happy if others can jog my memory too)&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robo-Hunter\">Robo Hunter<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/c\/c5\/2000AD259cover.png\/225px-2000AD259cover.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nI used to like this series as it combined classic noir sleuth stories in a future context &#8211; with investigations revolving around robot crimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strontium_Dog\">Strontium Dog<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/b\/b5\/Johnny_alpha.png\/225px-Johnny_alpha.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nStrontium Dog wasn&#8217;t one of my top stories in those days, but i sort of liked the concept of mutant bounty hunters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nemesis_the_Warlock\">Nemesis The Warlock<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/c\/cf\/Nemesis1.jpg\/225px-Nemesis1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nNemesis the warlock was one fantastic comic series that i liked because of the extreme artwork. The stories were unusual and surreal, but the art and concept was out of this world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rogue_Trooper\">Rogue Trooper<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/f\/f8\/2000ad-228-rogue-trooper.jpg\/250px-2000ad-228-rogue-trooper.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nRogue Trooper was a popular story amongst my friends at the time. This was a classic war story that kids my age then loved. The twist was that this was a story about a Genetically engineered soldier who was looking for his commanders who betrayed them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sl%C3%A1ine_%28comics%29\">Slaine<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/5\/54\/Slainegn.jpg\/225px-Slainegn.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSlaine was a typical barbarian tale that was quite popular with kids our age then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up reading a bunch of comics.<\/p>\n<p>I initially started with the Marvel \/ DC types, then moved on to the British comics such as 2000AD and Tiger whilst in secondary school, and returned to Marvel \/ DC after that when i studied in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>I have a whole range of comic reading materials, but today had a bit of a nostalgia time googling the 80s British comics. I have not seen these comics for a long time now. And of the characters I remember reading, only Judge Dredd and Dan Dare remain in recent memory. So i decided to check out the titles i used to read. So here are some of them (i would be happy if others can jog my memory too)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1723],"tags":[1716,1729],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-comics","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}