2000 AD #769
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeProg 769 (8 February 1992) sits at a genuinely busy creative crossroads in 2000 AD's early-nineties line-up, arriving one issue before Pat Mills launched his pagan eco-warrior Finn in prog 770 and squarely in the middle of Brigand Doom's second story arc (progs 764–773), making it a dense snapshot of the anthology's post-Crisis expansion era. The concurrent presence of Skizz — Alan Moore and Jim Baikie's landmark alien-in-Birmingham strip, whose original 1983 run helped establish Moore's reputation at the Prog — and of Durham Red, the vampiric Strontium Dog co-created by John Wagner, Alan Grant, and Carlos Ezquerra who had since grown from sidekick to franchise lead, illustrates how 2000 AD was simultaneously revisiting proven properties and incubating challenging new ones. Together, these strips reflect the title's deliberate push toward morally ambiguous, politically charged storytelling that distinguished it from mainstream superhero fare of the same period.
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By February 1992 the publisher credit had recently shifted from Fleetway Publications to Fleetway Editions Ltd (the change took effect in late November 1991), placing prog 769 among the earliest issues under the new banner. Alan McKenzie — who served as both writer and, later, editor of 2000 AD — had created Brigand Doom with artist Dave D'Antiquis, and D'Antiquis also provided the cover for this prog as part of the character's second run; the pairing of writer-as-editor commissioning his own strip drew some comment from readers and critics at the time. The Finn strip, which would pick up directly from the cancelled Fleetway sister title Crisis the very next prog, was itself a product of editorial negotiations around Pat Mills' Third World War serial, adding to the period's sense of institutional flux.
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- Published 8 February 1992 by Fleetway Editions Ltd (trading under the Fleetway Publications imprint), cover price 50p.
- Cover art and interior Brigand Doom art by Dave D'Antiquis; Jim Elston also credited for interior work in this period of the comic.
- Brigand Doom — the mysterious, seemingly undead vigilante created by writer Alan McKenzie and artist Dave D'Antiquis — was in the middle of his second story arc (progs 764–773) at this point; the character patrolled a nameless futuristic fascist city and bore a noted thematic resemblance to Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.
- Durham Red, the vampiric mutant Strontium Dog bounty hunter co-created by John Wagner, Alan Grant, and Carlos Ezquerra, had first appeared in 2000 AD #505 (January 1987); by prog 769 she was appearing in her own ongoing stories following the death of Johnny Alpha.
- Skizz — Alan Moore and Jim Baikie's alien-visitor serial first published in 2000 AD in 1983 and set in Birmingham — continued in this era in later sequel serials not written by Moore; prog 769 falls within that post-Moore continuation.
- Paul Finn (the eco-terrorist warlock character written by Pat Mills, originating in the Crisis strip Third World War in 1989) was set to launch his own 2000 AD series in the very next issue, prog 770; his presence in the catalog for prog 769 may indicate a prologue episode or lead-in pages.
- Judge Dredd stories appearing across progs 736–775 were later collected by Rebellion in Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Vol. 16.
- Prog 769 appeared during a transitional period when 2000 AD's full-colour printing — adopted from 1991 onward — was still relatively new to the weekly format.
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