What on earth happened to 2000 AD?

[Romo Lampkin]

I used to read 2000 AD between 1995-1997, then I read it again around 2004. The artwork was always amazing, you had brilliant individual styles, some of it painterly, others surrealist but it was never boring. I started buying it again but wtf is up with the same colour scheme being used for every single strip? The draughtsmanship may be different but you have the same, dull gradients and flats being used from Judge Dredd to Sinister Dexter. I'm hoping this is just applicable to the progs I've bought and not a thing. If so, why on earth did they go with something so uniform, polished and ultimately...boring?!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I read a lot of Judge Dredd comics from these guys in the 80's.

I loved those independent comic companies.

First Comics was another great one, Grimjack especially.

 

[Romo Lampkin]

That's rad but what happened to the art style? It's so bland now.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I think every comic company goes through phases where the art is great, then the art sucks. Or at least they have in the past, as I haven't read any comic since the 90's.

 

[Romo Lampkin]

Yeah, if it is indeed a work practice I would attribute it to the nature of the decade where almost everything has taken a nosedive culturally. The drawings are still good but the same standardised colour scheme for every strip reeks of professionalism as opposed to artistry.