Always something new to say about the galaxy's greatest comic

If Tom Ewing's in-depth look at the entirety of Cerebus The Aardvark was right in my wheelhouse, and helped reassure me that there was still some excellent long-form writing about comics out there, his latest series about the earliest days of 2000ad is even more on target.

You can find it on Tom's site here. There's only a couple of entries so far, but I highly recommend it, with Tom finding new things to say about the oldest stories in the galaxy's greatest comic (the discussion of the Volgan War being more open-ended than the real-life conflicts other comic strips were based on is particularly astute, especially as Pat Mills has gone back and turned the Volgan War into the first real forever war, with a clear through-line through to the ABC Warriors and Nemesis The Warlock).

A lot of words have been written about the impact of 2000ad on comics and culture, but after 2400-odd progs, there is always more to say. It helps that Tom's stuff is so sharp, and well worth the effort.