It has been a successful launching stage for United Kingdom comic talents into the larger American comic markets and has also been the source of a suprising large number of film licenses. Popular characters from the comic include Judge Dredd, Halo Jones, Strontium Dog, Slaine and Nemesis.
The editor of 2000 A.D. is supposed to be [Tharg the Mighty]?, a green alien who calls his readers Earthlets in his letters page. Tharg uses unique alien expressions and appears in his own comic strips. Readers often play along with this and, for example, a pair of readers wrote to Tharg to complain about being called Earthlets and said that they wanted to be called Terrans in Prog 200 and this caused a huge contraversy that ended in Tharg accepting a challenge for a duel at a galactic location.
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