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Tharg and the Intruder! Storyt(...) 08/22/26(Sat)21:39:24 No.155145338

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Tharg and the Intruder! Storytime Anonymous 08/22/26(Sat)21:39:24 No.155145338

>Doubtless many readers felt the same way and things could get heated between these two rival teams competing for British readers, a competition identified at the very beginning of 2000AD when Kevin O’Neill wrote and drew an excellent Future Shock where a superhero comic fan meets Tharg in the Nerve Centre and the differences between the two genres are fully aired.
>It was also brought over to me at a comic convention where the Eagle Awards were being presented. I was nominated for favourite writer and so was Grant Morrison for his DC Comics work. I was voted the winner and, as I went up to receive the award, I was dismayed to find myself being roundly booed by the superhero fans, even as I was cheered on by 2000AD fans. I’d never come across such rudeness and so I was a bit slow off the mark. Looking back, I should have given the superhero fans the finger from the podium
>Afterwards, Angela told me how she heard two DC execs in the audience reacting to the disappointing news. Making sure Angela could hear them, one of them said loudly to the other, “Well, of course, the Eagle Awards don’t really count anymore.”