I probably have had more exposure to and experience of JD than most folk on CB+ and started reading him with #2 of 2000AD.
For those first few years it was a thrilling ride with excellent stories and enough humour. And the artwork, well, what can you say? Especially with the greatest JD artist in Mike McMahon plus Ezquerra, Bolland and Smith. I rushed into print in aka the fanzine and a couple of other place, with Mr. Eisner writng back following my ref. to one of his storiesand its influence on a JD special. In fact a few of us involved in Scottish fandom became quite friendly with messrs. Wagner, Grant, McMahon and a certain Mr. O'Neill. Drink was taken - often.
I still love those early and middle runs but nowadays I feel the same way about the big fascist as I do about Batman - I find it almost impossible to read. I don't think some of you will appreciate just how big and important a development 2000 AD and particularly JD was in the U.K. But I hardly ever read the comic book collections and still don't, preferring the tpb's. It was seriously good back then.
