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Thrill-power Overload | 
 enlarge | Author: David Bishop
Publisher: Rebellion
Category: Book
List Price: £34.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 92472
Media: Hardcover
Edition: New title
Pages: 260
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.3
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 9.5 x 1
ISBN: 1905437226
EAN: 9781905437221
ASIN: 1905437226
Publication Date: March 30, 2007
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 Does what it says on the tin October 18, 2007
T. Proudfoot
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a great history of 2k. It's not advertised as a concepts book or a collection of back stories: there are plenty of those around from EEs to The Dredd Files, it is an amazing look behind the scenes and a wonderful way to find out why great stories abruptly finished or really crap stories kept on and on and on appearing.
The art work is great and the colour sometimes better than the orginal comic print. It also shows how close 2k came to being ran into the ground by the accountants... Phew, get it on yer Xmas list!
A Luddite's View October 4, 2007
Mr. C. Gurgan (Northern Ireland)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
As an avid fan of 2000ad for years, I am enjoying reading this book. Good to see that the creative centre of 2000ad is staffed, as anyplace, with people who have disagreements. I think that it is good to read about these people who are not afraid to say what they mean. Stallone does well worming out of being a rubbish Judge Dredd as well..
 I am waiting for something interesting to happen... September 13, 2007
R. Searle (UK)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I had a flick through in the bookshop and thought "wow - a history of 2000ad full of colour plates - I'm getting this!" I am a fair way through and so far I am waiting for something interesting to happen.
I thought this was going to be like the excellent Dr Who books which review the stories of the decade, the critical and audience response, the viewing figures, the toys and associated ephemera etc.
Instead the book is basically an autobiography of the editors who all criticise each other and try to justify themselves in typical biographical style. It is slightly depressing reading about how the writers and artists whose work I enjoyed were so dysfunctional.
There doesn't seem to be any coverage about the actual characters in the comic - nothing about the development of Dredd, Johnny Alpha, Sam Slade etc, nothing about the art and how it developed over the years, nothing about the toys and collectables available.
Overall, a very strange book. Excellent glossy print with loads of artwork - shame about the negative and rather pointless commentary - I don't know who it is aimed at.
From Bill Savage to, well, Bill Savage August 7, 2007
G. Kibble-White (London, UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Having picked up back issues of the Megazine purely to get my mitts on David's essay, I was thrilled to learn the whole thing was being compiled (and updated) into one volume. The end result is an absorbing, superbly researched and shockingly candid romp through 30 years of publishing history. Unlike other commentators, I loved all the stuff about union strikes and shop floor unrest - exactly the sort of workaday detail that sets this account apart from other comic histories. Yes, the illustrations are a little disappointing (it feels often like they were slung on the page without much thought to context) and more 'behind-the-scenes' sketches and early designs would have been great. But, I'm sure that's not Mr Bishop's fault, and the thing still notches up five stars from me.
 Far too much of what nobody needs July 25, 2007
Peter Farmer (UK)
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Probably I should say "it's good if you like that sort of thing". Some people like behind-the-scenes stories of comics and some don't. Certainly, this is a behind-the-scenes story of a comic, so in that respect you can't be disapointed. Harry Harrison claimed he once wrote a blurb for 2010 saying people who had been waiting for a sequel to '2001' wouldn't be disapointed.
TPO is a bit like that. It is what it claims to be, but it's very badly written and poorly edited. All sorts of stuff which is trivial even by comics nerd standards is in there, all sorts of stuff which could have been interesting isn't. In the former category is far-from-gripping stuff about distribution systems, in the latter is any word from the unions who are always slagged off for being unreasonable during the 80s
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