Peter Hoskin

Comic effect | 23 February 2017

The Cartoon Museum has skilfully reduced 40 years of cult comic art into something that can be managed in a lunchbreak

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  • Future Shock: 40 Years of 2000AD

    Cartoon Museum, until 23 April

Borag Thungg, Earthlets! If those words mean something to you, then congratulations — you are leading a good life. If not, then you owe it to yourself to pay attention. They are the words of greeting that Tharg the Mighty, the extraterrestrial editor of 2000AD, has spoken to the British sci-fi comic’s readers for the past 40 years.

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