It’s a tale of two halves and three parts, brilliantly interwoven by Wagner and Grant, who guide us through just another crazy Mega-City One happening as the Blocks go to war, through the introduction of a East-Meg One plot through the Sov assassin and spy Orlok, all the way through to the nuclear devastation and all-out war of The Apocalypse War. And that’s a feeling that continues right to this day.
But whichever it was, I can still remember being absolutely amazed by the sheer unbelievable scale of the thing. It was actually seeing either the Eagle Comics reprints (with all those gorgeous Brian Bolland covers) or the Titan Books reprints of the saga once I’d started working at Nostalgia & Comics, Birmingham, from the age of 16. No, I was still a mere 12-year-old at the time, just getting into Marvel super-types at the time. Not when it first appeared, either with the essential prequel, ‘Block Mania’, or with ‘The Apocalypse War’ proper that kicked off 1982 in such fine style. I have to say, ‘The Apocalypse War’ was the thing that got me into Dredd and 2000 AD.
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