2000 AD - November 1985.

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon .  *** O perating systems. Where would we be without them? I know where I'd be. I'd be not sat at this keyboard. However, in November 1985, this site and the whole wide world web of webbery that accompanies it came a step closer to reality, thanks to the world-shaking launch of a brand new thing called Windows. It's true. It was in the month in which the Microsoft Corporation released version 1.0 of its legendary operating system, and things would never be the same again. Elsewhere in the world, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov defeated Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest-ever undisputed World Chess champion. While, in Geneva, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time. Not, I suspect, to play chess with each other. But what of the cinemas of this globe? What was occurring, therewithin, as those world-changing events were unfolding? As it turns out, nothing too impressive was occurring but it was a month that did give us such offerings as Death Wish 3,   A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 , To Live and Die in LA,   My Beautiful Laundrette , King Solomon's Mines ,  Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Rocky IV and Santa Claus: The Movie . I must declare that, of that lot, I think I've only seen King Solomon's Mines . I must also declare that I don't remember it being very good, although it did strike me that that Sharon Stone woman who was in it might have a future. Over on the UK singles chart, the top spot was initially clung to by Jennifer Rush's The Power of Love before future eco-warrior Feargal Sharkey dislodged her with his version of A Good Heart . But that too then had to make way. This time, for the unstoppable force that was Wham's I'm Your Man . Meanwhile, the accompanying album chart entered November with George Benson's Love Songs on top before it was displaced by Sade's Promise which was then superseded by Various Artists' The Greatest Hits of 1985. But what of the galaxy's greatest comic ? Surely, it too must have had many and plentiful things to offer us.  In fact, what it had to offer us was what we'd grown accustomed to it offering us, with it producing such strips as Robo-Hunter,   Nemesis ,  Judge Dredd,   Tharg's Future-Shocks and Mean Team . As far as I can make out, no new strips were launched during this spell. One can only assume Tharg had decided the book was perfect and needed no tinkering with at all.