VCs (from the pages of 2000AD)

 

Black & White Inked Pages, with text & speech bubbles pasted onto the art boards, as seen in the published book. Unfortunately we don't yet have canned pages available, but have included in the list below descriptions, and page references from the 2015 Digest Edition to help identify pages.

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Cam Kennedy has had the pleasure of working on some great strips for 2000AD, and indeed having a defining presence on many of them. One of Cam's first jobs for 2000AD was The VCs, a futuristic war story written by Gerry Finley-Day. The expressive brush work utilised in this strip show the energy underpinning Cam's work in it's most unrefined form.

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The V.C.s was a future war series that appeared in the science fiction comic 2000 AD No. 140 – 178 (1979–1980). Written by Gerry Finley-Day, the first episode was drawn by Mike McMahon but the main series artists were Cam Kennedy, Garry Leach and John Richardson.

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The strip is set in the year 2531. The Solar System is engaged in a war of survival against an alien species known as "Geeks". Steve Smith, a raw recruit, has just completed his training and signed on with the Global Combat Corps as a star-trooper, but is quickly thrown in at the deep end: he is assigned to the hard-bitten crew of a space patrol ship crewed by the "Vacuum Cleaners" or V.C.s for short; so called because of their penchant for clean kills, with little to no debris. The twist is that Smith is the only Earth-born crew member: the rest of the crew are all from colonies on the other planets of the solar system, often being physically adapted to alien environments, and having little love for 'Ma Earth'. A major theme of this series is the antagonism between the crew (often racially motivated), particularly towards the "earthworm" Smith; and Smith's struggle for acceptance by the crew. Like many war stories, there is a high mortality rate amongst the main characters.

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Images as below are the original art presented alongside the published art from the Digest Edition. Note that photos of the original art can also be viewed on the blog post here.

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