Really & Truly

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Really & Truly was a 2000 AD comic strip, created by Grant Morrison and Rian Hughes. It ran in 1993 as part of the "Summer Offensive" and dealt explicitly with drugs.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Plot 3 Publication 4 Trivia 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Characters

• Really, one of the main characters
• Truly, the other lead
• Johnny Zhivago, a cosmonaut
• Scuba Trooper, a beat poet
• Captain Nice, a government drugs agent who travelled in the House of Fun
• Boss Buddah, a gangster

[edit] Plot

Really and Truly have to make a Hanna-Barbera Josie & the Pussycats via On the Road style cross country run. However, they have a well-defined "mission" (to deliver a consignment of drugs), big guns, much stranger passengers (Zhivago and Scuba Trooper) and far more determined, and unusual, pursuers (Nice and Buddah).

[edit] Publication

In its original run the strip appeared in eight installments in 2000 AD #842-849, (1993), and was recently reprinted in Yesterday's Tomorrows: Rian Hughes' Collected Comics (Knockabout Comics, 256 pages, 2007, ISBN 0861661540)

[edit] Trivia

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• Grant Morrison wrote it in one night after taking Ecstasy [1]

• The House of Fun is a colloquial term for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Morrison reused the name later - it was the title of Volume 1 issue #22 of The Invisibles. [2]

[edit] See also

There were influential things in the air at the time:

• Riot Grrrl, influential early "Girl Power" movement that hit its peak in the early nineties.

• Nineties rave culture, the UK rave scene also went overground and hit its peak in the early nineties (before being made illegal in 1992).

• Tank Girl, another earlier (and later) comic featuring a strong female lead and her oddball adventures.

[edit] External links

• 2000 AD profile