Broken Frontier

2000 AD has provided BF with info on The Complete Harlem Heroes, available mid August 2010.

Where the In the year 2050 Aeroball is the game, team Harlem Heroes put all others to shame. Those jet-packing players are second to none, It’s b-ball and kung fu all rolled into one! Giant’s the captain – that cat’s outta sight, He’s dunking and scoring from morning to night. Some punk went and messed with the teams’ hover car, Now Louis is so light, his brain’s in a jar!

So the team had to go and start up from scratch, Don’t jive me ‘bout fielding dead men at a match! The Heroes got Hairy, Zack, Slim and King, Once up in the air, those guys do their thing! So watch out the Bulls, the Wolves and the Cats, ‘Cos next to the Heroes you chumps are all wack!

 
About the creators

Pat Mills is the creator and first editor of 2000 AD. For the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, he is the writer and co-creator of ABC Warriors, Finn, Flesh, Nemesis the Warlock, Sláine, M.A.C.H 1, Harlem Heroes and Savage. He also developed Judge Dredd and wrote one of the early Dredd serials — ‘The Cursed Earth’.

Outside 2000 AD he is the writer and co-creator of the long-running classic anti-war story Charley’s War, as well asMarshal Law. He has also written for the Batman, Star Wars and Zombie World series for the US market. Currently Mills is writing the best-selling series Requiem — Vampire Knight for Editions Nickel of France with artist Olivier Ledroit,

Tom Tully is a comics writer best known for producing action and sports stories, the most noticable being his longserving stint on the Roy of The Rovers strip and his work on Steel Claw and Return of The Claw for Valiant. His other 2000 AD work includes Dan Dare, Mean Arena and The Mind of Wolfie Smith.

Dave Gibbons is one of 2000 AD’s most popular artists, having co-created Harlem Heroes and Rogue Trooper. He has also pencilled A.B.C. Warriors, Dan Dare, Judge Dredd, Mega-City One, Ro-Busters, Tharg the Mighty, Tharg’s Future Shocks and Time Twisters, as well as having scripted several Rogue Trooper stories – making Gibbons one of the few 2000 AD creators to have served as writer, artist and letterer! Beyond 2000 AD, Gibbons is unquestionably best known for his work on the award-winning classic Watchmen (with Alan Moore), but he has also drawn Batman, Doctor Who, Give Me Liberty, Green Lantern, Superman, Star Wars and his graphic novel, The Originals.

Massimo Belardinelli’s career started with painting the backgrounds for animated cartoons for Rosi Studio in Rome. In 1977 he started working for 2000 AD where his distinctive style graced many strips including Dan Dare, Sláine,Meltdown Man and Ace Trucking Co. Belardinelli has been much praised for his delicate brushwork and intricate representations of the fantastic. Massimo Belardinelli died in March 2007.