Tell us about your first comics and your first experiences with 2000 AD.

Oh, that's easy.

I was a huge fantasy science fiction fan thanks to my family.

So, like any kid in the 80s, you know, I was watching Star Trek on BBC Two.

Doctor Who, the 80s was brilliant for fantasies and science fiction movies, Sword and the Sorcerer, V, the miniseries, that kind of thing.

And was introduced to comics through the French comics of, I know Tintin's not French, but Hergé, Tintin and Asterix.

I had an uncle who used to sit me down and tell me amazing stories of superheroes that wielded rings and and had a vulnerability to wood and so comics was generally you know it was there great time to be around in in the 80s and for some strange reason my my gran had a collection of comic annuals like valiant lion some of the batman stuff the spider-man stuff and where they would print stories like the death of Gwen Stacy, where, you know, as a six-year-old, you're reading Spider-Man and expecting just Spider-Man punching people and you have a major death of a huge character.

Now, is that?