Big Dave is a comics character created and written by

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and

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, with artwork by

Steve Parkhouse Steve Parkhouse is a comics creator, writer, artist and letterer who has worked for many British comics, especially ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'' and ''Doctor Who Magazine''. Biography Parkhouse has worked in comics since 1967, when he drew the ...

, for '' 2000 AD''. The character was created for '' The Summer Offensive'', an experiment in which the magazine was handed over to Millar, Morrison and John Smith for eight weeks.

Publication history

''Big Dave'' first appeared in prog (the ''2000 AD ''term for issue) #842 in his first story which featured

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trying to take over the world and turn everyone into " poofs" with the aid of some scary aliens. Big Dave, "the hardest man in

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", manages to stop Saddam's plan with the help of

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. The next story featured the

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as robots plus The Princess of Wales and The Duchess of York as a pair of horny drunks. The story ends with Dave in bed with both royals. A third story had Dave leading a minibus full of disabled children to the football world cup final where they defeat a German team managed by

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Bibliography

He has largely appeared in his own

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ous strip: * ''Big Dave'' (written by

and

): ** "Target Baghdad" (with

, in ''2000 AD'' #842–845, 1993) ** "Monarchy in the UK" (with Steve Parkhouse, in ''2000 AD'' #846–849, 1993) ** "Young Dave" (with Steve Parkhouse, in ''2000AD Yearbook 1994'', 1993) ** "Costa del Chaos" (with Anthony Williams, in ''2000 AD'' #869–872, 1994) ** "Wotta Lotta Balls" (with Steve Parkhouse, in ''2000 AD'' #904–907, 1994)

References

External links

Big Dave Retro Review

Big Dave
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