Crisis

Launched on 17th September 1988 by the folks behind 2000AD as an attempt on the newly flourishing "mature" comics market, 'Crisis' was a bold new step in British comics publishing.  Partially eschewing the traditional anthology approach of 4 or 5 short strips, Crisis initially opted to feature just two longer and more involved storylines, the heavily politicised 'Third World War' by Pat Mills and Carlos Ezquerra - you can read my reviews of the two recent reprints here and here - and the revisionist superheroes of 'New Statesmen' by John Smith and Jim Baikie. 

Despite managing a two year run 'Crisis' never really found its rhythm.  An impressive array of talent appeared, often for the first time, in it's pages, folks like, Garth Ennis, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Al Davidson, Glenn Fabry, Rhian Hughes, Milo Manara, Steve Parkhouse, David Lloyd, Steve Yeowell, all contributed but the comic struggled to find an audience moving from a fortnightly release schedule to monthly until it folded in October 1991 with only Mills' repurposing of his 'TWW' character, 'Finn', into a 2000AD strip to mark it's passing.

There's a nice little interview with Mills on 'Crisis' here and the video below features several alumni talking about the comic.

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