In contrast to the strip Diceman, this strip also had a sanity score, but if it got too high, then the Secret Service assume that the president must have been replaced with an imposter (a comment on Reagan's perceived intellectual limitations). The only other story in the comic which was not derived from 2000 AD was "You are Ronald Reagan in: Twilight's Last Gleaming", a satirical spoof in which the reader, playing the part of the American president, must prevent nuclear war breaking out. The Diceman strip was different from the others in that the reader not only had to avoid being killed, he also ran the risk of being driven insane (if his "sanity score" dropped to zero). He also had a pair of stone dice, recovered from the ruins of Atlantis, which he could use to summon various powers including a three-headed lizard demon called Astragal to assist him. Fortune was a "psychic investigator", a 1930s American private detective with psionic powers. Its eponymous character Diceman, also known as Rick Fortune, was created specially for the comic (by Pat Mills and Graham Manley), but did not appear until the second issue. The comic mostly contained stories based on characters who already appeared regularly in 2000 AD. Each issue contained two or three such stories and was published every two months. The stories were designed to be played like gamebooks. It was edited by Simon Geller, but purported to be edited by a monster called Mervyn. It was a spin-off from 2000 AD and was devised by Pat Mills, who also wrote almost all of the stories. 5 (painted by Hunt Emerson)ĭiceman was a short-lived British comic which ran for five issues in 1986.
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