Bradley

Bradley was a 2000 AD strip about a diabolically ill-behaved alien infant called Bradley, who was created by Alan McKenzie and Simon Harrison. He first appeared in one of Tharg's Future Shocks in prog 533 (1987) before graduating to his own strip. Some of his stories were parodies of the 'Rupert Bear' format, where monotonous lines of square pictures are described in short paragraphs of text which are summarised in twee little rhyming couplets for the hard of thinking. Pictured is the wunderkind on the cover of 2000 AD prog 795, expressing his creative individuality and youthful joie de vivre through the time-honoured medium of brick-chucking. He also set a fiendish trap for elderly philanthropist Father Christmas. It is not known whether his bad behaviour was caused by genes, poor parenting, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or all three. Fortunately, he never teamed up with Thoth.