Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Zarjaz is a thumbs-up written as if from another planet, and it tells you the reader belongs to a club with its own language. Calling a strip, a cover or a creator zarjaz is high praise in 2000 AD fandom, used with a grin and a certain pride in the in-joke. It sits alongside Thrill-Power as the comic's way of saying that something is simply wonderful.
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In context
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Zarjaz is the highest praise in Tharg-speak, the made-up alien slang of 2000 AD. Tharg the Mighty, a green-skinned editor from the planet Quaxxann, was created by Pat Mills and introduced on the cover of the first issue on 26 February 1977. He is one of only two characters to appear in almost every issue, the other being Judge Dredd. Tharg peppers editorials and letters pages with his own vocabulary: Borag Thungg is the greeting, Splundig vur Thrigg the farewell, and Zarjaz means fantastic, with Grexnix its opposite for an idiot or un-zarjaz person.
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- Wikipedia: Tharg the Mightyinfobox, lead, and Catchphrases and jargon sectionReference checked
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