Dan Dare revived from suspended animation after two hundred years to find himself in a different world. The Mekon had also survived but otherwise the cast was different, as was the tone of the strip (heavily influenced by the punk movement, as was much of "2000 AD") and the personality of the title character. Written by Kelvin Gosnell and then Steve Moore, the strip was initially illustrated by Massimo Bellardinelli, whose Dare owed nothing to the original apart from the wavy eyebrows. After 23 issues in this format the strip took a break for a month and then returned in a revamped
Truth or Dare? (1986 film) that "Truth or Dare?" was "a typical, entertaining, and typically entertaining low-budget, direct-to-home-video '80s slasher/horror entry. It contains all the requisites: some nudity, lots of violence (some graphic, all cheesy), a masked madman, and plot holes so glaring, it seems like big chunks of the film are just missing (they aren't)". The film was followed by three sequels, all of them written and directed by Tim Ritter, and released direct-to-video. They are 1994's "Wicked Games", 1998's "Screaming for Sanity: Truth or Dare 3", and 2011's "Deadly Dares: Truth or Dare Part IV". Funds for a fifth film, titled "I Dared