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Best Thrill Ever - Round 2

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Here's how things are shaking out in Round 2 of this knockout-style tournament. No more byes - which means ALL the thrills (barring Judge Dredd) are now eligible, so there are going to be some titanically unfair match-ups. And some small-scale thrills that push through to the next round while giants fall...

Best Thrill ever?

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Hot on the heels of my quest to find the Best Prog ever, the mighty Colin Taylor aka Colin YNWA is hosting a grand, and I do mean GRAND tournament on the 2000AD forums to see which Thrill will rule them all. The answer is obviously Judge Dredd. So he's scrapped Judge Dredd from the running. Now the question of who will win, or rather, prove most popular, is harder to determine. There are some major contenders, but to make things more interesting he's doing it FA Cup style, with an elemnt of random draw involved which means that some titans will fall early on, even if the biggest names have been granted a bye into Round 2. What counts as a thrill in contention here? My attempt at the shortest possible answer: Any series that had a serialized print run in 2000AD or the Judge Dredd Megazine, and was a minimum of two episodes long. 'Series' here includes umbrella names for one-off stories - your Future Shocks, Vector 13s and so on. Reboots of series are treated as separate ...