2000AD bumper Xmas Progs, ranked. (or... in search of the perfect Prog) There’s clearly no such thing as the single perfect issue programme Prog of 2000AD. For any given fan it’ll likely be whatever your first Prog was, or perhaps more accurately the first Prog you read where you were like "I have to buy the next one to see what happens!!! Please Mum/Dad/Nan please!" But here I am anyway, on the hunt for some sort of objectively defined Best. Prog. Ever! This endeavour started life as a special request from one David Bishop . He suggested I assess those festive feasts of fun, the Annual 100 page bumper-size ChristmasProgs ! When Tharg asks you to do something, you say "how high?". And in part, it’s because Prog 2000 , the first of those bumper specials, claims on its own cover to be the biggest and best Prog ever. Mr Bishop, the originator and editor of that Prog, lays claim to the fact it remains the biggest and best! Is this true? Given that it worked ...
So of course everyone knows the best thrill to run in 2000AD is... Judge Dredd. But what's the best after that? Well, thanks to Colin YNWA Taylor and some 30 or 40 obsessive 2000AD fans, we know the answer. It wasn't my choice, Nemesis the Warlock, but the alien didn't do bad, all told... In the end the final was a real nail-biter, and you couldn't ask for two worthier contenders, representing different but glorious aspects of what 20000AD does well, whether it's taciturn men with magic guns killing people and feeling bad about it, or garrulous men with magic guns killing people and feeling bad about it, and occasionally having sex and feeling good about it.
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 ...
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