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.
Look, I'll clue you in. Only two official slots left, but there are going to be three Progs discussed today... And now, without further ado, my foolproof stat-based system tells me that the second best ever Xmas Prog, and by extension, second best single Prog is... Rank 2: Prog 2015 dated December 2014, falling in between Progs 1912 and 1913 Nothing says 'Christmas' like giant letters spelling out the word 'Death'. Art by Greg Staples What’s in it? Two Dredds, one a seasonal one-off, the other the first part of a long awaited, much-hyped epic. The Visible Man, technically a continuation but basically a one-off The Order, first episode of a brand-new series Ulysses Sweet, first episode of a new (and so far, final) series Jaegir, a one-off Low Life, a seasonal one-off, and, sort-of, an epilogue to the whole series Max Normal, a seasonal one-off Savage, first episode of a new series PLUS: A pin-up A handful of trailers for thrills to come A letters page A qu...
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