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I mean... yes? But it's not like 2000 AD is casually tossing people aside. Some folks do move elsewhere, to get better rates or work on jobs they've long dreamed about (hello, Al Ewing), but it's not like anyone is forcing Dan Abnett or Gordon Rennie (to name but two) to write for 2000 AD against their will, and they seem to have stuck around for a while. (And long may they continue to do so.)

I think his point about creators being 'endlessly replaceable' is a good one though. John Smith being unceremoniously replaced mid-story is pretty galling. The fact that there was new Strontium Dog a couple of years after Ezquerra died is worse. I used to love the way 2000AD would (with a few exceptions) let a story lie when the creators moved on. It made it feel like the comic was led by stories, rather than a commercial need to exploit IP, which is what American comics feel like. 2000AD seems to have turned its back on that ideal in recent years.

I echo someone else further up this thread: new thrills please!

Why not the Mega Collection Necropolis volume to go with The Dead Man? 

I think it contains the same stories as the Essential volume from Rebellion

Same stories, but the Essential edition has bigger pages--as close as a complete edition gets to the original prog size.

I think about this stuff way too much.

For my money, it's these two, which tell the whole story, in (almost) the right order.

The Mega Collection version of Dead Man (from Hachette), which contains all the build up:

The Dead Man
Bloodline
The Shooting Match
A Letter to Judge Dredd
Tale of the Dead Man
Nightmares (a bit awkwardly placed here as it follows Necropolis)

and then the Essential Necropolis (Rebellion), which contains:

By Lethal Injection
Rights of Succession
Dear Annie
Necropolis

Thanks for the heads up on a few of those stories--I'll have to track down that Meg with the Block Judge reprint. Specific Mega Collection books are kind of hard to track down here in Oz.

Shame that the Maybe ones might stay in obscurity until the Case Files catch up to them in 10 years.

Hey all, doing my once-every-five-years post here.

Having followed the PJ Maybe story for several decades, I'm surprised to see the end of it never got released in a book (like pretty much every other Wagner Dredd has been). Having dropped the prog some years ago, I'm finding these stories hard to find.

In fact there are a few gaps from around this time. From Barney:

Mega-City Confidential 5 episodes (Progs 1874 to 1878) 30 pages
Script: John Wagner, Artist: Colin MacNeil, Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Block Judge 10 episodes (Progs 1900 to 1909) 61 pages
Script: John Wagner, Artist: Carlos Ezquerra, Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Serial Serial 5 episodes (Progs 1950 to 1954) 30 pages
Script: John Wagner, Artist: Colin MacNeil, Colour: Chris Blythe, Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Terror Rising 3 episodes (Megs 365 to 367) 30 pages
Script: John Wagner, Artist: Colin MacNeil,

Ladykiller 8 episodes (Progs 1991 to 1998) 48 pages
Script: John Wagner, Artist: Carlos Ezquerra, Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Is there any reason why these might never have been reprinted? Wagner, Ezquerra, MacNeil, all good stuff. Gimme a book!

Hey folks,

Bit of a lurker/lapsed squaxx here -- I dip in and out of the prog these days, and haven't posted on here for ohhhh, fifteen years.

I'm clearing out some old progs on eBay, at what I think are pretty bargain prices. Starting with the entirety of 2014:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2000AD-COMICS-2014-x50-issues-JUDGE-DREDD/254757976030

Note that I'm in Australia, so a) I'll probably only post locally, and b) I'd love to sell more but I'm not allowed out of Melbourne right now. Will get more up over the summer!

Splundig etc!
I'll have more over the summer when I'm allowed to go

I've now listed this on eBay, starting at 60 quid:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130619422568#ht_500wt_949

Location: Edinburgh
Price: Cover price on these is about 180 quid, but make an offer.

I'm in the process of shifting my life from Scotland back to Australia, which, unfortunately for me, means offloading the last two years worth of progs.

What I've got is everything from Prog 1676 (March 2010) right up to Prog 1763 (last week) - that's 89 progs, including the massive end-of-year prog 2010. I've also got assorted JD Megazines, a few Clints, Dodgem Logic, etc. (and my girlfriend's Vogues, if you're that way inclined).

There's some great stuff in there for someone who's been out of the fold lately, including two Zombo stories, Ichabod Azrael, Damnation Station, some great Dante, Savage, Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha, Kingdom, Dandridge, Absolam... and a whole lot more.

Everything is in the condition it was in when it came out of the subscription envelope, so almost all as-new.

I'm in Edinburgh, I don't have transport, so pick up (between now and December 30th) would be ideal. Open to offers for the lot, folks!

Thanks Dash!

Well - that's a pretty poor selection. Skip!

Dear Hivemind,

It's been... 2 years since my last post.

I've just bought Megacity Masters 01 as a birthday present to myself and I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Some of this annual stuff I've never seen before, and some of the prog 400ish stuff I must have forgotten, but its bloody great.

Has anyone got a copy of the second one, and if so, whats in it?

According to Jock (artist on Andy Diggle's the Losers, amongst other things) on Twitter:

"On train back from london. Had a meeting with DNA films about the Dredd movie... Went GREAT. Chatted for hours with writer Alex Garland, producer Andrew McDonald and head of fx Michael Elson. Read the script. Colour this Dredd fan happy....okay, VERY happy...."

That sounds fucking excellent.

Garland wrote 28 days Later, which is enough for me. Clearly not too original, but as a loose adaptation of The Day of the Triffids with zombies its fantastic.

She's a babe.

...and wtf?! how is casting geeky-looking Matt Smith "designed to appeal to the teenage Twilight audience"??

Just thought I'd pop in and defend the beauty of Helena Bonham Carter. She is lovely.

that is all.

As an infrequent boarder here the controversy over Stalag 666 has completely slipped me by, but I have to say that any overt negativity directed at this story leaves me baffled. It's a solid genre piece, not exactly original, but entirely readable and very old-school 2000AD, and I've been reading it first or second most weeks. The idea that someone should feel *that* strongly about it is (as others have already said) mental, pathetic, saddening and hilarious all at the same time.

I'm an aspiring tooth writer myself, and with a few rejections under my belt I can't imagine what that guy would send *me* through the post.

White Chicks. I don't know what I expected, but this film offended me with its shittiness.

Scary Movie II. One of the only films I've never bothered to finish.

Crash. WTF is this? This won best picture? This really sets me right fucking off.