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37 mins. The ONLY way I want to see Walter in my prog...

And so it is! What an absolute dickhead I am! Still messing it up after all these years!

Bah. I liked it better when you could call someone an utter [spoiler]Pete[/spoiler] [spoiler]Wells[/spoiler] and get away with it...

Disgusting! No one deserves that!!!

This started as a two horse race, but then the winner absolutely ROMPED it!

In THIRD place was some prime Lawmaster porn from Ben Wilsher and Chris Blythe, gotta love that Dutch angle!



In second place, the eerily realistic masterpiece that celebrated thirty glorious years of the Meg by the mighty Greg Staples...



But the clear winner, the dream team who appear in the winning lists EVERY year, it's Cliff Robinson and Dylan Teague and their wonderfully technical cover of Meg 423. A thing og beauty!



Thanks again everyone! Wishing the best of health to you all!

Well, the spreadsheet has worked it's magic and it really was a four horse race, which is fitting, seeing as we are in the end of days! Places 2-4 were REALLY close, so I'm including the all in the results, but the winner absolutely ROMPED it!

So, in REVERSE order we have...

In FOURTH place, it's Alex Ronald with his beautifully composed, dinosaurs and judges cover which is utterly brilliant and totally 2000 AD!



In THIRD place, I'm DELIGHTED to say, is the masterpiece that is Steven Austin and Chris Blythe's beautiful flower power cover of 2211.



In SECOND place, a droid who had appeared in the winning list pretty much every year, is the force of nature that is Tiernen Trevallion and his stonking, rather terrifying cover to Prog 2209...



But the out and out WINNER, up from third place last year, is everyone's pal, PJ with his gloriously composed, beautifully coloured Noam Chimpsky cover of 2178. A proper stunner that got a HUGE share of the vote! Well done PJ!!!

Here it is in all it's glory!



Thanks to EVERYONE that voted! Here's to another year of thrill powered covers!

1st - The Mighty Greg Staples 424, simply incredible!
2nd - Tim Napper 426, love the colours and the style!
3rd - Ben Wilsher 422, love me a bit of Wilsher lawmaster porn!

I haven't even looked at this this year, I don't wanna be swayed! Here we go then, the results from the Mackem jury...

1st – 2181 Jake Lynch – Just the damned coolest cover this year. Notes of Jock & Henry Flint, but very much Jake's own style. I'd buy this as a poster...
2nd - 2203 Jake Lynch – That man again! I just love his Dredd covers!
3rd - 2211 Steven Austin – two excellent covers from the Austin Droid this year, this one just pips it. Beautiful!

HM's – PJ Holden 2178: Cool tagline 'Not all Heroes are Apes!' and beautiful colours and composition.
Simon Fraser: 2176. Again, amazing composition and colours. Similarly Simon's artwork on the strip is absolutely stellar, but maaaan, I'm against everything this strip stands for, sorry.
Alex Ronald 2206 – Dinosaurs and Dredd, what's not to like?

Right, I'll add up in 20 mins and post the winners tomorrow!!!

Thanks for voting everyone!

Please vote for your top 3 MEGAZINE covers of the year for the Judge Dredd Megazine. Again, please be explicit about which is your first, second and third choice as I am profoundly stupid.

You can see 'em all here:

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/megazines/2020

Voting closes at midnight on Saturday 2nd January 2020!

Merry Christmas, ya Bams!

Hooray! 2020 has been an absolute shitshow... but we have seen some WONDERFUL covers!!! So now it's time for the annual cover of the year vote! You can see all the covers here, and of course, click 'em to enlarge 'em:

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/2000-ad/2020

I'd like you to CLEARLY list your THREE favourites, in order. THREE points will be awarded to your fave, TWO points for second and ONE point for third. Please try and be explicit with this and maybe give a little comment to say why you chose each cover as it makes it a bit more interesting for the rest of us!

The closing date is midnight on Saturday 2nd January 2021...

A Meg thread will be along shortly...

Does Sheldon have something to do with the new secret project?  For those missing Pete Wells' dulcet tones - have a link.

I couldn't possibly say...

Oh, has anyone ever watched the Mr Bean cartoon? They're good animators aren't they...? I'll just leave these here...

I throw myself furlungly at your feet begging forgiveness for misrepresenting you oh Mighty Wells. May you find it in your giant and lovely heart to forgive your humble servent.

Well, forgiveness might cost a kiss and a cuddle at the next con, my friend!

Damn I was hoping to be showered with gold, drugs and the nakes flesh of beautiful people - bloody Covid!

We'll get onto Amazon and sort something out.
I'll contribute something to the kind-of-advent-calendar.  Where's Wellsy these days anyway?  He was the best of us.  Well, one of the bests of us, anyway.

He was, he certainly was that. Last I chatted to him he was busy with lots of other exciting things and was generally moving away from 2000ad - he was losing his love of the Prog a bit and so was drifting. He's on Faciebooks and he seems super well and lovely as ever their. Just has other priorities from what I can gather.

Hello chaps! Sorry about this, and thank you for the lovely/cheeky words!

I'm afraid "More than lovely" Colin is partially right, in terms of I have other very exciting priorities at the moment and am just too busy this year. In an annoying "not allowed to talk about it yet" way, I'm currently working on my DREAM, hopefully life changing project (sadly not 2000AD related, but, as everything is, certainly inspired by it!) It's just about nearing completion that is taking up ALL of my time, for which Mrs Pete is delighted. I promise I'll share it with you all early next year.

Where "More than lovely" Colin was not so right, was me 'losing my love for 2000AD a bit.' I'm missing Wagner a lot, but still giddily rush to the Prog as soon as it arrives and absolutely devour it! I DO hope to be more present on here again once the aforementioned 'Operation Monkeybum' is completed...

I DO have an idea of my own for this years' calendar, so I will try my very best to contribute. It just might not be as erm... professional as other years!

Love you and miss you all!

P.S. I'll still do the Prog and Meg Covers of the Year compos!

The second playthrough was much better for me as I was a HELL of a lot less tense - still shocked and sickened, but at least I knew what was coming! Such an excellent experience that only computer games can deliver.

Hey Dave, I'll send you my copy when I'm done.

This game is absolutely wonderful and I can't recommend it enough!

It's beautiful, like reeeeeeeally beautiful, has an excellent story (well, bunch of stories) and the game mechanics are simply fantastic. You can change and adapt fighting styles and weapons on the fly giving you a real sense of power and control. As you level up, that feeling of calm and confidence as you call out of group of bad guys is exhilarating!

As a samurai story, it's pitch perfect, with you being rewarded for being honourable in combat and an all round nice guy. However, the gravity of your situation makes it difficult not to follow the way of the ghost - using more sneaky and very much less honourable (yet more fun!) tactics. The way in which the game is constructed is exceptional as you inevitably make some difficult choices and abandon your honour code.

I saw one guy refer to the story as "You slowly turn into Batman!" which I think is a great analogy, and maaaaan, it feels so good when you get there! It also has that very Star Wars-y feel, with the quick and easy path leading to the dark side and the stuffed shirt samurai being caught up in hubris and tradition like the Jedi.

After about 50-odd hours I completed the excellent main story last night, but I've still got LOADS of side quests left that I'm desperate to get back to. I really 'enjoyed' last of us 2 but it was a harrowing experience to play. Ghost of Tsushima, which I'm sad to say will be overshadowed by TLOU2, has given me as much of an emotional rollercoaster but in a MUCH more varied and dare I say enjoyable way?

Possibly my game of this console generation.