2000AD & Judge Dredd Megazine in 2013 - Your favourites

[Ancient Otter]

Coming close to the end of 2013, anyone want to start the best of lists?

[IronGraham]

hmm have to go to barney to refresh my memory

[Mabs]

I'll come back to the Prog later, but my favourites for the Meg are as follows;

Favourite series /story;

1. Insurrection III by Dan Abnett & Colin MacNeil (published #334 - 342)
2. Judge Dredd: Nurture by Rob Williams & PJ Holden (published #339 - 340)
3. Bob Byrne's Twisted Tales for #335 & #338

Favourite Floppies;

1.Night Zero
2. Lobster Random: Tooth & Claws

Favourite Cover(s);

Colin MacNeil - Insurrection III finalé, #342
Cliff Robinson - Judge Dredd # 338

Favourite panel of the year;

Insurrection III, #341

[IronGraham]

Great choices Mabs

[Mabs]

Great choices Mabs

Thanks Graham.

I didn't include 'Ordinary' as it's still on going. Suffice to say it'll probably feature highly on next years list!

[Mabs]

Okay, now for the Prog (and this took me a while trust me! Comicvine was a big help in terms of jogging my memory);

Favourite Judge Dredd stories;

1. New Tricks (prog 1849 - 1854), by Mike Carroll & Paul Davidson
2. Wolves (prog 1820 -1822), by Mike Carroll & Andrew Currie
3. Scavengers (prog 1842 - 1844), by Rob Williams & Carl Critchlow

Favourite Judge Dredd one offs;

1. Closet by Rob Williams & Mike Dowling (prog 1817)
2. Witches Promise by Alan Grant & David Roach (prog 1818)
3. Save Him by Rob Williams & James Harren (prog 1819)

Favourite Non-Dredd story/ series;*

1. The Ghostship Mathematica (Tharg's 3rillers) by David Baillie & Inaki Miranda (prog 1827 - 1829)
2. Sinister Dexter - Witless Protection by Dan Abnett & John Burns (prog 1832 - 1840)
3. Defoe - The Damned by Pat Mills & Leigh Gallagher (prog 1836 - 1847)
4. The Ten seconders - Godsend by Rob Williams, Edmund Bagwell & Ben Willsher (1839-1849)
5. The Red Seas - Fire across the deep by Ian Edginton & Steve Yeowell (prog 2013 -1823)
6. Aquila - Where all roads lead by Gordon Rennie & Patrick Goddard (prog 1851 - 1855)

Favourite covers;

1. Dave Kendall (prog 1853) - Gorehead;  King of the wild frontier
2. Cliff Robinson (prog 1854) - The Original Troublemaker
3. Boo Cook (prog 1830) - Gunheadz

* Brass Sun : The Diamond Age, is ongoing, otherwise it would've probably topped the list. Next year...

[Mabs]

Apologies, just realised that the second series of Brass Sun will most probably end next week before the new year, so with that in mind my favourite Non-Dredd series would have to be...

1. Brass Sun - The Diamond Age by Ian Edginton & INJ Culbard

Sorry David and Inaki!

Edit: triple post! Funt! Don't kill me Recrewt! 

[Mabs]

Um, no response yet so I hope no one minds me posting here, again.

Just to say, if you have the time then please check out the updated and indepth list I did on my blog;

http://nexuswookie.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/my-2013-end-of-year-favourites-list-for-2000ad-the-megazine/

Some minor changes in the favourites too! 

[NapalmKev]

American Reaper is one of my Megazine highlights.

Just to clarify, I'm not joking!


Cheers

[Ancient Otter]

Um, no response yet so I hope no one minds me posting here, again.

The rest are playing it safe Mabs, hanging on for Prog 2014 before making any decisions they may regret later.

[IronGraham]

I normally use the year end progs as more of a start of the new year myself

[IronGraham]

Just read you blog post Mabs really fine selections agree with it wholeheartedly especially Red Seas wish it had a bigger following so i could get trades and read the rest

[Mabs]

Just read you blog post Mabs really fine selections agree with it wholeheartedly especially Red Seas wish it had a bigger following so i could get trades and read the rest

Thank you Graham! 

Yep, Red Seas was definitely one of my faves. I too wish we could read the rest of the story after the first trade, but sadly we may never see it. Only other option is the floppy, albeit in quite a few episodes. But I don't care, I want to read it anyhow!

@ Ancient Otter - oops, I forgot about prog 2014! To be honest though, I could probably add it to the listing on my blog if I do find something I like  *cough* Absalom *cough*!

But thanks for opening this thread mate, hope to see some more input from fellow boarders in the next few weeks.

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Now that I've read Prog 2014, here's my take of both the Prog & the Meg for this year:

The Ten-Seconders: Godsend & How Harris' Got His Xmas Pint
Damnation Station: Series Two
Judge Dredd: New Tricks
Insurrection III

Both Absalom & Aquilla are both shaping up nicely, & have now piqued my interest!!!

Both Strontium Dog & Ordinary are both strolling along!!!

[Dan Banks]

I'm actually doing a 2013 Dredd re-read over the festive period (enforced holidays from work, get in) so I won't comment on these (yet).

However for non Dredds, number one thrill has to be Sinister Dexter, really took me by surprise this one. The chapter where Finny saves his case worker from Frontal and his goons was just exceptional. Special mentions for Savage, Aquila, Brass Sun and Defoe which seems to round out quite a natural top 5.

And to clarify I'm including prog 2013 up to prog 1861. The end of year progs really feel like the start of the year for me. Would like to see a bit more structure to this thread tbh, good effort on Mabs on highlighting a few potential 'awards'. Reading your choices has really made me want to re-read a few of the strips in full.