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I wouldn't skip the ABC Warriors in Nemesis stories, because they are great. Indeed I would put Nemesis above ABC Warriors in the pecking order.

A Judge also appears in Nemesis and like the Hammerstein - Dredd tie up, I think it is best to ignore it. Anything else leads to too much complication.

I really like it, the work that Dave puts into the concept art is astonishing, worthy of a book by itself.

I watched the Dave Kendall from the drawing board video today- very interesting. I would recommend checking it out for those interested in how the artists do their work.

.. I have the Annual but haven't read it yet.

Me too.

Then again I haven't read the last 6 issues of Mega City Zero yet.

Come to think of it I have yet to read the last few issues of the first IDW Dredd series. And that's been, what, two years?

I will get round to them at some point, but for now I just can't summon up enough enthusiasm for them. Not when my proper 2000AD reading list is so long (even though I have read the originals already).

Still I have subscribed to the Blessed - I just can't help it.

The dates don't seem to tie up in Brink. It says Yuliya habitat was built 2075AD, but the pilot and two characters at the end were born on Yuliya before then. Or have I missed something?

I guess families of people working on the construction of the habs lived there before they were opened.

[Guardians of the Galaxy 2]

(As an aside, I very nearly shouted "Shut up and take my money!" at the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 trailer...)

I watched all 3 trailers on a friend's brand new 50 inch 4K telly on Saturday.

Excitedly looking forward to it doesn't cover it...looking forward to this even more than SW ep 8.

Good Prog this week.

Dredd some how managed to pull off the trick of being fresh whilst going over ground we've been over a few times before, with a promise that "this time it'll be different."

Brink is just superb and re-enforces the feeling that this is one of the very best of the new generation of thrills. Kurtis' new job made me have a quick look at how Book 1 finished and to my great surprised I discovered a mistake in Barney! Book 1 ended in Prog 1992, not 1993.

Scarlett Traces continues to be surprisingly good to read, given I have take a while to appreciate it. Now that I have - yeah great stuff.

Likewise with Deadworld. Nice flashback / dream sequence.

There were a couple of weak links for me this week - the future shock and droid life.

Mmmm, this is a toughie...

I think Prog 61 will always be my absolute favourite cover, but Prog 178 kinda gets me in ways that no other cover does.

I've brilliant memories of that period.

And it came with a free gift - very important that, Tharg should bring them back.... 

And it always strikes me as being the start of the first golden period. Though in truth, I think it started a few progs before.

Yes I agree. Prog 178 is absolutely iconic for me.

Probably Prog 61 for me.

I have actually never owned the actual Prog, but I have had the T-Shirt twice.

http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/hires/61.jpg

(BTW I don't know how to post the actual image - any tips?)

Here's my I can't believe no-ones mentioned them yet list:

Venus Bluegenes
Defoe
Elfric
Lobster Random
Shakara
Jupe, Smith
Hershey, McGruder
Steelhorn, Happy
Tranny Rex
Evans the Fist, Precious Matson
Otto Sump
Aquila
Wren
Howard Quartz
Dimtri Romanov, Tsar Vladimir

So what is the Cornelius Cardew thing?

Thanks Jim. I couldn't quite remember when the Sci-if Special came out. But I do remember not being able to get hold of it at the time, so for me I didn't know what he looked like until he was shown a few episodes in.

It was only a couple of years later when I managed to get it.

So you know how we never saw Nemesis in the first few episodes of Book 1 and he was only revealed later? (In the Sci-fi Special IIRC.)

Well actually he was on the cover of Prog 222 all along - he is there in orange on the left hand side border. I had never noticed that until this morning - take a look in the "Your Favourite Prog Covers" thread.

It is amazing how you can look at stuff but not see it properly - literally for years.

Sorry don't understand the question.

After all, they are the same aren't they?

Hmmm, right now...

1. Johnny Alpha
2. Blackhawk
3. Gene the Hackman
4. Kid Knee
5. PJ Maybe

Doh! That'll teach me to do my list late at night...forgot PJ!!

So straight into my chart at number 4....

Nemesis is definitely one of my all time favourite thrills. It vies with Slaine for 3rd place probably.

I like to think pretty much nothing in the Prog can touch books 1,3 and 4. (Apart from possibly Warriors Dawn,  series 1 of ABC Warriors and Zenith Book 1).

I remember feeling a sense of loss at the end of Book 4. I really thought that would be it, but then they found a way to bring Torquemada back. And wasn't it great. Book 5, treads water a bit, relatively, but it all ramps up in Book 6. The scenes at the end of the world are just superb, especially the way Torquemada [spoiler]gets the terminators on his side again.[/spoiler] I just love how Bryan Talbot got expressions out of Torquemada's mask.

Possibly unfairly I liked it less after that. I think it was a combination of the different settings and different artists. Before that it had a consistent feel, now the style seemed to change radically. I wasn't a big Hickleton fan, but can absolutely see his art has merit. It then seemed a bit of a hotch-potch after that. Which I am sure is extremely unfair on the likes of David Roach. And I freely admit that in Book 10 I had yet to realise how brilliant Henry Flint was  - it just seemed like some-one doing a Kev O'Neill impression.