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I was curious which stories had been collected and which hadn't, which got me searching for a complete list of all stories that I could use to work it out.

Since I've read few 2000 AD stories I wanted to see if I could read each one in more or less the order they were published (since that seemed the best for not having to worry about working out continuity), and maybe look to getting collected volumes where I fancied (availability and cost allowing), or picking up old Progs off eBay over time. I already have several hundred from between the mid 80s to the early 2000s, though they're not all consecutive issues. The earlier stuff might be only readable in trades.

Anyway, I can't find much of a list in a useable form. I found this but it's not tabular so I can't sort by date, story, series, etc, or add my own notes, and it's far too much of a faff to convert it to a tabular format. It also doesn't factor in the Meg or annuals/specials as far as I can see, or the characters/stories that might have begun outside of 2000 AD. Nor any stand-alone related publications (should there be any)

The 2000 AD wiki is... hmm...

First off, apologies for the huge post. I have tried, but I'm unable to be concise and always end up waffling on at length. Just like this sentence here. It's not necessary, so why am I writing it? And yet I am writing it, and what's more, you're reading it. Grab a cuppa and a seat!

As I wrote in another thread, I have wound up owning a bunch of boxes of comics ear-marked for the skip after being flood-damaged. I've had these for many years now, and whilst I cleaned them up, had a superficial stock-take, and re-boxed them at the time, it's only in the last year or so that I have really sorted through them properly to work out what I've got, and what might be worth keeping and reading.

I know very little about most of these titles as I've not been back into comics all that long, beyond a handful of anthology titles that I grew up with.

There are lots of damages, but also loads that are undamaged (by the flood, anyway, and are presumably in more or less the same condition they were in when they went into the boxes - not always mint, and probably not much use to a collector, but fine for a reader).

I started a spreadsheet at the end of last year and it took about 6 months on and off to go through approx 3000 comics and work out what they all were and group them into series (as far as I could work out from information online). It's all very confusing.

There are plenty that appear to be a full run of a title, a complete short series, or a one-shot. Amongst these there are comics that I'm curious about enough to try reading, but also plenty that I've no idea if they're any good or not. I don't know which ones are worth reading!

In addition to that, there are also loads that are incomplete. These ones might be worth finding fills for, but, again, I don't know! (In fact I have already filled a fair number of series that looked interesting when I found issues for pennies here and there, so really this list is an amalgamation of the original rescues and fills, but I haven't kept a record of which are my own purchases.)

A small number I've read already, and some of the well-known ones I'll certainly read eventually (V for Vendetta, From Hell). Already on the list of keepers is Shade (1990) thanks to Colin YNWA who also is responsible for me starting this thread (ably assisted by BadlyDrawnKano)

There are also titles that I'm pretty sure I don't care about. I don't like cartoon-style art, and this, for me, includes manga, and I don't much like the mainstays of the superhero genre (Superman, Spider-man, the Hulk, the Flash, Justice League, etc). Also not keen on Westerns. Unless there are any remarkable runs recommended to me to fill, I may not bother with those. However, I won't discount anyone's heartfelt recommendation!

I need help deciding what to keep, what to fill, and what to read!

So the questions I have are things like:
Is it any good?
Is it more-or-less a stand-alone story that can be read in isolation?
Do I *need* any fore-knowledge before I tackle it? ie, anything I should get/read first? and would needing that make it less worth buying fills?
Would it benefit from reading something else first?
Would it be better *not* to read previous related series?
How big a rabbit hole will it take me down?
Can I jump in after issue #1 or jump out before the run is done? Or do I need to get all the missing issues to be able to read it?
Would it be better to pick up TPBs or try to get fills? Cost and availability of TPBs, HCs and fill-issues is obviously a factor in this too.


If anyone fancies replying, no-one needs to cover every one in one reply, in fact, it might be interesting to get a longer take on some titles if it's warranted.

I'll post the list in the next post, assuming it'll all fit in one post. Make y'browser real wide now.

Black lines are series that I think are complete, or one-shots.
Green lines are titles that I've read (not many yet from this bunch of rescued comics)
Blue lines are series that are missing issues.
Red lines are ones with issues damaged beyond hope of reading. The quantity that I've stated I have includes the damages. (Other issues are damaged within some titles but are still readable and I've not noted those here.)