Space Spinner 2000AD

[sheridan]

Best Art (Megazine)
Arthur Ranson
Carlos Ezquerra
Charlie Adlard
Chris Halls
Colin MacNeil
Cory Macrae
David Millgate
Dean Ormston
Frank Quietly
Garry Marshall
Greg Staples
Ian Gibson
Jim Vickers
John Hicklenton
John Richardson
Kevin Cullen
Kevin Walker
Lol
Manuel Benet
Mark Wilkinson
Martin Emond
Nick Percival
Peter Doherty
Philip Bond
Sean Phillips
Siku
Steve Brown
Xuasus


Best Writing (Meg)
Alan Grant
Chris Standley
Dave Stone
Dave Stone
David Bishop
Garth Ennis
Gordon Rennie
Igor Goldkind
Jim Alexander
John Smith
John Wagner
Paul Cornell
Robbie Morrison
Robert McCallum
Si Spencer

[sheridan]

Best Overall Thrill   (Meg)
Al's Baby   Blood on the Bib
Armitage   Flashback
Armitage   Flashback II
Brit-Cit Brute   Brit-Cit Brute
Calhab Justice   Dounreay
Calhab Justice   Casualty
Chopper   Dead Man's Curve
Devlin Waugh   Brief Encounter
Harke and Burr   Antique and Curious
Harke and Burr   Hamster Horror
Heavy Metal Dredd   The Fan
Heavy Metal Dredd   Too Much Monkey Business
Heavy Metal Dredd   The Most Dangerous Guitar in the World
Heavy Metal Dredd   Mort Rifkind Rises Again
Heavy Metal Dredd   The Big Hit
Heavy Metal Dredd   Graceland
Heavy Metal Dredd   Monkey Beat
Heavy Metal Dredd   Kiss of Death
Hershey & Steel   Degenomancer
Judge Anderson   The Jesus Syndrome
Judge Anderson   Childhood's End
Judge Anderson   Voyage of the Seeker
Judge Hershey   Asylum
Judge Hershey   A Game of Dolls
Judge Hershey   The Harlequin's Dance
Mega-City Mania   Secret Sessions with Psi Division
Mega-City One   Someone to Watch Over
Missionary Man   Salvation at the Last Chance Saloon
Missionary Man   A Town Called Intolerance
Missionary Man   Legend of the Unholy Drinker
Pan-African Judges   Pan-African Judges
Rapid Growth   Rapid Growth
Shimura   Shimura
Sleaze 'n' Ryder   Sleeze 'n' Ryder
The Creep   Creep
The Taxidermist   Return of the Taxidermist

Judge Dredd (Meg)
Warhog
Resyk Man
Deathmask
Mechanismo Returns
The Jigsaw Murders
Ladonna Fever
The Hottie House Siege
The Al Capone Story
Bagging the Bagwan
Slick Dickens - Dressed to Kill
Revenge of the Egghead
Mechanismo - Body Count
It's a Dreddful Life

Best Month of Megs
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Best Year of Megs
1990
1991
1992
1993

[Colin YNWA]

These are fantastic - thanks Sheridan.

[Huey2]

Spinnies noms...

Best writer: John Smith. Really did a lot of the heavy lifting for a prog which had seen better days. Firekind - Slaughterbowl - Tyranny Rex - each of those were the highlights of the progs they appeared in and then we also get the best 2000Ad Dredd of the year: Roadkill - even if Dredd is a bit much in the ending.

Best art: Glenn Fabry. Stunning, just stunning art combined with great storytelling.

Best story: Firekind

And I know these aren't Spinnies awards but:

Strangest editorial decision: asking Fabry to commit to a multi-book, fully painted epic (Whilst he's working on Vertigo covers, whilst he's committed to Dredd/Batman) was never going to end well. Had they got him on some shorter Slaine tales - such as the Swan children - then we'd have had a real highpoint of the prog to rival the Horned God.

Missed opportunity: So this is how the mighty Ron Smith sees out his days at the prog: some of the lesser Dredd tales and a handful of Future Shocks. Ron deserved better than this. It would have been great to see him really deliver on something like Slaughterbowl or Mechanismo part 3.

Best year: 1986

Meggies
Best writer: Alan Grant or John Wagner
Best art: John Hicklenton
Best story: Anderson or Taxidermist

[Colin YNWA]

My spinnies nominations:

2000ad

Best writing:

1.   John Smith
2.   John Smith
3.   John Smith
HM – John Smith

Its pretty easy this year!

Best Art

I'm tempted to go Rian Hughes as I really get on with his style and love the work he did, even if some of the strips aren't the best. I'm tempted by Shaky Kane, but did he do enough in the year? In the end I'm going with Nigel Dobbyn in the main 'cos I don't think he gets the credit he deserves.

Best Thrill

If Tyranny Rex had more momentum behind it that would feature more in my thoughts. Revere is also up there. In the end though I'm going for a first and second only.

2nd Kano – it gets a hard time, but I think its brilliant
1st Well its Firekind isn't it. All sorts or superb.

Best month

I'll go April as when you have Kano and Firekind who cares about the rest... except April has the best of the rest so I guess I do!

Best Year

This is going to stay 1986 until 1999 so I don't know why I do this!

Megazine

Best Writer

Predictably its John Wagner for Mechanismo, Taxidermist and other bits and pieces.

Best Art – Frank Quietly for landing with such a BANG!

Best Thrill – hard to look past The Taxidermist isn't it

[Richard S.]

In our thrilling hundred forty-eighth episode we continue our journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with the 1987 2000AD Annual. This is the tenth 2000AD annual and we're seeing a great combination of new stories and classic thrills in these pages. The highlights of this year's annual include the classic Ro-Busters story The Terra-Meks, stories of a young Strontium Dog, and some undercover work in Mega-City One!

This episode Conrad is joined by 2000AD super fan Dave Wynn, aka Scowling Monkey!

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FYI- there's a page of 'Rogue Trooper' art by José Ortiz up for sale on the latest Catawki auction. All details
https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2022/07/catawiki-auction-ends-21st-july-2022.html

[SpaceSpinner2000]

Thanks so much Sheridan!

[SpaceSpinner2000]

In our thrilling two hundred and eighty-second episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 860-863 of 2000AD, covering November 1993. This episode Dredd is punching mummies, Feral is punching wizards, and Mean Arena is punching everyone! Plus we're starting two new thrills, Timehouse and Cannon Fodder!

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[The Monarch]

its CANON fodder its a pun a play on words goddamit conrad xd

2000ad

Best writing:

John smith

colin ynwa is right this is an easy one

Best Art

my heart says chris weston but my brain says Nigel dobbyn I honestly forgot he was in 2000ad as i know him more in his amazing work on sonic the comic and honestly its the only good thing about strontium dogs.

Best Thrill

Meme answer: Canon fodder gotta keep the forum meme of me being the biggest canon fodder fan alive....True answer: Firekind its bloodly amazing ain't it?

The oh my god the nineties fucking suuuuucks award

The summer offensive all of it fuck that shit but especially big dave fucking putrid arse crap

Megazine

Best Writer

John wagner

Best Art – Frank Quietly talk about a hell of a introduction man

Best Thrill Taxidermist....gotta be taxidermist

[WhizzBang]

2000AD Spinnies

Best Art (2000AD)
The Brian Bolland cover for Inferno where his arm is on fire.
Also, an honourable mention for Carlos's work on Inferno too.

Best Overall Thrill (2000AD)   
Journal of Luke Kirby   Sympahty for the Devil

Judge Dredd (2000AD)
PJ & the Mock-Choc Factory


Megazine Spinnies
I think the Megazine had a much better year than 2000AD

Best Art (Megazine)
Ian Gibson on The Taxidermist

Best Writing (Meg)
John Wagner on Mechanismo, The Taxidermist, Al's Baby, The Hottie House Siege

Best Overall Thrill   (Meg)
The Taxidermist

Judge Dredd (Meg)
Mechanismo Returns / Mechanismo - Body Count

[SpaceSpinner2000]

its CANON fodder its a pun a play on words goddamit conrad xd

I've fixed it, but in the full description I spell it both ways, because I am quite flexible!

[The Monarch]

my note to conrad that the cover image better be the return of god (yes i listened to the episode i am please that canon is loved as the silly thing it is)

[SpaceSpinner2000]

my note to conrad that the cover image better be the return of god

I got you fam



In our thrilling two hundred and eighty-third episode Fox and Conrad continue their journey through the Galaxy's Greatest Comic with Progs 864-867 of 2000AD, covering December 1993. This episode we're at the end of 1993 at last, so we're finishing up Canon Fodder, Timehouse, and Strontium Dogs, while starting Mother Earth, Soul Gun Warrior, and REVERE!

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[sheridan]

I keep doing this - providing the list of nominees and then not actually getting around to saying what I like myself.

In case I don't get around to it (and I did have a scan but there are so many hard decisions) I'm going to nominate Ron Smith for lifetime achievement / whatever that best thing* award is.  While the last five years didn't treat Ron with much to work with, the quality that was put in to it never faltered.  Imagine the painted style of Fr1day on Wagner / Grant Dredd!

* where 'thing' can be a person, story or something else.

[sheridan]

* where 'thing' can be a person, story or something else.

MVP I think it's called.