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[Dredd-verse]

Here are some facts or lies to bore or even sway your vote:

Here is a list of the 10 most prolific series that was published in the Rebellion Years (in brackets in the total appearances):
1. Sinister Dexter (282)
2. Nikolai Dante (213)
3. Strontium Dog (154)
4. TFC (135)
5. ABC Warriors   (128)
6. Slaine (127)
7. Savage (121)
8. The Red Seas   (116)
9. Defoe (89)
10. Grey Area (87)

Pat Mills and Dan Abnett is dominating the list and both these gentlemen are giants in the comic-world. 

The world of 2000 AD consist out of multiple different universes here are a few:
Dredd-verse: Anderson, Banzai Battalion, Breathing Space, Cadet Anderson, Cadet Dredd, Chopper, Hershey, Judge Death, Judge Fear, Lenny Zero, Low Life, Marauder, Max Normal, Missionary Man, Orlok, The Simping Detective
Rogue-verse: Hunted, Jaegir, Rogue Trooper, The 86ers, Tor Cyan
Caballistics Inc-verse: Absalom, Caballistics Inc, The Diaboliks, Graduation Day

The number game:

During the last two decades Rebellion published 1027 progs. 3 of those progs where Regen progs and we had 20 xmas progs (a cool 100 pager every time).

I have counted about 146 series running during this period.

This round I do not mind whom won since both of them has creating some awesome work

The covers reminds me of Scream

Here is the list of series in alphabetic order pus the number of appearances in brackets:

1). A Love like Blood (7)
2). ABC Warriors (128)
3). Absalom (45)
4). Ace Trucking Co (2)
5). Ack-ack Macaque (1)
6). Age of the Wolf (29)
7). Ahab (9)
8). American Gothic (9)
9). Ampney Crucis (45)
10). Anderson (38)
11). Angel Zero (13)
12). Aquila (40)
13). Asylum (18)
14). Atavar (22)
15). Bad Company (31)
16). Badlands (5)
17). Banzai Battalion (13)
18). Bec & Kawl (29)
19). Bison (9)
20). Black Shuck (19)
21). Brass Sun (58)
22). Breahting Space (9)
23). Brink (73)
24). Button Man (28)
25). Caballistics Inc (59)
26). Cadet Anderson (20)
27). Cadet Dredd (3)
28). Carver Hale (8)
29). Chiaroscuro (11)
30). Chopper (8)
31). Counterfeit Girl (10)
32). Cradlegrave (12)
33). Damnation Station (26)
34). Dandridge (19)
35). Dead Eyes (12)
36). Dead Man Walking (9)
37). Dead Signal (7)
38). Deadlock (11)
39). Deadworld (53)
40). Defoe (89)
41). Detonator X (10)
42). Durham Red (40)
43). Faces (8)
44). Feral and Foe (12)
45). Fiends of the Eastern Front (7)
46). Fiends of the Western Front (4)
47). Finder And Keeper (3)
48). Flesh (45)
49). From Grace (5)
50). Full Tilt Boogie (2)
51). Glimmer Rats (9)
52). Go-Machine (3)
53). Graduation Day (1)
54). Grey Area (87)
55). Greysuit (40)
56). Harry Kipling (14)
57). Helium (12)
58). Hershey (8)
59). Hope (24)
60). Hunted (19)
61). Ichabod Azrael (33)
62). Indigo Prime (39)
63). Interceptor (9)
64). Jaegir (43)
65). Judge Death (6)
66). Judge Fear (1)
67). Killer (9)
68). Kingdom (78)
69). Kingmaker (24)
70). Leatherjack (18)
71). Lenny Zero (8)
72). Leviathan (10)
73). Lobster Random (36)
74). London Falling (5)
75). Low Life (68)
76). Malone (7)
77). Marauder (12)
78). Max Normal (11)
79). Mechastopheles (8)
80). Memento (1)
81). Missionary Man (19)
82). Monsters of Rock (1)
83). Necronauts (9)
84). Necrophim (26)
85). Nemesis (1)
86). Nikolai Dante (213)
87). Orlok (12)
88). Outlier (30)
89). Past Imperfect (18)
90). Proteus Vex (9)
91). Pulp Sci-Fi (1)
92). Pussyfoot 5 (11)
93). Rain Dogs (10)
94). Red Fang (12)
95). Roadkill (4)
96). Robo-hunter (28)
97). Rogue Trooper (36)
98). Satanus (6)
99). Savage (121)
100). Scarlet Traces (36)
101). Second City Blues (13)
102). Shakara (51)
103). Sinister Dexter (282)
104). Skip Tracer (40)
105). Slaine (127)
106). Snow Tiger (7)
107). Stalag 666 (15)
108). Starlord (1)
109). Stickleback (58)
110). Stone Island (18)
111). Storming Heaven (7)
112). Strontium Dog (154)
113). Survival Geeks (37)
114). Synnamon (16)
115). Tales of Leviathan (3)
116). Tales of Telguuth (36)
117). Terror Tales (40)
118). TFC (135)
119). Tharg the Mighty (6)
120). Tharg's Thrillers (84)
121). The 86ers (22)
122). The Alienist (12)
123). The Diaboliks (2)
124). The Gronk (1)
125). The Order (52)
126). The Red Seas (116)
127). The Scrap (5)
128). The Simping Detective (8)
129). The Ten-Seconders (35)
130). The VCs (47)
131). The Visible Man (2)
132). The Vort (8)
133). The Zaucer of Zilk (21)
134). Thirteen (11)
135). Thistlebone (10)
136). Tiger Sun, Dragon Moon (7)
137). Time Twisters (7)
138). Tor Cyan (17)
139). Twisted Tales (17)
140). Tyranny Rex (5)
141). Ulysses Sweet (16)
142). Valkyries (6)
143). Vanguard (8)
144). What If ? (3)
145). Zenith (1)
146). Zombo (39)

[top 10 series]

What is this about?

As we all know Rebellion has been the owner of 2000 AD since the beginning of the century. They have kept the publication running and maintained for the last two decades.  We have been blessed with some great stories brought to use by some ridiculously awesome talent.  Another fact that I am greatfull for is that during the current world crisis Rebellion kept on delivering the weekly thrills.

The premise is that you select your top 10 series that was published during the Rebellion Years.

When do we start?

Currently Colin is running a great tourney around the ultimate writers. If you do know about this and you have been hiding under a rock or have been holidaying in the resorts of Alpha Centauri just follow the link: https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=46503.msg1029915#msg1029915

As soon as ultimate tourney is done I will kick-off the top 10 rebellion one.


For how long?

I am open to suggestions, but I was thinking around 2 – 3 weeks to allow you to cast your votes.

How does it work?


1. You select your top 10 series during the Rebellion Years. This is from Prog 1174 publish on 5 January 2000 up until prog 2185 publish on 10 June 2020.
2. The only series not included is Judge Dredd. You can cast you vote for any Dredd-verse series, but our favourite lawman has an unfair advantage.
3. The shorts are all clubbed together so you do not vote for a single Future Shock or Terror Tale but for the whole shebang. The shorts published are: Twisted Tales, Time Twisters, Tharg's Thrillers, Terror Tales, Future Shocks (TFC), Pulp Sci-Fi and Past Imperfect.
4. We are working on a point system that follows the Formula 1 Point System: Points are awarded to drivers and teams based on where they finish in a race. The winner receives 25 points, the second-place finisher 18 points, with 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 points for positions 3 through 10. So quite simple only 10 series will be allocated points, but nothing stops you from listing your top 79 series.

Some additional Info:

I will list all the series below which was publish during the above period. If I have missed one you are free to vote for them as long as the series ran during the above mention period.

I will keep track via an excel sheet and everyone is welcome to this just PM me.

I still believe that Grant does not always gets the recognition that he deserves. One of his biggest "problems" is his association with Wagner. Many of the stories he co-wrote with Wagner I will give credit to Wagner and not him at all.

[Grant]

Alan Who ? Which Alan ? Grant

I will go for Alan Grant purely of his contribution to AD and naturally for his work on Strontium Dog and Anderson.

[Alan McKenzie]

Alan McKenzie only because off Summer Magic

Tordel then Colin should have excluded Alan Grant as well. It feels to me that he is always under valued compared to John Wagner.  He had a massive contribution to many of the best stories ever to be published in AD.

To be honest based it on the previous competition - if you do ruole out too many it gets a bit pointless. I personally didn't think Pat was a forgone conclusion. To be honest I can think of at least three votes I'd vote for over him and I'm sure others will have favourites too.

He's amongst the favourites but let's see how that plays out...

I agree with you for me Mills is not a foregone conclusion.

How the cover was build:

https://2000ad.com/news/2000-ad-covers-uncovered-patrick-goddard-talks-prog-2185/

Tordel then Colin should have excluded Alan Grant as well. It feels to me that he is always under valued compared to John Wagner.  He had a massive contribution to many of the best stories ever to be published in AD.

[Pat Mills]

Pat Mills

[Kek-W]

Kek-W

I am also a non-footballer, I do not like the sport. But let us be honest the special was great, I enjoyed it and will recommend it to anyone.

[The Out]

If, after securing work for all the companies and organisations he seems to juggle, he was guilty of not giving 2000AD his full attention and just phoning it in, I'd even understand. But he never, ever does.

This. When Abnett broke in the US, I figured that would be it. So many other writers vanish from the Prog, even though they are contractually allowed to still contribute. Abnett is a machine.

He has another series starting in prog 2187 The Out. He is more than a machine