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Something broodblik said got me wondering:

...Risk Assessment will for me be one of the top 3 all once-off Dredds...

Praise indeed - there must be hundreds of single episode Dredds? But what are the other two? And what are other people's favourites?

Apologies if this is already done, I'm fairly new here but haven't seen the topic in the last year.

Happy to accept any single episode Dredd from prog, Meg, special or annual.

For me, bury my knee at wounded heart is up there. I also really liked another Dredd that Peter Doherty painted about a slow crime day. And one Garth Ennis did about a mutie incursion that he deals with in 10 minutes - Colin MacNeil on art. Names and progs escape me. I'm sure others will mention some classics I've forgotten that will change my mind.

Have at it!

[Dredd]

The Xmas Meg is here!

Cover by Mike Perkins - Dredd with some Christmas lights on the daystick. Cliff Robinson, the master of the "daystick jutting out of the page" image, wins the battle of the Xmas covers this year with his robot rampage.

Dredd sees the return of a character I'd forgotten about. This story is a bit forgettable too. Ah well! Paul Marshall draws with his usual high standard.

Spector moves from detective story to political satire to caper story and John Wagner and Dan Cornwell make it so easy. Effortless to read, highly entertaining, colours and (fittingly old-school?) lettering work really well. Would be top thrill except for Lawless.

DeMarco still early days I thought, but we seem to have found some answers already? Not sure how many episodes of this we're getting? Decent thrill. Lovely art. The grater a nice/yucky touch.

Text pieces, Mike Collins and Rufus Hound interviews, and an Oliver Frey retrospective. The Hound one I read because of the fuss over his Strontium Dog tale, which he goes into. Some Frey-drawn Trigan Empire story follows.

Then we have Johnny Red reprint, which I've not been reading. Perhaps the last one? In which case I'll go back and read the lot. Always looks good.

There's a really fun Joel McCrea Elseworlds Dredd, the first of a series(?) called "Deviations Judge Dredd". What if... Dredd the Werewolf wasn't cured? Joel McCrea has a great time showing us. Is there more of this Deviations series? Hope it's as good as this!

Finally the best saved for the last we have Lawless which totally sticks the landing. It's exciting, and moving, ends properly and looks frikkin' magnificent. The creative team should be rightly proud of this - top thrill.

[Dredd]

It's the Xmas prog! Interesting one with only one jump-on story, and that is resuming half way through. All other new stories are one and done.

Cool madcap droidtastic cover from the Robinson-Teague team.

Dredd is a spooky Rico episode with portents and ghosts of [not Xmas] past - Tom Foster being his most Cliff Robinson. This is mainly teasing us about things to come. Nicely done though.

Azimuth is back with a bang and with an ending that feels a bit like fan service... and I loved it! It's very exciting, looks great and I couldn't be happier! Art absolutely sterling.

An Anderson one off and Our Cass is younger than ever, as is the rest of Psi Div, in a competently executed one-off. It's set in 2145, the same year as the Dredd tale. Anderson looks about 16.

And a new writer on Strontium Dog. Starts well but segues into something a bit wordy... and ends up a bit too on the nose for me. Cornwell auditioning to take on another Ezquerra strip? He's done great on Spector, which has really grown on me, I'd be happy to see him an extended go on  Johnny.

The rest of the prog is a Rogue one-off, and the continuation of the Helium, Devil's Railroad, Enemy Earth, and Feral and Foe strips, to be read.

This arrived today. I've got the black hardcover version. It's pretty classy. Nice gold embossed logo on the front. Similar to the Grandville and Luther Arkwright omnis.



Some nice Kev O'Neill prelims in the inlays, quite a few full colour covers and star scans scattered throughout. The pages are heavy duty and very white. The repro looks a bit better than my old Titan "the beginning" edition. The printed page is about 1cm wider and 2cm longer than that edition. It's a good size.

There's no chat or back matter but that's OK! A pretty special edition all told.

The one annoying thing is something has pressed a small triangle shape through four pages near the binding near the start of the book.



Let's hope that's not a common issue.

This arrived today - it is a stupendous volume with a chunks of Slaine - some Hero's Blood, some Sky Chariots - a fair amount of ABC warriors, a bit of V.C.'s, more Dredd, including more full colour work from the annuals, and several pages of the Last American, which are gorgeous. Here's the contents page:

Hi, can someone bump me up to member so I can set a profile pic, post on more threads and so on? Thanks, Jon

Hello! I've got back into 2000ad having lapsed in the early 1990s. Have been browsing the forum for a bit, thought I'd join in.

I think I started reading the prog mid-80s. Highlights being Zenith, Slaine (Fabry's, Power's and Bisley's), and Dredd during the Oz (loved B McCarthy's episodes), Necropolis and Democracy runs. Plus read a lot of the best of monthlies, with Halo Jones, classic Dredd, Rogue Trooper, Slaine (McMahon, Belardinelli, Fabry, Pugh), the VCs. Good times!

 I also remember Scream, the Eagle (Doomlord?), and later on Toxic! (The Driver, Bogie Man, Marshal Law), Revolver, and I must have collected all of Crisis (loved Baikie on John Smith's New Statesman). Think I stopped reading on leaving school and going to Uni. Got into Dark Horse comics at some point, DH Presents, enjoyed the various Alien, Terminator, The Thing and Predator comic spinoffs.

The Hachette collections brought me back in , started buying the ultimate collection, then noticed the JD Mega Collection, bought most of that and caught up on much of what I've missed out on! A lot of it absolutely brilliant. At the same time started the joint prog/Meg subscription. Dredd, Brink and Lawless my fave contemporary thrills.

I've done a couple of art stars submissions, one being 'le fink' in the Angel Gang one, hence the user name. How else do you choose a user name? Discuss. Anyway, nice to meet you!

Jon