2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection

[Funt Solo]

There's more than enough material for a Middenface McNulty book. [Would love to see Wan Man a' his Dug reprinted finally, it's been 30 years!]

Here's 255pp (+ 4 covers):

Middenface McNulty   
Wan Man an' His Dug   M1.15-M1.20
Grannibal   M3.76

Young Middenface McNulty   
Tambo Shanter   M4.11
A Parcel of Rogues   M4.16-M4.18

Young Middenface   
Mutopia   M205-M207
Brigadoom   M218-M220
Killoden   M224-M229
Midnapped   M234-M236
A Scottish Soldier   M240-M243

You could also use things like The Big Bust of 49, The Royal Affair, The Rammy & Stone Killers.

[Funt Solo]

Harry 20 in a Hard Time collection with all the other prison sagas?

I was trying to figure out how many prison sagas there have been, so I thought about it over my porridge and I managed this (277pp):

- Harry Twenty on the High Rock
- Dead Men Walking
- Stalag 666
- Stone Island


Things I thought you could include, but only at a long stretch, and if you screw up your eyes:

- Bad City Blue
- Blackhawk
- The Scrap
- The Straitjacket Fits

[abelardsnazz]

I'd love to see Harry 20 and Bad City Blue in the collection. As for The Straitjacket Fits, I'm sure there'll be at least one vote for that on here...

[The Monarch]

I'd love to see Harry 20 and Bad City Blue in the collection. As for The Straitjacket Fits, I'm sure there'll be at least one vote for that on here...

Hey i maybe the only person in the world who likes that strip but even i can't put it into something thats supposed to be the ultimate collection of 2000ad stuff

now canon fodder on the other hand.....

[sintec]

As promised here are some updated graphs - this includes all the Hachette books up to the 2nd volume of Indigo Prime.



Not a huge amount of change in the middle section - a few more around 801-850 but otherwise that dip is largely unchanged. The big difference is from 1400-1800 where we're now consistently getting 50% plus. From 1650-1700 we've now got over 75% of the average prog!

And here's the same data grouped into Funt's 2K Stages. Seems the editorial team and Funt agree on where the Nadir was anyway. Several stages around that point where all we've got from each Prog is the Dredd in the Mega Collection.


The list of progs where we've got 100% of the strips is now getting pretty long.
91-92, 233, 320, 322-325, 327, 329-332, 334-345, 352, 358-359, 363, 378-381, 383-385, 390-392, 405-406, 412-418, 425, 428, 430-433, 501, 507-508, 555-556, 532-563, 1077, 1092-1095, 1100, 1138, 1150, 1161, 1165-1167, 1173, 1183-1189, 1261, 1300, 1400, 1520, 1523-1525, 1569-1573, 1577-1580, 1616, 1650-1654, 1666-1671, 1675-1676, 1685, 1688, 1750, 1765-1770, 1812

Unsurprisingly quite a few in the late 1600s although still nothing like that run from 320-430.

Looks like Tyranny Rex will give us our first stories from Funt's Nadir stage with book 2 of Deus Ex Machina. That might help raise the bottom of the dip a little but I wouldn't expect a huge change. We'll need to wait for the 2nd extension to really start filling in that gap (Revere, Finn, Durham Red, Strontium Dogs, and maybe Armoured Gideon). For the rest of the first extension I think most of the growh is going to be at the top end of the graph around 1900-2100. We've got quite a few books of material to come from that more recent era (The Order, Defoe, Absalom, Small House, Brink, Grey Area, Strontium Dog).

[sintec]

Coming back to this data the list of Progs where we have 0% of the stories collected is quite interesting:

144, 537, 539, 542-543, 598, 718, 722, 745, 749, 766-803, 808-809, 817-818, 823, 825-827, 867, 872-888, 897-900, 924-939, 949, 1013, 1062-1065, 1067-1069, 1076, 1229-1230, 1249, 1288, 1329-330, 1334-1335, 1357-1361, 1945, 1950-1960, 1993-1995, 2001-2022, 2061-2072, 2079-2099, 2106-2116, 2123-2138
, 2150+

Other than issue 144 we've got at least one story from every prog until the 537! Lots of 0% Progs in the 750-950 range. Then another run from 1362-1944 where we've got at least one story from every Prog. It'll be interesting to see if there are any progs left in this list at the end of the run.

[Colin YNWA]

Other than issue 144 we've got at least one story from every prog until the 537! Lots of 0% Progs in the 750-950 range. Then another run from 1362-1944 where we've got at least one story from every Prog. It'll be interesting to see if there are any progs left in this list at the end of the run.

Oh that's some interesting facting there sintec. If you ever get bored - and accepting I could get off my lazy arse and do this BUT also accepting that lazy arse is VERY lazy would be great to see this data by year and see if I can tally it with with my favourite years in thrill-power.

[Jim_Campbell]

Lots of 0% Progs in the 750-950 range.

This is as it should be. 

[abelardsnazz]

Indigo Prime volume 2 was quite a ride. I'm not quite sure the transition to Kek-W writing fully worked, but I understand the reasons and guess what had been started needed to be finished. Edmund Bagwell and Lee Carter utterly outdo themselves with the art, some absolutely stunning splash and double pages.

[davidbishop]

Coming back to this data the list of Progs where we have 0% of the stories collected is quite interesting:

144, 537, 539, 542-543, 598, 718, 722, 745, 749, 766-803, 808-809, 817-818, 823, 825-827, 867, 872-888, 897-900, 924-939, 949, 1013, 1062-1065, 1067-1069, 1076, 1229-1230, 1249, 1288, 1329-330, 1334-1335, 1357-1361, 1945, 1950-1960, 1993-1995, 2001-2022, 2061-2072, 2079-2099, 2106-2116, 2123-2138
, 2150+

Other than issue 144 we've got at least one story from every prog until the 537! Lots of 0% Progs in the 750-950 range. Then another run from 1362-1944 where we've got at least one story from every Prog. It'll be interesting to see if there are any progs left in this list at the end of the run.

Haven't the Nikolai Dante strips in 1067-1069 have been collected?

[sintec]

Haven't the Nikolai Dante strips in 1067-1069 have been collected?

Well spotted. On double checking over the Dante data I find there's a single missing line and it's The Gentleman Thief which covers 1067-1070. Will have to double check the other series to make sure there's nothing else missing.

[leethomson]

Got a bit excited/concerned for my bookcases when I saw the collection had increased to 170 issues on Facebook this morning, only to realise it was 2000AD accidentally posting about the Marvel collection. Looks like the post has been removed now.

[IndigoPrime]

I do wonder whether that original Marvel collection will ever end. Glad I didn't continue with it. Too much!

[James Stacey]

Wow I thought I left it late to jump off the marvel collection and its almost doubled in size since.

[IndigoPrime]

60 issues! Then a further 60. Then issue 121. Then 140. Then 170. Then 200, without warning. Then 220. Then 250. Then 280. Although I'll bet it just never stops, as long as it remains financially viable—why would it?