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Just to make a change from "I can't believe you put X higher than Y!", I agree 100% with your placing and assessment of 'Trifecta'. I could never get on with Jack Point: almost unreadable. (Spurrier's Hellblazer has been fantastic, though).

That said, next up: two pieces of "fluff" that are better than 'Doomsday' 

While we're nitpicking, "Dredd in Sovland" has been collected, in the very skippable 'Cold Wars' GN.

You're generous to this one...

This blog is excellent: keep it up!

Trying to figure out what counts as an epic is good nerdy fun. I can just about get to Blood of Satanus III at 35, but struggling to get to 52 from there.

One thing's for sure: you must be including a ton of stuff that isn't anywhere near as good as 'Doomsday' 

All together in Case Files 30, it's a cracking read with some really great art from some of my all-time favourites. Plus, it's fun to try to figure out a reading order if you were to remix the Prog and Meg stories in story sequence.

[Alan Davis]

Seems harsh when you look at their relative output for 2000ad, but let's face it, it's Alan Davis

[Culbard]

Culbard for Brink

[Mike McMahon]

The legendary Mike McMahon

Simon Fraser for sure

[Jesus]

Jesus

[Massimo Belardinelli]

Tough draw for the excellent Peter Doherty. Not many guys are going to be able to beat Massimo Belardinelli

[Richard Elson]

Richard Elson, but close.

[Leigh Gallagher]

Paul Marshall is very good, but his recent style has lost pretty much all the lusciousness of Firekind. Leigh Gallagher never disappoints.

[Talbot]

Toughest one yet. If we were voting on their entire output, I'd go Phillips, but only just. But going on 2000ad alone, it's Talbot, but only just.

In the nerve centre the last statement was "I'll be back in 2021". In what form still needs to be revealed. I still believe that most of us that post here would rather have a regen publication than having the regular prog interrupted.

Right. Or at least move away from the rigid every-13-weeks model. Surely it makes more sense to do them the week before a jumping-on Prog? You don't interrupt ongoing stories, and any new readers they attract have an easier ride if they go on to buy the next one.

[Yeowell]

Yeowell. If I'm honest, I think his work peaked at Zenith Phase III, and I'm not as fond of the increasingly sparse direction it's gone in since around the second series of Red Seas, but the fact remains, he did draw Zenith, and it is magnificent.

Exactly this. Yeowell

[Ron Smith]

Ron Smith.