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I see, that answers my question Jim_Campbell – nowadays they do a bumper Christmas prog with normal numbering. So the year confusion only applies to a handful of issues. Fair enough. Thanks for explaining.

Perhaps "weird" was the wrong word for me to use. What I meant was that it looks like a tacit admission by those in charge that the comic would likely never reach Prog 2000. Which, as you say, was not an unreasonable prediction at the time, but seems (especially in retrospect) a sadly pessimistic stance for the comic itself to implicitly endorse. Kind of shows you how rocky things were.

Ah right. Weirdly short-sighted of them even so!

And do they still do these Year Specials, or were they short lived..?

'Cos I mean every year up to (so far) 2122 will already have a Prog with that number!

This is something I've been meaning to ask a learned person (as I'm relatively new to all this) – am I right in thinking there are Year Specials that are named "Prog WhateverYearItIs"?

If so, what is the convention for differentiating between e.g. Prog 2005 and Prog 2005?

A sensible solution would've been to put "AD" after the number if it's a Year Special. So Prog 2005 would be the 2005th issue, whereas Prog 2005AD would be the Year Special for the year 2005.

Awesome. Thanks for answering.

(...what's with the censoring?)

Has there been any indication anywhere about when the 4th Nemesis volume might make an appearance in the Ultimate Collection? Seems like ages since the first 3 came out.

Cool, thanks sintec!

Also thanks glassstanley for the true completist's answer! 

People have mentioned Halo Jones to me for years, and seeing it for £6.99 in a nice hardback seemed very appealing, even if it does have a partwork spine! I think I'll pick it up this afternoon...

Hey, I'm a relative 2000AD novice whose interest has recently been piqued.

Can anyone answer me a question about volume 2 of the Ultimate Collection..?

Does it contain the entire run of Halo Jones? I'm aware there was a single volume printed a few years back (now out of print on the 2000AD website, and only available as a digital edition) which apparently contained Books 1-3 and the prologues for Books 2 & 3. I'm assuming that is all that was ever made, before Alan Moore abandoned the project, and is therefore "complete."

My initial assumption was that the Ultimate Collection vol.2 would only have contained part of Halo Jones, but comparing the spine width to my copy of The Complete Skizz which I recently bought and enjoyed (which contains all 3 runs of Skizz from the 80s/90s) I see they're more or less the same width.

Just strikes me as odd that they wouldn't write "The Complete Halo Jones" on the front, to reassure the less informed potential buyers like me.

I haven't bought the Ultimate Collection vol.2 you understand. Just saw it in the shop this weekend. But I will pop back and get it if it is indeed the whole shebang...