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Although I'm not a massive fan of the series, I liked Tom Strong's origin (that Alan Moore again). His parents were scientists who wanted their son to have the best possible start in life, so as soon as he was born they placed him in a high-gravity chamber and force-fed him shakespeare and Einstein (or whatever). When he emerged, he was many times as strong as normal folk because his body had adapted to extreme gravity. And he was clever and well-adjusted ebcause of all the reading materials. Good old pseudo-science that kind of makes sense but you wouldn't try it yourself as it's frankly very cruel.

Don't think this was answered properly above, but Inaki is a boy; Eva de la Cruz his colouring partner is a girl (and his girlfriend). Chalk me up as a fan of his/their art in general, but not so much of his interpretation of the Judge costumes (from all cities) in this story. I agree think the huge Dredd works as an exaggerated metaphor for his presence in the odd panel, but it could get annoying after a while.

If you can find a copy, get 'the Chase', which Inaki co-wrote with his dad (aw...). It's a classic example of the kind of comic that everyone says they want to read, but then don't actually buy (ie it's fun, but isn't sci-fi and has no superheroes). Just a shame they only finished 3 out of 12 issues. Maybe one day...

Seems I'm in a minority as a marvel fanboy. I enjoyed House of M, and have high hopes for Civil War despite Mark Millar.
Also enjoying: Captain America, Cable & Deadpool, She-Hulk, The Thing, Annihilation: Nova (Dan Abnett + Kev Walker, resplendant), New Avengers, Daredevil, Ms Marvel, New X-Men (yes, the one with the youngsters)

Otherwise: Y the Last Man, Ex Machina, Walking Dead, Jack Staff, Girls (all of which are a better buy as trades)

2000 AD tends to come out trumps in any given week, though.

Hey - good call on Harke and Burr there, Mr Bishop. I remember loving the art and chuckling at the puns in a contented way. But then I also quiet liked the Straightjacket Fits, so what do I know? Remember, Ormston had the only decent picture in that girlie pull-out they did, which is no mean feat.

Anyone who doesn't like Harmony hasn't read it lately. It works much better read in chunks than in episodes, I assure you.

Or they just have different taste from me.

From memory, my favourite recurring strips were Missionary Man (especially the Simon Davis episodes) and Harmony. There were also plenty of one-off Dredds that deserve being collected - maybe grouped by artist?

I'd also echo the calls for Mechanismo, the various Anderson runs, and Koburn + Simping Detective - assuming these ever generate enough stories to fill a TPB.

Any reason why I can't pick 'London' out of the list? SE England just doesn't do it for me...

I'm available to do some freelance proofreading :)
I'm a professional editor and everything.

I'm enjoying Rogue Trooper: Crucible at the moment, and I don't really mind the occasional typo or more commonly clumsily phrased sentence.

I agree that the Hulk tie-in was probably the best House of M bit, apart from the main story itself. Apparently I'm one of those in a minority of folk who liked Bendis's tale. I'd say the emotional wringer that Spider-Man goes through in the main story is even more pwerful if you read his tie-in mini, but it wasn't essential.

However, if there are more trades to come in the series, might they not comprise some of the follow-up stories? There are a whole bunch of minis showing what happened to mutants in the post HoM world. These have all been pretty good, especially the David Hine ones (Son of M + the 198), which still have 1 issue to go each. Generation M was decent, too, but again not essential. They all haev the advantage of being set in the superhero Marvel world but not at all being about superheroics. Politics and urban grit, yes. Punch ups, no.

Maybe it's because I was younger and had not much else to do in life, but I've never been so excited about getting my weekly prog as I was during the build-up to and indeed the unfolding of Necropolis.

Actually, the latest SinDex outing came close once the stakes were upped towards the end. Or perhaps it's more to do with my life having settled down again for the first time since puberty?

Thanks for the link! Prog 650 was pretty much when I started reading my older brother's 2000 AD every week, so I guess I jumped on at exactly the right time. Although I don't think I understood a word of Zenith phase III back then, and I barely do now.

I don't suppose you're likely to update that graph anytime soon? The link to it is unsurprisingly broken.

I know it's hardly scientific, but has anyone with the relevant maths and internet know-how worked out which single Prog of 2000 AD is officially the best? Based, of course, on the voting system here on this site. I'm thinking that there must be a few progs where the average across the covers and all strips inside is an 8, at least. There's a page listing all the best/worst covers by votes; could this be extended to an entire issue?

I reckon it'll be somewhere in the mid-300s, myself.

Thanks for the feedback. In fact, I bought new old progs to savage - you can get them for 50p in most London comics stores, which isn't a bad deal.

Clearly I ought to do it digitally, but I have no scanner of my own. Also, it's fun playing with scissors, paper and pritt stick.

Hi. I don't know the ettiquette of this, but can I plug my own webpage here? At the moment, I guess it will only appeal to 2000 AD fans, but what else is worth obssessing over?

So anyway, I vandalised a host of back progs, and you can see the semi-artistic results. Go to:
www.propertwisted.com/frosty

It's fun. Or you could just rack your brains for where they came from. Click on the Frosty to let me know what you all think...

Link: www.propertwisted.com/frosty