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[Anderson]

Anderson was consistently brilliant probably through to around Shamballa or Engram. That first volume collection was such a refreshing, at the time, take on Dredd's world.

[Shakara]

Shakara is just brilliant.

[World Engine!]

Nemesis is a deserving winner here, particularly the early design work from O'Neill. So properly alien on all fronts - the architecture, the spaceships, the robots... and that's before you get to the aliens themselves. Talbot and Hicklenton also put in some utterly bizarre work.

Can we have a quiet (loud) word for Shakara though? The sheer variety of alien design and tech design from Flint is jaw-dropping. Two words World Engine!

[Revere]

Revere

One of my all time favourites. Can't wait for its publication in the Ultimate Collection.

Halo Jones is a thing of wonder and probably the most clearly original thing Moore has done (i.e., isn't referencing other characters or building on established characters).

Having said that, I'm a sucker for his Captain Britain stuff ...

... and I can't believe no one has mentioned Miracleman! God I love that!

Tao de Moto, largely because it was so different at the time, from everything else. Even if it wasn't very good, it did at least make you stop and take notice. And I liked that it was only three pages a week (or am I misremembering that?) and so seemed experimental.

Only 2 pages at a time. I liked that too, but I do think it led to a fair bit of repetition between episodes. Could have worked well if the strip had been a constant, almost like a newspaper strip. I do wonder whether it also suffered from the quality of editorial at the time. There was a rough quality to the dialogue that could probably have been tightened up by a better editor, which would have led to better writing over time.

[Tao]

Tao. Lots of interesting ideas, with plenty of potential. Definitely suffered from the editorial of the time that gave pages and pages to Millar's Robohunter and Fleischer's Junker. More ideas and originality in 2 pages of Tao.

I'll abstain, because my trade collectathon hasn't included Defoe, but I have to say that the original Future Shock from which Bradley emerged is really very good. Great art, great punchline, great characters. The rest of it ...

1) Indigo Prime: Killing Time
2) Revere
3) Tyranny Rex: Deus Ex Machina
4) Firekind
5) Devlin Waugh (particularly for Swimming in Blood and the Chasing Herod cycle)
6) Cinnabar (is this the best ever Rogue story?)
7) Leatherjack
8) Cradlegrave

Definitely the classic '80s one, covering progs 178-554. I also have a soft spot for the one after that, but I think that's probably just nostalgia for my era.

[Tales of the Dog House]

I loved Tales of the Dog House and will never for the life of me understand why post-Final Solution Strontium Dog(s) decided to go all space mystic 'Feral is the chosen one' bollocks when there was an amazing, potentially endless ensemble cast with an excellent setting just waiting to be exploited.

[Indigo Prime]

I have never read Interceptor, but it makes little difference as Indigo Prime ranks amongst my favourite thrills of all time.

R.A.M. Raiders is one of the worst things to ever appear in the prog. Doesn't even have the merit of being so offensively bad it's memorable.

[Time Twisters]

Obviously Time Twisters, but Moon Runners had some great ship (and alien) design from Belardinelli.

For some reason I had such a vivid memory of the ship that I was convinced it was from some other piece of sci-fi from my childhood (such was my lack of memory of the thrill itself).

Its due ... snigger... OUT ... ahem sorry... in October according to Amazon*

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Dan-Abnett/dp/1786186969/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KQOBQISY8MN9&keywords=the+out+dan+abnett&qid=1643974062&s=books&sprefix=the+out+dan+a%2Cstripbooks%2C66&sr=1-1

*Other more ethically acceptable book sellers are available.

Ta much!