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Fooled me! 

'faffing about' is good. but it really is the best cosmic faffing about ever, and drawn immaculately.

I'll give you that! 

[Terror/Total War]

I hate Dredd-in-space, and I'm not keen on picaresque stories. So you can guess how I feel about Judge Child! Love the Angel Gang (of course) but Krysler and his abilities are really ill-defined, as is the Grunwalder and his robot-planet(?), as are the magic abilities of the Oracle Spice. And there isn't really an ending to speak of, after all that faffing about.

Terror/Total War for me, a first class Mega-City thriller that led to six whole months of superb aftermath stories.

[Day the Law Died]

I think you had to be there for The Dead Man. It's a perfectly good little Dreddworld horror/thriller with a good twist; but there's not a huge amount to it beyond that twist, which will almost certainly have been spoiled for you going in. Plus it hardly feels like an epic.

Day the Law Died can be pretty goofy, and the pacing is terrible - as (I think Alex) noted, it peaks too early with Cal sentenceing the city to death, then struggles to know where to go. There's a definite feeling of Wagner making it up from week-to-week. But it's a relentless thrill-a-minute ride, crammed full of humour, invention and incidence. And it gave us the Kleggs, Fergee, SJS, Cal and Griffin.

[Tour of Duty]

The seeding selection was rough on Mandroid here. Tour of Duty by miles.

[The Cursed Earth]

Origins was good comics without a doubt, but for me was another of those turning points that precipitated events and yarns I found much more enjoyable than that story itself.

Spot on. Origins is a great, er, origin, but not always the most original read.

Plus it wouldn't have anything to talk about if The Cursed Earth hadn't first given us Booth, Solomon, Goodman and the atomic war. There is so much worlbuilding going on in that first epic. Satanus? Vegas? Death Belt? Mega-City Two? Mount Rushmore? Okay, it's a bit scrappy and goofy, but man if it doesn't have bags of mad, crazy energy and invention - nothing that you could really say about Origins.

[Necropolis]

As with the other vote, I would love to buck the prevailing trend but it has to be Necropolis for me, fluffed ending or not.

[The Apocalypse War]

I would love to buck the trend, but it's The Apocalypse War for me.

Just so we are all clear: is this referring to the original last ever episode, i.e. the last episode of Book X published in Prog 2000 in Dec 1999 or the subsequent last ever episode published in (the other) Prog 2000 in Sept 2016?

Either way, he still got to draw the last ever episode!

My memory of Nemesis ending seems to be that David Bishop wanted to have the last Nemesis as part of the Prog 2000 celebrations - who decided that Nemesis should also come to an end is a whole other question from that.

Kev was invited back, so for this to work, it would have to be Bish-Op wanted Kev to do Nemesis in Prog 2000, he said he would only do it if he could kill off Nemesis and they worked backwards from there to ditch the planned "Hammer of the Warlocks" plan asap and move to the Greatest Hits we got instead?  Seems unlikely, but who's to know (other than the Dark Days Droid himself!)

Hammer of the Warlocks was published in 1994. I think any plans to do much following on from that were already long since dead in the water by 1999.

Rogue he may be, but there was nothing lovable about sexually harassing a woman by way of framing her and getting her locked up.

Hey, the 2670s were a different time.

I'm hoping for some really obscure ones!

[Tour of Duty]

Hmm, getting really tough now.

Tour of Duty still top for me. There's just so much going on.
Necropolis still getting a vote from me, not so much for the Dark Judges stuff, but for the excellent build-up, the Bloodline stuff, and the legacy.
The Cursed Earth is not my favourite of what's left, but, dammit, it was the first! The one that pointed the way for all epics to follow. Plus it does a ton of world-building, most all of which is still informing the strip now - Bad Bob Booth, anyone?

.. the powers of the 6 dark judges are just too much...

Counting Kraken, there's actually 7!

[Mechanismo]

Having not read The Small House, this is the easiest vote yet!

Mechanismo my favourite of the rest.
Trifecta a well-deserved second place.
Never thought I'd find myself voting for City of the Damned, but here we are! It's a long way from my favourite, but hey, there are some good bits. It starts very well, the Dredd/Anderson interplay is great (such a shame she'd soon be hives off into her own isolated pocket of the Dreddverse) and the Dillon episodes are superb - if only he could have done it all!