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Just time to register my vote for Hebden, then!

I'm voting Adams; consistently fun versus inconsistently fun. But I confess True Faith and Strontium Dogs: Monsters are tapping on my shoulder and coughing pointedly.

One more vote for Robbie Morrison!

Who would you cast? Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta, perhaps? 

Also many thanks Sheridan for finding some more holes for me to fill in that blog!

This is well tough but I'm gonna go with Beeby. Her Dredds just edge out Worley's, and overall I like the Alienist mroe than Dandridge, even if I like Age of the Wolf more than Survival Geeks.

Kek-W. Moore may have written some of my fave ever one-offs, but Kek-W is a wonder of weirdness.

Time to trot out my old and not 100% accurate 'history of BAME characters in 2000AD' blog series...

http://meanwhileon.blogspot.com/2016/10/bame-pow-comics-get-diverse-part-1.html

Absalom does seem like the obvious choice for a modern-day British series that could be done on TV that features at least two black characters, not to mention the East End vibe that seems to get the money people interested, at least as far as UK film funding goes.

Why does the character have to have been black in the pages of the Prog? I, for one, think a black verison of Wolfie Smith could add that extra frisson of exclusion to this most conflicted anti-hero.
And if we're talking dream movie, my vote goes to Bad Company. Whoever said Kano was white?

As a reader who was 15 at this time and in the ascendancy of my love for all things 2000AD, it's weird looking back on it. I remember each new jumping-on Prog being talked up as a big deal in the comic - an atttiude of 'I guess we've been struggling a bit but THIS time the line up of thrills is AMAZING'. I beleived it every time, but it was around Stage 29 that I noticed this was happening and it wasn't always true...
From the Nerve Centres and reprint hype machine of the era you'd think 'Book of the Dead' was the best Dredd mini-epic since the Graveyard Shift.

But it bears echoing that the art at least really was spectacular, the likes of Weston and Power and Harrion were streets ahead of anything I was reading in Marvel comics at that time. (And Fabry, too, obvs, but he was kind of an old hand at that point).

I remember being super delighted with the whimsy injection provided by Timehouse and HoganHunter. They don't hold up as all-time classics but it kept me reading to know that the comic embraced lunatic macho nonsense in Dredd with something softer, as well as the baffling weirdness of Revere. I was convinced I'd understand it all when I grew up. Still waiting.

Dan Abnett, and it wasn't even a hard decision.
Perhaps treasonous to admit it but I prefer Ewing's work for Marvel compared to his 2000AD stuff, whereas with Abnett it's the opposite. I guess a sign that both writers are getting better with age!

Gosh this is a close one so far.
Two authors who are willing to try anything and seemingly not mind if it washes over our heads, and two authors who love mashing words together to sound weird for the sake of it.

As others have said, Mr Smith simply has too many all-time hits to ignore. For me that's Cradlegrave, Killing Time and 'the Herod' series from Devlin Waugh.

So yeah, John Smith

Cat Sullivan for bringing us the AC/DC VC BC warriors

Oh wow I'm torn here.
Edginton has some top tiers hits - Leviathan, Helium, Brass Sun
...but he's written a number of strips that really bum me out, most notably Detonator X and Kingmaker.
Scarlet Traces fluctuates from amazing to weirdly bland. Red Seas flew out of the gates and then just kept on flying rather aimlessly.
Edginton's Dredd's also veer from 'fine I guess' to 'actually quite good'.

In McConville's corner, his Dredd work has been pretty much 'Wow that's really very good', and his dabbles in other sandboxes tick my 2000AD boxes hard. I'm desperately waiting for him to deliver an epic-length all-new series.

Screw it, I'm voting for McConville.

Pete Milligan

It'd be nice to buck the trend but I have a big love for Milligan's style. Even the strips of his that don't work so well have an engaging pretentiousness.
Those seedings may yet prove to be an accurate barometer, Colin!

Michael you are an excellent sport!

My vote (as befits my forum avatar...) goes to Pat Mills.

Keeping the draw secret is for sure embiggening the anticipation. What's gonna happened?? (as my 2-year old is very fond of saying lately)