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You're right this is a tough one. I really do like MACH Zero quite a bit, probably more than any single Hogan story. But then I love the whimsy of Timehouse, and the recent Zaucer of Zilk was superbly well written, so much zesty dialogue.

I'm giving it to Hogan not Rogan*, on the grounds that I'd be more excited to see his name in the credits box in the next Prog.

*That was one of Mac-1's pseudonyms, right?

I've downloaded Chunky but have no clue what to actually do to make comics appear within it - I assume there's some way to link this app to my 2000AD app? It might also be useful for reading stuff I've bought off Panel Syndicate, which I'm otherwise reading through the ipad's book reader app.

Like I said, I am an unimaginative guy when it comes to digital stuff. If it's not super obvious what to do, I'm unlikely to try very hard!
(Although I have tried making sense of Kek-W comics more than is advised)

I am a deeply unimaginative digital comics reader. I have an ipad, and use the default Apps for 2000AD, Comixology, and on occasion Marvel Unlimited. They all work pretty well, and certainly the screen (11in I think) is big enough to read OK, even the double-page spreads. It's also small enough that I appreciate getting physical copies of comics that much more, especially Rebellion's trade collections.

I've already bought and downloaded slightly more comics than I can easily read each month, so my digital bookshelf is much like my real bookshelves...

"Find out whatever The Phoenix did to build a new audience since 2012 and easy - see simple as that successful comic."

I hate to say it but I am not sure the Phoenix is a 'successful' comic, in the sense of 'does each issue make more money than it costs to put together'. My understanding is that the publisher, David Fickling, basically spent A LOT of his fairly vast fortune (a mix of his own family money + success from publishing books) but had enough money to keep it going for a few years. I believe the Phoenix as a publishing concept now DOES indeed make money by printing and selling collections of its strips, and because it has been going for long enough there's a seemingly endless supply of material it can package and reprint.

Of course, in another measure it's a massive success - it's an antohology comic that comes out every week without fail (even now) and is full of quality strips that appeal to its target age group. (My 10-year old daughter loves it; my 10-year old son not so much, but he's an avid Beano reader so both are well catered for!)

But to get that far, it needed serious cash + a publisher who really, really wanted the comic to exist. Not a million miles away from the Rebellion publishing model...

Argh so torn! But I'm in a Bishop mood tonight, so Bishop it is.

McConville for having a better imagination than A Digz

Last minute vote for K Goz please! Let us not forget his fateful memo that started off this whole crazy thrill train

That's a heartwarming tale of comics greatness right there.

Alec Worley for me - almost purely based on the fact that he has produced more original series for Tharg, as others have said.

Yes, many thanks Colin. Keeping threads going every day takes proper dedication!

I did send an email in appreciation of Bradley but I'm guessing you never got it - no point now, it was meant to tie-in with the Christmas episode when he has the toboggan race, which I maintain is a proper good piece of comics. But I tired of him during the 'being mean about people's music taste' years.

This is a toughy. Peaty is for sure the better writer, more sophisticated and that. But he's only really written two big strips, of which I quite like one (Diamond Dogs) and quite dislike the other (a neat setting aside).

Tony Lee meanwhile never quite managed even one strip that was entirely good, but he did come up with some neat story set ups. And for a while here and there, I bloody loved Necrophim; I even liked Stalag 666 for about 3 episodes. Cursed Earth Karnage not so much.

Dammit, I'm going to give it to Tony Lee for Necrophim. For all its plot meanderings and nonsenses, it's a 2000AD original. (But I wouldn't be surprised if the next new thing Peaty does puts this to shade).

Gosh, I didn't know there were people who loved Greysuit but hated Defoe. Fascinating. I'm with the Tordmeister on this one, although I did quite like that first series of Greysuit. It bothers me that Mills is obsessed with the idea that most politicians are secret paedoes. I'm sure a small handful are, but one wonders why he isn't attacking the entertainment industry more, which appears to have a far wore track record...

Meanwhile, this exact era of 2000AD is for me when the modern Golden Age starts, and in part it's precisely because Pat Mills is back back back, with Defoe an all-new concept from him, and the fun of seeing a more unleashed Mills redoing Savage and MACH One (and Flesh around the corner). I seem to like Origins quite a bit more than Colin, too, but agree that it improves with the knowledge of what was to come in Tour of Duty.

Two completely different eras and styles of comics writing, and yet it's actually a fair comparison: both have tackled the Prog's biggest star, but both are perhaps more associated with Shocks and smaller thrills.

A couple of years ago I might've gone Lowder, but Wyatt has been getting better and better, and even in his early years he always had that touch of 2000AD weirdness.

Yeah, I'm with Wyatt.

Adams. When it comes to throwaway comedy thrills, Ulysses Sweet beats Kola Kommandoes.