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What no Kraven's Last Hunt in that Spidey list... I know its a cliche.

Yeah AlexF the Grant Breyfogle always gets on my list of favourite runs, it was simply superb. For me stands the test of time in a way that none of Chris Claremonts work, Byrne or not, does. I'm always a little mystified by the way that's still held in such high regard. Don't get me wrong I loved it when I was first reading comics but I just don't think its aged well. Still different strokes and all that.

I recently(ish) read Strange Apparitions for the first time, with much anticipation after years of hearing how seminal it was and have to say was strangley not bowled over. It was far from bad but just didn't get close to expectations I'd built, which is always a danger I guess

What a fantastic idea for a present and what a great result. Hmmm I wonder how my wife would feel...

Its not the Brendan McCarthy one we saw recently. So I'll take to stabs at either the obvious guess Shaky Kane or Edmund Bagwell who I know does a lot of Kirby inspired stuff.

Either way lovely piece.

Jez how the hell did I miss Nemesis, almost unforgivable. Anyway this is what I'm going to go with. This would almost certainly be different on a different day.

1. Judge Dredd - Tour of Duty
2. Nemesis - Book 1
3. Zenith - Book 3
4. Nikolai Dante - Sympathy with the devil
5. Cradlegrave
6. New Statesmen (well its close enough)
7. Nikolai Dante - Tsar Wars
8. Firekind
9. Judge Dredd - Cursed Earth
10. Judge Dredd - The Pit

I might push the Dredd's artifically to the top as they are more likely to get more votes of different people? Though Greg does raise a good point of there being so much Dredd the spread might be too thin?

I thought it was so much a press conference rather a BFI event more generally about the recovery of previously thought missing stuff and the Doctor Who stuff is part of that.

I might well be wrong?

Let's not do that or it will be spotted AND it takes away the fun of making ya own list. My hope is enough of use will cover the obvious choices (he says knowing Apocalypse War won't make his list!) that it'll happen naturally.

Yeah is defo worth checking the rules out. Another one to note if you do pop across to do this is to put  "ACBC" somewhere in your vote as it blankets from the comments section. Also don't vote for whole long form stories. So for example Nikolai Dante wouldn't be considered a single run even though it tells a single story (nor would say Preacher) but the individual stories within Nikolai Dante do count. I based my selection on the trades in this case. Single, one off stories also don't count - so forget Alan Moore Future Shocks, but something like a  self contained mini-series does, the chap running this uses an arbitrary (and flexible) figure of 12 american comics, so about 240ish pages as the limit. So say Cradlegrave would count in the vote as its essentially a mini-series. 

Well I try this every time there's one of these votes and no success, but fool that I am doesn't stop me trying.

CBR's Comic Should be Good is running a vote on the top 100 storylines in comics, here

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/10/07/comics-should-be-goods-top-100-comic-book-storylines-2/

They have a four year cycle for these votes and the previous vote in 2009 looked like this.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/11/27/top-100-comic-book-storylines-master-list/

It would be great if 2000ad fans voted on mass and lets see if we can get a classic (not necessarily new) 2000ad storyline up there. Now I'm not naive enough to believe we'd get any agreement on which we should vote for, nor that we'd pool enough votes to touch the top 10, but if enough of us vote for enough 2000ad storylines we might get one in there somewhere. And heck we're nerds we like making lists this is fun for us. Not completed my list but I think my top three will be

1. Judge Dredd - Tour of Duty (well just re-read and I figure a JD is our best chance of charting)
2. Zenith - Book 3
3. Nikolai Dante - Sympathy for the Devil (they state if you are not sure how to split up with an ongoing storyline go with the trade splits and has there ever been a better ending to a comic story than there was for Dante?)
4. Might well be Cursed Earth

I think I'll keep my list exclusively 2000ad based, a little childishly, but hey if I'm trying to push people to vote to get a 2000ad storyline in there might was well do all I can to support that effort and wouldn't be that far off the truth.

So yeah its fun and simple to do. If just 30 or 40 of us go for this we stand a chance. If a 100 of us do we might must surely get something in. So go on vote for the comic you love best. After all we know its the Galaxies Greatest we should share the love.

Where, where, where, where... That's very tempting.

Much deserved, well done to all involved.

What an intriguing sounding festival!

. So this is the '90 missing episodes' rumour, or something else instead?

There's still a lot unknown about exactly what has been found. Even with my naive optimism 90 seems to good to be true, but you never know. There's also a rumour that its more like 9 or 10. Whatever if there's more it breaks the opinion that we'll never find any more. However unlikely you never mnkw.

Also still reading Book 1 of Cerebus - which is excellent.

If you think that's good, just wait til you get to the next few.

[expected]

Of course it does say expected and BBC News ain't BBC Worldwide so you're a bloody fool if you believe this. I've heard it all before. Christ I can't believe you're going for this...

You know what I chuffin' love when things like this happen.

When the rumours first broke all sorts of folk, not necessarily here, but all over, were so quick to throw their knowledgeable, informed, oh so cynical, mocking responses to anyone who even had the temerity to hope this was true. Now its fair to say this was based on past experience, previous rumours, sure, but every so often these have got to be right and to not even have enough optimism to court hope is just a little sad to me.

So for today I hope humble pie is enjoyed, I hope the hats being eaten are well seasoned and I raise a half full glass to all those who didn't automatically take the cynical line on this one.

Of course aside from my petty sense of victory I'm mainly chuffed cos ya know MORE WHO for everyone, even the doubters, hell if there was ever a programme filled with hope surely Who is it (was it) and so even the grumps deserve this, as I hope it dents their cynicism, just a bit. 

Oh yeah, and I'm thinking about checking out Rocket Girl #1 from Image. It seems like it could be a winner.

Yeah I'm trying this, Pretty Deadly and 3 from Image this month. Good month for potentially exciting new titles, what with these and Hinterkind starting.

Wow, what's most astonishing about that is much as I love that cover, and Christ alive do I love it, there's three of those 'roughs' I think I might have liked even more!

Stunning stuff Mr Wells as ever, thank you.