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Case Files 5.  Get them to read Block Mania and the Apoc War.  It's a great epic, excellent art and a story that has ramifications throughout the decades.  It's reasonably early on, but the strip has settled down and knows how its world works.  The stakes are high and Dredd is heroic and ruthless.

After that they can go forward or go back to the Cursed Earth and the Judge Child quest, also significant foundational stories.

I'm not sure if that means I'm voting "Case Files" or "Selected stories such as the Apoc war".

Horst didn't click for me.  Part of it was definitely the art.  The art had a definite clean and well defined line, especially with Cam on art duties (and Brett Ewins and Dave Gibbons were also excellent), and suddenly it looked messy and dirty.

More of orginal Nu Earth Rogue.

[Ichabod.]

Difficult.  And Funt's post highlights how good the art is on both.

Ichabod.

I'm really hoping someone will discover there's a typo in that heading and that anyone who goes along will actually be treated to Gerry Finley-Day Singing.

[Skizz.]

Skizz.

Is this the right room for an argument?

I still groan when I hear people trying to explain Judge Dredd with meaningless lines like "the city itself is a character!"  I remember watching a state-side interview (in a boat?) with two of the Rebellion crew.  When they trotted out that line, the interviewer naturally asked what they meant and they had no idea how to articulate it.  It's just an unhelpful, meaningless catchphrase.  I don't think that helps sell it or gets the idea across what it's about.

Another thing against 2000AD making waves is a lot of its ideas have already been stolen or done in similar ways.  If you made a "Strontium Dog" tv series, people would say "Western in space?  Firefly did that already!"  Blue-skinned Rogue Trooper?  "You're copying Avatar!" etc.  I know 2000AD, especially in the early years, can be derivative, formulaic, built on tropes, etc, but at 45 it has done a lot that younger audiences won't know of.

Thirdly, wasted movie opportunities.  If the Urban movie had less violence and language (and 3D), it would have got a wider audience, which would have given a bigger potential market for the comic.  Reading Dredd on the page doesn't give me the idea I'm reading an R-rated 'slay-ride".  I'm sure Disney are making Spiderman etc movies open to the widest audience possible.

[Kingdom]

Kingdom is wicked to the power of sick, though I am still waiting for a character called Ronnie Barker to show up.

Cursed Earth Koburn

Chopper.

Okay, for anyone who's heard the Slaine audio... how do they pronounce "Slaine"?

Blether away!

Only one Judge Dredd Case File all year? There were only 2 in 2022 as well.
I hope this list is incomplete, or we'll never catch up to the present at this rate!

The list is incomplete. We've only got info for 2023 up to about June or July.

Finally, a Rogue Trooper audio.

Now I might be in...

[The VCs.]

Message from Tharg: be very careful about voting against any strips where one of the main characters is called Smith.

The VCs.