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I'm firmly in the camp that wants to see continuity moving forward, not stuck in a flashback bubble. The S/D flashback stories are frequently excellent, but they didn't lure me back to 2000AD.

I, on the other hand, returned to reading 2000AD after a 5-6 year hiatus because of the resurrection story. Strontium Dog is one of the few reasons I still read the prog.

Undoubted legend, Mr. Burt Reynolds, age 82.

And when was the last time we saw sight of Ampney Crucis?

About five years ago? Maybe it in turn was supplanted in the supernatural detective stakes by the infinitely superior Absalom.

Dandridge was great - wish we'd got more of it, but maybe Tharg felt there were enough strips already doing the supernatural detective thing. (If he did, it should've been Ampney Crucis that got the dunt.)

Mine dropped this morning 

Thought your voice sounded deeper.

... and Revere.

1994 may not start well, but the presence of Revere, one of the finest stories ever published in the prog, is at least something. Interesting to see how it reads on a week in week out basis - it is spectacularly powerful read as a whole, but it really hits its stride in book 2, once the direction of the series becomes clear.

You can also get it in the Judge Anderson: The Psi Files Vol 2 collected edition.

Just read that Jacqueline Pearce - AKA Servalan in Blakes 7 - has died aged 74.

Aw no - that woman was an absolute legend, on and off-screen by all accounts. One of the icons of British sci-fi.

Just completed Dark Souls Remastered. Had never played it in its original incarnation (but had played Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3, the latter of which makes a bit more sense now.) Enjoyed it enormously - people talk about it being hard, but it's never unfair, and you always have the sense you can triumph.

I've said this before, but there's a point late on in his initial run - at some point after Judgement Day - when everything starts to click, and he has a great little spell of one-offs, like Last Night Out, A, B or C Warrior and Unwelcome Guests. To me, it felt like he'd finally cracked the formula. Monkey on my Back, when it finally rolled around, was largely excellent - I'd be more than happy to see Ennis return with a multi-part story, possibly in tandem with King Carlos.

Like Canned Heat and Tracer, Burning Man is a leftover from the aborted Earthside 8 comic. It's a shame nothing more came of it.

Sonny Steelgrove makes his Dredd debut (I think its his first) Dredd, of course just another name for Alan McKenzie to write himself a paycheck (though to be fair I don't think he was the editor at this point?). This one, with Dredd inexplicably trapped in an interrogation cell with a prisoner,  isn't as smart I you get the impression it wants to be.

The pseudonym was shared by Mackenzie and Tomlinson - though this is credited in a collected edition as a Mackenzie story, he says he didn't write it, so it must be a Tomlinson.

Ordered - hopefully this collection takes us up to Max being shut down and the subsequent erasure from existence of Bert Runch, something that disturbed me as a boy and which I've been dying to read again for years.

Kit E Slocum, and he had a secret propensity for dyeing his hair strange colours under his helmet.

Slocum, like his boss, also kept an ill-fated pet.

"Judge Cal was so annoyed with me, he pickled my pussy!"