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Ok just a few things in response to whats been said
  Actually I like the Icon think its a good Idea,
and no it's not about the age its about the quality of the story, I am in my early thirties now and I remember buying the first editions of the best of 2000ad monthly, they would regularly reprint stories that were less than five years old but I didn't care because the stories were GOOD!I don't care if the extreme editions reprinted stuff from 3 years ago as long as they were good hence I don't mind silo  being reprinted but 2000ad is 29 years old!!! surely there is better material out there  than BAD CITY BLUE? I mean why not the original v.c's? its over 15 years since they were printed as gn or what about HARRY TWENTY? the greatest sci-fi prison break  story ever!!!(just as long as christopher lambert never finds out about it)
The extreme edition should be special (seeing the entire run of Harlem Heroes was sheer Genius) and each edition should try to be of that quality.

p.s I loved time flies and for those who say the extreme edition is only ?3 quid , well I live in Ireland and after exchange rates and book tax (yes a book tax )its closer to eight so I have to be slightly choosier.

Theres nothing wrong in doing that, over the years 2000ad has run plenty of stuff while although brilliant are too short for GN , As I said already Silo is one of the most bizarre stories that 2000ad  ever printed (more psycological horror than Sci-Fi) and it has been 16 years since it last saw print and lets not forget the early stuff (why not a full reprint of Ro-Busters , it still has one of the best finales as Hammerstein and Ro-Jaws walk into the sunset)hell I'd even be willing to sit through Dan Dare if only to look at the amazing early artwork of Dave Gibbons but Bad City Blue? dear grief Opaque I don't know if you know how bad it is , it's been twenty years since I read it and its still burnt into my memory as one of the worst dare I say as bad as Ant Wars!!!!

Late last year I posted an idea of what the extreme edition could print next , it turned into quite the debate with everyone giving their two cents worth and was really enjoyable to read but I remember writng one thing "as long as they don't print Bad City Blue again " and what do you guys do ? print the bloody thing! now I know you're also reprinting silo (a bizzare little tale from 1990)but BAD CITY BLUE? (the clue to the ending is in the title , thats right in 1986 2000ad printed what I can only call the worlds longest running BAD  pun)so I think I've figured it out if i say I don't want it you're going to do it ok here goes "gosh I really wouldn't want a contract writing for 2000ad!"there I said it all I gotta do now  is sit back and wait.

Damn Straight Darkjimbo It's why I love Judge Dredd the movie , I know it's  crap but it has the whiff of cheese of the early Dredds , watch it with that in mind and you will enjoy it.....oh and if anyone trys to defend the early stories please before you do I suggest you read Elvis the Killer car again....of course I will be buying the case files, after all nothing wrong with a good chunka cheese

Having seen the mess that was the last Moore Adaptaion From Hell and having seen the Matrix Trilogy , I think the ad should read like this
"The Screenplay is a butchery of the acclaimed graphic novel by Alan Moore, Originally published in Failed Magazine Warrior before being reprinted as a 10 part series in 1988 by DC,Moore is credited with single handedly expanding the the potential of the Comic Book Medium with his work and then watched in Horror as Hollywood shrunk it back down (Please see Hellblazer, From Hell, Swamp Thing)This Limited edition, hand painted by someone on minimum wage measures 10.5"x6.5" and is displayed on a sculpted base, this replica was constructed from a mold of the actual movie prop, a plastic mask costing somewhere close to a fiver , includes a certificate of authenticity and is a packaged in an elegant black box with foil stamping , this cheap piece of tat is limited to 500 because we realised  it makes the franklin mint Star Trek plates look classy but will still cost you $195 cause we got a make a buck out of this celluloid disaster somehow.

Oh Dear god the simps , that is a fantastic Idea but if there wasn't enough simp strips you could possibly throw in a Max Normal or Two as well, a completed Mechanismo would also be brilliant , you see as I wrote earlier there are Hundreds if not thousands of pages of  material that has yet to be reprinted.not sure however about the suggestion about Manga Size , they remind me too much of the old stunt IPC used to pull ,Remember "HEY KIDS NEXT WEEK , GREAT FREE GIFT" and what you'd get is a a5 reprint of the first issue of 2000ad that you'd cut out over 4 weeks (Ruining your comic in the process)and then assemble  but because the artwork was designed for a4 it looked muddy and compressed , so no I think we should stick with the current size and be grateful for it.

I agree with Amstor , a resonable balance makes sense but I think with the EE 2000ad can take a chance and show the readers material from the last three decades that will also interest new readers as well as old,unlike tpbs which are more expensive to buy and produce and thus are going to have a narrower selection of titles that are going to make the cost back.
      And as for those who are going to reprint Nemesis please end it after the Gothic Empire so we don't have the slow drawn out death it suffered in the comic.

An excellent Idea Matthewvic as long as Bruce Forsythe or Graham Norton are not involved

That is a fantastic portrait of death by Elson , but who would suggest return to Armageddon?its up there with Ant Wars Which I foolishly bought when it was released as an extreme edition as being complete s~*** even 2000ad has had its highs and lows , does anyone remember bad city blue?(sadly burnt into my memory)or the not very good Bad Company Book 3 or the truly Dire Mean Team but even these lows were superior to the drek that was being produced by both its sister titles and its competitors at the time (again the Eagle and Dan Dare Space Marshall?)however does it mean I want to pay to read them again?no I think not, 2000 ad has been in exsistence 29 years this year, I'm sure there is a vast wealth of material that would read as well today as it did then, please remember the 90's were not as good as you remember or dare I say the words BLAIR 1!

I agree with Devons Daddy that the not knowing is part of the fun, I am merely making suggestions on what I would love to see reprinted..Its just Invasion was such an odd story for Battle which at the time was marketing the Action Force Toy range to print that it deserves a second chance.
  I personally think it was the last throw of the dice for a comic that had bought us stories like Charleys War , Darkies mob and the Eagle.  Stories That were not only tough but also had definitive ends and Invasion was one of those stories,thats why I kinda find myself half agreeing with Adventuer that it would be good to read some of the crisis stuff again ( I still have my 1990 New Stateman TPB)but most comics of the time ie Tornado , Eagle published bland safe stories that have dated very badly (I found a few old Eagles Recently from the 80's where Dan Dare is Captured by heavily armed Panda Bears, I wish I was joking)and hence why they ceased to exsist while 2000 ad has continued.
 However If i May open another can of worms What About Starlord? I would love to see a complete run of Ro-Busters or Strontium Dog before 2000 ad but as I said I am making Suggestions (fiver in the post to the first Droid who takes them up though)

Cripes I've opened a can of worms, I never quite got Armoured Gideon , at the time I preferred Bix Barton and yeah I would buy a tpb of the original V.C's or I know  it's been done before but how about the entire Zenith Saga ?But again I say Invasion ,for those who never read it let me put it this way , when I was nine years old there was nothing I had read as chilling as the moment the "heroes" of the story decide to give the order to nuke Glasgow (thats right they nuked Glasgow)in an attempt to stop the Aliens even though there are troops and refugees on the ground and the last words of the recon pilot in the aftermath of the blast.
  Not since fiends of the Eastern Front had I seen  anything  so extreme in a boys comic and isn't that the point of 2000 ad extreme?.

It was brilliant to see the full run of the Harlem Heroes after so many years , a good choice particularly after the Dire Meltdown Man but the question is What Next? I for one would love to read its bloody sequel Inferno and what about the original V.C.s , surely there are those out there who would love to read again the story of how the War began for Smith?However there is one story I am begging you  to see Reprinted and its not even a 2000 AD Story , INVASION 1984 , I know it got a none too favourable look back from its own writer in your Battle Series but I think he was being too harsh on himself because as a kid in the 1980's this was  to me one of the finest stories to grace the pages of Battle capturing the idea of alien invasion far better than the jingoism of Independence day or spritual faith of Signs, it captured the essence of a brutal struggle to survive at all costs against  a superior enemy resulting in an ending with the shock value equal to any John Wyndham classic, So please , please consider reprinting what I consider a lost classic for a new generation of readers.

just wondering if there's a Winter Special , will there be a prog 2006 this year , I know it may be trivial but I kinda like reading a christmas special at christmas , reminds me of the good old days of Annuals , ah the shiny books remember those , so please tell me your still  going to have a prog 2006 please!

Saw it last night , just UTTER CRAP from start to finish , yeah the bit where the kid realises clark kent looks a lot like superman is brilliant but thats a minute in two and a half hours of utter Drek!!!!!! Singer has been going on for years what a fan of the original movie he is , unfortunately he obviously thinks the original is perfect (which it is far from)so he just decides to remake it...why? why remake a 30 year old film ...why claim it as the sequel , its been 30 years thats too long!!!! there is nothing there to connect the audience  to the previous film , and dear god the plot is the exact same right down to parker poseys character deciding that too many people will die if lexs plan succeeds oh and as for kevin Spacey , Iknow hes won an oscar but there pigs out there with less ham in them, for the life of me I don't know why they just didn't film JBS version instead, it led to the best superman adaptation ever, done by bbc radio 4 back in 1989
Fianl opinion of this film : AWFUL, AWFUL  AWFUL!!!!!!!