What will 2000 AD be called in 2016?

[von Boom]

The NEW 2000ad?!

This makes baby Tharg sad.

[Fungus]

2000AD: The Next Betelgeusian

[Jo-L]

The end of the year prog numbers are part of an implied decimal that is attached to the previous prog #.  For example, Prog 2014 is really Prog 1861.2014*.

* - This helps me sleep at night.

[Fungus]

Also kind of nice how the squarebound end-of-year prog punctuates the issues, by year.
Just me?

[JayzusB.Christ]

They could relaunch it, starting the numbering again at issue one. First issues tend to lead to a sales boost, so it would make good business sense.

*runs away and hides, cackling in sheer evil*

I'll kill you and everyone you've ever met.  And everyone on the board will help me.  Except the ones you've met.

[morpheas]

I'll kill you and everyone you've ever met.  And everyone on the board will help me.  Except the ones you've met.

I just choked on my cookie.

[Jimmy Baker's Assistant]

Thanks to a de-merger, it's going to be "Starlord" from 2016, and they're bringing the old paper back.

[Tombo]

The end of the year prog numbers are part of an implied decimal that is attached to the previous prog #.  For example, Prog 2014 is really Prog 1861.2014*.

* - This helps me sleep at night.

I use a similar system.  I number them as (number of last prog of the year).2 in my index, usually adding the relevant actual number in brackets after the story title.

[The Adventurer]

What REALLY bothers me about the Prog 20XX issues, is that they are considered to be part of the year they are published.

Not the year on their cover, or the fact that their contents continue into the next year.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Maybe the Betelguese numerical system is a great deal more complex and these problems arise because of our puny Earthlet numbers

[I, Cosh]

The end of the year prog numbers are part of an implied decimal that is attached to the previous prog #.  For example, Prog 2014 is really Prog 1861.2014*.

* - This helps me sleep at night.

I use a similar system.  I number them as (number of last prog of the year).2 in my index, usually adding the relevant actual number in brackets after the story title.

I have to say, I'm flabbergasted by this lunacy.

It's perfectly straightforward when you remember that the end of year issue is explicitly called "Prog 2017", whereas the normal weekly issue just happens to be the prog numbered 2017.

[The Adventurer]

Actually the decimal system makes the most sense if you're keeping a database. The way Barney does it, with the Prog 20XXs in their own section, is kind of obnoxious. Its certainly how I physically files my books, so tracking them on a sheet, you'd do it the same way.

[Jo-L]

Actually the decimal system makes the most sense if you're keeping a database. The way Barney does it, with the Prog 20XXs in their own section, is kind of obnoxious. Its certainly how I physically files my books, so tracking them on a sheet, you'd do it the same way.

Since I get everything digitally, a filing system is pretty fundamental.

[Tombo]

I have to say, I'm flabbergasted by this lunacy.

Lunacy you say!  Nonsense, if I left the number as simply Prog 2001, Prog 2002,... Prog 2014 then my entire filing system breaks down, with many episodes ending up at the bottom of the listings.  I sort the index by Title then Prog number (see attached screen grab)

[Colin YNWA]

The end of the year prog numbers are part of an implied decimal that is attached to the previous prog #.  For example, Prog 2014 is really Prog 1861.2014*.

* - This helps me sleep at night.

I use a similar system.  I number them as (number of last prog of the year).2 in my index, usually adding the relevant actual number in brackets after the story title.

I have to say, I'm flabbergasted by this lunacy.

It's perfectly straightforward when you remember that the end of year issue is explicitly called "Prog 2017", whereas the normal weekly issue just happens to be the prog numbered 2017.

Yeah I was just about to add this. As ever the calm simple common sense of The Cosh beat me to it.

I'm only so late to posting on the thread as Trout's cruel tease has had me rocking quietly in the corner of the room for the last 48 hours muttering repeatedly.

"I should not care BUT I DO
I should not care BUT I DO
I should not care BUT I DO"