The 2000AD Advent Calendar COMMENTS Thread!

[Darren Stephens]

Wow. I have truly loved every contribution this year, as I do every year. Megabus is, rightfully, the star of the show. I'm so glad he decided to continue posting it....Bad Crop has been a fantastic story. A real festive treat! Happy Christmas all and a happy new year to you! 

[JayzusB.Christ]

The ending didn't disappoint! I loved how [spoiler]Mongrol suddenly took over from Dress as the star of the show.[/spoiler]

I'll miss my first-thing-in-the-morning routine of reading the next page.

[Buttonman]

Great effort from everyone this year - especially megabus' epic - It's what 'Helter Skelter could have been! Looking forward to tomorrow's odds and sods. Thanks as always to Pete for putting it all together.

[RaggedMan]

Firstly apologies. I'm one of those that shows up here every day to be thoroughly entertained and hasn't even have the grace to say thank you.

To Megabus especially, hats off sir. Brilliant stuff and I love your colouring man.
Aside from that, wordsearches, quizzes, animations, songs...
okay maybe not the song.



Thank you all. Brilliant thread.

and merry whatsits.

[Pete Wells]

Well done everyone!!! The Pro's pics are up (with hopefully a couple more coming as Christmas Eve rumbles on!)

Remember, today is free-for-all day so post away my lovely Squaxx!

[Andy Lambert]

Firstly, excellent artwork from LARF and blackmocco, who along with exceptional work from megabus, round off this year's calendar in epic fashion!
The artwork from the pro's show us exactly why they ARE pro's - amazing artwork! Absolutely astonishing stuff!
Can't wait to do it all again next year...!
Merry Christmas to you - Grud bless us, everyone..!

[Eamonn Clarke]

Amazing work all round. Grud bless Pete Wells block and all those who use their creative powers for good within these walls.

[David Broughton]

I would like to say a big thank you to Pete Wells for starting this wonderful thread and taking the time to be involved with it each year. To my fellow contributors I would like to say that you are all Amazing and talented people and I wish every one of you success. To every one who made comments on this thread for Bad Crop and/or all the other contributions, thank you for making it worthwhile by just spreading the positivity that this thread engenders. Last but not least thanks to the Pro's for taking the time to contribute and if they are reading the 2000AD editorial staff for providing so much thrill power through out the year!

[Greg M.]

Well done, everybody. I've also been one of those who've viewed the calendar daily but not chipped in with praise till now, but it remains an awe-inspiring thread - megabus has of course outdone himself this year, not least through the sheer loopiness of his Mills-loving tale. Merry Xmas.

[-MikeD-]

Congrats to everyone on making the forum advent calendar/unofficial 2000ad annual an entertaining success - I've enjoyed following the contributions, some of which appear to have taken a lot of time to complete.

Which brings me on to Megabus' mega epic... firstly, you show an incredible dedication to quality comic strip creation without renumeration which is pretty awe-inspiring and, secondly, it was a really entertaining story. Well done!
Pete Wells - as 'unique' as ever and, despite a deliberately laugh out loud level of ineptness in the vocals :-)), really well written. And thanks for organising this whole thing, Pete, it's always a pleasure to contribute and read, watch or listen to everyone else's work.
DavidYeh, Andy Lambert, James Dilworth, BrotherGrotusk, Steve Denton, Darren Stephens, Jaydanzig, Brendan Rowland, Allistermac, Blackmocco and Larf - great artists all, but it's ideas that make Christmas pictures great, and these all inspired awe and mirth, and sometimes both.
Lego fatties is a brilliant idea - take a bow, Ming!
Albion's cake, Sharky's Crossword of Geek, Andy's wordsearch and JaysusB's incredible window display all added to the fun, whilst showing the level of creativity on this board. I wouldn't know where to start making any of these, so consider me impressed.
CrazyFoxMachine - that's a great tribute to the brilliant competition winners this year.
Amines2058 and Neil Clements produced a pair of Sloughs which, as well as being stunning well drawn, reminded us of the pagan origins of Christmas :-)
Nic_Freeman - I love these animations. This is the kind of thing the internet does best. Wonderful.
Steve Green - 3D snow!! Oh, and a dude on a bike. Incredible VFX work.
And then there were the last minute contributions from Mike Carrol (I'd wear that jumper) and Dash Decent and Dash Jnr (it turns out that only a rogue GI could make Minecraft better!)
And Lee Robson/Bolt-01 round the whole thing off with a witty series of newspaper strips.I  know that it's hard to do something so readable in nine panels, so well done chaps.

Once again, thank you to everyone, and especially to Tharg and the droids for their genius and inspiration. Let's do it again next year! Merry Christmas!

[Theblazeuk]

Thanks everyone and Grud bless you all

[Dandontdare]

And another fantastic Advent calendar comes to an end. Sorry my own planned thingy never panned out, but we've been spoiled by the top-class goodies on offer.

None more so than Commando Forces' generous prize draw - photographic evidence below that this prize has been safely and gratefully received! Merry Grudmas one and all!

[JayzusB.Christ]

The ending didn't disappoint! I loved how [spoiler]Mongrol suddenly took over from Dress as the star of the show.[/spoiler]

I'll miss my first-thing-in-the-morning routine of reading the next page.

*Dredd, not Dress. Not the first time my phone has done this.

What an amazing last day!  Honestly, opening today's thread has been like a day-early Christmas present.  The calendar's been great this year; I look forward to the next one!

[Heath C Ackley]

Another great advent calender this year. Well done to all.

Merry Christmas from us all at Creed Towers!

[flip-r mk2]

Another brilliant advent calendar, kudos one and all.
I'm sorry I didn't contribute anything this year, just been finding doing anything creative so difficult since losing my wife.
Wishing you all a very  Merry Christmas

filippo