Tharg’s year in Review - 2020

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[Colin YNWA]

Tharg's Year in review - round up

With big apologise to Broodblik who still has two BIG votes running until Tuesday -Best writer and Best artist - I wanted to get this summary up before I got mired in the return of some Tourney or other. So here by fine friends is a round of of (most) of the votes of the year 2020 we've been running over the last few week - makes  for some interesting reading if you ask me...

Favourite Cover - 2000ad

1st = Prog 2178 - PJ Holden Prog
2nd = 2209 - Tieren Trevallion
3rd = Prog 2211 - Steve Austin and Chris Blythe

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Favourite Cover - Megazine

1st = Meg 423 - Clift Robinson and Dylan Teague
2nd = Meg 424 - Greg Staples
3rd = Meg 422 - Paul Williams

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Favourite 2000ad Thrill - Not Dredd

1st = The Out by Dan Abnett, Mark Harrison and Annie Parkhouse
2nd = Fiends of the Eastern Front by Ian Edginton, Tieran Trevallion and Annie Parkhose
3rd = Brink  by Dan Abnett, INJ Culbard and Simon Bowland

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Favourite Meg Thrill - Not Dredd

1st = Lawless by Dan Abnett, Phil Winslade and Jim Campbell
2nd Megatropolis by Kenneth Neimand, David Taylor and Jim Campbell
3rd Dreadnoughts by Michael Carroll, John Higgins , Sally Hurst and Simon Bowland

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Favourite Dredd (both Meg and Prog)

1st = The Victims of Bennett Beeny by John Wagner Dan Cornwell (+ Colin MacNeil), Chris Blythe and Annie Parkhouse
2nd = Chimpsky's Law by Kenneth Niemand, PJ Holden and Annie Parkhouse
3rd = Kill Bloopy by Kenneth Niemand, Dan Cornwell and Annie Parkhouse

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Favourite Short / One off

1st = Lawless - Badrock Melody by Dan Abnett, Phil Winslade, Jim Campbell, Lily Vincent-Frankland and Jack Gray (Meg 424)
2nd = Boarding School by Rachael Smith, Yishan Li, Pippa Bowland and Jim Campbell (Tammy & Jinty Special  2020)
3rd = Hell Machine by Henry Flint, Jake Lynch, Jim Boswell and Simon Bowland (Action Special 2020)

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Favourite Letterer / Colourist

1st = Annie Parkhouse
2nd = Jim Campbell
3rd = Dylan Teague

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Favourite Special

1st = 2000AD Sci-Fi Special
2nd = SMASH! 2020 Special
3rd = Action 2020 Special

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Favourite Trade / Collection / Volume

1st = Strontium Dog: Search and Destroy
2nd Masters of British Comics Art
3rd Third World War

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Big THANKS to all you wonderful folks who have run these and participated. See 2020 wasn't all bad!