Best 2000AD strip that isn't Judge Dredd

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I'm only including stuff that ran for more than one series, and nothing that started since I stopped reading regularly about ten years ago. If I've missed anything I'm sure it's nothing anyone will miss. Might be a bit ambitious to start a poll of this size as traffic's so low here these days, but what the hell.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Nemesis the Warlock 5
The Ballad of Halo Jones 4
Slaine 2
Big Dave 1
Strontium Dog 1
Zenith1
Skizz 0
Tharg the Mighty 0
Tyranny Rex 0
Rogue Trooper 0
Robo-Hunter 0
Revere 0
Indigo Prime 0
Ace Trucking Co 0
Anderson: Psi Division 0
Armoured Gideon 0
Bad Company 0
Button Man 0
D.R. and Quinch 0
Flesh 0
Future Shocks 0
ABC Warriors 0


chap, Sunday, 20 January 2008 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ten years ago I probably would've said Nemesis, but now I think I'll go with Strontium Dog - Wagner and Grant are much smarter, subtler writers than Mills, but my teenaged self didn't realise this. Also, I like the consistency of the vast majority of the series being drawn by one (great) artist.

chap, Sunday, 20 January 2008 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Americans can vote for the one they think has the coolest name.

chap, Sunday, 20 January 2008 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Halo Jones all the way. That series just gets better with time. I harbor hope of seeing the remaining installments when Alan Moore is 80 and needs cash.

Isn't Sinister Dexter or something now the strip that's appeared most in 2KAD next to Dredd? Depressing.

Douglas, Sunday, 20 January 2008 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, Halo Jones for me too - one of Alan's v. best. It takes a certain...confidence...to write a 'girls comic' strip for 2000AD

Nemesis by Mills and O'Neil has much better artwork than Strontium Dog as drawn by Ezquerra, the most mystifingly overrated artist OF ALL TIME. Robo Hunter, again drawn by Ian Gibson, is a much closer call - Wagner/Grant at their lightest and most charming

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 20 January 2008 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

I love Ezquerra, his work is so solid and muscular. As befits the kind of stuff he draws.

chap, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

I love O'Neill as well, for very different reasons.

chap, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

I think Nemesis may have had an influence in comics in how other creators started use machine type creatures. The imagery of how the machines interacted was really striking and is what I remember most about the strip. Kevin O'Neil's artwork was amazing and unique. I think more people in the US probably got to know some of the ideas from the Nemesis strip when they did Marshall Law, which was a fairly popular book when it was coming out from Marvel/Epic in the 80s.

I read a bunch of the Eagle reprints of Strontium Dog and Rogue Trooper but I cannot remember much about them. I'd love to re-read DR & Quinch and Halo Jones, as I remember them being really good.

I've been reading a bunch of 80s Dredd of late, including some of Garth Ennis first run (which I guess was actually early 90s) for the first time. I think it is great stuff. Those Bolland covers on those Eagle reprints I always thought were amazing.

earlnash, Monday, 21 January 2008 01:26 (eighteen years ago)

Never liked Ennis' Dredd run much, it was a little too silly. I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to Dredd though, I kind of want Wagner (with or without Grant) or nothing.

chap, Monday, 21 January 2008 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

I thought that Ennis' story The Goodnight Kiss is a pretty good Judge Dredd story. That is the one I read last week. I haven't read the rest of the run.

earlnash, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

it's hard to vote in this one, because the ongoing strips are more true to 2000 AD but typically take nose-dives in quality after a while, unlike the limited run stories, which are nevertheless false 2000 AD. I mean, yeah, Halo Jones is better than Strontium Dog on an issue by issue basis, but if it had gone on as long I suspect its thrill power would have depleted.

The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

isn't shako the polar bear one of these? i like him. he is ANGRY.

bell_labs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for NEMESIS, though ABC WARRIORS is close (note that I've read only very early into the runs of either.) I suspect ZENITH would win, if I'd actually read any of it...

Matt M., Tuesday, 29 January 2008 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

you only want to read early runs of Nemesis and ABC Warriors.

Bell Labs, SHAKO would like you too. NOM NOM NOM.

The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for Halo Jones because it's the only one I've read, if you don't count Vic Fluro's Future Shockz and Rogue Trooper (do you?).

Jordan, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Are there ANY people in US who read 2000 AD regularly? The only issue I ever had was the aforementioned SHAKO, cuz it had a short grant morrison deal in it that sort of read like a bradbury pastiche..

ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 05:33 (eighteen years ago)

Could you even get it in the USA?

The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

There were those Eagle reprints for the US market with squashed art, crappy colour jobs and appalling covers.

chap, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

I've never seen it at my comic shop in Memphisto, and it's a pretty good shop.

Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I like the name of your town.

chap, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Every time I go there, it offers to erase my past.

Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

I could get the weeklies, occasionally. But I picked up most of my 2000AD knowledge from the Titan reprint volumes that filtered over to the states starting in the mid-80s.

Matt M., Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know exactly what printings they are, but forbidden planet seems to carry 2kAD. That's where we got the SHAKO issue, anyway.

ian, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 21:48 (eighteen years ago)


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