Best 2000AD strip that isn't Judge Dredd

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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

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?).

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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..

Could you even get it in the USA?

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

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

I like the name of your town.

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

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.

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.