It’s been years since I picked up 200OAD, I used to read it week in week out and was wondering if it was still going.
What’s the consensus on 2000AD? It is pretty much the only one I ever read, so it could be the vanilla ice of comic books for all I know 
I liked the mixture of stories and characters in each issue, most completely unrelated to each other; Rogue trooper, Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Slaine etc. quality stuff 
It is still going I believe, and I get ocasional emails from Tharg. It is by far the best comic ever written (no silly nancy-pantsy super heros). Thoug the last time I read one was about 20 years ago, I have a few books of entire stories (Nemisis, Hailo Jones, Judge Dredd, The ABC Warriors) which I have re-read much more recently and they are still very good.
DC Comics is publishing an American edition of it this fall, with Garth Ennis scripting.
If they can get it right that is so cool, I might buy a subscription to it for my Nephew and Niece.
It’s still going. I picked up an issue while I was in London over the summer. You can tell I’m a comic geek because buying an issue of that was actually on my list of things to do while I was in London.
AFAIK, DC is not going to be publishing any edition of 2000AD itself, Krokodil. The comic continues to be published by Rebellion, and it is available through Diamond Comic Distributors, which means your local comic shop can order it for you, even if they don’t stock it as a regular item.
What DC is doing (as of last month) is publishing trade paperbacks (TPB’s) collecting several 2000AD features. That includes a lot of Judge Dredd (including some by Ennis) as well as non-Dredd material such as Sinister Dexter, Nikolai Dante, Alan Moore’s Skizz and The Ballad of Halo Jones, Robo-Hunter, Thirteen, and a bunch of other stuff. For the continuing features (such as Siniter Dexter and Nikolai Dante) that are too big to fit in a single volume, new volumes will be issued quarterly. The current plan is to issue two trades every month through the end of '04, and three volumes for at least the first half of '05.
The page Krokodil linked has info on the 2000AD projects DC has planned for the rest of this year. Here is a brief rundown of the projects through the first half of '05.
I’m pretty excited about a lot of this stuff, having not read much of it in the past. I never liked Judge Dredd so the 2000AD mag itself was never very attractive to me, but I’m well aware that most of today’s great comics writers were working for 2000AD 10 or 20 years ago. And this allows me to get my hands on those comics without digging in back-issue bins for a magazine that isn’t widely distributed in this country.
Over the last several months, DC has begun functioning not only as a publisher of original material, but as a great place to import work from abroad. Not only are they doing this 2000AD line, they’re also doing similar-format reprints of a lot of stuff published by Les Humanoids, the premiere publisher of original work in France (Metabarons, The Incal, Technopriests, etc.). DC is also starting a line of manga called CMX. Paul Levitz apparently woke up one morning and realized how much money Titan’s 2000AD reprints, the Humanoids hardcover albums, and Tokyopop and Viz manga were making in U.S. comics stores and figured he needed a piece of that action. (Given the timing, I wouldn’t be surprised if that was one of his priorities once Jeanette Kahn (former head of DC) retired.)
–Cliffy
P.S. As I noted, shy guy, your local comics retailer can order 2000AD for you every week. You don’t need to go to London to pick it up.
–Cliffy, again
Yep, still going. I used to read it back in it’s golden era (from about progs 500 to 850, as it went full colour and before most of the better writers and artists jumped ship for Marvel/DC)
It’s gone back to colour/B&W/colour again, and they’ve ressurected Strontium Dog for some reason after killing him off in a massively long storyline (The Final Solution, and if that comes out, grab it, it was excellent) and the ABC warriors seem to be reset back to somewhere in the 80s storylinewise.
The newer stories aren’t that bad, but not enough for me to buy it weekly anymore.
Of these-
A.B.C. WARRIORS: THE BLACK HOLE
Writer: Pat Mills
Artists: Simon Bisley and S.M.S.
I have this, Titan publish all these in the UK for around £10. i’m rating it.
JUDGE ANDERSON: ANDERSON - PSI DIVISION
Writers: John Wagner and Alan Grant
Artists: Brett Ewins, Cliff Robinson, Barry Kitson and Will Simpson
Judge Anderson was always pretty consistent too
THE BALLAD OF HALO JONES
Writer: Alan Moore
Artist: Ian Gibson
Everybody should own this
THE COMPLETE INDIGO PRIME
Writer: John Smith
Artists: Chris Weston, Mike Hadley, Pauline Doyle and Mick Austin
Suggested for Mature Readers
Indigo Prime was some of the most original stuff coming out at the time, especially the Killing Time storyline.
Now, I want them to release TPBs of Canon Fodder, the revamped Rogue Trooper that Will Simpson illustrated, and the older Glenn Fabry Slaine stuff.
Also rated if they release them:
DR & Quinch
Slaine: The Horned God
Bradley, but I doubt they’ll release that
The Dead Man saga/Judgement Day Dredd storyline
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen an interview in which Jamie Boardman of Rebellion said that Slaine is in the works. I vaugely remember Dr & Quinch, too, but maybe I made that up.
–Cliffy
Some great stories here, you’re taking me way back. I remember the final solution and the black hole well, both excellent. Some of the Nemesis and Torqumeda stuff was outstanding, particurly the stuff drawn by Hinkleton (correct name?).
Bad Company was another classic, that started in the first prog I ever bought which I think was somewhere around 400. I am trying to remember when I stopped reading, it was around about the time that the Judge Dredd story was going on about an apocalypse in Megacity one, like everyone had died at the hands of Judge Death or something. That one really sucked IMO.
I think I still have all the old progs at my parents house. I gotta dust them off sometime.