• 2000 AD Origins


• Judge Dredd Metro Strips


• Prog 1600

You know how you need to watch? Al Ewing is who you need to watch - currently in 2000ad writing Zombo

• Everything Comes back to 2000 AD - news, reviews and podcasts


• 2000 AD Review - now defunct but a great resources for interviews and reviews


• Zarjaz and Dogbreath from FutureQuake Press (I'll declare an interest here, as I currently scriptdoctor for them), 2000AD and Strontium Dog (respectively) fanzines (the former giving a certain droid, not a million miles from the thread starters, one of their first print appearances), one of a number that have appeared over the years - Class of '79, Nu-Earth and ZOOAD being a few others (you can also probably include FutureQuake in there which Art started for his rejected Future Shocks and it blossomed from there)


• The Prog Slog - a venerable effort to review every single prog (now under new management thanks to Thrill Power Overload)


• 2000 AD Covers Uncovered - the background to the current covers and some classic ones too


• 2000 AD Sketch Show - sketches by the droids


• The Cellar of Dredd - a blog about one of the biggest collections of Judge Dredd (and 2000AD) goodies, that will only be complete when John Wagner is in there preserved in Boing


• Yes Commissioner - commissions from the droids (or 2000AD-related commissions)


• 2000 AD Earthlings - the 2000 AD group on DeviantArt, with a mix of fans and droids


• 2000 AD Collectables - a gallery of the merchandise that has been released over the years


• Models of Dredd - 2000AD and Judge Dredd statues and figures, not the only one as there is also 2000AD and Scifi Modelling, although you have to dig deeper


• Someone Old, Someone New - a commission blog with the theme that they need to contain someone from current British comics and and older classic character, which does tend to involve a 2000AD character and someone else


• The Hipster Dad's Book Shelf - part of Grant Goggans' sites that try to keep the flame alive over the Pond, see also the older Thrill Power Thursday and Reprint This

Thus to my dismay, although mainstream readers loved his Slaine, purist comic fans (who were then a small minority on 2000AD) were less than enthusiastic and Massimo's divine spark was entirely lost on them. Despite their small numbers, they had become the dominant voice on 2000AD and critical acclaim was more important than mere reader popularity and commercial success at the box office. Hence why Massimo's work on Slaine was never albumised by Titan Books, the leading fan forum, despite my constant pleas to the publisher that "regular" readers adored his work and his books would sell big-time. As a result of the negative feedback from purists, other artists had to take over on Slaine.

Q: Unusually, the second Canon Fodder story is ranked higher in online reader polls than the first – why do you think that is?

A: Because it's much better. It's got a better storyline, one that makes some sort of sense. It's better paced and I'd improved as an artist by then, too. I was extremely impressed with Nigel's work on this, and I'd hoped it was the start of a beautiful relationship. Unfortunately, owing to a severe illness, he kind of disappeared from the scene altogether. Shame.

• EvilPants has clearly been so impressed that, despite being new to thrills, he has named 2000AD his favourite anthology of 2011: " The work being done this year in 2000AD is superior to most of the work being done by either of the big 2 American publishers right now. Yeah, I said it. It’s that good."


• Colin Smith has been doing his usual thoughtful posts, this time flagging up problems he has seen in the industry and comics that have bucked the trend - in his first instalment he names Low Life and Nikolai Dante as being fine examples of storytelling and putting some heart back into comics.

"It's good story, just a little similar to one which Alan Moore wrote several years ago".