‘Best of 2000 AD’ celebrates British SF comics

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Written By Chris Well

It can be dark and intense, satirical but silly, playful, and often heartfelt.

Best of 2000 AD is a landmark series from the cult comic, bursting with its greatest stories for a new generation of readers.

Since the 1970s, 2000 AD has been a weekly British science fiction-oriented comics anthology that serializes stories in each issue. It is best known for the Judge Dredd stories—but has also featured lots of other series, including Rogue Trooper, Sláine, Strontium Dog, ABC Warriors, Nemesis the Warlock, and Nikolai Dante.

Over the years, 2000 AD has seen the outstanding output writers and artists who have since become giants in the field. Contributors have included Alan Moore (Swamp Thing, Watchmen), Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Grant Morrison (JLA, The Green Lantern, The New X-Men), Brian Bolland (Camelot 3000, Batman: The Killing Joke), Mike McMahon (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight), John Wagner (Predator vs. Judge Dredd, Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgment on Gotham), Alan Grant (Detective Comics), and Garth Ennis (Punisher, Preacher).

Ever wanted to get into reading the legendary 2000 AD? Best of 2000 AD is a six-volume landmark quarterly graphic novel series from the cult comic—with no continuity or serialisation to worry about, just tailor-made comics for new readers. Each volume includes 200 pages bursting with their greatest stories, hand-curated for a new generation of readers.

Each volume features:

  • A complete Judge Dredd adventure

  • Mix of hidden gems & eclectic highlights from 2000 AD history

  • Graphic novel length feature presentation

  • Vintage Judge Dredd tale from the deep vault

  • Foreword essay by a prominent popular culture writer on the social and political relevance of 2000 AD

  • Plus brand new covers from an all-star line-up of award-winning and best-selling artists, including Jamie McKelvie (The Wicked & The Divine), Becky Cloonan (Batman), Annie Wu (Hawkeye) and more!

Every Best of 2000 AD contains a mix of modern classics and gems from the vault. In each edition you’ll find an explosive new Judge Dredd adventure, fresh essays by prominent popular culture writers, a graphic novel-length feature presentation by global legends and a vintage Dredd case.

In this first volume: Judge Dredd battles Mutie Block anarchy; Halo Jones escapes in Alan Moore’s first masterpiece; humanity is on the Brink in the space murder mystery from Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard; Judge Anderson takes center stage in the search for Shamballa.

Boasting brand new covers from an all-star line-up of artists including Jamie McKelvie (The Wicked + The Divine) and Karl Kerschl (Gotham Academy) with designer Tom Muller (X-Men), Best of 2000 AD is the essential gateway into the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.

“There are creators known to US audiences through other work,” the editor told The Beat. “In terms of art, you look for that X factor that is so graphically appealing and iconic that even if it’s classic it projects forward and still feels modern. That’s the joy of the anthology format. You can’t shy away from that, it’s 2000 AD. That’s the strength of it. The mix is alchemy. It can be dark and intense, there’s a satirical bite but it can be silly, playful stuff, and often un-cynical and heartfelt. It’s so broad, and being reflective of that in a way that connects is the trick.”

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

https://chriswell.substack.com/
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