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2000 AD Annual 2025
From 1977 to 1990 the 2000 AD Annual was a staple of Christmas stockings across the length and breadth of the UK. And now… IT’S BACK!
This landmark annual contains all-new stories featuring Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper and more. It also brings back into print selected strips from 2000 AD’s extensive archive.
Includes brand new stories from an amazing line-up of some of the brightest stars of the comics world including Chris Condon (That Texas Blood), Si Spurrier (The Dreaming), Alex Paknadel (All Against All), Dan Abnett (Aquaman), Fernando Blanco (w0rldtr33), Jake Lynch (Sinister Dexter), Hayden Sherman (Dark Spaces) and Phil Winslade (Bodies).
This landmark annual contains all-new stories featuring Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper and more. It also brings back into print selected strips from 2000 AD’s extensive archive.
Includes brand new stories from an amazing line-up of some of the brightest stars of the comics world including Chris Condon (That Texas Blood), Si Spurrier (The Dreaming), Alex Paknadel (All Against All), Dan Abnett (Aquaman), Fernando Blanco (w0rldtr33), Jake Lynch (Sinister Dexter), Hayden Sherman (Dark Spaces) and Phil Winslade (Bodies).
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Published November 27, 2024
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March 18, 2025The advance publicity for this, not to mention the articles within (awkward hybrids that seem unsure whether they're aiming at regular readers, lapsed fans or newcomers), played heavily on happy memories of finding an annual in one's Christmas stocking. Making it somewhat unfortunate that, at least at my comics shop, distribution problems meant this didn't come in until the end of January. Inflation, meanwhile, has pushed the price to £25 (or more if you want the retro alternate cover – which I did, but not that much), at which point it stops feeling like quite so much of a stocking filler. Not to mention, could maybe stand to cut back on the house ads in favour of a wordsearch, cutaway or similar.
In terms of content, though...at first I thought there was a further piss-take in the ratio of reprint material to new stuff, but to be fair, the only ones I remember reading before are Rogue Trooper's debut, now with a decent new colour job, and an Anderson strip that was already underwhelming the first time, but does make the book a little less of a sausage party. Elsewhere, it's oddities like a Mean Machine story illustrated by Mick McMahon at his most stylised, and an old newspaper Dredd by Wagner, Grant and Gibson that would have been even better if only they didn't seem to have got some of the installments in the wrong order.
As for the specially commissioned stories...well, there's an illustrated prose outing for SF Western Lawless from its regular team, but that's one of my favourite current strips, so I'm not complaining, particularly when this takes a series that has got a little mired in its own lore back to basics. Otherwise, they seem to have made a point of getting slightly different creators in, which works a treat when it's Si Spurrier and Hayden Sherman doing an unusually psychedelic Strontium Dog. Alex Paknadel and Jake Lynch on Rogue Trooper, on the other hand, manage to feel slightly off-brand and overfamiliar all at once, which isn't a great combination. Still, better that than the Chris Condon/Fernando Blanco Dredd which opens proceedings, which isn't bad in itself, and has a solid angle in using Mega-City One's chimpanzee population to satirise a certain shit-flinging politician of the moment...but also appears unaware of how many other Dredd stories have already done versions of the fucker, and our remaining years are going to be hard enough already without an endless procession of further riffs on the theme. So yeah, it is good to have the Annual back, just about – but if it's to become a tradition again, they need to up their game all round.
In terms of content, though...at first I thought there was a further piss-take in the ratio of reprint material to new stuff, but to be fair, the only ones I remember reading before are Rogue Trooper's debut, now with a decent new colour job, and an Anderson strip that was already underwhelming the first time, but does make the book a little less of a sausage party. Elsewhere, it's oddities like a Mean Machine story illustrated by Mick McMahon at his most stylised, and an old newspaper Dredd by Wagner, Grant and Gibson that would have been even better if only they didn't seem to have got some of the installments in the wrong order.
As for the specially commissioned stories...well, there's an illustrated prose outing for SF Western Lawless from its regular team, but that's one of my favourite current strips, so I'm not complaining, particularly when this takes a series that has got a little mired in its own lore back to basics. Otherwise, they seem to have made a point of getting slightly different creators in, which works a treat when it's Si Spurrier and Hayden Sherman doing an unusually psychedelic Strontium Dog. Alex Paknadel and Jake Lynch on Rogue Trooper, on the other hand, manage to feel slightly off-brand and overfamiliar all at once, which isn't a great combination. Still, better that than the Chris Condon/Fernando Blanco Dredd which opens proceedings, which isn't bad in itself, and has a solid angle in using Mega-City One's chimpanzee population to satirise a certain shit-flinging politician of the moment...but also appears unaware of how many other Dredd stories have already done versions of the fucker, and our remaining years are going to be hard enough already without an endless procession of further riffs on the theme. So yeah, it is good to have the Annual back, just about – but if it's to become a tradition again, they need to up their game all round.
December 27, 2024
Like the 2000ad annuals of old, this is a mixture of new material from unfamiliar creators and reprint content. The balance is possibly tipped too far in favour of the latter, but this is a lovely artifact nonetheless.
January 6, 2025
-Chimpsurrection:2/5
-Poison:1.5/5
-Renegade:1/5
-Lawless:Didn't read
-Anderson:0.5/5
-Cult Status:3/5
-Mean Machine:3/5
-Rogue Trooper:0.5/5
-Superbean:2/5
-Heartbeat:3/5
-Poison:1.5/5
-Renegade:1/5
-Lawless:Didn't read
-Anderson:0.5/5
-Cult Status:3/5
-Mean Machine:3/5
-Rogue Trooper:0.5/5
-Superbean:2/5
-Heartbeat:3/5
February 12, 2025
Nostalgia updated!!!
Always got the 2000AD annuals as a kid, some great memories reading through them.
This one doesn't disappoint (sort of), a few duds in my opinion, some lazy art, some poor art (Mean Machine, yet a great and humourous tale).
Took my time to read cover to cover and overall satisfying.
Always got the 2000AD annuals as a kid, some great memories reading through them.
This one doesn't disappoint (sort of), a few duds in my opinion, some lazy art, some poor art (Mean Machine, yet a great and humourous tale).
Took my time to read cover to cover and overall satisfying.
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