This is part of Discourse 2000, a year-by-year, story-by-story blog about 2000AD. Contains spoilers for Judge Dredd – The Cursed Earth.

Which Thrill?: Future lawman Judge Dredd is sent on a mercy mission across a radioactive wasteland to br[…]

Tuesday, 30th December 2025 is the 25th (sort of) Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl and we have decided to make a rare foray out of Zone 1 to HACKNEY. Twenty Five years too late to actively gentrify it, perhaps we undo some of that dama[…]

This is an entry in my year-by-year, story-by-story series about 2000AD, Discourse 2000. Contains spoilers (I guess) for the solo Walter strips and perhaps other things.

Which Thrill?: Walter is a robot domestic servant of Judge Dredd with an inte[…]

This is an entry in Discourse 2000, my story-by-story, year-by-year look at 2000AD. Contains spoilers for both MACH 1 and MACH Zero.

Which Thrills? MACH 1 is the final adventures of super-spy John Probe. MACH Zero is the story of a failed prototyp[…]

This is an entry in Discourse 2000, my year-by-year, story-by-story analysis of 2000AD strips. Contains spoilers for Colony Earth!

Which Thrill? A hard-bitten Naval Commander battles an alien invasion, almost single-handedly. If that doesn’t[…]

This is a post in the Discourse 2000 series, looking at 2000AD story by story, year by year.

Which Thrill? A daredevil gets into a car accident and ends up with transparent skin. Hijinks ensue.

GOT A HEADFUL OF IDEAS AND IT’S DRIVING ME I[…]

This is a post in the series Discourse 2000, exploring 2000AD year by year and story by story. It contains spoilers for Dan Dare’s run in the comic.

Which Thrill? Dan Dare boldly goes where no pilot of the future has gone before, exploring t[…]

Previously on Discourse 2000: After successfully helping launch war comic Battle, editor Pat Mills had the opportunity to launch a new kind of boys’ comic at publishers IPC – Action, a title which turned the violence and grittiness of typical[…]

My attitude to creative writing projects is best contextualised by misquoting Zapp Brannigan’s take on pick-up lines: write as many of them as you can, as fast as you can. I know this is probably unwise, yet I feel compelled to start a project goin[…]

Omar Rodríguez-López’s most recent solo album Is It the Clouds? dropped January 2024 (aptly on the Clouds Hill label) and was the first to follow 2016-17’s epic release schedule. While it’s not quite a traditional concept album, themes of gri[…]