Best thing about 2000AD this year

Gavin Hanly: Strip-wise, it's been a remarkably good year with classy turns from Stickleback, Kingdom, Dante, Button Man, Caballistics, Red Seas, Defoe, Savage and some excellent Dredd. Even the rest of the strips usually entertained (as long as we leave out Robo-Hunter). Other highlights include Thrill Power Overload, the as-ever-excellent Trade paperbacks (with the Nemesis books being a highlight) and the aforementioned figures. A pretty good year all-round...

James Mackay: Bob Byrne’s Twisted Tales don’t, I know, please everybody. But they definitely please me. I love going over them again and again, thinking up dialogue, working out connections. It’s fantastic to have something in the prog that isn’t throwaway, one-note, one-hit wonder, but is instead fulfilling, multifaceted, endlessly interesting. Byrne is the only writer in 2000AD allowed to tell a story at his own pace and to force the reader to slow down to appreciate it. Next stop – a complete Twisted Tale for the front cover?

Adam Crabtree: The strips, man. The quality this year has been something else. Pat Mills’ Defoe, if a little heavy on the exposition, was a fully formed gem that managed to balance Mills’ scattershot insanity with conventional storytelling skill, and the results were incendiary. Savage and Button Man took care of our need for gritty speculative thrillers, Kingdom showed us that simple can sometimes be best, Red Seas and Nikolai Dante continued to put a retro spin on genre elements with favourable results, and   Stone Island II turning out to not especially suck was a pleasant surprise too, even if problems with characterisation (what characterisation?) and sense (guh-fl;uh_?) persisted.

Charles Ellis: The announcement of downloadable progs. 2000AD shows more imagination, daring and general grasp of the future than both Marvel & DC – as it should be!

Robert Cornell: I don’t know about everyone else but I got a bit of a buzz from being a (small) part of this thirty years thing. A bit on the radio. Bit on TV. Not much, but it felt great to say, “I was there in ‘77.”

Alex Frith: Thrill Power Overload, and 30th Anniversary stuff in general, including that all-too fleeting appearance on BBC4's Comics Britannia.

Daniel Payne: 2000AD doesn't have a glut of good characters at the moment. The Caballistics Inc. comeback was okay, but the continued good form of Judge Dredd and Nikolai Dante have been vital to this year's content, and indeed the best thing about the comic.

Pete McCosh: The sheer volume of quality we’ve enjoyed throughout the year. There have been duff stories, but never really an extended period where they threatened to swamp the good ones.

WR Logan: 2000AD going digital.

Steven Denton: Judge Dredd had a good year across both titles and single handedly stopped me form canceling my subscription to the Megazine. 

Martin Charlton: The trade paperback publications. See most under-rated.