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It's time for some of our regular contributors to give their thoughts of the last year in 2000AD:

BEST COVER 

Gavin Hanly: Harry Exton taking aim from Prog 1562.

Frazer Irving seemed to be gracing the cover of 2000AD every week towards the end of the year (the cynic in me says we should expect these as the covers to the series' inevitable US reprint) but when they're as well crafted as his Button Man efforts were, it's hard to complain. All were sterling efforts, but I loved the this cover the most, partly because it's such a well crafted image, and partly because it effectively acts as the final panel to the strip inside. 

Although having said that, perhaps it should have waited till the next issue....

James Mackay: Dave Kendall’s simply gorgeous rendition of “Demon Jenny” from Caballistics on Prog 1554. 

With her mouth spilling off her face and eyes streaming behind her, Jenny might be a fun exercise in Dom Reardon’s signature scratchy style, but she must be a right nightmare for a more realistic artist.  Kendall’s cover really brings the horror home, with hellfire so real you want to run to the nearest church and beg forgiveness for purchasing Satan’s own diseased publication.

Adam Crabtree: Henry Flint's Dredd in Prog 1536

Henry Flint’s psychedelic Greysuit cover comes to mind (shame about the strip), as does Langley’s Mongrol cover, but this has been very much a lawman kinda year. Couple of really cool Dredd ‘stock’ covers, with Boo Cook’s ‘Dredd-on-flag’ piece, and Staz Johnson’s ‘MC-1 from above’ prominent examples. But, walking away with the award, and with a few stolen hearts as well; Henry Flint’s wraparound “His City, His Law” cover for Prog 1536. Just epic.

Charles Ellis: Prog 1556’s cover of Adele by Frazer Irving.

You’ve got the extremely sharp and stark colours, Adele’s bleeding weapons, the rather nasty inclusion of the screaming young Adele as part of her older self… It sums up the character, the story and looks absolutely bloody great. It certainly stands out on the stands!

Robert Cornell: Prog 1534, Karl Richardson, Detonator X

"They came from another dimension... to FEAST upon our world!" Oh, yeah. Robots! BIG robots! Dinosaurs! Burning buildings! I wanna read this one first! A great mock-retro look promised a good old-fashioned SF action romp. If only the story had matched the cover.

Alex Frith: Prog 1525 - Stickleback at large.

A simple yet sinister showcase for a great new villain. Nice work, D'Israeli.

Daniel Payne: Button Man's swan song in Prog 1566

Button Man IV sadly fell a long way from delivering on its promise. But judged by their own merits, Frazer Irving's series of covers were first class. Prog 1566, the last regular prog of the year, triumphs over its peers by a narrow margin. The striking colour scheme, arresting composition, and sublime draftsmanship encompass everything that a front cover ought to.

Pete McCosh: It has to be Karl Richardson’s fantastic monster movie pastiche for the introduction, in Prog 1534, of Detonator X. 

The story itself promised a lot initially then comprehensively failed to deliver, but looking at this gloriously over-the-top image of a giant robot knocking out a dinosaur amidst the burning ruins of a major city, you’d have to be dead not to want to find out what’s going on inside.

I voted for Dante last year, so maybe I’m just a sucker for that sort of ironically lurid tagline.

WR Logan: Not an easy choice this year but if I have to pick just one then my fave cover has to be: Prog 1529.

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