What have you read so far?

If one hasn't tried it yet, I strongly recommend that one :






It's Wagner at his best (and let's be honest, he IS one of the best writers of the medium, ever), a strong action packed political thriller, which showcases Judges Dredd's world in all its moral ambiguity, following the actions of a political terrorist cell (or is it democracy activist?). Throughout the story, bad and good rapidly become blurry notions, and you get rare citizen insights on how it is to live in a Judges world.
It also is Colin McNeil at his top, one of the most singular accomplished voices the title helped bring up.
It was published in the very first volume of the Judge Dreed Megazine in 1990.

Some would say its name became obsolete fifteen years ago, but I think even then it was too deeply embedded in the public consciousness for changing it to ever be a serious option.

I sampled some Dredd from Eagle Comics collections when I was in high school but wasn't felling it, I should check some out now since my tastes have changed. I recently read the Robo-Hunter Verdus trade collection which was decent but didn't really wow me, and I have checked out a couple of the FCBD issues of 2000AD that have come out but none inspired me to actually check out the new issues being released.

I think I read an issue or 2 of Halo Jones when i was being collected into comics released here in the US in the 80s/90s but never got to read the whole thing, and tracking down some Slaine (base don Fanboy Stranger's recommendations) has been on my to do list for a while.

If Lazarus Churchyard was a 2000AD strip, then I vaguely remember checking that out in the early 2000s somewhere as well.

But aside from the FCBD samplers, I've never read an actual issues of 2000AD.

I don't think any of the LCS I frequented ever carried it on the shelf (only getting for pull lists and not man of the shops I went to had customers who got it).

-M

I was around when it first came out, I had collected ACTION weekly and was devastated when it went. A close friend at school had the first issue which we devoured and I bought it religiously for the next 10 - 15 years(creating a 4 foot stack amongst my comic collection).
The strips I recall most fondly are Strontium Dog, DR and Quinch, and Judge Cal. Never really liked Rogue Trooper, and Slaine was only good now and then. I still don't get why people rave over Halo Jones, even back then I knew it was a rip-off from Joe Haldeman's Forever War.
Modern book can be hit or miss for me, though I do try hard to like it. Dredd feels like it treads water now, waiting for the next multi issue saga. Even the modern Strontium Dog stories have been somewhat boring, but the newer strips are a lot better quality. I do like that Savage transcends the awful story it was based on(Invasion), and I do miss a good mfuture sport strip like harlem heroes or Arena, though I wish they would revive Action's Spinball. Now that was a sport.

I believe that Lazarus Churchyard was originally published in A1, not 2000AD.  I don't think LC ever appeared in 2000AD, but I might be wrong on that.  As far as I know, Ellis only has a very small handful of stories for 2000AD.  D'Israeli has been a regular contributor, though.

Nah, it was first published in Blast magazine, an old early 90ies UK anthology.

They should have made the movie based on the Cursed Earth, an ideal set-up.
...and kept the Burger Wars in too.

I think this is still one of the GREAT Dredd stories, but do like the Judge Cal story that followed as they began to use the humor the strip would become renowned for, and by the time of the Judge Child saga they were firing on all cylinders.
That touch of humor was also a trademark of Strontium Dog, and is sorely missing in the modern stories I've read.