it represents great value for money, despite featuring none of 2000 AD’s most well known characters it is representative of the best of the Progs over the past 20 years and what it can offer. More mystifying choices include the reboot misfires of “Strontium Dogs” and “Samantha Slade : Robohunter”. Each hardback book contains a bonus content section featuring cover galleries, concept sketches, interviews and more. However, dig a little deeper and examine the content you begin to wonder what definition of “Ultimate” 2000 AD is relying on. Like the Judge Dredd : Mega Collection before it, the Ultimate Collection has gone for quantity rather than quality.

extra per issue, receive six exclusive hand-painted 2000 AD never-before-seen figurines: NEMESIS THE WARLOCK, JUDGE DEATH, HALO JONES, NIKOLAI DANTE, JUDGE DREDD, and ROGUE TROOPER! TIR NAN OG, THE LAND OF THE YOUNG, SUFFERS UNDER THE DOMINION OF THE Drune Lords, who poison the earth with their magic. this epic 2000 AD retrospective exclusively designed for this collection by top 2000 AD artist Boo Cook. The spine incorrectly showed '79' instead of '63', although the number shown correctly inside as '63' (79 was the volume in the previous issue) - the spine picture is also incorrectly showing that of volume 79. From Celtic warrior Sláine to swashbuckling Russian rogue Nikolai Dante, no fan will want to be without this greatest hits package that delivers four decades worth of thrill power!The series is made up of 80 volumes (later increased to 111) featuring some of the biggest stars of 2000 AD's 40 year history.

That’s not to say there hasn’t been some memorable content in the Prog’ over the last ten years, and “The Out”, “Brink” (which does feature in the collection) are examples of latter day classics that have appeared and more worthy of inclusion than the final, tired, but spectacular looking “ABC Warriors” strips, reprints of the “Dredd” continuation strips of the 2012 movie, scheduled for issue 144 and “Mean Team” scheduled for issue 142. Subscribe today and you’ll receive a FREE issue plus 5 FREE gifts including an exclusive sketch book from the archives of 2000 AD! The series is made up of 200 volumes featuring some of the biggest stars of 2000 AD’s 46-year history. It was never meant to be a means for casual readers to get into the Prog’; the excellent and recently released “ Best of 2000 AD” is better at serving the unenlightened, but as far as the Ultimate Collection is concerned, at most it’s name matches two of the dictionary definitions.

AD The Ultimate Collection is a fortnightly partwork collection of hardback books published by Hachette Partworks.

Reprints are a significant part of Rebellion’s business model, so their enthusiasm in extending this series is understandable.Subscribers received a reprinted copy of this issue in April 2019, with the spine image correctly printed to ensure that it correctly aligned with the rest of the spine image. That’s not to say that it doesn’t include fantastic work, the format is lovely, the back matter is always worth a read, although production control has occasionally gone awry. Elephants in the room include “Summer Magic / Journal of Luke Kirby”, “Zenith” (likely due to rights disputes), and notable creator owned (at least originally) work such as “Button Man” and “Scarlet Traces”. The series is the second collaboration between Hachette Partworks and 2000 AD publisher Rebellion Developments, following the success of Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection.