The extra sized 2000 AD Prog 2050 is a fantastic jumping on point for anyone interested in getting into the Galaxy's Greatest. New adventures of Judge Dredd, Indigo Prime, Grey Area, and The Fall of Deadworld start this issue. Featured with one-offs of Rogue Trooper and Sinister Dexter. And 2000 AD is always available digitally DRM-Free from the 2000 AD eShop!

This series should feel like so much more. But there's a stilted and haphazard quality to presentation that just makes it lose any excitement the idea might have had. The art is muddy and dark, though I appreciate it not really trying to do actor likenesses. Really wish it was better.

First a note, I don't like Rob Liefeld's comic work. I hear he's generally a great guy, he's contribution to the indie comic revolution can't be understated, and I hear regardless of everything else, he's a workhorse. But I am not a fan. I bought this issue, and plan to buy the next two, based on Michel Fiffe's name alone. Much like how I got into Brandon Graham's Prophet, Erik Larsen's Supreme, and Joe Keatinge's Glory several years ago. Fiffe's Copra is amazing, being both a love letter to 80s DC & Marvel and very much its own take on the modern team super book. Fiffe's art is always a treat with its expressive lines, and marker style coloring. And his layouts and lettering are easily some of the best in the business. The guy is overflowing with creative energy, and he wears what he loves on his sleeve. Bloodstrike Brutalists is very clearly one man's pet project, to fill in a missing gap of an incomplete series, while also using the opportunity to resolve a few dangling threads. This zero issue in particular acts as an origin story of sorts. One, Fiffe explains in the back matter, that the series never actually had. Hence why its a zero issue. It takes place before issue 1. This is useful as it gives Fiffe a chance to establish these characters for new readers like me. Establishing this 'suicide squad' of killers who if they die are just put back together again and sent back out for their next deadly mission, via a government backed cyborg resurrection program. This all plays into Fiffe's strengths. Unfortunately by being so closely tied to the Liefeld original, Liefeld's weaknesses can't also help shine through. Deadlock is a terribly designed character, looks unabashedly like Marvel's Wolverine (sans claws), even prone to that character's 'berserker' tendencies. Its unfortunate that this issue uses his experience in becoming a Bloodstrike member as it's story through-line. The rest of the cast is at least somewhat interesting in personality and design. But again, this series is an unashamed love letter to particular time period of a particular kind of comic. So really, it's hard to judge it too harshly on those aspects. As a new reader, there isn't a ton to hook your teeth into except Fiffe's command of layouts, storytelling, and dialog. You'll probably be wondering who some of these characters are or what their deal is, but to be honest its not that deep that you can't infer by plugging in some basic comic archetypes. Looking forward to Bloodstrike 23 and 24.

Amazing world building, a complex protagonist, and just enough of that Spurrier WTF that the world needs more of. The art captures this running down post-apoc fantasy world perfectly. The extra length of this first issue really makes the $4 cover price worth it for once. 20 pages for $4 is always a hard sell, meaning sadly, as much as I love this first issue. I'll likely be waiting for digital price drops of subsequent ones.

If you're looking for a vision of DC's far future, and are sick of waiting for the return of the Legion, this is a solid option.

Great set up, fantastic art, another Young Animal winner.

Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp do what they do best and get WEIRD. Additionally Shout out to Tom Orzechowski's lettering, which is some of the best I've seen in a mainstream super-hero book in a while.

Another amazing issue.

Great series doesn't slack off for its big reveals.

I've been with Invincible since he was first teased in the back of Savage Dragon. The insanity of issue #7 insured I would see this series to the end, and now it is here. Overall I thing this was an acceptable ending, but I feel the way Kirkman and crew went about tying up its loose ends was a bit too broad. Laying out 500 years of future character history, without much room for potential revisiting because now we know where everyone important has to be. The End of All Things has felt like a case of 'rush to conclusion' and the conclusion itself is much the same. I do like that Cory Walker got to do the last half, closing out the series. A solid 8

Aaaaaa! This series is so crazy good. On every level. Skroce is some kind of comic making wizard.

Everyone's got some embarrassing and awkward extended family members. King and Gerads are so good at this kind of story.

Another fantastic issue, what else can be said about this series and its quality? I will say the ending here was a tad obvious, if you know anything about Scott and Orion's origins.

A high concept series ends in high concept fashion. Extraordinary series, with a melancholy finale.

A fanatic start to what is sure to be an insane adventure. Love the artwork. Spurrier is the gold standard of the weird and wild.

A crazy cool series with art to die for. Simon Spurrier knows how to make them insane.

A great set up, amazing art, has helped heal the sting of Invincible concluding.

This arc felt kind of... off. I like revisiting Y2K, and the rampaging robots are cool. But the treads tying these two things together didn't feel as tight as previous arcs. In any case, onward to the future!

Lemire is drawing on a lot of classic Legion of Super-Heroes ideas here while also tying things in with his own universe. While the art is serviceable, I was hoping for something a little stronger in the layouts, maybe creating a strong parallel between the idealistic future-past and the dystopian future-present. Still, its giving me my future space heroes fix, can't ask for much else.

A culmination of years of multiverse spanning adventure comes to a head leading into the big 225 throwdown.

100 pages were barely enough to contain this end of an era 25th anniversary issue.

Savage Dragon, a title that always tries to keep its finger on the pulse of current events to weave them into its real time narrative, takes an uncanny look at the rise of American fascism with title character Malcolm Dragon (and family) caught in the crossfire. Also there are bombastic battles, and adventures in other dimensions. Savage Dragon manages to ride that tight rope of reality and fiction. And A+ issue.

Another insane issue of Erik Larsen's never ending opus.

A book made by Savage Dragon fans, for Savage Dragon fans. If you're not a Savage Dragon fan, you'll still find some great art and wild ideas here.

A fantastic start to what should be an interesting Science Fiction tale. Great world building going on, without being overly loaded down with it. Nathan is a fun character. Fantastic art. Can't wait to unravel this series's mysteries.

A little disappointed this series has gone for a renumber (though the total series issue number appears to be preserved in the in-side front cover, so maybe it will resume after this series. Though I suspect it will take the BPRD route and become a series of mini-series from now on.) but the contents are the same wonderful melding of funny animals and the very serious world of feudal Japan. The topic of Christianity in Japan during this period is a very interesting one, and hearing Inspector Ishida and Usagi discuss it as outsiders was hilarious. Always glad to see more Usagi Yojimbo!

Fantastic art, and a cool premise, but this issue had a very strange story cut in the middle that kind of confused where important events were taking place. I'll stick with it a few more issues, but the story's gotta tighten up quick to keep me interested.