Collections – Space Spinner 2000

Collection 30 – Sláine: The Horned God

Kiss my axe! It’s the thirtieth in our series of Space Spinner 2000 collections! These collections have all of our coverage for a specific character or storyline, all in one place. They’re a great accompaniment to reading collected versions of 2000AD, or to just hear your favorite thrill all in one place.

The Horned god has earned a heap of accolades, and I don’t think it too many. It’s the most modern story we’ve collected, taking place entirely in the post-episode 200s, but is so well known that there was really no choice but to collect it as soon as possible. The Horned God is a complex mix of heroic journey, pagan mysticism, meditations on man and womanhood, and critique of the modern comic publishing industry, all combined with amazing visuals that will stick with you for years to come and set the course for a generation of comic artists. as a fantasy story Sláine sticks out from other thrills in 2000AD, and with the horned god, it does so in all the best ways. Grab your dwarf, it’s time to get adventuring!

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/GRN329

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Casefile Collection 05

We continue our series of collected coverage of the Judge Dredd Complete Casefiles with volume five, covering progs 208-270. This casefile has something for everyone! We’ll learn about the Mega-Rackets of Mega-City One, have a rematch with Judge Death, and then go toe to toe with a super power as Block Mania leads to the Apocalypse War!

You can get your own copy of Casefiles 5 here: https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB281

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Casefile Collection 04

We continue our series of collected coverage of the Judge Dredd Complete Casefiles with volume four , covering progs 156 to 207. This collection is a mix of a massive epic, The Judge Child Quest, and a bunch of smaller stories set in Mega-City One, many of which develop the character of the city and it’s citizens, as well as how Dredd interacts with them.

You can get your own copy of Casefiles 4 here: https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB274

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Casefile Collection 03

We continue our series of collected coverage of the Judge Dredd Complete Casefiles with volume three, covering progs 116 to 154, and the 1979 2000AD Annual. After some epic tales it’s time to dig in and learn about the world Dredd lives in, with a collection of tales focusing on Mega-City One. Of course there’s still time for massive spider invasions, were-dinosaurs, and inter-dimensional avatars of death, don’t worry!

You can get your own copy of Casefiles 3 here: https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB266

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Casefile Collection 02

We continue our series of collected coverage of the Judge Dredd Complete Casefiles with volume two, covering progs 61 to 115. This time Dredd gets epic, with a pair of massive tales, The Cursed Earth and The Day the Law Died! It’s an adventurous good time, and we hope you’ll enjoy reliving it with us.

You can get your own copy of Casefiles 2 here: https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/XB266

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Casefile Collection 01

We start our series of collected coverage of the Judge Dredd Complete Casefiles with volume one, covering progs 2 to 60. The earliest adventures of the lawman of the future, complete with long lost brothers, space olympics, robot revolutions, and overbearing housekeepers! It’s an exciting time, and we hope you’ll enjoy reliving it with us.

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Collection 29 – Harry 20 On The High Rock

It’s Crime Time AGAIN! Also it’s the twenty-ninth in our series of Space Spinner 2000 collections! These collections have all of our coverage for a specific character or storyline, all in one place. They’re a great accompaniment to reading collected versions of 2000AD, or to just hear your favorite thrill all in one place.

Stop the World, I wanna get on! Harry 20 comes right at the dawn of what we here at Space Spinner chart as the golden age of 2000, roughly from 1982 to 1986. It’s a story of a man unjustly sent to space prison, the people he meets there, and his attempts to escape. It’s a decent sized tale at 21 progs, but is often one Fox and I refer to as an example of a great one-off thrill. Something that shows up, has a story to tell, and then leaves, without trying to become a regular feature or set up a sequel or anything like that. Some of that might be due to the famously difficult time the notorious GFD had with 2000AD editors, but I always have a place in my heart for this kind of thing. Plus to my mind it has one of the greatest twists in 2000AD history, and I say this as the podcast enters 1989 and 90, which are a very twisty era for 2000AD indeed!

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/graphic-novels/more-titles/GRN393

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Collection 28 – The Stainless Steel Rat

It’s Crime Time! Also it’s the twenty-eighth in our series of Space Spinner 2000 collections! These collections have all of our coverage for a specific character or storyline, all in one place. They’re a great accompaniment to reading collected versions of 2000AD, or to just hear your favorite thrill all in one place.

The Stainless Steel Rat! I’m not sure how Tharg got the idea to adapt some short, fun, sci fi novels into comics, but it very much works! The Stainless Steel Rat is a story of crime and adventure in the far future, starring the smoothest criminal of them all, James Bolivar diGriz. He always has an answer to everything, at least until he gets drafted into the Special Corps and starts having to take down criminals instead of doing crimes himself (kinda, he does do plenty of crimes while taking out criminals). Add in a lovely wife and eventually teenaged sons, plus a dash of time travel and/or political intrigue and you’ve got a perfect stew of thrill power! I read the books when I was a kid, though I only have a slight memory of them. These days I can’t think of reading without imagining diGriz as Ezquerra’s James Coburn look-alike!

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/GRN378

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Collection 27 – Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 5

Drokk it! It’s the twenty-seventh in our series of Space Spinner 2000 collections! These collections have all of our coverage for a specific character or storyline, all in one place. They’re a great accompaniment to reading collected versions of 2000AD, or to just hear your favorite thrill all in one place.

We’re back in Mega-City One for a massive, nearly three hour episode! Case Files Five covers over a year of Dredd stories and is truly massive, covering everything from organized crime rackets to violent camping trips. Everything from global thermonuclear war to trans-dimensional avatars of death! If you want it, Case Files 5 has it, and right now you can get a digital version free at the Rebellion webstore (see link below), or buy it at your preferred bookseller!

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/GRN281

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Collection 26 – Sláine: Warrior’s Dawn

Kiss my axe! It’s the twenty-sixth in our series of Space Spinner 2000 collections! These collections have all of our coverage for a specific character or storyline, all in one place. They’re a great accompaniment to reading collected versions of 2000AD, or to just hear your favorite thrill all in one place.

More than most thrills, Slaine is a story with distinctive eras, easily identified by their artists. This collection has most of the first era, with work by series creator Angela Kincaid (Angela Mills at the time), along with McMahon and Belardinelli. AFter this we’ll be in the time killers era with Glenn Fabry, David Pugh, and Mark Farmer, and we’re soon to enter the Simon Bisley era on the podcast. This early era is interesting because of how low to the ground it is. It’s got a very Conan feel to it, just a barbarian and his sidekick wandering the land, looking for trouble, and I think it can be interesting to compare this callow youth with the more grown up Sláine that we’ll see in the Horned God. I hope you enjoy these early Sláine stories, and my terrible pronunciation of Celtic names!

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