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And that's 2025's 2000 AD complete — which means I'm finally all caught up! ("Finally" because I've been working on this goal since September.)

I hadn't really processed it, because at the time I was just doing what I could to catch up, but reading the 'recap of the year' feature they run nowadays brought home to me that I've raced through an entire year's worth of 2000 AD in about 2½ months (and over a year's worth in about 3 months of dedicated effort). When I started this push, it was no more than a semi-desperate attempt to catch-up, reduce my backlog, not feel like I wasted my money... but, in some respects, it's been quite a nice way to read it. It certainly condenses storylines, which sometimes makes it easier to remember what's going on in them, especially with long-runners. So, even though I've now caught up, I wonder if I should deliberately get behind again — save up all 2026's Progs until September/October time and do another massive catch-up? Hmm, I'm not sure doing it deliberately is such a good idea... though, knowing me, once I get out of the habit of regular reading (which I will, whether I like it or not, now that I don't have a literal pile of Progs to work through), I might end up doing it accidentally.

What I should do is apply this method to the massive stack of unread US comics I've accumulated over the past three years... or even just catch up on X-Men (unread since May!) or Absolute Batman (unread since July!)

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Continuing through the big end-of-year issue.

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Beginning the 100-page Christmas issue. Today: a one-off Judge Dredd that sees legally-distinct 'Tintin' visit Mega-City One. Fun.

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The bumper-length Christmas Prog dropped through my letterbox today, so I'm all set to get caught up before the end of the year — after this issue: six to go (or, as the final one is roughly equivalent to three regular issues, you could argue eight).

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I may not have read any for almost three weeks, but I'm still aiming to get caught up on 2000 AD by the end of the year, so here begins the final push.

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As I mentioned, a whole new slate of strips start this issue; and it's a bumper-length one, so there are six!

...except one's a text story, which is fine, but, I dunno, I never really feel these 'are' 2000 AD. And one's the first half of a story that concludes in the Megazine, which I don't buy, so I'm not going to read that. And one of them is a new series of Void Runners, which I seem to remember thinking was pretty shit last time (whether I stuck with it or it's one of those rarities that I abandoned partway, I can't remember). So that's... underwhelming.

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All the running storylines wrap up here for a fresh slate in #2450 — most of which I presume are still ongoing today, because I'm now only ten issues behind!

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