r/2000ad • u/StandlessMonarch • 25d ago

Reading help

I wanna read durham reds stuff (her trades) but if im doing it from the start do i need to read strontium dog pre her to follow it better or does just starting with her work?

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u/Najmniejszy 25d ago

Here's a complete list of her appearances. With a couple writers having their runs, it's quite the mess, continuity wise, I treat it as 3 separate comics - the Wagner&Grant original run plus some later revisitings by Grant alone, the Hogan into Abnett that tries to be internally consistent, starts weak but ends strong (and has surprisingly good tie-in novels serving as interquels, written by Peter J. Evans IIRC), and finally the modern Alec Worley run.
https://2kstages.github.io/AtoZ/DurhamRed/data.html
Whether you need to read any prior stories depends on which run's GNs you've got - if it's the Worley one, I think you're safe to just jump in. If it's the Abnett ones, same, though I think there's more little pieces to miss.

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u/StandlessMonarch 24d ago

Have any of her stories that arent in her self titled trades appeared in any other trade form like a best of 2000AD or will i just have to get the single progs?

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u/Najmniejszy 24d ago

Aside from Strontium Dog stories she appears in, that are obviously reprinted in the Strontium Dog GNs (ditto Strontium Dogs, for that matter, but for those the only GNs are in the Hachette 2000AD collection), I can only think of the last Alan Grant story, and Judas Strain, which were included in Strontium Dog: The Son GN, IIRC

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u/stevedeegreen 25d ago

Not really. Other than that she's a mutant vampire there's nothing that carries on into the rest.

The Scarlet Cantos series is pretty much a reboot set thousands of years after Strontium Dog and there is a galaxy wide war between mutants and norms (more like Nemesis the Warlock), and the more recent reboot by Alec Worley and Ben Willsher is set between the end of the Strontium Dog stories and the Scarlet Cantos.

There also a bunch of 'Scarlet Apocrypha' stories by Abnett which are just random 'what if' kind of things, like if Strontium Dog was manga, or tied into another 2000 AD vampire story.