This may be a 2000 AD blog from here on out.

Sorry, I don't make the rules...what, I do? Anyway, I got a pile of comics from Midtown Comics, like 85 books for 90 bucks! There were a couple Nightcrawler variant covers, but everything else was probably under a buck: a Kelley Jones mini-series I hadn't seen before, most of the manga Grey, a couple last issues, a few IDW reprints, and a mountain of mid-grade Fleetway/Quality reprint books! Big chunks of Rogue Trooper, Judge Anderson, and the occasional Dredd himself: from 1988, Judge Dredd 21/22, reprinting 1977's 2000 AD #20, "The Comic Pusher!" Written by John Wagner, art by Mike McMahon. (Ooh, that prog had the first appearance of Shako!)

Dredd's informant Max Normal puts the law on the tail of one of Mega-City One's "lowest forms of crime," a comics ring! Get kids hooked young, then jack the price up, presumably forcing them into crime to fund their habit. Sounds familiar--I mean, how, um, horrible. The comic book guys put up a fight, but are gunned down by Dredd. Still, reviewing the microfilm comics, even the Justice Department has to respect how valuable they are, namely old progs of 2000 AD! Wait, was this an ad? Man, there oughta be a law.

Per the GCD, the odd numbering on this one was because they got out of sync between the British and American reprints, and they had to rejigger it to get back in line, although Americans may have missed two months of reprints? We was robbed! We'll see how it goes when I hit other issues, but this particular issue the paper and print quality wasn't as grotty as I remember these reprints sometimes being. Although, admittedly, my standards are probably kind of low; and I'd rather have a ton of cheap reprints than fancy paper, color, and so forth.