http://btjunkie.org/torrent/2000AD-The-Complete-Zenith-by-Grant-Morrison/377916532ef1b17c681cb5cabedbc337c804b4042740

Zenith was an amazing story in an era where virtually every story in 2000AD was great
Thanks for including it Brian !

My personal favourite moment of Phase One is the "one punch" from Zenith that SHATTERS the evil Nazi Masterman

http://hipsterdad.livejournal.com/213753.html

I've lifted this from the 2000ad Forum by the way.

Methinks we should petition Rebellion to produce a proper sized hardcover collection… Their equivalent of an Absolute.

It'd be great, but there are rights issues. It's one or both of:
1 - The stories (certainly phaze III, but possibly others) featured characters which Fleetway thought they owned at the time and it turned out they didn't.
2 - IIRC there's also some hiccup in the contract grant Morrison signed with 2000AD that makes it hard to reprint stuff. Presumably this is why his other 2000AD stuff like Big Dave and Judge Dredd: Inferno haven't been reprinted. (though The Book of Death has so I'm not really sure of the details)

Quality also reprinted Alan Moore's Ballad of Halo Jones, Although the quality (lolz pun) of the reprints is terrible since the original stories where printed in magazine format and reprinted in standard comic format so they basically shrunk the original pages down and coloured them.

Random, I just bought a whole run of Quality Comics “2000AD Showcase” which reprinted Zenith in colour for the American market.

See, here you're playing to a bunch of different parts of me...

One part says, "cool, another alternative cheap source of Zenith" B-D

Another says, " Bastards! the original was Black and White, why colour it? are you that pathetic?" >:-(

And yet another goes, "heh! Wish I'd thought of that... Just like the Crayon-Butchery Variant to that issue of Nextwave! Let's all go and dig out our old 2000AD's and colour them in and post them to Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell!
"No prizes involved, but it might be fun to see the looks on their faces!"

I'm veering to wards the third voice, how about the rest of you?

Phase IV was pretty cool, though.

And yes, it's very good to see material outside the American superhero mainstream spotlighted here. Please continue!

theres actually another story after phase four a one off called http://WWW.zzzzzenith.com which appeared in prog 2001 (the second of 2000ads annual year end progs)

You could have a month of this feature just featuring stuff from zenith (I'll try to be vague enough so its not spoilers) theres Masterman vs the red dragon, zenith beating masterman, the fate of the beanoesque world from phase 3 Zeniths sacrifice in phase 3 the truth about the evil lloigor from phase 4 anything involving acid archie and the end of phase 4

There are cool comic book moments all over the globe. This feature propably has to limit the Morrison moments.

Chuffed that you have featured a moment from Zenith. My favourite 2000ad strip. 2000ad being my favourite comic and form my perspective the single most important comic to the industry ever.

Hope there are a few more to come. I appreciate that this will be American centric and for good reason, this is an American site, so hats off to you for this. Have to say I do think you could do the entire year with 2000ad moments. The thing is with 2000ad, because its an anthology and therefore each episode of any story is normally only 4-7 pages long in any story there is a need to have many cool cliff hanger moments. So for your money you get 4 times as many cool moments (ok ok so the logic is very very stretched there and well wrong BUT hopefully the basic principal carries!).

Really if you want to read Zenith forget a collection and pick up the individual progs. You'll get some other great stuff as well. I can't emphasize how worth it it would be. While Phase 1 (from which this comes) isn't the best Zenith story; Phase 3 is exceptional, Morrison's first take on doing a DC Crisis, it is from my personal 2000ad golden age issues 500-600. Many people will argue, with very valid points for other periods, anywhere between 200-700 really will get a mention. This for me is the era to start with.

Having said all that I'm not sure I'd have picked this moment. From this story the moment just before when Zenith sees off Masterman with some style have an epic battle only to have the Many Angled One revealed is a stunner and there are more from other Phases BUT I'm just happy that this fantastic story, from a truely great comic gets a mention.

Now then lets have some more 2000ad huh, Nemesis, Judge Dredd, Bad Company amongst the many from the comic. Oh and some more from other European comics. My personal favourites being Asterix, Blueberry, Tex but there's a continent of truely great stuff out there.

Little chuffed about this as you can see! Cheers Brian.

Great to see that this feature isn’t going to be Marvel/DC centric.

Well, it WILL be Marvel/DC centric - it will just also have a bunch of non-Marvel and DC moments, too!

As Blackjak says, it'll probably be a lot cheaper to try and get hold of the original issues rather than the ridiculously overpriced collections. You can frequently get big lots on eBay for a few pounds, plus you'll get a load of other great stories into the bargain. If you really do want to go down that route, here's what you'll need to get (Phase 4 and the 2 single issues marked * have never been collected):

Phase 1: Tygers 16 episodes (Progs 535 to 550)
Interlude 1 1 episode (Prog 558)
Interlude 2 1 episode (Prog 559)
Phase 2: The Hollow Land 18 episodes (Progs 589 to 606)
*Maximan (2000AD Winter Special 1988)
Phase 3: War in Heaven Part 1 9 episodes (Progs 626 to 634)
Phase 3: War in Heaven Part 2 17 episodes (Progs 650 to 670)
*Mandala: Shadows & Reflections (2000AD Annual 1990)
Phase 4 Prologue 1 episode (Prog 791)
Phase 4 15 episodes (Progs 792 to 806)

There are Zenith collections around, but haven't been in print ofr a LOOOONG time... You can find them on Amazon and eBay, but expect to pay through the nose for each Phase...

Last time I looked, they were going for £50-80 per volume... The good news for American readers, is that three months ago that would have been $100-160, now it's closer to $80-120... (not exact, don't get picky!)

Scarily, you might be better off trying to buy the individual progs on eBay if you just want a good read.