Last week we established that 2000AD was one of the most important talent factories in comics history. This week we need to talk about what happened after the talent left.

The short version: the 1990s were rough, a Sylvester Stallone film did not help, and the comic spent a decade trying to figure out who it was without the generation of writers who had defined it.

The longer version is more interesting - because the longer version ends with 2000AD in 2026     being, by any reasonable measure, genuinely excellent.