Rain Dogs

Rain Dogs is the eighth album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1985 on Island Records. A loose concept album about "the urban dispossessed" of New York City, Rain Dogs is generally considered the middle album of a trilogy that includes Swordfishtrombones and Franks Wild Years.

The album, which includes appearances by guitarists Keith Richards and Marc Ribot, is noted for its broad spectrum of musical styles and genres, described by Rolling Stone as merging "Kurt Weill, pre-rock integrity from old dirty blues, [and] the elegiac melancholy of New Orleans funeral brass, into a singularly idiosyncratic American style."

The album peaked at #29 on the UK charts and #188 on the US Billboard Top 200. In 1989, it was ranked #21 on the Rolling Stone list of the "100 greatest albums of the 1980s." In 2003, the album was ranked number 397 on the magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Composition and recording

Waits wrote the majority of the album in a two-month stint in the fall of 1984 in a basement room at the corner of Washington and Horatio Streets in Manhattan. According to Waits, it was:

List of minor 2000 AD stories

This is a list of minor 2000 AD stories.

Stories

A

Absalom

Absalom is a horror story spin-off from Caballistics, Inc. by Gordon Rennie and Tiernen Trevallion. It spanned three installments "Noblesse Obligie" in 2000 AD #1732-1739 (May–June 2011), "Sick leave" in 2000 AD Prog 2012 (December 2011) and "Ghosts of London" in 2000 AD #1765-1771 (January–February 2012).

The first trade paperback, Ghosts of London, was published in June 2012 (ISBN 1781080429).

Ampney Crucis Investigates

Ampney Crucis Investigates is an occult detective story by Ian Edginton and Simon Davis starring the fictional investigator Ampney Crucis and his man servant Eddie Cromwell. It started in 2000 AD #1611 (2008) and up to the end of 2011 has spanned four parts.

The first trade paperback, Vile Bodies, was published in January 2012 (ISBN 1907992944).

B

Babe Race 2000

Babe Race 2000 is a story written by Mark Millar, with art by Anthony Williams which ran in an eponymous story in 2000 AD #883-888 (1994) and a one-off, "Bounty Hunter Mom", in the 1995 2000AD Yearbook.