comical catchup

I've had a subscription to the worlds greatest comic (2000AD) for nearly 10 years. But in about April I found I stopped reading them every week (it may have had something to do with the election going on...). Even after that I failed to pick them back up, and slowly a rather large pile of unread issues built up.
I've finally opened all the envelopes and started to trawl through the backlog of 7 months.
The worst thing was, having been reading David Bishop's blog, knowing there was a major story arc taking place in 2000AD, and a series penned by the man himself in the Megazine.
As of yesterday, I'm now only 4 months behind...