Totally agree, I know I bang on about it, but she is fifty!
Dredd has had some of his best stories recently coming to terms with the aging process, Anderson, as a once stunningly talented woman going through this process would throw up some interesting new angles:
eg; if 'the Change' suddenly wiped out her Psi powers, or made them Intermittent what would she/ the Dept do?
In society's eyes, when does the sassy radical outside become the dement old witch?
Unfortunately, much as I like Alan's work in 2000ad he never seems to adress complex personel stuff like this, I think he could do it after he did start out in Girls comics and says he enjoyed writing them.