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Kind of don't care about next trillogy for now, but I'm interested in live action tv series, just pure curiosity (and it's great move, this could be great selling point for disney streaming service they want to lunch in near future).

I think if we can live with constantly reprinted coloured version of V for Vendetta we can live with "new" coloured Halo Jones.

Glad to hear about new Charley's Wars since I couldn't afford complete set from Titan.

New BC means more Rufus art, so I'm fine with that.

I think we can't ignore that 2049 is sum of many influences like BR was. While there's still noir, detective story in there, 2049 "is" cyberpunk how we understand the genre today with all that came after original (and original BR is not a "cyberpunk" per se). From mirrorshades, Mike Pondsmith games, japanese manga, to system shock etc. Damn, there are some things in this movie that echoes Jeter s Blade Runner books.

BR was small story in different enviroment than you'd expect from typical noir genre movie, and whole "message" of the movie was just reinterpretation of "broken, washed up detective" trope. 2049 is trying to match story to this huge world around. I kind of admire that. In some ways 2049 feels like Fletecher studied from stories that previously learned almost everything from Blade Runner.

This story is worthy of being written by Dick himself.

To be honest, 2049 feels like legit William Gibson story for me, it's more like Bridge Trillogy, especially thanks to Joi.

Putting Voyager aside (which for me was only star trek serial I didn't enjoy)... I think I kinda like Discovery. It has it's flaws and first episode is much better than the second but it's enjoyable mashup of "something old and something new" like every series before.

I like how this two episodes was more Mass Effect than JJ Abrams and how Captain Georgiou being the "old" captain is more like captains of Trek future.

Maybe I enjoyed this two episodes because I was expecting huge mess... I don't know, something like Alien: Covenant maybe? But Discovery so far is ok.

These look superb value for anyone who doesn't yet have a HB collection though.

I actually plan to sell/give to library all my previously collected Hellboy softcovers and switch to this omni collection. Not that I think it's upgrade in terms of quality, but... I want to experience something similar to what I have with Elephantmen: Mammoth. I sold all my previous owned Elephantmen trades and now I'm rereading them in Mammoths with much enjoyment. It's kind of new experience. Not better but new.

Spikes & Jacob-G- Did you drop by? It'd be grand to put a face to a user name.

Yup, twice.

This was first TB for me but I kinda fell in love with this festival. No celebrity bullshit, diverse panels, nice city, for sure I try to visit Leeds again for another TB.

I was trying to finally finish Andromeda... and ended up replaying The Last Of Us.

This is horrible. I've never thought that Andromeda is as bad as people are saying. I like that it forces you to be more politically active than just marching through everything because you're destined supreme war leader. You can't play Andromeda the way you played M1-3. But at the same time many things that I liked about Andromeda have become pain in the ass in its later stages. I hated every second on Voeld (except the "whale" mission). I hated half of my companions because I didn't care about them. I hoped that Andromeda would be someting like Fallout 4 for me. A guilty pleasure where I know the game is pretty bad, is nothing like the original, but I just sink in and then wonder where did all my time disappear.

I never liked Millar work, but one thing about this makes me happy. Millar created all his creator owned books with artists I like and admire, and this means more money for them for work well done, so... It's kind of great news.

Judge Dredd (Rob Williams and Sean Phillips)
Brink
Jaegir
Lobster Random
Strontium Dog (Wagner, Grant and Ezquerra but... in black and white)

With Flint cover art.

Other perspective.

Nowadays in Poland we have two independent publishers with interest in 2000AD (there's also a third one with plans for Buttonman but since it's only an announcement I'll ignore them). First, called Studio Lain, reprints various 2000AD stuff, from Dredd to Halo Jones in something like 500 to 800 printed units. The second one, called Ongrys, reprints only Case Files with higher print run (but I can't say how many since they don't want this to be public knowledge, at least for now).

So here in Poland you can sold at best 500 copies of a book that is not "Dredd, drawn by Bisley or written by Moore" reprint, but if it's one of Dredd, Moore, Bisley trio you can go a little higher (people still love Bisley here, really).

We have only one LCS that orders 2000AD/JDM here, and from what I remember they only have like two clients who order the weekly (myself included).

The biggest influence on newer writers seems to be US TV, which means they're most comfortable with dense plotting and Joss Whedon dialogue.

Actually, when I read stories like Titan I felt more 80's kind of b-cinema feel than TV and Whedon.