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Seems really overpriced tbh, are they reprinting the colour version?

There's some talk that the exact cut-off date is actually June 1969.

If this is correct then Rebellion might own Cat Girl too.

But not Spellbinder!!

Dang.

Yeah, that's definitely a shame. Some Spellbinder's (such as the one where they made a mess of history) are some of the best Fleetway stories that I've read form the early 1970s era. Nice, quirky, and imaginative stuff.

I think we may all be being a bit optimistic about what Rebellion will release anyway. I was thinking the other day, there are a bunch of 2000AD stories that haven't been collected yet that must be in higher demand than a lot of the stories mentioned.

Though I guess black and white collections may be so much cheaper to produce that they're more viable even if they're obscure, not sure.

There's some talk that the exact cut-off date is actually June 1969.

If this is correct as then Rebellion might own Cat Girl too.

Does rebellion own crisis (or revolver) now?

Pretty sure these were creator-owned (Rogan Gosh was later published by DC Comics)

They can't be purely creator owned, otherwise Tharg wouldn't have been able to tempt Garth Ennis into writing Helter Skelter in exchange for the publishing rights to Troubled Souls*. Maybe DC did the same with Rogan Gosh.

Pat Mills says he's been trying unsuccessfully for years to convince whoever held the publishing rights to Third World War to reprint them - which obviously wouldn't have been a problem if the strip was entirely creator owned.


* Which Green Bonce had to buy specially from Egmont.

That's true, I'd forgotten about hearing that about Troubled Souls.

I has a look through some of the issues I have, Revolver always seems to give the copyright to the writers and artists, but Crisis does not. I think True Faith is still currently being published by DC Comics though and that one was definitely from Crisis.

These guys deserve a knighthood

Does rebellion own crisis (or revolver) now?

Pretty sure these were creator-owned (Rogan Gosh was later published by DC Comics)

Not a big fan personally, my favourite of his stories is still One Bad Rat by a big amount.

Need to get around to reading Heart of Empire one of these days.

While Case Files 12 used the original prog art films for those episodes, the Hachette book has used the remastered pages that Liam Sharp did for the 2006 Rebellion release of 'The [then] Complete PJ Maybe'. Relevant excerpt taken from his huuuuuuge afterword -

For this edition I've had the luxury of being able to remaster most of my colour pages digitally. I hope you enjoy the tweaks. I can't change the flaws in the drawings - there's only so much you can do! - but the blacks are blacker and the colours, sharper. There are a few additional elements of photoshop trickery and generally it's closer to how I intended they should look like at the time.

Liam Sharp, July 2006

Ah, so he essentially did a George Lucas, thanks for the info.

Were the characters beetroot coloured in The Complete PJ Maybe too or is that a printing error?

I just got the PJ Maybe book, really disappointing (;_;)

Are all these Mega Collections so dodgy in quality? what's up with the contrast and paneling?

No idea what that emoticon is trying to convey... (if it's 'disappointment' then... is it needed?) Anyway...

This is the first negative comment I've heard on the PJ book. Small chance you have a dodgy printing? They do happen.

There are a lot of alterations in the art, its possible that my copy may be a dodgy printing too though, and maybe that is magnifying the otherwise hard to notice art changes (which seem mainly to affect only the first half of the book).

The book has panels that have been shifted around, it has glare effects added to many of the metallic surfaces, it has some sound effects that have been replaced, some sections of the art are cut off, and it has some large coloured circles added to some of the backgrounds.

Actually in "What I did during the summer holidayz" part 3 there is a picture of PJ standing in front of a new red circle, and you can still see a very slight silhouette of white around his head from where he has been cut out of the original background.

Bear in mind I'm a little bit neurotic and obsessive

Here's a page from my book -

I just got the PJ Maybe book, really disappointing (;_;)

Are all these Mega Collections so dodgy in quality? what's up with the contrast and paneling?

Well the poll has recently hit its years anniversary, V For Vendetta has been in the lead for quite some time now and it looks like its place in the top spot is probably assured (its level of fame is just much higher).

Its been slow going, but hopefully the poll will continue to pick up more votes by this time next year!

Adolescents are attracted to bad language and nudity and their parents have little say in what they are buying anyway. These elements could be responsible for teenagers swapping over to Rebellion from Marvel or DC when they get to that age, then they may stick with it for the quality of the writing as they get older.

I'm sure everyone around here's known this for years, but ran into this the other day in (I think) a 1970s Conan

Pat Mills is a legendary writer and everything but I generally take his history lessons with a grain of salt.

Does he hate on poor old Valiant and Lion again in the documentary?

Guess getting my eldest daughter into Star Wars and comics hasn't gone down too well either.  Still working on tooth.

Have you tried Valerian and Laureline?

Laureline>Leia>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Padme

The Spider Phonebook that includes "The Spider Vs the Sinister Seven"
Spellbinder Phonebooks that include the Goddard's Mess time travel arc
Leopard From Lime Street Phonebooks
Mytek the Mighty Phonebook that Includes Tyron the Invincible
Kelly's Eye Phonebooks
Cat Girl (Sally) Phonebooks
The Trigan Empire
Jinty collections inc Fran of the Floods, Land of no Tears, The Human Zoo, Worlds Apart, & Slave of Form 3B

Also, anyone know what's happening with Nikolai Dante?

Valda Phonebooks
V For Vengeance
The Skald Saga
The Anglerre Saga
Supercats Phonebook

Johnny Future Phonebook

Heros the Spartan

Strange Apparitions
Going Sane
Two-Face: Eye of the Beholder Hardback

Spider-Man Harry Osborn Saga

Battle Angel Alita