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OK, thanks guys that helps. The maps are good, btw, I hadn't seen these before. There are many more sectors than I'd imagined.

It all makes me think there must be a lot more open space in the city than I'd previously imagined - if there are between 4000 and 6000 blocks spread over such a large area. I guess I'd always been led to believe from the artwork that the whole city was just crammed full of blocks, and open space was a rare luxury (wasn't there a sort of fabled, hidden garden or park area that's appeared in one or two stories?). Maybe it's mostly undeveloped and undesirable wasteland - huge landfill sites or something. I guess also there are other buildings besides residential blocks.

Following the GI biochips question (which always bothered me too), I have a couple of Dreddy-flavoured queries:

1) Am I right in thinking that Mega-City One is one solid mass of blocks stretching the entire Eastern seaboard of the US, and then inland some?

2) If no, then how big is it? If yes, then given that each block seems to have the population of a small town, surely the pop. of the city ought to be HYOOOGE, i.e. much greater than the original 800million (before Apocalypse, Necropolis, etc.)

3) Also (forgive me for not knowing this I'm sure it's been explained), does JD only patrol a single sector? This would explain to me why it never takes him long to bike over to any one destination when summoned. But does this mean that unless specifically mentioned, all City-based adventures we read in the strip take place within the same sector?

It's a bugger to get hold of. I've had it on order from Amazon for more than a month but it's reprinting and won't be available until April.

Publishers, huh? Pah!

Mole (publisher)

not just shoots people. a couple of weeks ago there was a bit where he killed that humungous blobby teethy creature in a manoeuvre - I'm not sure what it's called - that Lone Wolf (of Lone Wolf & Cub) uses. You know the one, where they kind of lunge at and past each other, it looks at first as if nothing has happened, then you realise the loser has a sword-shaped gouge in their torso and he/she/it falls over dead.

I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

Forgive me if this has been mooted before, I haven't been able to keep up with all the posts in last few weeks.

I reckon Shakara is some future/alternative incarnation of JD. Look at the shoulders, and his(?) head - aren't they a bit too reminiscent in shape to be a coincidence? And then there's his incredible combat skills etc.

I agree it seems weird, as the two stories are so dissimilar in style, but surely that would make it all the more shocking when the truth is revealed (like The Dead Man).

mad Mole

Incidentally, since I started collecting and re-reading them all I've developed an incredibly nasty eczema-style skin rash on my hands and arms. It appeared in the summer and I have narrowed down the cause to either the print/paper of my 2Kad collection (with which I spend most evenings), or my recently-born son (with whom I spend whatever time is left).

Anyone else have an allergic reaction to TGGC?

Can I sue Rebellion?

Wake, do the pre-1200 format fit in these binders as well?
If not, do you or anyone else know where I could get similar binders that would store progs that size in the same way?

Don't fancy the cost of buying them up for the whole collection, mind...

If I remember correctly one of the benefits of the Hand was that it turned its new owner into an expert at rolling spaghetti onto his fork (because the dead mobster had been Italian).

Also, Joe Soap ate a load of curries.

Not sure what Doomlord ate, but I also remember two other photostrips: Sargeant Streetwise who was a bit of a cool dud in his leather jacket, and Thunderbolt & Smokey, a strip about a school footy team.

The photostrips didn't seem to allow for many subtle shades of emotion. Wasn't the standard posture - whether anger, surprise, fear, joy or pain - just to stand there with hands up and a wide-open mouth? Or am I thinking of that agony aunt photo casebook thing in the Sun (which I have never seen of course, just been told about)?

Perhaps I am getting confused with the latter as I'm sure skimpy lingerie is usually involved, and I don't think it was ever worn by Doomlord or Sgt Streetwise.

Does anyone remember the point at which Eagle admitted the photostrips weren't really working?

On the subject of comedy, what was that Straightjacket Fits thing from the early Megazines all about?

Had zero comedy value for me. Unless I missed something...

Whaddya know. I looked again as soon as I posted this, and found it straight away. Hurrah, I AM a dumb-arse

Where is the voting and top/bottom 20 list? I keep looking for it on this site but can't find it anywhere.

It's probably obvious and I'm being a dumb-arse, but please, someone help me...

Best single panel - based on my limited reading so far - has to be the Dredd/Fear panel 'Gaze into the fist of Dredd' from Judge Death Lives...

The cover of Prog 302 is a classic IMHO.

I started out not enjoying Harry 20 too much but have come to love it. Having spent the last year and a half breaking the bank (and back!) to buy the (almost) entire backlist (still missing about 20 progs), I'm currently overdosing on thrillpower, catching up on what I missed.

I'm reading several streams, starting variously at progs 176 (which is where I came in the first time round, but originally stopped about 100 issues later), 500 (500 to 600 have been exceptionally good, with the exception of most Belardinelli strips - I loved Meltdown Man and Ace Trucking from the earlier progs, but loathed The Dead, Mean Team and most of his Future Shocks), 1000 and of course current issues.

I have to say, it's a real joy. I'd always thought of myself as a 2000AD fan but only now realise that I'd actually only read a tiny amount of TGGC.

Any thoughts on what joys/tortures I have to come? From what I've picked up, sounds as though issues from the early nineties weren't too hot.

I'll hang in there, I mean I'm not suicidal it really was going spiffingly in first half of year. Dante, Bad Co, more Flint & Irving enough to wait for.

Having raved about Prog 1263 - "Best ever artists", "We've never had it so good", blah blah - the last couple of weeks have been a bit of a disappointment. JD is still cool but everything else rather uninspiring, especially 'Killer'.

Will it be like this until Xmas, prog 2002?