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That's fab, Robin. The overall picture makes sense. I guess Alpha didn't age while he was dead, so he'd physically be in his 40s.

So on the subject of upcoming Stront, do we have any idea as to how old Wulf Jr might be? I've always been a bit unsure of the SD timeline. How old was Johnny when he met Wulf? How old is he now? For how long was he dead? I don't think it's ever been Dredd-style real time, and probably left deliberately vague, but I dont' really feel enough strip time has elapsed. On the other time, I'm getting pretty old myself...

I only want a few of these as I've got most of the stuff I like already, in decent editions. I'll just be picking up individual issues from time to time. Looks like I'll be doing that online. Do Hachette keep them available indefinitely? The old mega collection editions still seem to be on their site.

It would be great if I could find somewhere that actually stocked these. It was the same with the mega collection. Asda actually did stock the first issue (Slaine) but they seem to have given up on it already. What's the business model here?
Bit of a pain to have to order these online, with added postage and delivery hassle.
Curmudgeon of Perth

Sod it, I'm in for Nemesis. Anyone wanna buy three phone books?

I have the same Nemesis dilemma. I've got the phone books and they're great, and I think they are the same page size as these new editions. Really it's just about whether the quality is better enough to justify it.

Will Nemesis have colour spreads? Just measured up, and the new editions seem to be the same as the complete edition phone book size, give or take, so I'm sorely tempted to replace them with lovely hardbacks. Just a shame about the covers, as I'm not collecting the whole set so they'll look a bit odd on the shelf.

Any subbers still waiting for their prog? Usually a Saturday without fail.

I already had The Horned God in a massive hardback, but for £2 I thought it worthwhile to check out the new edition. First thought - it's a bit small? Were the originals that size? The quality is much better than my old edition though, which possibly got resized the other way a bit too far. I suspect I'll be dipping in as required, as I'm pretty happy with my Rebellion TPBs.

This discussion has made me realise just how much classic stuff I already own. I'm not so much of a completist to double dip, so I think it'll just be pick and mix for me, and filling in the gaps. Looking forward to:
Durham Red, as The Empty Suns has been unavailable since forever
Complete Caballistics - it's always annoyed me that the final two series weren't collected
I probably have enough Slaine (apart from the 90s stuff) and all of Nemesis (Book 1 at least three times) plus all of classic Stront. The only annoying thing for me is Dante - I'm just missing one volume (TS vol 1) and would prefer to plug that gap with the original volume (which will never appear now) rather than a hardback that probably contains a chunk of TS vol 2.

The worst thing here for me is that the only book of Dante I've not got is the second Tsar wars. So- do I let all my current trades go and get the UC versions or just pick up the UC edition that runs those issues?

Me too, though I think it's the first volume of Tsar Wars I don't have. Dilemma, though I'm not sure I'd want to buy 9 volumes of it at £10 a pop.

Annoyingly, the edition that takes us through to the end (the numbered purple spines) is currently only available from vol 6 (Hell and High Water) onwards, and the latest reprint (with character pics on the spines) seems to have stalled at vol 3 (Love and War), meaning both Tsar Wars volumes (4 and 5) are out of print. I eventually located vol 5 in a comic shop after much searching online, but vol 4 has eluded me - I finally cracked and bought the digital version, as my reread had been thwarted for months by then.

The whole saga is ripe for a reprint in mega volumes, grouped a bit more sensibly than they have this far:
1. Up to the outbreak of war
2. The war
3. Pirate Dante
4. In the employ of the Tsar
5. The revolutions (both of them) and conclusion

I feel sorry for Dredd. He's obviously dying for the robot to fuck up even though he's also impressed by it.

Junker
Trash
Dry Run
Wireheads
Kola Kommandos
Basically a load of 90s stuff that should never again see the light of day.

Friday prog in Perth, which is fab, as I was going away for the weekend, so could read it on the train.