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I thought we were more or less finished with Sinister Dexter and to be honest I must be the only one who wasn't thrilled with Devlin Waugh.

It seems as if the extension is going to be a bit of a mixed bag further on.

I got around to finally reading the second volume of Caballistics, and to be honest I'm still not sure what to think of it.  The artwork style generally didn't appeal to me in places, and I felt that while the second book was better than the first it suffered from pacing issues in places.  The ending sections seemed rather rushed and I did read the part where it said that Rennie had tired of the strip especially after the two novels.

Maybe one to read again.

My replacement Savage arrived shrink wrapped with Fresh no problems. I sent the surplus one to a friend. Now I've got the Taking Liberties softcover spare as well.

I've got my Flesh from WH Smith's.

Ohh, that phrase brings back mammaries.

And that's when I shot him M'Lud.

I've got my Flesh from WH Smith's.

In my view:

McGruder's first exit as Chief Judge.

I admit that I might be wrong but I thought we did see McGruder's first exit as Chief Judge when she resigned as well as removing those members of the Council of Five who argued for retaining her.  Unless that wasn't the first time.

Do we have any details about the extension past 111?  Apologies if that has already been posted.

I'm guessing Tyranny Rex is another dinosaur related volume, but not connected with Flesh.

I see Jaegir is there as well, is it just the same stuff that's in the Rebellion book or does that include more stories?  I have Jaegir on paperback already and it's a bit thin for one book unless it was being paired with something like the 86ers.

I phoned my local WH Smiths and apparently I have two books sitting which must be 79 and 80.  I ordered the collection before I moved, and I would prefer to have switched but since Smiths is a franchise its not so easy.  I would have to stop the order, get my deposit back and reorder in the Smiths in my town which would possibly mean a gap.  Alternatively there is another newsagents which might get it but there's always the chance of missing an issue.

I've been rereading the collection.  Just finished 82, Judge Anderson The Trip and I loved all those stories.  I was telling a friend about this book and how hard Anderson really finds it.  Some of these stories are really sombre.

Anyway, I went looking on Abebooks for this one....instead this was one of the search results.  Methinks someone is a bit ambitious, ESPECIALLY for this volume

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30131502120&cm_sp=Searchmod-_-NullResults-_-BDP

The Oxfam shop I work on got the Starblazer deluxe collection with the Grant Morrison Operation Overkill and the McMahon drawn Jaws of Death

Also two Rebellion published pieces of vintage, Death Wish from Tiger and Speed about a former race driver who becomes horribly disfigured after a crash and something called Turbo Jones which I've never heard of but looks decent

I do have the Flesh 'phone book' edition that was released a wee while back that had volumes 1 and 2 as well as a few other stories.  I guess that's more than will be in this new book?

Is there any news yet on the replacement Savage volumes?

Rereading these books and I noticed a nice bit of what I'm sure is not just a coincidence. An early Judge Death story, the one where Anderson is forced to go back to deadworld and let the dark judges regain access to the city. There is a panel where the Dark judges teleport into Dunc Renaldo subway.

Isn't it funny that this self same block was where Kit Agee was held in Necropolis.

I had never read Dante before and my impression of the first one or two books was a bit above 'meh', basically, slightly silly nonsense with really nice art but the addictiveness and the increasing grimness of the story has really grown on me. I wonder, if you got a producer who really loved Dante what sort of miniseries you could have and who would be ideal casting.