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B Format is a particular size of paperback: 130mm x 198mm (5.12″ x 7.8″). Personally, I find it somewhat annoyingly small for comics, but then I'm a'gittin' old and my eyesight aint what it use ta be.

I'd absolutely love to see 'Skizz' get a new single volume with all three runs in it too.

Duplicate post, ignore.

I'd concede to some Floppy Reprints to wrap it up.

I don't think a third volume is ever going to happen now considering the length of time since 'volume 2' came out.  As for floppies, I'd much prefer a re-release of the whole shebang in one 'case files' type book, even though that would make my two existing trades obsolete. Floppies seem like a last resort.

Make of this what you will, maybe it's just by remarkable coincidence, but we received a (very polite, I might add) communique from the fine folks at 2000AD last week asking us to change the wording of our disclaimer for our animated project so it's very clear indeed none of what we end up with is remotely endorsed or approved by 2000AD or Rebellion. Can't say I blame them.

And funnily enough, Shankar practically fell over himself in his intro video to make that exact same message regarding his own project very clear indeed, which kinda backs up my feeling, as intimated earlier, that no involvement is not necessarily the same thing as no communication or awareness on Rebellion's part.

Oh. I see. You where a pastel goth then?

Don't mock. You might well bring down the wrath of the Pastel Goths.

Speeking from experience Jim?

I have to say, I was never an eyeliner goth... never even painted my nails black!

Cheers

Jim

Once got my foot run over by a car. Result: one foot with all black toenails (and a slight limp). On the plus side, it's cheaper than nail varnish. On the downside, it's much, much more painful.

Personally I quite like the artwork as well, although in my ideal universe it would probably be drawn by Fraser Irving or Henry Flint. Obviously both of these would be very different from the actual strip and also from each other, but I can kind of visualise in my mind what they might look like.

I wasn't a fan of the first run of the story, at that stage it seemed to be taking itself a bit too seriously at times and there were certain plot elements and character motivations that just didn't seem to make a great deal of sense (although at least some of these are explained later on). However I did think it picked up and became a great deal more readable from the second part onwards.

But it's Dredd Richmond.....you MUST like it, become....one of us, one of us, one of us!!!!!

Those who dislike it seem happy enough that others enjoyed it, why can't those who enjoyed it accept that others disliked it?

No problem with folks disliking it here. My only point was that if Dredd the character continues to grow in popularity (a good thing, most would agree) it will very likely come with the side effect that the number of different reinterpretations of the character and non-canon versions of the setting out there will continue to grow. So it's probably a good idea to be prepared for a whole lot more stuff not all of us will necessarily like.

Personally I'm okay with most versions, with the exception of Stallone '95 and the dire 'Lawman of the Future' spin-off. Even the IDW stuff I can handle, though it has some irritating flaws. Those new dark judges were probably the worst bit so far. They're pretty silly and pointless. The fact that the writer feels the need to explain each of their functions in the dark judges' setup in order to justify their existence only underlines how pointless they actually are.

Hate-Watching.

Why would you watch something you don't like just so you can slag it off? Find something better to do with your time.

Don't underestimate the power of a good bit of hating to relieve daily stress. Before video games were invented hate-watching was the equivalent of shooting 1,000 zombies in the face before bedtime.

...Dredd is called to HQ and told that they want him to partner with Anderson again. She's experiencing terrifying hallucinations and nightmares and whenever she has one of these episodes - an unusual amount of electrical energy is detected around her. The visions and dreams she has are of a skeletal face saying "I'm cooooooming.... you are the dooooorwaaay Andersssssson". Control want Dredd to basically protect Anderson. He is told in secret that for a while now, the existence of other dimensions has been suspected and Anderson may be experiencing some kind of interference from them. Dredd protests about doing a "babysitting" job but reluctantly agrees...

I agree with certain criticisms of the proposed ending, but really I have a bigger problem with your beginning. After Anderson spent the whole of the first film proving herself, starting the sequel by busting her back to the vulnerable sidekick / potential liability is nonsensical and entirely the wrong direction to take the character. It means she has to repeat the same arc all over again. A sequel needs to let her move forward from where she left off.

This kinda reminded me of Heavy Metal Dredd in terms of the sheer anarchic nonsense going on in it. Obviously it's not 'Judge Dredd as we know it', but neither is HMD. It's just another reinvention of the Character, something which happens to mainstream American comic book characters every 3 minutes. Rebellion has been pushing so hard for acceptance of Judge Dredd by American audiences it's kinda inevitable that this sort of thing should start happening more and more. We have 2000AD Dredd, Stallone Dredd, Lawman of the Future Dredd, Heavy Metal Dredd, and now Urban Dredd, IDW Dredd, and Shankar 'Bootleg Universe' Dredd... Inevitably, every new iteration will be liked by some and piss others off, in varying measure.

Let me add to the voices in the wilderness (somewhere back around page 2) crying for a reprint of Dinosty.

Only just got around to reading the Calhab Justice floppy. Cringeworthy is just about right. I might go back and read the later stories as I have the relevant Meg's, just to find out if all the ultra-cringey Scottishness being a 'central plot point' turns out to be anything other than a feeble retrospective excuse for all the earlier cringeworthiness. :p