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In happy political news, Mrs IP got ILR (settled status) yesterday. We shouldn't have had to go through this shit, and many others are still fighting this abhorrent system. If you have a mind to ever write to your MP, please do so and ask them to demand a declaratory system for people who moved here with every assumption they could just live their lives.

Congratulations, Mrs IP!

Ian Cognito, comedian, died on stage on Tuesday.

Looking forward to another Strontium Dog.  I'd still like to know just how far Rogue Trooper is going to be taken and whether there will be a compilation of Jaegir and The 86ers.  I have the latter but not the former book.

I'd also like to know just how much Invasion/Savage were getting.  Will there be any more than was in the Invasion and two Savage books already done?  I know the Invasion book was all the original Invasion, but I've seen recaps of Savage that hint at far more than has been printed.

To have a complete Bill Savage collection, you'd really need Invasion! Disaster 1990 and eleven books of Savage (Thousand Year Stare was the most recent one, wasn't it?)

Just had latest delivery
41 shakara vol two
42 nemesis vol four

Plus reprint of slaine horned god to correct spine error

Well I'm glad to hear it does exist! Am yet to get anything after chasing twice.

Hmm - as I'm away from my copy, what was the error with the Horned God?

nah. it's okay, the moment's passed, would be a weird call-back weeks later. 

If there's something a bunch of middle age (or fast approaching, for those in denial) people do, then it's weird call-backs!

Shall have to subscribe!

For what it's worth (and I realise most of you complaining about delivery times are subscribers) - my copies of the four Nem books arrived yesterday - I ordered them on the day Issue 42 / Nem Vol IV came out: 27/03/2019.

While reading the last couple of episodes of Grey Area it finally popped into my head that BEM probably stands for Bug-Eyed Monster... Or does it?

That's the usual meaning of the acronym.

...and Judge Dredd around the same time - I'd never heard of High Society before that orbiting luxury condo.

GIs and Dolls was obviously a reference to Guys And Dolls

In the same era of Rogue, all the following are titles I wouldn't have recognised at the time, as I hadn't come across the original being referenced:

   
• All Hell on the Dix-I Front
• Frisco Fog
• From Hell to Eternity
• Gasbah
• M for Murder
• To the Ends of Nu-Earth

Thought it was going to be the next in the Read 'Em and Weep or Be Pure... series until I followed the link.

Looks interesting, will have to compare and contrast with the all-ages FCBD offering last year.

Bringing it back to 2000AD, I see a face off between an axe wielding Optimus Prime and Mongrol in the  future. (In a posed figures display kind of way, I mean, not a playing "take that!" "Mongrol Smush!" Click! Click! Kind of way. Honest. Their size is comparable, although they're not to scale. If they were, I think Mongrol would be far smaller.  We think of ABC Warriors as giant robots, but they seem quite small compared to Transformers. Even Mongrol. I think only Mek-Quake in kill-dozer mode would compare.

You'd have to compare the Transformers to the Terra-Meks, Charlie and George, wouldn't you?  (I was never into Transformers, so don't know how they fare in the big robots stakes - other than Optimus Prime who I know is the size of an artic).

[King Maker]

a pretty good issue , highlight was King Maker and Grey Area ,
and I agree Max Normal was a lot better this week

He must be refreshed upon his return from the Cursed Earth :-)

SMF seems even more temperamental than usual today :-(

[King Maker]

a pretty good issue , highlight was King Maker and Grey Area ,
and I agree Max Normal was a lot better this week

He must be refreshed upon his return from the [size=78%][url=https://ospreypublishing.com/store/osprey-games/board-card-games/judge-dredd-the-cursed-earth]https://ospreypublishing.com/store/osprey-games/board-card-games/judge-dredd-the-cursed-earth[/size][/font]][/size][size=78%]Cursed Earth :-)[/size]

In terms of total numbers of pages, it doesn't come close to Dredd, but Alejandro Jodorowski is a contender - his 'Jodoverse' series of interconnected comics are all in the same Universe, with a consistent tone, and have been going on and off since 1980 I think.
The Incal, The Metabarons, Technopriests being the core series, all written by one guy (with a few co-writers here and there, which you'd have to count if you're comparing to John Wagner).

How good these comics are compared to Judge Dredd is a matter of taste, but they've been highly influential on comics and movies. Some might say the stellar art carries some rather silly scripts, but then I've only read a couple of albums out of a total of like 36.

There were a few of those being given away at last year's free comic book day - if Rebellion's offerings put the majority of other publishers to shame, then those albums put even 2000AD FCBD in the shade (in terms of printing, binding and presentation anyway - the actual creativity inside is, as ever, subject to taste.