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My issue was very badly damaged and I've had to bin it. I'd assumed it was the postman's fault.

If the problem is too many submissions, then anything which keeps the number of submissions down must be a good thing.

Imagine how many they'd get if you could just email them?

Except that war comics don't actually kill anyone.

(Unless you roll one up and hit someone really, really hard with it.)

It's definitely called the S&M special from now on.

I wouldn't use how excited you feel about picking up the prog as a guide to how good it is. It says more about you. Everything is more exciting when you're young.

Best Dredds:

1. Harvey
2. War Buds
3. Get Jerry Sing

I'm leaving Dredd out.

1. Hope
2. Brink
3. Indigo Prime

HM to Rogue.

I thought he said that too.

I don't buy the argument that the problem is too much Pat Mills, even if you don't like his work. 60% of this week's prog isn't by him, and if you add up all the progs of last year that had his stories in them, I beg it comes to well under half.

(Plus there wouldn't have been any prog in the first place if it hadn't been for him.)

But the bottom line is that everything will peak from time to time and then not be at it's peak in between. That's not the same thing as it being the worst it's ever been.

And isn't there some more Wagner on the way soon? I think I read that sonewhere. So nil desperandum.

It's the internet, it's supposed to be confrontational. And I'm pretty sure that Shakira's Law was a pun, not a slip.

Turning back to the subject: I think this post is a huge overreaction, and it fails to keep in mind how truly awful the comic was for part of the '90s. It's just totally wrong to compare them; the '90s were truly dreadful, whereas this is just a brief period (eight weeks into the current stories) where some people aren't enjoying the current line-up very much. This has always happened from time to time, and always will: the nature of the prog is that stories end and new ones start, and it's just impossible for the quality to always be consistent and unrealistic to expect it to be. It'll pick up again in a few weeks, something that seemed very far away and very uncertain 25 years ago.

I agree with you about Bad Company, and about Brass Sun. I am enjoying Pat's stories, although your point of view about them is valid and I get it. I have no problems with the Dredd episodes so far this year, and I can't see anything wrong with Dredd leaving the city now and then. If that's not your cup of tea then don't worry, he'll be home again soon. It's hardly evidence of the prog's decline.

And you don't have to cast your mind back very far to think of some outstanding recent stories, like Hope for the Future for instance. It's not as if we've been fed rubbish for the last five years.

I think the prog is in safe hands. But if you disagree, then remember that there's no "duty" to buy it. If you don't like it you can always stop, and check back later now and then to see how it's doing.

I know Rebellion's a business, but that doesn't mean they've done this for cynical reasons. It could just as easily be because they believe in it.

Yes, it's not that sexism and Nazism are morally equivalent, it's only an analogy.

Ultimately this is why the world is so divided right now because people can't debate anymore with out becoming hostile and rude.

That's one reason; another one is bigotry. Bigotry is divisive. It's also hostile and rude.

Emotion doesn't have to be brought in to everything, that's a choice. Agree to disagree, where's the harm in that?

Bigotry tends to provoke an emotional response, and for good reason. As for agreeing to disagree, it all depends on what you disagree about. I'd agree to disagree about our favourite colour. But if it's about whether women should be encouraged / permitted to work in comics, then agreeing to disagree with a misogynist is indeed harmful, because it's a shameful surrender in the face of something that ought to be stood up to.

I liked how Dredd ended. It's good to see Dredd defeat someone by using his wits instead of just shooting them once in a while, and it had a big monster in it.

The next volume will probably be out in the year 2050 at this rate.

That looks good. Surprised to see it's weekly.