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well, that didn't take long:

Kingdom Vol 1 will be Volume 60, Strontium Dog Vol 1 will be Volume 4 and Nikolai Dante Vol 1 will be Volume 72.

Hope this helps!

All info taken from wikipedia - it looked like it was referenced.  Although following that through the ref doesn't actually seem to link to anything which directly provides that info, so it could be inaccurate.  Guess we'll find out in December assuming the info about the first issue of Nikolai being issue 8 is correct.

If Dante isn't vols 1-9 of the series then that leaves plenty of room for the complete Stront with Kreeler fitting into a sane position in the run at Vol 11.

I'll put my hand up as creator of the wiki page (and contributor to other Hachette pages too). It wasn't until someone mentioned it a week or so back that it occurred to me that the FB mods post may have simply meant vol 1 of Dante rather than vol 1 & issue 8 of the collection.

Since this is causing some disagreement I've removed the volume listing from the wiki and asked the FB mods if they'll clarify. Just depends what kind of mood they're in today!

Anyone know what the 'Krysler's Mark' volume on the Wikipedia page might be?

As they're are extending this series by 10 volumes and presumably hoping that everyone stays on board, I hope that at some stage soon they're going to announce what the extended volumes might include.
More Mad City type Volumes please and no more scooping up the dregs from the Megazine: the forthcoming Independent Operators looks pretty uninspiring. Harmony Krieg and O'Rork for Drokk's sake?

That volume was always listed as "City of the Damned" until the Judge Child volume dropped and Matt Smith called it "Krysler's Mark" in his introduction.

There's also the Extreme Edition version, for three quid: https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/DD18

Which also has more pages too, though not more Shako.

Is Dante confirmed to be 1–9? I've not seen that anywhere, just that there will be vols 1–9 for that series.

When the FB Page first confirmed Dante they listed the book's issue and volume numbers which I too took to be vols 1-9 on the shelf, but in hindsight that may be completely wrong and will also solve an issue I had with the stronts volumes bumping into Nemesis in running order. Thanks for bringing this up!

My issues so should be in the post and I expect to receive them next week.

I had heard something that concerned me .. friend of a friend etc ... They said that sometimes Hatchette don't always send what they are supposed to so you *might* get two issues of say 45 and then none of 27.
Has anyone experienced this? One of the benefits (for me) of signing up was that everything would just be sent to me and I wouldn't have to worry about missing issues or orders not being sent at all etc etc

Say it ain't so...

Any packing or printing errors like this can be sorted via a DM to the Facebook page, or directly with Hachette customer services though I recommend the former.
I've had a few 'one off' printing errors replaced, as well as one line wide mistake. Usually takes a couple of weeks for replacements to arrive but they do come.

On Facebook Des Doyle asks:

In this weeks Prog it's advertised that Shakara is out now but it isn't right?? It should be out next week with the Mega Collection?? Something seems to have gone askew with the marketing of these volumes as opposed to their actual release dates - can you clarify?

...and the answer clears up what happened there, if not why.

2000 AD Hachette's decision to put The Horned God on sale for an extra week took place after the recent issues had been sent to print, so there was nothing we could do about the adverts. It's sorted for future issues though.

Famous Monsters announced as issue 73 on Facebook. Looks like that will replicate the content of the Rebellion Cry Of The Werewolf book plus extras.

Chris Weston falls out of love with 2000ad - a rich Johnson bleeding cool exclusive coming soon.

His eBay handle Westonfront gave it away (his twitter is the same). He was selling a bunch of progs at the time, I only got one block of 100. Unsurprisingly the few in the run with his covers were missing, with the description claiming something like they had disappeared down the back of the sofa somewhere. Think he needed to clear some office space.

someone confirms both Invasion and Savage are included, but not how many books we'll get. So that's a minimum of 2.

I think you're on the money with the four - one for Invasion matching the Rebellion book and then three for Savage, adding one more to what is already in print/collected.

So yeah, thats our 80. Three years until the extension, and a heck of a lot to read in the meantime!

Is that 79 confirmed volumes so far?

I think so, the only difference between my list and IndigoPrime's is he has four books for Invasion/Savage and I don't recall that being confirmed at all?

I have three of design one, five of design two and still another 150-200 progs to 'contain' (100 of which I bought off eBay from the actual Chris Weston)

That also makes for a skinny book, given that they need to be in the 200–250 range, according to Matt Smith. Must be padded out some (covers/sketches/texty bits).

Here's abelardsnazz on the content of the Shakara test volume from May:

Interesting point. I haven't done a page count but the Shakara volume is bulked out with character sketches, covers etc.

Total strip page count for The Horned God and Halo Jones are 187 and 199 respectively so the full volumes come in at around the 200 mark.

Do we know whether the Shakara volume is the complete Shakara?

It's basically a hardback of the first Rebellion volume, isn't it?

Squinty here for the lowdown:

That would put issue 4, if not issue 3, in the hands of subscribers before it hits the shelves. Which would be nice. I take it that's not how it works for the Mega Collection?

The Mega Collection's subscription page is more detailed - it shows the two books being allocated (though not their issue numbers since the text is too long for the screen), which then arrive after about two weeks, and then a separate listing for the payment.