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Title: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 10 February, 2012, 12:39:54 PM
Thought it was about time to refresh this thread.

2000 AD:

Age of the Wolf II by Alec Worley/Jon Davis-Hunt - starts prog 1772
The Zaucer of Zilk by Al Ewing/Brendan McCarthy - starts prog 1775
Judge Dredd: The Death of Dan-E Cannon by Chris Weston - (one-off) TBC
The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake): Manhunt by Rob Williams/Dom Reardon - starts TBC
Rogue Trooper (35th anniversary 'alternative' special, title TBC) by Andy Diggle/Colin Wilson - (one-off February 2012)
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Ampney Crucis Investigates... The Entropy Tango by Ian Edginton/Simon Davis(?) - starts TBC
Lenny Zero (new series) by Andy Diggle/Jock(?) - starts TBC
ABC Warriors (new series, title TBC) by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - starts TBC
Low Life (possible new series/details TBC) by Rob Williams(?)/Artist TBC - starts TBC
The Red Seas (final series, title TBC) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC
Cadet Anderson: Algol (6 episodes)by Alan Grant/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC
Durham Red (possible new series, title TBC) by Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

Judge Dredd: The Guile Show by Writer/Artist TBC - (one-off) Meg 321
Samizdat Squad: Grey Zone by Arthur Wyatt/PJ Holden* - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
SnapShot (creator-owned, replaces American Reaper) by Andy Diggle/Jock - starts Meg 322(?)
Hondo-City Justice (title TBC) by Robbie Morrison/Mike Collins/Cliff Robinson - starts TBC
Insurrection III(TBC) by Dan Abnett/Colin Macniel - starts TBC
The Simping Detective (possible new series, details TBC) by Si Spurrier/Artist TBC - starts TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

Death Planet/Angel (Meg 321)
Purgatory (Meg 322)
Harry Kipling (Meg 323)

2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Ampney Crucis Investigates: Vile Bodies - TBC 2012
Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 02 - Feb 2012
Judge Dredd: The Day the Law Died (B format, Feb 2012)
Kingdom: Call of the Wild - Mar 2012
Mega-City Undercover Volume 02: Living the Low Life - April 2012
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 19 - May 2012
Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth (B format, May 2012)
Absalom: Ghosts of London (June 2012)
Slaine: Treasures of Britain (June 2012)
Savage: The Guv'nor (July 2012)
Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha (July 2012)
Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files 04 (Aug 2012)
Shakara: The Destroyer (Aug 2012)
Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges (B format, Sep 2012)


2000ad/Simon & Schuster Graphic Novels - US (provisional list - all subject to change):

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 04 - Dec 2011
Judge Anderson: The Psychic Crime Files - Jan 2012
Judge Dredd: Crusade - Feb 2012
Slaine: The Books of Invasions - Mar 2012
Leviathan - Apr 2012
Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu Earth 01 - May 2012
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05 - June 2012
Judge Dredd: When Judges Go Bad (June 2012)
The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake) - July 2012
Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Strontium Dog: Mutant For Hire - Aug 2012
Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf - Sep 2012

Other Media:

2000AD Cover Art Featuring Judge Dredd - Hardback art book (Sep 2012)
Judge Dredd (1995 Movie) - Blu Ray (TBC 2012)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Gonk on 10 February, 2012, 09:14:41 PM
Cheers for the heads up. Plenty to look forward too I'd say.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 10 February, 2012, 09:19:26 PM
Where did the news of the Judge Dredd Blu-Ray come from? Is it just a UK release?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 11 February, 2012, 11:19:09 AM
I've got a strong hunch that we'll be seeing a UK/US Blu ray release to coincide with the new film - its already out in France and Germany - and Googling it I found it on a list of forthcoming releases. Still very much TBC though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 11 February, 2012, 12:23:30 PM
It's only just occurred to me that, with Johnny Alpha back on the scene, the proposed new series of Durham Red could essentially be a spin-off of the revived Strontium Dog, maybe even connected in some way to the events of The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mardroid on 11 February, 2012, 02:31:34 PM
I haven't read much Durham Red apart from her small role in The Final Solution when she speaks with McNulty on the blower, kind of 'elseworld's' stuff that was in the latest release of Fiends of the Eastern Front (which doesn't really count as it's not really her, her) and the reprint that came with last month's Meg. (Cracking read by the way.)

The stuff I've read could easy fit either Strontium Dog continuity, I.e. [spoiler]Johnny being dead or everyone thinking he is dead.[/spoiler] As for the other stories, I understand they're mainly set further in the future after a period of hibernation of her own. I thought that maybe the current SD stories were set while she is in hibernation.

When she woke up she wouldn't necessarily know that he had returned, or dismissed any historical accounts of his return as nonsense and conjecture. I haven't read any of that material, but from the small blurb attached to the collections I get the impression the historical accounts would be pretty spurious if the mutants of that age think of her as some kind of goddess. In fact his apparent resurrection could have added to her own apocryphal 'history'.

Of course there could be stuff in those collections that disputes this. I haven't read them, as I said.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 11 February, 2012, 06:26:40 PM
Quote from: radiator on 10 February, 2012, 12:39:54 PMAmpney Crucis Investigates: Vile Bodies - TBC 2012

Possibly a copy and paste error but this is out (and in need of reviews at Amazon):

www.amazon.co.uk/Ampney-Crucis-Investigates-Vile-Bodies/dp/1907992944/
http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/ampney_crucis_investigates_vile_bodies
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 14 February, 2012, 02:41:48 PM
From Boo Cook:

QuoteI'm currently working on a new five-part Judge Anderson, Psi strip called 'Stone Voices' with Alan Grant. That should be surfacing in the Judge Dredd Megazine in the summer

http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2012/02/happy-birthday-2000ad-from-art-droid_14.html
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 17 February, 2012, 12:16:33 AM
Not sure where to post this,hope here is okay.
Does anyone know if 'Slaine: Demon Killer' has gone to a subsequent printing with the Dice Man strip error rectified? (I own a 1st print, but admit I am a stickler for such things!)
Thanks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Goosegash on 17 February, 2012, 12:51:15 AM
Ooh, I hadn't heard about new Simping Detective. I was thinking the other day how long it must've been since he was last in the Meg - six years at least. But no Fraser? That's disappointing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 17 February, 2012, 12:23:35 PM
I'm usually amazed by the fact that some GN re-re-reprints of 2000AD material (Kev Walker's ABC Warriors for example) become quite rapidly hard to find books. Does someone has an idea of the average circulation of a GN Rebellion reprint, and does it depends on the character ?
Same question for subsequent prints (like the actual second print of the complete Nemesis vol 3)?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: WhitBloke on 18 February, 2012, 07:43:36 PM
Glad to see we'll be getting more of Judge Anderson's cadet career, and with Steve Yeowell art no less.  Rather hoping it's black and white.  Always enjoy Yeowell in b/w and maybe Alan Grant's going to go "stark and harrowing" again, which would surely work. 
Got my fanboy fingers crossed for a yesteryear appearance by old-timers Feyy or Ecks just for the juxtaposition with a young Anderson but I somehow just know I won't be disappointed whatever shows up on the page.
What's that?  There are other upcoming thrills?  I missed them because they weren't similarly in bold and didn't draw my lazy, suggestible eye so well?

*Double checks the list*

Oh, Tharg, 'tis surely a year to check my thrill capacitors.  Cracking stuff to look forward to.  Durham Red with Ezquerra!  The conclusion of Red Seas!  The 2000AD cover art book!  Lovely.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mardroid on 18 February, 2012, 07:53:51 PM
Quote from: WhitBloke on 18 February, 2012, 07:43:36 PM
Glad to see we'll be getting more of Judge Anderson's cadet career, and with Steve Yeowell art no less.  Rather hoping it's black and white.

Judging by the Thrills of the Future preview picture,[spoiler] it is. Unless they're just showcasing his pre-coloured work.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 18 February, 2012, 10:34:32 PM
They do sometimes preview colour artwork in B&W, most recently with Strange & Darke.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 20 February, 2012, 02:05:00 AM
Quote from: Goosegash on 17 February, 2012, 12:51:15 AM
Ooh, I hadn't heard about new Simping Detective. I was thinking the other day how long it must've been since he was last in the Meg - six years at least. But no Fraser? That's disappointing.

Especially if Tharg passes us off with some hack like D'Israeli, Edmund Bagwell or Henry Flint.  ;)

One imagines that the Spurrier droid's diodew would implode if Ol' Green Bonce said to him, "Now that Fraser's at a loose end what with DC cancelling Xombi how about we get him to knock up some more of that Simping jazz instead of completing Gutsville/"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 22 February, 2012, 09:59:05 PM
Tales From the Black Museum: Scouting for Bots by Leah Moore & John Reppion/D'Israeli Meg 322
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 22 February, 2012, 10:12:58 PM
Quote from: Emperor on 22 February, 2012, 09:59:05 PM
Leah Moore & John Reppion[/b]

Ooh, that's a coup! Is this their House of Tharg debut?


EDIT - And mere seconds later, I see the thread itself. Never mind!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 22 February, 2012, 10:24:18 PM
In other exclusive new story news, The Wedding of Jena Makarov definitely isn't the last Dante story. That will be Sympathy for the Devil. Who knows, there might even be another one in between.

The Hondo City story, Project Behemoth, starts in Meg 324 and will be accompanied with a reprint of the quite good but pointlessly Dreddified Tiger Sun, Dragon Moon and the second episode of Spurrier/Ezquerra Dredd outing The Adjudicators.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 February, 2012, 11:01:30 PM
Good news about Dante, I was hoping this wasn't the last outing.
Any idea if there'll be any change in artist (John Burns?) or will Simon Fraser continue til the end?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 February, 2012, 06:18:05 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 22 February, 2012, 10:24:18 PM
In other exclusive new story news, The Wedding of Jena Makarov definitely isn't the last Dante story. That will be Sympathy for the Devil. Who knows, there might even be another one in between.


Who, what, why when... wow how have you stumbled across this gem?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 23 February, 2012, 03:51:32 PM
The FINAL Dante trade: Sympathy for the Devil is due out in October (https://twitter.com/#!/simonfraser/status/162558197687787523)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 February, 2012, 12:50:49 PM
Amazon UK have some new (preliminary?) covers on display:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Restricted4.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Life.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Treasure.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Shakara.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Guvnor.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Dark.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Absalom.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin Zeal on 24 February, 2012, 02:03:57 PM
I think this might be my favourite thread on this forum. I get a real buzz from seeing what treats Tharg has lined up for us. Seeing how much money this news costs me, I should probably stick to looking at the underwear thread.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 24 February, 2012, 02:16:17 PM
Nice!

Can anyone remember the titles and/or and start progs of the new series of Anderson, Low Life, Flesh and... something else that was previewed in 1771?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 24 February, 2012, 02:30:10 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 23 February, 2012, 06:18:05 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 22 February, 2012, 10:24:18 PM
In other exclusive new story news, The Wedding of Jena Makarov definitely isn't the last Dante story. That will be Sympathy for the Devil. Who knows, there might even be another one in between.
Who, what, why when... wow how have you stumbled across this gem?
Previews text for Prog 1781-85 (http://www.hovistocose.it/item/MAR121168/2000+AD+1785+%28C%3A+0-1-2%29?c=COMICS&q=2000&kind=F) and for Meg 234 (http://www.hovistocose.it/item/MAR121169/JUDGE+DREDD+MEGAZINE+324+%28C%3A+0-1-2%29?c=COMICS&q=dredd&kind=F)

Quote from: radiator on 24 February, 2012, 02:16:17 PMCan anyone remember the titles and/or and start progs of the new series of Anderson, Low Life, Flesh and... something else that was previewed in 1771?
Low Life: Saudade. 2012.
Flesh: Midnight Cowboys. Prog 1774.
Anderson: Stone Voices. Meg 327
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 24 February, 2012, 02:52:34 PM
I really hope that is the cover they use for the Savage trade. Looks arsom. :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 February, 2012, 02:57:57 PM
I think the Savage cover is excellent too.  Not so excited about the Slaine cover, nor one for the Life & Death of Johnny Alpha.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 24 February, 2012, 03:35:08 PM
2000 AD:

Age of the Wolf II by Alec Worley/Jon Davis-Hunt - starts prog 1772
Flesh: Midnight Cowboys by Pat Mills/James Mackay - starts prog 1774
The Zaucer of Zilk by Al Ewing/Brendan McCarthy - starts prog 1775
Judge Dredd: The Death of Dan-E Cannon by Chris Weston - (one-off) TBC
Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil by Robbie Morrison/Simon Fraser(?) - starts TBC
The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake): Manhunt by Rob Williams/Dom Reardon - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Ampney Crucis Investigates... The Entropy Tango by Ian Edginton/Simon Davis(?) - starts TBC
Low Life: Saudade by Rob Williams/D'Israeli - starts TBC 2012
Lenny Zero: title TBC by Andy Diggle/Jock(?) - starts TBC
ABC Warriors: (title TBC) by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - starts TBC
The Red Seas: (title TBC) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - (final series) starts TBC
Cadet Anderson: Algol by Alan Grant/Steve Yeowell - (6 episodes) starts TBC
Durham Red: (title TBC) by Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

Judge Dredd: The Guile Show by Writer/Artist TBC - (one-off) Meg 321
Tales From the Black Museum: Scouting for Bots by Leah Moore & John Reppion/D'Israeli - (one-off) Meg 322
SnapShot (creator-owned, replaces American Reaper) by Andy Diggle/Jock - starts Meg 322
Judge Dredd: The Adjudicators by Si Spurrier/Carlos & Hector Ezquerra - starts Meg 323
Hondo-City Justice: Project Behemoth by Robbie Morrison/Mike Collins/Cliff Robinson - starts Meg 324
Judge Anderson: Stone Voices by Alan Grant/Boo Cook - (5 episodes) starts Meg 327
Insurrection III(TBC) by Dan Abnett/Colin Macniel - starts TBC
Samizdat Squad: Grey Zone by Arthur Wyatt/PJ Holden* - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
The Simping Detective (possible new series, details TBC) by Si Spurrier/Artist TBC - starts TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

Death Planet/Angel (Meg 321)
Purgatory (Meg 322)
Harry Kipling (Meg 323)
Tiger Sun, Dragon Moon (Meg 324)

2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 02 - Feb 2012
Judge Dredd: The Day the Law Died (B format, Feb 2012)
Kingdom: Call of the Wild - Mar 2012
Mega-City Undercover Volume 02: Living the Low Life - April 2012
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 19 - May 2012
Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth (B format, May 2012)
Absalom: Ghosts of London (June 2012)
Slaine: Treasures of Britain (June 2012)
Savage: The Guv'nor (July 2012)
Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha (July 2012)
Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files 04 (Aug 2012)
Shakara: The Destroyer (Aug 2012)
Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges (B format, Sep 2012)
Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil (Oct 2012)


2000ad/Simon & Schuster Graphic Novels - US (provisional list - all subject to change):

Judge Dredd: Crusade - Feb 2012
Slaine: The Books of Invasions - Mar 2012
Leviathan - Apr 2012
Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu Earth 01 - May 2012
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05 - June 2012
Judge Dredd: When Judges Go Bad (June 2012)
The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake) - July 2012
Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Strontium Dog: Mutant For Hire - Aug 2012
Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf - Sep 2012

Other Media:

2000AD Cover Art Featuring Judge Dredd - Hardback art book (Sep 2012)
Judge Dredd (1995 Movie) - Blu Ray (TBC 2012)

I wonder what the Life and Death of Johnny Alpha book will include, as the story is still very much unfinished - presumed they would add a 'Volume 1' to the title...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 24 February, 2012, 03:42:00 PM
QuoteJudge Dredd: The Adjudicators by Si Spurrier/Carlos & Hector Ezquerra - starts Meg 323

If I remember correctly the story makes the front cover, with art by Mark Harrison.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 February, 2012, 04:15:59 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 February, 2012, 02:30:10 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 23 February, 2012, 06:18:05 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 22 February, 2012, 10:24:18 PM
In other exclusive new story news, The Wedding of Jena Makarov definitely isn't the last Dante story. That will be Sympathy for the Devil. Who knows, there might even be another one in between.
Who, what, why when... wow how have you stumbled across this gem?
Previews text for Prog 1781-85 (http://www.hovistocose.it/item/MAR121168/2000+AD+1785+%28C%3A+0-1-2%29?c=COMICS&q=2000&kind=F) and for Meg 234 (http://www.hovistocose.it/item/MAR121169/JUDGE+DREDD+MEGAZINE+324+%28C%3A+0-1-2%29?c=COMICS&q=dredd&kind=F)


Well I'll be, when I suggested there was something after the current story a wee while back, vaguely remembering talk of an epilogue of sorts, Simon Fraser himself said that 'Marriage' was the last one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 25 February, 2012, 12:14:33 AM
Pat Mills tweeted he had finished writing the next Defoe script, but has no idea when it appear.

http://twitter.com/#!/PatMillsComics/status/163399486171918336 (http://twitter.com/#!/PatMillsComics/status/163399486171918336)

With Leigh Gallagher busy elsewhere, who knows when or if it will appear (if you care)?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: WhitBloke on 25 February, 2012, 12:37:50 AM
I have developed an unhealthy compulsion to just stare at that wonderful cover for the Life And Death Of Johnny Alpha.... and you know what?  I don't really mind!  Beautiful stuff and the next time some snecktub quips that comics are for kids I shall simply say, "Yeah, you're right, look at this for example.  I'll buy one for your daughter right now."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: flintlockjaw on 25 February, 2012, 02:13:45 AM
Oh, I'm sure Leigh is working on it. This is a character that he has made his own. I put Defoe amongst the best of Pat Mills creations.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 25 February, 2012, 02:52:21 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 22 February, 2012, 11:01:30 PM
Good news about Dante, I was hoping this wasn't the last outing.
Any idea if there'll be any change in artist (John Burns?) or will Simon Fraser continue til the end?
Just spoke to Mr Burns. He has one more story after the current one then a final one by Mr Fraser afterwards. Rumours of a Romanov prequel spin off but nothing concrete yet.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 25 February, 2012, 02:56:52 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 25 February, 2012, 02:52:21 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 22 February, 2012, 11:01:30 PM
Good news about Dante, I was hoping this wasn't the last outing.
Any idea if there'll be any change in artist (John Burns?) or will Simon Fraser continue til the end?
Just spoke to Mr Burns. He has one more story after the current one then a final one by Mr Fraser afterwards. Rumours of a Romanov prequel spin off but nothing concrete yet.
Nice one. Glad to hear Burns is getting a last crack at it. While Fraser is my favourite, John's contribution to the series over the years can't be denied.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 25 February, 2012, 03:50:55 PM
This is all absolutely fantastic news. More Dante and more Burn on Dante. Don't get no better than that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 25 February, 2012, 04:40:12 PM
Yeah, that's all fantastic news, and has given me a massive grin this bleak saturday afternoon. Can we start talking about Dante being the highlight of 35 years of the prog yet, or do we still have to pretend that's Halo Jones?

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 25 February, 2012, 05:33:39 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 25 February, 2012, 04:40:12 PM
Yeah, that's all fantastic news, and has given me a massive grin this bleak saturday afternoon. Can we start talking about Dante being the highlight of 35 years of the prog yet, or do we still have to pretend that's Halo Jones?

SBT
It'll be a discussion well worth having. Dante for me, but that's for a different thread I'd guess.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mardroid on 25 February, 2012, 10:58:10 PM
I think a comic can have more than one highlight. They just have different tones...

Oh dear was that corny? Never mind. Point is, I like Halo Jones and Nicholai Dante in different ways.

And I'm not referring to the male/female thing, although that's true too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DrJomster on 25 February, 2012, 11:36:16 PM
Very much looking forward to Savage. One. Happy. Hippo. :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 27 February, 2012, 05:41:17 PM
I know it's not supposed to be out until mid-March, but I saw a copy of Kingdom: Call of the Wild in Waterstones yesterday, so it's out and about.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 27 February, 2012, 06:52:32 PM
Yep, down here yesterday too. Nearly picked it up, but bought sexy pants and olives instead.

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 27 February, 2012, 07:02:29 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 27 February, 2012, 06:52:32 PM
Yep, down here yesterday too. Nearly picked it up, but bought sexy pants and olives instead.

I'm sure you'll look lovely in olive-stuffed sexy pants but do you think you made the right call there?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 27 February, 2012, 07:06:17 PM
I fully intend to spend friday night reclining on my chaise longue, instructing oiled nymphs to eat olives from my pants, while i read the new kingdom trade.

Just like every friday night, really.

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 February, 2012, 07:27:23 PM
This thread is really living up to its name now. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 27 February, 2012, 07:56:01 PM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 24 February, 2012, 02:52:34 PM
I really hope that is the cover they use for the Savage trade. Looks arsom. :lol:

It is.

One of those other books will have a brand spanking new cover though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Evil Pants on 28 February, 2012, 08:03:10 AM
The Ampney Crucis trade hit the west coast of Canada 2 weeks ago.

Does anyone know if the Absalom trade will be collecting everything up to and including the thrill that just ended? Looking forward to that one, and to the Kingdom trade. If the recent trade delay continues the way it has been going lately, that one will probably be here in about a month.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 28 February, 2012, 08:21:26 PM
Quote from: Evil Pants on 28 February, 2012, 08:03:10 AM
The Ampney Crucis trade hit the west coast of Canada 2 weeks ago.

Does anyone know if the Absalom trade will be collecting everything up to and including the thrill that just ended? Looking forward to that one, and to the Kingdom trade. If the recent trade delay continues the way it has been going lately, that one will probably be here in about a month.

I assume the Absalom TP will. It seems standard practice at this point for new series to collect the two main stories, along with any one-offs between them in new TPs.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Evil Pants on 29 February, 2012, 04:57:17 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 28 February, 2012, 08:21:26 PM
Quote from: Evil Pants on 28 February, 2012, 08:03:10 AM
The Ampney Crucis trade hit the west coast of Canada 2 weeks ago.

Does anyone know if the Absalom trade will be collecting everything up to and including the thrill that just ended? Looking forward to that one, and to the Kingdom trade. If the recent trade delay continues the way it has been going lately, that one will probably be here in about a month.

I assume the Absalom TP will. It seems standard practice at this point for new series to collect the two main stories, along with any one-offs between them in new TPs.

Great, thanks! Gettiing both Caballistics trades has probably been the most difficult task I've faced since starting to collect various 2000AD trades, so now my shop is getting what I need for me right away. Looking forward to Absalom for sure.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: douglaswolk on 02 March, 2012, 07:15:17 AM
U.S. Amazon site lists several things I hadn't seen mentioned before:

July 17: Judge Dredd: Inferno (credits Morrison, Millar and Ezquerra, which I take to mean that it'll include "Purgatory" too; I note also that there's no longer a listing for the "Ichabod Azrael" book)

Oct. 11: Tharg's Creepy Chronicles ("writers – Mark Millar, Gordon Rennie, Chris Weston, Simon Spurrier, Arthur Wyatt and artists – Dave D'Antiquis, Frazer Irving, Lee Garbett, Chris Weston, Edmund Bagwell")

Nov. 13: The Ten-Seconders: American Dream

Dec. 11: Judge Dredd: The Garth Ennis Collection (artists listed are "Steve Dillon, John Burns, Dermot Power, Cliff Robinson, Greg Staples, Colin McNeil" (sic)--but not John Higgins, which is a pity, because "Monkey On My Back" could really use an encore appearance)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 02 March, 2012, 07:22:17 AM
I'm actually kinda happy to see The Ten-Seconders getting collected. Even if American Dream was seriously crippled by its artist change up(s).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 02 March, 2012, 08:22:26 AM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 02 March, 2012, 07:15:17 AM
July 17: Judge Dredd: Inferno (credits Morrison, Millar and Ezquerra, which I take to mean that it'll include "Purgatory" too; I note also that there's no longer a listing for the "Ichabod Azrael" book)

Dec. 11: Judge Dredd: The Garth Ennis Collection (artists listed are "Steve Dillon, John Burns, Dermot Power, Cliff Robinson, Greg Staples, Colin McNeil" (sic)--but not John Higgins, which is a pity, because "Monkey On My Back" could really use an encore appearance)

Still going for the big name draws rather than quality. Still I'm sure they know what they're doing and if it draws people in all the better I guess?

As for the 'Ichabod' book its still on the UK site I'm pleased to say with a July date, we'll know soon enough if we see a start date for the new series if it'll make that kinda date?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 02 March, 2012, 10:15:34 AM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 02 March, 2012, 07:15:17 AM
July 17: Judge Dredd: Inferno (credits Morrison, Millar and Ezquerra, which I take to mean that it'll include "Purgatory" too

I was about to make my traditional comment of 'well that's another one that's bound to change US opinions of Dredd ::)', and then I thought: 'hang on, I'd quite like a collection that included Purgatory'.  I could always take off the specs and gaze lovingly at the art from arms length without being nauseated by the dialogue...

I wonder is there a foreign language edition in the offing? 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 02 March, 2012, 04:33:24 PM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 02 March, 2012, 07:15:17 AM
U.S. Amazon site lists several things I hadn't seen mentioned before:

July 17: Judge Dredd: Inferno (credits Morrison, Millar and Ezquerra, which I take to mean that it'll include "Purgatory" too; I note also that there's no longer a listing for the "Ichabod Azrael" book)

Oct. 11: Tharg's Creepy Chronicles ("writers – Mark Millar, Gordon Rennie, Chris Weston, Simon Spurrier, Arthur Wyatt and artists – Dave D'Antiquis, Frazer Irving, Lee Garbett, Chris Weston, Edmund Bagwell")

Nov. 13: The Ten-Seconders: American Dream

Dec. 11: Judge Dredd: The Garth Ennis Collection (artists listed are "Steve Dillon, John Burns, Dermot Power, Cliff Robinson, Greg Staples, Colin McNeil" (sic)--but not John Higgins, which is a pity, because "Monkey On My Back" could really use an encore appearance)

S&S have them listed with all the covers, except the Creep Chronicles (which I assume is being held back for an exclusive reveal somewhere - I'm betting on another Frazer Irving cover):

www.simonandschuster.com/search?term=2000ad&bpp=10&Ns=ON_SALE_DATE
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 04 March, 2012, 03:02:59 PM
Out of curiosity, what's the next Dante arc (The Dante Gambit) about???
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: kos on 06 March, 2012, 02:13:24 PM
Hi
Any update on the release prog for Ichabod Asrael and especially Damnation station?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: flintlockjaw on 06 March, 2012, 11:21:25 PM
We need a 'Slaine: Celt Files' reprinting all the B&W Slaine stories up to 'The Horned God'. C'mon Rebellion...even Pat Mills is onboard for this one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 07 March, 2012, 12:12:35 AM
Surely they deserve original size hardcover treatment? To match the Langley books?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 07 March, 2012, 12:17:59 AM
Well there's a lot more of them than there is of Langley's stories so a case files treatment is cheaper, plus they're black & white which suits the current format.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: flintlockjaw on 07 March, 2012, 01:05:13 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 07 March, 2012, 12:17:59 AM
Well there's a lot more of them than there is of Langley's stories so a case files treatment is cheaper, plus they're black & white which suits the current format.

Yeah. Reprint the B&W stories as a 'Celt Files' a and then do hardcover 'original size' trades for the colour Slaine strips.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 March, 2012, 01:14:11 AM
Quote from: flintlockjaw on 06 March, 2012, 11:21:25 PM
We need a 'Slaine: Celt Files' reprinting all the B&W Slaine stories up to 'The Horned God'. C'mon Rebellion...even Pat Mills is onboard for this one.

So long as it doesn't derail the current reprint series, which are magnificent productions with a gorgeous spine design, and are rapidly closing in on the full set (so long as someone includes the handful of missing bits in a later volume). 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 07 March, 2012, 04:15:28 AM
Although the interview has its own thread I thought I'd flag this up here too - Pat Mills' upcoming stories:

QuoteCould you run down your current "2000 AD" and "Judge Dredd Megazine" projects?

Sure. Second book of "Flesh;" "Midnight Cowboys" with James McKay; "Invasion;" "Rise Like Lions" with Patrick Goddard; "Visible Man" in [the] 35th birthday issue of "2000 AD;" "Greysuit" with John Higgins; "ABC Warriors" with Clint Langley; "Defoe;" "The Damned" with Leigh Gallagher; more "Reaper" with Clint for the "Megazine."

www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=37333
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Pioneer on 08 March, 2012, 02:44:58 PM
Am I right in thinking that the Nikolai Dante saga is being collected in a 'case files' format?

Would love to get into it but am kinda late to the party...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 08 March, 2012, 02:48:00 PM
Not that I've seen yet. Seems unlikely as they have just released the first volume again in America and the last volume will be out over here soon. Maybe one day but I haven't seen any mention yet. Worry not about being late to the party. Pick up the first trade and wade in. It's worth the trip.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 08 March, 2012, 03:00:46 PM
Quote from: Pioneer on 08 March, 2012, 02:44:58 PM
Am I right in thinking that the Nikolai Dante saga is being collected in a 'case files' format?

Would love to get into it but am kinda late to the party...

I can't recall anything and a Case Files format seems unnecessary. However, a nice hard cover Omnibus-style collection would be nice, or perhaps an oversize "Library Edition" (I think the Hellboy ones collect two trades in one of these volumes), as it'd be a fine way to celebrate one of the modern classics and the latter format might go down better on the Continent (I'm surprised there aren't any out there yet as it seems like the perfect story for our European cousins).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Pioneer on 08 March, 2012, 03:35:46 PM
Ah so they're already available, chronologically and everything??

Anyone fancy posting a list? (did this back in '08 with the Dredd books, and have since satisfied that craving!)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 03:40:27 PM
Vol 1: The Romanov Dynasty
Vol 2: The Great Game
Vol 3: The Courtship of Jena Makarov  (You will probably find this one difficult to get hold of and they've apparently no current plans for a reprint, frustratingly.)
Vol 4: Tsar Wars Volume 1
Vol 5: Tsar Wars Volume 2
Vol 6: Hell and High Water
Vol 7: Sword of the Tsar
Vol 8: The Beast of Rudinshtein
Vol 9: Amerika
Vol 10: Hero of the Revolution

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 08 March, 2012, 03:42:57 PM
It's worth adding vols 1 and 2 are in the older format book, and vol 11 will be along when the story is done.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 08 March, 2012, 03:48:01 PM
Yep  - volume 11, titled Sympathy for the Devil, will be out in October.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Pioneer on 08 March, 2012, 03:49:42 PM
Older format book, as in Swimming In Blood, Judgement Day etc?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 08 March, 2012, 04:03:53 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 03:40:27 PM
Vol 2: The Great Game

This is quite hard to get hold of as well isn't it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 08 March, 2012, 04:40:12 PM
Quote from: Pioneer on 08 March, 2012, 03:35:46 PM
Ah so they're already available, chronologically and everything??

Anyone fancy posting a list? (did this back in '08 with the Dredd books, and have since satisfied that craving!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Dante#Collected_editions
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 06:03:43 PM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 08 March, 2012, 04:03:53 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 03:40:27 PM
Vol 2: The Great Game

This is quite hard to get hold of as well isn't it?

Didn't realise that. There's one on Amazon right now for less than a fiver (though all the other copies seem to be heading in the direction of silly money, so you're probably right.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 08 March, 2012, 06:11:30 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 06:03:43 PM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 08 March, 2012, 04:03:53 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 03:40:27 PM
Vol 2: The Great Game

This is quite hard to get hold of as well isn't it?

Didn't realise that. There's one on Amazon right now for less than a fiver (though all the other copies seem to be heading in the direction of silly money, so you're probably right.)

And that one for less than a fiver is actually from America. Surely if they're gonna reprint anything it will be the Dante trades?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 March, 2012, 06:38:21 PM
I'm kinda hoping they are waiting to see if the American editions take off. In which case they could fill the gap? If so come on you Yanks!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mardroid on 08 March, 2012, 11:00:34 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 06:03:43 PM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 08 March, 2012, 04:03:53 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 03:40:27 PM
Vol 2: The Great Game

This is quite hard to get hold of as well isn't it?

Didn't realise that. There's one on Amazon right now for less than a fiver (though all the other copies seem to be heading in the direction of silly money, so you're probably right.)

Me neither. Must be fairly recent as I nobbled that one in the January sale on this very site!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 March, 2012, 03:18:52 PM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 02 March, 2012, 07:15:17 AM
U.S. Amazon site lists several things I hadn't seen mentioned before:

July 17: Judge Dredd: Inferno [...snip...]
Oct. 11: Tharg's Creepy Chronicles[...snip...]
Nov. 13: The Ten-Seconders: American Dream[...snip...]
Dec. 11: Judge Dredd: The Garth Ennis Collection[...snip...]

Now listed on Amazon UK too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jedit on 12 March, 2012, 12:01:12 AM
Another request for reprints of Slaine volumes 2 and 3 here.  I don't know how many people have asked now, but I do not think it too many.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 12 March, 2012, 11:41:54 AM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 08 March, 2012, 06:11:30 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 06:03:43 PM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 08 March, 2012, 04:03:53 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 03:40:27 PM
Vol 2: The Great Game

This is quite hard to get hold of as well isn't it?

Didn't realise that. There's one on Amazon right now for less than a fiver (though all the other copies seem to be heading in the direction of silly money, so you're probably right.)

And that one for less than a fiver is actually from America. Surely if they're gonna reprint anything it will be the Dante trades?

No.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 12 March, 2012, 11:44:45 AM
Quote from: Evil Pants on 28 February, 2012, 08:03:10 AM
The Ampney Crucis trade hit the west coast of Canada 2 weeks ago.

Does anyone know if the Absalom trade will be collecting everything up to and including the thrill that just ended? Looking forward to that one, and to the Kingdom trade. If the recent trade delay continues the way it has been going lately, that one will probably be here in about a month.

Yes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 13 March, 2012, 02:43:05 PM
Any news on the paperback reprints of ABC Warriors: Volgan Wars 3 & 4?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 March, 2012, 07:14:23 PM
Not sure if you can answer this, are willing to or are even reading but are there any plans for Dante now its heading steaming along to its conclusion? if not reprints then new editions, absolute type things. Anything to bring Dante back to the masses?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ming on 13 March, 2012, 07:18:27 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 13 March, 2012, 07:14:23 PM
Not sure if you can answer this, are willing to or are even reading but are there any plans for Dante now its heading steaming along to its conclusion? if not reprints then new editions, absolute type things. Anything to bring Dante back to the masses?

I'd LOVE a huge mega-collection for Dante.  I've been a bit slack in picking up the individual trades but really, really want to be able to sit down and read it in a single (very, very long) sitting.

I suppose the sheer quantity of colour artwork involved makes a single collection unlikely, though...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 13 March, 2012, 07:38:40 PM
Can't remember who posted it earlier in the thread (and can't be bothered going back to look) but I'd love to see Dante in the big Hellboy style Library Editions (2 trades per volume); and perfect for the European market... I'd rebuy them in that format!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Evil Pants on 14 March, 2012, 03:35:48 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 12 March, 2012, 11:44:45 AM
Quote from: Evil Pants on 28 February, 2012, 08:03:10 AM
The Ampney Crucis trade hit the west coast of Canada 2 weeks ago.

Does anyone know if the Absalom trade will be collecting everything up to and including the thrill that just ended? Looking forward to that one, and to the Kingdom trade. If the recent trade delay continues the way it has been going lately, that one will probably be here in about a month.

Yes.

Nice, thanks. Quite excited about that one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 14 March, 2012, 08:21:34 AM
Quote from: Evil Pants on 14 March, 2012, 03:35:48 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 12 March, 2012, 11:44:45 AM
Quote from: Evil Pants on 28 February, 2012, 08:03:10 AM
The Ampney Crucis trade hit the west coast of Canada 2 weeks ago.

Does anyone know if the Absalom trade will be collecting everything up to and including the thrill that just ended? Looking forward to that one, and to the Kingdom trade. If the recent trade delay continues the way it has been going lately, that one will probably be here in about a month.

Yes.

Nice, thanks. Quite excited about that one.

Tiernen has done a fantastic new cover for the book as well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 14 March, 2012, 12:47:24 PM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 08 March, 2012, 04:03:53 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 08 March, 2012, 03:40:27 PM
Vol 2: The Great Game

This is quite hard to get hold of as well isn't it?

Didn't know Vol.2 was hard to get hold of. I found that one online for about £5 not to long ago. Bigger bargin then I though lol.
It's Vol. 3 & 4 I can't get hold of and I'm not buying the rest until I've got my hands on them.
Fingers crossed for new editions at some point in the future.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 16 March, 2012, 07:38:06 PM
Gentlemen. Judge Dredd will be getting a North American blu-ray release in the Fall.

Disney Preps 30-Plus Movies for First-Time Blu-ray Release (http://www.homemediamagazine.com/blu-ray-disc/disney-preps-30-plus-movies-first-time-blu-ray-release-26706)

QuoteThis fall will see Adventures in Babysitting, Grosse Pointe Blank, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, The Rescuers, High Fidelity, Ed Wood, Judge Dredd, Ghost of the Abyss 3D, Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure, Pocahontas, The Tigger Movie, The Aristocats and Pete's Dragon.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 16 March, 2012, 07:40:01 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 16 March, 2012, 07:38:06 PM
Gentlemen. Judge Dredd will be getting a North American blu-ray release in the Fall.

Disney Preps 30-Plus Movies for First-Time Blu-ray Release (http://www.homemediamagazine.com/blu-ray-disc/disney-preps-30-plus-movies-first-time-blu-ray-release-26706)

QuoteThis fall will see Adventures in Babysitting, Grosse Pointe Blank, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, The Rescuers, High Fidelity, Ed Wood, Judge Dredd, Ghost of the Abyss 3D, Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure, Pocahontas, The Tigger Movie, The Aristocats and Pete's Dragon.

I wonder if this was the big news promised...

[edit: Although reading their statement, this is the Stallone film being given a swanky release to coincide with the new Dredd film. So probably isn't.]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 16 March, 2012, 08:38:41 PM
I'm more excited about Grosse Point Blank off that list :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 March, 2012, 10:08:05 PM
Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion was surprisingly enjoyable. Pity I don't have a bluray player.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 March, 2012, 11:05:11 AM
Now listed on Amazon UK for pre-order: The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection

Click here! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Batman-Judge-Dredd-Collection/dp/1401236766/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332500604&sr=1-1)

Hardcover
320 pages
DC Comics
27 Nov 2012
ISBN: 1401236766

Blurb: "When Batman crosses paths with the gleefully violent Judge Dredd, things are bound to get ugly! In these tales from the 1990s, the two crimefighters face The Riddler and The Joker and battle extra-dimensional gladiators."

Also:

Snow/Tiger - 14 May 2013
Click! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Tiger-Andy-Diggle/dp/1781080704/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332500932&sr=1-1)

Zombo: You Smell of Crime and I'm the Deodorant - 15 Oct 2013
Clicketty-click! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zombo-You-Smell-Crime-Deodorant/dp/178108033X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332500896&sr=1-1)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 March, 2012, 11:44:37 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 March, 2012, 11:05:11 AM
Now listed on Amazon UK for pre-order: The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection

Click here! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Batman-Judge-Dredd-Collection/dp/1401236766/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332500604&sr=1-1)


Uh how tempting is that, I only own the first couple of these. I'll wait to see if the book will be UK or US dimensions (given that's its a DC book I suspect the smaller alas) but its a great way to get Dredd into more US readers hands either way.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 23 March, 2012, 11:47:08 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 March, 2012, 11:05:11 AM
Now listed on Amazon UK for pre-order: The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection

Cool! Still never read any of these and I'd like to fill in the gaps left aafter Necropolis. I've always held off buying any collections because I was waiting for one that contained all four stories - hopefully this will be it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 23 March, 2012, 11:47:35 AM
Lets hope there is a Rebellion edition released too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 23 March, 2012, 12:04:48 PM
Been waiting for a reprint of the Batman/Dredd stories!

320 pages seems a bit slight for all four stories - anyone got time to do the maths?

Hardcover sounds nice, but I'm hoping there will be a complete Rebellion edition out at the same time...

If Vendetta (my favourite of the stories) is missing again I may give it a miss...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 23 March, 2012, 12:09:44 PM
Knowing Amazon's listings as I do, I'm taking 'hardcover' with a pinch of salt for now.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 23 March, 2012, 12:28:25 PM
Quote from: radiator on 23 March, 2012, 12:04:48 PM320 pages seems a bit slight for all four stories - anyone got time to do the maths?

According to Barney:

Judgment on Gotham: 60
Vendetta on Gotham: 46
Ultimate Riddle: 46
Die Laughing: 92

So that's 244. 320pp seems plenty, if it's accurate.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 23 March, 2012, 12:49:51 PM
Cool. Suppose including the Lobo/Dredd stry would be asking a bit much?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 23 March, 2012, 05:02:49 PM
Quote from: radiator on 23 March, 2012, 12:49:51 PM
Cool. Suppose including the Lobo/Dredd stry would be asking a bit much?

Hmmm...that's an interesting idea.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 March, 2012, 09:59:11 AM
BM/JD and L/JD in one hardback edition would be nothing short of awsome.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tombo on 24 March, 2012, 10:56:09 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 March, 2012, 11:05:11 AM
Also:

Snow/Tiger - 14 May 2013
Click! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Tiger-Andy-Diggle/dp/1781080704/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332500932&sr=1-1)

Thats going to be one thin graphic novel, it barely filled a floppy in the Meg.  I'm guessing they'll be some other stories in there with it.

Odd how a story that ends with a genocidal right wing fanatic announcing his plans to run for president is coming out just as the US election machine heads towards its conclusion.

Quote
Zombo: You Smell of Crime and I'm the Deodorant - 15 Oct 2013
Clicketty-click! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zombo-You-Smell-Crime-Deodorant/dp/178108033X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332500896&sr=1-1)

Best. Book. Name. EVER.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PreacherCain on 26 March, 2012, 10:17:23 PM
Wonder what the extra content in the JD/Batman trade is? Might be the Lobo special alright. Or maybe a lot of sketchbook material.

Count my vote for an Omnibus style collection of Dante trades too. My preferred model would be the current BPRD Plague of Frogs omnibus editions that collect three trades in one book with lots of extra material.

Though the colour Case Files tend to be somewhere in the region of 280 pages so I suppose it might only be economically feasible to do two issues at a time. Would love to see something like this for Dante anyway as it's 2000AD's best series of the last ten years (hell, maybe ever!) and I'm not up for re-shelling out for 11 or 12 trades, some of which are hard to find  :'(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 26 March, 2012, 10:29:50 PM
Quote from: PreacherCain on 26 March, 2012, 10:17:23 PM
Wonder what the extra content in the JD/Batman trade is? Might be the Lobo special alright. Or maybe a lot of sketchbook material.
320 is generally Amazon's default pagecount for any new Case Files volume or similar so I wouldn't take it as gospel.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 26 March, 2012, 11:05:20 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 March, 2012, 11:05:11 AM

Blurb: "When Batman crosses paths with the gleefully violent Judge Dredd,


Pffft. & they say that Americans don't get Dredd.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 28 March, 2012, 01:32:42 AM
Meg 320. Progs 1768 and 1769 in my hot little hands. No Prog 1771. Hopefully that just means it'll come out the same week as 1770.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 28 March, 2012, 08:31:14 PM
Quote from: radiator on 24 February, 2012, 03:35:08 PM
2000 AD:

Lenny Zero: title TBC by Andy Diggle/Jock(?) - starts TBC

Update:

Lenny Zero: Zero's 7 by Andy Diggle/Ben Willsher - starts TBC

Also do we know it'll be in the prog?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 28 March, 2012, 11:55:17 PM
Good news. I suppose it'll probably be in the Megazine. i read Diggle saying it was 'for 2000ad' but I guess that could mean either title.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PreacherCain on 30 March, 2012, 06:04:18 PM
Quote from: radiator on 23 March, 2012, 12:49:51 PM
Cool. Suppose including the Lobo/Dredd stry would be asking a bit much?

The inclusion of Lobo/Dredd crossover is confirmed in the press release!

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2012/03/30/dc-comicsjudge-dredd-crossover-collection-coming-this-winter (http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2012/03/30/dc-comicsjudge-dredd-crossover-collection-coming-this-winter)

QuoteThis December, DC Comics and 2000 AD will publish THE BATMAN/JUDGE DREDD COLLECTION, collecting the epic crossover stories featuring Judge Dredd and the Dark Knight, originally released between 1991 and 1998. Written by Alan Grant and John Wagner and featuring art by Simon Bisley, Cam Kennedy, Carl Critchlow, Dermott Power, Glenn Fabry, Jim Murray and Val Semekis, the hardcover volume will include JUDGMENT ON GOTHAM #1, VENDETTA IN GOTHAM #1, THE ULTIMATE RIDDLE #1, and DIE LAUGHING #1-2. The collection will also include LOBO/JUDGE DREDD #1.

DC Comics will publish THE BATMAN/JUDGE DREDD COLLECTION domestically (U.S. and Canada) and internationally, and Rebellion/2000 AD will publish in the UK and Ireland, with digital editions available from both publishers.
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Post by: Emperor on 30 March, 2012, 06:12:07 PM
Good news.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 30 March, 2012, 06:51:13 PM
Next from S&S:

QuoteAll Star Future Shocks

Product Details
2000 AD, January 2013
Trade Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN-10: 1781080747
ISBN-13: 9781781080740

Where legends are born!'

Future Shocks – these self-contained short stories from the pages of 2000 AD have been the testing ground for many of comics greatest writers and artists. From the far reaches of the galaxy to the lowest depths of hell, discover what lurks within the fevered imaginations of such luminaries as Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Kevin O'Neill, Brian Bolland, Alan Grant, Peter Milligan, John Higgins, Alan Davis and Mark Millar to name but a few.

http://books.simonandschuster.com/All-Star-Future-Shocks/Neil-Gaiman/9781781080740
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 30 March, 2012, 11:41:28 PM
I'll be interested to see a comparison with this Future Shocks collection and the one bundled with 2000AD subscriptions.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 31 March, 2012, 02:05:16 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 22 February, 2012, 10:24:18 PM
In other exclusive new story news, The Wedding of Jena Makarov definitely isn't the last Dante story. That will be Sympathy for the Devil. Who knows, there might even be another one in between.
I suppose this is as good a place as any to post this astounding revelation which came to me in a flash tonight. The Dante Gambit is going to see the final reckoning with Konstantin, which leaves Vladimir as the last villain left.

Maybe  it wasn't quite the first episode, but Nikolai Dante starts with our devil may care hero helpless in chains before Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror. How else can it end?

Maybe I meant crucially. Coherence is at a premium.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 31 March, 2012, 02:32:54 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 31 March, 2012, 02:05:16 AM
Maybe  it wasn't quite the first episode, but Nikolai Dante starts with our devil may care hero helpless in chains before Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror. How else can it end?

One of the Arbatovs gets the last laugh?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 03 April, 2012, 09:29:55 AM
I see from this weeks nerve centre that as well as new Dredd IDW will be releasing Deluxe Treasury editions of Classic Dredd. Any idea what format these are likely to take ? Glossy oversized hardbacks with a small page count ?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 03 April, 2012, 09:48:19 AM
Not sure, I'm not really familiar with IDW books, but I would suggest looking at their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles output for what to expect.

There is talk of colouring old classic Dredd strips, which I'm sure is not going to go down well with us lot, but might help broaden the audience globally. Sad as it is, I think there's a large percentage of comic book readers that simply won't read b&w comics. I would hope that they make a point of pushing recent Dredd stories like Total War and Mandroid as well as the older stuff - all of Wagner's work since The Pit is so good that it really, really deserves to reach a wider audience. I've long held the opinion that modern era Dredd (and John Wagner in general) would eventually gain more attention and popularity, and I hope that time is now.

Crossing my fingers that IDW will do a reprint of the Brian Bolland Judge Death stories - its feels like weeks now since the last reissue of that material.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 03 April, 2012, 09:50:41 AM
And if they're insistent on colouring stuff, how about recolouring stuff that would actually benefit, like Fading of the Light and the non-Carlos episodes of The Pit!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 03 April, 2012, 09:54:01 AM
I don't really have a problem with them recolouring old strips. No doubt they would have been all colour originally if the budget had been there to do it. It's not like its a conscious effort to be black and white such as modern strips like Low Life and Insurrection. Look at how amazing Hook Jaw is in Strip Magazine, I really think it could breathe new life into old friends.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 03 April, 2012, 10:10:48 AM
I'm in two minds about it. A deluxe hardback of Block Mania/The Apocalypse War (sensitively and appropriately) coloured, and printed of heavy, matt finish paper? Yeah, I'd buy that in a second.

But it would feel like a crime to colourise something like the aforementioned Bolland Judge Death pages...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: robprosser on 03 April, 2012, 10:23:32 AM
They've done a good job of colouring the old b & w Dr Who strips so I think they'll do a good job on the Dredd stuff as well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 03 April, 2012, 01:33:47 PM
Quote from: pops1983 on 31 March, 2012, 02:32:54 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 31 March, 2012, 02:05:16 AM
Maybe  it wasn't quite the first episode, but Nikolai Dante starts with our devil may care hero helpless in chains before Tsar Vladimir the Conqueror. How else can it end?

One of the Arbatovs gets the last laugh?

I have wondered that myself.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 05 April, 2012, 05:28:58 PM
Brass Sun seems to have dropped off the list. Foolishly (despite Stevie giving us the pointer (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,27716.msg567940.html#msg567940)) I never did Google it. I now have. The writer is Ian Edginton and the artist is INJ Culbard.

From 2006:

QuoteWhat's next for you?

Brass Sun is a fantasy epic about a clockwork solar system and its inhabitants but that's a little way off yet. There's a very good chance it will have a home in a market outside of comics but I don't want to say anymore for now.

www.2000adreview.co.uk/features/interviews/2006/edginton/ian-edginton.shtml

From January this year:

QuoteIE: I have several new series for 2000 AD over here; there's the fourth series of the steampunk gothic Stickleback with artist D'Israeli; the eleventh and final series of the pirate fantasy The Red Seas, with Steve Yeowell; and the first of a new science-fantasy series, The Brass Sun, with I. N. J. Culbard of Vertigo's New Deadwardians fame.

www.darkhorse.com/Blog/809/immortal-interview-writer-ian-edginton

So there you go - seems to still be on track and scheduled to appear in the prog. Time to stick it back on the list I think.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 05 April, 2012, 06:34:14 PM
Pleased to see another series of Stickeback is on the way, as its been far too long since the last series. The Brass Sun actually sounds quite interesting, so looking forward to that when it materialises.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PreacherCain on 06 April, 2012, 01:50:51 PM
Culbard is a great artist, was really impressed with his work on the New Deadwardians.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: strontium71 on 07 April, 2012, 10:28:15 AM
I don't want to start a new thread just for this question , so it's best just to ask it here. Are there still plans to release Rogue Trooper : Tales of Nu-Earth vol.3?  Vol.2 ends with him about to land on Horst. I know that there were the other graphic novels like Re:Gene which print the Horst storyline , but why not in the Tales... series? Then there are the Hit...stories , the Fridays , War Machine etc...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 07 April, 2012, 12:03:19 PM
Quote from: strontium71 on 07 April, 2012, 10:28:15 AM
I don't want to start a new thread just for this question , so it's best just to ask it here. Are there still plans to release Rogue Trooper : Tales of Nu-Earth vol.3?  Vol.2 ends with him about to land on Horst. I know that there were the other graphic novels like Re:Gene which print the Horst storyline , but why not in the Tales... series? Then there are the Hit...stories , the Fridays , War Machine etc...

Volume 3 is coming out later this year.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: strontium71 on 07 April, 2012, 12:05:45 PM
Thanks Keef! That's great news  :)
Will this volume wrap up all the final strands of Rogue , even the Hit stories that were published in one of the specials - the actual issue eludes me for now..?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 07 April, 2012, 12:54:56 PM
Quote from: strontium71 on 07 April, 2012, 12:05:45 PM
Thanks Keef! That's great news  :)
Will this volume wrap up all the final strands of Rogue , even the Hit stories that were published in one of the specials - the actual issue eludes me for now..?

All of The Hit is in there, including the finale which ran in one of the specials that is eluding me as well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: strontium71 on 07 April, 2012, 12:59:01 PM
Excellent! I know some people don't care for the Hit stories but I'm a sucker for Dillon whatever he draws.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 07 April, 2012, 01:08:09 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 07 April, 2012, 12:54:56 PM
Quote from: strontium71 on 07 April, 2012, 12:05:45 PM
Thanks Keef! That's great news  :)
Will this volume wrap up all the final strands of Rogue , even the Hit stories that were published in one of the specials - the actual issue eludes me for now..?

All of The Hit is in there, including the finale which ran in one of the specials that is eluding me as well.
:D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 07 April, 2012, 01:35:10 PM
Quote from: strontium71 on 07 April, 2012, 12:59:01 PM
Excellent! I know some people don't care for the Hit stories but I'm a sucker for Dillon whatever he draws.

There is a lot of lovely art in volume 3 - some great annual and special strips.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 08 April, 2012, 06:19:59 PM
QuoteIE: I have several new series for 2000 AD over here; there's the fourth series of the steampunk gothic Stickleback with artist D'Israeli; the eleventh and final series of the pirate fantasy The Red Seas, with Steve Yeowell; and the first of a new science-fantasy series, The Brass Sun, with I. N. J. Culbard of Vertigo's New Deadwardians fame.

Now that The Red Seas is coming to an end I really hope it finally gets the case files treatment. All 11 series should fit into two case files size volumes.
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Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 April, 2012, 07:36:10 PM
That would be a lovely collection. I'm not sure it'll happen given that apparently the other trades didn't sell too well?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 08 April, 2012, 07:51:21 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 08 April, 2012, 07:36:10 PM
That would be a lovely collection. I'm not sure it'll happen given that apparently the other trades didn't sell too well?

True, but case files style volume normally sell better than skinny trades. Case in point, the original Robo-Hunter trades did not do too well but we still got them in case files format. I'm not sure, but I think Anderson may have been a similar case also.

...So here's hoping!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Syne on 08 April, 2012, 11:14:49 PM
Quote from: strontium71 on 07 April, 2012, 12:59:01 PM
Excellent! I know some people don't care for the Hit stories but I'm a sucker for Dillon whatever he draws.

I always though the Hit stories were okay, though they did go on a bit long. I've never read the finale, so it's good that it's finally being republished.

That said, I quite enjoyed the Harlem Heroes reboot when it first appeared - so maybe my taste isn't to be trusted. . .
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Onlyverysmall on 09 April, 2012, 12:26:48 AM
Was that the Winter Special which had a very sexy Anderson centrefold which was apparently by a psychic photographer? I might still have that somewhere.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 April, 2012, 03:54:24 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 07 April, 2012, 01:35:10 PM
Quote from: strontium71 on 07 April, 2012, 12:59:01 PM
Excellent! I know some people don't care for the Hit stories but I'm a sucker for Dillon whatever he draws.

There is a lot of lovely art in volume 3 - some great annual and special strips.

That's great news.  I'll certainly be buying this too.  Keef, are you able to say if it has Cinnabar in it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 14 April, 2012, 02:19:20 PM
There is a visual for vol 9 of the deluxe Titan edition of Charley's War:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charleys-War-Vol-Death-Above/dp/0857683004/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1334409363&sr=8-5 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charleys-War-Vol-Death-Above/dp/0857683004/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1334409363&sr=8-5)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 07 May, 2012, 03:13:56 AM
David Roach via Facebum:

Quote

I'm working with the great Alec Worley right now


Fire up your speculation engines now gentlemen!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 14 May, 2012, 03:28:59 PM
Now up for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nikolai-Dante-Sympathy-Robbie-Morrison/dp/1781080739/ref=sr_1_29?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337005249&sr=1-29) - 11 Oct 2012, 224 pages

Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth v. 3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rogue-Trooper-Tales-Nu-Earth-v/dp/1781080682/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337005089&sr=1-1) - 8 Nov 2012, (no page count given)

Shako (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shako-Pat-Mills/dp/1781080690/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337005140&sr=1-9) - 6 Dec 2012, 96 pages
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Nubby mcstubbins on 14 May, 2012, 04:24:53 PM
Is that Dante a new trade or volume 2?

I've been dying for a volume 2 reprint.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 14 May, 2012, 04:29:08 PM
It's volume 11.

Don't think there any any plans to reprint any of the earlier books at present.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 14 May, 2012, 07:22:27 PM
Bollocks to Dante- DID YOU JUST SAY SHAKO?!?

Oh my giddy aunt! Too much to hope for a colour edition with furry cover i think. Hang on, we've been here before, havent we?

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Andy B on 15 May, 2012, 02:25:01 AM
Wonder what this is?

http://www.amazon.com/Thargs-Creepy-Chronicles-Mark-Millar/dp/1781080658
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 15 May, 2012, 04:07:10 AM
Quote from: awbrown on 15 May, 2012, 02:25:01 AM
Wonder what this is?

http://www.amazon.com/Thargs-Creepy-Chronicles-Mark-Millar/dp/1781080658

It's the horror-themed collection Simon & Schuster release around Halloween:

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Tharg%27s-Creepy-Chronicles/Weston-Chris/9781781080658

Presumably it'll include Silo by Millar/D'Antiquis as well as Chris Weston's "Counts as One Choice," possibly with Wyatt/Bagwell's "Pea Patch Podlings."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Andy B on 15 May, 2012, 04:35:02 AM
Thanks - I remember enjoying 'Silo', especially the art, but nothing else about it: good combination for a reprint.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Art on 15 May, 2012, 04:40:58 AM
possibly with Wyatt/Bagwell's "Pea Patch Podlings."

I can confirm that - pretty happy to see that oen get yet another lease fo life. :-)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 15 May, 2012, 07:49:45 AM
Tharg's Creepy Chronicles will have an original cover by a very cool American artist who has never worked for us before.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 May, 2012, 01:17:24 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 15 May, 2012, 07:49:45 AM
a very cool American artist who has never worked for us before.

Norman Rockwell?  Grant Wood?  Prince?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 15 May, 2012, 01:23:24 PM
Jumbo-sized update today - I have taken my eye off the ball somewhat recently due to moving house etc. Lots of exciting new things coming up, but I'm bound to miss a few so as ever, just shout and I'll add it to the list...

Looks like 1790 will be the big summer jumping-on prog with the line-up of:
Dredd: Day of Chaos (finally!)
Aquila
Lenny Zero
Ichabod Azrael
Grey Area


...looks pretty damn good to me! Sadly it looks like Nikolai Dante will be ending on a whimper rather than a bang with the final story apparently running for just four or five episodes (and no sign of an all-Dante farewell prog as some of us were hoping)...  :(

2000 AD:

Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil (final series!) by Robbie Morrison/Simon Fraser - starts prog 1785
Durham Red: The 'Nobody Wants This Job' Job by Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts prog 1786
Grey Area (title TBC) by Dan Abnett/Artists TBC - starts prog 1786
Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos by John Wagner/Henry Flint(?) - starts prog 1790(?)
The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake): Manhunt by Rob Williams/Dom Reardon - starts prog 1790
Grey Area: This Island Earth by Dan Abnett/Artist TBC - starts prog 1790
Aquila: Blood of the Inceni by Gordon Rennie/Leigh Gallagher - starts prog 1790
Lenny Zero: Zero's Seven (8 episodes) by Andy Diggle/Ben Willsher - starts prog 1790
ABC Warriors: (title TBC) by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - starts prog 1800
Judge Dredd (major new storyline, title TBC) by Al Ewing/Artists TBC - starts TBC
Judge Dredd: The Death of Dan-E Cannon by Chris Weston - (one-off) TBC (prog 1800?)
Savage: Rise Like Lions (Book 8, 12 episodes) by Pat Mills/Patrick Goddard - starts TBC (prog 1800?)
Strontium Dog - The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha: Mutant Spring by John Wagner/Carlos Ezquerra - starts TBC
Gunheads (new series, 3 episodes) by T.C. Eglinton/Boo Cook - starts TBC
Stickleback (title TBC) by Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Brass Sun by Ian Edginton/I.N.J. Culbard/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Zombo (title TBC) by Al Ewing/Henry Flint - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Ampney Crucis Investigates... The Entropy Tango by Ian Edginton/Simon Davis(?) - starts TBC
Low Life: Saudade by Rob Williams/D'Israeli - starts TBC
The Red Seas: (title TBC, 5 episodes) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC
The Red Seas: (title TBC, final series) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC

Greysuit (title TBC) by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
Defoe: The Damned by Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher(?) - starts TBC
Possible new Dark Judges series by John Wagner/Greg Staples - very much TBC
Possible new 2000ad project by Alec Worely/David Roach - TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

Hondo-City Justice: Project Behemoth by Robbie Morrison/Mike Collins/Cliff Robinson - starts Meg 324
Judge Dredd: Great Executions by Writer/Artist TBC - starts Meg 325
Judge Anderson: Stone Voices (5 episodes) by Alan Grant/Boo Cook - starts Meg 327
Insurrection III(TBC) by Dan Abnett/Colin Macniel - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
The Simping Detective (possible new series, details TBC) by Si Spurrier/Artist TBC - starts TBC
American Reaper: Title TBC by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

Tiger Sun, Dragon Moon - Meg 324
American Gothic - Meg 325
Bato Loco - Meg 326


2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 19 - May 2012
Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth (B format) - May 2012
Absalom: Ghosts of London - June 2012
Slaine: Treasures of Britain - June 2012
The Complete DR & Quinch (reprint) - June 2012
Slaine: The Horned God (hardback reprint) - June 2012
Mean Machine: Real Mean (reprint) - June 2012

Savage: The Guv'nor - July 2012
Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha - July 2012
Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files 04 - Aug 2012
Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges (B format) - Sep 2012
Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil - Oct 2012
The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection (featuring Dredd vs Lobo) - Nov 2012
Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth 03 - Nov 2012
Shako - Dec 2012
Snow/Tiger - TBC
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - TBC



2000ad/Simon & Schuster Graphic Novels - US (provisional list - all subject to change):

Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu Earth 01 - May 2012
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05 - June 2012
Judge Dredd: When Judges Go Bad (June 2012)
Judge Dredd: Inferno (July 2012)
The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake) - July 2012
Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Strontium Dog: Mutant For Hire - Aug 2012
Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf - Sep 2012
Tharg's Creepy Chronicles - Oct 2012
The Ten-Seconders: The American Dream - Nov 2012

Judge Dredd: The Garth Ennis Collection - Dec 2012
All-Star Future Shocks - Jan 2012

Other Media:

DREDD (3D movie, directed by Pete Travis) - Sep 2012
2000AD Cover Art Featuring Judge Dredd - Hardback art book - Sep 2012
The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection (DC Hardback edition, featuring Dredd vs Lobo) - Nov 2012
Judge Dredd (1995 Movie reissue) - Blu Ray Autumn 2012

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PphBLBueL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

(http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/cvr9781781080672_9781781080672.jpg)

(http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/cvr9781781080719_9781781080719.jpg)

(http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/cvr9781781080740_9781781080740.jpg)

(http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/cvr9781781080665_9781781080665.jpg)

(http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/slaine-treasures-of-britain-t.jpg)

(http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/absalom-ghosts-of-london-t.jpg)

(http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/judge-dredd-the-art-of-judge-dredd-t.jpg)

(http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/judge-dredd-the-dark-judges-t.gif)

(http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/nikolai-dante-sympathy-for-the-devil-t.jpg)

(http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/rogue-trooper-tales-of-nu-earth-03-t.gif)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 15 May, 2012, 07:30:09 PM
QuoteAmerican Gothic - Meg 325

I recall suggesting this a while back. I wonder if it was my suggestion or if it was just happenstance. Still, nice to see it collected, even if it wasn't the perfect story. I wonder if this will be the cover. (http://www.sex-drugs-rock-roll-thefilm.com/covers/2000ad/hires/1433.jpg)

Now how about a Detonator X reprint, eh Tharg?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 15 May, 2012, 08:15:39 PM
Thanks Radiator for the MASSIVE update. Time for my thoughts!!!

Quote
Looks like 1790 will be the big summer jumping-on prog with the line-up of:
Dredd: Day of Chaos (finally!)
Aquila
Lenny Zero
Ichabod Azrael
Grey Area


Looking forward to Dredd, Ichabod Azrael & Grey Area!!

Quote
Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil (final series!) by Robbie Morrison/Simon Fraser - starts prog 1785
Durham Red: The 'Nobody Wants This Job' Job by Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts prog 1786
Grey Area (title TBC) by Dan Abnett/Artists TBC - starts prog 1786

Hang on!! I thought Dante starts in 1786 & Durham Red/Grey Area starts in 1785???

Quote
Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos by John Wagner/Henry Flint(?) - starts prog 1790(?)
The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake): Manhunt by Rob Williams/Dom Reardon - starts prog 1790
Grey Area: This Island Earth by Dan Abnett/Artist TBC - starts prog 1790

HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote
Judge Dredd (major new storyline, title TBC) by Al Ewing/Artists TBC - starts TBC

Can I please have a link to this information please!!!!

Quote
Strontium Dog - The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha: Mutant Spring by John Wagner/Carlos Ezquerra - starts TBC
Stickleback (title TBC) by Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Zombo (title TBC) by Al Ewing/Henry Flint - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Ampney Crucis Investigates... The Entropy Tango by Ian Edginton/Simon Davis(?) - starts TBC
Low Life: Saudade by Rob Williams/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Defoe: The Damned by Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher(?) - starts TBC

Can I have another HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote
The Red Seas: (title TBC, 5 episodes) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC
The Red Seas: (title TBC, final series) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC


Sob!!! :( :'(

Quote
Possible new Dark Judges series by John Wagner/Greg Staples - very much TBC
Possible new 2000ad project by Alec Worely/David Roach - TBC

:o Wonder what the last one will be??

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2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 19 - May 2012
Absalom: Ghosts of London - June 2012
Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha - July 2012
Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files 04 - Aug 2012
Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil - Oct 2012
The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection (featuring Dredd vs Lobo) - Nov 2012
Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth 03 - Nov 2012
Shako - Dec 2012
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - TBC[/b]

Already have the Case File and eagerly anticipating the others!!!

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Other Media:

DREDD (3D movie, directed by Pete Travis) - Sep 2012

Really looking forward to this!!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 16 May, 2012, 08:52:41 AM
As for the Hardback reprint of The Horned God, I wonder if it's gonna be leftover from the US May 2011 edition (it is advertised on amazon uk with the same cover) with just a white sticker added on the back cover with the price in £, like it was the case for the Black Hole GN published last December in UK.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 16 May, 2012, 09:40:53 AM
Lee Carter has been confirmed as the Grey Area artist by Tharg I think
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2012, 12:25:57 PM
Now that's what I call a GRAPHIC novel!

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Shako.jpg)

Now all we need is the sequel, "Shako vs. Hookjaw".
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 17 May, 2012, 12:54:01 PM
How fantastic is that cover!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 May, 2012, 01:17:25 PM
Shako needs an endorsement from Ethan Nicolle on that magnificent cover - "Shite! Beat me to it!".
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 17 May, 2012, 04:24:19 PM
Title TBC written by Gordon Rennie/Emma Beeby, artist TBC - starts TBC (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,33543.msg675903.html#msg675903)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 May, 2012, 09:53:42 PM
I want that Shako cover as my wallpaper, NOW!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 May, 2012, 10:23:13 PM
Wasn't that Shako cover a Jock Starscan?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 18 May, 2012, 09:26:17 AM
I really, really, really hope for double episodes of Dante in one or two of those progs because a four or five part ending is bollocks...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: mygrimmbrother on 18 May, 2012, 10:53:54 AM
Looks like some thrill-packed days ahead. Out of that lot I am mostly looking forward to the following:
Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil – only 5 episodes! Criminal  :(

Durham Red: The 'Nobody Wants This Job' Job - looking forward to this, although there's a chance it could turn out to be another Cadet Anderson (still, Carlos on art is a bonus)

Grey Area – more excited about the prospect of this returning than I thought I would be for some reason.

The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake): Manhunt – this is going to bleak, sparse and utterly epic.

Aquila: Blood of the Iceni – as above

Lenny Zero: Zero's Seven – be great to have this hardboiled strip back, and Willsher is the perfect choice to inherit Jock's shoes.

Strontium Dog - The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha: Mutant Spring – nuff said.

Gunheads – more Boo Cook = one happy MGB

Stickleback & Brass Sun – especially the news that INJ Culbard will be involved in the latter

Thanks for the update Radiator  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 18 May, 2012, 11:20:54 AM
Lenny Zero confirmed to start in 1792, so 1790 definitely isn't a jumping-on prog, meaning that Dante could concievably run for anything up to 14 episodes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 18 May, 2012, 11:24:36 AM
Quote from: radiator on 18 May, 2012, 11:20:54 AM
Lenny Zero confirmed to start in 1792, so 1790 definitely isn't a jumping-on prog, meaning that Dante could concievably run for anything up to 14 episodes.

Just about to add that. I was wondering how confident people where that all the other stories added to 1790 are actually starting then. Have any been confirmed (except Grey Area which I think Tharg announced in this weeks Prog?)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 18 May, 2012, 11:51:23 AM
No, I was just going by Previews listings. Those stories are running in the run-up to 1800, but exact starting progs are mostly TBC.


2000 AD:

Durham Red: The 'Nobody Wants This Job' Job (5 episodes) by Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts prog 1785
Grey Area (title TBC) by Dan Abnett/Artists TBC - starts prog 1785

Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil (final series!) by Robbie Morrison/Simon Fraser - starts prog 1786
Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos by John Wagner/Henry Flint(?) - starts prog 17xx
The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake): Manhunt by Rob Williams/Dom Reardon - starts prog 17xx
Grey Area: This Island Earth by Dan Abnett/Artist TBC - starts prog 17xx
Aquila: Blood of the Inceni by Gordon Rennie/Leigh Gallagher - starts prog 17xx
Lenny Zero: Zero's Seven (8 episodes) by Andy Diggle/Ben Willsher - starts prog 1792

ABC Warriors: (title TBC) by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - starts prog 1800
Judge Dredd (major new storyline, title TBC) by Al Ewing/Artists TBC - starts TBC
Judge Dredd: The Death of Dan-E Cannon by Chris Weston - (one-off) TBC (prog 1800?)
Savage: Rise Like Lions (Book 8, 12 episodes) by Pat Mills/Patrick Goddard - starts TBC (prog 1800?)
Strontium Dog - The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha: Mutant Spring by John Wagner/Carlos Ezquerra - starts TBC
Gunheads (new series, 3 episodes) by T.C. Eglinton/Boo Cook - starts TBC
Stickleback (title TBC) by Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Brass Sun by Ian Edginton/I.N.J. Culbard/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Zombo (title TBC) by Al Ewing/Henry Flint - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Ampney Crucis Investigates... The Entropy Tango by Ian Edginton/Simon Davis(?) - starts TBC
Low Life: Saudade by Rob Williams/D'Israeli - starts TBC
The Red Seas: (title TBC, 5 episodes) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC
The Red Seas: (title TBC, final series) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
Defoe: The Damned by Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher(?) - starts TBC
Possible new Dark Judges series by John Wagner/Greg Staples - very much TBC
Possible new 2000ad project by Alec Worely/David Roach - TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

Hondo-City Justice: Project Behemoth by Robbie Morrison/Mike Collins/Cliff Robinson - starts Meg 324
Judge Dredd: Great Executions by Writer/Artist TBC - starts Meg 325
Judge Anderson: Stone Voices (5 episodes) by Alan Grant/Boo Cook - starts Meg 327
Insurrection III(TBC) by Dan Abnett/Colin Macniel - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
The Simping Detective (possible new series, details TBC) by Si Spurrier/Artist TBC - starts TBC
American Reaper: Title TBC by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

Tiger Sun, Dragon Moon - Meg 324
American Gothic - Meg 325
Bato Loco - Meg 326

2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 19 - May 2012
Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth (B format) - May 2012
Absalom: Ghosts of London - June 2012
Slaine: Treasures of Britain - June 2012
The Complete DR & Quinch (reprint) - June 2012
Slaine: The Horned God (hardback reprint) - June 2012
Mean Machine: Real Mean (reprint) - June 2012
Savage: The Guv'nor - July 2012
Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha - July 2012
Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files 04 - Aug 2012
Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges (B format) - Sep 2012
Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil - Oct 2012
The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection (featuring Dredd vs Lobo) - Nov 2012
Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth 03 - Nov 2012
Shako - Dec 2012
Snow/Tiger - TBC
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - TBC


2000ad/Simon & Schuster Graphic Novels - US (provisional list - all subject to change):

Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu Earth 01 - May 2012
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05 - June 2012
Judge Dredd: When Judges Go Bad (June 2012)
Judge Dredd: Inferno (July 2012)
The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake) - July 2012
Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Strontium Dog: Mutant For Hire - Aug 2012
Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf - Sep 2012
Tharg's Creepy Chronicles - Oct 2012
The Ten-Seconders: The American Dream - Nov 2012
Judge Dredd: The Garth Ennis Collection - Dec 2012
All-Star Future Shocks - Jan 2012

Other Media:

DREDD (3D movie, directed by Pete Travis) - Sep 2012
2000AD Cover Art Featuring Judge Dredd - Hardback art book - Sep 2012
The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection (DC Hardback edition, featuring Dredd vs Lobo) - Nov 2012
Judge Dredd (1995 Movie reissue) - Blu Ray Autumn 2012
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 18 May, 2012, 01:52:50 PM
Looks like they've dusted off a few of the old Black Flame Dredd novels as part of the getting-stuff-out-there-in-Dredd-movie-year plan:

"Dredd" - collecting Dredd vs Death, Kingdom of the Blind, & The Final Cut (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Collecting-Death-Kingdom-Blind/dp/1781080771/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337345064&sr=1-7).

I thought "The Final Cut" was a great Dredd read.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: strontium_dog_90 on 18 May, 2012, 03:45:45 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 May, 2012, 01:52:50 PM
Looks like they've dusted off a few of the old Black Flame Dredd novels as part of the getting-stuff-out-there-in-Dredd-movie-year plan:

"Dredd" - collecting Dredd vs Death, Kingdom of the Blind, & The Final Cut (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Collecting-Death-Kingdom-Blind/dp/1781080771/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337345064&sr=1-7).

I thought "The Final Cut" was a great Dredd read.

Marvellous news - I always loved "Kingdom of the Blind" and was amazed to read a blog recently by David Bishop saying he didn't think it was very good. I read pretty much all of the Dredd prose novels, and that was always my favourite. The other two are pretty good choices, too!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 May, 2012, 05:17:09 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 May, 2012, 01:52:50 PM
Looks like they've dusted off a few of the old Black Flame Dredd novels as part of the getting-stuff-out-there-in-Dredd-movie-year plan:

"Dredd" - collecting Dredd vs Death, Kingdom of the Blind, & The Final Cut (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Collecting-Death-Kingdom-Blind/dp/1781080771/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337345064&sr=1-7).

I thought "The Final Cut" was a great Dredd read.
Oooh! Lovely! Hopefuly more of these, I hear Dread Dominion is an interesting read.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 18 May, 2012, 05:21:39 PM
Dredd Dominion was a Virgin novel, not Black Flame - doubt any of the Virgin novels will ever get reprinted tbh.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 18 May, 2012, 06:27:13 PM
Kingdom of the Blind - urgh. Not my best work, even among the five Dredd novels I wrote.
It is the perviest Dredd novel, as I put in lots of gratuitous sex scenes to keep myself interested.
The copy editor at Black Flame freaked out and removed anything involving anal penetration, IIRC.
[Good thing she never got her hands on any of my Nikolai Dante novels - now they are pervy...]

From what little I know about the forthcoming film, my first Dredd novel for Black Flame - Bad Moon Rising - actually shares some plot elements with it [entirely by coincidence, I hasten to add].

davidbishop
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proudhuff on 18 May, 2012, 07:04:12 PM
Quote from: DarkDaysBish-OP on 18 May, 2012, 06:27:13 PM
It is the perviest Dredd novel, as I put in lots of gratuitous sex scenes to keep myself interested.
The copy editor at Black Flame freaked out and removed anything involving anal penetration,

More Black Lace that black Flame then?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 18 May, 2012, 08:05:31 PM
Verging on Nexus in parts, to be honest - an erotica range that the writers' guidelines described without shame as 'books to be read one-handed'.

Life before the Kindle!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 May, 2012, 08:29:49 PM
Pervy sex scene's in a Dredd novel? That's my kinda book.  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Michael Evans on 19 May, 2012, 12:32:05 AM
Has Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 19 been sighted? I've just had my order cancelled by Book Depository and both they and Amazon are listing it as out of stock.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 19 May, 2012, 09:29:54 AM
Yes, i definitely exists. There's one in my local wh smiths.

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 May, 2012, 09:30:40 AM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 19 May, 2012, 09:29:54 AM
Yes, i definitely exists.

Cogito ergo SBT.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 May, 2012, 12:05:20 PM
Ah, the first offering from IDW now up on Amazon UK -

Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Brian-Bolland/dp/1613774885/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337425403&sr=1-1)

Hardcover, 248 pages, IDW Publishing, 6 Nov 2012.

If would be nice if complete meant including recent prog covers & those early American reprint comics.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 19 May, 2012, 04:36:46 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 19 May, 2012, 12:05:20 PM
Ah, the first offering from IDW now up on Amazon UK -

Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Brian-Bolland/dp/1613774885/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337425403&sr=1-1)

Hardcover, 248 pages, IDW Publishing, 6 Nov 2012.

If would be nice if complete meant including recent prog covers & those early American reprint comics.


When was the last time you bought a "Complete" anything that lived up to it's name?
Gruddamn you publishers!

I do intend to get this though, looks mighty purty.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 May, 2012, 04:47:31 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 May, 2012, 04:36:46 PM
When was the last time you bought a "Complete" anything that lived up to it's name?

It's just not good business - always leave 'em wanting more. 

(Example: the recent 'vintage' RotJ Luke Skywalker from Hasbro: he should be the ultimate 'complete' Jabba's Palace Luke, having a lovely sculpt, endless articulation, a soft-goods under tunic, his long-long-absent utility belt (removable) and even the half-built lightsabre and space-screwdriver from the Blu-Ray deleted scene, but: instead of his simple cloak he has a non-movie-accurate sleeved robe, and his hair is parted on the wrong side.  Quality control oversights in an otherwise perfact, or a deliberate attempt to make people buy yet another Jedi Luke in the future?)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 19 May, 2012, 06:30:07 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 May, 2012, 04:36:46 PM
When was the last time you bought a "Complete" anything that lived up to it's name?

This is complete isnt it?    oh, hang on.....
(http://i.imgur.com/Em08z.jpg?1)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 19 May, 2012, 06:47:50 PM
It was complete when it was released, in fairness.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ChrisPuzak on 19 May, 2012, 07:15:27 PM
Quote from: Michael Evans on 19 May, 2012, 12:32:05 AM
Has Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 19 been sighted? I've just had my order cancelled by Book Depository and both they and Amazon are listing it as out of stock.

I got an email from them saying it was processing,and then just an email last night saying it had been cancelled. I see a couple of places online listing it as in stock, but no place I've ever actually ordered from.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 19 May, 2012, 07:20:46 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 19 May, 2012, 06:47:50 PM
It was complete when it was released, in fairness.

True,  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 19 May, 2012, 07:53:54 PM
I'm a bit confused about the Bolland book - presumably it won't include all of The Cursed Earth, Block Mania and The Judge Child Quest....

Will those episodes be presented out of context?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 May, 2012, 12:38:00 AM
That's what I was wondering, too - the complete Bolland doesn't mean the complete story in any of those cases.  To be fair to Tharg, though, "Judge Dredd: The Carlos Ezquerra collection" included parts of stories not drawn by Carlos.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Michael Evans on 20 May, 2012, 06:10:03 AM
Quote from: ChrisPuzak on 19 May, 2012, 07:15:27 PM
Quote from: Michael Evans on 19 May, 2012, 12:32:05 AM
Has Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 19 been sighted? I've just had my order cancelled by Book Depository and both they and Amazon are listing it as out of stock.

I got an email from them saying it was processing,and then just an email last night saying it had been cancelled. I see a couple of places online listing it as in stock, but no place I've ever actually ordered from.

It obviously exists but even the 2000AD Shop isn't listing it. I'll be patient, I'm sure it will turn up in due course.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 20 May, 2012, 07:08:25 AM
Quote from: Michael Evans on 19 May, 2012, 12:32:05 AM
Has Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 19 been sighted? I've just had my order cancelled by Book Depository and both they and Amazon are listing it as out of stock.

My amazon pre-order arrived early last week.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 21 May, 2012, 05:07:59 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 May, 2012, 01:52:50 PM
Looks like they've dusted off a few of the old Black Flame Dredd novels as part of the getting-stuff-out-there-in-Dredd-movie-year plan:

"Dredd" - collecting Dredd vs Death, Kingdom of the Blind, & The Final Cut (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Collecting-Death-Kingdom-Blind/dp/1781080771/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337345064&sr=1-7).

I thought "The Final Cut" was a great Dredd read.

Any chance of a Kindle edition?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 22 May, 2012, 02:13:34 PM
Kindle editions of the Black Flame novels are already available.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: a chosen rider on 22 May, 2012, 03:03:39 PM
Quote from: glassstanley on 22 May, 2012, 02:13:34 PM
Kindle editions of the Black Flame novels are already available.

Thanks for that - I think.  My Amazon wishlist just expanded rather a lot.  How many Dreddverse books were there?  I managed to find nine Dredds and three Andersons.  (Is there a topic around here somewhere for general discussion of 2000ad novels/prose stories?)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 22 May, 2012, 07:31:18 PM
Yep - 9 Dredds and 3 Andersons.

The 9 Virgin Dredds haven't been digitised and I'd guess they never will.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 23 May, 2012, 06:48:05 AM
Alongside the Dredd and Anderson novels, Black Flame also published three Nikolai Dante novels, three Fiends of the Eastern Front novels [plus a related novel set in the Pacific theatre of war called Fiends of the Rising Sun], and other novels based on 2000AD character universes - ABC Warriors and Durham Red, amongst others.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 23 May, 2012, 11:43:31 AM
Quote from: DarkDaysBish-OP on 23 May, 2012, 06:48:05 AM
Alongside the Dredd and Anderson novels, Black Flame also published three Nikolai Dante novels, three Fiends of the Eastern Front novels [plus a related novel set in the Pacific theatre of war called Fiends of the Rising Sun], and other novels based on 2000AD character universes - ABC Warriors and Durham Red, amongst others.

I bought the ABC Warriors 'Medusa War' one.
Not the finest hour from Mills / Mitchell.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 23 May, 2012, 11:49:31 AM
Quote from: DarkDaysBish-OP on 23 May, 2012, 06:48:05 AM
Alongside the Dredd and Anderson novels, Black Flame also published three Nikolai Dante novels, three Fiends of the Eastern Front novels [plus a related novel set in the Pacific theatre of war called Fiends of the Rising Sun], and other novels based on 2000AD character universes - ABC Warriors and Durham Red, amongst others.

The Fiends of the Eastern Front trilogy was pretty good throughout, and gave some nice background to Constanta. Of course if you want to read full reviews for the trilogy then all three are reviewed on my blog...cough cough.  ::)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 23 May, 2012, 03:33:38 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed the Dante novels - I managed to get the omnibus edition for £1 in one of those 'end of our stock' temporary shops that seem to pop up! After reading them, I wished I'd bought them years ago...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 23 May, 2012, 04:57:45 PM
for those of you wanting novels and actual books- you could do worse than check www.readitswapit.co.uk (http://www.readitswapit.co.uk). It is a book swapping site that I've been using for a goodly number of years. Every so often 2000 AD related material shows up for swap. There are some of the Virgin books there for sure.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 May, 2012, 09:16:43 PM
If anybody wants a copy of the Dante books I have an omnibus they are welcome to.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 May, 2012, 09:32:10 PM
I'll take it Colin_YNWA. How shall I pay you for it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 May, 2012, 06:30:41 AM
PM'd ya
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 May, 2012, 01:22:58 PM
Not seen this on the forum (apologise it I've just missed it) but teaser image for Aquila over at ECBT which confirms it start in 1786... NEXT PROG! YEAH!

http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/coming-soon-aquila-blood-of-the-iceni/ (http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/coming-soon-aquila-blood-of-the-iceni/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 30 May, 2012, 01:38:27 PM
Think that image is a page spread in this months meg.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 30 May, 2012, 02:08:35 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 30 May, 2012, 01:22:58 PM
Not seen this on the forum (apologise it I've just missed it) but teaser image for Aquila over at ECBT which confirms it start in 1786... NEXT PROG! YEAH!
http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/coming-soon-aquila-blood-of-the-iceni/ (http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/coming-soon-aquila-blood-of-the-iceni/)
It was in the preview thing in the last Meg.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 May, 2012, 02:20:52 PM
Arh now see being a non-Meg reader I missed this. Apologise.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 30 May, 2012, 02:30:20 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 30 May, 2012, 02:20:52 PM
Arh now see being a non-Meg reader I missed this. Apologise.
Not at all. I don't think it had been posted anywhere here abouts, and you are not alone in your Meg'less'ness
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 05 June, 2012, 03:46:42 PM
Coming in a couple of months time according to Previews. Anyone any idea who's behind this:
Quote
we enter an alternate 1940s London in which the British government has allied itself with aliens in '1947'
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 13 June, 2012, 06:47:37 AM
That'd be Tony Lee & Simon Harrison for you there Cosh.

David Roach has just posted the following on Facebook:

QuoteHi Arthur- thanks for friending me... if that's the correct term? I'm drawing your Dredd Story "Inversion" and I'm sure I'm going to have a great time- it's bloomin' hard though!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 13 June, 2012, 08:53:36 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 13 June, 2012, 06:47:37 AM
That'd be Tony Lee & Simon Harrison for you there Cosh.
For real? That'd be 50% the best thing ever and 50% the worst decision Tharg's ever made. Not necessarily in that order.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 13 June, 2012, 09:24:56 AM
I wonder whether 1947 is an actual serial or a Past Imperfect or something.  If it's a serial, Tharg really did sneak one under the radar.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 13 June, 2012, 09:29:35 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 13 June, 2012, 06:47:37 AM
That'd be Tony Lee & Simon Harrison for you there Cosh.

Yay! The return of Simon Harrison!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 14 June, 2012, 03:27:06 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 13 June, 2012, 08:53:36 AM
For real?

::)

quote author=Grant Goggans link=topic=35334.msg682801#msg682801 date=1339575896]
I wonder whether 1947 is an actual serial or a Past Imperfect or something.  If it's a serial, Tharg really did sneak one under the radar.
[/quote]

Stevie's money is on it  being part of a second season of Tharg's Thr3llers, what with Gunheads  being a three parter & all.

But more importantly,  sincere apologies to the Wyatt & Roach droids for pasting verbatim a FB post in his excitement instead of summarising the relevance of said post.

About 10 minutes after doing so Stevie realised that was a real Rich Johnson kind of thing to do.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Art on 15 June, 2012, 12:55:30 AM
You missed me gushing on Twitter.

I'm pretty excited by that Dredd. It'll be a Megazine one, BTW, date unknown.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 15 June, 2012, 03:13:08 AM
You crazy kids with your heliographs  :D

Glad to know that no offense was taken.

Great to know that you're now tackling Dredd & that we'll be seeing more David* goodness.

*Cadet Anderson, Your Green Zarjazship. Put the Roach droid on Cadet Anderson.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 28 June, 2012, 12:54:33 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DBItJ8OiL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Blu-ray-Sylvester-Stallone/dp/B008C0C1Y8/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1340884181&sr=8-6&keywords=dredd (http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Blu-ray-Sylvester-Stallone/dp/B008C0C1Y8/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1340884181&sr=8-6&keywords=dredd)

Up for pre-order on Amazon.com - release date September 18th 2012.

No word as yet on a UK release. If there is one then hopefully it'll have a better choice of cover image.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 28 June, 2012, 01:15:14 PM
2000 AD:

Aquila: Blood of the Inceni by Gordon Rennie/Leigh Gallagher - starts prog 17xx
Lenny Zero: Zero's Seven (8 episodes) by Andy Diggle/Ben Willsher - starts prog 1792
ABC Warriors: (title TBC) by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - starts prog 1800
Judge Dredd (major new storyline, title TBC) by Al Ewing/Artists TBC - starts TBC
Judge Dredd: The Death of Dan-E Cannon by Chris Weston - (one-off) TBC (prog 1800?)
Savage: Rise Like Lions (Book 8, 12 episodes) by Pat Mills/Patrick Goddard - starts TBC (prog 1800?)
Strontium Dog - The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha: Mutant Spring by John Wagner/Carlos Ezquerra - starts TBC
Tharg's 3rillers: Gunheads by T.C. Eglinton/Boo Cook - starts TBC
Stickleback (title TBC) by Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Brass Sun by Ian Edginton/I.N.J. Culbard/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Zombo (title TBC) by Al Ewing/Henry Flint - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Ampney Crucis Investigates... The Entropy Tango by Ian Edginton/Simon Davis(?) - starts TBC
Low Life: Saudade by Rob Williams/D'Israeli - starts TBC
The Red Seas: (title TBC, 5 episodes) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC
The Red Seas: (title TBC, final series) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
Defoe: The Damned by Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher(?) - starts TBC
Possible new Dark Judges series by John Wagner/Greg Staples - very much TBC
Possible new 2000ad project by Alec Worely/David Roach - TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

Judge Anderson: Stone Voices (5 episodes) by Alan Grant/Boo Cook - starts Meg 327
Judge Dredd: Inversion by Arthur Wyatt/David Roach - (one-off) TBC
Insurrection III(TBC) by Dan Abnett/Colin Macniel - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
The Simping Detective (possible new series, details TBC) by Si Spurrier/Artist TBC - starts TBC
American Reaper: Title TBC by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

Bato Loco - Meg 326
Marauder - Meg 327

2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

The Complete DR & Quinch (reprint) - June 2012
Slaine: The Horned God (hardback reprint) - June 2012
Mean Machine: Real Mean (reprint) - June 2012
Savage: The Guv'nor - July 2012
Strontium Dog: The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha - July 2012
Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files 04 - Aug 2012
Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges (B format) - Sep 2012
Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil - Oct 2012
The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection (featuring Dredd vs Lobo) - Nov 2012
Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth 03 - Nov 2012
Shako - Dec 2012
Snow/Tiger - TBC
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - TBC


2000ad Graphic Novels - US (provisional list - all subject to change):

Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu Earth 01 - May 2012
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05 - June 2012
Judge Dredd: When Judges Go Bad (June 2012)
Judge Dredd: Inferno (July 2012)
The Grevious Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake) - July 2012
Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Strontium Dog: Mutant For Hire - Aug 2012
Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf - Sep 2012
Tharg's Creepy Chronicles - Oct 2012
The Ten-Seconders: The American Dream - Nov 2012
The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection (DC Hardback edition, featuring Dredd vs Lobo) - Nov 2012
Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland (IDW, hardback) - Nov 2012
Judge Dredd: The Garth Ennis Collection - Dec 2012
All-Star Future Shocks - Jan 2012

Other Media:

Dredd: Collecting: Dredd Vs Death, Kingdom of the Blind & the Final Cut (Black Flame Novel Compilation) - July 2012
DREDD (3D movie, directed by Pete Travis) - 7th Sep 2012 (UK), 21st Sep 2012 (US)
2000AD Cover Art Featuring Judge Dredd - Hardback art book - Sep 2012
Judge Dredd (1995 Movie reissue) - Blu Ray - Sep 18th 2012
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 28 June, 2012, 02:30:00 PM
Shame to see 'Marauder' relegated to Meg supplement status (if relegated is the right world) I enjoyed that series.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 28 June, 2012, 02:37:23 PM
Marauder doesn't seem very long ago though, I think that these supplements should showcase older stories that most readers won't have seen before -- they have generally done well at that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 28 June, 2012, 02:50:39 PM
I think the statute of limitations on reprints should be 5 years - Marauder only ran in the prog 3.5 years ago...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Pioneer on 28 June, 2012, 02:55:54 PM
What's Marauder, is it a Dreddverse strip?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 28 June, 2012, 02:58:25 PM
Quote from: Pioneer on 28 June, 2012, 02:55:54 PM
What's Marauder, is it a Dreddverse strip?
I seem to remember it being a dreddworld version of spiderman.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 28 June, 2012, 02:59:37 PM
Yes, it was a spin-off from one of Robbie Morrison's Dredd scripts. A failed cadet turns vigilante, kind of a Mega-city superhero thing.

Was actually pretty good, with great art by Richard Elson.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: a chosen rider on 28 June, 2012, 04:35:12 PM
Quote from: radiator on 28 June, 2012, 01:15:14 PMPossible new Dark Judges series by John Wagner/Greg Staples - very much TBC

Sounds like this is now confirmed; from over in the "Day of Chaos finale" thread:

Quote from: James Stacey on 28 June, 2012, 03:29:11 PMI asked Mr Wagner that question over on that thar faceybook. I'm sure he won't mind it being c&p'd here.

--John, is there a reason why Anderson hasn't made an appearance yet in DoC? I've noticed you have used her less and less in recent years, do you see her more as Alan's baby now?
Quote from: John WagnerYou're right, it's because I regard her as Alan's character. She will, however, be making a major appearance in a forthcoming story with Greg Staples, "Dark Judgement". Greg's very busy and wants to take his time over it - it'll be beautiful - and I've over-run a bit on length as well, so it may be quite some time forthcoming, I think!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 28 June, 2012, 06:51:28 PM
Also the letters page in this weeks Prog reveals Grey Area will return in Prog 1800.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 June, 2012, 04:37:00 AM
According to the latest Previews listing for Meg 328:

QuoteMore action and adventure in the future-shocked world of Judge Dredd! A bumper movie special to coincide with the release of DREDD in cinemas this month, this issue features interviews and stills from the head-pounding SF thriller, as well as a bonus Dredd strip

the floppy will be

Quotethe complete "Judge Dredd: Ratfink" by John Wagner and Peter Doherty!

For those of you who are decrying reprinting something that only came down in the last shower this will coincide with

Quote
...degenerate villain Ratfink is loose in the start of new story Judge Dredd: "Ratfink's Revenge" by Alan Grant and Tiernen Trevallion....

You're not the sole squaxx wondering whether this is surely a misprint for wouldn't the mighty Wagner....? But if it's cut from the smae cloth as Meg 315's In the Absence of the Sacred there'll be no worries there.

Regardless of  the Trevallion droid draws Ratfink! Tharg should declare a bank holiday to commerate this inspired match.

Meanwhile, over at the Prog it does appear if Tharg'S Thr3llers are back for included in the line up for 1800

Quote
we meet the Survival Geeks, crossing the dimensions

plus

Quotethe ABC Warriors are back and Hammerstein reveals a shocking secret about his past in "Return to Earth"; a new fantasy series makes its debut in "Brass Sun: The Wheel of Worlds"; Dr. Orlando Doyle makes plans for the end of the world in the Red Seas miniseries "Beautiful Freak";
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 29 June, 2012, 05:13:44 AM
I rather don't mind Ratfink getting a reprint. That was just about the time I was dropping the Meg, and was rather liking that story.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 09:15:28 AM
Ratfink was ace, happy to see that.

Glad that the character is finally returning, but a bit wary about Grant writing it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 09:16:07 AM
Oh, and 3rillers are back already.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 29 June, 2012, 09:44:34 AM
Quote from: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 09:16:07 AM
Oh, and 3rillers are back already.
Well, they do tend to come in threes...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: mygrimmbrother on 29 June, 2012, 09:47:55 AM
Trevaillion drawing Ratfink - an inspired match indeed. We need more Tiernan in general - how good is the Absalom trade cover?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 09:59:03 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 29 June, 2012, 09:44:34 AM
Quote from: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 09:16:07 AM
Oh, and 3rillers are back already.
Well, they do tend to come in threes...

Yes, and I'm saying that this run has already started.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 29 June, 2012, 10:59:22 AM
So this run would be 1947, Gunheads, and Survival Geeks, wrapping in prog 1797, maybe?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 11:26:13 AM
Sounds like it. Perhaps Survival Geeks is the Tony Lee/Simon Harrison collaboration - 1947 is by Kek-W/Michael Dowling.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Cyber-Matt on 29 June, 2012, 01:37:47 PM
Quote from: radiator on 28 June, 2012, 02:50:39 PM
I think the statute of limitations on reprints should be 5 years - Marauder only ran in the prog 3.5 years ago...


OK, by that reasoning we won't collect up Day of Chaos until 2017.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 01:47:46 PM
I'm talking specifically about the Meg reprints, not trade collections.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Cyber-Matt on 29 June, 2012, 05:48:53 PM
Quote from: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 01:47:46 PM
I'm talking specifically about the Meg reprints, not trade collections.


What difference does that make? The rationale for a good collection is how it reads under one cover, not the amount of time that has elapsed since its initial appearance.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 29 June, 2012, 06:11:10 PM
Quote from: Cyber-Matt on 29 June, 2012, 05:48:53 PM
Quote from: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 01:47:46 PM
I'm talking specifically about the Meg reprints, not trade collections.

What difference does that make? The rationale for a good collection is how it reads under one cover, not the amount of time that has elapsed since its initial appearance.

This is a pretty valid point.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 29 June, 2012, 07:41:20 PM
I'm with cyber-matt on this. The fink story in question was one that started not long after I returned to the meg but I've never gone back to re-read it. This will give me the perfect excuse to! (just laziness ultimately)!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Adamskilad on 29 June, 2012, 07:57:59 PM
Yeah, but if you get the Megazine you get the supplement whether you've read the reprints or not; whereas you can pick and choose with trades, depending on what you already have in episodic form or just love so much you wanna see in a big fat collection. Therefore I'd rather see collections that are a bit older or tie in nicely to stories just starting in 2000ad or ther Megazine, thus cutting down on the irk factor if I already have the stories and especially if said stories are still fresh in my mind.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 29 June, 2012, 08:43:36 PM
Granted, I'd rather see older stories, or stuff post prog 1211 (which is where I stopped buying the weekly) but there are new readers coming on board all the time - so the fink collection ties in nicely with the new Alan Grant story for newbies! The ones that irk me are the Dredd collections - that's what the case files are for!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 30 June, 2012, 03:08:40 PM
Any idea at all as to when Defoe - The Damned will be in the Prog? It really has been far too long since the last book of Defoe.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 01 July, 2012, 02:15:47 AM
Stevie's fighting with Cyber-Matt Block on this one!

Ratfink is a cracking self-contained  modern Dredd story that's just the ticket for new or lapsed readers who are picking up the Meg in the wake of the fillum.

Marauder also makes sense in light of the big push for the Meg in the States. What with Richard Elson taking the Mouse's Marvel's coin & all.

Stevie made a real arse out of arse out of parsing placement of punctuation in that  piece (of copy) didn't he?  Put that down to a sleepless month following a tear to the  left earlobe Thrill Synapses overloading  at the prospect of Tiernan's beady-eyed Ratfink with a double helping of Edgy on the side. [spoiler]That Red Seas title is a bit spoilerific [/spoiler][spoiler]if it's suggesting what Stevie is thinking[/spoiler].

So no separate thrill Survival Geeks, just a teaser for Weston's  Dredd.  :-[

Quote from: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 09:59:03 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 29 June, 2012, 09:44:34 AM
Quote from: radiator on 29 June, 2012, 09:16:07 AM
Oh, and 3rillers are back already.
Well, they do tend to come in threes...

Yes, and I'm saying that this run has already started.

Not for Diamond customers they haven't ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 01 July, 2012, 07:41:04 AM
Still want post Eurocrash download tales...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 01 July, 2012, 11:44:14 AM
Yea; it'd be even nicer if they relaunched the Sin/Dex trades as case files style books and included all the stories that were excluded from the original trades (especially the Downlode Tales). I stopped buying these at Bk 3...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PreacherCain on 01 July, 2012, 09:51:57 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 01 July, 2012, 11:44:14 AM
Yea; it'd be even nicer if they relaunched the Sin/Dex trades as case files style books and included all the stories that were excluded from the original trades (especially the Downlode Tales). I stopped buying these at Bk 3...

I think they should do this with both Sin/Dex and Nikolai Dante, both long-running series. I'd love to see Nikolai Dante in a bigger trade, with lots of sketchbook material etc. I'm also a sucker for author/artist forewards and the like. It'd be great to have a few on the Dredd Case Files, even if it's just Garth Ennis apologising again :D  I think Dante deserves that extra special treatment as it's such a self-contained story and has relatively few creators working on it.

Plus I just want to read the whole thing again without forking out a load of money for a dozen trades or havign to dig out the progs  :-\
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 01 July, 2012, 11:52:48 PM
The 5 year reprint rule was for the old weeklies, it was consider safe to reprint 5-year-old material, current readers wouldnt have read it with the turnover in readership. The early 2000ad annuals and specials reprinted Ginuae Pig and One Eyed Jack etc until enough time had elapsed to start reprinting Flesh and Shako in the annuals.

Those rules dont apply now, I would like to see older material getting a look, but I also want to see the Meg continue, so maybe to alternate every month between newer and older material. Return to armageddon, hint hint. Im looking forward to Ratfink. I really liked that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Nubby mcstubbins on 02 July, 2012, 03:35:50 AM
I just want to put in my vote for Dante and sinister.  My wife and I got hooked on Dante after picking up the new volume 1 that was released last year.  Bummer when we search for book 2 onwards, we just see the old out of print trades.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 02 July, 2012, 04:11:57 AM
Quote from: Nubby mcstubbins on 02 July, 2012, 03:35:50 AM
I just want to put in my vote for Dante and sinister.  My wife and I got hooked on Dante after picking up the new volume 1 that was released last year.  Bummer when we search for book 2 onwards, we just see the old out of print trades.

That is more an argument for getting the original volumes back into print (I think it has been requested in the relevant thread (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,29580.0.html)). As we have the first one getting a US release, we might be looking at the second one dropping somewhere along the line, so it might be simpler to pick those up.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 July, 2012, 01:05:56 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 May, 2012, 01:52:50 PM
Looks like they've dusted off a few of the old Black Flame Dredd novels as part of the getting-stuff-out-there-in-Dredd-movie-year plan:

"Dredd" - collecting Dredd vs Death, Kingdom of the Blind, & The Final Cut (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Collecting-Death-Kingdom-Blind/dp/1781080771/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337345064&sr=1-7).

I thought "The Final Cut" was a great Dredd read.

Cover now up at Amazon UK -  I wonder if there will be a tie-in novelisation given this has "Dredd" in stonking great letters and the three titles in the omnibus in much smaller print.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Dreddpbk.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 03 July, 2012, 01:33:16 AM
Nope. It's just those three books.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 03 July, 2012, 01:41:56 AM
The Final Cut is worth the price alone.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 03 July, 2012, 02:15:34 AM
Quote from: maryanddavid on 01 July, 2012, 11:52:48 PM
Those rules dont apply now, I would like to see older material getting a look, but I also want to see the Meg continue, so maybe to alternate every month between newer and older material. Return to armageddon, hint hint.

Stevie would prefer it if all of you cheapskates had bought the Xtreme Edition so Return To Armageddon was republished in it's oversize glory.  :D

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 July, 2012, 02:18:46 AM
Quote from: Molch-R on 03 July, 2012, 01:33:16 AM
Nope. It's just those three books.
Hi Moloch-R, I think you misunderstand me.  I realise this is just the three reprints in omnibus format.  What I meant was it has "DREDD" in great big letters and a photo from the movie on the cover.  If there was to be a move tie-in novelisation then it would also have "DREDD" in great big letters and a photo from the movie on the cover.  I would expect if there were two books then this one, the non-movie one, would be better differentiated.  Since it's not I questioned whether there will be a tie-in novel.

Joe - I agree about "The Final Cut", a great Dredd novel.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 03 July, 2012, 11:18:56 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 03 July, 2012, 02:18:46 AM
Hi Moloch-R, I think you misunderstand me.  I realise this is just the three reprints in omnibus format.  What I meant was it has "DREDD" in great big letters and a photo from the movie on the cover.  If there was to be a move tie-in novelisation then it would also have "DREDD" in great big letters and a photo from the movie on the cover.  I would expect if there were two books then this one, the non-movie one, would be better differentiated.  Since it's not I questioned whether there will be a tie-in novel.

Ah right. There's isn't going to be a novelisation, hence why we're doing this one. Was sure we'd mentioned this somewhere.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 03 July, 2012, 11:32:36 AM
Is Matthew Smith, the author of The Final Cut the same Matt Smith who's currently 'helping' Tharg, or is there yet another Matt Smith in the world of science fiction?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 03 July, 2012, 11:35:06 AM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 03 July, 2012, 11:32:36 AM
Is Matthew Smith, the author of The Final Cut the same Matt Smith who's currently 'helping' Tharg, or is there yet another Matt Smith in the world of science fiction?

Same one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 03 July, 2012, 11:51:21 AM
Quote from: Molch-R on 03 July, 2012, 11:35:06 AM
Quote from: Lee Bates on 03 July, 2012, 11:32:36 AM
Is Matthew Smith, the author of The Final Cut the same Matt Smith who's currently 'helping' Tharg, or is there yet another Matt Smith in the world of science fiction?

Same one.

Wow. Multi talented.

Can anyone tell me if the other two books in this collection are any good? If so, I might be tempted by this.

I've only read one Dredd novel before, I can't remember the title but it was by Dave Bishop and was about a monster on the loose in MC1. It wasn't very good at all and put me off reading any more.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: strontium71 on 03 July, 2012, 12:52:40 PM
The only one I really didn't like was the Hundredfold Problem - just awful.
The rest were very good and I wish they would make more.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 July, 2012, 01:49:54 PM
No tie-in novelisation?  Any word on a tie-in computer game?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mardroid on 03 July, 2012, 02:48:26 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 03 July, 2012, 01:49:54 PM
No tie-in novelisation?  Any word on a tie-in computer game?

Molch-R's said there won't be one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 03 July, 2012, 03:19:26 PM
Quote from: Mardroid on 03 July, 2012, 02:48:26 PM
Molch-R's said there won't be one.

That is correct. *beep*
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 04 July, 2012, 07:36:59 AM
Lee Bates wrote: I've only read one Dredd novel before, I can't remember the title but it was by Dave Bishop and was about a monster on the loose in MC1. It wasn't very good at all and put me off reading any more.

That sounds like Silencer, my 3rd Virgin novel. Yes, it was a bit shit.

Not quite sure why Rebellion have chosen to reprint Kingdom of the Blind in the movie tie-in omnibus, as that's also not great. If asked, I would have suggested Bad Moon Rising, it's a much better novel IMHO.

davidbishop
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 09 July, 2012, 09:08:37 PM
I thought The Savage Amusement was your best one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emperor on 14 July, 2012, 02:17:08 AM
New S&S trades:

Judge Dredd: Origins (March 2013):
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Judge-Dredd-Origins/John-Wagner/9781781080993

Ichabod Azrael (May 2013):
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Grievous-Journey-of-Ichabod-Azrael-(And-The-Dead/Dom-Reardon/9781781080306

That last one is interesting as there is nothing showing up for a UK release yet.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 14 July, 2012, 12:58:15 PM
Quote from: Emperor on 14 July, 2012, 02:17:08 AM
That last one is interesting as there is nothing showing up for a UK release yet.

Do you mean there's no UK equivalent version, or it's just not available to order in the UK?  Amazon UK have been listing it for pre-order for several months.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grievous-Journey-Ichabod-Azrael-Dead/dp/1781080305/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1342266972&sr=8-2-fkmr0
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 28 July, 2012, 04:00:11 AM
Latest Prieviews lists the following Thrills for Progs 1803 - 1807


ABC Warriors: Return to Earth
Brass Sun: Wheel of Worlds (Yay!)
The Simping Detective (No hints on artist but still -- double yay!)
Low Life: Saudade (Triple yay with a cherry on top!)

& intriguingly...

Quote...something sinister is abroad in Justice Department in "Judge Dredd: The Cold Deck."

which could possibly be either the long time between drinks return of Dan Abnett to Old Stoney Face or the major Al Ewings storyline for which the seeds were sown in The Family Man back in Megs 312 & 313.

Or something else entirely.

Speaking of the Meg, 329 will feature a bonus Dredd coutesy of Gordon Rennie & Paul Marshall. Plus a floppy of Finn.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 28 July, 2012, 04:20:04 AM
The Simping Dectective in the Prog? Hmm. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 28 July, 2012, 09:55:30 AM
Looking forward to the floppy of Finn! Does anyone know if there are plans to continue with the Strontium Dogs/Durham Red arc in the floppies though, I was enjoying those...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 28 July, 2012, 11:47:32 AM
The Simping Detective story is called Jokers to the Right and will have art by Simon Coleby.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 28 July, 2012, 12:19:07 PM
Quote from: radiator on 28 July, 2012, 11:47:32 AM
The Simping Detective story is called Jokers to the Right and will have art by Simon Coleby.

Unexpected, but very very welcome.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 July, 2012, 01:09:27 PM
Quote from: radiator on 28 July, 2012, 11:47:32 AM
The Simping Detective story is called Jokers to the Right and will have art by Simon Coleby.
Excelent! Coleby seem's to have been very silent these last few years.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 28 July, 2012, 06:57:19 PM
Simon Coleby sounds like a real good fit for Simping Detective, if his work on Low Life and Malone is anything to go by.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Nubby mcstubbins on 31 July, 2012, 06:54:13 AM
Kind of a stupid question--  but I'm used to knowing when the next case files is scheduled for release once the latest is out.

Surprised to not see volume 20 scheduled anywhere.  Do we have confirmation that these volumes will still be released? 

Hoping maybe I've just missed spotting it some place.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 31 July, 2012, 07:55:02 AM
Quote from: radiator on 28 July, 2012, 11:47:32 AM
The Simping Detective story is called Jokers to the Right and will have art by Simon Coleby.

Wow. Consider Stevie's socks well & truly knocked off.

Just.. wow.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 31 July, 2012, 10:14:38 AM
Quote from: Nubby mcstubbins on 31 July, 2012, 06:54:13 AM
Surprised to not see volume 20 scheduled anywhere.  Do we have confirmation that these volumes will still be released? 
I asked Mr RoboKeef and he says not before April, which I guess follows the current twice yearly release schedule.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 03 August, 2012, 01:25:30 AM
Bit of a glut of undercover judge tales in the prog, what with Low Life and Simping Detective coming off the heels of Lenny Zero!

I'm still holding out hope that the new series of Simping Detective and Low Life are going to form some sort of mini-crossover, but I'm not holding my breath...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 03 August, 2012, 04:53:17 AM
Loading up the Prog with the finest MC 1 strips around the same time as the movie?

Who'd have though, eh?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: a chosen rider on 05 August, 2012, 10:49:45 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 28 July, 2012, 04:00:11 AM
Quote...something sinister is abroad in Justice Department in "Judge Dredd: The Cold Deck."

which could possibly be either the long time between drinks return of Dan Abnett to Old Stoney Face or the major Al Ewings storyline for which the seeds were sown in The Family Man back in Megs 312 & 313.

Or something else entirely.

Looks like it's the latter; a brief snippet from Al Ewing on Twitter (http://twitter.com/Al_Ewing/status/231927990408323073):

Quote
Quote from: Douglas Wolk‏ @douglaswolk@kierongillen Zero's 7 starts in 1792 and is indeed wonderful. Although 1790 will get you @Al_Ewing's genius "The Bean Counter."

Quote from: Al Ewing ‏@Al_Ewing@douglaswolk @kierongillen Maitland's worth getting to know - she'll be back in "The Cold Deck", which is... a biggie.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grishmal on 05 August, 2012, 11:55:08 AM
Bookdepository.com is listing Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 03 for January.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: douglaswolk on 05 August, 2012, 05:52:18 PM
Just guessing here, but might the title of "The Cold Deck" also signal that it has something to do with "Served Cold"--Ewing and John Higgins' excellent serial from #1718-1725, which introduced Deller (the Parker type who showed up again in "The Rich Cabaret" a few weeks back)?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 August, 2012, 03:10:59 PM
Now up for pre-order on Amazon UK:  (Note - e-book only).

Judge Dredd Year One: City Fathers
THE MAKING OF THE LAWMAN...

Mega-City One, 2080. It is Joe Dredd's first year as a full-eagle Judge – he may have been created from the genes of Eustace Fargo, the 'Father of Justice', and thus part of an illustrious lineage, but right now Dredd is not long graduated from the Academy, and yet to establish himself as the metropolis's toughest, greatest cop. His reputation will be moulded in the years ahead, but at the moment he's a young lawman, fresh on the streets.

The brutal murder of a Justice Department-sanctioned spy sparks an investigation that will see Dredd trawl the criminal underworld in the hunt for the killer – and he will discover that all is not what it seems in the sector's murky black market. Something new has entered the system, and unless Dredd can stop it, chaos will be unleashed...

This is an ebook exclusive novella from Matthew Smith, editor of 2000 AD and author of the novels, Judge Dredd: The Final Cut and Tomes of the Dead: Words of Their Roaring.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: CraveNoir on 10 August, 2012, 04:24:13 PM
Judge Dredd Year One: City Fathers is buyable now! I'm reading it. :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mardroid on 11 August, 2012, 01:43:27 AM
Sigh. And I've got a Kobo.

Never mind, I've got the Kindle app on my PC. (Actually I can convert it too but the last time I did that it seemed to break links within the book. Not a big deal as it's still highly readable, it just makes navigation a bit of a rigmarole.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 17 August, 2012, 05:21:12 PM
I had not seen Pat Mills twitter page in a while but on the 28th of  July he tweeted "A 'lost' Hammerstein story starts in 2000AD in a few weeks time." Anyone know anything on this?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 17 August, 2012, 05:29:21 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 17 August, 2012, 05:21:12 PM
I had not seen Pat Mills twitter page in a while but on the 28th of  July he tweeted "A 'lost' Hammerstein story starts in 2000AD in a few weeks time." Anyone know anything on this?

It's the new ABC Warriors series, 'Return to Earth', in Prog 1800, as teased in this week's Nerve Centre.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 17 August, 2012, 05:55:31 PM
Thanks Dark Jimbo, I was not sure if it was that or a separate ABC Warriors story.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 August, 2012, 09:44:35 AM
Quote from: Grishmal on 05 August, 2012, 11:55:08 AM
Bookdepository.com is listing Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 03 for January.

Now showing on Amazon UK too: Click here. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Anderson-PSI-Files-03/dp/1781081069/ref=sr_1_25?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345365795&sr=1-25)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 19 August, 2012, 04:33:41 PM
I think someone worked this out already but whats the estimate for where this will take us to? By my very rough estimates I'm thinking it'll be up to (and including?) R*Evolution?

That'd mean if we get to 4 it'll the later day Meg stuff? Or am I off track there?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 21 August, 2012, 08:19:40 AM
I'll be buying it but I fear it'll be a lot of lovely Arthur Ranson stuff I already have and then that god awful Steve Sampson tracing. Someone tell me I'm wrong.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 21 August, 2012, 11:13:24 AM
Yep, this collection is - IIRC - going to cover Something Wicked, Satan, then move onto the 2000ad Steve Sampson sequence of Wonderwall/Crusade and then R*evolution, along with a few one-offs.

I know everyone pretty much hates Crusade - but it does kind of wrap up that whole era of Anderson and we got to see a few long-running supporting characters meet their end (imo it was the last Anderson story before the whole thing just started treading water - does Anderson even have a supporting cast any more, other than Shenker?).

I'll definitely be picking up this one, but can certainly live without a volume 04.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: a chosen rider on 21 August, 2012, 12:18:29 PM
From Rob Williams on Twitter (http://twitter.com/Robwilliams71/status/237849662814560256):

Quote from: @Robwilliams71Apparently 'Innocent' the two-part Judge Dredd by myself and @getcampbell is out in @2000AD progs 1798-1799, next week.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2012, 09:57:42 AM
Now listed on Amazon UK for pre-order:

Judge Dredd Day of Chaos: Fourth Faction - 14 Feb 2013
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Day-Chaos-Faction/dp/1781081085/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345712287&sr=8-1

Judge Dredd: Judge Child Saga - 14 Mar 2013 (£6.99 so presumably a 'manga' edition)http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Child-Saga/dp/1781081093/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345712324&sr=1-2

Mean Team - 14 March 2013
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mean-Team-John-Wagner/dp/1781081107/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345712471&sr=1-1

Indigo Prime@ Anthropocalypse - 11 April 2013 (There you go, Grant!)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Indigo-Prime-Anthropocalypse-John-Smith/dp/1781081115/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345712432&sr=1-1

Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth - 9 May 2013 (£6.99 so presumably a 'manga' edition??)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rogue-Trooper-Welcome-Nu-Earth/dp/1781081131/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345712390&sr=1-1c

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grishmal on 23 August, 2012, 10:11:31 AM
Mean Team seams like kind of an odd choice.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin Zeal on 23 August, 2012, 10:44:09 AM
Let's hope it includes Survivor. i certainly won't be buying it unless it does.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 10:45:46 AM
Quote from: Colin Zeal on 23 August, 2012, 10:44:09 AM
Let's hope it includes Survivor. i certainly won't be buying it unless it does.

It does.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 10:46:52 AM

Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth - 9 May 2013 (£6.99 so presumably a 'manga' edition??)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rogue-Trooper-Welcome-Nu-Earth/dp/1781081131/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345712390&sr=1-1c
[/quote]

Correct.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 August, 2012, 10:53:39 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2012, 09:57:42 AM
Indigo Prime@ Anthropocalypse - 11 April 2013 (There you go, Grant!)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Indigo-Prime-Anthropocalypse-John-Smith/dp/1781081115/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345712432&sr=1-1


Hold on, hold on that's 160 pages... by my calculations that means between now and April Indigo Prime will be back... am I right, am I right... if so VERY happy with that!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 23 August, 2012, 11:01:31 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 23 August, 2012, 10:53:39 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2012, 09:57:42 AM
Indigo Prime@ Anthropocalypse - 11 April 2013 (There you go, Grant!)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Indigo-Prime-Anthropocalypse-John-Smith/dp/1781081115/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345712432&sr=1-1


Hold on, hold on that's 160 pages... by my calculations that means between now and April Indigo Prime will be back... am I right, am I right... if so VERY happy with that!

Slow down buddy. Don't get your hopes up. Lets not forget it probably will reprint Dead Eyes too. Dead Eyes (76) + Everything and More (24) + Anthropocalypse (48) = 148. Pad the rest out with covers and sketches = 160.

EDIT: In fact you KNOW it will reprint Dead Eyes, because Lee Carter is credited on the Amazon page (I mean yeah, LOL Amazon listing accuracy. But yeah, this is a sure thing).

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2012, 11:35:43 AM
Now showing up in Forbidden Planets e-mailout:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Bolland.jpg)

"Brian Bolland was regularly handling art chores for John Wagner's scripts on Judge Dredd. All told, he illustrated 19 stories. Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland collects these stories in oversized format, featuring meticulous modern coloring by Charlie Kirchoff."

I hope that's not the final cover - that picture is on the cover of two other recent titles, "Inferno" and "Case Files" 19.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2012, 11:38:17 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 10:46:52 AM
- - - -
Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth - 9 May 2013 (£6.99 so presumably a 'manga' edition??)
- - - - -
Correct.

Damn, you certainly know how to make me buy stuff I've already got!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 23 August, 2012, 12:23:28 PM
2000 AD:

Judge Dredd: Innocent by Rob Williams/Laurence Campbell - 2 episodes, starts prog 1798
Judge Dredd: The Death of Dan-E Cannon by Chris Weston - (one-off) prog 1800
ABC Warriors: Return to Earth by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - starts prog 1800
Brass Sun: the Wheel of Worlds by Ian Edginton/INJ Culbard/D'Israeli - starts prog 1800
Gray Area (title TBC) by Dan Abnett/Lee Carter - starts prog 1800

Judge Dredd The Cold Deck by Al Ewing/Henry Flint(?) - starts TBC
The Simping Detective: Jokers to the Right by Si Spurrier/Simon Coleby - starts TBC
Tharg's 3rillers: Survival Geeks by Gordon Rennie/Emma Beeby/Neil Googe - starts TBC
Savage: Rise Like Lions (Book 8, 12 episodes) by Pat Mills/Patrick Goddard - starts TBC
Strontium Dog - The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha: Mutant Spring by John Wagner/Carlos Ezquerra - starts TBC
Tharg's 3rillers: Gunheads by T.C. Eglinton/Boo Cook - starts TBC
Stickleback (title TBC) by Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Zombo (title TBC) by Al Ewing/Henry Flint - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Ampney Crucis Investigates... The Entropy Tango by Ian Edginton/Simon Davis(?) - starts TBC
Low Life: Saudade by Rob Williams/D'Israeli - starts TBC
The Red Seas: (title TBC, final series) by Ian Edginton/Steve Yeowell - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
Defoe: The Damned by Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher(?) - starts TBC
Dark Judgement by John Wagner/Greg Staples - starts TBC
Possible new 2000ad project by Alec Worely/David Roach - TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

Judge Dredd: Ratfink's Revenge by Alan Grant/Tiernan Trevallion - 2 episodes, starts Meg 328
Judge Dredd: Inversion by Arthur Wyatt/David Roach - (one-off) TBC
Insurrection III(TBC) by Dan Abnett/Colin Macniel - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
American Reaper: Title TBC by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

Judge Dredd: Ratfink - Meg 328
Finn - Meg 329
Downlode Tales (yes!) - Meg 330


2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files 04 - Aug 2012
Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges (B format) - Sep 2012
Nikolai Dante: Sympathy for the Devil - Oct 2012
The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection (featuring Dredd vs Lobo) - Nov 2012
Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth 03 - Nov 2012
Shako - Dec 2012
Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 03 - Jan 2013
Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos - The Fourth Faction - Feb 2013
Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Saga (B Format) - Feb 2013
Mean Team - Mar 2013
Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse - April 2013
Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth (B Format) - May 2013

Snow/Tiger - TBC
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - TBC


2000ad Graphic Novels - US (provisional list - all subject to change):

Shakara: The Destroyer - Aug 2012
Strontium Dog: Mutant For Hire - Aug 2012
Judge Dredd: Cry of the Werewolf - Sep 2012
Tharg's Creepy Chronicles - Oct 2012
The Ten-Seconders: The American Dream - Nov 2012
The Batman/Judge Dredd Collection (DC Hardback edition, featuring Dredd vs Lobo) - Nov 2012
Judge Dredd: The Complete Brian Bolland (IDW, hardback) - Nov 2012
Judge Dredd: The Garth Ennis Collection - Dec 2012
All-Star Future Shocks - Jan 2012
Judge Dredd: Origins - Mar 2013
The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael... - May 2013

Other Media:

Dredd: Collecting: Dredd Vs Death, Kingdom of the Blind & the Final Cut (Black Flame Novel Compilation) - July 2012
DREDD 3D - movie, directed by Pete Travis) - 7th Sep 2012 (UK), 21st Sep 2012 (US)
2000AD Cover Art Featuring Judge Dredd - Hardback art book - Sep 2012
Judge Dredd (1995 Movie reissue, USA release) - Blu Ray - Sep 18th 2012


Something - a book - called 'Dredd Vs Death' by Marc Gasgoine - is showing up on The Book Depository with a release date of 2014 - anyone shed any light on that?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 August, 2012, 12:55:59 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 23 August, 2012, 11:01:31 AM

Slow down buddy. Don't get your hopes up. Lets not forget it probably will reprint Dead Eyes too. Dead Eyes (76) + Everything and More (24) + Anthropocalypse (48) = 148. Pad the rest out with covers and sketches = 160.

EDIT: In fact you KNOW it will reprint Dead Eyes, because Lee Carter is credited on the Amazon page (I mean yeah, LOL Amazon listing accuracy. But yeah, this is a sure thing).

Arh damnit I'd forgotten about Dead Eyes, yep of course... so in fact we might be able to assume the opposite... well hopefully not but...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Pioneer on 23 August, 2012, 01:14:26 PM
Still no Case Files 20??
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 23 August, 2012, 01:29:00 PM
I think CF20 was mentioned with a date of next year, but can't remember where I heard it, and it's still not showing up on Amazon etc.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 23 August, 2012, 01:46:36 PM
I mailed Robo-Keef a little while ago and he said not to expect it before April.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 02:20:47 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 23 August, 2012, 12:55:59 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 23 August, 2012, 11:01:31 AM

Slow down buddy. Don't get your hopes up. Lets not forget it probably will reprint Dead Eyes too. Dead Eyes (76) + Everything and More (24) + Anthropocalypse (48) = 148. Pad the rest out with covers and sketches = 160.

EDIT: In fact you KNOW it will reprint Dead Eyes, because Lee Carter is credited on the Amazon page (I mean yeah, LOL Amazon listing accuracy. But yeah, this is a sure thing).

Arh damnit I'd forgotten about Dead Eyes, yep of course... so in fact we might be able to assume the opposite... well hopefully not but...

Do you not like the inclusion of Dead Eyes then?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 23 August, 2012, 02:22:21 PM
I think he was just gutted because it means that there isn't going to be a new series soon.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 23 August, 2012, 02:27:16 PM
Quote from: radiator on 23 August, 2012, 02:22:21 PM
I think he was just gutted because it means that there isn't going to be a new series soon.
^^ Yup. I'm thrilled that Indigo Prime's latest stuff will be getting a reprint (and while it's unlikely, how great would it be to see a new Rebellion version of that DC trade?), but, man, I'd also love to hear Tharg reveal a new series is coming early next year. Or, really, next issue.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 August, 2012, 02:36:10 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 02:20:47 PM

Do you not like the inclusion of Dead Eyes then?

What Radiator said. Dead Eyes needs to be in there, of course it does, just got over excited about the thought of new Indigo Prime is all.

It was a positive not a negative...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 03:29:13 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 23 August, 2012, 02:36:10 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 02:20:47 PM

Do you not like the inclusion of Dead Eyes then?

What Radiator said. Dead Eyes needs to be in there, of course it does, just got over excited about the thought of new Indigo Prime is all.

It was a positive not a negative...

Never took it as a negative Colin - I'm just generally interested as I was initially toying with the idea of re-packaging the old DC trade with Dead Eyes.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 23 August, 2012, 03:42:02 PM
There definately needs to be more Indigo Prime in the prog, preferably with Bagwell on art duties again. One of the best thrills of last year, all the more so because I wasn't really expecting to like it; John Smith has something like a 60/40 hit rate with me, I hadn't enjoyed Dead Eyes very much, and I've never read any previous Indigo Prime stuff so was clueless as to the provenance - but it was a hit all the way. Loved how very rich and dense it was; a proper exercise in worldbuilding. Don't think I've enjoyed a 'new' thrill so much since Defoe's debut (although Absalom has since pipped it).*


*While I'm at it - more Defoe and Absalom please.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 August, 2012, 03:43:03 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 03:29:13 PM

Never took it as a negative Colin - I'm just generally interested as I was initially toying with the idea of re-packaging the old DC trade with Dead Eyes.

Interesting, for me there is more of a direct link between Dead Eye and new Indigo Prime than Dead Eye and old Indigo Prime. For all sorts of reasons but mainly as its the story of Danny Redman.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 23 August, 2012, 03:46:27 PM
Oh, and while you're about RoboKeef - does the subtitle on the Day of Chaos book mean there are going to be at least two collections, as with Tour of Duty?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 03:50:12 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 23 August, 2012, 03:46:27 PM
Oh, and while you're about RoboKeef - does the subtitle on the Day of Chaos book mean there are going to be at least two collections, as with Tour of Duty?

Correct.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 23 August, 2012, 03:52:08 PM
Yay! Good stuff.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 23 August, 2012, 06:03:07 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 03:29:13 PMI'm just generally interested as I was initially toying with the idea of re-packaging the old DC trade with Dead Eyes.

I definitely think Dead Eyes needs to be packaged with the new Indigo Prime material, if only because of the plot threads and characters that follow through both. And Dead Eyes represents the revival of the Indigo Prime series, and it is distinctly different then the original run. So putting it in a 'Incomplete Indigo Prime' reprint doesn't feel right.

Its a little tough though, because like The Dead Man, like Malone, like The Vort; the surprise reveal at the end is sort of why the series is so memorable and exciting. And putting it in an Indigo Prime collection sort of kills that surprise.

I mean, its necessary for a lot of practical reasons to call the book Indigo Prime. But part of me kinda wishes it was called Dead Eyes, with no subtitles (or indication in the back synopsis of it turning into Indigo Prime)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 23 August, 2012, 06:05:39 PM
But the twist - as with The Dead Man etc - doesn't make any sense outside of the context of a weekly serial.

Who would buy the standalone book, and what would the twist mean to them?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 23 August, 2012, 08:03:56 PM
Robo-KEEF, while we'd all love to see a new edition of the DC/Rebellion Complete Indigo Prime, I really hope that before you take too many steps, please have a look at how INcomplete the existing edition is.  It's missing their first appearance ("A Change of Scenery," which was reprinted a bit later in The Best of Tharg's Future Shocks), and their surprising reappearance in the Tyranny Rex story "Woody Allen."  Those two definitely need to be part of any Indigo Prime book, because they define the characters and the concept a whole lot better than most of their other early appearances, and it's a heck of a lot kinder to the reader than starting a book with "The Issigri Variations."

You could fit those two - along with, ideally, a foreword from Smith - inside one new 16-page signature, but I'd encourage going a little further and also adding the Tyranny Rex story "Soft Bodies."  That's certain to make everybody's head hurt almost as much as "Issigri," but it also introduced Fervent and Lobe, and let readers kind of understand just how big and weird this concept that Smith was developing is.

And tell your alien boss to get the blasted strip back in the prog.  Its absence is heartbreaking.  At least a new 10-page story in Prog 2013, and every year-end edition, seriously.  With an active roster of dozens and dozens of operatives, there's no reason why Smith can't write one-offs with all sorts of weird characters and agents without devoting energies to his ongoing subplots and lead characters, such as they are.

That is... if Bagwell isn't already working on drawing more...  http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/08/whats-edmund-bagwell-up-to/

That said, thanks for scheduling Anthropocalypse.  I am looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 08:11:54 PM
Its a little tough though, because like The Dead Man, like Malone, like The Vort; the surprise reveal at the end is sort of why the series is so memorable and exciting. And putting it in an Indigo Prime collection sort of kills that surprise.

I mean, its necessary for a lot of practical reasons to call the book Indigo Prime. But part of me kinda wishes it was called Dead Eyes, with no subtitles (or indication in the back synopsis of it turning into Indigo Prime)
[/quote]

Exactly Adventurer!

do you think people would be adverse to buying a book that essentially has two covers - one side being Dead Eyes and the other Indigo Prime? Once you finish reading DE you flip the book over and start on IP...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 23 August, 2012, 09:03:03 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 23 August, 2012, 08:11:54 PMExactly Adventurer!

do you think people would be adverse to buying a book that essentially has two covers - one side being Dead Eyes and the other Indigo Prime? Once you finish reading DE you flip the book over and start on IP...

A Dead Eyes/Indigo Prime flip book? That's certainly an idea. And I'm not sure if I've ever seen it done with a trade collection, ever. For weirdness factor it certainly fits the Indigo Prime concept.


My suggestions if you go that route... series synopsis on the inside front and back covers (so if the reader wants to know what the book is about, they just open up to the inside cover for which ever story they're looking at.

Placement of the barcode and price tag could be tricky, it'd be best if both were located on the inside cover. But if that's not possible, probably should put it on the Dead Eyes cover side..

Next idea. REVERSIBLE SPINE! So if you want to shelve it as Dead Eyes you can, if you want to shelve it as Indigo Prime, you can. Though creator credits might be a bit tricky to fit to look right.
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Post by: The Adventurer on 23 August, 2012, 09:33:06 PM
Just slapped this together just to test how the spin could look, or at least how I imagine it could look. Based it on the most recent spine revision as seen used on Abaslom and Ampney Crucis Investigates (which actually makes it a lot easier). It could work I think. An actual graphic designer might have a different opinion though.

(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/8356/indigoprimemockup.png)
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Post by: Dash Decent on 24 August, 2012, 03:53:24 PM
Not a 2000AD title, but I notice that Haynes have a "Dan Dare: Spacefleet Operations (Owner's Workshop Manual)" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dan-Dare-Spacefleet-Operations-Workshop/dp/0857332864/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345819579&sr=1-3) scheduled for next year.

For those that haven't noticed, they've expanded their 'Owners Workshop Manuals' into a variety of famous vehicles (the Titanic, Spitfires, Concorde, Routemaster Buses, etc) and fictional ones (the Millennium Falcon, Thunderbirds, Klingon Bird of Prey, etc).

I thought I'd post it even though it's not 2000AD related as I'm sure there will be some love for Dan Dare here.
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Post by: Grant Goggans on 24 August, 2012, 04:26:19 PM
I do like that flip book idea.  If ever there was a series that warranted such a thing, it is Prime.
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Post by: dweezil2 on 24 August, 2012, 04:56:34 PM
Quick question for Robo-K33F.

Is there a revised date for the America GN?

Many thanks.  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 25 August, 2012, 04:59:07 PM
God I would murder for a proper indigo prime as Grant mentioned....although include the three text stories for full completeness

I really like a flip book idea of the new stuff that would be hilarious
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Post by: Dash Decent on 06 September, 2012, 01:53:55 PM
Now up for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Slaine - The Grail War (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Grail-War-Pat-Mills/dp/1781081123/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346935659&sr=1-1) - 176 pages, 11th April 2013

Sláine MacRoth Celtic warrior and High King of the tribes of the Earth Goddess Danu, continues his journey through time. Sláine arrives in thirteenth century France, where he comes face to face with Crusader Simon De Montfort, the sworn enemy of the Cathars. While searching for the tortured reincarnation of his lover Niamh, Sláine is compelled to join forces with De Montfort in order to seek out the Grail Stone. The quest won't be easy, however Sláine will have to defeat the dark forces of El if he is to stand any chance of saving Niamh's soul!
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Post by: credo on 06 September, 2012, 02:14:02 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 06 September, 2012, 01:53:55 PM
Now up for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Slaine - The Grail War (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Grail-War-Pat-Mills/dp/1781081123/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346935659&sr=1-1) - 176 pages, 11th April 2013

So that's "The Demon Hitchhiker" (prog 1032), "King Of Hearts" (progs 1033 - 1039), "The Grail War" (progs 1040 - 1049) and "Secrets Of The Grail" (prog 1090 - 1099) plus some covers.

Giving us another volume covering the Kai, Swan Children etc (which I'm going to assume will be called Lord Of The Beasts), then a volume covering just The Secret Commonwealth (which had better contain all the missing annual stories if they want anyone to buy it).  After that we're at paperback reprints of the Langley hardbacks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 08 September, 2012, 11:10:42 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 06 September, 2012, 01:53:55 PM
Now up for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Slaine - The Grail War (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Grail-War-Pat-Mills/dp/1781081123/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346935659&sr=1-1) - 176 pages, 11th April 2013

Great news, thanks for the info!
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Post by: Aonghus on 09 September, 2012, 02:58:48 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 10 August, 2012, 03:10:59 PM
Now up for pre-order on Amazon UK:  (Note - e-book only).

Judge Dredd Year One: City Fathers
THE MAKING OF THE LAWMAN...

Mega-City One, 2080. It is Joe Dredd's first year as a full-eagle Judge – he may have been created from the genes of Eustace Fargo, the 'Father of Justice', and thus part of an illustrious lineage, but right now Dredd is not long graduated from the Academy, and yet to establish himself as the metropolis's toughest, greatest cop. His reputation will be moulded in the years ahead, but at the moment he's a young lawman, fresh on the streets.

The brutal murder of a Justice Department-sanctioned spy sparks an investigation that will see Dredd trawl the criminal underworld in the hunt for the killer – and he will discover that all is not what it seems in the sector's murky black market. Something new has entered the system, and unless Dredd can stop it, chaos will be unleashed...

This is an ebook exclusive novella from Matthew Smith, editor of 2000 AD and author of the novels, Judge Dredd: The Final Cut and Tomes of the Dead: Words of Their Roaring.


I just read the first chapter and really want to download it, but only have a Kobo- anyone know if it's downloadable in a kobo-friendly format? I could get the kindle version and convert it, I guess, but I'd rather not on principle. And laziness.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 09 September, 2012, 07:56:21 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 23 August, 2012, 01:46:36 PM
I mailed Robo-Keef a little while ago and he said not to expect it before April.

A year between 19 and 20... and I was hoping for the pace to speed up, not slow down. :(

Good news on the Indigo Prime trade, though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 11 September, 2012, 07:08:00 PM
Quote from: radiator on 23 August, 2012, 12:23:28 PM
Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos - The Fourth Faction - Feb 2013

Just reading the blurb for this on Amazon...

QuoteLegendary Judge Dredd-co-creator John Wagner has written the longest, most eventful and world-shattering Dredd-epic of his career. Mega-City One has seen nothing like this since the Apocalypse War, and this time things are looking even darker. With the much-loved mayor of Mega-City One presumed dead by the citizens, an election has been scheduled to choose his successor. Cadet Judge Hennessey has predicted that something terrible will happen on the Election Day and she may be right. East-Meg assassin Nadia has arrived in the Big Meg, looking for a scientist who has created a very dangerous virus... This is the first of three volumes chronicling Day of Chaos
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 11 September, 2012, 07:13:27 PM
Three? Seems a bit excessive, DoC was shorter than Tour of Duty wasn't it?
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Post by: James Stacey on 11 September, 2012, 07:35:59 PM
Not all of TOD was in the books though, just the main storyline. All of DoC is relevant. It didn't have the 'filler' issues (in a nice way)
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Post by: The Prodigal on 11 September, 2012, 08:26:10 PM
Anyone know when the next installment of Savage arrives?
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Post by: I, Cosh on 13 September, 2012, 12:10:13 AM
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 09 September, 2012, 07:56:21 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 23 August, 2012, 01:46:36 PM
I mailed Robo-Keef a little while ago and he said not to expect it before April.
A year between 19 and 20... and I was hoping for the pace to speed up, not slow down. :(
To be fair, we'll have had the 4th Restricted Files book and the complete Batman/Dredd in the interim so it's not really as grim as it sounds.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 September, 2012, 08:21:28 AM
Yeah and you have to think the Batman vs. Dredd volume will be better at raising Dredd's profile in the US?
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Post by: Dash Decent on 13 September, 2012, 11:48:48 AM
I see Amazon UK have "Dredd: The Screenplay" for sale, but for Kindle only.

Click here, creep! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-ebook/dp/B0096A1RL6/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347533214&sr=1-12)
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Post by: PsychoGoatee on 13 September, 2012, 08:59:22 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 13 September, 2012, 08:21:28 AM
Yeah and you have to think the Batman vs. Dredd volume will be better at raising Dredd's profile in the US?

It's always been very readily available though. For example I have a 2004 one which is still stocked at Amazon for 14 bucks. That said, sure, having it on shelves should attract some who haven't seen it before, it is a great book.
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Post by: Ancient Otter on 13 September, 2012, 09:38:28 PM
From Pat Mills twitter page:

Visible Man returns in a 1shot story for @2000AD xmas special, with the Visible Woman + Frank's space friend.

Yep, Flint's drawing. He likes the Quatarmass/Dr Who vibe. 

and non 2000AD but kind of related news:

Accident Man reprint collection now definite from Titan Books. Hope to have publication date soon.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 13 September, 2012, 10:11:25 PM
Do you know if Accident Man will be a 'complete' collection? I loved it while it was in TOXIC! but didn't it go to a U.S. publisher after? Exciting news nevertheless, Emond's work on that strip was fantastic!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 14 September, 2012, 02:53:04 AM
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Quote from: Ancient Otter on 13 September, 2012, 09:38:28 PM
From Pat Mills twitter page:

Visible Man returns in a 1shot story for @2000AD xmas special, with the Visible Woman + Frank's space friend.


Woo hoo!

Quote from: Ancient Otter on 13 September, 2012, 09:38:28 PM

Yep, Flint's drawing. He likes the Quatarmass/Dr Who vibe.  


Chrimbo* just can't come soon enough!


*Middle to late  January 2013 through Diamond. ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 14 September, 2012, 08:38:03 AM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 13 September, 2012, 09:38:28 PM
From Pat Mills twitter page:

Visible Man returns in a 1shot story for @2000AD xmas special, with the Visible Woman + Frank's space friend.

Yep, Flint's drawing. He likes the Quatarmass/Dr Who vibe. 


While that is fantastic news he should stop teasing us with these one-offs and get working on the series I carve so much. I really think this could be made to work.
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 September, 2012, 01:23:28 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 13 September, 2012, 09:38:28 PM
From Pat Mills twitter page:

Visible Man returns in a 1shot story for @2000AD xmas special, with the Visible Woman + Frank's space friend.

Yep, Flint's drawing. He likes the Quatarmass/Dr Who vibe. 

and non 2000AD but kind of related news:

Accident Man reprint collection now definite from Titan Books. Hope to have publication date soon.
WOOT! Christmas, here we come! :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 14 September, 2012, 09:08:47 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 13 September, 2012, 10:11:25 PM
Do you know if Accident Man will be a 'complete' collection? I loved it while it was in TOXIC! but didn't it go to a U.S. publisher after? Exciting news nevertheless, Emond's work on that strip was fantastic!

From Pat Mills twitter page:

Toxic definitely, Dark Horse almost certain.

Definitely. We hope if the reprints go down well, to originate new Accident Man material
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 14 September, 2012, 10:40:06 PM
QuoteVisible Man returns in a 1shot story for @2000AD xmas special, with the Visible Woman + Frank's space friend.

Yep, Flint's drawing. He likes the Quatarmass/Dr Who vibe. 

and non 2000AD but kind of related news:

Accident Man reprint collection now definite from Titan Books. Hope to have publication date soon.

Yay and YAAY, I loved Accident Man.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 14 September, 2012, 10:52:17 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 13 September, 2012, 12:10:13 AM
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 09 September, 2012, 07:56:21 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 23 August, 2012, 01:46:36 PM
I mailed Robo-Keef a little while ago and he said not to expect it before April.
A year between 19 and 20... and I was hoping for the pace to speed up, not slow down. :(
To be fair, we'll have had the 4th Restricted Files book and the complete Batman/Dredd in the interim so it's not really as grim as it sounds.

Yeah, have already read Restricted Files 4, it was rather good actually. A lot of off-the-wall stuff but mostly of surprisingly consistent quality.
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Post by: Andy B on 16 September, 2012, 04:17:15 AM
Quote from: radiator on 11 September, 2012, 07:13:27 PM
Three? Seems a bit excessive, DoC was shorter than Tour of Duty wasn't it?

Hopefully we'll get the PJ Maybe story that immediately preceded DoC, and if we're lucky, the Wagner/Willsher 'Skinning Room'. Nothing to do with DoC, admittedly, but follows on from the last Tour of Duty volume. Maybe some of the better aftermath stories (hopefully still to come...) in volume 3...
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Post by: Dash Decent on 16 September, 2012, 05:05:32 AM
New IDW title on Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd Carlos Ezquerra Stories - Vol 1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Carlos-Exquerra-Stories/dp/1613775504/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347768121&sr=1-4).

248 pages, 23rd January 2013.

Given the 'Bolland' title from IDW is an oversized hardback, sounds like another worthy purchase.  Great to see it's a "volume 1" as well; roll on the rest!
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Post by: Dash Decent on 25 September, 2012, 03:14:34 PM
Cover now up for this one:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Ezq.jpg)

Still glad to see this is still being billed as the "COMPLETE" Carlos Ezquerra.  It will be interesting to see how many volumes it runs for.  Not sure Rico would go in for purple drapes though.


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Post by: Dark Jimbo on 25 September, 2012, 03:33:34 PM
Quote from: awbrown on 16 September, 2012, 04:17:15 AM
Quote from: radiator on 11 September, 2012, 07:13:27 PM
Three? Seems a bit excessive, DoC was shorter than Tour of Duty wasn't it?

Hopefully we'll get the PJ Maybe story that immediately preceded DoC, and if we're lucky, the Wagner/Willsher 'Skinning Room'. Nothing to do with DoC, admittedly, but follows on from the last Tour of Duty volume.

I'm hoping for the same thing myself! The PJ stories are a must, of course - but Skinning Room would be really cool. As you say not strictly related to DoC but in terms of the TPB collections the jump between ToD and DoC is going to be really abrupt without it and similar. And given what happens to the administration at the end of DoC, it would be nice to briefly get to see Francisco being Chief Judge and Dredd being on the council before they both quit!

Also - was there a story I missed where Hershey came back? Maybe in the Megazine? The way she left the city was lovely, but the end of DoC has her return in a really offhand way that made me wonder if I missed something.
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Post by: PsychoGoatee on 25 September, 2012, 04:09:07 PM
Agreed, since it's three books it does look like they'll probably include that stuff. Plus it'll be what, at least 10 years until the case files get that far? :D
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Post by: radiator on 25 September, 2012, 04:24:18 PM
QuoteI'm hoping for the same thing myself! The PJ stories are a must, of course - but Skinning Room would be really cool. As you say not strictly related to DoC but in terms of the TPB collections the jump between ToD and DoC is going to be really abrupt without it and similar. And given what happens to the administration at the end of DoC, it would be nice to briefly get to see Francisco being Chief Judge and Dredd being on the council before they both quit!

Also - was there a story I missed where Hershey came back? Maybe in the Megazine? The way she left the city was lovely, but the end of DoC has her return in a really offhand way that made me wonder if I missed something.

Yeah, I would assume The Skinning Room will be in there.

Fifty Year Man and The Edgar Case had very little to do with the overall Tour of Duty/Mutants in Mega-City One storyline, but I was very pleased they were included in the ToD trades for similar reasons.

Jimbo - the story you mention is Hot Night In 95 - which ran in the Megazine. Hershey returns to MC1, goes out on patrol with Dredd, and we meet anarchist group 'Rage Against the Megs' for the first time. I expect this will be in the DoC book 1 also.

My question is will the third book be a collection of all the post-DoC stories like Debris, Innocent etc...
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Post by: Mark Taylor on 26 September, 2012, 07:36:13 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 25 September, 2012, 03:14:34 PMStill glad to see this is still being billed as the "COMPLETE" Carlos Ezquerra.  It will be interesting to see how many volumes it runs for.  Not sure Rico would go in for purple drapes though.

Okay so I haven't gone through my whole collection to check, but aren't there some longer stories in which Ezquerra alternates with other artists? If so a "complete" Judge Dredd/Ezquerra would either have to include some other artists or have stories with missing bits... Admittedly I could be wrong as I'm not the kind of fan with a photographic memory about which artists worked on which stories. I tend to get too wrapped up in the stories to notice.
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Post by: Mark Taylor on 26 September, 2012, 07:37:39 AM
Accidental duplicate post, ignore.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 26 September, 2012, 09:35:57 AM
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 26 September, 2012, 07:36:13 AM
Okay so I haven't gone through my whole collection to check, but aren't there some longer stories in which Ezquerra alternates with other artists?

A few alright - The Pit, Judgement Day, Wilderlands and Helterskelter are all I can think of off the top of my head. 
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Post by: radiator on 26 September, 2012, 09:58:47 AM
It's the same with the Bolland collection - are they going to reprint the entirety of Block Mania and The Judge Child Quest, or just his episodes out of context?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 September, 2012, 02:26:16 PM
They've got Messrs Bolland and Ezquerra chained up in the Nerve Centre working on replacement instalments for the ones done by other artists the first time round.  The Bolland stuff will be ready by 2023.  Carlos is almost finished. ;)
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Post by: hippynumber1 on 26 September, 2012, 02:33:22 PM
Bolland's upped his page-rate then! :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: newschmoo on 26 September, 2012, 05:22:39 PM
Believe it or not, we're getting Disaster 1990 bagged with Megazine 331 ! I'm looking forward to this  :lol:
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Post by: The Monarch on 26 September, 2012, 05:39:06 PM
ohh boy...

prog 2013 apparently has Strontium dog, red seas ampney crucis as new ongoing stories with one offs from aquilla, absalom and judge dredd

and I am assuming that visible man thing pat mills mentioned as well?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 26 September, 2012, 06:18:41 PM
Quote from: newschmoo on 26 September, 2012, 05:22:39 PM
Believe it or not, we're getting Disaster 1990 bagged with Megazine 331 ! I'm looking forward to this  :lol:

Excellent! Are they going to run it over several consecutive issues, do you know?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 26 September, 2012, 07:12:00 PM
Quote from: The monarch on 26 September, 2012, 05:39:06 PM
ohh boy...

prog 2013 apparently has Strontium dog, red seas ampney crucis as new ongoing stories with one offs from aquilla, absalom and judge dredd

and I am assuming that visible man thing pat mills mentioned as well?

Where has that info come from? That's a great sounding line-up!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 26 September, 2012, 07:24:07 PM
http://www.archonia.com/comicshop/en/article/139442/2000+ad+prog+2013/

right here

The globally-renowned anthology celebrates the festive season once more with a bumper 100-page spectacular, stuffed with stories from some of the best writers and artists in the business! With the news out that the norms are trying to sterilize mutantkind, the mutants are up in arms and Johnny Alpha's leading the charge; occult investigator Ampney Crucis is trapped in an alternate Britain and on the trail of stolen bullion; it's the final conflict between Jack Dancer and Old Nick, with Creation itself on the brink; plus there are complete stories featuring soul-reaper Aquila and demon-hunting copper Absalom, plus a Christmassy tale from the mean streets of Mega-City One.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 26 September, 2012, 08:27:03 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 25 September, 2012, 03:33:34 PM
Quote from: awbrown on 16 September, 2012, 04:17:15 AM
Quote from: radiator on 11 September, 2012, 07:13:27 PM
Three? Seems a bit excessive, DoC was shorter than Tour of Duty wasn't it?

Hopefully we'll get the PJ Maybe story that immediately preceded DoC, and if we're lucky, the Wagner/Willsher 'Skinning Room'. Nothing to do with DoC, admittedly, but follows on from the last Tour of Duty volume.

thing myself! The PJ stories are a must, of course - but Skinning Room would be really cooI'm hoping for the same l. As you say not strictly related to DoC but in terms of the TPB collections the jump between ToD and DoC is going to be really abrupt without it and similar. And given what happens to the administration at the end of DoC, it would be nice to briefly get to see Francisco being Chief Judge and Dredd being on the council before they both quit!

Also - was there a story I missed where Hershey came back? Maybe in the Megazine? The way she left the city was lovely, but the end of DoC has her return in a really offhand way that made me wonder if I missed something.

There will be two books, not three.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: newschmoo on 26 September, 2012, 08:32:55 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 26 September, 2012, 06:18:41 PM
Quote from: newschmoo on 26 September, 2012, 05:22:39 PM
Believe it or not, we're getting Disaster 1990 bagged with Megazine 331 ! I'm looking forward to this  :lol:

Excellent! Are they going to run it over several consecutive issues, do you know?

Think its' complete in one floppy. We're getting Downlode Tales with 330.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 26 September, 2012, 08:58:51 PM
It can't be complete in one, wasn't it about 20 episodes? Maybe selected episodes or two floppies not consecutive?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 27 September, 2012, 12:28:09 AM
Quote from: newschmoo on 26 September, 2012, 08:32:55 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 26 September, 2012, 06:18:41 PM
Quote from: newschmoo on 26 September, 2012, 05:22:39 PM
Believe it or not, we're getting Disaster 1990 bagged with Megazine 331 ! I'm looking forward to this  :lol:
Excellent! Are they going to run it over several consecutive issues, do you know?
Think its' complete in one floppy. We're getting Downlode Tales with 330.
Nice one. I am going to award myself the credit for making this happen as I specifically mentioned it in my letter praising the reprint of Death Planet. However, both Downlode Tales (130 pages) and Disaster 1990 (104 pages) will need two floppies to reprint in full.

In rather worse news, I see American Reaper is back in the same issue.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 27 September, 2012, 12:35:57 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 27 September, 2012, 12:28:09 AM
In rather worse news, I see American Reaper is back in the same issue.

BAH
I think I'll give the meg a miss for a while
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 27 September, 2012, 06:40:29 AM
Excellent- American Reaper is one of my favourite things from the HoT in thlast couple of years. Looking forward to its return.

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 27 September, 2012, 10:39:09 AM
As a guy on board from Christmas may i ask if American reaper really is that bad?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 27 September, 2012, 10:42:35 AM
Worse. (imo)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 27 September, 2012, 11:11:38 AM
A very slender story spread over MANY pages! It will, I imagine, read much better as a collected edition...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 27 September, 2012, 12:17:59 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 27 September, 2012, 11:11:38 AM
A very slender story spread over MANY pages! It will, I imagine, read much better as a collected edition...

You'd have to imagine harder than John Lennon
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: NapalmKev on 27 September, 2012, 12:58:04 PM
Quote from: The Prodigal on 27 September, 2012, 10:39:09 AM
As a guy on board from Christmas may i ask if American reaper really is that bad?

I really enjoyed American Reaper. It's a little bit flashy but it's got a good premise.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 27 September, 2012, 12:59:03 PM
I'm one of those who enjoyed American Reaper and look forward to it returning. Admittedly it's not the kind of thing I'd normally expect from Pat Mills... it's more the comic strip equivalent of a popcorn movie. But like a popcorn movie, it's entertaining (IMO).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Leigh S on 27 September, 2012, 01:28:20 PM
Mesa enjoy American Reaper too.. well until a certain band showed up, but even so - not universally hated
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin Zeal on 27 September, 2012, 05:10:26 PM
I enjoyed American Reaper. On reading the ABC Warriors in the prog this week I was struck by the resemblance between the lead character in AR and the US rep to the UN.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 27 September, 2012, 07:23:13 PM
whoa...whoa...whoa...downlode tales?!?!? :o

when, is it  before christmas?!?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 27 September, 2012, 08:43:45 PM
Meg 330 apparently, that's the next but one...so before Christmas!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 28 September, 2012, 01:20:16 AM
Quote from: Colin Zeal on 27 September, 2012, 05:10:26 PM
I enjoyed American Reaper. On reading the ABC Warriors in the prog this week I was struck by the resemblance between the lead character in AR and the US rep to the UN.
Both of whom look just like the artist. As do many of the other male characters he draws. Go look at his website portfolio. It's very noticeable.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 28 September, 2012, 07:09:21 AM
Guys is there a spot where you can check what trades are coming out and when?

Thanks folks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 28 September, 2012, 07:27:35 AM
Here:

http://www.2000adonline.com/books/

but it doesn't get updated very often. The best place to check is this thread...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 28 September, 2012, 10:46:26 AM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 28 September, 2012, 07:27:35 AM
Here:

http://www.2000adonline.com/books/

but it doesn't get updated very often. The best place to check is this thread...

Hippy you are a star. Thanks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 28 September, 2012, 12:37:01 PM
When's the next update scheduled, Radiator?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 28 September, 2012, 01:05:21 PM
The next time I'm really bored at work!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 28 September, 2012, 01:45:26 PM
Anytime now then?! :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PsychoGoatee on 02 October, 2012, 08:18:07 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 28 September, 2012, 07:27:35 AM
http://www.2000adonline.com/books/

Nice to see Anderson Case Files v3 and day of Chaos v1 hitting sometime in the near future.

I wonder when we'll know what's in the Complete Carlos Ezquerra collection vol 1.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 02 October, 2012, 08:55:57 PM
2000 AD Books doesn't usually list S&S edition collections, correct? So... the upcoming Ten-Seconder and Ichabod Azrael trades it has listed are Rebellion editions?

Crap. I didn't bother ordering Ten-Seconders because I thought it was an S&S trade in the latest previews!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 04 October, 2012, 03:16:33 AM
Prog 2013 content details via Diamond Previews for January

First episodes...
Strontium Dog (Mutant Spring)
Ampney Crucis
Red Seas (Final Series)

One-Offs...
Aquila
Absalom
Judge Dredd (Christmas themed)

Also, the listing for Prog 1812 (the single Prog in December 2012 Prog Pack) is kind of interesting...

"Life and Death are held in the balance and the stakes have never been higher as this issue is given over to one complete 28-page story!"

I assume this is a Judge Dredd story, but its interesting to have a whole issue for one strip.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 October, 2012, 03:38:21 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 04 October, 2012, 03:16:33 AM
"Life and Death are held in the balance and the stakes have never been higher as this issue is given over to one complete 28-page story!"

I assume this is a Judge Dredd story, but its interesting to have a whole issue for one strip.

Could this be the by-now fabled Judge Death comeback strip?  And does this mean the website will be down all over Christmas?  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 04 October, 2012, 08:23:22 AM
Isn't this going to be the Al Ewing thing we saw the chess based teaser picture by Henry Flint for? It ties into 1803's strip, I think that's what that will be?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 04 October, 2012, 08:30:03 AM
That's Stevie's understanding.

Meanwhile... Warren Pleece returns to Dandridge  :thumbsup:

Now we're talking!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 04 October, 2012, 10:11:49 AM
I'm sure that I read that there were only going to be three Ichabod Azrael stories.  Wouldn't it be better to wait for the third and final one, and collect them all in one title instead of one book with two of them...?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 04 October, 2012, 10:16:25 AM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 04 October, 2012, 10:11:49 AM
I'm sure that I read that there were only going to be three Ichabod Azrael stories.  Wouldn't it be better to wait for the third and final one, and collect them all in one title instead of one book with two of them...?

This seems like the same odd decision that gave us an Insurrection trade before the final story (I think Abnett said it would be three parts)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 04 October, 2012, 11:36:08 AM
...And that left the last Caballistics stories uncollected. I love the Rebelion TPBs, but I sometimes wish the chaps would talk to the series writers on occassion and find out beforehand how much of a given series is planned in total.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 04 October, 2012, 11:47:58 AM
QuoteIsn't this going to be the Al Ewing thing we saw the chess based teaser picture by Henry Flint for? It ties into 1803's strip, I think that's what that will be?

Yes - I believe the 28 page Dredd story is connected to 'The Cold Deck' - Al Ewing's 'big' Dredd story that we got the prologue for in this weeks prog. I don't know much about the story, except that it seems to draw together all of Al's hanging story threads (and the Kazan clone thing that was started by Gordon Rennie).

I can't wait - I've been wanting Al to do a longer Dredd strip for ages!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 04 October, 2012, 11:50:16 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 04 October, 2012, 10:16:25 AM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 04 October, 2012, 10:11:49 AM
I'm sure that I read that there were only going to be three Ichabod Azrael stories.  Wouldn't it be better to wait for the third and final one, and collect them all in one title instead of one book with two of them...?

This seems like the same odd decision that gave us an Insurrection trade before the final story (I think Abnett said it would be three parts)

It's also the same thing that happened with Atavar.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 04 October, 2012, 08:23:30 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 02 October, 2012, 08:55:57 PM
2000 AD Books doesn't usually list S&S edition collections, correct? So... the upcoming Ten-Seconder and Ichabod Azrael trades it has listed are Rebellion editions?

Crap. I didn't bother ordering Ten-Seconders because I thought it was an S&S trade in the latest previews!

They could be exactly the same as the S&S trades - the Rebellion editions of Harry 20 & Hewligans Haircut are the S&S editions with a different barcode stuck over the S&S bar-code.

What is Rebellion's relationship with S&S like these days anyway now that they also publish Judge Dredd with IDW?

Also, the 2000AD forthcoming books page has been updated, they now state if a cover image a temporary one on the blurbs.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 04 October, 2012, 10:05:56 PM
Quotewe're getting Disaster 1990 bagged with Megazine 331
I sincerely hope not. It was dreadful.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 04 October, 2012, 10:09:48 PM
By the way, is there any news on when we can expect John Wagner's next Dredd story?
There have been some pretty good non-Wagner Dredds since Day of Chaos (especially this week), but I want some more Wagner now.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PreacherCain on 05 October, 2012, 09:53:35 AM
Quote from: Richard on 04 October, 2012, 10:09:48 PM
By the way, is there any news on when we can expect John Wagner's next Dredd story?
There have been some pretty good non-Wagner Dredds since Day of Chaos (especially this week), but I want some more Wagner now.

He's taken an hiatus for a while apparently. Might be at least a year till we get another Wagner Dredd; if not longer!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 05 October, 2012, 10:28:24 AM
Quote from: PreacherCain on 05 October, 2012, 09:53:35 AM
Quote from: Richard on 04 October, 2012, 10:09:48 PM
By the way, is there any news on when we can expect John Wagner's next Dredd story?
There have been some pretty good non-Wagner Dredds since Day of Chaos (especially this week), but I want some more Wagner now.

He's taken an hiatus for a while apparently. Might be at least a year till we get another Wagner Dredd; if not longer!



What??!!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 05 October, 2012, 10:33:20 AM
Quote from: The Prodigal on 05 October, 2012, 10:28:24 AM
Quote from: PreacherCain on 05 October, 2012, 09:53:35 AM
Quote from: Richard on 04 October, 2012, 10:09:48 PM
By the way, is there any news on when we can expect John Wagner's next Dredd story?
There have been some pretty good non-Wagner Dredds since Day of Chaos (especially this week), but I want some more Wagner now.

He's taken an hiatus for a while apparently. Might be at least a year till we get another Wagner Dredd; if not longer!



What??!!!

Guy's been working like a machine since... what? Origins? Earlier? Guy deserves a break.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 05 October, 2012, 10:35:04 AM
There will still be Strontium Dog and the Judge Death project when its done.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 05 October, 2012, 01:33:41 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 04 October, 2012, 10:16:25 AM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 04 October, 2012, 10:11:49 AM
I'm sure that I read that there were only going to be three Ichabod Azrael stories.  Wouldn't it be better to wait for the third and final one, and collect them all in one title instead of one book with two of them...?

This seems like the same odd decision that gave us an Insurrection trade before the final story (I think Abnett said it would be three parts)

If true, a bit annoying (both stories). Unless parts 3 of Insurrection and Ichabod Azrael are much larger than parts one and two, they won't be enough to fill a proper trade. At least, Rebellion have not released ANY trades even close to being that thin to date.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 October, 2012, 04:00:40 PM
Creepy Chronicles cover now showing on Amazon UK.  Not sure I like elvish Tharg, and dammit, is that a cape he's wearing?  It's those purple drapes from the IDW Carlos Collection cover!

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Creepy.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Art on 05 October, 2012, 04:52:29 PM
Aw, I spy  a podling!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 06 October, 2012, 12:12:07 PM
Sorry, I meant goblin not elvish.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JSouth5942 on 12 October, 2012, 10:57:14 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 05 October, 2012, 04:00:40 PM
Creepy Chronicles cover now showing on Amazon UK.  Not sure I like elvish Tharg, and dammit, is that a cape he's wearing?  It's those purple drapes from the IDW Carlos Collection cover!

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Creepy.jpg)

Has anyone got this trade yet? I'm looking for a complete list of stories / prog numbers it contains to see if its worth picking up.
Can anyone help me out?
Jason

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 12 October, 2012, 11:40:52 AM
Slaine :Grail War will be out next April.

http://www.2000adonline.com/books/coming_soon.php

And according to the Slaine Wikipedia entry, it will contain the following......

"The Demon Hitchhiker" (with Steve Tappin, in 2000 AD #1032, March 1997)
"King of Hearts" (with Nick Percival, in 2000 AD #1033-1039, March–April 1997)
"The Grail War" (with Steve Tappin, in 2000 AD #1040-1049, April–July 1997)
"Secret of the Grail" (with Steve Tappin, in 2000 AD #1090-1099, April–June 1998)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 12 October, 2012, 03:16:08 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 02 October, 2012, 08:55:57 PM2000 AD Books doesn't usually list S&S edition collections, correct? So... the upcoming Ten-Seconder and Ichabod Azrael trades it has listed are Rebellion editions?
Yes. The only information I'm sent for the site is for UK editions, or at least editions that will be for sale in the UK.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Art on 13 October, 2012, 04:24:26 AM
Has anyone got this trade yet?

Yup. It's pretty great contents are as follows:

Silo by Millar and D'Antique
Storming Heaven by Rennie and Irving
Shok! By MacManus and O'Neill
Reapermen by Rennie and Jock
A Little Knowlege by Moore and Staples
Skeleton Crew by Moore and Irving
Scene of the Crime by Ewing and Reardon
Revelations by Blythe and Kennedy
Counts as One Choice by Weston
Pea Patch Podlings by Wyatt and Bagwell
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 October, 2012, 07:06:28 AM
That is a pretty cool line up. Even has a Mark Millar story that pretty good (however derivative!)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Art on 13 October, 2012, 04:43:47 PM
You have no idea how pleased I am to be sharing a book with Shok! - that's a stone cold classic.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 13 October, 2012, 05:55:11 PM
Quote from: Art on 13 October, 2012, 04:43:47 PM
You have no idea how pleased I am to be sharing a book with Shok! - that's a stone cold classic.

Hi Art, just worked out who you are!  :-[ Just wanted to say how much I enjoy 'Samizdat Squad' whenever it's in the Meg! Good stuff!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Art on 13 October, 2012, 06:50:23 PM
Cheers - not sure when that will be back but there's other stuff in the pipeline, including a Future Shock with an artist I'm sure you're all going to love.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 October, 2012, 09:27:52 AM
Just been checking on Amazon what date the Dredd Batman Collection is coming out (27th Nov as it goes) when I've stumbled across these to trades that I don't think have been mentioned here before. Apologise if they have and this is old news.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Child-Saga/dp/1781081093/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350289313&sr=1-3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Child-Saga/dp/1781081093/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350289313&sr=1-3)

A 'Manga-sized' version of Judge Child.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strontium-Dog-Mutant-John-Wagner/dp/1781080313/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350289553&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strontium-Dog-Mutant-John-Wagner/dp/1781080313/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350289553&sr=1-1)

I assume this is an S&S release for the US market?

There's also a new edition of 'Origins' listed again I'm guessing for the US market?

Edit to add: Broadening the search there is also a new Zombo and Snow Tiger listed but they are down as the back end of 2013 so at this stage given Amazon's reliability that may well be fiction (though the Zombo one seems probable at some point) and you can see why they'd release Snow/Tiger with the names attached so who knows...)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 15 October, 2012, 09:52:11 AM
Strontium Dog is a US release, yes. Also, the third Rogue phone book turned up today. It switches paper stock (to the high-quality stuff) and there's sadly no Cinnabar, but it does have a huge chunk of classic strips, including everything from Progs 410 (The Return of Rogue Trooper) through to 603 (Hit Four), The Final Hit (in black and white, not colour), Sci-Fi Special stories from 82, 83, 84, 86 and annual stories from 86 and 87. There are some colour covers too and it's a pretty heavy volume.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Michael Evans on 15 October, 2012, 01:02:57 PM
Hopefully Cinnabar might get reprinted alongside the Rennie/Edgington stories.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 15 October, 2012, 02:45:14 PM
Art, you are a colossal tease.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 15 October, 2012, 08:47:21 PM
Vol 9 of the Charley's war Titan collection has been postponed to November 9th it seems, with a new visual with planes instead of the Zeppelin.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 15 October, 2012, 08:51:51 PM
Vol 9?! Im a bit behind with these then, or more succinctly, my Brother-in-law is late in lending me the last couple.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 15 October, 2012, 11:03:44 PM
I wonder if there'll be any sort of special Charley's War release in 2014, seeing as it will be the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 16 October, 2012, 12:25:17 AM
Quote from: Michael Evans on 15 October, 2012, 01:02:57 PM
Hopefully Cinnabar might get reprinted alongside the Rennie/Edgington stories.
I just totted up what's left. Cinnabar has 52 pages. The Rennie stuff takes you to 223. Diceman adds another 32, if that's not been collected yet in the phone books. That'd be a bit slim, but you could always bung in War Machine (70) as an extra and pretend everything "Fr1day" after that point just didn't happen. You'd then have a mid-350s book (accounting for "blank" pages and extras).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 October, 2012, 12:54:57 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 15 October, 2012, 09:52:11 AM
Also, the third Rogue phone book turned up today ... The Final Hit (in black and white, not colour)
Maybe I'm misremembering but wasn't it black and white to start with?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 16 October, 2012, 07:10:53 AM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 15 October, 2012, 11:03:44 PM
I wonder if there'll be any sort of special Charley's War release in 2014, seeing as it will be the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.

I left the world of Brit comics in the 70's and departed for a world of exclusive spandex. When I grew weary of all things superhero a couple of years ago and began to re-discover Brit-Cit, Charley's War was one of the gems that re-ignited my passion. A special 2014 edition would be great.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 16 October, 2012, 07:26:25 AM
Next year's Vol. 10 will be the final collection, so that's fitting in and of itself.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 16 October, 2012, 07:56:15 AM
I checked the availability of cw9 the other day, and amazon said november 29th. I thought it was late october, and was going to preorder. If it had been nov 9th, i'd have still put my order in.

Im hoping that for the centenary, they begin releasing the series in chunky paperback volumes, so more people can re/discover britain's greatest ever comic strip.

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 16 October, 2012, 08:15:23 AM
I'm really looking forward to having a lovely shiny hardback complete collection of Charley's War, as has been said only two to go and one of those very soon. What would be lovely for the anniversary is if they were able to produce 'deluxe' editions of the hardcovers with some of the early poor reproduction sorted and colour pages in colour. Not at all sure if that's possible and doubt very much if its financially viable but a man can dream can't he.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 16 October, 2012, 08:39:24 AM
From Pat Mills' blog:

The French edition of Charley's War Volume 3 will be on sale in French stores on October 15th.  It's astonishing and very gratifying that such a series should sell so well in France.

But this latest edition has something extra, never seen in the British editions. Selected pages in colour!  They were in a half-tone on the Titan version, but now they can be seen for the first time as they originally appeared in the pages of Battle.

Damn those Frenchies!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 16 October, 2012, 08:48:15 AM
Argle! Cheese eating colour-monkeys!

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 16 October, 2012, 09:15:49 AM

Yeah damnit those French editions sound great...

... but our covers are better so nerrhhh neerrrhhhh 'Monsure' Jean Claude...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 16 October, 2012, 10:11:10 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 16 October, 2012, 09:15:49 AM

Yeah damnit those French editions sound great...

... but our covers are better so nerrhhh neerrrhhhh 'Monsure' Jean Claude...

I own both edition, and appart the colored material they have also sometimes found better source material for their B&W reprint.

I'm French, but I have to agree about the covers  :-\
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 16 October, 2012, 11:52:44 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 16 October, 2012, 12:54:57 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 15 October, 2012, 09:52:11 AM
Also, the third Rogue phone book turned up today ... The Final Hit (in black and white, not colour)
Maybe I'm misremembering but wasn't it black and white to start with?
Ah, probably. I'm perhaps thinking of a version I had which was in those wee US-sized reprints.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 November, 2012, 10:27:36 AM
Amazon UK have the following up for pre-order:

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files vol 20 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781081417/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352427074&sr=1-1) - 13 Aug 2013
The publisher is listed as Ravenstone?

Button Man (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Button-Man-John-Wagner/dp/1781081387/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352427102&sr=1-1) - 17 Sep 2013
Seems to be the phone book version - 304 pages of letters sent to Tharg.

A.B.C. Warriors: Volgan War v. 3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/B-C-Warriors-Volgan-War-v/dp/1781081409/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352427176&sr=1-1)  - 96 pages, 20 Jun 2013

Judge Dredd: League of Fatties (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Fatties-John-Wagner/dp/1781081336/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352426912&sr=1-2) - 128 pages, 16 Jul 2013
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 09 November, 2012, 10:38:15 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 09 November, 2012, 10:27:36 AM

Button Man (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Button-Man-John-Wagner/dp/1781081387/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352427102&sr=1-1) - 17 Sep 2013
Seems to be the phone book version - 304 pages of letters sent to Tharg.


Oh please god let this be real. I've only ever got my hands on a copy of the first Button Man trade. If I could get the whole series in one book... I'd loose my mind.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 09 November, 2012, 11:43:20 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 09 November, 2012, 10:38:15 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 09 November, 2012, 10:27:36 AM

Button Man (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Button-Man-John-Wagner/dp/1781081387/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352427102&sr=1-1) - 17 Sep 2013
Seems to be the phone book version - 304 pages of letters sent to Tharg.


Oh please god let this be real. I've only ever got my hands on a copy of the first Button Man trade. If I could get the whole series in one book... I'd loose my mind.

It is real.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 09 November, 2012, 11:43:40 AM
Going by the pricing, Fatties and Button Man are both US volumes. Volgan War 3 is, I assume, the continuation of that series in paperback.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 09 November, 2012, 12:41:16 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 09 November, 2012, 10:27:36 AM
Amazon UK have the following up for pre-order:

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files vol 20 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781081417/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352427074&sr=1-1) - 13 Aug 2013
The publisher is listed as Ravenstone?

Rebellion/Ravenstone they're practically identical! A mistake anyone could make!

Anyways, having recently gotten Tales of Nu Earth Vol. 3 which is by far the biggest 'shiny paper' Phonebook edition to date, it got me thinking wouldn't it be nice if they started making the Judge Dredd Case Files series this big? Doubt it will happen but here's living in hope.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 09 November, 2012, 12:47:51 PM
I suspect there has to be a balance. If the Case Files got much thicker, they'd soon become prohibitively expensive, due to using the superior paper and colour print. It's also worth noting that the difference in paper stock also makes a much bigger difference than many perhaps realise: although there are fewer pages in the recent Dredd volumes than the Rogue Trooper ones, the difference isn't nearly as large as you'd think from looking at the books. Colour Dredd Case Files/Restricted Files have averaged around 300 pages. By comparison, the Rogue volumes have been around 400. (As for other 'phonebooks', the Nemesis ones had about the same page count as Dredd Case Files, as did some of the early Strontium Dog books.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 09 November, 2012, 12:53:24 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 09 November, 2012, 12:47:51 PMI suspect there has to be a balance. If the Case Files got much thicker, they'd soon become prohibitively expensive, due to using the superior paper and colour print.

Yes it did occur to me that although the latest Rogue Trooper volume is printed on the 'superior' paper stock normally used for colour editions, very little of the content is actually in colour. Printing the whole thing in colour (as would be necessary with a Judge Dredd Case Files book) would probably be quite a bit more expensive. This is one of the reasons I think it probably won't happen. I for one would be happy to pay a few quid extra but possibly for some it would seem like a few quid too much.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 November, 2012, 12:54:22 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 09 November, 2012, 11:43:40 AM
Going by the pricing, Fatties and Button Man are both US volumes. Volgan War 3 is, I assume, the continuation of that series in paperback.

Yes, Case Files 6 is also listed for next year, which is obviously another US release.

The cover for Fatties is up if anyone wants to look at it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 09 November, 2012, 08:15:20 PM
From the CBR Pat Mills interview.

Flesh - Badlands - Pat Mills James McKay, Spring 2013

In  fact I might was well just quote it.

Quote"Defoe" is the next adventure concludes the first story arc with Defoe facing victory or defeat at the hands of the Zombies and a question mark over his future.

In "Greysuit," he returns and -- once more brainwashed -- is ordered to kill a cop. A hero who refuses to be corrupted by the system

After the current "ABC Warriors" story we will do another one covering another missing section in the Warriors' history

"Savage" is the final battle for the Liberation of London and -- for the first time -- we see Volgans as human beings

Also hints that he'd like to do more Visible Man. Come on Pat you know its gonna be worth it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 09 November, 2012, 08:26:40 PM
So- NINE MONTHS until Case Files 20? Is that right? :-/

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 09 November, 2012, 08:38:07 PM
Yes. It's like being stuck in some weird Strontium Dog-style time trap, whereby we can see escape in sight (Casefiles 21, come unto us!) but feel as we're treading through treacle trying desperately to reach it.

In fairness, for all those of you who (quite understandably) deserted in the 90s, the Casefiles release schedule has created a pretty accurate summation of what it felt like in the middle of that decade - as if we were never going to escape the horror, except possibly by expiring in protest.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 09 November, 2012, 08:46:20 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 09 November, 2012, 08:38:07 PM

In fairness, for all those of you who (quite understandably) deserted in the 90s, the Casefiles release schedule has created a pretty accurate summation of what it felt like in the middle of that decade - as if we were never going to escape the horror, except possibly by expiring in protest.

That sums it up perfectly!  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 November, 2012, 09:05:09 PM
If my calculations are correct, should Case Files 20 contain Wilderlands? Or will that be pushed over to 21...It's naff anyway so I don't care.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 09 November, 2012, 09:12:13 PM
I'm pretty sure it won't be in 20. Naff, though? Can't agree. I'm not going to proclaim it amazing, but it has a smashing build-up and some great bits, and compared to some of the dross that will be in 20 (sad to say, 20 will contain the worst material the Casefiles have ever had to contend with, along with, ironically, a fragment of the best in the form of 'Bury My Knee...'), it flamin' well shines. 'Wilderlands' is particularly interesting as a sort of testing ground for concepts Wagner will later run with (particularly Castillo as the ur-De Marco.) It has a certain allure as a transitional phase in 'Judge Dredd's history - I am always fascinated by 'cusp' creativity, i.e, books / comics / records that straddle the threshold of old and new directions.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 09 November, 2012, 11:27:29 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 09 November, 2012, 10:27:36 AMJudge Dredd: The Complete Case Files vol 20 - 13 Aug 2013
Bah! I blame the wrestlers.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PreacherCain on 10 November, 2012, 07:16:13 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 09 November, 2012, 10:27:36 AM
Amazon UK have the following up for pre-order:

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files vol 20 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781081417/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352427074&sr=1-1) - 13 Aug 2013

:(

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 10 November, 2012, 08:26:32 AM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 09 November, 2012, 08:26:40 PM
So- NINE MONTHS until Case Files 20? Is that right? :-/

SBT

Indeed, FIFTEEN MONTHS gap between Case Files 19 and 20. I truly hope that this is not what the release schedule is going to look like in the future. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE (is that enough?) Rebellion, pick up the pace.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 10 November, 2012, 08:37:58 AM
Well, if it was- which it wont be- that would be enough to count me out of buying any more. The whole point of giving shelfspace to these dreadful nineties reprints is to maintain the collection with an eye to one day having something approaching a 'complete' run on the shelves. I would not be interested in wasting shelf space on a series that would not even get back to the good stuff until im approaching 50 and which would see no chance of catching up with the current run until way past my death.
Im sure there's a reason for this particular abberation- just as im waiting for someone to say its a mistake and 20 is out in feb.

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 10 November, 2012, 08:59:06 AM
Well, I dunno. I'm still waiting for volume 3 of The VC's, which has appeared on the schedule and then been canceled at least twice. Vol 2 came out 3-and-a-half years ago now and considering the first two seem to have sold out long ago (try getting hold of a copy of either), presumably there must be enough demand to justify a print run of the third. Incompleteness annoys me. I recently moved my 'Spawn Collection' volumes off my main bookshelves to a place out of sight because they pissed me off every time I looked that them. Still can't believe Image just decided to cancel the line a mere two volumes short of closing the gap with the Armageddon Collection. It makes me mad. Not to mention sad.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 10 November, 2012, 09:28:24 AM
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 10 November, 2012, 08:59:06 AMStill can't believe Image just decided to cancel the line a mere two volumes short of closing the gap with the Armageddon Collection. It makes me mad. Not to mention sad.

Not strictely speaking IMAGE's fault.Todd McFarlane controls all aspects of his property, including what trades to collect and publish. Image the publisher can't make that call. And as an Image founder/board member, McFarlane has the right to publish ANYTHING regardless of sales predictions/outcomes (because he has a stake in the company). So McFarlane made the call, don't blame the publisher.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 10 November, 2012, 09:38:34 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 10 November, 2012, 09:28:24 AMNot strictely speaking IMAGE's fault.Todd McFarlane controls all aspects of his property, including what trades to collect and publish. Image the publisher can't make that call. And as an Image founder/board member, McFarlane has the right to publish ANYTHING regardless of sales predictions/outcomes (because he has a stake in the company). So McFarlane made the call, don't blame the publisher.

That rather conflicts with the explanation Image gave on their forums at the time which stated that it was about consistency of format and visual branding across their line of graphic novels. I followed it quite closely as I had a personal interest. I'm NOT about to get into an argument about it though because I have better things to do than dig around for several-years-old posts on other forums I don't even contribute to anymore.

P.S. I'm not doubting you're correct about McFarlane having control, but I'm guessing in this case that Image told him what they wanted to do and he gave the go-ahead.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 10 November, 2012, 10:25:56 AM

The synopsis for Origins North American reprint:






MARCH 2013: JUDGE DREDD: ORIGINS

ISBN: 9781781080993 US $19.99/Canada $22.99

The story that changed everything. When Judge Dredd co-creator John Wagner decided to tell Dredd's origin story, fans had no idea what was in store. The first Chief Judge Fargo's severed hand is delivered to the Grand Hall of Justice with a ransom note and Judge Dredd has to travel with his team into the Cursed Earth in an attempt to recover the Judge Father's body and discover the culprits. This trip becomes more than just a journey across America - this is a journey that delves into both the past and the history of the Judges and Mega-City One itself!


http://www.2000adonline.com/news/09-11-2012/all_stars_and_stripes/






Pedantic bit: It was a piece of skin-tissue rather than a severed hand.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 10 November, 2012, 10:43:05 AM
Yeah, but a severed hand sounds far more sinister, and lying to make things seem more appealing is a well established and proven marketing technique.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 12 November, 2012, 09:14:52 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 09 November, 2012, 10:27:36 AM

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files vol 20 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781081417/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352427074&sr=1-1) - 13 Aug 2013

Now shifted to 20th June.  Better, but keep going!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 November, 2012, 11:31:03 AM
RUN FOR THE HILLS!  There's a Fr1day reprint on the way:

War Machine (http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Machine-Dave-Gibbons/dp/1781081328/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352806175&sr=1-6).

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/WarMachine.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 November, 2012, 11:37:56 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 13 November, 2012, 11:31:03 AM
RUN FOR THE HILLS!  There's a Fr1day reprint on the way:

War Machine (http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Machine-Dave-Gibbons/dp/1781081328/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352806175&sr=1-6).

Yeah but War Machine was pretty damned good. Incredible art from Will 'whatever happened to' Simpson.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 November, 2012, 11:38:36 AM
Yes, but if it's successful they might bring out more!!!   :-\ :-X :o
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 13 November, 2012, 11:39:16 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 13 November, 2012, 11:37:56 AM
Yeah but War Machine was pretty damned good. Incredible art from Will 'whatever happened to' Simpson.

Currently storyboard artist on Game of Thrones and (very slowly) developing a creator-owned vampire book whenever he gets enough time to work on it...

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 13 November, 2012, 11:43:10 AM
And here I was just a few weeks ago asking for a reprint of Friday. I'll be sure to be picking up a copy of War Machine.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 November, 2012, 11:43:29 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 09 November, 2012, 11:43:20 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 09 November, 2012, 10:38:15 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 09 November, 2012, 10:27:36 AM

Button Man (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Button-Man-John-Wagner/dp/1781081387/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352427102&sr=1-1) - 17 Sep 2013
Seems to be the phone book version - 304 pages of letters sent to Tharg.


Oh please god let this be real. I've only ever got my hands on a copy of the first Button Man trade. If I could get the whole series in one book... I'd lose my mind.

It is real.

Amazon now have the title as "Button Man: Get Harry Ex".  I imagine there's a "ton" at the end.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 13 November, 2012, 11:58:07 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 13 November, 2012, 11:31:03 AM
RUN FOR THE HILLS!  There's a Fr1day reprint on the way:

War Machine (http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Machine-Dave-Gibbons/dp/1781081328/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352806175&sr=1-6).

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/WarMachine.jpg)

Is this a U.S. reprint? We've not long had this in the Meg floppy format...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 November, 2012, 12:12:21 PM
It wouldn't be surprising with Dave Gibbons as a name attached and a selling point?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 13 November, 2012, 06:11:02 PM
Yup, that's a US book, judging by the price tag ending in .24. Odd cover, too, but then there's only one Simpson cover from the era (http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=687&Comic=2000ad). Personally, I always liked Oli Frey's go at the character (http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?Comic=scans&choice=774). Such a pity he didn't do more for 2000 AD. (I heavily reworked that art (http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=107&page=001&thumbstart=1&magazine=zzap&check=1) when we did a new issue of Zzap!64, way back in 2002.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 13 November, 2012, 09:11:30 PM
All I can really remember from reading Friday at the time is being generally confused as to why Rogue Trooper wasn't Rogue Trooper anymore. Maybe somewhere along the line I somehow missed some kind of explanation or maybe there just wasn't any :-*. I remember precisely nothing about the actual storyline(s). Anyway I'll buy this regardless and give it another shot.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 14 November, 2012, 12:21:15 AM
The War Machine was a reboot, based on the original, but in a different universe. It was subsequently smashed into the original series continuity with all the finesse of a gorilla wielding a mallet, also ignoring the nicely written and suitable ending to The Hit, which annoyed me a bit.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 14 November, 2012, 07:13:45 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 14 November, 2012, 12:21:15 AM
The War Machine was a reboot, based on the original, but in a different universe. It was subsequently smashed into the original series continuity with all the finesse of a gorilla wielding a mallet, also ignoring the nicely written and suitable ending to The Hit, which annoyed me a bit.

That probably explains why it confused me. Not being a reader of American comics this would have been my first exposure to the concept of a reboot, and a particularly pointless one by the sound of it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 14 November, 2012, 07:47:05 AM
Not really. Rogues story had been done and then the shark jumped. It was kinda nice to see a new take (to start with at least) War machine is a cracking read, it was only the later stuff that let down the 'new rogue'
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 14 November, 2012, 07:50:40 AM
While I was never particularly a fan of Rogue Trooper anyway it really lost its way after the Traitor General storyline was resolved. As ever it did though it always had great art and have to be honest I did quite like the early parts of 'The Hit'.

War Machine was much needed when it arrived, assuming that Rogue wasn't to be left alone altogether.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 14 November, 2012, 10:21:15 AM
The Garth Ennis collection - is this likely to include any strips not already released in the Rebellion GNs? The publisher's blurb mentions Emerald Isle and Raider, both of which have already been reprinted.

This is the kind of info that will inform whether I pre-order or not!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 14 November, 2012, 12:47:30 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 14 November, 2012, 07:47:05 AM
Not really. Rogues story had been done and then the shark jumped. It was kinda nice to see a new take (to start with at least) War machine is a cracking read, it was only the later stuff that let down the 'new rogue'

I'm dubious about the necessity to throw away all the existing continuity to give new life to a strip which has gone downhill. There are other ways, something new can always be thrown into the mix. However maybe I'm wrong in this case... Since I just got a copy of Tales of Nu Earth Vol. 3 which contains most of the later 'original Rogue series' stuff and I'll be reading it shortly (for the first time since the original progs came out), I suppose I'll soon find out.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 14 November, 2012, 06:33:15 PM
Rogue Trooper - Welcome to Nu-Earth now listed for a May release. With a price tag of £6.99 I'm guessing this is a Manga sized edition?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 14 November, 2012, 06:38:33 PM
Yup.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Michael Evans on 15 November, 2012, 09:33:46 AM
I'd buy it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 17 November, 2012, 08:38:48 PM
as would I :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 19 November, 2012, 09:58:02 AM
If Robo-Keef happens to be reading this, could you give us a run-down of which stories are due to appear in the up-coming Judge Anderson Psi-Files volume 3 (including any bonus material). Cheers.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 November, 2012, 10:54:35 AM
The first collection of IDW stories is up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd Volume 1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-1-Paul-Gulacy/dp/1613775962/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353292748&sr=1-2)

"All new stories plus an introduction by John Wagner!"

IDW, 120 pages, 23rd April 2013
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 28 November, 2012, 02:26:27 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 19 November, 2012, 09:58:02 AM
If Robo-Keef happens to be reading this, could you give us a run-down of which stories are due to appear in the up-coming Judge Anderson Psi-Files volume 3 (including any bonus material). Cheers.
This list is pure speculation, note. However, the book details state Hairsine is one of the artists, which means the strips run from at least Something Wicked through to Lawless. It would make logical sense for that 'era' of Anderson to be dealt with in its entirety by also including Horror Story and Semper VI. A subsequent volume would then kick off with Half-Life, from 2004 (Semper VI being from 1999). This calculation results in 297 strip pages (according to Barney), which seems a touch heavy if the book is 304pp, and would also suggest the two annual stories I don't think have yet been collected would have to wait for the next volume.

Meg 2.74 – 2.80, Something Wicked (Mar '95): 52
Meg 3.01 – 3.07, Satan (July '95): 57
Meg 3.14, The Protest (Feb '96): 8
2000 AD 1045 – 1049, Wonderwall: 30
2000 AD 1050 – 1061, Crusade: 72
2000 AD 1076, Danse Macabre: 6
2000 AD 1087 – 1089, Witch: 18
2000 AD 1090, The Great Debate: 6
2000 AD 1102 – 1103, Lawless: 12
2000 AD 1132 – 1137, Horror Story: 30
2000 AD 1140, Semper VI: 6

1990 Annual, Confessions of a She-Devil: 8
1993 Annual, George: 5
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 28 November, 2012, 03:14:42 PM
Prog 1812 wraps up cold deck with - [spoiler]Trifecta with art by Carl Critchlow![/spoiler] This makes me exceedingly happy. Too long from the Prog.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: BPP on 28 November, 2012, 05:03:44 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 13 November, 2012, 11:39:16 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 13 November, 2012, 11:37:56 AM
Yeah but War Machine was pretty damned good. Incredible art from Will 'whatever happened to' Simpson.

Currently storyboard artist on Game of Thrones and (very slowly) developing a creator-owned vampire book whenever he gets enough time to work on it...

Cheers

Jim


And maker / fitter of Natalie Portman's knickers for Black Swan.

Truely some Droids go on to greatness.



Great to see Critchlow back in the Prog. He's a fantastic artist.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: optimusjamie on 28 November, 2012, 09:21:02 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 28 November, 2012, 03:14:42 PM
Prog 1812 wraps up cold deck with - [spoiler]Trifecta with art by Carl Critchlow![/spoiler] This makes me exceedingly happy. Too long from the Prog.

Yeah- this looks like it's gonna be epic. I can't wait for next week.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 November, 2012, 10:12:50 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 28 November, 2012, 03:14:42 PM
Prog 1812 wraps up cold deck with - [spoiler]Trifecta with art by Carl Critchlow![/spoiler] This makes me exceedingly happy. Too long from the Prog.
Oh.Fuck.Yeah.  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 December, 2012, 02:48:53 AM
Amazon UK posted the cover for the IDW Bolland book a couple of days ago.  Then they cancelled it off my order yesterday saying it was 'unavailable'.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Bolland2.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 09 December, 2012, 11:35:23 AM
I've never seen that cover before. What's with the little flying thing? I think it'd be better if they removed it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: strontium71 on 09 December, 2012, 11:50:10 AM
It's the cover from an early Crime File...

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=en&safe=off&sa=G&tbo=d&biw=1525&bih=715&tbm=isch&tbnid=4_GDuicL7-GpoM:&imgrefurl=http://www.comicvine.com/judge-dredds-crime-file/49-19998/&docid=-fUbgJQOJyZQXM&imgurl=http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/11307/251172-19998-119447-1-judge-dredd-s-crime_large.jpg&w=300&h=435&ei=kXrEUKe9JPHM0AWxzoCQBg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=4&vpy=90&dur=1272&hovh=270&hovw=186&tx=80&ty=142&sig=100766143908137664109&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=98&start=0&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:84
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 09 December, 2012, 11:51:57 AM
Quote from: radiator on 09 December, 2012, 11:35:23 AM
I've never seen that cover before. What's with the little flying thing? I think it'd be better if they removed it.

It's a recoloured version of Bolland's cover for volume one of Judge Dredd's Crime Files (http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/11307/251172-19998-119447-1-judge-dredd-s-crime_super.jpg), a late Eighties Fleetway forerunner of The Restricted Files. I think the whimsical wee monster in question is supposed to refer to the much nastier ripperjacks in Wagner, Grant and Higgins's Last of the Bad Guys (from the 1988 Judge Dredd annual), but you're right that the image would work much better without it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 09 December, 2012, 12:44:57 PM
I'm probably wrong, but could that have been inked by someone else? The lower half, gloves and belt just don't have the easy precision I normally associate with Mr Bolland.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 09 December, 2012, 12:46:53 PM
Yeah, it's a little rough isn't it?

The colouring is adequate, but nothing more.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 09 December, 2012, 01:43:57 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 09 December, 2012, 12:44:57 PM
I'm probably wrong, but could that have been inked by someone else? The lower half, gloves and belt just don't have the easy precision I normally associate with Mr Bolland.

The IDW cover is definitely not Bolland; all his computer coloured work has layer upon layer of eggshell textures and a distinctive palette. I haven't checked his fantastically cranky blog for a while, but if he hasn't seen this image already the email I'm about to send him will produce something that makes his berating of Erró Gudmundur, the Icelandic fine artist who 'appropriated' his Tank Girl cover (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/05/20/brian-bolland-takes-on-erro-and-wins/), look like a pleasant chat between old friends.

If Bolland took umbrage at John Higgins's decent colour work on The Killing Joke, god knows what he'll make of this.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 09 December, 2012, 03:39:50 PM
Slightly weak choice of cover, that.

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 09 December, 2012, 12:44:57 PM
I'm probably wrong, but could that have been inked by someone else?

(http://i.imgur.com/fQUCw.jpg)

Is that an 'CK' after Bollands sig?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: blackmocco on 09 December, 2012, 11:48:24 PM
More like 'CR'. Looking at the belt rendering I'd say Mr Cliff Robinson had some hand in this. Maybe extending the artwork...?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 10 December, 2012, 12:24:37 AM
I have the original Titan edition of this here in my hands, and bollands sig is vertigal above the eagle, and its Bolland 88, and the colour is very different(and Better) I will scan tomorrow if I have time.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 10 December, 2012, 12:34:09 AM
Quote from: blackmocco on 09 December, 2012, 11:48:24 PM
More like 'CR'. Looking at the belt rendering I'd say Mr Cliff Robinson had some hand in this. Maybe extending the artwork...?

The cropping of the image is the same as on the cover of the Crime File (http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/11307/251172-19998-119447-1-judge-dredd-s-crime_large.jpg) it originally adorned, and the colourist on IDW's books is one Charlie Kirchoff.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 10 December, 2012, 10:51:58 AM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 19 November, 2012, 09:58:02 AM
If Robo-Keef happens to be reading this, could you give us a run-down of which stories are due to appear in the up-coming Judge Anderson Psi-Files volume 3 (including any bonus material). Cheers.

Meg 2.74 – 2.80, Something Wicked (Mar '95): 52
Meg 3.01 – 3.07, Satan (July '95): 57
Meg 3.14, The Protest (Feb '96): 8
2000 AD 1045 – 1049, Wonderwall: 30
2000 AD 1050 – 1061, Crusade: 72
2000 AD 1076, Danse Macabre: 6
2000 AD 1087 – 1089, Witch: 18
2000 AD 1090, The Great Debate: 6
2000 AD 1102 – 1103, Lawless: 12

1990 2000 AD Annual, Dear Diary: 8 (text strip)
1988 2000 AD Winter Special, Colin Wilson Block: 8
1990 Annual, Confessions of a She-Devil: 8
1991 Judge Dredd Annual, Exorcise Duty: 8 (text strip)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 December, 2012, 11:01:30 AM
It'll be interesting to see if Anderson's Crusade is as bad as everyone make's it out to be... :-\
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 10 December, 2012, 11:30:05 AM
It isn't.  It isn't good, but it's not as bad as its reputation.  For one, the frequently-mentioned scene of "nuking" millions of children never actually happens.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 10 December, 2012, 11:32:46 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 09 December, 2012, 01:43:57 PM
The IDW cover is definitely not Bolland; all his computer coloured work has layer upon layer of eggshell textures and a distinctive palette. I haven't checked his fantastically cranky blog for a while, but if he hasn't seen this image already the email I'm about to send him will produce something that makes his berating of Erró Gudmundur, the Icelandic fine artist who 'appropriated' his Tank Girl cover (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/05/20/brian-bolland-takes-on-erro-and-wins/), look like a pleasant chat between old friends.

If Bolland took umbrage at John Higgins's decent colour work on The Killing Joke, god knows what he'll make of this.

God, I bet you were popular at school. For the record, Brian has not only seen and approved the cover but he's also written an introduction for the book. This is nothing like the incident you mention (which was a case of plagiarism) and your comments are highly insulting to IDW, everyone at 2000 AD, and Brian himself.

I would like an apology to all concerned, please.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 10 December, 2012, 11:35:41 AM
ISTR reading that there is going to be both B&W and coloured versions of the Bolland and Ezquerra IDW books - is that right?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 10 December, 2012, 11:37:28 AM
On Anderson, I guess I wasn't too far off with my estimate, then. It's a pity the book won't quite wrap up 'old' Anderson (i.e. all the stuff before the current Meg era), but the flip side of that is a more complete set of strips from annuals, which I wasn't expecting, so: hurrah!

Crusade: not read that in years, but I recall it being OK. Still, most of the problems I've had with Anderson have been catastrophic events not remotely referred to in Dredd, and so whereas at one time the strips were clearly heavily linked, they ended up feeling like two entirely separate continuities. On their own, however, the run in my recollection varied from readable to very good indeed, and the 'Satan' stuff (included in the upcoming book) was when I read it a genuinely hard-hitting story with some great character work (including a [spoiler]typically glacial Dredd shift in attitude towards Anderson, which felt very right and also similar to how he was in the recent film[/spoiler]).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 10 December, 2012, 11:07:30 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 10 December, 2012, 11:32:46 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 09 December, 2012, 01:43:57 PM
The IDW cover is definitely not Bolland; all his computer coloured work has layer upon layer of eggshell textures and a distinctive palette. I haven't checked his fantastically cranky blog for a while, but if he hasn't seen this image already the email I'm about to send him will produce something that makes his berating of Erró Gudmundur, the Icelandic fine artist who 'appropriated' his Tank Girl cover (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/05/20/brian-bolland-takes-on-erro-and-wins/), look like a pleasant chat between old friends.

If Bolland took umbrage at John Higgins's decent colour work on The Killing Joke, god knows what he'll make of this.

God, I bet you were popular at school. For the record, Brian has not only seen and approved the cover but he's also written an introduction for the book. This is nothing like the incident you mention (which was a case of plagiarism) and your comments are highly insulting to IDW, everyone at 2000 AD, and Brian himself.

I would like an apology to all concerned, please.

If you felt insulted personally or professionally by anything in that post, Michael, I apologise - but the comparison to the Gudmundur incident you mention was made with reference to the imagined scale of Bolland's reaction, not the act of repurposing the artwork. Bolland actually replied to my email, confirming that he'd been involved in the production of the book; and since Bolland does not disapprove of Kirchoff's colouring, my conjecture regarding the scale of his reaction has no more validity than my speculation on the nature of his reaction.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 10 December, 2012, 11:48:06 PM
Sorry, sauchie, but that's the weaseliest attempt at a non-apology I've seen on the Internet in quite some time. The intent of your original post was either very clear or catastrophically open to misinterpretation. Either way, man up. Offence is in the eye of the offended, and apologies are free. Even I'm not this much of a dick.

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 10 December, 2012, 11:55:10 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 10 December, 2012, 11:48:06 PM
Sorry, sauchie, but that's the weaseliest attempt at a non-apology I've seen on the Internet in quite some time. The intent of your original post was either very clear or catastrophically open to misinterpretation. Either way, man up. Offence is in the eye of the offended, and apologies are free. Even I'm not this much of a dick.

My last sentence says that Bolland likes the book and I was talking shite.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 10 December, 2012, 11:59:17 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 10 December, 2012, 11:55:10 PM
My last sentence says that Bolland likes the book and I was talking shite.

I have an honours degree in English and I didn't read it that way. Perhaps my comprehension skills are lacking, or perhaps yours was a weaselly non-apology. I don't much give a fuck.

Bah. Again.

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 11 December, 2012, 10:26:55 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 10 December, 2012, 11:07:30 PM
If you felt insulted personally or professionally by anything in that post, Michael, I apologise - but the comparison to the Gudmundur incident you mention was made with reference to the imagined scale of Bolland's reaction, not the act of repurposing the artwork. Bolland actually replied to my email, confirming that he'd been involved in the production of the book; and since Bolland does not disapprove of Kirchoff's colouring, my conjecture regarding the scale of his reaction has no more validity than my speculation on the nature of his reaction.

It's not really about me at all - and I'm afraid Jim's right, that's a very mealy mouthed 'apology' for your actions, which are not those of someone keen to support 2000 AD and the wider brand. For reasons I can only imagine, you took it upon yourself to run off and tell tales to teacher without considering for a second that IDW had got this covered. Your assumption was insulting to them and insulting to us. Please consider yourself on indefinite warning.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 December, 2012, 10:50:03 AM
Blimey, what a to-do.  I'm afraid I read Sauchie's apology/clarification entirely differently - to me it was a simple admission of being wrong, in itself a rarity on the internet. 

I'm not sure why he has to apologise for communicating his mistaken concerns to Bolland, or why he has to take it as fact that IDW would automatically do things properly with regard to creators (although they obviously did) - the US comics industry isn't exactly known for it, so I think a bit of wary scepticism is, in gereal, justified. If Bolland hadn't been involved, he was well within his rights to tell him, and if he had been consulted (as he was), then what harm?  He got a correction from the horse's mouth, and reported it here. 

Does this really justify an 'indefinite warning' for a contributor who is consistently supportive of 2000AD and its creators, as well as generally being amusing and informed?

And BTW, I love that cover, the little flying thing in particular makes it Dredd and not FuturoFascist No. 35.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 11 December, 2012, 11:00:13 AM
Quote from: Big Barry PengeBack on 11 December, 2012, 10:50:03 AM
I'm not sure why he has to apologise for communicating his mistaken concerns to Bolland, or why he has to take it as fact that IDW would automatically do things properly with regard to creators (although they obviously did) - the US comics industry isn't exactly known for it, so I think a bit of wary scepticism is, in gereal, justified. If Bolland hadn't been involved, he was well within his rights to tell him, and if he had been consulted (as he was), then what harm?  He got a correction from the horse's mouth, and reported it here.  Does this really justify an 'indefinite warning' for a contributor who is consistently supportive of 2000AD and its creators, as well as generally being amusing and informed?

Yes, it does. And this is not a debate.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 December, 2012, 12:17:24 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 11 December, 2012, 11:00:13 AM
And this is not a debate.

That much is obvious.  I'll assume this is a corporate relations matter, and not one of manners or propriety, and leave it there.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Pioneer on 11 December, 2012, 02:08:36 PM
Anyone know anything about the recently released Dredd/Batman files and its availability over here? Doesn't seem to be readily available on Amazon even though its saying it was released on the 4th, does that mean it's not actually out yet or that it's been released and the first lot have sold out?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 11 December, 2012, 02:20:22 PM
It's already arrived at my house, via Amazon UK and is currently awaiting Christmas morning!!!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 11 December, 2012, 02:46:12 PM
Yup! Had mine too! S'lovely!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 11 December, 2012, 03:23:13 PM
I've had it for about a month.

The stories don't quite hold up as well as I remember, but it's a lovely book.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 December, 2012, 03:29:35 PM
Saw it the shops the other week, alright.  While I never liked the Batman crossovers I did read, this volume looks absolutely splendid in the flesh, both in terms of art and production, and I am sorely tempted.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 11 December, 2012, 03:31:31 PM
The Lobo crossover - something I'd never read before - is actually not that bad, and the art is surprisingly pretty great.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 14 December, 2012, 09:35:07 PM
Zaucer of Zilk collection coming from IDW in March 2013 according to the latest solicitations.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 14 December, 2012, 11:09:02 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 14 December, 2012, 09:35:07 PM
Zaucer of Zilk collection coming from IDW in March 2013 according to the latest solicitations.
I hope it's Rebellion trade shaped, and not US standard size like the IDW single issues are.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 December, 2012, 12:56:13 AM
Looks like another manga-sized digest version on the way:

Judge Dredd: Judge Child Saga (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Child-Saga-2000/dp/1781081093/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355532878&sr=8-1)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 16 December, 2012, 08:15:42 PM
Guys hi-looking some advice here. I came on board last christmas (prog 1764) and so i have missed some Dredd/Chaos material. Am I correct in assuming that the upcoming  Judge Dredd Day of Chaos: Fourth Faction will contain some of my missing material?

Thanks folks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 16 December, 2012, 08:43:02 PM
Yes it will.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 16 December, 2012, 08:55:56 PM
Quote from: Richard on 16 December, 2012, 08:43:02 PM
Yes it will.

Good man Richard. Thanks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 17 December, 2012, 08:14:27 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 14 December, 2012, 11:09:02 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 14 December, 2012, 09:35:07 PM
Zaucer of Zilk collection coming from IDW in March 2013 according to the latest solicitations.
I hope it's Rebellion trade shaped, and not US standard size like the IDW single issues are.

I doubt it. It is listed as $6.99 for 64 pages and says it is a "special reprint" in the solication, so maybe it is not a proper collection after all.
Title: Bolland
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 19 December, 2012, 09:33:11 PM
Apologies if this has already been asked but does the forthcoming complete Brian Bolland Dredd collection contain the cursed earth chapters he drew that havent been republished since? :-*
Title: Re: Bolland
Post by: Andy Smart on 19 December, 2012, 10:45:45 PM
Quote from: Judge Nutmeg on 19 December, 2012, 09:33:11 PM
Apologies if this has already been asked but does the forthcoming complete Brian Bolland Dredd collection contain the cursed earth chapters he drew that havent been republished since? :-*

Unlikely. Those chapters haven't been republished due to legal reasons. It does say it's "The Complete Brian Bolland" but I think any such collection is going to be necessarily incomplete.

Edit: Looks like I'm correct. From the preview at CBR (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=14593&disp=table): This luscious, oversized hardcover volume collects as many Brian Bolland-illustrated Judge Dredd stories as THE LAW* will allow! (*Seriously, there's one we can't publish. Ever.) They are online somewhere. I'll see if I can dredge up a link.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 19 December, 2012, 11:01:30 PM
Any news if it includes things like the Eagle reprint covers, star scans etc, or is it just stories?

ta

Steve
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 20 December, 2012, 07:24:00 AM
Quote from: Steve Green on 19 December, 2012, 11:01:30 PM
Any news if it includes things like the Eagle reprint covers, star scans etc, or is it just stories?


Alas not the Eagle covers apparently. From Mr Bolland himself

QuoteI can think of a few items of my Judge Dredd output that are not included. A Time Out cover. A few annual and Eagle comics covers. But here is my entire run of 2000 AD Dredd pages plus lots of extras and a two-page introduction by me. 313 pages in all. A perfect Christmas gift!

http://brianbolland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/judge-dredd-complete-brian-bolland.html (http://brianbolland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/judge-dredd-complete-brian-bolland.html)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 21 December, 2012, 04:52:04 AM
So Stevie's incentive to pick up yet another edition of the Most-Reprinted Dredd Stories EVAH! is that it will match the forthcoming Complete Carlos Ezquerra hardcovers?

Scarily enough, that's still kinda tempting
Title: Re: Bolland
Post by: MercZ on 21 December, 2012, 05:36:51 AM
Quote from: Andy Smart on 19 December, 2012, 10:45:45 PM
Unlikely. Those chapters haven't been republished due to legal reasons. It does say it's "The Complete Brian Bolland" but I think any such collection is going to be necessarily incomplete.

(*Seriously, there's one we can't publish. Ever.) They are online somewhere. I'll see if I can dredge up a link.

I have a link to them somewhere, but are we allowed to post that at all?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 21 December, 2012, 09:11:10 AM
Seeing as this is Rebellions official website I would think not.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 21 December, 2012, 11:16:48 AM
But, presumably, there's no reason why we couldn't PM each other the link...  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 21 December, 2012, 11:46:44 AM
Id love to see those banned episodes reprinted, its frustrating as hell that they havent/never will be. 
Select panels have appeared though in various books over the years - Mega History, Titan reprints etc, and recently the covers were shown in the Art of Judge Dredd book, albeit censored.


(And looking at one of the pages of original art i own, it would appear that a bit of self-censoreship was in effect prior to release. Several of the company logo's have been partly obscured).

Has Rebellion ever release an offical line in regards to these strips?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 26 December, 2012, 08:31:24 PM
Couldn't Rebellion at least try and talk to the respective wounded parties after all this time about the possibility of getting the banned stories back in print, as it might not be quite such an issue now. Perhaps some kind of financial incentive might persuade them that they really are satire and not that harmful. I think it would be worth a go, as all real Judge Dredd fans would like to see them back.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 27 December, 2012, 02:00:51 AM
I still say the smartest thing to do would be just pay Boland to alter the art slightly and change all the names.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 27 December, 2012, 09:12:43 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 27 December, 2012, 02:00:51 AM
I still say the smartest thing to do would be just pay Boland to alter the art slightly and change all the names.

Simple, yet genius.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 27 December, 2012, 09:18:17 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 27 December, 2012, 09:12:43 AM
Simple, yet genius horrifically and impractically expensive.

FTFY. :-)

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 27 December, 2012, 09:24:28 AM
This is utterly silly and childish, but I've always kinda liked the fact (even when I didn't own them) that there were these 'secret' super episodes that you could get hold of if you were a 'real' fan BUT didn't affect the enjoyment of the story if you'd got the story in trade or whatever. Kinda a reward for having the progs themselves.

I know, I know...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 27 December, 2012, 03:09:04 PM
I wonder how many of those progs are still out there - either as copies that are up for grabs, or ones that are hidden away in collections?
A good few would have been lost, i guess, over the years.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 27 December, 2012, 04:52:03 PM
I tracked them about 3 or 4 years ago now (I think) and they cropped up fairly regularly back then on eBay, normally one or more copies available at in any one week (does take some of the thrill out of collecting!) I was patient and lost out on countless auctions, but by being so didn't pay more that £15 (I think) + postage for any of them.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 28 December, 2012, 01:28:20 PM
Well since its been discussed here and I've not bought it so its not a review, so I'll put this here. I was waiting to flick through the Complete Bolland before ordering it and I'm really glad I did. Had a quick look at a copy in my local Forbidden Planet and its worth noting it was only a quick look BUT I wasn't too impressed.

I was hoping this would be like the IDW Dave Gibbons Doctor Who collection which looked lovely but its not. No colour that I could see, even the pages that were originally in colour are black and white. The line work wasn't crisp at all and looked like the reproduction in the Case Files (not saying it is, just looks like) and over all it wasn't what I expected. Shame but it looks like I'll be passing this one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 28 December, 2012, 04:49:57 PM
Hmm. Oh dear. I was waiting to hear the word before ordering myself.

As I understand it this was always planned as black and white with a colourised version due at a later date, but poor repro is certainly enough to put me off.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 28 December, 2012, 06:06:22 PM
Hmm.


I have the titan hardbacks with Judge Death, and the Cursed Earth, which has really nice repro.

I'll take a perusal but for the price and no Eagle covers it's hard for me to justify getting it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 28 December, 2012, 06:27:35 PM
The amount of reprints ive bought over the years, and for the same stories!, these would have to be summat special indeed to justify buying them. Still, im curious to have a looksee.
Anyone remember that first Rogue Trooper story that got coloured (by Mr Gibbons himself?) in a special years ago? Always thought that was pretty snazzy, and wouldnt mind seeing summat along those lines.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: opaque on 28 December, 2012, 07:59:50 PM
Well I've ordered the signed copy from FP as it's the closest I'm ever going to get to a piece of his artwork :P
Will really suck if the quality is as bad as it sounds though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 28 December, 2012, 08:57:11 PM
Well hopefully when others see it it won't be as 'bad' as I saw it. Its possible I saw a duff copy. Please don't take my thoughts, at a quick peak as definitive, by any stretch. Just wanted people to have the option to look at it first in case I'm right. I'll be looking again but won't commit until I've done that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 29 December, 2012, 12:22:42 AM
Good to hear from someone who's actually seen it, Colin.

A shame - sounds like a missed opportunity.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 30 December, 2012, 09:12:09 PM
The Ten Seconders collection is out, anyone get it yet?
Title: Re: Bolland
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 30 December, 2012, 09:50:43 PM
Quote from: Andy Smart on 19 December, 2012, 10:45:45 PM
Quote from: Judge Nutmeg on 19 December, 2012, 09:33:11 PM
Apologies if this has already been asked but does the forthcoming complete Brian Bolland Dredd collection contain the cursed earth chapters he drew that havent been republished since? :-*

Unlikely. Those chapters haven't been republished due to legal reasons. It does say it's "The Complete Brian Bolland" but I think any such collection is going to be necessarily incomplete.

Edit: Looks like I'm correct. From the preview at CBR (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=14593&disp=table): This luscious, oversized hardcover volume collects as many Brian Bolland-illustrated Judge Dredd stories as THE LAW* will allow! (*Seriously, there's one we can't publish. Ever.) They are online somewhere. I'll see if I can dredge up a link.

cheers for reply, shame the cursed earth missing chapters wont see the light of day
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 30 December, 2012, 11:43:55 PM
QuoteThe Ten Seconders collection is out, anyone get it yet?

And if anyone's seen it, can they confirm its a Rebellion edition or a S&S edition with a UK price sticker (that happened for another collection, right?)

I want to get it, but I don't want to get it if its got that shitty cover paper stock S&S uses.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 31 December, 2012, 04:38:38 PM
Ten Seconders is an S&S collection. There's no price sticker - printed prices are for US, UK & Canada.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 31 December, 2012, 07:37:23 PM
QuoteTen Seconders is an S&S collection. There's no price sticker - printed prices are for US, UK & Canada.

Curses.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 31 December, 2012, 10:07:30 PM
So... I just found out Ten-Seconders is returning for a 3rd outing (appearing as a 'Thrill Of the Future' in the newest issue of tooth). So getting refreshed on what the heck actually happened in Book 2 might be a good idea (and Book 1 even... it has been a while since I read it). So... curling cover stock or not, I might have to pick up the new trade.

*glaces left*

*glaces right*

What's the spine look like?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 02 January, 2013, 12:51:42 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 30 December, 2012, 11:43:55 PMI want to get it, but I don't want to get it if its got that shitty cover paper stock S&S uses.

I have it. I know what you mean bout the cover paper stock. Actually it looks gorgeous... right up until you touch it. Figermarks ruin it instantly and seem to be impossible to remove without making it worse. :( You literally need to handle these books wearing some kind of gloves if you want to keep them in any kind of decent condition.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 02 January, 2013, 12:53:40 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 31 December, 2012, 10:07:30 PMWhat's the spine look like?

The spine looks a bit different from most of the UK books. Can't really think how to describe it. If I have time I'll post a picture of it when I get home.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 02 January, 2013, 01:00:05 PM
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 02 January, 2013, 12:51:42 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 30 December, 2012, 11:43:55 PMI want to get it, but I don't want to get it if its got that shitty cover paper stock S&S uses.

I have it. I know what you mean bout the cover paper stock. Actually it looks gorgeous... right up until you touch it. Figermarks ruin it instantly and seem to be impossible to remove without making it worse. :( You literally need to handle these books wearing some kind of gloves if you want to get them in any kind of decent condition.

Latex gloves to read a graphic novel to keep it good condition? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 02 January, 2013, 08:04:28 PM
My problem is less about fingerprint, and more about curling in moderate humidity. My copies of Zombo and Anderson Crime Files are warped from sitting on my shelf. I think it might be because S&S doesn't coat the inside cover stock like Rebellion does. Or its just lighter paper stock to what Rebellion uses in general. All I know I've seen many an S&S edition on a store shelf in really piss poor condition just from sitting out.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 03 January, 2013, 09:59:25 PM
Anyone get the Bolland Dredd collection? it was sadly a bit too pricey for my pockets
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 04 January, 2013, 04:27:02 PM
Okay just stumbled across this. Over at The Beat they're running a feature with creators rounding up the year and looking ahead to 2013. Simon Fraser is on there and in answer to the question what projects is he currently working on he says (amongst others)

QuoteRocket De La Revolucion , written by Monty Nero for 2000AD

Done a quick search and Monty Nero (made up name!) is a newish writer (from what I can see) doing some stuff for CLint after apparently being discovered at Kapow (his Mum must be chuffed)... so nowt to go on there! Anyway something new to look forward to.

http://comicsbeat.com/the-beats-annual-year-end-survey-2013-edition-part-two/ (http://comicsbeat.com/the-beats-annual-year-end-survey-2013-edition-part-two/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trout on 04 January, 2013, 04:43:18 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 04 January, 2013, 04:27:02 PM
Okay just stumbled across this. Over at The Beat they're running a feature with creators rounding up the year and looking ahead to 2013. Simon Fraser is on there and in answer to the question what projects is he currently working on he says (amongst others)

QuoteRocket De La Revolucion , written by Monty Nero for 2000AD

Done a quick search and Monty Nero (made up name!) is a newish writer (from what I can see) doing some stuff for CLint after apparently being discovered at Kapow (his Mum must be chuffed)... so nowt to go on there! Anyway something new to look forward to.

http://comicsbeat.com/the-beats-annual-year-end-survey-2013-edition-part-two/ (http://comicsbeat.com/the-beats-annual-year-end-survey-2013-edition-part-two/)

He's a member of this board, too. I saw him at the Dredd screening in Dundee, and he said he'd had a Future Shock accepted for publication.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 04 January, 2013, 04:52:37 PM
He also wrote a rather good story for us in Dogbreath 25, too.

But you all knew that as you have all bought copies, right?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 January, 2013, 10:00:01 AM
Marshal Law - Deluxe Edition (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marshal-Law-Deluxe-Kevin-ONeill/dp/1401238556/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357379911&sr=1-1)

Mills/O'Neill, DC Comics, 480 pages, hardback, out 30th April 2013.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 07 January, 2013, 10:52:40 AM
Has this been mentioned anywhere yet?

I'm guessing it's a US book that'll include The League of Fatties, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Magnificent Obsession, and maybe Fast Food/The Bazooka and Fat Fathers among others?

Great to see more Wagner Dredd getting out there in any case!

(http://cache1.bdcdn.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/7810/9781781081334.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 07 January, 2013, 11:16:30 AM
Quote from: radiator on 07 January, 2013, 10:52:40 AM
Has this been mentioned anywhere yet?

Yep, a couple of months ago (post 432).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 07 January, 2013, 09:55:46 PM
Hey. Looks like Tharg may have taken my advice and started putting together issue previews containing the first page of each strip. (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=14770)

I hope we get one of these every week! I need them desperately for promoting the book.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: HdE on 07 January, 2013, 10:14:54 PM
That can ONLY be a smart move!

I've detected a somewhat sniffy attitude towards 2000AD among some of the 'diehard' comics fans I'm friendly with. It seems like, for the most part, they just aren't familiar with the material, or judge everything on the merits of early '80s strips. Weird.

Maybe access to a regular glimpse of some contemporary stuff will turn a few heads. I know at least one guy stateside who's gone picking up all the Dredd stuff he can since the movie.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 January, 2013, 09:14:42 PM
Oi! Tharg! When are we getting the next series of Indigo Prime? :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 17 January, 2013, 10:41:48 PM
Good gosh! James Harren drawing an imminent Rob Williams-penned Dredd tale:

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/01/17/james-harren-judge-dredd-2000-a-d-preview-rob-williams-art/

This is a very, very good thing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 17 January, 2013, 10:56:39 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 January, 2013, 10:41:48 PM
Good gosh! James Harren drawing an imminent Rob Williams-penned Dredd tale:

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/01/17/james-harren-judge-dredd-2000-a-d-preview-rob-williams-art/

This is a very, very good thing.

Looks good.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 18 January, 2013, 07:57:48 AM
Loving what I assume is the cover, bloomin' great
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 January, 2013, 08:40:59 AM
Damn, that IS a bit good.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheldipez on 18 January, 2013, 12:47:31 PM
Quote from: HdE on 07 January, 2013, 10:14:54 PM
I've detected a somewhat sniffy attitude towards 2000AD among some of the 'diehard' comics fans I'm friendly with. It seems like, for the most part, they just aren't familiar with the material, or judge everything on the merits of early '80s strips. Weird.

It's weird considering the quality (or lack thereof) of some the current mainstream US stuff.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 19 January, 2013, 06:56:43 AM
Any one know what the deal is with All Star Future Shocks{/url]?

Simon & Shuster's gives at a publication date of 8 January 2013, although at this stage it has yet to be solicited in Previews.


Stevie's also been checking Diamond's Shipping Lists just in case it was inadvertantly ommitted from the catalogue itself but appeared on the order form. Nada.
(http://books.simonandschuster.com/All-Star-Future-Shocks/Neil-Gaiman/9781781080740)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 January, 2013, 11:31:41 AM
IDW collect Cam Kennedy:

Judge Dredd: The Cam Kennedy Collection Volume 1 [Hardcover] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Cam-Kennedy-Collection/dp/1613776489/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358595016&sr=1-1)

According to the blurb on Amazon UK, "Reprinted in classis black-and-white, this collection features stories such as "The Suspect," "The Falucci Tape," "Something Abnormal About Norman," and more."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Leigh S on 19 January, 2013, 12:17:31 PM
Classics all, but erm... Midnight Surfer?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 19 January, 2013, 08:03:32 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 19 January, 2013, 11:31:41 AM
IDW collect Cam Kennedy:

Judge Dredd: The Cam Kennedy Collection Volume 1 [Hardcover] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Cam-Kennedy-Collection/dp/1613776489/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358595016&sr=1-1)


Ah, so it begins.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 January, 2013, 01:31:33 PM
Out of interest did we already know that Mean Team was getting a collection? I'm guessing we must do and I've just missed it but its included in the latest newsletter including a cover image.

(http://gallery.mailchimp.com/a6e40236aa24d482cfff600d2/images/FC_BC_MEAN_TEAM_1.jpg)

Wow what an interesting choice. I assume that Meltdown Man did well enough that the same names on the cover is hoped to draw an audience? That'd make sense, but for me one of the weakest strip from the Prog ever and there's better stuff by far out there still awaiting. Mine not to reason why and all that...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trout on 23 January, 2013, 01:40:03 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 23 January, 2013, 01:31:33 PM
Out of interest did we already know that Mean Team was getting a collection? I'm guessing we must do and I've just missed it but its included in the latest newsletter including a cover image.

(http://gallery.mailchimp.com/a6e40236aa24d482cfff600d2/images/FC_BC_MEAN_TEAM_1.jpg)

Wow what an interesting choice. I assume that Meltdown Man did well enough that the same names on the cover is hoped to draw an audience? That'd make sense, but for me one of the weakest strip from the Prog ever and there's better stuff by far out there still awaiting. Mine not to reason why and all that...

Woah there!  :) As soon as I saw this news in Tharg's Space Spam I had a similar thought, but then I realised I'd like to buy it.

Mean Team was really two separate strips. The earliest parts, where they[spoiler] escape from the arena, [/spoiler]are bloody good. I remember being genuinely excited by it when I was a kid. The later stuff, [spoiler]when they get to Earth and it all gets a bit looser, [/spoiler]wasn't so good, IMO. The sudden death of [spoiler]the robot [/spoiler]was particularly poor, I felt, although the plot meant it was needed. Of course, Belardinelli art is a massive bonus.

I've no idea how this book will sell but I say full marks to the House of Tharg for having a go.

- Trout
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 23 January, 2013, 03:44:33 PM
Tharg has clearly renewed his love affair with the work of Belardinelli in the last few years, as evidenced by the fantastic collections of his stories Rebellion have put out. More power to the Mighty One's verdant elbow on this, say I! I will be getting this principally to have all of the much-maligned 'Survivor' in one place: I am aware it is not highly regarded, but I remember enjoying it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 23 January, 2013, 04:31:58 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 23 January, 2013, 01:31:33 PMOut of interest did we already know that Mean Team was getting a collection?
It's been on the books site (http://2000adonline.com/books/coming_soon.php) for a few months, albeit with an older cover. Good to see some Belardinelli love, even if I'm not a massive fan of that particular strip.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 January, 2013, 01:49:12 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 23 January, 2013, 01:31:33 PM
Out of interest did we already know that Mean Team was getting a collection?

Yep, post 289 back in August.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 January, 2013, 01:56:55 AM
IDW Cam Kennedy volume 1 cover, according to Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Dredd_CamKennedy_Small_zpsd19b0b8c.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 26 January, 2013, 07:52:07 AM
Now that's an interesting choice of cover, a good one as I love that cover BUT there was debate here, a couple of times as I recall, as to who did that cover. The hand and Dredd's body (as seen on the original cover) I settled on thinking were by Robin Smith the art director at the time.

http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=342&Comic=2000ad (http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=342&Comic=2000ad)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 26 January, 2013, 05:06:30 PM
and will this collection of mean team include the "epilogue" featuring [spoiler]The last survivor of the team after that rather sudden and shock ending to the second series?[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 26 January, 2013, 05:18:19 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 26 January, 2013, 07:52:07 AM
Now that's an interesting choice of cover, a good one as I love that cover BUT there was debate here, a couple of times as I recall, as to who did that cover. The hand and Dredd's body (as seen on the original cover) I settled on thinking were by Robin Smith the art director at the time.

http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=342&Comic=2000ad (http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=342&Comic=2000ad)


Is it not an obvious one considering Cam drew the actual strip inside that the cover's referring to, and it's in the same style?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 26 January, 2013, 05:34:14 PM
Quote from: The monarch on 26 January, 2013, 05:06:30 PM
and will this collection of mean team include the "epilogue" featuring [spoiler]The last survivor of the team after that rather sudden and shock ending to the second series?[/spoiler]

I read (somewhere) that it does!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 26 January, 2013, 05:37:13 PM
And if you look closely at the cover, the last name is Ron Smith!  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 04 February, 2013, 03:52:22 PM
The Tales from Beyond Science collection is marked down as being in comic shops on February 13th.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 04 February, 2013, 04:08:23 PM
For those that missed it in last week's porg, a Trifecta trade is planned for the summer.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 February, 2013, 04:25:20 PM
Quote from: radiator on 04 February, 2013, 04:08:23 PM
For those that missed it in last week's porg, a Trifecta trade is planned for the summer.
Quick release. Took DoC a year to get collected. Let the debate on how it will be organized, begin!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 04 February, 2013, 04:37:23 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 04 February, 2013, 04:25:20 PM
Quote from: radiator on 04 February, 2013, 04:08:23 PM
For those that missed it in last week's porg, a Trifecta trade is planned for the summer.
Quick release. Took DoC a year to get collected. Let the debate on how it will be organized, begin!
There's no debate. They've already said it'll be alternating episodes, in the order it was originally published in the Progs.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: opaque on 04 February, 2013, 04:58:15 PM
That will be a good one :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 04 February, 2013, 05:04:51 PM
Quote from: radiator on 04 February, 2013, 04:08:23 PM
For those that missed it in last week's porg, a Trifecta trade is planned for the summer.

So it would be reasonably safe to assume the second DoC trade is scheduled for before that? Likewise Tharg's reveal of a September release of ABC Warriors: Return to Earth would suggest the release of Volgan War 4 (paperback) comes between that and the release of #3 in June.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 04 February, 2013, 05:32:22 PM
We'll be putting out a press release detailing the UK schedule soon.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 04 February, 2013, 06:03:36 PM
QuoteThey've already said it'll be alternating episodes, in the order it was originally published in the Progs.

It's the only sensible way, surely?

I'm more interested to see what they're going to do with Doomsday if and when the Case Files get that far...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 04 February, 2013, 06:10:29 PM
Splicing those would be quite fun, although, I imagine, some kind of production headache.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 February, 2013, 08:24:35 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 04 February, 2013, 04:37:23 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 04 February, 2013, 04:25:20 PM
Quote from: radiator on 04 February, 2013, 04:08:23 PM
For those that missed it in last week's porg, a Trifecta trade is planned for the summer.
Quick release. Took DoC a year to get collected. Let the debate on how it will be organized, begin!
There's no debate. They've already said it'll be alternating episodes, in the order it was originally published in the Progs.
I was unaware of this. Good call, what I would have suggested. Gonna confuse any poor, narrow minded blind yank who just happens to pick it up mind. :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 05 February, 2013, 08:41:16 AM
Guys for the relative newbies who jumped on last Christmas (prog 2012)-how far will the latest DoC trade take me up in terms of that story-line to my start point?


I dont need razor sharp precision just a rough shout. TIA.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 February, 2013, 08:43:46 AM
Quote from: The Prodigal on 05 February, 2013, 08:41:16 AM
Guys for the relative newbies who jumped on last Christmas (prog 2012)-how far will the latest DoC trade take me up in terms of that story-line to my start point?


I dont need razor sharp precision just a rough shout. TIA.
It will include The Skinning Room, another post Tour of Duty story that I forget the name of, and The Furtherly Dasterdaly Deads of PJ Maybe. DoC storys are Nadia, the Fourth Faction and Downtime I think. Maybe Elusive and The Assasination list though LG isn't listed as an artist.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 06 February, 2013, 11:03:12 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 04 February, 2013, 05:04:51 PM
So it would be reasonably safe to assume the second DoC trade is scheduled for before that?

Yep.  Amazon UK are reporting a mid July release date:
Judge Dredd Day of Chaos: Endgame (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Day-Chaos-Endgame/dp/1781081425/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360119756&sr=1-1)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 06 February, 2013, 11:08:27 AM
Psst, wanna buy Nemesis in hardback?  Only thirty quid to you, kid.


Nemesis The Warlock: Deviant Edition [Hardcover]
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nemesis-Warlock-Deviant-Pat-Mills/dp/1781081719/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360148709&sr=1-1)

Also:


A B.C. Warriors: Return to Earth [Hardcover]
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/B-C-Warriors-Return-Earth/dp/1781081441/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360148656&sr=1-1)

Can't remember if I already listed this one -
Slaine The King [Paperback]
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-King-Pat-Mills/dp/1781081700/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360148754&sr=1-1)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 06 February, 2013, 11:21:31 AM
Quote from: The Prodigal on 05 February, 2013, 08:41:16 AM
Guys for the relative newbies who jumped on last Christmas (prog 2012)-how far will the latest DoC trade take me up in terms of that story-line to my start point?

Up-to-date - the first few episodes of Dredd in 2012 were the last few episodes of The Assassination List, the last story in the first DoC trade.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 11:34:38 AM
QuoteIt will include The Skinning Room, another post Tour of Duty story that I forget the name of, and The Furtherly Dasterdaly Deads of PJ Maybe. DoC storys are Nadia, the Fourth Faction and Downtime I think. Maybe Elusive and The Assasination list though LG isn't listed as an artist.

My guess would be:

The Skinning Room
Hot Night in 95
The Further Dasterdly Deeds of PJ Maybe
Nadia
The Fourth Faction
Downtime
Elusive
The Assassination List

With Endgame collecting:

Eve of Destruction
Tea for Two
Wot I Did During the Worst Dissaster in Mega-City History
Chaos Day
The Days After
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 06 February, 2013, 11:42:26 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 06 February, 2013, 11:08:27 AM

A B.C. Warriors: Return to Earth [Hardcover]
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/B-C-Warriors-Return-Earth/dp/1781081441/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360148656&sr=1-1)

Please say it ain't a hardback!!!!



Message sent from my Mobile Phone
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 06 February, 2013, 11:48:32 AM
It's entirely possible its not. All 2000ad trades seem to say hardback when they arrive at Amazons database, along with the wrong publisher.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 06 February, 2013, 11:54:20 AM
Okay with an increased admiration for Radiator (and with his okay), I've tried to update the sunmmary. Chuff me its harder than it loks. A host of caveats. This is based solely on the following:

1. The info on this thread
2. Some searches on Amazon
3. My dodgy memory

So lets treat this as a draft for now and if people could send corrections and additions I'll alter and re-post at a later date. Also I don't get the Meg and there seems to be a dearth of info about it here (wasn't there a Meg based Future Thrills in the Prog recently?) so the Meg info is particularly scant and dodgy. Anyway lets use this as a starting point and take it from there...

2000 AD:

Judge Dredd: Save him - Rob Williams/James Harren - Prog 1819
Flesh: Badlands - Pat Mills James McKay - Starts Spring 2013
Brass Sun: Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Tharg's 3rillers: Survival Geeks by Gordon Rennie/Emma Beeby/Neil Googe - starts TBC
Tharg's 3rillers: Gunheads by T.C. Eglinton/Boo Cook - starts TBC
Stickleback (title TBC) by Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Zombo (title TBC) by Al Ewing/Henry Flint - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
Defoe: The Damned by Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher(?) - starts TBC
Dark Judgement by John Wagner/Greg Staples - starts TBC
Dandridge: The Copper Conspiracy by Alec Worley/ Warren Pleece - starts TBC
Sinister Dexter: Dan Abnett/John Burns - starts TBC
Rocket De La Revolucion: Monty Nero/? - starts TBC
Possible new 2000ad project by Alec Worely/David Roach - TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

Judge Dredd: Inversion by Arthur Wyatt/David Roach - (one-off) TBC
Insurrection III(TBC) by Dan Abnett/Colin Macniel - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
American Reaper: Title TBC by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

I dunno???

2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos - The Fourth Faction - Feb 2013
Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Saga (B Format) - Mar 2013
Mean Team - Mar 2013
Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse - April 2013
Slaine: Grail War - April 2013
Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth (B Format) - May 2013
ABC Warriors: Volgan War Vol. 3 - June 2013
Rogue Trooper: War Machine - June 2013 (is this SnS?)
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 20 - June 2013
Judge Dredd: Day of Choas - End Game - Jul 2013
Judge Dredd: The Fatties - Jul 2013 (is this SnS?)
Ballard of Halo Jones - Sept 2013
Button Man: Get Harry Ex - Sept 2013 (is this SnS?)
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Deviant edition' - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Termight edition' - Sept 2013
ABC Warriors: Return to Earth - Sept 2013
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - Oct 2013

Strontium Dog: Mutant for Hire - Oct 2014 (?!?) (is this SnS?)

Note: I've marked were these might be SnS books but I'm not sure how to check. So I've defaulted as them all being Rebellion unless we know otherwise for the time being. Indigo Prime (I think) seems to base the assumption on the price? If people want stuff here shiftin' around just say

2000ad Graphic Novels - Simon and Schuster (provisional list - all subject to change):

Judge Dredd: Origins - Mar 2013
The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael... - May 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete case files 6 - Aug 2013

2000ad Graphic Novels - IDW

Judge Dredd: The Carlos Ezquerra Collection Volume 1 - Mar 2013
Judge Dredd Vol. 1 - Apr 2013
Judge Dredd: The Cam Kennedy Collection Volume 1 - Jun 2013


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 11:58:18 AM
QuoteZombo (title TBC) by Al Ewing/Henry Flint - starts TBC

Provisional title: The Day the Zombo Died.

QuoteJudge Dredd: Inversion by Arthur Wyatt/David Roach - (one-off) TBC

Hasn't this been and gone already?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 11:59:36 AM
Judge Dredd: The Fatties - Jul 2013 (is this SnS?)

Yes.

QuoteButton Man: Get Harry Ex - Sept 2013 (is this SnS?)

I think so.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 06 February, 2013, 12:07:46 PM
You can add Ten Seconders: Godsend to the 2000AD list - Rob Williams and Edmund Bagwell.
There's also Age of the Wolf III, more ABC Warriors and the new Dark Judges saga with Greg Staples.

Also it's probably safe to assume at least one of the Meg supplements will be Finn part 2.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 February, 2013, 12:08:56 PM
Meg suppliment also includes Download Tales volume 2.
And, call me dumb, but whats SnS?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 12:12:02 PM
Did some digging:

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

A.H.A.B. (Meg 333)
Downlode Tales Volume 2 (Meg 334)
Downlode Tales Volume 3 (Meg 335)

Also upcoming:

Judge Dredd: Shotgun by Michael Carroll/John Burns - Meg 333
Judge Dredd: The Last Judda by Alan Grant/Karl Richardson Meg 333
Judge Dredd: Tough Love - Meg 334
Judge Dredd: The Streets of Dan Francisco by Arthur Wyatt(?) - Meg 335
Insurrection III starts Meg 334

Judge Dredd: Wolves by Michael Carrol/Andrew Currie - 2000ad Feb 2013
New Zombo series is called 'Planet Zombo' my bad.

New lineup in prog 1824 featuring:
Stickleback: Number of the Beast
Dandridge: The Copper Conspiracy
Survival Geeks
Planet Zombo
Dredd

The Ghostship Mathematica (3rillers?)
Judge Dredd: Suicide Watch (?)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 12:13:34 PM
And, call me dumb, but whats SnS?

Refers to Simon & Schuster, publisher of 2000ad books for the US market.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 12:15:39 PM
Quotethe new Dark Judges saga with Greg Staples.

This is on the list as 'Dark Judgement', though I think the title is now 'Dark Justice'.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 12:17:26 PM
I believe that a new series of Kingdom (series 5?) is in the works, and will be happening when Richard Elson is available to draw it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 06 February, 2013, 12:18:33 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 06 February, 2013, 11:54:20 AMIndigo Prime (I think) seems to base the assumption on the price?
If it doesn't end in .99 or .00 on Amazon, it's a US edition. Some might be restickered for UK sale, however, such as the reprint of the first Nikolai Dante book.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 06 February, 2013, 12:23:22 PM
Indigo Prime is a UK book. As I said, we'll be sending out press releases detailing all our UK and North American GNs soon, so that should clear things up.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 06 February, 2013, 12:28:12 PM
Quote from: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 12:12:02 PM
Did some digging:

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

A.H.A.B. (Meg 333)
Downlode Tales Volume 2 (Meg 334)
Downlode Tales Volume 3 (Meg 335)

Also upcoming:

Judge Dredd: Shotgun by Michael Carroll/John Burns - Meg 333
Judge Dredd: The Last Judda by Alan Grant/Karl Richardson Meg 333
Judge Dredd: Tough Love - Meg 334
Judge Dredd: The Streets of Dan Francisco by Arthur Wyatt(?) - Meg 335
Insurrection III starts Meg 334

Judge Dredd: Wolves by Michael Carrol/Andrew Currie - 2000ad Feb 2013
New Zombo series is called 'Planet Zombo' my bad.

New lineup in prog 1824 featuring:
Stickleback: Number of the Beast
Dandridge: The Copper Conspiracy
Survival Geeks
Planet Zombo
Dredd

The Ghostship Mathematica (3rillers?)
Judge Dredd: Suicide Watch (?)

See and this is why for years we needed nowt more than Radiator! Nice one I'll get up dating...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 12:47:12 PM
The Last Judda sounds intriguing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 February, 2013, 01:04:02 PM
Quote from: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 12:47:12 PM
The Last Judda sounds intriguing.
And it's a Karl Richardson piece, so good art that should suit the Judda.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 06 February, 2013, 01:34:29 PM
I think there's enough already to justify an update. We'll call this Draft 2. Keep um comin'

2000 AD:

Judge Dredd: Save him - Rob Williams/James Harren - Prog 1819
Judge Dredd: Wolves by Michael Carrol/Andrew Currie - 2000ad Feb 2013
Stickleback: Number of the Beast by Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts Prog 1824
Dandridge: The Copper Conspiracy by Alec Worley/ Warren Pleece - starts Prog 1824
Tharg's 3rillers: Survival Geeks by Gordon Rennie/Emma Beeby/Neil Googe - starts Prog 1824
Zombo: Planet Zombo by Al Ewing/Henry Flint - starts Prog 1824
Judge Dredd: Suicide Watch - ??? - starts Apr 2013
The Ghostship Mathematica  - ??? - starts Apr 2013 (?)
Flesh: Badlands - Pat Mills/James McKay - Starts Spring 2013
Ten Seconders: Godsend to the 2000AD - Rob Williams/Edmund Bagwell - starts TBC
Defoe: The Damned by Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher(?) - starts TBC
Dark Justice (TBC) by John Wagner/Greg Staples - starts TBC
One Off: Rocket De La Revolucion - Monty Nero/Simon Fraser - starts TBC
Age of the Wof: (Title TBC) - Alec Worley/Jon Davis-Hunt? - starts TBC
Tharg's 3rillers: Gunheads by T.C. Eglinton/Boo Cook - starts TBC
Brass Sun: (Title TBC)Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
Sinister Dexter (title TBC): Dan Abnett/John Burns - starts TBC
ABC Warriors: (title TBC): Pat Mills/Clint Langley (?) - start TBC
Kingdom: Book 5 (title TBC): Dan Abnett/Richard Elson (?) - start TBC

Possible new 2000ad project by Alec Worley/David Roach - TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

Judge Dredd: Shotgun by Michael Carroll/John Burns - Meg 333
Judge Dredd: The Last Judda by Alan Grant/Karl Richardson Meg 333
Judge Dredd: Tough Love - ??? Meg 334
Insurrection III(TBC) by Dan Abnett/Colin Macniel - starts 334
Judge Dredd: The Streets of Dan Francisco by Arthur Wyatt(?) - Meg 335
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
American Reaper: Title TBC by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - starts TBC
Lilly MacKenzie: Title TBC - Simon Fraser - starts TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

A.H.A.B. (Meg 333)
Downlode Tales Volume 2 (Meg 334)
Downlode Tales Volume 3 (Meg 335)
Finn Book 2 - TBC

2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos - The Fourth Faction - Feb 2013
Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Saga (B Format) - Mar 2013
Mean Team - Mar 2013
Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse - April 2013
Slaine: Grail War - April 2013
Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth (B Format) - May 2013
ABC Warriors: Volgan War Vol. 3 - June 2013
Rogue Trooper: War Machine - June 2013 (is this SnS?)
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 20 - June 2013
Judge Dredd: Day of Choas - End Game - Jul 2013
Ballard of Halo Jones - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Deviant edition' - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Termight edition' - Sept 2013
ABC Warriors: Return to Earth - Sept 2013
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - Oct 2013

Strontium Dog: Mutant for Hire - Oct 2014 (?!?) (is this SnS?)

Note: Currently where I'm not sure who will be publish a particular title I've defaulted to the UK list. Press release will confirm details soon (hopefully) and I'll adjust accordingly then.

2000ad Graphic Novels - Simon and Schuster (provisional list - all subject to change):

Judge Dredd: Origins - Mar 2013
The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael... - May 2013
Judge Dredd: The Fatties - Jul 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete case files 6 - Aug 2013
Button Man: Get Harry Ex - Sept 2013 (TBC)

2000ad Graphic Novels - IDW

Judge Dredd: The Carlos Ezquerra Collection Volume 1 - Mar 2013
Judge Dredd Vol. 1 - Apr 2013
Judge Dredd: The Cam Kennedy Collection Volume 1 - Jun 2013
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Art on 06 February, 2013, 02:43:08 PM
Th Dan Francisco story is standalone, not a Dredd story. Art by Paul Marshall.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 06 February, 2013, 02:54:50 PM
QuoteAmerican Reaper: Title TBC by Pat Mills/Clint Langley - starts TBC

This has already started

I would presume IDW's Dredd: Year One will be getting collected after that series wraps up it's run.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 06 February, 2013, 02:57:04 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 30 August, 2012, 06:49:12 PM
This collection contains The Hit, the conclusion was illustrated by Chris Weston.

We are releasing a US War Machine collection early next year.

Regards, Batman's Duperior Cousin


Sent from my Mobile Phone
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 06 February, 2013, 06:59:20 PM
A.H.A.B Meg floppie? Yes please!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 06 February, 2013, 08:09:54 PM
So, are the Nemesis books the Eagle reprint editions that Pat Mills has blogged about? If so, what's the difference between the Termight and Deviant editions?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 06 February, 2013, 09:05:51 PM
Some of that is answered in the Announcement forum, where there's a thread for this book:

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,37919.0.html

As for what's the difference, perhaps it will be different binding an no ISBN like the Dredd covers book.  Way to rack up the thrill power, Tharg!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 07 February, 2013, 05:20:45 PM
Lordy!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: douglaswolk on 07 February, 2013, 08:19:28 PM
Per http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=42467 , "Tough Love" is by John Wagner and Ben Willsher.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 07 February, 2013, 08:32:55 PM
So we have a title for that Abnett/Burns Sin/Dex story - Witless Protection.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: rogue69 on 08 February, 2013, 03:05:08 AM
Apparently for the upcoming 30th anniversary of Slaine later in the year [spoiler]we are getting a 6 parter of lost tales from Slaine's past with differant classic artists taking on the art duties. Clint Langley on the first episode, Clint is drawing the second as well but in the style/tribute to Massimo Belardenelli, the 3rd by Mike McMahon, 4th by Simon Bisley, 5th by Glen Fabry & brought back to date by Clint again.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: judda fett on 08 February, 2013, 04:09:22 AM
Quote from: rogue69 on 08 February, 2013, 03:05:08 AM
Apparently for the upcoming 30th anniversary of Slaine later in the year [spoiler]we are getting a 6 parter of lost tales from Slaine's past with differant classic artists taking on the art duties. Clint Langley on the first episode, Clint is drawing the second as well but in the style/tribute to Massimo Belardenelli, the 3rd by Mike McMahon, 4th by Simon Bisley, 5th by Glen Fabry & brought back to date by Clint again.[/spoiler]

Cool as fuck if that's happening!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 February, 2013, 08:29:56 AM
Quote from: rogue69 on 08 February, 2013, 03:05:08 AM
Apparently for the upcoming 30th anniversary of Slaine later in the year [spoiler]we are getting a 6 parter of lost tales from Slaine's past with differant classic artists taking on the art duties. Clint Langley on the first episode, Clint is drawing the second as well but in the style/tribute to Massimo Belardenelli, the 3rd by Mike McMahon, 4th by Simon Bisley, 5th by Glen Fabry & brought back to date by Clint again.[/spoiler]
Fucking A yes!  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 08 February, 2013, 08:35:59 AM
That will be amazing! Looking forward to Clint's take on Belardinelli...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 08 February, 2013, 08:36:32 AM
[spoiler]Bisley back on Slaine [/spoiler]will get the comic a fair few column inches in the related press
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 08 February, 2013, 08:41:58 AM
I hope Glen started his, like, a couple if years ago. He might get it finished on time then. ;-)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 February, 2013, 08:46:12 AM
Since the corrections are slowing I'll call this done. I've put the Slaine 30th story as speculation at this point. Rogue69 do you have a source?

2000 AD:

Judge Dredd: Save him - Rob Williams/James Harren - Prog 1819
Judge Dredd: Wolves by Michael Carrol/Andrew Currie - 2000ad Feb 2013
Stickleback: Number of the Beast by Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts Prog 1824
Dandridge: The Copper Conspiracy by Alec Worley/ Warren Pleece - starts Prog 1824
Tharg's 3rillers: Survival Geeks by Gordon Rennie/Emma Beeby/Neil Googe - starts Prog 1824
Zombo: Planet Zombo by Al Ewing/Henry Flint - starts Prog 1824
Judge Dredd: Suicide Watch - ??? - starts Apr 2013
The Ghostship Mathematica  - ??? - starts Apr 2013 (?)
Flesh: Badlands - Pat Mills James McKay - Starts Spring 2013
Slaine (Title TBC), 30th Anniversary Story - Pat Mills/Clint Langley (?)/Mike McMahon?/Glen Fabry (?)/ Simon Bisley (?) - starts Aug 2013 (TBC) speculation
Ten Seconders: Godsend to the 2000AD - Rob Williams and Edmund Bagwell - starts TBC
Sinister Dexter - Witless Protection: Dan Abnett/John Burns - starts TBC
Defoe: The Damned by Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher(?) - starts TBC
Dark Justice (TBC) by John Wagner/Greg Staples - starts TBC
One Off: Rocket De La Revolucion - Monty Nero/Simon Fraser - starts TBC
Age of the Wof: (Title TBC) - Alec Worley/Jon Davis-Hunt? - starts TBC
Tharg's 3rillers: Gunheads by T.C. Eglinton/Boo Cook - starts TBC
Brass Sun: (Title TBC)Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC

ABC Warriors: (title TBC): Pat Mills/Clint Langley (?) - start TBC
Kingdom: Book 5 (title TBC): Dan Abnett/Richard Elson (?) - start TBC

Possible new 2000ad project by Alec Worley/David Roach - TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

Judge Dredd: Shotgun by Michael Carroll/John Burns - Meg 333
Judge Dredd: The Last Judda by Alan Grant/Karl Richardson Meg 333
Judge Dredd: Tough Love - John Wagner/ Ben Wilsher Meg 334
Insurrection III(TBC) by Dan Abnett/Colin MacNeil - starts 334
The Streets of Dan Francisco by Arthur Wyatt/Paul Marshall - Meg 335
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Lilly MacKenzie: Title TBC - Simon Fraser - starts TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

A.H.A.B. (Meg 333)
Downlode Tales Volume 2 (Meg 334)
Downlode Tales Volume 3 (Meg 335)
Finn Book 2 - TBC

2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos - The Fourth Faction - Feb 2013
Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Saga (B Format) - Mar 2013
Mean Team - Mar 2013
Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse - April 2013
Slaine: Grail War - April 2013
Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth (B Format) - May 2013
ABC Warriors: Volgan War Vol. 3 - June 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 20 - June 2013
Judge Dredd: Day of Choas - End Game - Jul 2013
Ballard of Halo Jones - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Deviant edition' - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Termight edition' - Sept 2013
ABC Warriors: Return to Earth - Sept 2013
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - Oct 2013

Strontium Dog: Mutant for Hire - Oct 2014 (?!?) (is this SnS?)

Note: Currently where I'm not sure who will publish a particular title I've defaulted to the UK list. Press release will confirm details soon (hopefully) and I'll adjust accordingly then.

2000ad Graphic Novels - Simon and Schuster (provisional list - all subject to change):

Judge Dredd: Origins - Mar 2013
The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael... - May 2013
Rogue Trooper: War Machine - June 2013
Judge Dredd: The Fatties - Jul 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete case files 6 - Aug 2013
Button Man: Get Harry Ex - Sept 2013 (TBC)

2000ad Graphic Novels - IDW

Judge Dredd: The Carlos Ezquerra Collection Volume 1 - Mar 2013
Judge Dredd Vol. 1 - Apr 2013
Judge Dredd: The Cam Kennedy Collection Volume 1 - Jun 2013
Judge Dredd: Year One - TBC
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: rogue69 on 08 February, 2013, 10:24:00 AM
Since the corrections are slowing I'll call this done. I've put the Slaine 30th story as speculation at this point. Rogue69 do you have a source?

Yes it's one of the people involved in this project
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 08 February, 2013, 10:37:59 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd: Trifecta (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Trifecta-Al-Ewing/dp/178108145X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360292625&sr=1-1) (176 pages, mid August)

Slaine: Time Killer (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Time-Killer-Pat-Mills/dp/1781081697/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360292753&sr=1-1) (176 pages, mid July)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 08 February, 2013, 11:14:08 AM
Time Killer's presumably a second edition. (Wow, was it really six years ago that book came out?) Trifecta's going to be interesting to compile; I don't envy the editor of that volume...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: mygrimmbrother on 08 February, 2013, 11:18:53 AM
New [spoiler]McMahon Slaine[/spoiler]??? Fuck me!  :o

That's incredible news!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 08 February, 2013, 11:36:57 AM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 08 February, 2013, 08:35:59 AM
That will be amazing! Looking forward to Clint's take on Belardinelli...

I hope he sneaks a Belardenelli face into the background somehow.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 08 February, 2013, 01:01:11 PM
Not a major fan of Slaine but this news even has me interested in him.

Do we have any news on Dark Justice yet? That's the one I can't wait for this year.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 February, 2013, 01:02:32 PM
Make sure to feature the next series of Absalom when you complet the list. Not sure when but it's prity obvies it's coming back.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 08 February, 2013, 09:35:25 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 08 February, 2013, 11:14:08 AM
Time Killer's presumably a second edition. (Wow, was it really six years ago that book came out?) Trifecta's going to be interesting to compile; I don't envy the editor of that volume...
Sláine the King is also back in print as of July 2013, the same day as Time Killer.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 09 February, 2013, 10:04:45 AM
Amazon have Ravenstone as the publisher of Time Killer, which is Rebellion's new young adult label.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 09 February, 2013, 11:39:39 AM
Quote from: glassstanley on 09 February, 2013, 10:04:45 AM
Amazon have Ravenstone as the publisher of Time Killer, which is Rebellion's new young adult label.

That's meaningless, I'm afraid. They do the same for every Rebellion book, just as they routinely list the paperbacks as hardcovers. They'll fix it by the time the book is actually out.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 09 February, 2013, 05:53:20 PM
QuoteThe Streets of Dan Francisco by Arthur Wyatt/Paul Marshall - Meg 335

Er, that's the same title as the story in Prog 1520 when Francisco first appeared.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 February, 2013, 01:06:27 AM
Slaine the King up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Slaine The King (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-King-Pat-Mills/dp/1781081700/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360458007&sr=1-2) (18th July, 256 pages)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 10 February, 2013, 01:11:00 AM
Quote from: Richard on 09 February, 2013, 05:53:20 PM
QuoteThe Streets of Dan Francisco by Arthur Wyatt/Paul Marshall - Meg 335

Er, that's the same title as the story in Prog 1520 when Francisco first appeared.


& it's damn fine one at that. All  the more reason to carry it over for the spin off.

There simply isn't enough Paul Marshall in either the meg or the prog.


Quote from: Molch-R on 06 February, 2013, 12:23:22 PM
Indigo Prime is a UK book. As I said, we'll be sending out press releases detailing all our UK and North American GNs soon, so that should clear things up.


Excellent. Whilst we've got you there Molch-R will Diamond continue distributing the S& S editions for us outside of the US?

The reason for asking is that All Star Future Shocks has never been solicited by Diamond Which seemed a touch odd considering as one would imagine that Gaiman's name alone would be a licence to print money in the Direct Market.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 11 February, 2013, 01:09:35 PM
Not much to go on BUT over at his blog Dave Taylor has given us the wonderful news that he's back on Dredd at some point (there's a panel as well).

http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.co.uk/)

He also eludes to working with Ian Edginton on something else or even somethings! Wohoo!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 February, 2013, 01:31:56 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 11 February, 2013, 01:09:35 PM
Not much to go on BUT over at his blog Dave Taylor has given us the wonderful news that he's back on Dredd at some point (there's a panel as well).

http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.co.uk/)

He also eludes to working with Ian Edginton on something else or even somethings! Wohoo!
Taylor illustrated that exorcist Judge story Edginton wrote a few years back didn't he? Possibly follow up to that?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 February, 2013, 02:50:56 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 11 February, 2013, 01:09:35 PM
Not much to go on BUT over at his blog Dave Taylor has given us the wonderful news that he's back on Dredd at some point (there's a panel as well).

http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.co.uk/)

He also eludes to working with Ian Edginton on something else or even somethings! Wohoo!

Some good news for a miserable Monday afternoon!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 February, 2013, 03:52:42 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 11 February, 2013, 01:31:56 PM
Taylor illustrated that exorcist Judge story Edginton wrote a few years back didn't he? Possibly follow up to that?

Here's hoping it deals explicitly with the ghostly repercussions of 350 million violent deaths in 'Day of Chaos', in a The Inspectre stylee.  And here's expecting that it does not (although[spoiler] that panel with Beeny (?) suggests it may well[/spoiler].  Oh I'm so confused).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 February, 2013, 05:48:24 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 11 February, 2013, 03:52:42 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 11 February, 2013, 01:31:56 PM
Taylor illustrated that exorcist Judge story Edginton wrote a few years back didn't he? Possibly follow up to that?

Here's hoping it deals explicitly with the ghostly repercussions of 350 million violent deaths in 'Day of Chaos', in a The Inspectre stylee.  And here's expecting that it does not (although[spoiler] that panel with Beeny (?) suggests it may well[/spoiler].  Oh I'm so confused).
If it has Beeny in it I can only assume it's a Wagner piece. Has anyone ever written the character besides the big J?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 11 February, 2013, 07:49:36 PM
Pretty sure she's appeared in at least one Al Ewing story.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 11 February, 2013, 07:51:38 PM
And is that even Beeny anyway?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 11 February, 2013, 08:05:20 PM
Quote from: radiator on 11 February, 2013, 07:51:38 PM
And is that even Beeny anyway?

Hard to say these days. I can't really reconcile the character we saw in Day of Chaos with the character as she was in her first few years of stories. People don't generally spontaneously change race (although Karyn set a precedent).

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/Darkjimbo2/Beeny_zpsaaf020c2.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 11 February, 2013, 08:22:14 PM
I've seriously been head scratching over Beeny's gradually darkening skin. Maybe she got a bad rad tan while working the mutie townships in the Cursed Earth?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mardroid on 11 February, 2013, 08:33:14 PM
Her new look does fit the race of her parents.

That being said South American people are a diverse bunch, so the lighter skinned appearance of her previous depictions was not out of place.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 11 February, 2013, 10:02:49 PM
Quote from: Mardroid on 11 February, 2013, 08:33:14 PM
Her new look does fit the race of her parents. That being said South American people are a diverse bunch, so the lighter skinned appearance of her previous depictions was not out of place.

Her Pa was ginger and her Madre's family hailed from Puerto Rico (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=eva+mendes,+jennifer+lopez&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=83h&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=8GgZUdWiLsix0QW3_oGwAg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAA&biw=1142&bih=600), which is more part of the Cuba/Jamaica/Haiti  (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=puerto%20rico&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&hl=en&biw=1142&bih=600&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il) axis than South America proper.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: a chosen rider on 11 February, 2013, 10:33:22 PM
I always assumed they changed Beeny's skin tone because some of the subtlety of the colouring was lost in the switch from Colin MacNeil's painted art to Chris Blythe's colours, so it was probably deemed better to swing further in the direction of darker colouring than have her end up looking like just another white girl the way she did in Tour of Duty.  (Also, the similar hairstyles made it a bit hard to distinguish her from Hershey at times, so making her more visually distinct once she became a recurring character wasn't a bad idea.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dog Deever on 11 February, 2013, 10:55:43 PM
hmmm... I have a page of Colin's on my wall with Beeny in a panel, so I can't get my head round Beeny redesigns either! Her image is fixed for me. Damn you MacNeil!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 February, 2013, 04:29:22 PM
Via the ever wonderful ECBT 2000ad Molch-R's promised list of 2000ad releases for 2013.

http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/announcing-2000-ads-graphic-novel-schedule-for-2013/ (http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/announcing-2000-ads-graphic-novel-schedule-for-2013/)

Some nice surprises there. Especially, I'm guessing, the fact that there are two Case Files this year after the uproar that the previously slow release of #20. All is right with the world again... actually I'm going to have to keep an eye on these as soon they'll get to the point I stopped getting the Meg...

I'll update the list now this is in, unless Radiator wants to take over the helm back?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 12 February, 2013, 04:35:23 PM
4 months between CF20 and CF21. Bravo, this makes me happy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 12 February, 2013, 05:03:48 PM
Hooray - two Case Files! Judging by the blurb, these will take us up to Wilderlands?

Boo - no Return to Armageddon :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 12 February, 2013, 05:06:51 PM
2000AD Presents... What's this then? More info required!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 12 February, 2013, 06:02:30 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 12 February, 2013, 05:06:51 PM
2000AD Presents... What's this then? More info required!

When we get a bit nearer the time, sure! ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 12 February, 2013, 06:21:19 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 12 February, 2013, 06:02:30 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 12 February, 2013, 05:06:51 PM
2000AD Presents... What's this then? More info required!

When we get a bit nearer the time, sure! ;)

(Shakes fist)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 12 February, 2013, 06:27:25 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 12 February, 2013, 05:06:51 PM
2000AD Presents... What's this then? More info required!

Dan Dare reprints and adverts for the Conan fan club, mostly: http://www.escapecomics.com/acatalog/200ad-presents-21-1990.jpg (http://www.escapecomics.com/acatalog/200ad-presents-21-1990.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: strontium71 on 12 February, 2013, 07:07:46 PM
Amazon email - 'Cam Kennedy collection volume 1 , originally due June 29th , dispatching sooner than expected!!!' Hurrah  :)

'...now expected June 8th.  :(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 12 February, 2013, 07:46:32 PM
Quote2000AD Presents... What's this then? More info required!
From the sound of it, it'll be be a collection of one-offs and short run strips. Most specifically it appears to reprint XTNCT in paperback for the first time.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 12 February, 2013, 08:43:05 PM
That's interesting because when I saw Pat Mills and man hating dinosaurs my first thought was 'Dinosty'...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PreacherCain on 13 February, 2013, 03:36:21 AM
Great to see Case Files 20 and 21 coming out so close together after the long break. Would be great to see CF 22 four months after that!  :P

Or is the general idea to have a max of 2 per year?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: douglaswolk on 13 February, 2013, 04:49:47 AM
One addition: the long-delayed "Tales from Beyond Science" collection (eight stories from '92 and '93, all drawn by Rian Hughes) is apparently finally coming out from Image in the U.S. next week!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JSouth5942 on 13 February, 2013, 12:40:21 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 12 February, 2013, 04:29:22 PM
Via the ever wonderful ECBT 2000ad Molch-R's promised list of 2000ad releases for 2013.

http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/announcing-2000-ads-graphic-novel-schedule-for-2013/ (http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/announcing-2000-ads-graphic-novel-schedule-for-2013/)

Some nice surprises there. Especially, I'm guessing, the fact that there are two Case Files this year after the uproar that the previously slow release of #20. All is right with the world again... actually I'm going to have to keep an eye on these as soon they'll get to the point I stopped getting the Meg...

I'll update the list now this is in, unless Radiator wants to take over the helm back?

Not too bad, its good that two books of the Dredd Case Files are seeing release before the end of the year but three would have been better.

Also with the exception of Mean Team there is a distinct lack of old school 2000AD thrills this year, has the well run dry on these now?

Suggestions for next year – Red Seas Case Files, Sin Dex Case Files, The VC's Volume 3.

Any chance of a US S&S 2013 release schedule?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 13 February, 2013, 12:46:26 PM
Quote from: JSouth5942 on 13 February, 2013, 12:40:21 PM
Any chance of a US S&S 2013 release schedule?

When I get to it, yes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 13 February, 2013, 01:29:03 PM
Quote from: JSouth5942 on 13 February, 2013, 12:40:21 PMRed Seas Case Files
I'd love to see that, but given that the series has been rebooted once already (from Rebellion's old hardbacks to the standard softback) and never got past an initial volume, I can't imagine it's at the top of the 'absolute priority' list.

As for the line-up, it looks strong. Great also to see some volumes not only coming back into print but also being spruced up a little.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 13 February, 2013, 04:01:22 PM
I'm pleased across the board.  It's a good lineup.  I like the idea of deluxe editions for celebrated series like Nemesis and Halo Jones.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 14 February, 2013, 07:54:50 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 04 February, 2013, 03:52:22 PM
The Tales from Beyond Science collection is marked down as being in comic shops on February 13th.

Quote from: douglaswolkOne addition: the long-delayed "Tales from Beyond Science" collection (eight stories from '92 and '93, all drawn by Rian Hughes) is apparently finally coming out from Image in the U.S. next week!

Looks like I wasn't far off on this coming out. Also, Amazon.co.uk are listing a hardback of this at £4.49 and the paperback at £11.69.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheldipez on 14 February, 2013, 09:26:20 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 14 February, 2013, 07:54:50 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 04 February, 2013, 03:52:22 PM
The Tales from Beyond Science collection is marked down as being in comic shops on February 13th.

Quote from: douglaswolkOne addition: the long-delayed "Tales from Beyond Science" collection (eight stories from '92 and '93, all drawn by Rian Hughes) is apparently finally coming out from Image in the U.S. next week!

Looks like I wasn't far off on this coming out. Also, Amazon.co.uk are listing a hardback of this at £4.49 and the paperback at £11.69.

Worth a punt? Never heard of this before.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 14 February, 2013, 10:54:20 PM
Quote from: sheldipez on 14 February, 2013, 09:26:20 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 14 February, 2013, 07:54:50 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 04 February, 2013, 03:52:22 PM
The Tales from Beyond Science collection is marked down as being in comic shops on February 13th.

Quote from: douglaswolkOne addition: the long-delayed "Tales from Beyond Science" collection (eight stories from '92 and '93, all drawn by Rian Hughes) is apparently finally coming out from Image in the U.S. next week!

Looks like I wasn't far off on this coming out. Also, Amazon.co.uk are listing a hardback of this at £4.49 and the paperback at £11.69.

Worth a punt? Never heard of this before.

Well the hardback is supposed to be limited edition, so if you're into speculating....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 February, 2013, 12:57:28 PM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/NuEarth_zpsb03adbcc.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 17 February, 2013, 01:58:42 PM
Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but looking for the DoC: The Fourth Faction TPB on Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_binding_browse-b_mrr_1?rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3Ajudge+dredd%2Cp_n_binding_browse-bin%3A492564011&bbn=266239&keywords=judge+dredd&ie=UTF8&qid=1361108828&rnid=492562011#/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_23?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=judge+dredd+day+of+chaos+endgame&sprefix=judge+dredd+day+of+chao%2Cstripbooks%2C252&rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3Ajudge+dredd+day+of+chaos+endgame) , i notice that the 2nd part, DoC: Endgame is listed as arriving July time.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 17 February, 2013, 02:10:29 PM
Yike meant to do this a few days ago but pesky work and family life just keep getting in the way of good honest nerding. Damnit.

Anyway all corrections welcome.

2000 AD:

Stickleback: Number of the Beast by Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts Prog 1824
Dandridge: The Copper Conspiracy by Alec Worley/ Warren Pleece - starts Prog 1824
Tharg's 3rillers: Survival Geeks by Gordon Rennie/Emma Beeby/Neil Googe - starts Prog 1824
Zombo: Planet Zombo by Al Ewing/Henry Flint - starts Prog 1824
Judge Dredd: Suicide Watch - ??? - starts Apr 2013
The Ghostship Mathematica  - ??? - starts Apr 2013 (?)
Defoe: The Damned by Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher(?) - Summer 2013
Slaine (Title TBC), 30th Anniversary Story - Pat Mills/Clint Langley/Mike McMahon?/Glenn Fabry (?)/ Simon Bisley (?) - starts Aug 2013 (TBC)
Flesh: Badlands - Pat Mills James McKay - Starts Autumn 2013
Ten Seconders: Godsend to the 2000AD - Rob Williams and Edmund Bagwell - starts TBC
Sinister Dexter - Witless Protection: Dan Abnett/John Burns - starts TBC
Dark Justice (TBC) by John Wagner/Greg Staples - starts TBC
One Off: Rocket De La Revolucion - Monty Nero/Simon Fraser - starts TBC
Age of the Wof: (Title TBC) - Alec Worley/Jon Davis-Hunt? - starts TBC
Tharg's 3rillers: Gunheads by T.C. Eglinton/Boo Cook - starts TBC
Judge Dredd: (Title TBC) ???/Dave Taylor - starts TBC (could be Meg?)
Brass Sun: (Title TBC)Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) 3 by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) 4 by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC

ABC Warriors: (title TBC): Pat Mills/Clint Langley (?) - start TBC
Kingdom: Book 5 (title TBC): Dan Abnett/Richard Elson (?) - start TBC

Possible new 2000ad project by Alec Worley/David Roach - TBC
Possible new 2000ad project by Ian Edginton/Dave Taylor - TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

Judge Dredd: Shotgun by Michael Carroll/John Burns - Meg 333
Judge Dredd: The Last Judda by Alan Grant/Karl Richardson Meg 333
Judge Dredd: Tough Love - John Wagner/ Ben Wilsher Meg 334
Insurrection III(TBC) by Dan Abnett/Colin MacNeil - starts 334
The Streets of Dan Francisco by Arthur Wyatt/Paul Marshall - Meg 335
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Lilly MacKenzie: Title TBC - Simon Fraser - starts TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

Downlode Tales Volume 2 (Meg 334)
Downlode Tales Volume 3 (Meg 335)
Finn Book 2 - TBC

2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Judge Dredd: The Judge Child Saga (B Format) - Mar 2013
Mean Team - Mar 2013
Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse - April 2013
Slaine: Grail War - April 2013
Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth (B Format) - May 2013
Ballad of Halo Jones - May 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 20 - June 2013
ABC Warriors: Volgan War Vol. 3 - June 2013
Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos - Endgame - Jul 2013
Slaine: The King - Jul 2013
Slaine: Time Killer - Jul 2013
Strontium Dog: Portrait of a mutant(B format)  - Aug 2013
Judge Dredd: Trifecta - Aug 2013
ABC Warriors: Return to Earth - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Deviant edition' - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Termight edition' - Sept 2013
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - Oct 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 21 - Oct 2013
Slaine: 30th Anniversary Celebration - Nov 2013
2000ad Presents: Sci-Fi Thrillers - Dec 2013


2000ad Graphic Novels - Simon and Schuster (provisional list - all subject to change):

Judge Dredd: Origins - Mar 2013
The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael... - May 2013
Rogue Trooper: War Machine - June 2013
Judge Dredd: The Fatties - Jul 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete case files 6 - Aug 2013
Button Man: Get Harry Ex - Sept 2013 (TBC)
Strontium Dog: Mutant for Hire - Oct 2014(?)

2000ad Graphic Novels - IDW

Judge Dredd: The Carlos Ezquerra Collection Volume 1 - Mar 2013
Judge Dredd Vol. 1 - Apr 2013
Judge Dredd: The Cam Kennedy Collection Volume 1 - Jun 2013
Judge Dredd: Year One - TBC

Others

Tales from beyond science (Image) - Mar 2013
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Basilisk on 17 February, 2013, 05:26:49 PM
Thx for the list, very handy.

But i have a format question about Dredd Origins: There is any difference between the Rebellion release we have now on stock and the American one?. Everyplace i see the american version, it states it has 192 pages, while the Rebellion one says it has 160 pages.

I answer myself: the 2000ad store page says 192. The 160 is an error from Amazon. So it's the same deal. :-[
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: mogzilla on 17 February, 2013, 05:41:56 PM
got my day of chaos ordered and only a few months till part 2? excewllent and trifecta as well? mr tharg you are spoiling us! 


   does molcher evr think we will see 'return to armageddon'? is there the old copyright issues weve seen before or what ? pllleeeaassee molcher tell us something
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DrJomster on 17 February, 2013, 10:44:53 PM
Yes please to "Return to Armageddon"!

I heard Pat Mills mention on the ECBT interview recently that Meltdown Man had done really well as a trade. I reckon RtA would do the same. Every time it comes up, there are always a load of boarders piping up with a "Yes please, Mr Tharg".
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 February, 2013, 10:56:27 PM
I don't know why, but the typo in Age of the Wolf (Age of the Wof) keeps making me think of 'Age of the Woof'. And makes me lol.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 February, 2013, 11:00:18 PM
All the hype on Return to Armageddon had better be worth it, i'm prity interested to say the least. Expecting some Dark Star style sci-fi 'horror'. :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 23 February, 2013, 03:27:16 PM
A cover has been revealed on amazon for the last Charley's War volume.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: james newell on 24 February, 2013, 01:33:58 PM
Rogue Trooper: War Machine - June 2013

just seen a listing for Rogue Trooper: War Machine at Amazon.co.uk

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781081328/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0TC42HKSR78F0H60Y41E&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=358549767&pf_rd_i=468294

My first thoughts ware, what a lovely drawing by Henry Flint and brilliant logo design, & then realized it Dave Gibbons & Will Simpson first outing of friday that is been reprinted and was wondering why is will Simpsons work been used on the cover as he is the artist of all the book?

Would this be a temporary cover till it ships or something like that?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 24 February, 2013, 05:51:44 PM
I've been wondering the same regarding that book. All I can imagine is either that's a temporary cover or they can't find anything appropriate by Simpson for the cover. The latter would certainly be a pity.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 24 February, 2013, 06:12:18 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 24 February, 2013, 05:51:44 PM
I've been wondering the same regarding that book. All I can imagine is either that's a temporary cover or they can't find anything appropriate by Simpson for the cover. The latter would certainly be a pity.

You would have thought a redesign of these would have been in order:

http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=ROGUE91&Comic=specials (http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=ROGUE91&Comic=specials)

http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=687&Comic=2000ad (http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=687&Comic=2000ad)

The gatefold version of that last cover would work especially well as a book cover.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 February, 2013, 06:52:02 PM
While I love Simpson's work on War Machine (and Dredd of that period), I'm not sure that those two lovely covers have aged very well. The Flint one is much more modern-looking, and frankly more immediately striking.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 24 February, 2013, 07:30:25 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 24 February, 2013, 06:52:02 PM
While I love Simpson's work on War Machine (and Dredd of that period), I'm not sure that those two lovely covers have aged very well. The Flint one is much more modern-looking, and frankly more immediately striking.

I know exactly what you mean, but the scan quality of those images doesn't do the originals justice. Boost the colour contrast and get Parr to slap a bit of bold typography across them diagonally (semantic shorthand for dynamism) and the jobs a good un. Failing that, the semi-divine Chris Weston (http://images.comiccollectorlive.com/covers/637/63702c7f-5173-4528-8e7e-26f2888fb4d7.jpg)'s an acceptable compromise. Or, failing that, how about Chris Weston (http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=880&Comic=2000ad)?

Both Weston and Flint worked on that wayward period of the character's history, but seeing the latter's take on the character again just reminds me of how my introduction to his art was during the period where I was aware that the strip had drifted too far from either its original premise and lost the impetus of the Gibbons reboot to ever really come back convincingly. The pointless Mark Millar story where Friday shaved his 'do back into a Travis Bickle mohawk was worth it just to witness the precise moment where Weston transformed from the plucky trier of yesteryear into the powerhouse we know him as today, and I would have thought he was the natural pick for this collection.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 25 February, 2013, 12:44:08 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 24 February, 2013, 06:12:18 PM

You would have thought a redesign of these would have been in order:

http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=ROGUE91&Comic=specials (http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=ROGUE91&Comic=specials)


ISRC there was a full colour pic of Fiday by Gibbons on the inside front cover of this. Anyone got a scan handy?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 March, 2013, 08:47:01 AM
The cover for the IDW Ezquerra collection has been updated.  This one has a solid white background, in keeping with the look of the Bolland & Kennedy volumes.  Ezquerra fans may (or may not) be pleased to note the Dredd image includes Ezquerra's signature dashed outline.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Dredd_Ez_zps3fd71f5b.jpg)

You can get a better look at the cover and browse some of the pages at Amazon UK, courtesy of their "Look inside" feature.  (Click here!) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Carlos-Ezquerra-Stories/dp/1613775504/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362107125&sr=1-1)

Apart from the covers gallery, the story line up appears to be:

That's 236 pages devoted to stories.

The classic "Um - synthi sausage?" cover is reproduced (in b&w) and the Rico/Dredd image that mirrors the classic "Who's gonna mess with us" Alpha/Dredd is there too, though sadly the Alpha/Dredd is (as far as can be seen) not.  While not a surprise - this being a Dredd volume - it would be spectacular to see the two pictures reproduced side by side in a quality oversized book like this one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 March, 2013, 09:07:11 AM
That's a beautiful cover, and a great line-up, but very focused on one period (well, maybe two) of his work.  Does this suggest that more volumes are planned with later material?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 01 March, 2013, 09:10:14 AM
The back cover on Amazon says its Volume 1
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 March, 2013, 09:15:35 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 01 March, 2013, 09:10:14 AM
The back cover on Amazon says its Volume 1

And indeed I can now see that tiny 'Volume 1' on the front cover, and the rather larger one in the Amazon listing!  D'oh! That'll be a lovely set if it runs a few volumes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 02 March, 2013, 04:46:15 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 14 February, 2013, 07:54:50 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 04 February, 2013, 03:52:22 PM
The Tales from Beyond Science collection is marked down as being in comic shops on February 13th.

Quote from: douglaswolkOne addition: the long-delayed "Tales from Beyond Science" collection (eight stories from '92 and '93, all drawn by Rian Hughes) is apparently finally coming out from Image in the U.S. next week!

Looks like I wasn't far off on this coming out. Also, Amazon.co.uk are listing a hardback of this at £4.49 and the paperback at £11.69.

Mine arrived this morning - large format, hardcover and £4.49! A bargain and beautiful...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 03 March, 2013, 05:57:59 PM
I wasn't really sure if the hardback was going to come out of Tales From Beyond Science, so I just ordered a paperback version for myself from my local shop. Doh! Surprised to see they coloured the stories(or maybe the stories I only read were grey-scale?)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 03 March, 2013, 06:04:36 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 March, 2013, 08:47:01 AM
The cover for the IDW Ezquerra collection has been updated.  This one has a solid white background, in keeping with the look of the Bolland & Kennedy volumes.  Ezquerra fans may (or may not) be pleased to note the Dredd image includes Ezquerra's signature dashed outline.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Dredd_Ez_zps3fd71f5b.jpg)

You can get a better look at the cover and browse some of the pages at Amazon UK, courtesy of their "Look inside" feature.  (Click here!) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Carlos-Ezquerra-Stories/dp/1613775504/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362107125&sr=1-1)

Apart from the covers gallery, the story line up appears to be:

  • Bank Raid - 5 pages
  • Krong - 5
  • Meka City - 13
  • Fungus - 18
  • Destinys Angels - 50
  • The Executioner - 26
  • The Night of the Rad Beast - 12
  • The Prankster - 7
  • The Starborn Thing - 38
  • Condo - 21
  • Requiem for a Heavyweight - 27
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much - 14

That's 236 pages devoted to stories.

The classic "Um - synthi sausage?" cover is reproduced (in b&w) and the Rico/Dredd image that mirrors the classic "Who's gonna mess with us" Alpha/Dredd is there too, though sadly the Alpha/Dredd is (as far as can be seen) not.  While not a surprise - this being a Dredd volume - it would be spectacular to see the two pictures reproduced side by side in a quality oversized book like this one.

Wow, just seen this..
Now that all looks incredibily tempting. A very nice selection of stories.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 04 March, 2013, 02:19:05 AM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 03 March, 2013, 05:57:59 PM
I wasn't really sure if the hardback was going to come out of Tales From Beyond Science, so I just ordered a paperback version for myself from my local shop. Doh! Surprised to see they coloured the stories(or maybe the stories I only read were grey-scale?)

'Twas the paperback that shipped to Stevie's local so he grabbed that on the off-chance statistical eventuality  ;) that the hardcover doesn't turn up.


The series was glorious full colour in the prog whilst the Sci Fi Special & Yearbook stories appeared in either balck & white or greyscale.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 04 March, 2013, 11:30:38 AM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 02 March, 2013, 04:46:15 PMMine arrived this morning - large format, hardcover and £4.49! A bargain and beautiful...
I just hope they got someone to properly proof it this time. Yesterday's Tomorrows was in many ways a beautiful book, but, good grief, the redone lettering was littered with typos, mis-spellings and other errors. It really took the edge off it for me.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 08 March, 2013, 08:56:24 AM
Couple of updates from the Cardiff Comic Con that I can't see on here

JDH is confirmed on Age of the Wolf book 3, Leigh Gallagher on new Defoe and due to that, new Aquila incoming Aquila will be courtesy of Rennie and Goddard.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 March, 2013, 09:09:58 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 08 March, 2013, 08:56:24 AM
Couple of updates from the Cardiff Comic Con that I can't see on here

JDH is confirmed on Age of the Wolf book 3, Leigh Gallagher on new Defoe and due to that, new Aquila incoming Aquila will be courtesy of Rennie and Goddard.
Yes. Just yes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 08 March, 2013, 09:56:24 AM
Can we swap Gallagher and Goddard please? No? Damn.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 March, 2013, 10:01:18 AM
Well wow have to say I'll be very happy to see Patrick Goddard's take on Aquila. That's something to be very excited about.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 March, 2013, 10:09:52 AM
Yeah, exciting stuff!  I love Gallagher, and I love Aquila, but I'd be intrigued to see an artist so completely different in approach as Goddard take a spin.  Fascinating to see his realism applied to an historical fantasy, and Goddard's work also colours-up a treat (if you like that sort of thing).  Straying into hyperbole for a mo, it'd be like Fabry taking over from Bellardinelli all over again!



EDIT: And just in case that last remark might be misinterpreted by the negative-of-mind, Bellardinelli and Fabry's work on Slaine are two of my personal highlights from the whole history of comics.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 March, 2013, 10:01:13 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 08 March, 2013, 10:01:18 AM
Well wow have to say I'll be very happy to see Patrick Goddard's take on Aquila. That's something to be very excited about.

A tasty prospect- looking forward to this!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 09 March, 2013, 08:27:59 PM
Anyone pick up Mean Team yet? It's supposed to be out.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: grthink on 09 March, 2013, 08:31:19 PM
What's the difference between the Mean Team TPB and the Extreme Edition that's still on sale in the store, anyone?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 09 March, 2013, 08:52:25 PM
QuoteWhat's the difference between the Mean Team TPB and the Extreme Edition that's still on sale in the store, anyone?

Survivor, I expect.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 16 March, 2013, 10:11:40 AM

Judge Dredd: The Complete Carlos Ezquerra Volume 2
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Carlos-Ezquerra/dp/1613777248/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363428541&sr=1-1) now listed for pre-order on Amazon UK.

248 pages, IDW Publishing, 27th August 2013
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 16 March, 2013, 10:39:59 AM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 09 March, 2013, 08:27:59 PM
Anyone pick up Mean Team yet? It's supposed to be out.

Mine arrived mid-week; another great collection of Belardinelli marvellousness (shame it's not on better paper though).  Haven't read it yet so also looking forward to revisiting 'Survivor'...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 16 March, 2013, 12:13:07 PM
Quote from: grthink on 09 March, 2013, 08:31:19 PM
What's the difference between the Mean Team TPB and the Extreme Edition that's still on sale in the store, anyone?

The Extreme Edition is missing the third series, Survivor. It only ran for six progs though so it's shorter than the first two.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 16 March, 2013, 12:19:02 PM
And has Ron Smith on art duties, not Belardinelli...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 March, 2013, 12:47:17 PM
And is about a talking cat called Henry.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 18 March, 2013, 10:55:10 AM
Judge Dredd: Mutants in Mega City One

Simon & Schuster book? Warren Ellis?

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-Mega-city-One-John-Wagner/9781781081679 (http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-Mega-city-One-John-Wagner/9781781081679)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 18 March, 2013, 12:29:56 PM
On Ellis: "Feed Me" from Meg 1.07, I'm guessing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 March, 2013, 12:38:12 PM
Cover now up on Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/cHAOS_zps827a61fe.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 19 March, 2013, 01:30:40 PM
If that cover doesn't shift copies there is no hope for humankind.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 19 March, 2013, 01:41:14 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 19 March, 2013, 01:30:40 PM
If that cover doesn't shift copies there is no hope for humankind.

I'm still amazed it didn't do better in the 'Best Cover of 2012' poll.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 19 March, 2013, 02:02:21 PM
While I understand why that image has been chosen as the Dark Judges are a big draw, its does rather misrepresent the contents... well yes I know they appear 'n' all but hopefully you know what I mean...

Still bloody lovely image.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 March, 2013, 03:24:08 PM
Pros: It's a shit hot image that has serious staying power. One of those covers that those who praised it first time round will remember fondly and one that the nay sayers will look back at in 10 years and say @I was feckin' maud for not loving this'.

Cons: Yeah, what Colin said. Kinda miss reprisents what is in the GN.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: douglaswolk on 20 March, 2013, 12:36:25 AM
Here's the description of "Mutants in Mega-City One" from http://books.simonandschuster.com/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-in-Mega-City-One/Warren-Ellis/9781781081679 :

"MUTIES OUT! The great Atomic Wars of 2070 created a population of mutants who, due in part to their bizarre (and in most cases grotesque) deformities, have been denied citizenship in Mega-City One. Rejected by the prejudiced 'norms' and forcibly kept away from the city by the Judges, the mutants have had no choice but to live in the vast, radioactive wasteland known as the 'Cursed Earth'. Harboring resentment and hatred against those that have exiled them, bands of mutants now prey on those that stray from behind the city walls – and sometimes even launch all-out attacks in a bid to gain entry to the Big Meg! This action-packed collection features classic encounters between Judge Dredd and mutantkind! Writers – John Wagner, Alan Grant, Al Ewing, Michael Carroll Artists – Carlos Ezquerra, John Higgins, Will Simpson, Chris Weston, Duncan Fegredo, Colin McNeil, Simon Fraser, Ian Gibson, John Burns, John Ridgway, Paul Marshall & Bryan Talbot. Features the never-before reprinted bonus story, Feed Me by Warren Ellis and Sean Phillips"

Also: Amazon U.S. indicates that there are Kindle editions of "The Pit" and Case Files 03 out today!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 20 March, 2013, 07:50:34 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 March, 2013, 01:41:14 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 19 March, 2013, 01:30:40 PM
If that cover doesn't shift copies there is no hope for humankind.

I'm still amazed it didn't do better in the 'Best Cover of 2012' poll.

The "We're Back" didn't do it for me.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 20 March, 2013, 05:31:18 PM
It certainly worked for me - got me buying the prog again. (Though i had been giving that some serious thought prior to this coming out).

Didnt some jammy bugger buy this cover at a comic's con? Cant remember if it was posted on here, or more probably, on CAF.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mike Carroll on 20 March, 2013, 06:09:21 PM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 20 March, 2013, 12:36:25 AM
... Michael Carroll ...

Woohoo! :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Montynero on 20 March, 2013, 06:23:45 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 09 March, 2013, 10:01:13 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 08 March, 2013, 10:01:18 AM
Well wow have to say I'll be very happy to see Patrick Goddard's take on Aquila. That's something to be very excited about.

A tasty prospect- looking forward to this!

Happened to see Patrick's Aquila art at Cardiff and it was fantastic. He was trying really hard to make it as consistent with what's already been established. Pat mentioned he'd be showing it to Leigh who was sitting a few seats down from him at the con to get his feedback. Good to see art droids cooperating like this. I'm sure it'll rock.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 March, 2013, 02:26:17 PM
Quote from: Montynero on 20 March, 2013, 06:23:45 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 09 March, 2013, 10:01:13 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 08 March, 2013, 10:01:18 AM
Well wow have to say I'll be very happy to see Patrick Goddard's take on Aquila. That's something to be very excited about.

A tasty prospect- looking forward to this!

Happened to see Patrick's Aquila art at Cardiff and it was fantastic. He was trying really hard to make it as consistent with what's already been established. Pat mentioned he'd be showing it to Leigh who was sitting a few seats down from him at the con to get his feedback. Good to see art droids cooperating like this. I'm sure it'll rock.

Good news Monty, he'll be a perfect fit for Aquila.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 21 March, 2013, 02:37:38 PM
and I'm sure Leigh is gutted he won't get to draw all those horses  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 22 March, 2013, 10:02:38 AM
B format, 144 pages, mid August.

Looks good but they should scrub the speech bubbles.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Portrait_B_zps5789a162.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 22 March, 2013, 10:05:25 AM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 20 March, 2013, 12:36:25 AM
Here's the description of "Mutants in Mega-City One"

Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-Mega-City-One/dp/1781081670/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363946676&sr=1-1
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 22 March, 2013, 10:32:47 AM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 20 March, 2013, 06:09:21 PM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 20 March, 2013, 12:36:25 AM
... Michael Carroll ...

Woohoo! :)

Must be a genuine thrill to see a Dredd trade with your name on!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 March, 2013, 10:34:24 AM
Quote from: radiator on 22 March, 2013, 10:32:47 AM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 20 March, 2013, 06:09:21 PM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 20 March, 2013, 12:36:25 AM
... Michael Carroll ...

Woohoo! :)

Must be a genuine thrill to see a Dredd trade with your name on!

Agreed.
Without 'sucking up' to Mike, I'd sooner have that than win the lotto!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mike Carroll on 22 March, 2013, 11:29:23 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 22 March, 2013, 10:34:24 AM
Quote from: radiator on 22 March, 2013, 10:32:47 AM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 20 March, 2013, 06:09:21 PM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 20 March, 2013, 12:36:25 AM
... Michael Carroll ...

Woohoo! :)

Must be a genuine thrill to see a Dredd trade with your name on!

Agreed.
Without 'sucking up' to Mike, I'd sooner have that than win the lotto!

It's pretty cool - hope it happens! (The first Day of Chaos trade taught me not to count my chickens before they're published...!)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 22 March, 2013, 12:53:25 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 22 March, 2013, 11:29:23 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 22 March, 2013, 10:34:24 AM
Quote from: radiator on 22 March, 2013, 10:32:47 AM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 20 March, 2013, 06:09:21 PM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 20 March, 2013, 12:36:25 AM
... Michael Carroll ...

Woohoo! :)

Must be a genuine thrill to see a Dredd trade with your name on!

Agreed.
Without 'sucking up' to Mike, I'd sooner have that than win the lotto!

It's pretty cool - hope it happens! (The first Day of Chaos trade taught me not to count my chickens before they're published...!)

You can count 'em this time Mike - you're there!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 22 March, 2013, 03:02:28 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 22 March, 2013, 12:53:25 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 22 March, 2013, 11:29:23 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 22 March, 2013, 10:34:24 AM
Quote from: radiator on 22 March, 2013, 10:32:47 AM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 20 March, 2013, 06:09:21 PM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 20 March, 2013, 12:36:25 AM
... Michael Carroll ...

Woohoo! :)

Must be a genuine thrill to see a Dredd trade with your name on!

Agreed.
Without 'sucking up' to Mike, I'd sooner have that than win the lotto!

It's pretty cool - hope it happens! (The first Day of Chaos trade taught me not to count my chickens before they're published...!)

You can count 'em this time Mike - you're there!

Woo-hoo!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 March, 2013, 03:03:53 PM
So which Mr. Carroll story are we talking about here?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 22 March, 2013, 03:11:32 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 22 March, 2013, 12:53:25 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 22 March, 2013, 11:29:23 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 22 March, 2013, 10:34:24 AM
Quote from: radiator on 22 March, 2013, 10:32:47 AM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 20 March, 2013, 06:09:21 PM
Quote from: douglaswolk on 20 March, 2013, 12:36:25 AM
... Michael Carroll ...

Woohoo! :)

Must be a genuine thrill to see a Dredd trade with your name on!

Agreed.
Without 'sucking up' to Mike, I'd sooner have that than win the lotto!

It's pretty cool - hope it happens! (The first Day of Chaos trade taught me not to count my chickens before they're published...!)

You can count 'em this time Mike - you're there!

Woo-hoo!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 22 March, 2013, 03:59:45 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 22 March, 2013, 03:03:53 PM
So which Mr. Carroll story are we talking about here?

The wonderfully-written Caterpillars.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 March, 2013, 06:55:26 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 22 March, 2013, 03:59:45 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 22 March, 2013, 03:03:53 PM
So which Mr. Carroll story are we talking about here?

The wonderfully-written Caterpillars.
Oooh, now, this TPB has just shot right up there in my to gets list. Nostalgic, my first ever prog.  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: moly on 22 March, 2013, 07:45:01 PM
Has mean areana ever been collected or going to be published collected other than the extreme edition
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mike Carroll on 23 March, 2013, 01:35:34 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 22 March, 2013, 03:59:45 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 22 March, 2013, 03:03:53 PM
So which Mr. Carroll story are we talking about here?

The wonderfully-written Caterpillars.

Yay! Thanks, Robo-K33F!

-- Mike
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 23 March, 2013, 05:43:46 PM
No comments here about the welcome news of a new Indigo Prime story, Perfect Day, illustrated by Lee Carter, in the future?

Well, here's one: no news has been so welcome in weeks.  I hope it arrives promptly.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 March, 2013, 06:14:00 PM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 23 March, 2013, 05:43:46 PM
No comments here about the welcome news of a new Indigo Prime story, Perfect Day, illustrated by Lee Carter, in the future?

Well, here's one: no news has been so welcome in weeks.  I hope it arrives promptly.

First I've heard of it and its fuckin' fantastic news. Nice one. can I ask where you gleamed this gem from Grant?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 23 March, 2013, 06:46:13 PM
(http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525033_10151331681161366_878793457_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 March, 2013, 06:57:36 PM
DAMN YOU THRICE MORE SNOWBOUND POSTIE!

Still I got the news now and so finding myself rapidly getting over my Prog free state with this glorious news.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 23 March, 2013, 07:02:34 PM
Naw, the 2000AD boys splashed it about on Facebook a few days ago, Colin.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Emp on 23 March, 2013, 07:07:15 PM
I hope i am wrong...but Indigo Prime ...was "of it's time" i always thought.  That said, I hope i am wrong.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 March, 2013, 07:08:07 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 23 March, 2013, 07:02:34 PM
Naw, the 2000AD boys splashed it about on Facebook a few days ago, Colin.

Damn you THRICE TO HELL AND BACK MY DISTASTE FOR FACEB... okay, okay I'll stop now shall I.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 March, 2013, 09:11:46 PM
Gotta say, Carter is a fine choice for Mr Bagwells replacement.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 24 March, 2013, 02:34:40 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 16 March, 2013, 12:47:17 PM
And is about a talking cat called Henry.

Well he was pretty much always the main character, anyway. Let's face it, we were never meant to sympathise with 'Bad' Jack Keller, a character whose redeeming features could comfortably be written on the back of a matchbox in foot-high letters.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 24 March, 2013, 02:35:50 PM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 23 March, 2013, 05:43:46 PM
No comments here about the welcome news of a new Indigo Prime story, Perfect Day, illustrated by Lee Carter, in the future?

Well, here's one: no news has been so welcome in weeks.  I hope it arrives promptly.

Excellent news indeed. Looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: MercZ on 26 March, 2013, 05:18:46 AM
I saw on twitter the store added several digital copies of graphic novels, including hard to find physical ones like America as well as the first five case files. Are there plans to do more in the future?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 26 March, 2013, 06:13:59 AM
Oh! NICE! I've been wait for more digital trade support!

Think I'll check out Case Files 1 to check out the reproduction quality (Rebellion seems to be erroring on the side of 'High res, not THAT high res' for their Prog and Meg files. Which is kind of disappointing (compression artifacts are THE DEVIL) ComiXology (at least the HD ones) comics have no compression at all, so the art as presented is amazing at any scale. Rebellion could do with upping their game in this area IMO.

Not... Not sure why I just went on that mini-rant there. Probably because I'm slightly leery of buying the digital trades only to be greeted with compression artifacts? Which in turn would make me less likely to buy more over time? Which in further turn means fewer moneys for Rebellion from me?

Let me put it this way, If I was sure I was getting the highest resolution possible I would rebuy every trade I currently own in print, digitally.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 26 March, 2013, 09:56:31 AM
I'm still waiting on an eBook edition of TPO...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 26 March, 2013, 07:01:38 PM
Quote from: DarkDaysBish-OP on 26 March, 2013, 09:56:31 AM
I'm still waiting on an eBook edition of TPO...

Maybe if you were to get started on a tenth anniversary update now it would focus Rebellion's attention on making sure it was available in all formats, hmmm?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Basilisk on 30 March, 2013, 09:25:10 PM
I've seen this on pre-order on Amazon.co.uk:

Judge Dredd: Mutants in Mega-City One

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-Mega-City-One/dp/1781081670/ref=pd_rhf_sc_p_t_1_FSQ1

It's out on December... a lot of time from now... but the title... i have the TOD: The Backlash, and one of the stories is named just like that, Mutants in Mega-City One.

This trade will have 288 pages... ¿any more info about it?. It's a re-hash of The Backlash or a new compilation?.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 March, 2013, 12:38:28 AM
See post 723.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Basilisk on 31 March, 2013, 09:16:20 AM
Thanks. :P

So, it's a compillation... we'll see what's icluded. Untyil December i have time to cancel the pre-order if i'm noty interested!. :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 31 March, 2013, 02:08:57 PM
After Downlode Tales wraps up next month, the next two floppies are collecting the quite decent X Files inspired 90s Dan Abnett series Black Light. As there isn't a whole lot of it to collect I can imagine there might be a few Vector 13s included to pad it out.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 31 March, 2013, 03:33:08 PM
(https://images.bookworld.com.au/images/bau/97817810/9781781081129/0/0/plain/slaine-grail-war.jpg)

Slaine: Grail War

Out sometime this month
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 01 April, 2013, 08:59:19 AM
I swear it was early in the morning at about 1:30 on the first of April that I posted the above message.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 01 April, 2013, 06:26:26 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 31 March, 2013, 03:33:08 PM
(https://images.bookworld.com.au/images/bau/97817810/9781781081129/0/0/plain/slaine-grail-war.jpg)

Slaine: Grail War

Out sometime this month

This and Indigo Prime: Antropocalypse are in the Harper Collins distribution centre so they should be in shops imminently.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dredd Head on 01 April, 2013, 06:28:48 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 01 April, 2013, 06:26:26 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 31 March, 2013, 03:33:08 PM
(https://images.bookworld.com.au/images/bau/97817810/9781781081129/0/0/plain/slaine-grail-war.jpg)

Slaine: Grail War

Out sometime this month

This and Indigo Prime: Antropocalypse are in the Harper Collins distribution centre so they should be in shops imminently.

Do you know if new readers could read this? Awesome cover :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 01 April, 2013, 07:58:07 PM
Quote from: Dredd Head on 01 April, 2013, 06:28:48 PMDo you know if new readers could read this? Awesome cover :)

I haven't read these stories but I would imagine you could but you mightn't enjoy it as much as die-hard Sláine/Pat Mill fans. If you haven't read Sláine before, I would start right from the start - Warrior's Dawn, the vast majority of people agree the best Sláine stories are the early ones.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 02 April, 2013, 08:07:39 AM
Quote from: Dredd Head on 01 April, 2013, 06:28:48 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 01 April, 2013, 06:26:26 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 31 March, 2013, 03:33:08 PM
(https://images.bookworld.com.au/images/bau/97817810/9781781081129/0/0/plain/slaine-grail-war.jpg)

Slaine: Grail War

Out sometime this month

This and Indigo Prime: Antropocalypse are in the Harper Collins distribution centre so they should be in shops imminently.

Do you know if new readers could read this? Awesome cover :)

One of the few later Slaine stories I haven't read yet. I hear it's not so good. Not as good as the earlier stories. So I wouldn't recommend it to a newcomer. I 'm still getting it for the read, and to add to my current Slaine collection. At the moment, I'm currently rereading my collection. About to start Slaine: The Horned God.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 02 April, 2013, 03:22:34 PM
Good news though: this collection includes Belardinelli's beautiful 'Battle of Clontarf'  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 02 April, 2013, 11:01:19 PM
Question. Do we know what's replacing Survival Geeks next week yet?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 April, 2013, 11:02:05 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 02 April, 2013, 11:01:19 PM
Question. Do we know what's replacing Survival Geeks next week yet?
Defoe I assumed.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 02 April, 2013, 11:26:40 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 02 April, 2013, 11:01:19 PM
Question. Do we know what's replacing Survival Geeks next week yet?

Tharg's 3rillers: The Ghostship Mathematica
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 03 April, 2013, 07:08:08 AM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 02 April, 2013, 03:22:34 PM
Good news though: this collection includes Belardinelli's beautiful 'Battle of Clontarf'  :)

In which Slaine book is that story appearing in?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 03 April, 2013, 09:33:42 AM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 03 April, 2013, 07:08:08 AM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 02 April, 2013, 03:22:34 PM
Good news though: this collection includes Belardinelli's beautiful 'Battle of Clontarf'  :)

In which Slaine book is that story appearing in?

Sorry, should have 'quoted'; 'Battle of Clontarf' is appearing, presumably as an extra, in 'The Grail War' collection...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 03 April, 2013, 10:15:05 AM
Thats a strange & unlikely place to put it. I would have included it with Time-Killer.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 03 April, 2013, 10:25:50 AM
So would everyone else on here!  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 03 April, 2013, 12:18:32 PM
Other than 'The Battle of Contarf', will there be any other bonus material included?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 03 April, 2013, 01:05:33 PM
If Battle of Contarf is included, that means, along with "Devil's Banquet" getting a reprint in the new edition of "Slaine the King", the only missing (i.e. skipped) story is Arrow of God from the 2000ad Annual 1989. Anyone know if that's included on Grail War too?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 04 April, 2013, 09:58:24 AM
I don't know about Arrow of God but according to the Wikipedia these are the stories included.

"The Demon Hitchhiker" (with Steve Tappin, in 2000 AD #1032, March 1997)
"King of Hearts" (with Nick Percival, in 2000 AD #1033-1039, March–April 1997)
"The Grail War" (with Steve Tappin, in 2000 AD #1040-1049, April–July 1997)
"Secret of the Grail" (with Steve Tappin, in 2000 AD #1090-1099, April–June 1998)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 04 April, 2013, 02:43:42 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 04 April, 2013, 09:58:24 AM
I don't know about Arrow of God but according to the Wikipedia these are the stories included.

"The Demon Hitchhiker" (with Steve Tappin, in 2000 AD #1032, March 1997)
"King of Hearts" (with Nick Percival, in 2000 AD #1033-1039, March–April 1997)
"The Grail War" (with Steve Tappin, in 2000 AD #1040-1049, April–July 1997)
"Secret of the Grail" (with Steve Tappin, in 2000 AD #1090-1099, April–June 1998)


And if you look on the inside back cover of this week's prog it confirms the inclusion of 'Battle of Clontarf'  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 10 April, 2013, 11:45:31 PM
Okay, got The Grail War and Mean Team today (I passed on Indigo Prime fpr now)

Grail War has the covers from 1034, 1037, 1091, 1095. The Battle of Clontarf is in colour, so I guess that's why it wasn't included in Time Killer (too expensive to print mostly in black and white and just a few colour pages at the end).

[spoiler]The Battle of Clontarf differs from the Clontarf battle sequence in Time Killer as it has Sláine fighting with different weapons.[/spoiler]

Mean Team has Mean Team, Return of the Mean Team and Survivor. Prog covers 437, 526, 532 and 639 and Extreme Edition cover 25 are included (all greyscale) along with Star Scans from 435, 643, 660 and a Star Scan of Massimo Belardinelli from 295.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 11 April, 2013, 12:03:08 AM
Mean Team was a bit disjointed wasnt it, I enjoyed the first part, simple enough story. The second was all over the place, and Survivor I recall really enjoying, looking forward to reading again.
As for Slaine, it needs to be read in order, the end of the Horned God is for me the end of the story. Anything after that is a bonus, some of it great, some not so good.   
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 11 April, 2013, 10:44:17 AM
Had a stab at up dating the round up (had been waiting for the Keef interview on ECBT 2000ad) but thought I'd get it out now and up date as required after that. As ever this is my fumbling in the dark so all corrections more than welcome.

2000 AD:

Defoe: The Damned by Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher - Summer 2013
Slaine (Title TBC), 30th Anniversary Story - Pat Mills/Clint Langley/Mike McMahon?/Glenn Fabry (?)/ Simon Bisley (?) - starts Aug 2013 (TBC)
Flesh: Badlands - Pat Mills James McKay - Starts Autumn 2013
Ten Seconders: Godsend to the 2000AD - Rob Williams and Edmund Bagwell - starts TBC
Sinister Dexter - Witless Protection: Dan Abnett/John Burns - starts TBC
Dark Justice (TBC) by John Wagner/Greg Staples - starts TBC
Age of the Woof: (Title TBC) - Alec Worley/Jon Davis-Hunt - starts TBC
Tharg's 3rillers: Gunheads by T.C. Eglinton/Boo Cook - starts TBC
Aquilia (title TBC) - Gordon Rennie / Patrick Goddard - starts TBC
Indigo Prime: Perfect Day - John Smith / Lee Carter - starts TBC

Judge Dredd: (Title TBC) ???/Dave Taylor - starts TBC (could be Meg?)
Brass Sun: (Title TBC)Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) by Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) 3 by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) 4 by Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
ABC Warriors: (title TBC): Pat Mills/Clint Langley (?) - start TBC
Kingdom: Book 5 (title TBC): Dan Abnett/Richard Elson (?) - start TBC

Possible new 2000ad project by Alec Worley/David Roach - TBC
Possible new 2000ad project by Ian Edginton/Dave Taylor - TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

The Streets of Dan Francisco by Arthur Wyatt/Paul Marshall - Meg 335
Devlin Waugh: Exquisite Corpses by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Devlin Waugh: Ship of Fools by John Smith/Peter Doherty - starts TBC
Lilly MacKenzie: Title TBC - Simon Fraser - starts TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

Black Light Volume 1 - Judge Dredd Megazine 336
Black Light Volume 2 - Judge Dredd Megazine 337

Finn Book 2 - TBC

2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth (B Format) - May 2013
Ballad of Halo Jones - May 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 20 - June 2013
ABC Warriors: Volgan War Vol. 3 - June 2013
Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos - Endgame - Jul 2013
Slaine: The King - Jul 2013
Slaine: Time Killer - Jul 2013
Strontium Dog: Portrait of a mutant (B format)  - Aug 2013
Judge Dredd: Trifecta - Aug 2013
ABC Warriors: Return to Earth - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Deviant edition' - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Termight edition' - Sept 2013
Judge Dredd / Batman collection (Paperback) - Sept 2013
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - Oct 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 21 - Oct 2013
Slaine: 30th Anniversary Celebration - Nov 2013
2000ad Presents: Sci-Fi Thrillers - Dec 2013


2000ad Graphic Novels - Simon and Schuster (provisional list - all subject to change):

Judge Dredd: Origins - Mar 2013
Rogue Trooper: War Machine - June 2013
Judge Dredd: The Fatties - Jul 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete case files 6 - Aug 2013
Button Man: Get Harry Ex - Sept 2013 (TBC)
Strontium Dog: Mutant for Hire - Oct 2014(?)
Judge Dredd: Mutants of Mega City One - Dec 2013

2000ad Graphic Novels - IDW

Judge Dredd Vol. 1 - Apr 2013
Judge Dredd: The Cam Kennedy Collection Volume 1 - Jun 2013
Judge Dredd: The Complete Carlos Ezquerra Volume 2 - August 2013
Judge Dredd: Year One - TBC

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ming on 11 April, 2013, 10:48:37 AM
There's also the De Marco series coming up in the Meg, isn't there?  Steve Yeowell on art duties (pencils only? Not sure.).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 11 April, 2013, 12:06:13 PM
A few corrections/new additions...

2000 AD:

Judge Dredd: The Forsaken - writer/artist TBC - starts May 2013
Judge Dredd: Wastelands - writer/artist TBC - starts Summer 2013
Judge Anderson, PSI: One in Ten - Alan Grant(?)/artist TBC - starts Summer 2013

Defoe: The Damned - Pat Mills/Leigh Gallagher - Summer 2013
Slaine (Title TBC), 30th Anniversary Story - Pat Mills/Clint Langley/Mike McMahon?/Glenn Fabry (?)/ Simon Bisley (?) - starts Aug 2013 (TBC)
Flesh: Badlands - Pat Mills/James McKay - Starts Autumn 2013
Ten Seconders: Godsend - Rob Williams/Edmund Bagwell - starts TBC
Sinister Dexter: Witless Protection - Dan Abnett/John Burns - starts Summer 2013
Sinister Dexter: In Plain Shite - Dan Abnett/Jonh Burns(?) - starts Summer 2013

Dark Justice (TBC) - John Wagner/Greg Staples - starts TBC
Age of the Wolf III - Alec Worley/Jon Davis-Hunt - starts TBC
Tharg's 3rillers: Gunheadz - T.C. Eglinton/Boo Cook - starts April 2013(?)
Aquilia (title TBC) - Gordon Rennie / Patrick Goddard - starts TBC
Indigo Prime: Perfect Day - John Smith / Lee Carter - starts TBC
Judge Dredd: (Title TBC) ???/Dave Taylor - starts TBC (could be Meg?)
Brass Sun: (Title TBC) Ian Edginton/D'Israeli - starts TBC
Damnation Station (Book 2, title TBC, final series) - Al Ewing/Artist TBC - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) 3 - Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
Greysuit (title TBC) 4 - Pat Mills/John Higgins - starts TBC
ABC Warriors: (title TBC): Pat Mills/Clint Langley (?) - start TBC
Kingdom: Book 5 (title TBC): Dan Abnett/Richard Elson (?) - start TBC
Possible new 2000ad project - Alec Worley/David Roach - TBC
Possible new 2000ad project - Ian Edginton/Dave Taylor - TBC

Judge Dredd Megazine:

The Streets of Dan Francisco - Arthur Wyatt/Paul Marshall - starts Meg 335
Judge Dredd: Power Struggle - writer/artist TBC - Meg 336
Judge Dredd: Meat is Murder - writer/artist TBC - Meg 337
Possible new Demarco series - writer TBC/Steve Yeowell(?) - TBC

Megazine Graphic Novel Supplements:

Black Light Volume 1 - Judge Dredd Megazine 336
Black Light Volume 2 - Judge Dredd Megazine 337
Finn Book 2 - TBC

2000ad Graphic Novels - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth (B Format) - May 2013
Ballad of Halo Jones - May 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 20 - June 2013
ABC Warriors: Volgan War Vol. 3 - June 2013
Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos - Endgame - Jul 2013
Slaine: The King - Jul 2013
Slaine: Time Killer - Jul 2013
Strontium Dog: Portrait of a mutant (B format)  - Aug 2013
Judge Dredd: Trifecta - Aug 2013
ABC Warriors: Return to Earth - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Deviant edition' - Sept 2013
Nemesis the Warlock: Colour hardcover 'Termight edition' - Sept 2013
Judge Dredd/Batman collection (Paperback) - Sept 2013
Zombo: You Smell Like Crime and I'm the Deodorant - Oct 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 21 - Oct 2013
Slaine: 30th Anniversary Celebration - Nov 2013
2000ad Presents: Sci-Fi Thrillers - Dec 2013

2000ad Graphic Novels - Simon and Schuster (provisional list - all subject to change):

Rogue Trooper: War Machine - June 2013
Judge Dredd: The Fatties - July 2013
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 06 - Aug 2013
Button Man: Get Harry Ex - Sept 2013 (TBC)
Strontium Dog: Mutant for Hire - Oct 2014(?)
Judge Dredd: Mutants of Mega City One - Dec 2013

2000ad Graphic Novels - IDW

Judge Dredd Vol. 1 - Apr 2013
Judge Dredd: The Complete Cam Kennedy Volume 1 - Jun 2013
Judge Dredd: The Complete Carlos Ezquerra Volume 2 - August 2013
Judge Dredd: Year One - TBC
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 11 April, 2013, 01:25:38 PM
Bah is Lilly Mackenzie not coming back? That would almost make up for suffering Sexy Ostriches for so long.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 11 April, 2013, 01:36:38 PM
No word on it for aaaaages, so no point keeping it on the list.

This stuff is mostly educated guesses and all subject to change.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 12 April, 2013, 09:30:50 AM
Really wonder when Dark justice will begin. It's said to have both Anderson, Dredd and Death and the dark judges if I'm not wrong?

Hope it has something interesting up it's sleeve for Anderson, she deserves that since the film.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 12 April, 2013, 01:09:42 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 12 April, 2013, 09:30:50 AM
Really wonder when Dark justice will begin. It's said to have both Anderson, Dredd and Death and the dark judges if I'm not wrong?

Hope it has something interesting up it's sleeve for Anderson, she deserves that since the film.
Wagners writing, so I expect it to be less tepid than the last few Grant series with the character.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 12 April, 2013, 10:02:12 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 12 April, 2013, 01:09:42 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 12 April, 2013, 09:30:50 AM
Really wonder when Dark justice will begin. It's said to have both Anderson, Dredd and Death and the dark judges if I'm not wrong?

Hope it has something interesting up it's sleeve for Anderson, she deserves that since the film.
Wagners writing, so I expect it to be less tepid than the last few Grant series with the character.

I wonder if Anderson's reaction to Dredd in The pits is any indication of what to come? Her thoughts of "Man is a machine producing shit" followed by that look on her face, I wonder if she's losing her faith in humanity (just as she did with the justice system itself). If handled as well as Origins, ToD and DoC then I can't seriously wait what's in store for PJ Maybe, Death, Dark Judges, Anderson and Dredd :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 April, 2013, 04:08:42 PM
Collected IDW Dredd volume 2 is due out 1st October:

Click! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-2-Nelson-Daniel/dp/1613777574/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365865653&sr=1-3&keywords=dredd+idw+2)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 April, 2013, 12:52:47 PM
Well its not much of an addition but Dave Taylor has said on his Blog that his Dredd story will be 5 parts. There's also some lovely panels on there.

http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/new-dredd-panels.html (http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/new-dredd-panels.html)

Hey it might not be much but at least we know we're getting 30 pages of Dave Taylor Dredd goodness!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 April, 2013, 04:26:14 PM
Excelent! :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 24 April, 2013, 06:44:40 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 10 April, 2013, 11:45:31 PM
Okay, got The Grail War and Mean Team today (I passed on Indigo Prime fpr now)

Grail War has the covers from 1034, 1037, 1091, 1095. The Battle of Clontarf is in colour, so I guess that's why it wasn't included in Time Killer (too expensive to print mostly in black and white and just a few colour pages at the end).


Correct.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 24 April, 2013, 09:24:43 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 24 April, 2013, 12:52:47 PM
Well its not much of an addition but Dave Taylor has said on his Blog that his Dredd story will be 5 parts. There's also some lovely panels on there.

http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/new-dredd-panels.html (http://d-taylor-comics-music-ford-mustangs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/new-dredd-panels.html)

Hey it might not be much but at least we know we're getting 30 pages of Dave Taylor Dredd goodness!

Great stuff there Colin. Love Taylor's work.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 April, 2013, 11:00:35 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 24 April, 2013, 06:44:40 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 10 April, 2013, 11:45:31 PM
Okay, got The Grail War and Mean Team today (I passed on Indigo Prime fpr now)

Grail War has the covers from 1034, 1037, 1091, 1095. The Battle of Clontarf is in colour, so I guess that's why it wasn't included in Time Killer (too expensive to print mostly in black and white and just a few colour pages at the end).


Correct.

Great decision Keith.  Cannot wait to get my mits on this, and finally retire the '85 annual to the attic.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 April, 2013, 10:27:53 AM
Numbercruncher - Titan books hardcover, 90 pages, 17th December: Click! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Numbercruncher-Si-Spurrier/dp/1782760040/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366946870&sr=1-16&keywords=titan+books)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 April, 2013, 10:30:47 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 13 April, 2013, 04:08:42 PM
Collected IDW Dredd volume 2 is due out 1st October:

Click! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-2-Nelson-Daniel/dp/1613777574/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365865653&sr=1-3&keywords=dredd+idw+2)

Cover now up.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Cactus on 26 April, 2013, 10:36:41 AM
How low do we think the price will go before December? Pre-order now for (possible) massive savings!  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 26 April, 2013, 11:33:59 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 26 April, 2013, 10:27:53 AM
Numbercruncher - Titan books hardcover, 90 pages, 17th December: Click! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Numbercruncher-Si-Spurrier/dp/1782760040/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366946870&sr=1-16&keywords=titan+books)

That's great news. I've been waiting for this one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 26 April, 2013, 11:42:09 AM
Looking forward to Numbercruncher; the changes to the art will be fascinating...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 27 April, 2013, 04:38:22 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 11 April, 2013, 10:44:17 AM
Age of the Woof: (Title TBC) - Alec Worley/Jon Davis-Hunt - starts TBC

That'll be Age of the Wolf: Wolfworld.

Can't wait.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 27 April, 2013, 08:18:13 PM
An article over on CBR has confirmed a forthcoming Cadet Anderson story, as well as the issue numbers for a couple of already confirmed strips.

Cadet Anderson - One in Ten: Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts 1833

The Ten Seconders (Final Series) - Godsend to the 2000AD: Rob Williams/Edmund Bagwell  - starts 1839

Age of the Wolf (Final Series) -  Wolfworld: Alec Worley/Jon Davis-Hunt - starts 1840
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 28 April, 2013, 11:18:55 AM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 27 April, 2013, 08:18:13 PM

Cadet Anderson - One in Ten: Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts 1833


G-R-O-A-N
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 April, 2013, 11:30:34 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 28 April, 2013, 11:18:55 AM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 27 April, 2013, 08:18:13 PM

Cadet Anderson - One in Ten: Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts 1833


G-R-O-A-N
At least it will look nice.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 28 April, 2013, 11:31:21 AM
Yeah but....
Yeah.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 28 April, 2013, 12:24:06 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 22 March, 2013, 10:05:25 AM

Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-Mega-City-One/dp/1781081670/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363946676&sr=1-1

Cover now up for Mutants in Mega City One... I like it (though the Dredd logo looks a bit like it was pasted on).

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Mutants_zps1c903a0c.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 28 April, 2013, 12:29:56 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 28 April, 2013, 11:18:55 AM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 27 April, 2013, 08:18:13 PM

Cadet Anderson - One in Ten: Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts 1833


G-R-O-A-N


Yeah! Let's damn it before we've even read it!

G-R-O-A-N.   ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 28 April, 2013, 12:37:21 PM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Nu2_zps2c5b2198.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 April, 2013, 12:44:16 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 28 April, 2013, 11:30:34 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 28 April, 2013, 11:18:55 AM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 27 April, 2013, 08:18:13 PM

Cadet Anderson - One in Ten: Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts 1833


G-R-O-A-N
At least it will look nice.

Carlos has Strontium Dog to draw.  I'm sorry Alan, but he can't come out to play until his homework is done.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 28 April, 2013, 01:58:41 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 28 April, 2013, 11:18:55 AM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 27 April, 2013, 08:18:13 PM

Cadet Anderson - One in Ten: Alan Grant/Carlos Ezquerra - starts 1833


G-R-O-A-N

Oh, God. Must we? Can it not at least be run in the Megazine so I don't have to read it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 28 April, 2013, 02:56:11 PM
I don't hate the Cadet Anderson stories, but they're never more than a few weeks worth of filler. If they added something to the character of Anderson then fair enough, but they don't add anything to her background at all.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Andy B on 28 April, 2013, 03:36:52 PM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 27 April, 2013, 08:18:13 PM


The Ten Seconders (Final Series) - Godsend to the 2000AD: Rob Williams/Edmund Bagwell  - starts 1839


So what's the point of collecting the first two stories - in quite a slim book - a couple of months before the last one is published? See also 'Insurrection'. I'm going to be irritated if they put out a complete volume, and also irritated if they don't!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 28 April, 2013, 03:42:32 PM
Quote from: awbrown on 28 April, 2013, 03:36:52 PM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 27 April, 2013, 08:18:13 PM


The Ten Seconders (Final Series) - Godsend to the 2000AD: Rob Williams/Edmund Bagwell  - starts 1839


So what's the point of collecting the first two stories - in quite a slim book - a couple of months before the last one is published? See also 'Insurrection'. I'm going to be irritated if they put out a complete volume, and also irritated if they don't!

...And very nearly 'Ichabod Azrael', not to mention 'Caballistics'. I really wish someone at the books department would talk to the script droids now and again to ask how many books are planned. 'A trilogy, you say? Well, it would make sense for us to wait for all three books to be out before collecting them, eh?'
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 28 April, 2013, 03:44:09 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 28 April, 2013, 03:42:32 PM
Quote from: awbrown on 28 April, 2013, 03:36:52 PM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 27 April, 2013, 08:18:13 PM


The Ten Seconders (Final Series) - Godsend to the 2000AD: Rob Williams/Edmund Bagwell  - starts 1839


So what's the point of collecting the first two stories - in quite a slim book - a couple of months before the last one is published? See also 'Insurrection'. I'm going to be irritated if they put out a complete volume, and also irritated if they don't!

...And very nearly 'Ichabod Azrael', not to mention 'Caballistics'. I really wish someone at the books department would talk to the script droids now and again to ask how many books are planned. 'A trilogy, you say? Well, it would make sense for us to wait for all three books to be out before collecting them, eh?'

They did the same thing with Atavar which annoyed me when I picked up the trade last year. I still have no idea how that ended.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 28 April, 2013, 05:13:04 PM
Anyone else getting this? Just pre-ordered a copy. :)
(http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/best-of-milligan-and-mccarthy-cover1.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 28 April, 2013, 08:12:09 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 28 April, 2013, 05:13:04 PM
Anyone else getting this? Just pre-ordered a copy. :)
(http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/best-of-milligan-and-mccarthy-cover1.jpg)

I'm all over that Hawk, just looking around for the best pre-order deal.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 April, 2013, 08:33:44 AM
Stevie's been wondering how long it would be before the John Bronson & Kev Hopgood's Zero City stories turned up in the floppies.

Meg 338 with Night Zero according to Previews.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 29 April, 2013, 09:06:57 AM
Anyone else who's excited for this?

From the CBR article "In terms of other interesting stuff coming up, John Wagner is returning to "Judge Dredd" for his first series since "Day of Chaos" ended in "2000 AD." That's prog 1837 in June."

Must be Dark Justice right  :P
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 29 April, 2013, 09:10:10 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 28 April, 2013, 12:24:06 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 22 March, 2013, 10:05:25 AM

Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-Mega-City-One/dp/1781081670/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363946676&sr=1-1

Cover now up for Mutants in Mega City One... I like it (though the Dredd logo looks a bit like it was pasted on).

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Mutants_zps1c903a0c.jpg)
It's the logo from Tour of Duty: Mega-City Justice so I assume its a placeholder
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 April, 2013, 09:11:57 AM
Quote from: Apestrife on 29 April, 2013, 09:06:57 AM
Anyone else who's excited for this?

From the CBR article "In terms of other interesting stuff coming up, John Wagner is returning to "Judge Dredd" for his first series since "Day of Chaos" ended in "2000 AD." That's prog 1837 in June."

Must be Dark Justice right  :P

My understanding is its a five parter with Dave Taylor on art. I could be wrong there but that was my take on the info we have.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 29 April, 2013, 10:30:54 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 29 April, 2013, 09:11:57 AM
Quote from: Apestrife on 29 April, 2013, 09:06:57 AM
Anyone else who's excited for this?

From the CBR article "In terms of other interesting stuff coming up, John Wagner is returning to "Judge Dredd" for his first series since "Day of Chaos" ended in "2000 AD." That's prog 1837 in June."

Must be Dark Justice right  :P

My understanding is its a five parter with Dave Taylor on art. I could be wrong there but that was my take on the info we have.

Okay thanks. Can't wait till Death makes a return :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 29 April, 2013, 10:51:45 AM
John Wagner has said that it will be a long wait for Dark Justice. My guess would be that it starts in Prog 2014.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 29 April, 2013, 12:44:24 PM
Quote from: radiator on 29 April, 2013, 10:51:45 AM
John Wagner has said that it will be a long wait for Dark Justice. My guess would be that it starts in Prog 2014.

This is when I was expecting it as well. The ad said 2013 and it's about as late into 2013 as they can get lol.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 29 April, 2013, 12:46:37 PM
Ian Gibson is hinting on facebook there may be some new House of Tharg work lined up in his thrillpipe.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 April, 2013, 01:48:58 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 29 April, 2013, 12:46:37 PM
Ian Gibson is hinting on facebook there may be some new House of Tharg work lined up in his thrillpipe.

That could be very good news indeed. Looking forward to hearing more. Of course its almost certainly too much to hope that Ms Slade will get to Paris...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 01 May, 2013, 04:20:58 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 29 April, 2013, 12:46:37 PM
Ian Gibson is hinting on facebook there may be some new House of Tharg work lined up in his thrillpipe.

Rebellion are licencing Farmville?  :o

Ian's back! Punches the sky  :D :D :D

Oh, & what's this "surrealist superhero" nonsense Ordinary, courtesy of Rob Williams & D'Israeli, starting in the creator owned slot of Meg 338?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 01 May, 2013, 10:28:38 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 29 April, 2013, 12:46:37 PM
Ian Gibson is hinting on facebook there may be some new House of Tharg work lined up in his thrillpipe.

Before everyone gets overexcited, I would like to quash that rumour.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 01 May, 2013, 10:30:55 AM
Bah! don't quash it, sort it  :'(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 01 May, 2013, 10:33:38 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 28 April, 2013, 03:42:32 PM
...And very nearly 'Ichabod Azrael', not to mention 'Caballistics'. I really wish someone at the books department would talk to the script droids now and again to ask how many books are planned. 'A trilogy, you say? Well, it would make sense for us to wait for all three books to be out before collecting them, eh?'

With the greatest of respect, Keith Richardson DOES - in the cases of Azrael, Ten-Seconders and Insurrection the writers' decision to continue the series was made AFTER the books had been scheduled and solicited. Having talked to Dan he didn't originally intend to continue Insurrection past Book Two!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 May, 2013, 11:15:05 AM
Dash here with another cover for you:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Ezquerra2_zpsc1fba238.jpg)

I just love this, even the way Carlos has added too many links so lesser artists don't feel so bad about how far behind they are. ; D

This second collection of Carlos Ezquerra-illustrated stories includes "The Apocalypse War" as well as "Robot Wars," "Kirby's Demon," "Rights of Succession," and more.

Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (27 Aug 2013)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 01 May, 2013, 11:39:12 AM
Quote from: Molch-R on 01 May, 2013, 10:33:38 AMWith the greatest of respect, Keith Richardson DOES
Time to start introducing the writers to THE CUPBOARD. (i.e. You and/or Keith could lock Rennie in a cupboard until he produces enough Cabs material for a third trade. Given how freelance contracts are for writers these days, I imagine you'll be fine. I'm pretty sure I've done research on this.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 01 May, 2013, 11:41:25 AM
Quote from: Molch-R on 01 May, 2013, 10:33:38 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 28 April, 2013, 03:42:32 PM
...And very nearly 'Ichabod Azrael', not to mention 'Caballistics'. I really wish someone at the books department would talk to the script droids now and again to ask how many books are planned. 'A trilogy, you say? Well, it would make sense for us to wait for all three books to be out before collecting them, eh?'

With the greatest of respect, Keith Richardson DOES - in the cases of Azrael, Ten-Seconders and Insurrection the writers' decision to continue the series was made AFTER the books had been scheduled and solicited. Having talked to Dan he didn't originally intend to continue Insurrection past Book Two!

There you go again, trotting out your 'facts'...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 01 May, 2013, 01:19:56 PM
I'm sure I've seen an interview with Rob Williams though where he states that there always was a third series of the Ten Seconders planned but that it would be a while?  I think it has actually been about a 4 year gap!

Most people appreciate the difficulty in deciding what to release as a GN from the 2000ad stable as there is always the possibility that they will return, even deceased characters don't stay that way!

It does leave a fan with a quandry though - buy the current release knowing it will not be complete and hope there will be another release later on with the new story or wait for a new complete collection.  If the Ten Seconders only have one more story what's the likelihood of another GN with just that in?  Then again, how long would it be before we see a complete collection? 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 01 May, 2013, 01:47:37 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 May, 2013, 11:15:05 AM
Dash here with another cover for you:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Ezquerra2_zpsc1fba238.jpg)

I just love this, even the way Carlos has added too many links so lesser artists don't feel so bad about how far behind they are. ; D

This second collection of Carlos Ezquerra-illustrated stories includes "The Apocalypse War" as well as "Robot Wars," "Kirby's Demon," "Rights of Succession," and more.

Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (27 Aug 2013)


That cover is so damn awesome I'm tempted to buy the book!  :o
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 01 May, 2013, 03:14:44 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 01 May, 2013, 10:33:38 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 28 April, 2013, 03:42:32 PM
...And very nearly 'Ichabod Azrael', not to mention 'Caballistics'. I really wish someone at the books department would talk to the script droids now and again to ask how many books are planned. 'A trilogy, you say? Well, it would make sense for us to wait for all three books to be out before collecting them, eh?'

With the greatest of respect, Keith Richardson DOES - in the cases of Azrael, Ten-Seconders and Insurrection the writers' decision to continue the series was made AFTER the books had been scheduled and solicited. Having talked to Dan he didn't originally intend to continue Insurrection past Book Two!

Ah okay, fair enough. I cheerfully retract my mudslinging, then - nobody has ever clarified why these descisions were taken before now! This finally makes a bit more sense of it all.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 01 May, 2013, 04:54:08 PM
Post deleted after seeing Mr. Molcher's quashing of long-held daydreams.

So.  That Ezquerra cover's a beauty, isn't it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 01 May, 2013, 06:07:52 PM
Dredd zapping a Strato-V with Stub Gun. Whats not to like?

(Was treated to a sneaky peek at this, the other week) Really do think that Carlos' recent IDW Dredd work has been pretty darn good. He seems to be clearly enjoying himself, at the minute.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 May, 2013, 06:32:24 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 May, 2013, 11:15:05 AM
I just love this, even the way Carlos has added too many links so lesser artists don't feel so bad about how far behind they are. ; D

That is completely beautiful.  I love everything about that cover. If I didn't have an average of 4 versions of the contents already...  Poster?  T-shirt?  Mug?  Please?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 May, 2013, 06:33:49 PM
I'd buy that on a T for sure.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 01 May, 2013, 07:02:09 PM
That is stunning. Is it an original piece for the cover? If not (like the others we've seen) where is it from?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 01 May, 2013, 07:07:30 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 01 May, 2013, 07:02:09 PM
That is stunning. Is it an original piece for the cover? If not (like the others we've seen) where is it from?

Is it just me, or does that Carlos cover look alarmingly like he reffed Commando Forces forum avatar for Dredd's profile...?

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 May, 2013, 07:12:09 PM
Burdis is quickly becoming a living model for Dredd himself. :o
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 01 May, 2013, 07:17:56 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 01 May, 2013, 07:02:09 PM
That is stunning. Is it an original piece for the cover? If not (like the others we've seen) where is it from?

Its an original piece, Colin. As is all the IDW work Carlos has produced.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 01 May, 2013, 09:27:57 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 01 May, 2013, 07:17:56 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 01 May, 2013, 07:02:09 PM
That is stunning. Is it an original piece for the cover? If not (like the others we've seen) where is it from?

Its an original piece, Colin. As is all the IDW work Carlos has produced.

Cool. By the way just to be clear when I said other we've seen I was referring to the other complete collection covers Bolland and Cam Kennedy and I have to be honest I thought the other Carlos one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 01 May, 2013, 09:53:40 PM
Think up to now, only the Cam Kennedy cover art is something that has been published before. But definitely the cover art for the Carlos Ezquerra collections Volumes 1 and 2 was created specifically for those collections.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 May, 2013, 10:02:05 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 01 May, 2013, 09:53:40 PM
Think up to now, only the Cam Kennedy cover art is something that has been published before. But definitely the cover art for the Carlos Ezquerra collections Volumes 1 and 2 was created specifically for those collections.
Bollands was an older piece wasn't it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 01 May, 2013, 10:11:51 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 01 May, 2013, 10:02:05 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 01 May, 2013, 09:53:40 PM
Think up to now, only the Cam Kennedy cover art is something that has been published before. But definitely the cover art for the Carlos Ezquerra collections Volumes 1 and 2 was created specifically for those collections.

Bollands was an older piece wasn't it?

(http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_iv/120/1145691.jpg)  (https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQwCSljUeYF0Qy8mTdatxnXcXGOhKIY9_pETDqDl3XEaTJJdXx0)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 May, 2013, 10:17:05 PM
Thought it was.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 May, 2013, 11:28:01 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 01 May, 2013, 07:07:30 PM
Is it just me, or does that Carlos cover look alarmingly like he reffed Commando Forces forum avatar for Dredd's profile...?

That was exactly what I thought when I posted it last night. I was even going to post this:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/BurdisDredd_zpsded2be67.jpg)

I think it's mainly down to the hairy chin.

Rumour has it that when Mr. Ezquerra retires, Tharg will turn Dredd into a weekly photo story with CF playing the lead role.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 01 May, 2013, 11:36:11 PM
Doomlord is also set to make an appearence.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 02 May, 2013, 12:00:24 PM
2000 AD Presents Sci-fi Thrillers (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-AD-Presents-Sci-fi-Thrillers/dp/1781081778/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367466488&sr=1-1&keywords=2000+AD+Presents+Sci-fi+Thrillers) now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

Paperback, 320 pages, 5th December 2013
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 May, 2013, 12:08:19 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 02 May, 2013, 12:00:24 PM
2000 AD Presents Sci-fi Thrillers (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-AD-Presents-Sci-fi-Thrillers/dp/1781081778/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367466488&sr=1-1&keywords=2000+AD+Presents+Sci-fi+Thrillers) now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

Paperback, 320 pages, 5th December 2013
The writer and artist list is very intriguing. Anything else of this?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 03 May, 2013, 02:54:36 AM
Grant Morrison but not a Future Shock you say?

Hmmmm...

That's either Danger: Genius At Work (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=479) or the utterly brilliant with John Ridgway art Candy & the Catchman (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=491).

The former was reprinted in Extreme Edition 21 so fingers crossed that it's Candy.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 May, 2013, 11:59:43 AM

Slaine: The Book of Scars - 30th anniversary Warped edition (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Book-Scars-Pat-Mills/dp/178108176X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367578647&sr=1-1&keywords=Slaine%3A+The+Book+of+Scars) now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

Hardcover, 7th November 2013

30th anniversary Warped edition
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 03 May, 2013, 12:00:55 PM
Woah - is that the first time they've ever solicited a trade before the material has even appeared in the prog?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 03 May, 2013, 03:58:33 PM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 03 May, 2013, 02:54:36 AM
Grant Morrison but not a Future Shock you say?

Hmmmm...

That's either Danger: Genius At Work (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=479) or the utterly brilliant with John Ridgway art Candy & the Catchman (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=491).

The former was reprinted in Extreme Edition 21 so fingers crossed that it's Candy.

How about both?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 03 May, 2013, 04:24:53 PM
 :D
I'll have one please!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 03 May, 2013, 08:18:48 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 03 May, 2013, 11:59:43 AM

Slaine: The Book of Scars - 30th anniversary Warped edition (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Book-Scars-Pat-Mills/dp/178108176X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367578647&sr=1-1&keywords=Slaine%3A+The+Book+of+Scars) now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

Hardcover, 7th November 2013

30th anniversary Warped edition
Thanks for the tip. Pre oredered.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Andy B on 03 May, 2013, 09:43:03 PM
Quote from: radiator on 03 May, 2013, 12:00:55 PM
Woah - is that the first time they've ever solicited a trade before the material has even appeared in the prog?

Do we know that it is going to be in the prog...?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 May, 2013, 06:45:09 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 May, 2013, 12:08:19 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 02 May, 2013, 12:00:24 PM
2000 AD Presents Sci-fi Thrillers (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-AD-Presents-Sci-fi-Thrillers/dp/1781081778/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367466488&sr=1-1&keywords=2000+AD+Presents+Sci-fi+Thrillers) now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

Paperback, 320 pages, 5th December 2013
The writer and artist list is very intriguing. Anything else of this?

The FCBD prog reveals "The Visible Man" as one of the stories in it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 04 May, 2013, 07:16:51 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 03 May, 2013, 11:59:43 AM

Slaine: The Book of Scars - 30th anniversary Warped edition (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Book-Scars-Pat-Mills/dp/178108176X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367578647&sr=1-1&keywords=Slaine%3A+The+Book+of+Scars) now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

Hardcover, 7th November 2013

30th anniversary Warped edition

Let us know when it's available for pre-order at the 2000AD Online Shop.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 04 May, 2013, 08:58:19 AM
Quote from: awbrown on 03 May, 2013, 09:43:03 PM
Quote from: radiator on 03 May, 2013, 12:00:55 PM
Woah - is that the first time they've ever solicited a trade before the material has even appeared in the prog?

Do we know that it is going to be in the prog...?
In Pat Mills'interview in last issue of Mass Movement (#35)http://www.middle-age-shred.com/MM35/MM35%20Final.pdf (http://www.middle-age-shred.com/MM35/MM35%20Final.pdf), the man says that these story will appear in August.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 05 May, 2013, 04:14:47 AM
Case Files #21 in October.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781081751/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367723538&sr=1-9&keywords=2000ad
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PreacherCain on 05 May, 2013, 01:05:40 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 05 May, 2013, 04:14:47 AM
Case Files #21 in October.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781081751/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367723538&sr=1-9&keywords=2000ad

Excellent! And only four months after CF 20!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 06 May, 2013, 11:40:53 AM
Quote from: vark on 04 May, 2013, 08:58:19 AM
Quote from: awbrown on 03 May, 2013, 09:43:03 PM
Quote from: radiator on 03 May, 2013, 12:00:55 PM
Woah - is that the first time they've ever solicited a trade before the material has even appeared in the prog?

Do we know that it is going to be in the prog...?
In Pat Mills'interview in last issue of Mass Movement (#35)http://www.middle-age-shred.com/MM35/MM35%20Final.pdf (http://www.middle-age-shred.com/MM35/MM35%20Final.pdf), the man says that these story will appear in August.

Could you repeat what he said up here. My computer can't open that link properly.

Changing the subject......

When is the new Ballad of Halo Jones available?

I want to buy it for my niece.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 06 May, 2013, 12:50:55 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 06 May, 2013, 11:40:53 AM
Quote from: vark on 04 May, 2013, 08:58:19 AM
Quote from: awbrown on 03 May, 2013, 09:43:03 PM
Quote from: radiator on 03 May, 2013, 12:00:55 PM
Woah - is that the first time they've ever solicited a trade before the material has even appeared in the prog?

Do we know that it is going to be in the prog...?
In Pat Mills'interview in last issue of Mass Movement (#35)http://www.middle-age-shred.com/MM35/MM35%20Final.pdf (http://www.middle-age-shred.com/MM35/MM35%20Final.pdf), the man says that these story will appear in August.

Could you repeat what he said up here. My computer can't open that link properly.

Here it is:
MM: Unless I'm mistaken, we last saw Slaine as a wanderer back in 2010. Is the warped warrior due to make a return to the pages of
2000AD any time soon?
Pat: You bet. 30th anniversary story : Book of Scars in August. 6 stories x 6 pages each: Clint, Glenn, Mike McMahon and Simon Bisley.
Followed by a new Slaine by Simon Davis.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 06 May, 2013, 12:53:31 PM
Thanks :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 May, 2013, 01:05:32 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 03 May, 2013, 11:59:43 AM

Slaine: The Book of Scars - 30th anniversary Warped edition (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Book-Scars-Pat-Mills/dp/178108176X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1367578647&sr=1-1&keywords=Slaine%3A+The+Book+of+Scars) now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

Hardcover, 7th November 2013

30th anniversary Warped edition

Amazon have updated the entry.  The book has 128 pages and the blurb says:
THIRTY YEARS OF MYTH AND LEGEND! Marking 30 years of the Celtic barbarian's adventures, this special anniversary book brings together a sequence of new stories from creator Pat Mills and the biggest artists to have worked on Sláine over the past three decades. This hardback volume also includes a gallery of Sláine covers and additonal material. A great collector's item and not to be missed by fans of great storytelling, art and warp spasms everywhere!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 14 May, 2013, 09:15:54 PM
Does anyone know what the "additional material" in the Slaine book may be?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 18 May, 2013, 03:54:05 PM
Judge Dredd: Year One (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Year-Simon-Coleby/dp/1613777388/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368888717&sr=1-2&keywords=Judge+Dredd%3A+Year+One) is now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

104 pages, IDW Publishing, 29th October 2013
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 31 May, 2013, 08:11:43 AM
If remember right, it's said in the latest 2000AD prog that Case files 22 will be released in March 2014 in some reply to a reader question.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 31 May, 2013, 08:42:22 AM
Pat Mills just said on Twitter that he is currently writing the first Slaine series to be illustrated by Simon Davis, which will be called 'A Simple Killing'.

Interestingly, he referred to it as a 'reboot', though he could have been using the phrase incorrectly as so many people do.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 31 May, 2013, 08:43:35 AM
Simon Davis on Slaine might acheive the impossible of getting me to read the next Slaine installment.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 31 May, 2013, 08:44:06 AM
Judge Dredd: Downside by T.C. Eglington / Boo Cook in Meg 339 with, speaking of the Devil,  Black Siddha: Bad Karma courtesy of Mills & Davis in the floppy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 31 May, 2013, 08:48:22 AM
Black Siddha? I read Book 3 when it ran in the Meg, and was mighty confused. Maybe starting at the beginning will be a better experience.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 31 May, 2013, 09:32:18 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 May, 2013, 03:54:05 PM
Judge Dredd: Year One (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Year-Simon-Coleby/dp/1613777388/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368888717&sr=1-2&keywords=Judge+Dredd%3A+Year+One) is now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

104 pages, IDW Publishing, 29th October 2013

Great news!  I have been getting the comics of this mini-series and so far it has been fantastic.  I will definitely be picking this up and I would recommend it to others. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 31 May, 2013, 12:54:15 PM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 31 May, 2013, 08:44:06 AM
Judge Dredd: Downside by T.C. Eglington / Boo Cook in Meg 339 with, speaking of the Devil,  Black Siddha: Bad Karma courtesy of Mills & Davis in the floppy.

Uh now since I'm not a Meg buyer I always buy the trades of stuff I've not got from the Meg. So the question is, is Black Siddha worth the purchase? Great creative team so I'm hopeful?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 May, 2013, 01:03:08 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 31 May, 2013, 08:48:22 AM
Black Siddha? I read Book 3 when it ran in the Meg, and was mighty confused. Maybe starting at the beginning will be a better experience.

I wouldn't bet on that.  But the first book is certainly more coherent than the last.  Not my favourite Mills.

Is it ridiculous that I simply cannot wait to see this new Slaine stuff?  Mills tailors his work to an artist's strengths so meticulously that I'm imagining a complete shift to the kind of character-centric moody horror material Davis truly shines on.  I've been reading and re-reading and thinking about Slaine a lot lately, and it is a really remarkable achievement, even later stuff I've dismissed in the past has angles and attractions I never suspected.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 31 May, 2013, 01:07:29 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 31 May, 2013, 08:48:22 AM
Black Siddha? I read Book 3 when it ran in the Meg, and was mighty confused. Maybe starting at the beginning will be a better experience.

Oh, 1 and 2 are much better. I was a big fan of that strip but the wheels really came of in book 3 and killed just about all my interest (as it did for most people, I suspect, given it never returned after that). There were unavoidable behind-the-scenes issues that can't have helped - the strip was written and drawn to fit the Meg's bumper format, but about two episodes in the budget was slashed and the page count dropped dramatically; so the remaining Siddha episodes were suddenly several pages too long. This meant that monthly 'episodes' would end several pages before their planned cliff-hangers, sometimes mid-scene, with other cliffhangers appearing in the middle of other 'episodes.' Small wonder it stopped making much sense.

Book 1 is the best by a long way - classic Mills, classic 2000AD. The image of Ganesh crushed behind the wheel of a car, coffee in one hand, doughnut in another, 'disguised' in a trenchcoat and fedora, is one that's stayed with me in the same way as Henry Flint's Face-eating Fruit.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 04 June, 2013, 04:38:50 PM
DeMarco PI - Michael Carroll & Ye Owl
I'll be glad to see DeMarco, surprised she hasn't been used more for a long time other than an a love interest for Point.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 05 June, 2013, 11:42:49 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 31 May, 2013, 08:48:22 AM
Black Siddha? I read Book 3 when it ran in the Meg, and was mighty confused. Maybe starting at the beginning will be a better experience.

.....something about sex with windows I seem to recall...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 June, 2013, 02:30:04 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 05 June, 2013, 11:42:49 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 31 May, 2013, 08:48:22 AM
Black Siddha? I read Book 3 when it ran in the Meg, and was mighty confused. Maybe starting at the beginning will be a better experience.

.....something about sex with windows I seem to recall...
Colour me intruiged.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 05 June, 2013, 03:26:57 PM
in addition to Slaine Book of Scars visual linked by the 2000AD newsletter today, amazon.uk seems to display the (very nice) definitive covers for Time Killer and Slaine the King.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 05 June, 2013, 03:52:43 PM
Covers for Case Files 21 and Book of Scars (featuring Simon Davis himself by the looks of it) among others are also now on amazon:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cLk4yPsKL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jByBPl7hL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61WlXSSAHrL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zt3FUPXCL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DGW9rtu7L._.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 13 June, 2013, 02:18:49 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/5oCMfzO.png)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 13 June, 2013, 02:19:42 PM
Fucking YES.

Cheers!

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 13 June, 2013, 02:38:21 PM
Very good news.
I was afraid we'd lost Elson completely to Marvel.

Looking forward to this.
I regrettably hope Abnett wraps it up with this series too. Elson's a prolific artist stateside now, and there's always a risk he won't come back again.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 13 June, 2013, 02:44:32 PM
This is the BEST news!  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 13 June, 2013, 03:08:12 PM
\o/

Excellent news. Kingdom is one of the few 'modern' 2000 AD thrills that's right at the top of my all-time list. It's a cracking read. (As for wrapping it up, I can see the logic, but I'd sooner it just carries on, even if sporadically.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ming on 13 June, 2013, 03:15:55 PM
Great news!  Heh, a play on Rorke's Drift...

As Michael Caine almost said: "Stop throwin'. Those bloody spears. At me."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 13 June, 2013, 03:23:11 PM
Oh that is wonderful news, wonderful. As Ming alludes to you can imagine Mr Abnett having a field day with the eminently quotable Zulu.

I'm also reluctantly inclined to agree with Link Prime, if Mr Elson does feel US work is pulling too strong and if he feels he'd struggle to continue it would be good if an ending was planned. Of course fingers crossed he's got this done with all his US case load, so if we have to wait we have to wait, but I'm not keen on it being left open ended, it deserves better, or the strip being passed to another artist, though the best alternatives have been discussed here already.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 June, 2013, 03:24:06 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 13 June, 2013, 02:38:21 PM
I was afraid we'd lost Elson completely to Marvel.

Me too. This is fantastic news.  There's so much I'm curious about in the world of Kingdom, I can't wait.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 13 June, 2013, 03:24:52 PM
Great news.

I keep meaning to start a thread where people can suggest doggie pun names for future series of Kingdom.

Did they ever use Clive Barker?

Or Rufus Hound?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2013, 03:27:57 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 13 June, 2013, 02:18:49 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/5oCMfzO.png)

<punches air> HELL YEAH!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 13 June, 2013, 04:43:34 PM
Thank you Tharg.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 13 June, 2013, 04:55:36 PM
Quote from: radiator on 05 June, 2013, 03:52:43 PM
Covers for Case Files 21 and Book of Scars (featuring Simon Davis himself by the looks of it) among others are also now on amazon:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cLk4yPsKL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jByBPl7hL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61WlXSSAHrL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zt3FUPXCL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DGW9rtu7L._.jpg)

Those Slaine covers look great. Are they the final product or just place-holders?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 June, 2013, 05:08:19 PM
Kingdoms back! Hell to the yes! :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 13 June, 2013, 06:48:35 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 13 June, 2013, 04:55:36 PM
Quote from: radiator on 05 June, 2013, 03:52:43 PM
Covers for Case Files 21 and Book of Scars (featuring Simon Davis himself by the looks of it) among others are also now on amazon:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cLk4yPsKL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jByBPl7hL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61WlXSSAHrL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zt3FUPXCL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DGW9rtu7L._.jpg)

Those Slaine covers look great. Are they the final product or just place-holders?

Those are the final covers for Time Killer and The King.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 13 June, 2013, 09:40:51 PM
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 13 June, 2013, 03:27:57 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 13 June, 2013, 02:18:49 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/5oCMfzO.png)

<punches air> HELL YEAH!

Punches air and falls off chair!!!

Brilliant news. Fantabulous in fact.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 June, 2013, 11:33:26 PM
Wicked to the power of sick.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 13 June, 2013, 11:54:48 PM
Kingdoms return, brilliant!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 14 June, 2013, 12:20:51 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 13 June, 2013, 06:48:35 PM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 13 June, 2013, 04:55:36 PM
Quote from: radiator on 05 June, 2013, 03:52:43 PM
Covers for Case Files 21 and Book of Scars (featuring Simon Davis himself by the looks of it) among others are also now on amazon:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cLk4yPsKL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jByBPl7hL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61WlXSSAHrL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zt3FUPXCL._.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DGW9rtu7L._.jpg)

Those Slaine covers look great. Are they the final product or just place-holders?

Those are the final covers for Time Killer and The King.

I'm pleased with them anyway, especially Slaine the King. I recall a long while ago that I did mock up of that particular as a suggestion for the last reprint of Slaine the King.
Pitured here...

(http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/4003/salmonleaptwouw3.jpg)

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,22376.msg384835#msg384835

I'm also pleased with Slaine : Time-Killer. I'm so glad they are reprinting it as I have been after another one for my collection. I only have bits n pieces of it in Prog form. The complete Megazine reprint, the black n white hardback collectors edition and the last softcover reprint published back in February 2007. Pictured here....

(http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/slaine_time_killer.jpg)

I need another copy to lend to friends.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 June, 2013, 07:24:31 AM
Slaine looks like a rabid Kevin Beacon in that Time Killer cover. :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Cactus on 14 June, 2013, 08:09:37 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 13 June, 2013, 02:18:49 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/5oCMfzO.png)

This news has made my week.  :D :D :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 14 June, 2013, 02:09:26 PM
Guys for the relative newbie here-is the material covered by Dredd case files 20 good stuff or a continuation of the relative dross of the previous few volumes?

Ta as always.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 14 June, 2013, 02:12:38 PM
It's more or less a 50/50 split. The 2000 AD stuff isn't much cop, but the Meg stuff is Wagner/Rennie and includes one of the best Dredd shorts of them all, plus McMahon's return.

Just checked Barney and the next ones should be a return to form—Wilderlands and the conspiracy arc.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 14 June, 2013, 02:17:57 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 13 June, 2013, 02:38:21 PM
I regrettably hope Abnett wraps it up with this series too. Elson's a prolific artist stateside now, and there's always a risk he won't come back again.

I hope Richard won't mind me saying, but we 'spoke' briefly on Facebook and he mentioned that Kingdom is one of his favourite jobs, so I think Richard will find time as long as Dan has stories to write, even if that means that the stories are further apart than we would ideally like...

Cheers!

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 14 June, 2013, 02:19:31 PM
It's a mixed bag, but I'd say you'd mostly find it carries on in that vein. It has some stories such as Book of the Dead and Frankenstein Division that are widely held to be among the worst Dredd strips of all time (I don't think I've ever fully read either of them so can't comment) - but it also has the excellent Giant by Wagner and Gibson, the divisive (read: excellent if you have any taste) Howler by Wagner & McMahon and Bury My Knee at Wounded Heart - generally considered of of the very best Dredd one-offs ever published.

I think volumes 22-24 will see an upswing in quality as we get into stuff like Tenth Planet, Wilderlands and The Three Amigos (I think Tenth Planet is scheduled for CF21, with Wilderlands in CF22...?), but hampered slightly by some pretty dodgy Megazine material, but the books that cover the 1997-2000 (Case Files 25/26/27?) period are going to be bloody brilliant, as Wagner was writing Dredd pretty much single-handedly in the prog and Meg for a few years, and a good deal of the stories from that period have never been reprinted.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 14 June, 2013, 04:10:20 PM
We've had Sláine do Jack Nicholas's "Here's Johnny!" moment in The King - will Simon Davis have Nicholas Cage Sláine doing the "You Don't Say!" meme in Book of Scars?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 14 June, 2013, 05:02:51 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 14 June, 2013, 02:12:38 PM
It's more or less a 50/50 split. The 2000 AD stuff isn't much cop, but the Meg stuff is Wagner/Rennie and includes one of the best Dredd shorts of them all, plus McMahon's return.

I had rather anticipated CF20 being the absolute nadir of the Case Files (and said as much in my Amazon review for 19), but I now think 19 may turn out to hold that crown after all. I had forgotten just how bad 'Inferno' was - I'd been thinking of it as almost passable, but unless re-reads of the Morrison/Millar atrocities in CF20 prove otherwise, I think 'Inferno' has a fair shot at being called the worst script Dredd ever had. CF20 will be the most schizophrenic volume imaginable: as radiator says, the combo of Howler, Giant and Bury My Knee... is blisteringly superb - not just good, but each, in their very different ways, some of the best Dredd possible.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 June, 2013, 08:01:42 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 14 June, 2013, 05:02:51 PMI had forgotten just how bad 'Inferno' was - I'd been thinking of it as almost passable, but unless re-reads of the Morrison/Millar atrocities in CF20 prove otherwise, I think 'Inferno' has a fair shot at being called the worst script Dredd ever had.

You poor deluded fool.  Inferno is awful in its wilful mindlessness, but there's a lot worse to come.  Things so bad that I stopped buying the prog entirely because of them.  On the plus side, it means that the back end of CF20 and the next few volumes are going to be largely new to me. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 14 June, 2013, 08:05:12 PM
Are we talking 'Sonny Steelgrave'? I don't think I've read much of that.

Inferno is drawn by Ezquerra when he was doing his gorgeous watercolour and magic marker hand-coloured stuff, so is automatically kinda awesome. It's poorly written and often illogical, but it's at least coherent.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 14 June, 2013, 08:23:42 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 14 June, 2013, 08:01:42 PM
You poor deluded fool.  Inferno is awful in its wilful mindlessness, but there's a lot worse to come.

Don't get me wrong, I remember thinking Frankenstein Division was awful at the time, but I've developed a more benevolent attitude to the work of young Mark Millar these days (it was utter tosh, of course, but hell, he was barely out of his teens and had been brought up on a diet of Superman - he was so out of both his depth and element in the prog.) As such, his co-authorship of that era's stinkers somehow helps alleviate the stigma and makes me look more sympathetically on their spectacular rubbishness - whereas the far more talented and experienced Morrison writing solo doesn't get that kind of pass.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 14 June, 2013, 10:06:26 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 14 June, 2013, 02:17:57 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 13 June, 2013, 02:38:21 PM
I regrettably hope Abnett wraps it up with this series too. Elson's a prolific artist stateside now, and there's always a risk he won't come back again.

I hope Richard won't mind me saying, but we 'spoke' briefly on Facebook and he mentioned that Kingdom is one of his favourite jobs, so I think Richard will find time as long as Dan has stories to write, even if that means that the stories are further apart than we would ideally like...

Cheers!

Jim

Very reassuring to hear.
Keep writing those scripts Abnett!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 June, 2013, 10:14:26 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 14 June, 2013, 08:23:42 PMAs such, his co-authorship of that era's stinkers somehow helps alleviate the stigma and makes me look more sympathetically on their spectacular rubbishness - whereas the far more talented and experienced Morrison writing solo doesn't get that kind of pass.

A fair point.  Also, in any media I've seen Millar comes across as a such a remarkably nice guy that it's really quite hard to maintain the hot flame of hatred I've nurtured, lo these 20 years.  But I struggle on.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 14 June, 2013, 10:55:53 PM
A  lot of the really bad scripts from that time had the saving grace of having some great art, Carlos as noted above, and Ron Smith did some nice colour work on a Sonny Steelgrave, so all might not be lost. Frankenstein Division had utterly glorious art, just look at the art, do pay no heed to the lettering!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 14 June, 2013, 10:58:45 PM
It always bugs me that some of Carlos's best art was effectively wasted on such dire stories - that period post-Necropolis and pre-computer-colouring when he'd totally mastered his full-coloured craft.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 15 June, 2013, 09:32:22 AM
Guys thanks for the advice on CF20. Much appreciated.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 June, 2013, 09:49:39 AM
Quote from: Greg M. on 14 June, 2013, 10:58:45 PM
It always bugs me that some of Carlos's best art was effectively wasted on such dire stories - that period post-Necropolis and pre-computer-colouring when he'd totally mastered his full-coloured craft.

So true.  To think that he drew all of Purgatory and Inferno, and only parts of The Pit.  Grrrrrr.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 15 June, 2013, 10:09:24 AM
Though he's done some superb Dredd in recent years I'm not a huge fan of Carlos' computer coloured stuff, always preferred his paints and markers era. Wish he could replicate some of that more organic look and feel digitally.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 16 June, 2013, 05:08:35 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 31 May, 2013, 08:11:43 AM
If remember right, it's said in the latest 2000AD prog that Case files 22 will be released in March 2014 in some reply to a reader question.

Yeah I saw that too. I for one am delighted that The Mighty Tharg and his industrious droids have finally picked up the pace of the Case Files releases. :D

Keep up the good work, fellas!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 16 June, 2013, 07:55:54 PM
What Greg M said.

Great art, shame about the scripts. But there is some Wagner gold among the dross, and I think CF20 is well worth picking up. Then from CF21 on the quality is right back to a high standard, which I hope will encourage Rebellion to pick up the pace for releases -- I assume they only slowed down because of the dip in quality after Necropolis finished.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 17 June, 2013, 12:06:45 AM
Prog 1850's lineup revealed...


Stunning sci-fi action from the UK's number one anthology comic, featuring some of the best writers and artists in the business! The roster of stories wraps up on Progs 1848 and 1849 with Slaine, The Ten-Seconders, and Age of the Wolf all coming to a close and making way for a brand-new line-up in Prog 1850 - dinosaur savagery as the cowboys of Trans-Time face a new threat in 'Flesh: Badlanders'; Wren's journey across the wheel of worlds takes a dramatic turn when civil war breaks out in 'Brass Sun: The Diamond Age'; humanity battles the space invaders once again in the second series of 'Damnation Station'; and soulless killer Aquila walks the streets of Rome in 'Where All Roads Lead' Plus more zero-tolerance law enforcement with Judge Dredd!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 June, 2013, 12:41:04 AM
Huzzah. Brass Sun!

Looks like Ten Seconders and Age of the Wolf will be returning soon too.

I wonder if 1840 will be a 'soft' jumping on Prog.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 17 June, 2013, 01:39:16 AM
Now that's what Stevie what calls a prog & then some.

If that's not an incentive for him to catch up with his backlog then he needs to get an entirely new hobby.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 17 June, 2013, 05:55:53 AM
Prog 1850 has a great line-up. assuming I get on with Damnation Station more this time, the three other thrills I've really been looking forward to returning.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 June, 2013, 06:33:21 AM
Lee Carter is on art for Damnation Station, yes?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 June, 2013, 08:31:43 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 June, 2013, 06:33:21 AM
Lee Carter is on art for Damnation Station, yes?
Mark Harrison wasnt it? Carters on Indigo Prime.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 June, 2013, 08:43:09 AM
Riiiight.

Which is all very strange. Harrison on Damnation Station. Carter on Indigo Prime. And Bagwell on Ten-Seconders.

Artdroid musical chairs!

EDIT: Oh wait, I'm was mixing up Carter's semi-regular run on Grey Area, not Damnation Station. Whoops.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 18 June, 2013, 12:02:13 AM
Quote from: radiator on 14 June, 2013, 02:19:31 PM
It's a mixed bag, but I'd say you'd mostly find it carries on in that vein. It has some stories such as Book of the Dead and Frankenstein Division that are widely held to be among the worst Dredd strips of all time (I don't think I've ever fully read either of them so can't comment) - but it also has the excellent Giant by Wagner and Gibson, the divisive (read: excellent if you have any taste) Howler by Wagner & McMahon and Bury My Knee at Wounded Heart - generally considered of of the very best Dredd one-offs ever published.

I think volumes 22-24 will see an upswing in quality as we get into stuff like Tenth Planet, Wilderlands and The Three Amigos (I think Tenth Planet is scheduled for CF21, with Wilderlands in CF22...?), but hampered slightly by some pretty dodgy Megazine material, but the books that cover the 1997-2000 (Case Files 25/26/27?) period are going to be bloody brilliant, as Wagner was writing Dredd pretty much single-handedly in the prog and Meg for a few years, and a good deal of the stories from that period have never been reprinted.


And  . . . . . Crusade.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 18 June, 2013, 12:05:49 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 June, 2013, 09:49:39 AM
Quote from: Greg M. on 14 June, 2013, 10:58:45 PM
It always bugs me that some of Carlos's best art was effectively wasted on such dire stories - that period post-Necropolis and pre-computer-colouring when he'd totally mastered his full-coloured craft.

So true.  To think that he drew all of Purgatory and Inferno, and only parts of The Pit.  Grrrrrr.

Oh no you just reminded me :-( Soon the awful Craddock computer colouring will start!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 29 June, 2013, 02:35:41 PM
Any word on the next Anderson trade?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Alfaro on 30 June, 2013, 02:23:35 AM
Hi all, I'm a newbie here. I've started buying up all the Crime Files, now up to volume 18. Do we know if the plan is to keep releasing them until they cover the present? I've bought a few of the trades featuring stories not covered yet, like Origins and Chief Judge's Man. Are they likely to be covered by future Crime Files?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 June, 2013, 08:11:25 AM
Quote from: Alfaro on 30 June, 2013, 02:23:35 AM
Hi all, I'm a newbie here. I've started buying up all the Crime Files, now up to volume 18. Do we know if the plan is to keep releasing them until they cover the present? I've bought a few of the trades featuring stories not covered yet, like Origins and Chief Judge's Man. Are they likely to be covered by future Crime Files?
Yes but not for a good half decade yet, if not more. I think Colin worked out how long it would take to get from Case File 20 to Summer 2012...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 30 June, 2013, 08:58:25 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 30 June, 2013, 08:11:25 AM
Quote from: Alfaro on 30 June, 2013, 02:23:35 AM
Hi all, I'm a newbie here. I've started buying up all the Crime Files, now up to volume 18. Do we know if the plan is to keep releasing them until they cover the present? I've bought a few of the trades featuring stories not covered yet, like Origins and Chief Judge's Man. Are they likely to be covered by future Crime Files?
Yes but not for a good half decade yet, if not more. I think Colin worked out how long it would take to get from Case File 20 to Summer 2012...

Any idea were on here I could find that? Would be interested to know when we think we can expect certain case files, cheers.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 June, 2013, 10:47:59 AM
Try about 20 pages or so back in this here thread. It was awhile ago so I might be mistaken, was it Colin?...ahem.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 30 June, 2013, 12:15:05 PM
Quote from: Alfaro on 30 June, 2013, 02:23:35 AM
Hi all, I'm a newbie here. I've started buying up all the Crime Files, now up to volume 18. Do we know if the plan is to keep releasing them until they cover the present?

They can never actually catch up to the present (certainly not at the current publication rate), but this does conversely mean they can never actually run out of material unless the prog comes to an end - and the plan seems to be to publish them indefinately.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 June, 2013, 02:50:14 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 30 June, 2013, 10:47:59 AM
Try about 20 pages or so back in this here thread. It was awhile ago so I might be mistaken, was it Colin?...ahem.

Not sure if it was this Colin that you were thinking of, rather than Zeal, or the various others that live this way (arh its nice to know others share the burden of one of the worst names the English language has!) but if so, nope never tried that. I do seem to recall some kinda calculation that way but not me.

I might have had a stab at Anderson, in an attempt to get someone to do it properly as that's the series I hope will get to the Meg stuff quite soon in theory and therefore stuff I don't have.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 30 June, 2013, 08:00:55 PM
You know there is Megazine Anderson in the existing volumes right?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 June, 2013, 08:20:02 PM
Oh yeah, sorry to be clear I have the first two volumes of Megazine so from PSI File volume 3 I only need Satan and another story I believe, but of which I've read (I did own alot of Volume 3 too before clearing them out) and will track down in the Hamlyn (I think it was?) collection.

Its the stuff that appeared after Anderson returned to the Meg after going back to 2000ad I'm really after.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2013, 10:46:34 AM
Quote from: Alfaro on 30 June, 2013, 02:23:35 AM
Do we know if the plan is to keep releasing them until they cover the present?

I think the plan is to keep releasing them so long as they make money.  So far, so good, and keep 'em coming I say!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 July, 2013, 11:33:52 AM
Trifecta cover now up at Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Trifecta_zps4cc77925.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 05 July, 2013, 11:51:43 AM
Brilliant.
Is it an amalgamation of Flint, Coleby & D'Israeli?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 July, 2013, 12:16:24 PM
I'm really intrigued to see how they've decided to print this, order wise I mean.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 05 July, 2013, 12:21:37 PM
Fantastic cover. Somehow Henry Flint manages to get better and better. I'm going to bust the width of this page and show it full size.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91eAZYjbkJL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 05 July, 2013, 12:22:36 PM
I really hope it's in logical order and not just "strip 1", "strip 2", "strip 3", finale.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 July, 2013, 12:24:37 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 05 July, 2013, 12:22:36 PM
I really hope it's in logical order and not just "strip 1", "strip 2", "strip 3", finale.

You gotta hope so... though I'm so often wrong about these things!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 05 July, 2013, 01:03:31 PM
Molcher or Keith already confirmed some time ago it's going to be printed as it appeared in the prog. Personally I hope it includes the relevant build-up strips; Bullet to King Four is an absolute must, at the very least, and The Bean Counter and Rich Cabaret introduce Maitland ready for her role in Cold Deck. (Family Man isn't strictly necessary but would be nice, as it's Bachmann's only other apperance). The collection's going to be missing something otherwise.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 05 July, 2013, 04:05:32 PM
In the 2000ad weekly newsletter sent to my E-mail it mentioned that 'Trifecta' will also be available in a special hardcover edition, but when I followed the link underneath only a paperback version was shown. Does anybody know for sure if it will indeed be out in a hardcover?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 05 July, 2013, 04:18:27 PM
Trifecta will be a hardcover edition.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 05 July, 2013, 05:28:59 PM
I wasn't going to buy this, what with it being so recently in the prog, but now you've gone and ruined my plan!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 05 July, 2013, 08:15:20 PM
I'll double dip if its digital!


Also, as lovely as that cover is, anyone else bothered that Jack Point isn't getting any representation?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 05 July, 2013, 08:37:25 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 05 July, 2013, 08:15:20 PM
I'll double dip if its digital!


Also, as lovely as that cover is, anyone else bothered that Jack Point isn't getting any representation?

I thought that exact same thing! Seems weird to not include him.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Andy B on 05 July, 2013, 08:49:03 PM
Does anybody know if Trifecta will include 'The Family Man' as a kind of prologue? Hoping so, as I missed that...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 July, 2013, 10:33:04 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 05 July, 2013, 08:15:20 PM
I'll double dip if its digital!


Also, as lovely as that cover is, anyone else bothered that Jack Point isn't getting any representation?
I thought that red splodge on Dredd's helmet was his nose? :-\

....

It is fucking amazing though isn't it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 06 July, 2013, 09:34:44 AM
Quote from: Molch-R on 05 July, 2013, 04:18:27 PM
Trifecta will be a hardcover edition.

Cool. Been buying quite a lot of those lately (DC and Vertigo)!

HC's collecting Tour of duty: Backslash & Mega city justice or for example Day of chaos: Fourth fraction + Endgame would look lovely on the shelf!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: strontium71 on 06 July, 2013, 02:45:57 PM
Maybe it'll be an image on the reverse with Point on?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 12 July, 2013, 12:46:38 PM
Now listed for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Banzai Battalion: Just Another Bug Hunt (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Banzai-Battalion-Just-Another-Hunt/dp/1781082189/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373601718&sr=1-1&keywords=Banzai+Battalion%3A+Just+Another+Bug+Hunt) - 160 pages, March 2014


Ro-Busters: The Disaster Squad of Distinction (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ro-Busters-Disaster-Distinction-Pat-Mills/dp/1781082197/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373601757&sr=1-1&keywords=Ro-Busters%3A+The+Disaster+Squad+of+Distinction) - 112 pages, April 2014
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 12 July, 2013, 12:57:15 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 July, 2013, 10:33:04 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 05 July, 2013, 08:15:20 PM
I'll double dip if its digital!


Also, as lovely as that cover is, anyone else bothered that Jack Point isn't getting any representation?
I thought that red splodge on Dredd's helmet was his nose? :-\

....

It is fucking amazing though isn't it.

Apparently the cover of Trifecta will be lenticular - so presumably will show either Frank or Point depending on the angle it's viewed at.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 12 July, 2013, 12:58:35 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 12 July, 2013, 12:46:38 PM
Now listed for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Banzai Battalion: Just Another Bug Hunt (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Banzai-Battalion-Just-Another-Hunt/dp/1781082189/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373601718&sr=1-1&keywords=Banzai+Battalion%3A+Just+Another+Bug+Hunt) - 160 pages, March 2014


Ro-Busters: The Disaster Squad of Distinction (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ro-Busters-Disaster-Distinction-Pat-Mills/dp/1781082197/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373601757&sr=1-1&keywords=Ro-Busters%3A+The+Disaster+Squad+of+Distinction) - 112 pages, April 2014

I might be tempted to pick up the Banzai Battalion book if it includes the last BB story (which wasn't in the previous book).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 12 July, 2013, 01:00:46 PM
Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 07 (US Edition) - Feb 2014

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781082170/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373630368&sr=1-1&keywords=dredd (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781082170/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373630368&sr=1-1&keywords=dredd)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Rob1971 on 12 July, 2013, 01:44:04 PM
The cover's a hologram-thingy, so that from some angles it's Dirty Frank in Dredd's visor and from others it's Jack Point.

Clever GN collection droids.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 12 July, 2013, 01:48:57 PM
Quote from: radiator on 12 July, 2013, 12:58:35 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 12 July, 2013, 12:46:38 PM
Now listed for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Banzai Battalion: Just Another Bug Hunt (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Banzai-Battalion-Just-Another-Hunt/dp/1781082189/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373601718&sr=1-1&keywords=Banzai+Battalion%3A+Just+Another+Bug+Hunt) - 160 pages, March 2014


Ro-Busters: The Disaster Squad of Distinction (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ro-Busters-Disaster-Distinction-Pat-Mills/dp/1781082197/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373601757&sr=1-1&keywords=Ro-Busters%3A+The+Disaster+Squad+of+Distinction) - 112 pages, April 2014

I might be tempted to pick up the Banzai Battalion book if it includes the last BB story (which wasn't in the previous book).

Me too, and the page count suggests it probably will.

The Ro-Busters page count, on the other hand... 112? When the phonebook is 336? If that's correct I suspect this will be a selection of stories carefully cherry-picked for a US audience, giving dissproportionate prominence to the Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore material. The subtitle certainly leaves the door open for a second, concluding book - 'Ro-Busters: The Rise and Fall of Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein.'
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 12 July, 2013, 02:05:41 PM
I imagine it will be another of the manga-sized collection...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 July, 2013, 02:52:18 PM
Quote from: Rob1971 on 12 July, 2013, 01:44:04 PM
The cover's a hologram-thingy, so that from some angles it's Dirty Frank in Dredd's visor and from others it's Jack Point.

Clever GN collection droids.

That's so very, very cool. I tend not to buy things I have in comic form, but that bit of gimmicky silliness may be the kinda thing that makes me part with cash.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 12 July, 2013, 08:55:25 PM
Really like the sound of a Banzai Battalion collection.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 12 July, 2013, 09:54:22 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 05 July, 2013, 01:03:31 PM
Molcher or Keith already confirmed some time ago it's going to be printed as it appeared in the prog.

Correct.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 12 July, 2013, 09:55:33 PM
Quote from: radiator on 12 July, 2013, 12:58:35 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 12 July, 2013, 12:46:38 PM
Now listed for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Banzai Battalion: Just Another Bug Hunt (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Banzai-Battalion-Just-Another-Hunt/dp/1781082189/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373601718&sr=1-1&keywords=Banzai+Battalion%3A+Just+Another+Bug+Hunt) - 160 pages, March 2014


Ro-Busters: The Disaster Squad of Distinction (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ro-Busters-Disaster-Distinction-Pat-Mills/dp/1781082197/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373601757&sr=1-1&keywords=Ro-Busters%3A+The+Disaster+Squad+of+Distinction) - 112 pages, April 2014

I might be tempted to pick up the Banzai Battalion book if it includes the last BB story (which wasn't in the previous book).

It will.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 13 July, 2013, 02:34:03 PM
Quote from: Rob1971 on 12 July, 2013, 01:44:04 PM
The cover's a hologram-thingy, so that from some angles it's Dirty Frank in Dredd's visor and from others it's Jack Point.

Clever GN collection droids.

Sounds great. Can't wait to pick it up next month!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 18 July, 2013, 10:47:28 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

The Art of Sean Phillips
Hardcover, 312 pages, Dynamite Entertainment, 12th November 2013

The Amazon "Look Inside" feature shows it has separate chapters on Crisis and 2000AD and lets you see some of the art (Dredd, Armitage, Slaine, Chopper etc).

Blurb:
The Art of Sean Phillips is a lavish, career-spanning retrospective of the acclaimed artist behind Criminal, Sleeper, Incognito, and Fatale. Sean has personally selected the very best, most interesting examples of his art for inclusion, from comic strips assembled with childhood friends in his bedroom, through his work for British girls' comics and 2000AD, to his role as a key artist in the early years of Vertigo, through his superhero work for Marvel, DC, and WildStorm, and finally from his creator-owned series with Ed Brubaker. Also, the renowned artist has been extensively interviewed, along with many of his key collaborators, for the book's in-depth commentary on his work and career.


(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Sean_zps30b8b578.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 20 July, 2013, 12:50:25 AM
Pre-ordered.

ISRC Sean did some work for girls comics before New Statesmen. Some of that is what Stevie's really looking forward to seeing in this one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 July, 2013, 02:05:50 AM
Yes, the chapter order goes Bunty, Crisis, 2000AD.

I thought I linked that, but here it is (again?):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-Sean-Phillips-HC/dp/1606904205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374282233&sr=8-1&keywords=Art+of+Sean+Phillips#_
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 20 July, 2013, 02:50:46 AM
Cheers Dash! Will give it another look at home after work.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 21 July, 2013, 01:45:45 PM
Having been lucky enough to see an advance pdf of this mighty tome, I can only endorse it as a great book - not just a comprehensive overview of Sean's art [worth the cover price alone], but also choked with insightful interviews and insights from a range of creators.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 24 July, 2013, 07:30:09 PM
Pretty corking line-up for Prog 1850: Brass Sun, Damnation Station and Aquila. Just a pity that we also have to put up with the return of Flesh. I suppose it's like the flaw in every beautiful Persian carpet. There to remind us that only Allah is perfect.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 July, 2013, 08:51:17 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 July, 2013, 07:30:09 PMThere to remind us that only Allah is perfect.

I on the other hand love that entire line-up - proving that Tharg too is perfect, and it is only Cosh's flawed mortal tastes that offend against the ineffable.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 July, 2013, 09:24:04 PM
I normally hold The Cosh in the highest regard, but this anti Flesh stance rocks my faith in him to the very core.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 July, 2013, 10:37:55 PM
I don't have a clue how anyone can look forward to Flesh, the titulare material refering to items of masogynistic nature rather than hunks of Dino meat. Nidnight cowboys was the worst thing published in tooth last year and I dread it's return. But yes. Brass Sun is still wonderful.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 24 July, 2013, 11:28:20 PM
Flesh is pretty dire; Brass Sun is fairly good (although Edginton's authorial tics are increasingly starting to annoy me); Damnation Station I didn't enjoy at all last time around but Mark Harrison's been away from the prog for too long. Aquila's the only one of those I like unequivocally. Ho-hum.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 25 July, 2013, 08:40:00 AM
Flesh doesn't float my boat and being a relative newbie I have no experience of Damnation Station.

Brass Sun and Aquila yum.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 25 July, 2013, 04:54:23 PM
And Flesh gets a thumbs up from me as well. Really enjoyed the last run.
Good to hear some faves are returning soon!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 25 July, 2013, 08:12:59 PM
Flesh is obnoxious because it has all the ingredients to be amazing (cowboys, dinosaurs, artist, violence), but falls flat on its face. In many respects it has the same problems I have with Defoe. To many characters, unclear motivations, and sudden weirdness for weirdness's sake without logical progression.

But I'm actually enjoying Defoe right now (it helps when there are only 3 or 4 characters, and the characters actually seem to have motivation). So anything is possible.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 26 July, 2013, 10:30:20 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 25 July, 2013, 08:12:59 PMTo many characters, unclear motivations, and sudden weirdness for weirdness's sake without logical progression.
That and a frequently troubling attitude towards women, and that device Mills uses all the time to introduce a gang of some kind that quite often then gets killed off within a few pages. Flesh should be a standout 2000 AD strip. As it is, I just find it frustrating.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 26 July, 2013, 10:59:17 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 26 July, 2013, 10:30:20 AM
and that device Mills uses all the time to introduce a gang of some kind that quite often then gets killed off within a few pages.

When someone first pointed out that trope of his it started to drive me crazy. Not just a team - but weaponry - like seven panels of "this missile is the TANK-SHREDDER - it's shot into the MAIN GUN and then EXPLODES filling the vehicle full of TWISTED METAL!"

And then like, we never see that weapon being used beyond that. Or hear about it ever again.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: AlexF on 26 July, 2013, 12:22:25 PM
I'm really torn about Mills's tendency to do that. On the one hand, some of the throwaway characters and weapons he comes up with (in conjunction with his artists, obv.) are way cool, and I'd love to see them reappear and get used more often. On the other hand, I really respect and appreciate the creativity and bloody-mindedness of his drive to create new concepts all the damn time, and ignore old ones.

As a child, each 5-page epsiode of Mills and O'Neill Nemesis was like a self-contained Universe of delight - and if I'd never read a Prog before, I imagine I'd feel much the same with new episodes of Flesh and Defoe. They can be somewhat unsatisfying as long-form stories, but they excel in the moment, for the most part.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 26 July, 2013, 03:36:43 PM
Quote from: AlexF on 26 July, 2013, 12:22:25 PM
I'm really torn about Mills's tendency to do that. On the one hand, some of the throwaway characters and weapons he comes up with (in conjunction with his artists, obv.) are way cool, and I'd love to see them reappear and get used more often. On the other hand, I really respect and appreciate the creativity and bloody-mindedness of his drive to create new concepts all the damn time, and ignore old ones.

As a child, each 5-page epsiode of Mills and O'Neill Nemesis was like a self-contained Universe of delight - and if I'd never read a Prog before, I imagine I'd feel much the same with new episodes of Flesh and Defoe. They can be somewhat unsatisfying as long-form stories, but they excel in the moment, for the most part.

With 5 page stories for children it's ok to write like that, but 2000AD is now for adults & adults require more logic in their stories. At least I require more logic to enjoy them.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 26 July, 2013, 03:41:28 PM
The problem I have with this Mills trope is that it looks like the comic-book form of a list or outline. Do we really need that kind of introduction/roll call? Aren't there smarter ways to do this? It worked quite nicely with the Shadow Warriors, but he uses the device far too often.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Andy B on 26 July, 2013, 11:03:51 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 26 July, 2013, 03:36:43 PM
2000AD is now for adults & adults require more logic in their stories.

Is it really? So where are new readers going to come from? Or are we happy for it to die out with the middle aged (mostly) guys who grew up reading it? (Like me...)

Pat Mills can do what the hell he likes! It's a bit hit and miss sometimes, but that's only to be expected when you're staying creative and not just playing it safe. Sure, Flesh has some dodgy moments, but Savage has got to be one of the best things to ever appear in the Prog. And I know which one of those 10 year old me would have preferred...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Montynero on 26 July, 2013, 11:56:06 PM
Quote from: AlexF on 26 July, 2013, 12:22:25 PM

As a child, each 5-page epsiode of Mills and O'Neill Nemesis was like a self-contained Universe of delight - and if I'd never read a Prog before, I imagine I'd feel much the same with new episodes of Flesh and Defoe. They can be somewhat unsatisfying as long-form stories, but they excel in the moment, for the most part.

Yeah, every prog is someone's first. IMHO there has to be stuff for people to pick up and enjoy without reference to decades of history or even last week's prog. And tooth is such a diverse anthology that this can sit happily alongside more sophisticated ongoing stories.

Future Shocks do this, I love 'em, but I also thought Abnett and Burns recent Sin Dex was a masterclass in how to write episodes you can enjoy and understand fully both long form or as single episodes. Writer's used to do this all the time, little unobtrusive conversational recaps at the start of each ep, and when it's done well it entertaining and fun. When's it's just a caption box rehash of the story so far - less cool.
 

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 03 August, 2013, 10:32:55 PM
The trouble I find with Mills these days especially in ABC Warriors stories is that the characters talk pure exposition, long gone are the days of the black hole where each chapter was related by a different characters thoughts.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 06 August, 2013, 08:34:00 PM
Any idea if Slaine The Secret Commonwealth will be reprinted anytime soon?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 06 August, 2013, 09:25:38 PM
It's not due until after The Lost Years has been reprinted. Rebellion tend to publish one GN a year,,around Easter time. Depends whether Lost Years fits into 1 or 2 volumes, but I'd expect Secret Commonwealth in 2015.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 06 August, 2013, 10:58:11 PM
What are the Lost Years?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 August, 2013, 11:27:35 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 26 July, 2013, 03:36:43 PMWith 5 page stories for children it's ok to write like that, but 2000AD is now for adults & adults require more logic in their stories.

You must introduce me to these logic-averse children of which you speak.  All the ones I know hound me relentlessly for a chain of causation devoid of adult hand-waving about 'making for a good story'. 

Mills gets to write what he wants.  Sometimes it's awful.  Far more often it's pure gold. The aggregate is called 2000AD.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Professor Bear on 06 August, 2013, 11:38:23 PM
Children are bastards for wanting stuff explained to them, it's adults that are much more forgiving and willing to let stuff slide.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 07 August, 2013, 08:43:47 AM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 06 August, 2013, 10:58:11 PM
What are the Lost Years?

The run of Slaine stories between the last Graphic Novel and the Secret Commonwealth :)

They are called the Lost Years as they are set during Slaine's time as High King (just after The Horned God). They are a sort of 'back to basics' for Slaine after his time travelling adventures for the Goddess.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 07 August, 2013, 08:15:06 PM
Quote from: glassstanley on 07 August, 2013, 08:43:47 AM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 06 August, 2013, 10:58:11 PM
What are the Lost Years?

The run of Slaine stories between the last Graphic Novel and the Secret Commonwealth :)

They are called the Lost Years as they are set during Slaine's time as High King (just after The Horned God). They are a sort of 'back to basics' for Slaine after his time travelling adventures for the Goddess.
The grail war reprints circa 30 strips. Between The Grail war and the Secret Commonwealth if I am not mistaken there are 16 strips and the Secret Commonwealth run for 17 strips so 2014 it is  :) !
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 08 August, 2013, 03:16:12 AM
Thanks guys.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 08 August, 2013, 09:01:33 AM
Just to continue with the gap filling trades questions ...

... any idea when the paperback version of volgan wars 4 will emerge? Also, is ABC Warriors: Return to Earth really hardcover? Amazon has it listed as such so I'm in two minds as to whether to ignore this as usual, or believe it because it's a Mills/Langley book. Any ideas?

Finally, Savage Vol. 3 trade?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 08 August, 2013, 09:16:26 AM
Quote from: glassstanley on 06 August, 2013, 09:25:38 PM
It's not due until after The Lost Years has been reprinted. Rebellion tend to publish one GN a year,,around Easter time. Depends whether Lost Years fits into 1 or 2 volumes, but I'd expect Secret Commonwealth in 2015.

I think that may be another two to three graphic novels, myself!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 08 August, 2013, 10:24:44 AM
Quote from: credo on 08 August, 2013, 09:01:33 AM
Also, is ABC Warriors: Return to Earth really hardcover? Amazon has it listed as such so I'm in two minds as to whether to ignore this as usual, or believe it because it's a Mills/Langley book. Any ideas?

You've answered that one yourself Credo.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 August, 2013, 10:44:21 AM
Barney plus some dodgy mental arithmetic suggests Lord of Beasts (the all-Slaine Prog 1100) plus Lost Tales weighs in at 112 pages.  Say 120 with covers, titles etc.  That's a slim but viable, and very desirable, GN.  (Treasures of Britain is only 128 pages)

Secret Commonwealth is a mercifully brief 102 pages.  Throw in a host of extras like the Dermot Power Poster Prog, the missing Arrow of God story from the '89 Annual and maybe some more Diceman stuff (there is more, isn't there?) and you'd have another, quite horrid, thin volume. 

You certainly could get all the core story into one chunky 220-page volume, and I wouldn't think it too many, and it's definitely the approach that'd dilute the disappointment of Secret Commonwealth most effectively, but then would we ever see the remaining 'extras' appear in the current GN line? 

The thickest of the existing Slaine GNs is Slaine The King at 256 pages, so you clearly could get all the remaining stuff under one cover - 214 pages of story, with 40-odd pages of extras.  That'd be my preferred option, and would make for an amazing collection, but would it be in Rebellion's interests?  On the other hand, is anyone, other than Thryllseekyr, going to buy Secret Commonwealth for a dozen bonus pages of Dermot Power and Steve Parkhouse art?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheldipez on 08 August, 2013, 10:51:08 AM
Surely a Slaine: barbarian files is due?  As a recent 2000 AD noobie it can be hard to tell where to start with some of these things, others are well out of print (e.g. first lot of Nikolai Dante collections).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 08 August, 2013, 10:51:31 AM
Here, here!!!

I hope it's a single chunky volume. I've personally found Grail War to be difficult enough* and, having only seen a handful of pages from Secret Commonwealth, I've been anticipating it with a mixture of dread and perverse, self-loathing delight.

* I loathe King of Hearts and its Braveheart bandwagoneering guff, and can't read the Grail Wars stories without thinking about how an earlier Mills would have been more likely to have Simon De Montefort as an incarnation of Torquemada. He really was scraping the Slaine-across-time barrel by this point.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 August, 2013, 11:13:09 AM
Quote from: sheldipez on 08 August, 2013, 10:51:08 AM
Surely a Slaine: barbarian files is due?

I agree, but preferably not before the rest of us get the last remaining 214 pages of story in the current fully in-print spinetastic series!

As to Credo's thoughts on the Grail War... De Montfort as yet another archetypal Mills Torque-baddie would have been horrendously predictable, but as it was the twist Mills delivered in that story was pretty darn clever.  Especially the tender-slash-awkward campfire scene.  The story is probably my personal highlight of mid-period Slaine. 

The less said about King of Hearts the better.  Its only virtues are that it's short, and there's the (very) occasional nice Percival panel.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 08 August, 2013, 11:47:52 AM
I don't really see the point of a 'Barbarian Files' really, as we have (or will have) all of the stories printed in chronological order. The Poster Prog story has already been reprinted in a previous collection, but I do hope 'Arrow of God' and the two remaining Dice Man stories are not overlooked in the either one or two trades to come. Also, there is a short story called 'Beyond' which appears in Year Prog 2000 which I think leads into 'The Secret Commonwealth' which will probably need to be included as well. My own personal preference is for one (albeit hefty!) volume comprising all this material to be released in 2014 (which we may have to pay a little bit more for), as to split into two would leave both volumes just a bit too thin. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 08 August, 2013, 11:55:30 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 08 August, 2013, 11:13:09 AM

... De Montfort as yet another archetypal Mills Torque-baddie would have been horrendously predictable, but as it was the twist Mills delivered in that story was pretty darn clever. 

Agree that it would probably have been hackneyed. In my mind I just transplant the opening scene of De Montefort burning the Cathars into a scene from The Two Torquemadas. To my mind, the depiction of De Montefort as doing the work of the Goddess in the name of Christianity is one of the few examples of Mills seeming to betray his own politics/morality in his work.

Quote
The story is probably my personal highlight of mid-period Slaine. 

Didn't like any of them much at the time, but Lord of Misrule was much better on reread.

Quote
The less said about King of Hearts the better.

Too true.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 August, 2013, 12:28:28 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 08 August, 2013, 11:47:52 AMThe Poster Prog story has already been reprinted in a previous collection...

Soth!  You're right, quick visit to the bookshelf reveals it's the Power short at the back of Demon Killer - damn, I thought I had more Slaine to look forward to!

The Mammoth in the room re: a putative skinny Volume 10 is that 90% of it would have to be Secret Commonwealth, a strong contender for the worst-ever Slaine story.  At least a bumper all-in Volume 9 would have lots of strong content to offset that.  I actively wince at the idea of handing over 20 euros for the Secret Commonwealth.  Again.  Do the right thing Tharg!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 August, 2013, 12:44:55 PM
Quote from: credo on 08 August, 2013, 10:51:31 AM

* I loathe King of Hearts and its Braveheart bandwagoneering guff, and can't read the Grail Wars stories without thinking about how an earlier Mills would have been more likely to have Simon De Montefort as an incarnation of Torquemada. He really was scraping the Slaine-across-time barrel by this point.

In its defence (not that it really deserves one I'm not a fan of this period of Slaine at all) the ever better informed than me Grant Goggins explains some of its problems here.

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,26085.15.html (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,26085.15.html)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 August, 2013, 01:06:10 PM
Oh it's not the pacing that's the problem with King of Hearts - its actually quite brisk, despite supposedly taking place over 7 years.  It's that I'd already seen the movie and it was better, I can't tell Slaine and William Wallace apart most of the time and they are the only two human characters, and the whole thing apparently takes place at the bottom of a stagnant pond (which is a bit much, even for Scotland).  But it is quite short, and Percival draws ladies' unclad bottoms in a more-than-acceptable fashion.

I think it's important to distinguish The Grail War from Secret of the Grail.  The former is clever and quite original in the overcrowded field of Cathar historical fantasies, confounds expectations and has some great images from Tappin.  While the latter is still fun, it's far more conventional, there's some terrible rave-humour and the wheels begin to come off the art towards the end as it slides towards generic fantasy.  Still makes Vol. 8 one of the more interesting and diverse collections in the saga.   
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 August, 2013, 01:57:39 PM
Yeah that's why I was careful to say 'some' of the problems. It has many.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 August, 2013, 02:05:19 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 08 August, 2013, 01:57:39 PM
Yeah that's why I was careful to say 'some' of the problems.

Hey, I thought that was just you setting me up for a rant.  Some wingman you are.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin Zeal on 08 August, 2013, 02:27:28 PM
I've never really read much Slaine. Which trades have the early stories in and are they still in print?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 08 August, 2013, 02:53:49 PM
Quote from: Colin Zeal on 08 August, 2013, 02:27:28 PM
I've never really read much Slaine. Which trades have the early stories in and are they still in print?

Slaine is very well-served by the current trade line.  There are 8 trades collecting almost everything in original print-order up to the end of Slaine's time-travelling experiences, with one or two more to go, and then a series of hardbacks collecting the Langley-era stuff.  The 'early' stuff (aka the 'good' stuff) is in the first 4 softback volumes, Warrior's Dawn (Kincaid, Bellardnelli and McMahon), Time Killer (Bellardinelli, Pugh and Fabry), Slaine The King (Collins and Fabry) and The Horned God (Bisley).  All are still in print, I believe.  90% of the contents of those four is pure gold, the other 10% is pretty good too.  If you get nothing else buy and love Volume 1: Warrior's Dawn, one of the best collections of anything out there under a cover that is the Greatest Single Image in 2000AD history (IMO).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 08 August, 2013, 03:11:38 PM
Quote from: Colin Zeal on 08 August, 2013, 02:27:28 PM
I've never really read much Slaine. Which trades have the early stories in and are they still in print?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Complete-Slaine/lm/R185PMD29W62GG/ref=cm_lmt_dtpa_f_1_rdssss0
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheldipez on 08 August, 2013, 04:00:54 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 08 August, 2013, 03:11:38 PM
Quote from: Colin Zeal on 08 August, 2013, 02:27:28 PM
I've never really read much Slaine. Which trades have the early stories in and are they still in print?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Complete-Slaine/lm/R185PMD29W62GG/ref=cm_lmt_dtpa_f_1_rdssss0

Cheers! that helps a lot
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 08 August, 2013, 06:17:48 PM
Wasn't there some problems with one of these hardbacks? I seem to remember something about missing pages or text or pages printed in the wrong order or upside down or some such? I've held off buying these because of this...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 08 August, 2013, 06:34:14 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 08 August, 2013, 06:17:48 PM
Wasn't there some problems with one of these hardbacks? I seem to remember something about missing pages or text or pages printed in the wrong order or upside down or some such? I've held off buying these because of this...

They forgot to include the story!


(I'm joking I have not read any of the later Slaine)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Silent_Bomber on 08 August, 2013, 11:36:18 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 08 August, 2013, 02:53:49 PMThe 'early' stuff (aka the 'good' stuff) is in the first 4 softback volumes, Warrior's Dawn (Kincaid, Bellardnelli and McMahon), Time Killer (Bellardinelli, Pugh and Fabry), Slaine The King (Collins and Fabry) and The Horned God (Bisley).  All are still in print, I believe.  90% of the contents of those four is pure gold, the other 10% is pretty good too.

The only one I'd go as far as to say that for is Warriors Dawn personally.

The Horned God is mostly good too. The other two I thought were really inconsistent.

That's all I've read so far, I may jump straight to Invasions next based on what I've heard about the 90s stuff.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 09 August, 2013, 11:10:39 AM
Quote from: Silent_Bomber on 08 August, 2013, 11:36:18 PM
I may jump straight to Invasions next based on what I've heard about the 90s stuff.

I don't think you'd miss anything continuity-wise, but Demon Killer and Lord of Misrule are pretty good fun (even though Demon Killer is basically a retread of the start of Time Killer).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin Zeal on 09 August, 2013, 11:21:34 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 08 August, 2013, 02:53:49 PM
Quote from: Colin Zeal on 08 August, 2013, 02:27:28 PM
I've never really read much Slaine. Which trades have the early stories in and are they still in print?

Slaine is very well-served by the current trade line.  There are 8 trades collecting almost everything in original print-order up to the end of Slaine's time-travelling experiences, with one or two more to go, and then a series of hardbacks collecting the Langley-era stuff.  The 'early' stuff (aka the 'good' stuff) is in the first 4 softback volumes, Warrior's Dawn (Kincaid, Bellardnelli and McMahon), Time Killer (Bellardinelli, Pugh and Fabry), Slaine The King (Collins and Fabry) and The Horned God (Bisley).  All are still in print, I believe.  90% of the contents of those four is pure gold, the other 10% is pretty good too.  If you get nothing else buy and love Volume 1: Warrior's Dawn, one of the best collections of anything out there under a cover that is the Greatest Single Image in 2000AD history (IMO).

Cheers Tordel. Think I'll give Warrior's Dawn a try and see what I think. I have read THG and enjoyed it, but have always been keen to see McMahon's efforts on the strip.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheldipez on 09 August, 2013, 11:55:10 AM
Pat Mills talks Sláine with SFX magazine  (http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/08/09/pat-mills-talks-slaine/) - touches upon future Sláine with Simon Davis.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 09 August, 2013, 12:18:15 PM
Is the stuff with Simon Davis a reboot then (as suggested by the fianl question which Mr Mills doesn't pull up) - hadn't picked up on that?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 09 August, 2013, 06:50:30 PM
Book of Scars looks wonderful, I'm so glad to be picking up the progs again.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 11 August, 2013, 06:44:55 PM
A hardback collection of Ordinary is down for a February release (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ordinary-Rob-Williams/dp/1782760091/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376242952&sr=1-2&keywords=rob+williams) from Titan Comics
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Nubby mcstubbins on 15 August, 2013, 12:18:29 AM
Hey is there a version of horned god that actually lines up with the other spines?  I've bought just about every copy and I'm trying to think if I've ever actually seen a "4" on the spine.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 15 August, 2013, 01:38:04 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 09 August, 2013, 12:18:15 PM
Is the stuff with Simon Davis a reboot then (as suggested by the fianl question which Mr Mills doesn't pull up) - hadn't picked up on that?
It seems that possibly it is, following the theory that if Book of Scars is re-writing the classics slightly then there has been changes to the past.

However as we've seen the changes is it a true reboot? It isn't a Rogue/Friday kind of reboot.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Rob1971 on 15 August, 2013, 09:51:50 AM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 11 August, 2013, 06:44:55 PM
A hardback collection of Ordinary is down for a February release (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ordinary-Rob-Williams/dp/1782760091/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376242952&sr=1-2&keywords=rob+williams) from Titan Comics

The Ordinary collection won't be out February. Should be wrapping it up in the Meg about then. The plan then is to print it as a mini-series with Titan and then a GN, so that listing seems a little ambitious.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: zombemybabynow on 15 August, 2013, 10:29:29 AM
Someone please tell me when Brass Sun's back?

I.N.J. Culbard is a modern day Herge!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 15 August, 2013, 10:30:42 AM
Within the next couple of progs, I believe, but art is D'Israeli this time...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: zombemybabynow on 15 August, 2013, 10:38:55 AM
Be interesting to see D'Israeli's take on the characters and as he was rockin' some serious art-bombs with Low Life - this can only be a good thing
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: judgerufian on 15 August, 2013, 11:28:44 AM
Quote from: zombemybabynow on 15 August, 2013, 10:38:55 AM
Be interesting to see D'Israeli's take on the characters and as he was rockin' some serious art-bombs with Low Life - this can only be a good thing

Lets hope its easier to follow than the last series of Stickleback, some of those computer enhanced backgrounds and colouring made his normal flowing artwork quite tough to follow at times
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 15 August, 2013, 02:41:46 PM
QuoteWithin the next couple of progs, I believe, but art is D'Israeli this time...

Could be wrong, but I think that was the plan to have rotating artists, but now it is Culbard drawing book two not D'Israeli.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 15 August, 2013, 06:05:29 PM
I was gonna say, the first run seemed very D'israeli like
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 16 August, 2013, 10:39:47 AM
Quote from: Nubby mcstubbins on 15 August, 2013, 12:18:29 AM
Hey is there a version of horned god that actually lines up with the other spines?  I've bought just about every copy and I'm trying to think if I've ever actually seen a "4" on the spine.
Yep, there is. http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38361.0.html (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38361.0.html)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 16 August, 2013, 02:23:33 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 May, 2013, 11:15:05 AM
Dash here with another cover for you:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Ezquerra2_zpsc1fba238.jpg)

I just love this, even the way Carlos has added too many links so lesser artists don't feel so bad about how far behind they are. ; D

This second collection of Carlos Ezquerra-illustrated stories includes "The Apocalypse War" as well as "Robot Wars," "Kirby's Demon," "Rights of Succession," and more.

Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (27 Aug 2013)


The Amazon "Look Inside" feature reveals the contents to be:


That works out to be 312 pages, not including the cover gallery at the back (covers for progs 245, 250, 254 and 256 can be seen in the preview).  That's a much higher page count than Amazon are quoting on their website (248 pages).

There are jumps in the prog-runs for The Apocalypse War and Death Aid.  Can someone smart please tell me if that means part of the stories are left out (drawn by another) or merely the nothing-to-worry-about end of story then later return/refrain/linked but separate concluding story?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 16 August, 2013, 02:32:36 PM
Without checking the Death Aid progs, the gap in the Apocalypse War run was simply that Carlos had gotten behind, so prog 268 featured a reprinted Ian Gibson Dredd story - which was unrelated to the Apocalypse War. Normal service was resumed the following prog.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 16 August, 2013, 02:33:43 PM
No part of either story is missing - as Judge Jack says, there was a random reprint towards the end of the Apocalypse War one week, and a few Wagner one-offs got printed in the middle of Death Aid, so both those two will be complete.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 16 August, 2013, 03:40:55 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 16 August, 2013, 02:32:36 PM
Without checking the Death Aid progs, the gap in the Apocalypse War run was simply that Carlos had gotten behind, so prog 268 featured a reprinted Ian Gibson Dredd story - which was unrelated to the Apocalypse War. Normal service was resumed the following prog.

That's right!  Was the Gibson story the one about a pig-faced mutie, or something like that?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 16 August, 2013, 03:45:12 PM
No, it was the You Bet Your Life game show one. Mutie the Pig was used to plug another two week gap, I think.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 August, 2013, 12:31:08 PM
Volume 3 of the collected IDW Judge Dredd series (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Volume-3/dp/1613778503/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376911755&sr=1-3&keywords=Judge+Dredd+Volume+3+%5BPaperback%5D) is now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

104 pages, 4th February 2014.

Blurb:
As chaotic and violent as things can be in Mega-City One, it's all unicorns, ice cream, and rainbows compared to what you'll find beyond the outer walls... in the CURSED EARTH! In the wake of the devastation of "The Long Fail," Dredd is forced to lead a small team of Judges into the scariest stretch of irradiated wasteland to recover the very soul of the city.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 19 August, 2013, 01:10:04 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 19 August, 2013, 12:31:08 PM
In the wake of the devastation of "The Long Fail,"
It still amuses me they chose to call it this. Kinda mirrors the strip itself.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: judgerufian on 19 August, 2013, 01:44:16 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 19 August, 2013, 12:31:08 PM
Volume 3 of the collected IDW Judge Dredd series (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Volume-3/dp/1613778503/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376911755&sr=1-3&keywords=Judge+Dredd+Volume+3+%5BPaperback%5D) is now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.

104 pages, 4th February 2014.

Blurb:
As chaotic and violent as things can be in Mega-City One, it's all unicorns, ice cream, and rainbows compared to what you'll find beyond the outer walls... in the CURSED EARTH! In the wake of the devastation of "The Long Fail," Dredd is forced to lead a small team of Judges into the scariest stretch of irradiated wasteland to recover the very soul of the city.

'Very soul of the city'?? Can I have an opinion on these IDW stories before I part with cold hard cash. That description sounds like the stories have gone very....american comics (for want of a better description!).
Or if there is a thread dedicated to the IDW stories, please help a fellow forumite and supply the link.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Michael Evans on 19 August, 2013, 03:20:24 PM
I'm really not enjoying the IDW monthly series (I'm finding the tone very odd but not Dredd) but the Year One limited was a cracking bit of work (i.e. very Dredd/2000AD). It is only the prospect of the monthly leading to more Dredd that keeps me buying it month after (so-far) disappointing month.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 August, 2013, 04:17:39 PM
Quote from: judgerufian on 19 August, 2013, 01:44:16 PM
if there is a thread dedicated to the IDW stories, please help a fellow forumite and supply the link.

There's separate threads for each issue under the "Other Reviews" section of the forum (under "Spoilers", along with the prog and meg reviews).  Here's a direct link to the Other Reviews section:

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/board,8.0.html

Here's some links to specific discussions:

Issue 3 - http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38768.0.html
Issue 4 - http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38970.0.html
Issue 8 - http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38796.0.html
Issue 9 - http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,38939.0.html
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Silent_Bomber on 19 August, 2013, 06:03:18 PM
I don't mind the IDW series, I like the artwork and the stories can be mildly entertaining at times.

I think "We've got you Now" might have garnered a 6/10 from me, maybe even a low 7 if I'm feeling generous.

Americans seem to like it anyway, so I don't think it can be doing any harm.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 19 August, 2013, 06:10:35 PM
I read the collected vol. 1 and it was rubbish! I won't be buying vol.2...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Silent_Bomber on 19 August, 2013, 06:26:22 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 19 August, 2013, 06:10:35 PM
I read the collected vol. 1 and it was rubbish! I won't be buying vol.2...

I'd say Volume 2 is actually worse than Volume 1, so you made the right decision.

Half of Volume 1 I'd consider giving 6/10 to.

Volume 2 is probably all 4s IMO.

The new Cursed Earth story might be rising back up to all time high levels of 6s again though :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: judgerufian on 20 August, 2013, 11:31:01 AM
thanks to all on the IDW subject, seems like Year One is the only title worth getting (not a surprise considering who its written by)!
A bold experiment if nothing else.....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Silent_Bomber on 21 August, 2013, 01:20:28 AM
Just checked out the "lost years" Slaine's, thought they were actually pretty good, kind of like Warrior's Dawn Slaine in tone just with him as a king instead of a wanderer.

Are there any plans for a collection?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 August, 2013, 11:12:59 AM
Should be in next year's Slaine TPB (Vol. 9), all things being equal.  Looking forward to it greatly.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 21 August, 2013, 11:36:10 AM
Any info on a third Mega city undercover collection? Want one that collects the eps before those in Trifecta!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 21 August, 2013, 12:07:33 PM
Any info on a third Mega city undercover collection? Want one that collects the eps before those in Trifecta!

Are there any?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 21 August, 2013, 12:56:51 PM
Quote from: radiator on 21 August, 2013, 12:07:33 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 21 August, 2013, 11:36:10 AM
Any info on a third Mega city undercover collection? Want one that collects the eps before those in Trifecta!
Are there any?

Yes, annoyingly there's a single series that wraps up the Disraeli trilogy begun in 'Creation' - 'The Deal,' which ties up all the loose ends from 'Hostile Takeover' with Frank going to Hondo to rescue Aimee and the identity of the The Big Man finally revealed and resolved.

Such an odd descision not to include it in the last trade as it's so clearly the end of a long-running arc - and with Frank's next appearance happening in Saudade, which won't necessarily make much sense published seperately from its Trifecta brethren, Lord knows what's going to happen with a future collection. It's all become a bit of a mess. Wish they'd just start again and publish Low Life in its own dedicated trades, personally.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 21 August, 2013, 01:19:24 PM
I've really enjoyed the Mega City Undercover trades, and really like the inclusion of the Lenny Zero stuff. Perhaps a third trade could include that material, along with The Simping Detective and DeMarco PI?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 21 August, 2013, 01:21:00 PM
Simping Detective already has a trade but the DeMarco stuff would fit nicely
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 21 August, 2013, 04:58:27 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 21 August, 2013, 01:21:00 PM
Simping Detective already has a trade but the DeMarco stuff would fit nicely

I'd bloody love the DeMarco stuff to get reprinted. I'm not a Meg reader and that's one of the stories I most want to see.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 August, 2013, 05:01:25 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 21 August, 2013, 04:58:27 PM
I'm not a Meg reader.

There's your problem. Add it to the pull list Colin- its better than some of the stuff on it already i'm sure!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 21 August, 2013, 08:07:06 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 21 August, 2013, 05:01:25 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 21 August, 2013, 04:58:27 PM
I'm not a Meg reader.

There's your problem. Add it to the pull list Colin- its better than some of the stuff on it already i'm sure!

Yeah I completely get that BUT there are any number of reasons why I don't. Many of which seem odd to me every time I think about it BUT they are there and so I'm sticking too it I reckon. Its partly space, partly cost and the fact that I don't really want the 'graphic novel' that's added... that said never having read Black Sidha (name check please) I may well pick up this months (is it this month that's in? That could be a sticky end, which being weak would see me buying back to 300 and then further and further taking up yet more space.

My ultimate aim is to make the Meg the first thing I collect digitally when I find that perfect platform for digital comic reading and I think I'm quite set in that... I hope...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mardroid on 21 August, 2013, 10:44:14 PM
Yes Black Siddha is in this Month's.

It will be my first read of it as well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 August, 2013, 09:36:37 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 21 August, 2013, 08:07:06 PM

Yeah I completely get that BUT there are any number of reasons why I don't. Many of which seem odd to me every time I think about it BUT they are there and so I'm sticking too it I reckon.

Yer a queer fish Colin, on one hand acknowledging 2000AD as being the greatest comic on the planet, and on the other dismissing the Galaxy's 2nd Greatest Comic over some trivialities.
The price is reasonable for the content and the floppy can be ignored if you wish- it's a damn good comic.
Prioritize maaaaannn  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 22 August, 2013, 02:00:20 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 22 August, 2013, 09:36:37 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 21 August, 2013, 08:07:06 PM

Yeah I completely get that BUT there are any number of reasons why I don't. Many of which seem odd to me every time I think about it BUT they are there and so I'm sticking too it I reckon.

Yer a queer fish Colin, on one hand acknowledging 2000AD as being the greatest comic on the planet, and on the other dismissing the Galaxy's 2nd Greatest Comic over some trivialities.

I know its hard to put the two together. I genuinely believe 2000ad is the greatest out there. I don't get that feeling off the Meg (leap of logic there I know) and maybe there's some underlining desire not to get second tier 2000ad to dilute my love of the GGC... though of course not reading the bloody thing makes it very hard for me to say its second tier with any authority BUT all reviews etc and comments here do kinda suggest it is.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 22 August, 2013, 02:01:48 PM
How is it "The Complete Carlos Exquerra" when they have left out all of his stories between the Apocalypse War and Kirby's Demon?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Simon Beigh on 22 August, 2013, 03:58:03 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 21 August, 2013, 08:07:06 PM
I may well pick up this months (is it this month that's in? That could be a sticky end, which being weak would see me buying back to 300 and then further and further taking up yet more space.


That's exactly what happened to me, Colin. I picked up one and ended up buying 140-odd. I can't recommend it enough!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 22 August, 2013, 04:01:33 PM
I found out recently that 'Siddha' is pronounced 'Simon'.



Probably
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 22 August, 2013, 05:52:50 PM
Richard, I think they may be trying to balance each book between BW and color stories.  Maybe Meka-City, Fungus and those other Ezquerra Dredds from the 270s/280s will be in volume two?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 22 August, 2013, 06:17:02 PM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 22 August, 2013, 05:52:50 PM
Richard, I think they may be trying to balance each book between BW and color stories.  Maybe Meka-City, Fungus and those other Ezquerra Dredds from the 270s/280s will be in volume two?

Nope - bizzarely, they were all in volume 1!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: moly on 24 August, 2013, 11:50:34 AM
Sorry to ask if its been posted elsewhere but are there any plans of a new release for slaine vol 1 to be re issued soon
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 24 August, 2013, 03:29:36 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 22 August, 2013, 06:17:02 PM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 22 August, 2013, 05:52:50 PM
Richard, I think they may be trying to balance each book between BW and color stories.  Maybe Meka-City, Fungus and those other Ezquerra Dredds from the 270s/280s will be in volume two?

Nope - bizzarely, they were all in volume 1!

Hang on, this is the contents that were quoted:

    Robot Wars - progs 10-17                                          (41 pages)
    The Apocalypse War - progs 245-267, 269-270          (153 pages)
    Kirby's Demon - prog 638                                            (6 pages)
    The Amazing Ant-Man - prog 640                                 (6 pages)
    Young Giant - progs 651-655                                     (30 pages)
    By Lethal Injection - progs 669-670                            (13 pages)
    Rights of Succession - prog 671                                   (7 pages)
    Dear Annie - progs 672-673                                     (13 pages)
    Death Aid - progs 711-715, 719-720                          (43 pages)

What is in the book that is missing from this list?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 24 August, 2013, 05:53:59 PM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 24 August, 2013, 03:29:36 PM
Hang on, this is the contents that were quoted:

    Robot Wars - progs 10-17                                          (41 pages)
    The Apocalypse War - progs 245-267, 269-270          (153 pages)
    Kirby's Demon - prog 638                                            (6 pages)
    The Amazing Ant-Man - prog 640                                 (6 pages)
    Young Giant - progs 651-655                                     (30 pages)
    By Lethal Injection - progs 669-670                            (13 pages)
    Rights of Succession - prog 671                                   (7 pages)
    Dear Annie - progs 672-673                                     (13 pages)
    Death Aid - progs 711-715, 719-720                          (43 pages)

Aye, that's correct. Not sure where the confusion is coming from, so here are (bad quality) screengrabs of the contents for each book - top is volume 1, below volume 2. Basically, it's all been done arsebackwards and makes very little obvious sense, with all the Apoc-War aftermath stuff happening before the Apoc War itself. Presumably this made sense to someone somewhere.

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/Darkjimbo2/Untitled-1_zps4ad9fa7c.jpg) (http://s10.photobucket.com/user/Darkjimbo2/media/Untitled-1_zps4ad9fa7c.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 24 August, 2013, 07:05:15 PM
The full Robot Wars strip doesnt get reprinted, just the one episode that Carlos drew?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 24 August, 2013, 07:06:02 PM
They skipped Necropolis and went straight to Death Aid?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 24 August, 2013, 07:57:23 PM
Since the Carlos Collection is more Art Book then reprint title, I'm not surprised its contents are all over the place.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Nubby mcstubbins on 27 August, 2013, 04:57:08 AM
Anyone have a link to the last bulleted list of releases?  I think it's quite a ways back, yeah?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 05 September, 2013, 04:12:23 PM
What's this about, then..?

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/Darkjimbo2/poo_zpsbf53da32.jpg) (http://s10.photobucket.com/user/Darkjimbo2/media/poo_zpsbf53da32.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 September, 2013, 05:16:48 PM
Looks like a rather impressive anthology of one-offs and and also-rans.  I'm seeing The Visible Man, The Amazing Maze Dumoir, Xtnct, Tribal Memories for definite, and is the guy in the foreground Greysuit?  Is the sword-wielding guy from Telguuth, and who is the dame with the machine gun?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 September, 2013, 10:49:09 PM
I like that cover.  They seem to be standing on the helmets of the more popular strips.  I can see a Judge helmet, Helm, Johnny Alpha's pointy hat, Hammerstein?  It looks more like they are standing on the skulls of the vanquished, rather than on the shoulders of giants.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 05 September, 2013, 10:57:45 PM
I kinda wish they'd theme these things by author – I want to have Tribal Memories in a collected TPB form very much, but it's frustrating that I have to own Xtnct to do so. I've said it before – bring out The Pete Milligan collection: Freaks, Shadows, Tribal Memories, The Dead, Sooner or Later / Swifty's Return + assorted Future Shocks (with Bix Barton getting its own TPB, clearly.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 05 September, 2013, 11:09:26 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 05 September, 2013, 10:57:45 PM
bring out The Pete Milligan collection: Freaks, Shadows, Tribal Memories, The Dead, Sooner or Later / Swifty's Return + assorted Future Shocks (with Bix Barton getting its own TPB, clearly.)

I'd buy both in a heartbeat. They'd make nice companion books to the forthcoming 'The Best of Milligan & McCarthy'.

Think it over Tharg.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Satanist on 05 September, 2013, 11:23:04 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 05 September, 2013, 10:57:45 PM
I kinda wish they'd theme these things by author – I want to have Tribal Memories in a collected TPB form very much, but it's frustrating that I have to own Xtnct to do so. I've said it before – bring out The Pete Milligan collection: Freaks, Shadows, Tribal Memories, The Dead, Sooner or Later / Swifty's Return + assorted Future Shocks (with Bix Barton getting its own TPB, clearly.)

I want this like yesterday.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 06 September, 2013, 06:14:46 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 05 September, 2013, 11:23:04 PM

I want this like yesterday.

Damn straight!


(ahem) Paging IDW. How about a line of oversize, author-centric hardcover to complement the art books?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 06:53:31 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 05 September, 2013, 05:16:48 PM
Looks like a rather impressive anthology of one-offs and and also-rans.  I'm seeing The Visible Man, The Amazing Maze Dumoir, Xtnct, Tribal Memories for definite, and is the guy in the foreground Greysuit?  Is the sword-wielding guy from Telguuth, and who is the dame with the machine gun?

That's Homer the Barbarian. The girl with the gun is from Family. Foreground man is the Universal Soldier.  You can't quite make out the young girl from Life Cycle, the robot from Colony Earth, or Superbean....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 September, 2013, 08:14:34 AM
Cheers, Keith.  That is, as nobody actually says, a spicy meatball.  Eclectic in a good way.  Provided we restrict ourselves to the first Simpson-drawn series of Universal Soldier...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin Zeal on 06 September, 2013, 09:51:00 AM
Tribal Memories is a cracking story and definitely deserves to be collected and hopefully made known to a wider audience.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 09:53:15 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 September, 2013, 08:14:34 AM
Cheers, Keith.  That is, as nobody actually says, a spicy meatball.  Eclectic in a good way.  Provided we restrict ourselves to the first Simpson-drawn series of Universal Soldier...

Oh, definitely Simpson only.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 September, 2013, 11:07:24 AM
Well that's a very unusual collection. I'll be keeping my eye on that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 06 September, 2013, 11:57:08 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 09:53:15 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 September, 2013, 08:14:34 AM
Cheers, Keith.  That is, as nobody actually says, a spicy meatball.  Eclectic in a good way.  Provided we restrict ourselves to the first Simpson-drawn series of Universal Soldier...

Oh, definitely Simpson only.

Is that down to the introduction of 'Kelly's Eye' in the later stories? I recall (vaguely) some hoo-har about IP infringement (although I'm probably wrong)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 06 September, 2013, 12:40:41 PM
That looks like a very interesting collection. Agreed, however, that a bumper Pete Milligan Collection would be beautiful. He was certainly an eclectic voice in 2000AD at the time - Tribal Memories, The Dead, Bad Company, Hewligan's Haircut, Bix Barton, Sooner or Later really span quite a range of styles.

Not caring for comics much outside tooth (difficult to wade through the capes to find the good stuff), I have no idea of his other work, nor why he no longer writes for the Galaxy's Greatest. Anyone want to fill me in?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 12:44:48 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 06 September, 2013, 11:57:08 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 09:53:15 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 September, 2013, 08:14:34 AM
Cheers, Keith.  That is, as nobody actually says, a spicy meatball.  Eclectic in a good way.  Provided we restrict ourselves to the first Simpson-drawn series of Universal Soldier...

Oh, definitely Simpson only.

Is that down to the introduction of 'Kelly's Eye' in the later stories? I recall (vaguely) some hoo-har about IP infringement (although I'm probably wrong)

Not really - I wanted to keep the collection to b&w strips only. I also only liked the first series (especially the sinister, downbeat ending).

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 12:49:51 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 05 September, 2013, 10:57:45 PM
I kinda wish they'd theme these things by author – I want to have Tribal Memories in a collected TPB form very much, but it's frustrating that I have to own Xtnct to do so. I've said it before – bring out The Pete Milligan collection: Freaks, Shadows, Tribal Memories, The Dead, Sooner or Later / Swifty's Return + assorted Future Shocks (with Bix Barton getting its own TPB, clearly.)

So it's not for you - fair enough. But I see this sort of anthology collection as a great example of what 2000 AD is to the uninitiated and a great nostalgic trip for fans of the comic. The wide variety of strips is also a lot more appealing to a wider audience.

That's not to say that a Milligan collection will never happen though...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 06 September, 2013, 01:01:08 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 12:44:48 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 06 September, 2013, 11:57:08 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 09:53:15 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 06 September, 2013, 08:14:34 AM
Cheers, Keith.  That is, as nobody actually says, a spicy meatball.  Eclectic in a good way.  Provided we restrict ourselves to the first Simpson-drawn series of Universal Soldier...

Oh, definitely Simpson only.

Is that down to the introduction of 'Kelly's Eye' in the later stories? I recall (vaguely) some hoo-har about IP infringement (although I'm probably wrong)

Not really - I wanted to keep the collection to b&w strips only. I also only liked the first series (especially the sinister, downbeat ending).

The first series was definitely the best of them but I remember Ewins doing some great work in the later stories - he really took that angular 'design' look to its extreme. Lovely stuff.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 06 September, 2013, 03:09:06 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 06:53:31 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 05 September, 2013, 05:16:48 PM
Looks like a rather impressive anthology of one-offs and and also-rans.  I'm seeing The Visible Man, The Amazing Maze Dumoir, Xtnct, Tribal Memories for definite...

That's Homer the Barbarian. The girl with the gun is from Family. Foreground man is the Universal Soldier.  You can't quite make out the young girl from Life Cycle, the robot from Colony Earth, or Superbean....

Wow! Eclectic ain't the word! Half of those I've never even heard of - the only ones I've actually read are Visible Man, XTNCT and Family. I love that after 13 dedicated, expensive years in Tharg's clutches I'm still playing catch-up.

Really great idea, this. To be honest I'd rather have one-off series bunged in a grab-bag like this than have to buy several slim 90-page books of each (or simply never have a reprint at all).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 06 September, 2013, 03:41:11 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 12:49:51 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 05 September, 2013, 10:57:45 PM
I kinda wish they'd theme these things by author – I want to have Tribal Memories in a collected TPB form very much, but it's frustrating that I have to own Xtnct to do so. I've said it before – bring out The Pete Milligan collection: Freaks, Shadows, Tribal Memories, The Dead, Sooner or Later / Swifty's Return + assorted Future Shocks (with Bix Barton getting its own TPB, clearly.)

So it's not for you - fair enough. But I see this sort of anthology collection as a great example of what 2000 AD is to the uninitiated and a great nostalgic trip for fans of the comic. The wide variety of strips is also a lot more appealing to a wider audience.

That's not to say that a Milligan collection will never happen though...

That's fair enough, and I didn't mean to sound quite as critical as my post reads in retrospect - I can see the logic and think Rebellion have done an overall fantastic job with their collections. To be honest, I probably will buy Sci-Fi Thrillers: even if I'm not interested in or dislike some stories, there's others it'll be nice to have collected. It was just the presence of 'Tribal Memories' that suddenly rekindled my desire for a Milligan collection, but I could probably have expressed that better without making it sound like I was knocking the overall concept.

While we're on the subject of one-author collections, I know John Smith has less 'name value' outside of the 2000AD world than Pete Milligan, but a bumper John Smith Collection is the other thing I'd dearly love - Revere, Firekind, Slaughterbowl, Tyranny Rex et al.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 September, 2013, 04:24:41 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 12:49:51 PMBut I see this sort of anthology collection as a great example of what 2000 AD is to the uninitiated and a great nostalgic trip for fans of the comic.

Spot on.  A great example of 2000AD at its diverse marmitey best.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 06 September, 2013, 08:09:39 PM
Quote from: Colin Zeal on 06 September, 2013, 09:51:00 AM
Tribal Memories is a cracking story and definitely deserves to be collected and hopefully made known to a wider audience.

There's a really interesting selection of material in that up coming collection, but this, this imparticular is so very true. I chuffin' love Tribal Memories.

It and the recent Ghostship Mathmatica are my two favourite short form 2000ad stories (I think, I've probably forgotten something)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 07 September, 2013, 08:40:27 AM
I also love Tribal Memories, and give it a first reprinting in The Best of 2000AD Special Edition back in 1993 [twenty years ago - gulp!]. Strip was subsequently reprinted again in Extreme Edition 14, according to Barney.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 September, 2013, 09:11:52 AM
I'd have sworn it's been reprinted more often that that, just shows how firmly it's stuck in the noggin.  Tribal Memories is a great example of script and art working together to create a perfect jewel of a thing, a powerful sense of time and place, interesting characters, tidy plot and a memorable message, all in a handful of pages: exactly what 2000AD does best. 

It's been a great source of joy to me to see the short story form rising to prominence in the Prog in recent years, with the 3rillers, Bob Byrnes and the Future Terror Imperfect slots all producing material that easily matches and sometimes surpasses the headline acts.  When I started reading regularly in the 300s the Time Twisters and Future Shocks were often at the cutting edge of what you could read in comics, and I hope we're getting back to that.  Far from being filler this stuff is the USP of the anthology format.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 07 September, 2013, 09:23:15 AM

(cough!) Brave New World

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 07 September, 2013, 12:34:34 PM
Quote from: DarkDaysBish-OP on 07 September, 2013, 08:40:27 AM
I also love Tribal Memories, and give it a first reprinting in The Best of 2000AD Special Edition back in 1993 [twenty years ago - gulp!]. Strip was subsequently reprinted again in Extreme Edition 14, according to Barney.
From Grace.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 08 September, 2013, 08:50:58 PM
Shadows and The Dead.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dragonfly on 09 September, 2013, 02:34:30 PM
Really liking the look of the Sci-Fi Thrillers collection, does anyone have any idea when this will be released? Sometime next year I'm guessing.
Also could someone jog my memory about Tribal Memories. Could swear I have never heard of it and that it was serialised during my absence away from the prog during the mid nineties onwards. But, alarmingly, after checking on Barney it appears to have been in progs 585 to 588, when I was fanatically reading, yet I have no memory of the story what-so-ever. Many things I remember though it seems there are things I have no recall of at all!
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 09 September, 2013, 04:41:17 PM
Quote from: gavingavin on 09 September, 2013, 02:34:30 PM
Really liking the look of the Sci-Fi Thrillers collection, does anyone have any idea when this will be released? Sometime next year I'm guessing.
Also could someone jog my memory about Tribal Memories. Could swear I have never heard of it and that it was serialised during my absence away from the prog during the mid nineties onwards. But, alarmingly, after checking on Barney it appears to have been in progs 585 to 588, when I was fanatically reading, yet I have no memory of the story what-so-ever. Many things I remember though it seems there are things I have no recall of at all!

Amazon have it listed for an early December release.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 09 September, 2013, 06:15:15 PM
Quote from: credo on 06 September, 2013, 12:40:41 PM
That looks like a very interesting collection. Agreed, however, that a bumper Pete Milligan Collection would be beautiful. He was certainly an eclectic voice in 2000AD at the time - Tribal Memories, The Dead, Bad Company, Hewligan's Haircut, Bix Barton, Sooner or Later really span quite a range of styles.

Not caring for comics much outside tooth (difficult to wade through the capes to find the good stuff), I have no idea of his other work, nor why he no longer writes for the Galaxy's Greatest. Anyone want to fill me in?

Not a huge extra-toothular comic reader myself, but here's the ones I remember:

Johnny Nemo for Deadline
One Tank Girl serial which was wayyy too complex and intelligent to be a proper Tank Girl story, which should be dumb and good fun
Skreemer (which I've never read but believe is good)
Shade the Changing Man (for DC / Vertigo, which was excellent at first and was the first DC mature readers comic I read, but lost my interest after a while)

(LOTS OF IMPORTANT STUFF THROUGHOUT THE LATE 90s AND ENTIRE 2000s WHICH I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT)

Hellblazer (Throughout its last run)
Justice League Dark (Featuring the return of Shade and the new, young John Constantine without whom I personally could do).

Anyway, he's a great writer. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 09 September, 2013, 06:18:03 PM
X-Statix was great
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 09 September, 2013, 07:37:30 PM
Yeah X-Statix, which started as X-Force was bloomin' brilliant, as are most of the things listed below. I'm also a big fan of his Human Target run.

Recently he's been doing a load of DC's Nu52 stuff, Red Lanterns being his longest run there I think. As far as I'm aware he's dropped off all those books so not quite sure what he's up to at the moment?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 September, 2013, 07:40:55 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 09 September, 2013, 07:37:30 PM
I'm also a big fan of his Human Target run.

As am I.

I'd avoid his run on X-Men. Quite phoned in IMO.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Banners on 09 September, 2013, 07:42:24 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ
Shade the Changing Man (for DC / Vertigo, which was excellent at first and was the first DC mature readers comic I read, but lost my interest after a while)

For a while, my favourite comic series of all time.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 09 September, 2013, 07:44:39 PM
Milligan and Fegredo's Enigma is sublime. One of my very favourite comics. Although I don't think I've read it since it was originally published, I remember really enjoying his and Ted McKeever's The Extremist, too.

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 09 September, 2013, 07:46:19 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 09 September, 2013, 07:37:30 PM
As far as I'm aware he's dropped off all those books so not quite sure what he's up to at the moment?

He's doing a book for Vertigo (in some ways, his spiritual home) called 'The Discipline' - must be due out soon. He describes it as 'edgy and sexy'.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 09 September, 2013, 07:47:14 PM
The first 12 issues of Shade, the Changing Man ("The American Scream") were superb and, although it did kind of lose its way a little after that, DC need to put together an omnibus of the entire run as soon as humanly possible...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 September, 2013, 08:29:45 PM
Quote from: Greg M. on 09 September, 2013, 07:46:19 PMHe describes it as 'edgy and sexy'.

That infringes on a registered trademark of TordelDance Inc.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 09 September, 2013, 09:05:40 PM
Quote from: Banners on 09 September, 2013, 07:42:24 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ
Shade the Changing Man (for DC / Vertigo, which was excellent at first and was the first DC mature readers comic I read, but lost my interest after a while)
For a while, my favourite comic series of all time.
And still your avatar's spiritual home? Yeah, the first fifty issues of Shade are fantastic and, as Jim said, Enigma is brilliant too. Both very highly recommended by me.

Quote from: hippynumber1 on 09 September, 2013, 07:47:14 PM
The first 12 issues of Shade, the Changing Man ("The American Scream") were superb and, although it did kind of lose its way a little after that, DC need to put together an omnibus of the entire run as soon as humanly possible...
The American Scream storyline ran out of steam but the comic itself went from strength to strength after that. DC did get about three volumes into a big thick reprint series last year but demand seems to have died out.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 September, 2013, 09:45:03 PM
I started reading Cla$$war recently and I can highly recommend it...damn, this going digital idea is mighty good.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Banners on 09 September, 2013, 09:52:45 PM
Quote from: The Cosh
Quote from: Banners
For a while, my favourite comic series of all time.
And still your avatar's spiritual home?

Yup - that's Shade. God bless you, Sir :-)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 09 September, 2013, 09:53:07 PM
QuoteI started reading Cla$$war recently and I can highly recommend it...damn, this going digital idea is mighty good.
It sure is buddy. It sure is.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 September, 2013, 10:32:58 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 09 September, 2013, 09:45:03 PM
I started reading Cla$$war recently and I can highly recommend it...damn, this going digital idea is mighty good.

Loved that too Hawk- one of my first digital purchases on Comixology.
Real shame Hairsine didn't complete the series.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 10 September, 2013, 11:17:48 AM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 09 September, 2013, 07:44:39 PM
Milligan and Fegredo's Enigma is sublime. One of my very favourite comics. Although I don't think I've read it since it was originally published, I remember really enjoying his and Ted McKeever's The Extremist, too.

Likewise. Can remember nothing really of Enigma except how great it was. Will dig it out again.

Shade, however... as I munch slowly through my (unread(!)) 90's stuff I see that next up for Shade will be 36-70 (when it may have ended, I could look that up but haven't yet). Shade was/is very hit-and-miss for me, sometimes too willfully out there. I can see the same strip being a great antidote to people in tights back in the Ditko day (good for him), but resurrecting that kind of strip in the 90's feels a bit unnecessary. A blip on the otherwise brilliant Milligan's writing. 2000ad probably gave me an aversion to "other dimensions", blah, blah, blah.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 10 September, 2013, 04:26:34 PM
I liked Shade at the time - I started reading it when Vertigo launched, went back, caught up and was therefore in the right place for the big story from #45-50 to break my heart.  But when I reread it a few years later, it didn't work nearly as well for me.  I think it's just too constantly brutal, without enough light.  The Madness mostly materialized as really awful horror, to the point I was questioning why anybody, even people as broken as Kathy and Lenny, would stick around Shade.

In smaller doses, monthly, it works better.  You can imagine the cracks between stories being full of friendship and love and happiness and a more whimsical Madness to keep the trio together.  But read in one giant chunk, it's really unhappy and miserable.  I sold all my issues ages ago.

(Also, the DC collected edition department did their usual half-assed job with the book versions.  The first 18 issues - the "American Scream" story - are just perfection itself to reprint, since there's a natural break with issue # 9.  Nine issues in one and nine in the second, The American Scream vols. 1-2.  But no, they did their usual six-issues-for-twenty bucks scam and wondered why sales were low.  Because they made collecting the story cost $60 for three books instead of $40 for two...?)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 11 September, 2013, 08:46:18 PM
According to Amazon.co.uk, Snow/Tiger is due in December and a reprint of Nemesis the Warlock Volume 2 is down for February 2014. Anyone know if this correct? Link (http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_st?unfiltered=1&qid=1378928277&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_30%3A2000+AD&sort=-pubdate)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 11 September, 2013, 09:47:57 PM
Judging by the pricing, those are all US books. In that case, Nemesis over there's done well enough to justify the second volume, which is good news.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: MercZ on 13 September, 2013, 04:23:14 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 09 September, 2013, 09:45:03 PM
I started reading Cla$$war recently and I can highly recommend it...damn, this going digital idea is mighty good.

I've never even heard of it  :-[

Still, looks cool. I'm going to check it out this weekend.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 September, 2013, 08:11:03 AM
Its Rob Williams and Trevor Hairisine. It's top quality from front to back.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 13 September, 2013, 09:29:50 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 13 September, 2013, 08:11:03 AM
Its Rob Williams and Trevor Hairisine. It's top quality from front to back.

Don't forget Travel Foreman!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Nubby mcstubbins on 15 September, 2013, 03:03:14 AM
Any sign of an Anderson Volume 4?  I would love to see that sometime soon.  I'm around 2004-2005 on my read-through of 2000AD and the Megazine, and it looks like there's some good Anderson stuff there that hasn't yet been collected.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 15 September, 2013, 06:03:32 PM
Anderson #4 would be mostly Ranson stories, right. I also think it would be the last one for some time, seeing how the psychic files pick up with Cook's first Anderson story.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 15 September, 2013, 06:14:45 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 15 September, 2013, 06:03:32 PM
Anderson #4 would be mostly Ranson stories, right. I also think it would be the last one for some time, seeing how the psychic files pick up with Cook's first Anderson story.


A whole volume of Ranson art would be most welcome!    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 September, 2013, 07:37:26 PM
I really hope they carry this series on as soon (I think after Volume 4?) it'll get to the stuff from the Meg that I don't thinks ever been reprinted and I'd love to get my grubby hands on.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 15 September, 2013, 11:21:42 PM
A putative volume 4 would, I think, cover the whole Ranson illustrated Half Life saga which is pretty ducking great stuff in my view.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Nubby mcstubbins on 16 September, 2013, 12:48:34 AM
I agree.  We have a complete prog and megazine collection and subs which I love but my wife insists on reading the collections.

If Keef or Molch reads this, I think they may recall us from San Diego.  If so, my old lady, the kind blonde woman, wants more Anderson.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 16 September, 2013, 01:39:04 AM
I would buy a 4th Anderson book!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 17 September, 2013, 12:06:17 PM
I definitely want the next Anderson book. Forget the movie sequel petition, we want vol. 4!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 17 September, 2013, 07:27:01 PM
Volume four is on the 2014 schedule.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 17 September, 2013, 08:31:17 PM
Whoo-hoo!  :D

Now then, about MACH 1...    ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Nubby mcstubbins on 18 September, 2013, 03:31:24 AM
Awesome!  Thats good news.  Thanks Keef!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 18 September, 2013, 04:07:00 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 17 September, 2013, 07:27:01 PM
Volume four is on the 2014 schedule.

Most zarjaz news!

Cheers Robo-K33F!   :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 September, 2013, 01:32:30 PM
A.B.C. Warriors: Solo Missions (http://www.amazon.co.uk/B-C-Warriors-Solo-Missions/dp/178108226X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379651276&sr=1-1&keywords=A.B.C.+Warriors%3A+Solo+Missions+%5BPaperback%5D)
Pat Mills, Alan Moore, Steve Dillon, Henry Flint, Kev Walker
96 pages, 13th February 2014


Judge Dredd: v. 22: The Complete Case Files (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781082278/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379651340&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd%3A+v.+22%3A+The+Complete+Case+Files+%5BPaperback%5D)
304 pages, 13th March 2014

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Dredd22_zpsb6242f50.jpg)

Devlin Waugh: Swimming in Blood (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Devlin-Waugh-Swimming-John-Smith/dp/1781082286/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379651472&sr=1-1&keywords=Devlin+Waugh%3A+Swimming+in+Blood+%5BPaperback%5D)
288 pages, 10th April 2014
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 20 September, 2013, 01:40:44 PM
Ooh, nice! More Case Files!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 20 September, 2013, 02:58:02 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 September, 2013, 01:32:30 PM

Devlin Waugh: Swimming in Blood (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Devlin-Waugh-Swimming-John-Smith/dp/1781082286/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379651472&sr=1-1&keywords=Devlin+Waugh%3A+Swimming+in+Blood+%5BPaperback%5D)
288 pages, 10th April 2014

Clearly you can't read too much into Amazon listing that much on advance BUT (and therefore I mean I am don't I) this is an odd one. At 280ish pages it would seem to echo the original Swimming in Blood DC type thing (I think it was one of the DC ones?) BUT it lists Steve Yeowell as one of the artists which implies the quite brilliant Sirius Rising trilogy is in there? I wonder what it will include as a better printing of Fetish might make that a more enjoyable read, but not convinced it will be included?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 20 September, 2013, 03:04:16 PM
Hmm. Could be Swimming in Blood plus Sirius Rising. Regardless, I hope it's got decent repro. The DC Swimming in Blood was just dreadful, and although I know scanning and restoring that era's art is a pain, the moiré was just eye-wrenching. It's one of the very few cases where I kept my older trade, just because the update was so appalling. (As for Sirius Rising, I do hope so—it'd be nice to have a trade that actually includes all the speech balloons.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 September, 2013, 02:25:57 AM
Another flash from Dash:

Judge Dredd: The Complete Cam Kennedy Volume 2 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Cam-Kennedy/dp/1613778686/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379726308&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd%3A+The+Complete+Cam+Kennedy+Volume+2+%5BHardcover%5D)
328 pages, IDW Publishing, 18th February 2014, Hardcover

More classic Judge Dredd tales from master illustrator Cam Kennedy! Reprinted in classic b/w and featuring a wealth of complete stories, this collection features 'progs' such as "No Man's Land," "Big Deal at Drekk City," "Beyond Our Kenny," and more.

Mars Attacks Judge Dredd (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mars-Attacks-Judge-Dredd/dp/1613778708/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379726408&sr=1-1&keywords=Mars+Attacks+Judge+Dredd+%5BPaperback%5D)
104 pages, IDW Publishing, 18th February 2014, Paperback

The Martian mayhem overtakes Mega-City One! During the annual meeting of the Mega-City Mafia, a new boss makes a play for power thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Meanwhile, Judge Dredd conducts a routine bust that turns out all but routine when he makes a shocking (and disgusting) discovery!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 22 September, 2013, 09:58:54 PM
OK, so judging by the names, it looks like ABC Warriors: Solo Missions includes:

Red Planet Blues (Moore/Dillon), Possibly the DICEMAN ABC story (Mills/Dillon) & Joe Pineapples Greatest Hits/Dishonourable Discharge (Mills/Carney/Walker).

Doesn't seem to be anything else, but that seems very, very light for a trade. Any clues?
Title: ABC
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 22 September, 2013, 10:31:11 PM
other possible stories for ABC Warriors collection, the deadlock mini series , the blackblood  origin story from one of the sci-fi specials, and maybe the robusters story where rojaws hides hammerstien's medals , missing from the "complete" robusters
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 23 September, 2013, 11:37:20 AM
Deadlock! Of course! Henry Flint's name is included, so that seems likely. Is the Blackblood story "Dishonourable Discharge"?

Looks like it should be an interesting collection.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 23 September, 2013, 07:25:17 PM
yes that's the one dont know if Kev Walker's name on collection
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 23 September, 2013, 07:28:01 PM
just re-read posts you mentioned walker's name so betting the story must be in there
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 25 September, 2013, 01:18:28 PM
Cool volume 22 up for pre-order http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781082278/ref=gno_cart_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 25 September, 2013, 02:26:22 PM
Yep, see ten posts back.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 September, 2013, 03:48:31 PM
Aw shit have we reached Crusade already? Well at least that'll be the worst out of the way.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 26 September, 2013, 08:26:12 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 September, 2013, 01:32:30 PM


Judge Dredd: v. 22: The Complete Case Files (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781082278/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379651340&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd%3A+v.+22%3A+The+Complete+Case+Files+%5BPaperback%5D)
304 pages, 13th March 2014

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Dredd22_zpsb6242f50.jpg)


Anyone who can make out what progs and megs that are the CF-volume? It's written on the title.

Any good stuff?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Radbacker on 26 September, 2013, 09:22:54 AM
it was a pretty poop story but i really dig the design for the oh so evil Vatican Judges.

CU Radbacker
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 September, 2013, 01:11:22 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 26 September, 2013, 08:26:12 AM
Anyone who can make out what progs and megs that are the CF-volume? It's written on the title.
Any good stuff?

It's hard to make out but it looks like:
Progs 916 - 939
Meg 2.69 - 2.80
Year 2116 - 2117
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 September, 2013, 01:14:31 PM
Here's a slightly bigger grab:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Dredd22_zps0cd705d3.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 26 September, 2013, 01:24:43 PM
Definitely 939, and 2.80, which takes us up to Escape From Kurt Russell and Terror with Mrs Gunderson.

Some good Wagner Dredd in their, as well as the Miller dross (which is thankfully starting to thin out). Next volume will be the last of the post-Necropolis dip, with Garth Ennis' Goodnight Kiss (although Ennis was obviously miles better than Miller/Morrison).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 26 September, 2013, 01:44:42 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 26 September, 2013, 01:11:22 PM
It's hard to make out but it looks like:
Progs 916 - 939
Meg 2.69 - 2.80


Bloomin' heck that means the next one will be up to the point when I've let go of my Megs and I'll have to start picking these up. That came around fast!

Mind that said the next one (or the first few after that) will also get to some of the finest Wagner Dredd stuff there is, for me at least. Just getting towards the end of a re-read of all the Wagner Dredd's from 950 onwards to date and there really is some golden stuff coming soon, even by his mighty standards.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 26 September, 2013, 01:50:54 PM
Quote from: credo on 26 September, 2013, 01:24:43 PM
Next volume will be the last of the post-Necropolis dip, with Garth Ennis' Goodnight Kiss (although Ennis was obviously miles better than Miller/Morrison).

I'm actually really looking forward to re-reading that one - at the time I thought it was the best thing Ennis had ever written for the prog, apart from 'Last Night Out' and 'Unwelcome Guests'. Hopefully it'll hold up.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 26 September, 2013, 01:58:41 PM
My big hope is that vol. 23 is a bit of a chunky one.  Judging by the length of other recent volumes, it should end around Hammerstein, but it'd be much better to end at Man Who Broke The Law (last Miller?) and start vol. 24 with the first episode of The Pit.

Now there's a dividing line in quality if ever there was one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 26 September, 2013, 01:59:09 PM
CASE FILES 21:

The Accidental Culprit 2000 AD prog 888 Story by "Sonny Steelgrave" (Alan McKenzie), art by Anthony Williams.

The Time Machine 2 episodes, 2000 AD progs 889-890 Story by John Wagner, art by Carlos Ezquerra.

Conspiracy of Silence 4 episodes, 2000 AD progs 891-894 Story by John Wagner, art by Mark Harrison.

Rad Blood 2 episodes 2000 AD progs 895-896 Story by Dan Abnett, art by Ron Smith.

Moving Violations 2000 AD prog 897 (7/22/94). Story by Chris Standley, art by Peter Doherty.

TV Babies 2000 AD prog 898 (7/29/94). Story by Chris Standley, art by Peter Doherty.

A Guide to Mega-Speak 2000 AD prog 899 Story by John Wagner, art by Ron Smith & Dondie Cox.

Casualties of War (prog-length Rogue Trooper crossover) 2000 AD prog 900 Story by John Wagner, art by John Higgins.

Judge Death: The True Story 2 episodes, 2000 AD progs 901-902 Story by John Wagner, art by Ian Gibson.

Part Exchange 2000 AD prog 903 Story by Dan Abnett, art by John Burns.

Wilderlands 16 episodes, 2000 AD progs 904-914 and Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #63-67. Story by John Wagner, art by Carlos Ezquerra, Mick Austin.

Parting Shots 2000 AD prog 915 Story by John Wagner, art by Carlos Ezquerra.

Prologue Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #57 Story by Wagner, art by Peter Doherty.

The Tenth Planet 5 episodes, Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #58-62 Story by Wagner, art by Carlos Ezquerra.

Farewell to the Chief Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #68 Story by Wagner, art by Cyril Julien.


CASE FILES 22:

The Candidates 2 episodes, 2000 AD progs 916-917 Story by John Wagner, art by Mick Austin, Carlos Ezquerra.

Voting Day 2000 AD prog 918 Story by John Wagner, art by Carlos Ezquerra.

The Exterminator 9 episodes, 2000 AD progs 919-927 Story by John Wagner, art by John Burns, Emilio Frejo.

The Big Sleet 2000 AD prog 920 Story by Peter Hogan, art by Ross Dearsley, Dermot Power.

Crusade 10 episodes, 2000 AD progs 928-937 Story by Mark Millar & Grant Morrison, art by Mick Austin.

Escape from Kurt Russell 3 episodes, 2000 AD progs 938-939 Story by John Wagner, art by Paul Marshall.

Crash Diner Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #69 Story by Wagner, art by Cyril Julien.

Fall of the House of Esher Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #70 Story by Si Spencer, art by Dean Ormston.

Addiction Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #71 Story by John Wagner, art by Tom Carney.

The Strange Case of Bill Clinton Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #72 Story by John Wagner, art by Siku.

Skar 4 episodes, Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #73-76 Story by John Wagner, art by Ashley Wood.

Poor Johnny Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #77 Story by John Wagner, art by Steve Sampson.

The Secret Life of Judge Pal 2 episodes, Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #78-79 Story by John Wagner, art by S.B. Davis.

Terror with Mrs Gunderson Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #80  Story by John Wagner, art by Jason Brashill.


So based on that, it looks like CASE FILES 23 will include (getting into guesswork here):

Goodnight Kiss 9 episodes, 2000 AD progs 940-948 Story by Garth Ennis, art by Nick Percival.

Blowout 2000 AD prog 949 Story by John Wagner, art by David Hine.

Language Barrier 2000 AD prog 950 Story by John Wagner, art by Jason Brashill.

The Return of Rico (retelling) 3 episodes, 2000 AD progs 950-952 Story by Pat Mills, art by Paul Johnson.

The Neon Man 2000 AD prog 951 Story by John Wagner, art by Carlos Ezquerra.

Megalot 2000 AD prog 952 Story by John Wagner, art by Carlos Ezquerra.

Jigsaw! 2000 AD prog 953 Story by John Wagner, art by Chris Foss.

Caught Short 2000 AD prog 953 Story by John Wagner, art by "Turmoil."

Statue of Judgement 2000 AD prog 954 Story by John Wagner, art by John Burns.

Blaster Buddy 2000 AD prog 954 Story by John Wagner, art by Anthony Williams

My Son the Hero 2000 AD prog 955 Story by John Wagner, art by John Higgins & "TCS".

Bad Frendz 5 episodes, 2000 AD progs 955-959 Story by John Wagner, art by Carlos Ezquerra.

Whatever Happened to Bill Clinton? Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #81 Story by John Wagner, art by Siku.

Repeat Offender Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #81 Story by John Wagner, art by Tom Carney.

Bug Crazy 2 episodes, Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #82-83 Story by John Wagner, art by Charlie Gillespie.

Skedway Madness Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #82 Story by Jim Alexander, art by Jim Murray.

Face of Justice Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #83 Story by Robbie Morrison, art by Steve Sampson.

Family Feud Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #1 Story by Chris Standley, art by Paul Johnson & P.B. Smith.

Get Me to the Church on Time Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #1 Story by Gordon Rennie, art by Pete Venters.


And CASE FILES 24 will (approximately) cover:

To Thing With Love 2000 AD prog 956 Story by John Wagner, art by Chris Weston & Mike Hadley.

The Decision
2000 AD prog 957 Story by John Wagner, art by Andrew Currie.

Awakening Angels 2000 AD prog 958 Story by John Wagner, art by Carlos Ezquerra.

The Cal Files 5 episodes 2000 AD progs 959-963 Story by John Wagner, art by John Burns.

Hammerstein 4 episodes, 2000 AD progs 960-963 Story by Pat Mills & Tony Skinner, art by Jason Brashill.

Dead Simple 2000 AD prog 964 Story by John Wagner, art by Cliff Robinson & Gina Hart.

The Ballad of Devil Angel 2 episodes, 2000 AD progs 965-966 Story by Alan Grant, art by Simon Jacob.

C-H-A-M-P! 2000 AD prog 967 Story by Dan Abnett, art by Anthony Williams.

The Man Who Broke the Law 2 episodes, 2000 AD progs 968-969 Story by Mark Millar, art by Steve Yeowell & Dondie Cox.

The Three Amigos 6 episodes, Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #2-7 Story by John Wagner, art by Trevor Hairsine.

The Wall Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #2 Story by Robbie Morrison, art by Tom Carney & P.B. Smith.

Hot Pursuit Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #3 Story by Chris Standley, art by Mike McMahon.

Stalking the Law Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #4 Story by Robbie Morrison, art by Ashley Sanders & P.B. Smith.

Tattoo Hell Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #5 Story by Jim Alexander, art by Ashley Sanders & P.B. Smith.

Compassion Fatigue Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #8 Story by Robbie Morrison, art by S.B. Davis.

Visions Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #8 Story by "Johnny Mondo" (John Smith), art by Ashley Wood.

Killing Time Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #9 Story by John Wagner, art by Paul Marshall & Dondie Cox.

Judge Spotters Judge Dredd Megazine vol.3 #10 Story by John Wagner, art by Tom Carney.


So, overall a huge upswing in terms of quality - books 25 onwards are going to pretty much be freakin' amazing, wall to wall Wagner-fests. Fingers crossed that they're going to be arranging the books so that the crossovers like Tenth Planet/Conspiracy of Silence/Awakening of Angels read correctly as they did with Judgement Day. It looks like the 'lead' stories for each book will be:

21: Wilderlands/Tenth Planet, Casualties of War
22: Crusade/The Exterminator
23: Goodnight Kiss
24: The Three Amigos
25: The Pit
26: Dead Reckoning(?)
27/28?: The Hunting Party
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 26 September, 2013, 06:09:22 PM
Quote from: credo on 26 September, 2013, 01:58:41 PM
My big hope is that vol. 23 is a bit of a chunky one.  Judging by the length of other recent volumes, it should end around Hammerstein, but it'd be much better to end at Man Who Broke The Law (last Miller?) and start vol. 24 with the first episode of The Pit.

Now there's a dividing line in quality if ever there was one.

Keen eye, that man!  If done that way, then Volume 24, of course, will be unmissable.

(Edit) Radiator's guesswork sounds even better.  Sorry.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 27 September, 2013, 07:59:07 AM
Quote from: radiator on 26 September, 2013, 01:59:09 PM
"A long and very fine post."
--It looks like the 'lead' stories for each book will be:

21: Wilderlands/Tenth Planet, Casualties of War
22: Crusade/The Exterminator
23: Goodnight Kiss
24: The Three Amigos
25: The Pit
26: Dead Reckoning(?)
27/28?: The Hunting Party

Great post!

So, after Iv bought CF21, I'll need to wait till 25 to avoid any Mark Millar stuff :-* A year and a half away?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 September, 2013, 11:13:57 AM
Great bit of work Radiator, that really whets the appetite!  So much stuff listed here I either haven't read or have completely forgotten.  Now that the Sargasso Sea of the mid-90s has been largely crossed, I actually feel better about going back and buying the volumes I've missed so far.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 27 September, 2013, 12:13:03 PM
Great post radiator. I don't know how I managed to miss a whole volume, but your thoughts look good. Rebellion - get us to 25 as quickly as possible!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 27 September, 2013, 12:20:47 PM
QuoteSo, after Iv bought CF21, I'll need to wait till 25 to avoid any Mark Millar stuff :-* A year and a half away?

Ah, but you'd be missing out on so much awesomeness:

Blowout
Language Barrier
Statue of Judgement/The Cal Files/Bad Frendz (which together mark the beginning of the excellent Edgar/PSU/Doomsday arc)
To Thing With Love (which is up there with Bury My Knee... as one of the all-time greatest Dredd one-shots of all time if you ask me)
The Decision
The Three Amigos

Some of my all-time favourite lesser-known Dredds right there...

Should say, props as ever to Grant's Touched by the Hand of Tharg site for help compiling the lists - direct your praise to him.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 27 September, 2013, 12:25:06 PM
QuoteI don't know how I managed to miss a whole volume, but your thoughts look good.

Probably because there is such a wealth of Megazine material to get through (the Meg was fortnightly at this point don't forget), and also that around '95 the prog was running two Dredd episodes a week - so the amount of actual number of issues covered is due to slow down significantly as we get into the mid-nineties period.

If I have time later, I'll speculate on volumes up to the early thirties - I think I'm right in saying that there will be one or two Case Files volumes entirely composed of material written by John Wagner....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 September, 2013, 11:25:50 PM
Quote from: radiator on 27 September, 2013, 12:20:47 PM
To Thing With Love (which is up there with Bury My Knee... as one of the all-time greatest Dredd one-shots of all time if you ask me)

We haven't had Bury My Knee at Wounded Heart yet, have we?  When's that due to appear?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 28 September, 2013, 02:37:11 AM
I love that the Millar stuff is being skipped. Hilarious. I know not of what I speak as I gave up the prog in the 90's and am gauging the mood in the room.
Have to endure his "Review Show" appearances, gawd save us from MillarWorld. Sigh.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 28 September, 2013, 06:12:57 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 September, 2013, 11:25:50 PM
We haven't had Bury My Knee at Wounded Heart yet, have we?  When's that due to appear?

Yes we have. It's in Case Files 20.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 28 September, 2013, 07:51:43 AM
Quote from: radiator on 27 September, 2013, 12:20:47 PM

Ah, but you'd be missing out on so much awesomeness:

Blowout
Language Barrier
Statue of Judgement/The Cal Files/Bad Frendz (which together mark the beginning of the excellent Edgar/PSU/Doomsday arc)
To Thing With Love (which is up there with Bury My Knee... as one of the all-time greatest Dredd one-shots of all time if you ask me)
The Decision
The Three Amigos

Maybe I'll give it a go later on. Bought 5 CFs the other week to get a full 1-16 collection. So I'll probably fill in the blanks between 16,21 and 25 in time.

I'll probably buy each one of 25 and onwards. No queston about it :) !
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 28 September, 2013, 10:32:35 AM
Quote from: Greg M. on 28 September, 2013, 06:12:57 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 September, 2013, 11:25:50 PM
We haven't had Bury My Knee at Wounded Heart yet, have we?  When's that due to appear?

Yes we have. It's in Case Files 20.

Fantastic, thanks Greg.  I've got it but haven't got up to reading it yet.  I'm going to seek out "Bury My Knee..." right now.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 29 September, 2013, 11:45:26 PM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Lord-Beasts-Pat-Mills/dp/1781082294/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380494664&sr=1-1&keywords=2000ad
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 September, 2013, 09:18:26 AM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 29 September, 2013, 11:45:26 PM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Lord-Beasts-Pat-Mills/dp/1781082294/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380494664&sr=1-1&keywords=2000ad

Interesting.  I wonder what it will look like, as the first non-Langley volume of the 'current' collections (allowing Book of Scars is a special case)?  Will they use the trade dress from the rest of the (excellent) softback line?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 30 September, 2013, 11:05:42 AM
CF23 contents (TBC);

PROGS
Goodnight Kiss
Blowout
Language Barrier
The Return of Rico
The Neon Man
Megalot
Caught Short
Jigsaw
Blaster Buddy
Statue of Judgement
Bad Frendz
My Son the Hero
To Thing with Love
The Decision
Awakening of Angels
MEGS
Repeat Offender
Whatever Happened to Bill Clinton
Skedway Madness
Bug Crazy
Face of Justice
Family Feud
Get Me to the Church on Time
The Wall
The Three Amigos
Hot Pursuit
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 30 September, 2013, 11:26:53 AM
That list would mean that CF24 would either have 41 episodes from 2000AD in it, or that The Pit would be split between 24 and 25.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 30 September, 2013, 12:22:00 PM
Yes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 September, 2013, 12:24:31 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 30 September, 2013, 12:22:00 PM
Yes.

You've been working with that Tharg too long mate.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 September, 2013, 12:51:52 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 30 September, 2013, 12:22:00 PM
Yes.
Short and sweet.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 30 September, 2013, 01:49:21 PM
Short, sweet, ambiguous...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 30 September, 2013, 03:16:46 PM
He's keeping his powder dry for the 'The Pit .. recoloured' announcement. Shortly followed by the 'America part 2 .. recoloured' announcement
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 30 September, 2013, 03:23:19 PM
now that would be intresting to see reactions too me i'd love it
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 September, 2013, 07:37:21 PM
Quote from: Richard on 30 September, 2013, 11:26:53 AM
That list would mean that CF24 would either have 41 episodes from 2000AD in it, or that The Pit would be split between 24 and 25.

Could they not go another away and make CF24 very Meg heavy, the 2000ad stories but to the start of The Pit and the Meg stories up to the end (or as far as it needs to go to fill it). That way CF25 could have The Pit uninterrupted, which it certainly deserves?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 06 October, 2013, 11:18:48 AM
According to Digital Spy, a Kingdom novel, "Kingdom: Fiefdom" will be published in print and e-book format in July 2014.  Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent are the authors, and the story is set 100 years after the prog strip.

http://www.digitalspy.com.au/comics/news/a517946/dan-abnett-writing-2000-ad-kingdom-novel.html

The article also mentions upcoming (e-book?) novels "Strontium Dog" and "Judge Anderson: Rookie".
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 09 October, 2013, 04:14:43 PM
Just reading Robo-K33F's provisional list for JD Case Files 23 and noticed that the Megazines are due to end in this book with 'Hot Pursuit' (3.03) and 'The Three Amigos' (3.07). However, seemingly omitted are 'Stalking the Law' (3.04) and 'Tattoo Hell' (3.05) which may or may not be included in the next volume. In my opinion, (and always being one to like to tie up loose ends), it would be better to put these two stories in book 23 and pick up fresh again with Meg 3.08 in Case Files 24. Thankfully the list is 'to be confirmed' and hopefully all will be well when the time comes; and that I have full confidence in Mr Richardson!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 09 October, 2013, 11:51:22 PM
The Three Amigos started in 3.02 and went on until 3.07. There probably just wasn't room for the other stories which ran next to it, so they'll be in the next volume.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 13 October, 2013, 02:28:13 PM
I guess this forthcoming IDW Classics cover (issue 5) is taking its inspiration from Brett Ewin's Prog 267 cover (http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=267&Comic=2000ad), but still....

(http://i.imgur.com/7zBVqYs.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 October, 2013, 02:37:05 PM
I finally got to see a few of the IDW Classics in the excellent Big Bang Comics yesterday. The colouring job is sound, and I can see it appealing to the monochromaphobic, but everything else about the production was horrid.  The monstrous blank spaces and the piss-poor covers would put anyone off.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 13 October, 2013, 03:24:06 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 13 October, 2013, 02:28:13 PM
I guess this forthcoming IDW Classics cover (issue 5) is taking its inspiration from Brett Ewin's Prog 267 cover (http://www.2000ad.org/functions/cover.php?choice=267&Comic=2000ad), but still....

(http://i.imgur.com/7zBVqYs.jpg)

Sorry, but it really needs to be said - that cover is bloody awful.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 October, 2013, 04:01:44 PM
'Awaits obvious Doctor Strangelove joke'
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 13 October, 2013, 05:32:44 PM
Would be better had the artist gone a bit further with that ref, frankly, rather than 'Dredd skysurfs on a missile'. The IDW Dredds are starting to remind me of late-era Quality Comics, which cranked out terrible covers for the most part.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 13 October, 2013, 06:30:49 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 13 October, 2013, 05:32:44 PM
Would be better had the artist gone a bit further with that ref, frankly, rather than 'Dredd skysurfs on a missile'. The IDW Dredds are starting to remind me of late-era Quality Comics, which cranked out terrible covers for the most part.

Everything about the Quality era sucked. Coloring, printing, paper stock, covers. Everyfhing except the strips they were reprinting.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 14 October, 2013, 11:11:52 AM
Prog 2014 solicit:

Celebrate the Xmas festivities with the 100-page Prog 2014, a mammoth blow-out of stunning stories featuring a stellar line-up of talent. Civil war explodes as mutants battle norms in Strontium Dog: Dogs of War by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra; a former member of war-droids the ABC Warriors reveals his past in Return to Mars by Pat Mills and Clint Langley; maniac-for-hire Ulysses Sweet takes a job that only an arch-psychopath could handle in Centred by Guy Adams and Paul Marshall; grab a glimpse into Inspector Harry Absalom's early days on the force in Old Pal's Act by Gordon Rennie and Tiernen Trevallion; hitmen Sinister Dexter are on the run across Generica courtesy of Dan Abnett and Carl Critchlow; the last surviving Ten-Seconder fights to get back home in a special epilogue story by Rob Williams and Edmund Bagwell; plus a special festive Judge Dredd tale featuring the art of Batman Incorporated artist Chris Burnham! All this and much more!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 14 October, 2013, 11:20:29 AM
Well, that sounds like a bulging sack of thrills and no mistake. Really interested to see Critchlow's take on Sin/Dex and Burnham on Dredd is a bit of a coup surely?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 14 October, 2013, 11:22:36 AM
Sounds like a pretty solid line-up. Looking forward to Strontium Dog, Absalom, Sin-Dex and Ten-Seconders (and Dredd of course)

Critchlow on Sin-Dex sounds great! Hope its not just a one-off.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 14 October, 2013, 11:31:50 AM
Prog 2014 lookin good.
Eagerly anticipating all Thrills mentioned (apart from Strontium Dog).

Burnham is a very talented chap, his run on Batman Inc was fantastic.
Can't wait to see his take on Dredd
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 October, 2013, 12:11:15 PM
Has it been a year since the last Absalom? Blimey, not like I've been counting the weeks!
Thats a solid prog right there chaps. :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 14 October, 2013, 12:44:02 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 14 October, 2013, 11:31:50 AM
Prog 2014 lookin good.
Eagerly anticipating all Thrills mentioned (apart from Strontium Dog).

Burnham is a very talented chap, his run on Batman Inc was fantastic.
Can't wait to see his take on Dredd

How can you not like Stront? one of the best stories in the Prog.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 14 October, 2013, 12:52:33 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 14 October, 2013, 11:20:29 AM
Well, that sounds like a bulging sack of thrills and no mistake. Really interested to see Critchlow's take on Sin/Dex ...

Beat me to it, that sounds all kinds of wonderful. Sounds like a fantastic issue. Not as big a fan of Burnham as many seem to be, be regardless of my opinion he is a big name draw, so well done that Tharg.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 14 October, 2013, 09:20:57 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 14 October, 2013, 12:11:15 PM
Has it been a year since the last Absalom? Blimey, not like I've been counting the weeks!

I was just thinking that. That last Absalom was a cracker.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 14 October, 2013, 10:03:02 PM
From the way that is worded, I'm guessing Strontium Dog, ABC Warriors, Ulysses Sweet as the January lineup, and the others as one-offs, although I'm certainly hoping that if either the Absalom or Sin Dex stories are double-length one-offs, then a longer story is right behind them in prog 1862...

That's only seven episodes.  There were eight in Progs 2011 & 2012, and nine last year.  I would like to imagine that Tharg's keeping a couple of great surprises in reserve to confound us solicit-watchers.  Hopefully one of them is indigo-colored.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 October, 2013, 01:14:26 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 14 October, 2013, 12:44:02 PM

How can you not like Stront? one of the best stories in the Prog.

Used to be.
Then Johnny died.  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 15 October, 2013, 01:19:07 PM
I'm not that fussed about Strontium Dog either. This latest arc's not really doing it for me, for some reason—and I'd say the original run is one of my all-time 2000 AD favourites.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 15 October, 2013, 01:28:19 PM
What is it that you don't like about it?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 15 October, 2013, 01:34:40 PM
I'm not sure. There just doesn't seem to be the spark the series once had, and it feels a bit too similar to Portrait and even Final Solution. The big gaps between series haven't exactly helped either.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 15 October, 2013, 01:47:35 PM
I read Life and Death directly before the most recent series, so I did not have the huge gap. Plus I tend to read a series in one go once it is complete rather than reading it in weekly episodes, but I have been really enjoying it.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 15 October, 2013, 01:57:56 PM
Must say I've really enjoyed new Stront too (although I only read in trade format). In fact, I've enjoyed it to the extent that I've actually confused myself as to which events occur in new Stront, and which occur in old (I could have sworn that the artificial brain navigator with singing pets was classic Stront).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 October, 2013, 05:56:26 PM
Quote from: credo on 15 October, 2013, 01:57:56 PMIn fact, I've enjoyed it to the extent that I've actually confused myself as to which events occur in new Stront, and which occur in old (I could have sworn that the artificial brain navigator with singing pets was classic Stront).

It's both.  They first appeared in 'The Ultimate Weapon' story - the last one in Starlord.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 October, 2013, 06:14:05 PM
Fresh off Tumblr, Frazer Irving has NOT ruled out ever working on Judge Death again and has expressed an interest in doing so. Not exactly set in stone stuff but its an exciting prospect.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 15 October, 2013, 06:38:53 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 15 October, 2013, 06:14:05 PM
Fresh off Tumblr, Frazer Irving has NOT ruled out ever working on Judge Death again and has expressed an interest in doing so. Not exactly set in stone stuff but its an exciting prospect.

Tell him to fucking finish Gutsville first!

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 October, 2013, 06:57:38 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 15 October, 2013, 06:38:53 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 15 October, 2013, 06:14:05 PM
Fresh off Tumblr, Frazer Irving has NOT ruled out ever working on Judge Death again and has expressed an interest in doing so. Not exactly set in stone stuff but its an exciting prospect.

Tell him to fucking finish Gutsville first!

Cheers

Jim
No mention on where he stands on Gutsville. Still working on Annihilator I believe.

"Anon asked: Hi Mr Irving, just to wish you all the success you deserve and hope to see your art on more books, I saw X-Men terrific art. Years ago you send me a sketch of Judge Death (Im from Argentina) and that was and incredible gift from you. Again, I think you are the best artist on the medium, any chance that you return to 2000AD or Judge Death? Kind Regards, wish you the best Mr!!!! Pablo from Argentina (forgive my English!!!)

Frazer: Hi Pablo! Yes, I recall that sketch, it was one of the last actual working sketches I made before I made the switch to digital art! I'm glad it still lives with its owner :D No plans to return to Judge Death at the moment due to my work on Annihilator with Grant, but that doesn't mean I'm closed to the idea in the future. Hope all is well in Argentina!"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 16 October, 2013, 02:24:00 PM
Just noticed that the next volume in the Slaine trades looks to collect everything up to Book of Invasions. From the Amazon description:

"Having united the Tribes of the Earth Goddess to battle the hoards of Fomorian sea demons determined on enslaving them, Slaine was appointed as the first High King of Ireland. After protecting the tribes for seven years, he was put to death so that he could serve Danu in the afterlife. This exciting collection features a series of adventures which took place during Slaine's seven-year reign as 'King' - a period where he spent time as a near-mindless beast stuck in a warp spasm, was reunited with his son Kai and was forced to defend his lands against the Secret Commonwealth of demons led by his old enemy, Medb!"

So all the "Lost Tales" and Secret Commonwealth too. So glad that's not a volume on its own. Next question - is "Arrow of God" included?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 16 October, 2013, 03:50:30 PM
Quote from: credo on 16 October, 2013, 02:24:00 PM
Next question - is "Arrow of God" included?

Yes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 16 October, 2013, 04:14:59 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 16 October, 2013, 03:50:30 PM
Quote from: credo on 16 October, 2013, 02:24:00 PM
Next question - is "Arrow of God" included?

Yes.

Woo Hoo! Not really much of a story in the grand scheme of all things Slaine, but for some reason it hold pleasant memories for me.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 October, 2013, 07:07:54 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 16 October, 2013, 03:50:30 PM
Quote from: credo on 16 October, 2013, 02:24:00 PM
Next question - is "Arrow of God" included?

Yes.

That makes for a fantastic collection, can't wait.  Great decision to dilute Secret Commonwealth as much as betelgeusianly possible.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 17 October, 2013, 02:37:45 PM
Just one last question for Robo-K33f - will Dragoncorpse (Dice Man 2) and The Ring of Danu (Dice Man 4) also make it into this bumper collection? (And if not, will they perhaps feature as a re-print somewhere else?)
Thank you.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 17 October, 2013, 04:05:46 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 17 October, 2013, 02:37:45 PM
Just one last question for Robo-K33f - will Dragoncorpse (Dice Man 2) and The Ring of Danu (Dice Man 4) also make it into this bumper collection? (And if not, will they perhaps feature as a re-print somewhere else?)
Thank you.

No.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 17 October, 2013, 06:28:10 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 15 October, 2013, 06:38:53 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 15 October, 2013, 06:14:05 PM
Fresh off Tumblr, Frazer Irving has NOT ruled out ever working on Judge Death again and has expressed an interest in doing so. Not exactly set in stone stuff but its an exciting prospect.

Tell him to fucking finish Gutsville first!

Cheers

Jim

Think he just finished a half dozen issues of Uncanny X-Men recently, and from what I saw it looked amazing.
Shame we'll probably never have a finished run on Gutsville alright.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 17 October, 2013, 10:14:08 PM
Yes!! Volume 10 of Charley's War deluxe collection received today! The reproduction quality is quite perfect from start to finish (very very neat).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 18 October, 2013, 08:32:46 PM
Quick question to any production droids lurking: any sign of the following trades

Volgan Wars 4 paperback
Savage Vol 3
Mega City Undercover Vol 3
Rogue Trooper Vol 4 (containing cinnebar, which is amazing, and the G Rennie stuff, which I've never read)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 October, 2013, 09:22:16 PM
Volgan War TPB is on the cards i think for sometime early next year.  Savage Book 3 might need one or two more stories. Mega City Undercover 3 will currently only contain The Deal currently so that'll be a while off. Cant vouch for Rogue Trooper 4.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 20 October, 2013, 01:17:55 PM
Quote from: vark on 17 October, 2013, 10:14:08 PM
Yes!! Volume 10 of Charley's War deluxe collection received today! The reproduction quality is quite perfect from start to finish (very very neat).
I confirm what my eyes have seen as the editor of the series in France said to me that Titan has used the same source material (and the same graphist to scan them) as them.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 22 October, 2013, 11:50:27 AM
I really hope that Rogue Trooper fourth book happens. It's almost criminal Cinnabar hasn't seen print in a trade, yet has been reprinted so often elsewhere. It's one of the very best Rogue tales of all. (Frankly, I wish a clone of John Smith tasked with only writing Rogue Trooper had been given the Fr1day character after that initial run to play with.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 22 October, 2013, 12:33:45 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 22 October, 2013, 11:50:27 AM
I really hope that Rogue Trooper fourth book happens. It's almost criminal Cinnabar hasn't seen print in a trade, yet has been reprinted so often elsewhere. It's one of the very best Rogue tales of all. (Frankly, I wish a clone of John Smith tasked with only writing Rogue Trooper had been given the Fr1day character after that initial run to play with.)

What is the general opinion of the Rennie stuff?  From the few pages I've seen, it was a return to original Rogue, jettisoning all the ludicrous continuity of the later Friday stuff. Is that the case, or are we still playing with the Rogue and Friday part of same universe silliness?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 22 October, 2013, 12:44:43 PM
They were flashbacks to the original character/line-up. I personally don't think they were top-tier 2000 AD, but then I've never really rated Rogue Trooper. I imagine if you liked 'classic' (i.e. pre-Hit) Rogue, you'd like the Rennie stuff a lot.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 22 October, 2013, 01:09:00 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 22 October, 2013, 12:44:43 PM
I imagine if you liked 'classic' (i.e. pre-Hit) Rogue, you'd like the Rennie stuff a lot.

There was some lovely Staz Johnson/ David Roach art on some of those stories.

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 22 October, 2013, 01:09:53 PM
I really enjoyed the Rennie stuff, but then I'm not a fan of the original at all (for me 2000ad most over rated strip), numerous glorious artists who did such great work on it aside. So I'm wondering did my low expectations going in mean as was able to enjoy it more than most?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 22 October, 2013, 03:07:56 PM
Quote from: credo on 16 October, 2013, 02:24:00 PM
Just noticed that the next volume in the Slaine trades looks to collect everything up to Book of Invasions. From the Amazon description:

"Having united the Tribes of the Earth Goddess to battle the hoards of Fomorian sea demons determined on enslaving them, Slaine was appointed as the first High King of Ireland. After protecting the tribes for seven years, he was put to death so that he could serve Danu in the afterlife. This exciting collection features a series of adventures which took place during Slaine's seven-year reign as 'King' - a period where he spent time as a near-mindless beast stuck in a warp spasm, was reunited with his son Kai and was forced to defend his lands against the Secret Commonwealth of demons led by his old enemy, Medb!"

So all the "Lost Tales" and Secret Commonwealth too. So glad that's not a volume on its own. Next question - is "Arrow of God" included?

I was wasn't them to be all collected into the same volume  :o


Quote from: credo
Next question - is "Arrow of God" included?

Where Slaine is coloured blue.

Quote from: CredoRogue Trooper Vol 4 (containing cinnebar, which is amazing, and the G Rennie stuff, which I've never read)

So, there is more Rogue to come and thought I had them all with the first three volumes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 22 October, 2013, 03:17:10 PM
Any news about Slaine - Book of Scars?

This  site (http://www.2000adonline.com/books/index.php) no longer has a Coming Soon section.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 22 October, 2013, 04:09:01 PM
Book of Scars should be out in a couple of weeks. As for the books site, it's on my long list of things to do. I'll chase for the AI files of upcoming titles.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 22 October, 2013, 04:10:01 PM
It seems to be a pretty sure thing, unless Pat and Clint are willing to signed on leaflets...
https://forbiddenplanet.com/events/2013/11/06/pat-mills-and-clint-langley-signing-slaine-book-sc/ (https://forbiddenplanet.com/events/2013/11/06/pat-mills-and-clint-langley-signing-slaine-book-sc/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 October, 2013, 08:01:34 AM
Just started a thread for this but might as well mention it here too seems IDW will be releasing new Rogue Trooper comics too.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/10/22/godless-worlds-brian-ruckley-to-launch-new-rogue-trooper-series-for-idw/ (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/10/22/godless-worlds-brian-ruckley-to-launch-new-rogue-trooper-series-for-idw/)
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 23 October, 2013, 09:06:30 AM
Can't wait to see Stokoe's covers! Guys a genius.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 October, 2013, 06:12:33 PM
Has anyone got Button Man: Get Harry Ex yet? What exactly is in it? All four BM books?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 23 October, 2013, 06:16:32 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 23 October, 2013, 06:12:33 PM
Has anyone got Button Man: Get Harry Ex yet? What exactly is in it? All four BM books?

It's the Ranson trilogy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 23 October, 2013, 06:16:51 PM
I believe its just the first three.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 23 October, 2013, 06:37:53 PM
Yes - it is just the arthur ranson books
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 October, 2013, 06:45:04 PM
OK. Nice little money saver for me, i'll get that instead of the separate trades. Thanks chaps.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 24 October, 2013, 09:36:17 PM
I have this in my Amazon shopping basket as of yesterday. I'm told it's indispensable to anyone's collection?

Only on board since 2012 so I have never read any of it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 October, 2013, 10:10:43 PM
I HAVE read the first Button Man story and its a truly fantastic contribution to the pantheon of the galaxies greatest comic. It's very different though, and not at all science fiction orientated or fantastical. Just very British, indeed, take the name John Wagner off the cover and I wouldn't have guessed it was anything to do with the prog, and was something from Toxic or Revolver maybe. And Ranson's art work! Oh my word....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 24 October, 2013, 10:16:25 PM
That'll be because Button Man was originally written for a different comic - I want to say Espresso(?) and is, I think, a creator owned property. I think I heard somewhere that - at least the first series - was devised so that it could potentially be serialised one page at a time, or at least be able to be broken down into any episode length.

It's tremendous - and is one of the only other 2000ad strips that would make for a genuinely great TV series or movie in my mind.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 24 October, 2013, 10:30:56 PM
It was intended for Toxic, dropped by the then Ed, and Wagner took Button Man and Al's Baby to the house of Tharg (IIRC!!)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 25 October, 2013, 10:54:37 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 September, 2013, 01:32:30 PM
A.B.C. Warriors: Solo Missions (http://www.amazon.co.uk/B-C-Warriors-Solo-Missions/dp/178108226X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379651276&sr=1-1&keywords=A.B.C.+Warriors%3A+Solo+Missions+%5BPaperback%5D)
Pat Mills, Alan Moore, Steve Dillon, Henry Flint, Kev Walker
96 pages, 13th February 2014

Cover now up on Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Solo_zps8539bdcc.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 25 October, 2013, 11:29:19 AM
Quote from: maryanddavid on 24 October, 2013, 10:30:56 PM
It was intended for Toxic, dropped by the then Ed, and Wagner took Button Man and Al's Baby to the house of Tharg (IIRC!!)

Ah yes, think it was I was a Teenage Tax Consultant that was for 'Expresso'(?)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 October, 2013, 11:35:00 AM
Don't like that ABC cover - the picture is fine but the colours are vile.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dragonfly on 25 October, 2013, 12:18:06 PM
Does anyone know when the new Zombo trade is coming out? I thought it was out already but there is no sign of it on the on-line store so I'm guessing it has been put back.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 25 October, 2013, 12:47:10 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 25 October, 2013, 11:35:00 AM
Don't like that ABC cover - the picture is fine but the colours are vile.

It looks a bit... neon, as though someone's mucked about with the colour levels a bit in Photoshop. Always looked fine before now.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 25 October, 2013, 01:38:00 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 05 September, 2013, 10:49:09 PM
I like that cover.  They seem to be standing on the helmets of the more popular strips.  I can see a Judge helmet, Helm, Johnny Alpha's pointy hat, Hammerstein?  It looks more like they are standing on the skulls of the vanquished, rather than on the shoulders of giants.

Quote from: Robo-K33F on 06 September, 2013, 06:53:31 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 05 September, 2013, 05:16:48 PM
Looks like a rather impressive anthology of one-offs and and also-rans.  I'm seeing The Visible Man, The Amazing Maze Dumoir, Xtnct, Tribal Memories for definite, and is the guy in the foreground Greysuit?  Is the sword-wielding guy from Telguuth, and who is the dame with the machine gun?

That's Homer the Barbarian. The girl with the gun is from Family. Foreground man is the Universal Soldier.  You can't quite make out the young girl from Life Cycle, the robot from Colony Earth, or Superbean....

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/SciFiThrillers_zps07ba7ddb.jpg)

I hadn't noticed the Skizz helmet in the pile before now, nor the 'dead' Stogie on Helm.  And is that Dante's rifle at the back?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 October, 2013, 01:53:15 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 25 October, 2013, 01:38:00 PM
I hadn't noticed the Skizz helmet in the pile before now, nor the 'dead' Stogie on Helm.  And is that Dante's rifle at the back?

Good eye!  We also have Pulger's dress, Shakara's laser-knife thingie, a Moab grav-suit helmet, Torque's mask, Savage's shootah, Earl Reagan's stetson.... but what's that between Hammerstein's No. 1 head and Helm, and what's just above Dredd's helmet?

Think I'd buy this on the basis of that cover alone!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 October, 2013, 02:01:55 PM
Isn't that a VC's helmet between Hammerstein helmet mk.1 and 2?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 25 October, 2013, 02:17:43 PM
Yep.  What's the white thing snaking in on the left behind Shakara's weapon.  Is it Ace Garp's scarf? And is that the High Rock grounded in the background (also on the left) beyond Dante's flintlock?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: BPP on 25 October, 2013, 02:21:01 PM
Skizz spacesuit helmet dead in the centre.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 October, 2013, 02:26:31 PM
ooh good spots everyone. Is that a gravity suit from Halo Jones under the visible man's feet?

And who/what on earth is that thing with a S on its chest on the far left of the line-up?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 25 October, 2013, 02:36:55 PM
What is the thing that looks like a g string stretched over Captain America's shield?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 25 October, 2013, 02:54:09 PM
Is that a shred of Mrs Gundersons dress near Dredds helmet ?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 October, 2013, 02:58:50 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 25 October, 2013, 02:54:09 PM
Is that a shred of Mrs Gundersons dress near Dredds helmet ?

I think Tordelback's already nailed that as Pulger's dress from DR & Quinch
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 25 October, 2013, 03:02:57 PM
curse you tb #shakesfist#
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 25 October, 2013, 03:09:19 PM
Quote from: radiator on 25 October, 2013, 02:36:55 PM
What is the thing that looks like a g string stretched over Captain America's shield?
Durham Red's ... costume?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tombo on 25 October, 2013, 03:21:12 PM
The thing behind Pulger's dress and Dredd's helmet appears to be Defoe's mask.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 October, 2013, 03:25:43 PM
Dash, I think that is Garps scarf indeed. Good spot!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 25 October, 2013, 03:48:33 PM
It's dead/unconscious Stogie I feel sorriest for!  :(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 25 October, 2013, 03:51:40 PM
Quote from: radiator on 25 October, 2013, 02:36:55 PM
What is the thing that looks like a g string stretched over Captain America's shield?

Probably Slaine's shield, and Joe Pineapple's G-string?  Devyln Waugh's G-string?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tombo on 25 October, 2013, 04:16:32 PM
That's no shield!!!  It's Brainbiter!!!  You can see the handle sticking down to the left.  As for what's over it though I've no idea.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 October, 2013, 04:29:42 PM
Quote from: Tombo on 25 October, 2013, 04:16:32 PM
That's no shield!!!  It's Brainbiter!!!

Excellent work Tombo, and for Defoe's mask too!  And well done Dash for getting Ace's scarf and the High Rock.  The G-string is probably Zombo's, based on the red 'jewel'. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 October, 2013, 04:41:19 PM
Nearly two pages of discussion on one cover, and no ones pointed out it's a corcker yet. You lot are spoilt! :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dandontdare on 25 October, 2013, 04:51:34 PM
I'm still not seeing Defoe's mask - just looks like a dark blob to me.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tombo on 25 October, 2013, 04:59:11 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 25 October, 2013, 04:51:34 PM
I'm still not seeing Defoe's mask - just looks like a dark blob to me.

Squint really hard and you can see the eye slots and nose guard.  And TordelBacks right, it is Zombo's thong, I though that red thing was part of Helm.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 25 October, 2013, 05:36:37 PM
All the items in the foreground are listed in the back of the collection.

Mike Perkins did a fantastic job.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 October, 2013, 06:10:21 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 25 October, 2013, 05:36:37 PM
All the items in the foreground are listed in the back of the collection.

There's a name for people like you, Keith.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 25 October, 2013, 06:58:27 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 October, 2013, 06:10:21 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 25 October, 2013, 05:36:37 PM
All the items in the foreground are listed in the back of the collection.

There's a name for people like you, Keith.

Now I'm scared! The ABC cover is just a placeholder btw.

Wait until you see the new Devlin Waugh Swimming in Blood cover - amazing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 25 October, 2013, 07:06:32 PM
I'm so looking forward to Swimming in Blood. The Devlin Waugh trades were horribly disappointing, with SiB being a mess from a repro standpoint (moiré city) and Red Tide missing a load of captions. The character deserves so much better, and I'm thrilled Waugh will be getting a second go. Maybe I'll finally be able to give away my Hamlyn collection!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 25 October, 2013, 07:33:55 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 October, 2013, 06:10:21 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 25 October, 2013, 05:36:37 PM
All the items in the foreground are listed in the back of the collection.

There's a name for people like you, Keith.

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=one+of+us&source=video&cd=1&ved=0CEAQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9C4uTEEOJlM&ei=nbhqUoySBtKQhQenmYDQBA&usg=AFQjCNEUwQXR7ky3zvyDBCJijKk1BDRZsA&bvm=bv.55123115,d.ZG4
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 25 October, 2013, 10:45:33 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 25 October, 2013, 05:36:37 PM
Mike Perkins did a fantastic job.

Not to mention his other achievement, forever immortalised in poetry.  You know, that time when he ate 80 gherkins and pickled his internal workin's.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 25 October, 2013, 11:34:44 PM
Where's the motherfuntin' like button?

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 26 October, 2013, 07:50:35 PM
2000 AD Presents Sci-fi Thrillers [Paperback) released in December 2013.

Is this one worth mentioning as a Chrimbo present folks? It looks like a hefty chunk of thrill power.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 26 October, 2013, 07:53:22 PM
I'm picking it up just for Tribal Memories. If Senior Tordle's word is anything to go buy it should be a classic.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 26 October, 2013, 09:24:11 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 26 October, 2013, 07:53:22 PM
I'm picking it up just for Tribal Memories. If Senior Tordle's word is anything to go buy it should be a classic.

It is. It most definitely is.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 27 October, 2013, 06:19:41 PM
Do we know if any of the old Nikolai Dante strips will be reprinted?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 November, 2013, 10:36:53 AM
Looks like Prion are releasing a paperback version of their 2009 hardback (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-%2522Judge-Dredd%2522-n/dp/1853757187/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383301950&sr=1-6&keywords=Best+of+Judge+Dredd%3A):

Best of Judge Dredd: Classic strips from the galaxy's greatest judge (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Judge-Dredd-Classic-greatest/dp/1853759104/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383301774&sr=1-1&keywords=Best+of+Judge+Dredd%3A+Classic+strips+from+the+galaxy%27s+greatest+judge+%5BPaperback%5D)

The Best of 2000 AD is Prion Books' latest sci-fi comic strip offering and will be a dream come true for an entire generation of manboys who grew up with one of the world's greatest ever crimesolvers. Judge Dredd is the future's most famous law enforcement officer bar none. He has graced the pages of the generation-defining cut sci-fi comic 2000 AD for over 30 years and now also features in his own Judge Dredd Megazine.

Prion Books, 288 pages, paperback, 13th March 2014

Er, manboys?  Is that a typo for fanboys, or something from Thailand I don't want to know about?  And I love the fact that Dredd "now also features" in his own Megazine, like it's only been running for a fortnight.

Also, at 288 pages, it's 16 pages shorter than the hardback version.  Does that mean Prion have decided some of their selections weren't the best after all?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 01 November, 2013, 12:22:02 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 27 October, 2013, 06:19:41 PM
Do we know if any of the old Nikolai Dante strips will be reprinted?

Speaking with Robbie and Simon at the Lakes a couple of weekends ago and this sounds like touche subject.
I think it's only actually Vol.3 out of print (at least that was the only one I ever had trouble finding). I asked if we are ever going to see the whole series in print again and apparently they have been told we will at some point but that was several years ago...  :(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 01 November, 2013, 12:28:33 PM
Quote from: dodsy on 01 November, 2013, 12:22:02 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 27 October, 2013, 06:19:41 PM
Do we know if any of the old Nikolai Dante strips will be reprinted?

Speaking with Robbie and Simon at the Lakes a couple of weekends ago and this sounds like touche subject.
I think it's only actually Vol.3 out of print (at least that was the only one I ever had trouble finding). I asked if we are ever going to see the whole series in print again and apparently they have been told we will at some point but that was several years ago...  :(


oh...  :(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 November, 2013, 12:49:19 PM
If ever a series would benefit from being squeezed into 3 'compendiums' approaching maximum casefiles girth, it's Dante.  The storytelling is so clear, the scope so wide, the structure so well-defined from the start that having masses of the stuff under one cover is no problem at all.

A recent re-read of the beginning and the end (the middle would require a non-trivial trawl of the Attic of Despair) really highlighted how great a work it is.  Looking at my existing intimidating mishmash of different trades and scattered progs, I would buy omnibus editions with new covers (Frasers bookending start and finish, Burns in the middle) without a second's hesitation.  That, or a half-dozen heavily annotated/sketchified two-volumes-in-one series.

The world needs to see Dante stand among Dredd, Stront, Nemesis, Halo and Slaine as a true giant of the Prog.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 01 November, 2013, 01:02:15 PM
At the very, very least I'd like to think we could eventually have all volumes in matching trade dress!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 01 November, 2013, 01:05:46 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 01 November, 2013, 01:02:15 PM
At the very, very least I'd like to think we could eventually have all volumes in matching trade dress!


hear hear  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 01 November, 2013, 02:21:38 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 01 November, 2013, 12:49:19 PM
If ever a series would benefit from being squeezed into 3 'compendiums' approaching maximum casefiles girth, it's Dante.  The storytelling is so clear, the scope so wide, the structure so well-defined from the start that having masses of the stuff under one cover is no problem at all.

A recent re-read of the beginning and the end (the middle would require a non-trivial trawl of the Attic of Despair) really highlighted how great a work it is.  Looking at my existing intimidating mishmash of different trades and scattered progs, I would buy omnibus editions with new covers (Frasers bookending start and finish, Burns in the middle) without a second's hesitation.  That, or a half-dozen heavily annotated/sketchified two-volumes-in-one series.

The world needs to see Dante stand among Dredd, Stront, Nemesis, Halo and Slaine as a true giant of the Prog.

I would too! I have never read the series and would like to give it a go.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 01 November, 2013, 03:33:34 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 01 November, 2013, 12:49:19 PM
If ever a series would benefit from being squeezed into 3 'compendiums' approaching maximum casefiles girth, it's Dante.  The storytelling is so clear, the scope so wide, the structure so well-defined from the start that having masses of the stuff under one cover is no problem at all.

A recent re-read of the beginning and the end (the middle would require a non-trivial trawl of the Attic of Despair) really highlighted how great a work it is.  Looking at my existing intimidating mishmash of different trades and scattered progs, I would buy omnibus editions with new covers (Frasers bookending start and finish, Burns in the middle) without a second's hesitation.  That, or a half-dozen heavily annotated/sketchified two-volumes-in-one series.

The world needs to see Dante stand among Dredd, Stront, Nemesis, Halo and Slaine as a true giant of the Prog.

I've said it before but Dante almost seems designed to be split up into 5 omnibus editions. 1 -  everything up to the outbreak of war (Love and War), 2 - the complete tsar wars, 3 - Return of the Gentleman Thief and the pirate saga, 4 -  all of the Sword of the Tsar stories ending with Amerika, then 5 would begin with Prisoner of the Tsar and end with the finale. Not only would each book cover each of the five distinct 'phases' of the story, but books one to four would all end on a great cliffhanger.

It'll never happen though, Dante doesn't really seem like a big seller.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 01 November, 2013, 09:09:09 PM
I've said it before but id buy them in a heartbeat. It's only not heralded as a the best thing 2000ad has ever done because it isn't advertised that way. :)
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 November, 2013, 10:09:25 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 01 November, 2013, 09:09:09 PM
I've said it before but id buy them in a heartbeat. It's only not heralded as a the best thing 2000ad has ever done because it isn't advertised that way. :)
This completely. Dante is IMHO the best thing to grace the prog.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 02 November, 2013, 10:14:35 AM
Judge Dredd: Mutants in Mega-City One

Guys this one due for release in December-I'm finding it hard to find on line reviews. Same old question-worth picking up?
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 02 November, 2013, 10:22:19 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 01 November, 2013, 10:09:25 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 01 November, 2013, 09:09:09 PM
I've said it before but id buy them in a heartbeat. It's only not heralded as a the best thing 2000ad has ever done because it isn't advertised that way. :)
This completely. Dante is IMHO the best thing to grace the prog.

When you're right you're right.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 02 November, 2013, 06:35:56 PM
Welll I never bought the books mainly because I could not tell what order they were in, they did not seem like a unified set, they were too thin.

The Omnibus idea is great. Maybe if they took preorders for the 5 books beforehand and had them in a slipcase for £100. I would go for that!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 November, 2013, 06:39:38 PM
I actualy only have the one Dante TPB. The UK edition of The Romanov Dynasty which I got a few months ago for something crazy cheap from the same guys I got the £1 Red Sea's collection from. I won't bother with the rest sadly due to lack of uniformality and scarceness of 2 and 3. An Omnibus edition similar to the Casefiles or The Walking Dead compendium would be bliss.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 02 November, 2013, 11:44:36 PM
I would like  red seas omnibus too :-)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 03 November, 2013, 01:08:00 AM
I recently got the 2 DC Dante trades & feel I can't continue until volume 3 is reprinted. With only reading those 2 volumes, I know it will be one of my favorite series I've ever read.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 13school on 03 November, 2013, 02:07:28 AM
I think Dante vol.4 (Tsar Wars 1) might also be out of print now. Which is annoying as I'd managed to track down the first three but hadn't yet gotten around to ordering 4 from the Thrill Shop...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 November, 2013, 01:09:39 PM
Mmmm.  While I really do appreciate the financial constraints on Rebellion and Robo-Keef, yesterday I chanced a look at the (very extensive) 2000AD GN holdings of FP Dublin, and the Dante situation there is a shocking mess.

They have a smattering of later volumes in the 7-10 region, and then a sole copy of the Too Cool to Kill version, which while a very handsome production indeed looks so different to the rest that you'd hardly connect it with them.  And what about the yawning void between it and the other volumes?  Hit the internet to make sense of all this, and all you find is daft prices and the likes of us moaning about OOP volumes.

As Dave Sim sagely noted, what prospective customer has the time to chase up these things?  If you can't get the first couple of collections at any time, and be sure of the future availability of the rest, no casual reader is ever going to take the plunge, especially without the tug of nostalgia that probably helps the likes of Dredd, Nemesis and Slaine. This is a shame, 'cos this stuff is gold, and in contrast so many comics starts strongly and only gets better as it goes along towards its devilishly clever and apposite ending.

That said, my advice for the moment is to hit the local library:  Dante seems very popular with librarians.

Putting all this in perspective, I picked up Sinister Dexter's Eurocrash volume in the library last week, and brother if you think Dante has reprint problems...   :o





Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 03 November, 2013, 03:24:15 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 November, 2013, 01:09:39 PM


Putting all this in perspective, I picked up Sinister Dexter's Eurocrash volume in the library last week, and brother if you think Dante has reprint problems...   :o

I recently bought the first 2 collections of Sinister Dexter. I got half way through the first volume & put it down for a while. I can't say I was too impressed.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 03 November, 2013, 04:31:17 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 03 November, 2013, 03:24:15 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 November, 2013, 01:09:39 PM


Putting all this in perspective, I picked up Sinister Dexter's Eurocrash volume in the library last week, and brother if you think Dante has reprint problems...   :o

I recently bought the first 2 collections of Sinister Dexter. I got half way through the first volume & put it down for a while. I can't say I was too impressed.

Stick with it, you're only seeing the series as it develops. The series begins to really find its stride in the last story I  this volume (I think I don't own the trades) and the first of the second volume. When Simon Davis becomes the 'regular' artist xoes it start to take off. Even then though its still improving. Its really worth giving it a chance to develop, once it gets there its a glory. Just wish the trades did it justice.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 November, 2013, 04:33:42 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 03 November, 2013, 03:24:15 PM
I recently bought the first 2 collections of Sinister Dexter. I got half way through the first volume & put it down for a while. I can't say I was too impressed.

Think that's bad, I read the first few Sinister Dexter stories in the Prog and then put the whole thing down for about 7 years...  Lawks but I hated that strip back then, whereas now I love it with a passion.

(I have a suspicion we're derailing the thread here, but I'll carry on regardless since we are (tenuous segue) discussing what form we would hope forthcoming collections might take...)

The thing with Sinister Dexter is that it gets under the skin very gradually.  Totally unlike Dante it takes a good while to take shape, and when it does it's sort of through repetition, like a chorus that you really have to hear a good few times before you realise how catchy it is.  On that basis, I honestly don't know how best you could present it in reprint form.  Too much in one go Casefiles-style and I suspect the repetition becomes annoying and the puns and gags too frequent; too little in a slim collection and you don't get the overall flavour or the variations in tone.  It's a tricky one, and I'm not sure there's an easy solution.

What you definitely do not do is produce Eurocrash, a collected 'epic' which is missing most of its conclusion, but does feature its epilogue. I know Rebellion are painfully aware of what mistakes this collection made*, primarily omitting Downlode Tales because it wasn't called Sinister Dexter, even though it is in fact the aforementioned conclusion to the Eurocrash story, but it really is a very annoying read: we never get to learn about the conspiracy at its heart, but we hear about it after the fact in passing, literally *spoilers* within the story as presented.  There's also some pages out of order, but that barely features in the annoyance stakes.

This is a massive pity since what is there is the strip at its best: Simon Davis' art is spectacular, the puns are mighty and the atmosphere is compelling.  But I suspect that anyone reading this far into the collected material would give up completely about half way through in sheer exasperation.  I know the Meg recently reprinted Downlode Tales as a floppy, but if Sinister Dexter is ever to succeed in the GN format a proper fix is definitely required.

Probably should let this thread get back on topic now...


*Although Abnett agonisingly refers to what's missing in his introduction.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 03 November, 2013, 05:04:01 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 November, 2013, 04:33:42 PM
I know the Meg recently reprinted Downlode Tales as a floppy, but if Sinister Dexter is ever to succeed in the GN format a proper fix is definitely required.

Probably should let this thread get back on topic ...

Well almost, just time for me to add that the appearance of Downlobe Tales as tbe Meg reprint is surely Rebellion waving the white flag to getting Sinister Dexter reprinted in the forseeable future and an attempt patch up a poor job.

Of course the IDW reprints might catch fire and we could, just possibly, see a demand created there... well a man can dream can't he...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mabs on 03 November, 2013, 05:06:15 PM
Quote from: 13school on 03 November, 2013, 02:07:28 AM
I think Dante vol.4 (Tsar Wars 1) might also be out of print now. Which is annoying as I'd managed to track down the first three but hadn't yet gotten around to ordering 4 from the Thrill Shop...

It's time for a mother-drokking reprint! I would love an Omnibus, maybe 2 trades in 1 book, so 5 altogether (like Y The Last Man Deluxe collection).

Please Tharg, make it happen! If not the omnibus' just reprints would do.  :-)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 05 November, 2013, 10:43:03 AM
Courtship of Jena Makarov was a real sprocking pain to get hold of, putting my Dante collection on hold for some time.

Much easier to get hold of Tsar Wars, I think bookstores loved the pun.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 05 November, 2013, 10:48:52 AM
I think it's been made quite clear in the past that Dante just isn't a big enough seller to warrant a reprint - and stuff like Dredd is the priority to keep in print.

I think a good compromise would be to make all or part of Dante available digitally - not unlikely as Rebellion seem to be ramping up their digital trade program recently.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 November, 2013, 11:40:18 AM
Quote from: radiator on 05 November, 2013, 10:48:52 AM
I think it's been made quite clear in the past that Dante just isn't a big enough seller to warrant a reprint ...

While I understand that Rebellion has to operate in the real world, and manage it a lot better than I, this is ultimately  a waddayacallit self-fulfilling prophecy.  If you don't make it accessible, how can you generate demand for it?

A reinvigorated, repackaged and readily available Dante trade line, a mighty hullaballoo made, and yes, cheap digital availability to whet appetites, and who knows what popularity Dante might find - I have to believe there's an audience for something so big, so complete, so much fun and so damn good.  Simon's architectural spreads alone are something every comics reader should see, never mind Lulu's corsetry, and John's gore-strewn battlefields and buxom pirates are magnificent.  The final conversation between Dante and the Tsar should be quoted and reproduced on every tumblr and blog out there, alongside Bats and the Joker from The Killing Joke and Adrian and Jon from Watchmen: it's better than either.

But then I don't have to write the cheques.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 05 November, 2013, 11:46:20 AM
Digital Editions of all the Dante trades wouldn't go amiss.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 05 November, 2013, 11:52:02 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 03 November, 2013, 04:33:42 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 03 November, 2013, 03:24:15 PM
I recently bought the first 2 collections of Sinister Dexter. I got half way through the first volume & put it down for a while. I can't say I was too impressed.

Think that's bad, I read the first few Sinister Dexter stories in the Prog and then put the whole thing down for about 7 years...  Lawks but I hated that strip back then, whereas now I love it with a passion.

(I have a suspicion we're derailing the thread here, but I'll carry on regardless since we are (tenuous segue) discussing what form we would hope forthcoming collections might take...)

The thing with Sinister Dexter is that it gets under the skin very gradually.  Totally unlike Dante it takes a good while to take shape, and when it does it's sort of through repetition, like a chorus that you really have to hear a good few times before you realise how catchy it is.  On that basis, I honestly don't know how best you could present it in reprint form.  Too much in one go Casefiles-style and I suspect the repetition becomes annoying and the puns and gags too frequent; too little in a slim collection and you don't get the overall flavour or the variations in tone.  It's a tricky one, and I'm not sure there's an easy solution.

I think TB totally hits the nail on the head there - SinDex is a strip that works best as a regular prog feature, a few pages a week with long runs.  It's one of those strips that folks don't always appreciate but miss when it's gone.  I quite like SinDex but don't think I would be interested in a case files type collection - it would be too repetitive and meandering.  Trying to select smaller TPBs is also difficult as the story is so intertwined. 

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a 'right' answer to this one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 05 November, 2013, 11:54:46 AM
QuoteWhile I understand that Rebellion has to operate in the real world, and manage it a lot better than I, this is ultimately  a waddayacallit self-fulfilling prophecy.  If you don't make it accessible, how can you generate demand for it?

A reinvigorated, repackaged and readily available Dante trade line, a mighty hullaballoo made, and yes, cheap digital availability to whet appetites, and who knows what popularity Dante might find - I have to believe there's an audience for something so big, so complete, so much fun and so damn good.  Simon's architectural spreads alone are something every comics reader should see, never mind Lulu's corsetry, and John's gore-strewn battlefields and buxom pirates are magnificent.  The final conversation between Dante and the Tsar should be quoted and reproduced on every tumblr and blog out there, alongside Bats and the Joker from The Killing Joke and Adrian and Jon from Watchmen: it's better than either.

To be fair, they have tried to launch the Dante trade line twice already in the US. And as great as we all know Dante is, it's a tough sell - hence why so many of those trades ended up in bargain bookshops. ISTR that someone at Rebellion said that response at US conventions was generally along the lines of "I don't want to read a book about these crazy Russkies".
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 05 November, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
New editions of the Great Game and The Courtship of Jena M will be released in 2014.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 05 November, 2013, 01:19:45 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 05 November, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
New editions of the Great Game and The Courtship of Jena M will be released in 2014.
And a kiss for Robo-K33F the kindly droid who listens.
Will they follow the British or American trade dress or be completely new?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 November, 2013, 01:24:47 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 05 November, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
New editions of the Great Game and The Courtship of Jena M will be released in 2014.

Nice one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 05 November, 2013, 01:25:16 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 05 November, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
New editions of the Great Game and The Courtship of Jena M will be released in 2014.


I bow to you good sir :'( < tear of joy
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 November, 2013, 01:34:10 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 05 November, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
New editions of the Great Game and The Courtship of Jena M will be released in 2014.
And on the seventh day there was s saviour named Robo-K33F, who did smite all the terrible thrill suckers.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 05 November, 2013, 01:49:54 PM
Good news - I certainly believe Dante deserves to be wider-read - but then I think that about Dredd too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 05 November, 2013, 01:51:58 PM
QuoteRebellion said that response at US conventions was generally along the lines of "I don't want to read a book about these crazy Russkies".

Does it really matter? I don't accept the notion that we always have to measure the success of a British comic (or any other medium) by how well it sells in America. That's not a jibe at Americans, and I'm glad that there are some American fans of 2000AD, but the American and British cultures are different (which we sometimes forget because we get so much tv, film and music from America, but it's true) -- sometimes a British story (or product or song, whatever) is not well received in America, but that doesn't mean it isn't great. Unless you want it to mean that. Let's just accept that not everything we love here will necessarily be commercially successful in America just because they embraced Monty Python, be glad to have what we have, and move on.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 November, 2013, 05:17:01 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 05 November, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
New editions of the Great Game and The Courtship of Jena M will be released in 2014.

The word is a better place today than it was yesterday.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Theblazeuk on 05 November, 2013, 05:36:17 PM
Oh just to note, I did track down a copy of Courtship in the big forbidden planet in London. Little did they know the rare treasure they had nestled in there...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tombo on 05 November, 2013, 07:15:03 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 05 November, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
New editions of the Great Game and The Courtship of Jena M will be released in 2014.

So that explains all the fireworks going off outside!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 November, 2013, 08:10:17 PM
Quote from: Tombo on 05 November, 2013, 07:15:03 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 05 November, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
New editions of the Great Game and The Courtship of Jena M will be released in 2014.

So that explains all the fireworks going off outside!

HA! Gold.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 05 November, 2013, 08:36:30 PM
Quote from: Theblazeuk on 05 November, 2013, 05:36:17 PM
Oh just to note, I did track down a copy of Courtship in the big forbidden planet in London. Little did they know the rare treasure they had nestled in there...

Might go and get it first thing tomorrow morning!!  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 05 November, 2013, 08:44:48 PM
And stick it on e-bay for £100!  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 06 November, 2013, 02:56:44 AM
It's at least 1/4 as good as Zenith
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 06 November, 2013, 12:35:27 PM
Judge Dredd: Mutants in Mega-City One

Folks sorry for a repeat enquiry of sorts but the above trade-is it previously un-released material or stuff likely to have been covered elsewhere? Its due for release 10/12/13.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-Mega-City-One/dp/1781081670
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 06 November, 2013, 12:39:40 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 05 November, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
New editions of the Great Game and The Courtship of Jena M will be released in 2014.

This is great news. Now just market the hell out of the whole collection 2000AD!

I managed to track down a copy of Courtship last year thanks to a forum member and thankfully only paid £7 for it. Really glad I didn't pay stupid money after this news  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 06 November, 2013, 12:40:22 PM
Quote from: The Prodigal on 06 November, 2013, 12:35:27 PM
Judge Dredd: Mutants in Mega-City One

Folks sorry for a repeat enquiry of sorts but the above trade-is it previously un-released material or stuff likely to have been covered elsewhere? Its due for release 10/12/13.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-Mega-City-One/dp/1781081670

Previously published stuff, repackaged for the American market - it's like the 'Fatties' collection earlier this year or the previous 'Judges gone bad' book, a load of different tales from different eras of Dredd joined by a loose theme, in this case mutants.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Prodigal on 06 November, 2013, 01:36:28 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 06 November, 2013, 12:40:22 PM
Quote from: The Prodigal on 06 November, 2013, 12:35:27 PM
Judge Dredd: Mutants in Mega-City One

Folks sorry for a repeat enquiry of sorts but the above trade-is it previously un-released material or stuff likely to have been covered elsewhere? Its due for release 10/12/13.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-Mega-City-One/dp/1781081670

Previously published stuff, repackaged for the American market - it's like the 'Fatties' collection earlier this year or the previous 'Judges gone bad' book, a load of different tales from different eras of Dredd joined by a loose theme, in this case mutants.

Thanks DJ.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: janus stark on 06 November, 2013, 08:33:42 PM
is it time to start speculating whats in the end of year prog?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 06 November, 2013, 08:50:52 PM
Dont know if this has already been discussed elsewhere, but, as a non-Meg buyer, im really looking forward to snagging this (http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/71/920?stockItemID=STK628553)

(http://i.imgur.com/kK8qi7x.jpg)

Rather strangely, it doesnt appear to be an IDW release? No mention that i can find, anyway.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 06 November, 2013, 08:55:59 PM
http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,39542.0.html
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 06 November, 2013, 09:21:14 PM
Quote from: janus stark on 06 November, 2013, 08:33:42 PM
is it time to start speculating whats in the end of year prog?

No need for speculation:

https://forbiddenplanet.com/110340-2000-ad-prog-2014/#product-description (https://forbiddenplanet.com/110340-2000-ad-prog-2014/#product-description)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 07 November, 2013, 01:39:42 AM
Quote from: janus stark on 06 November, 2013, 08:33:42 PM
is it time to start speculating whats in the end of year prog?

Past time.  Scroll back to page 80.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 07 November, 2013, 01:41:58 AM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 14 October, 2013, 10:03:02 PM
From the way that is worded, I'm guessing Strontium Dog, ABC Warriors, Ulysses Sweet as the January lineup, and the others as one-offs...

Here's the Jan. 2014 solicit.  Grey Area is the other regular thrill in the new year.  Patrick Goddard on art duties.



The critically acclaimed, Eisner-nominated SF anthology surges into the new year with a stunning line-up of stories. Judge Dredd leads a team to investigate what's happened on the prison-colony of Titan, courtesy of Rob Williams and Henry Flint; the secret history of Happy Shrapnel is revealed in ABC Warriors: Return to Mars by Pat Mills and Clint Langley; the mutant revolution hots up in Strontium Dog: Dogs of War by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra; maniac-for-hire Ulysses Sweet crashes into a centre for enlightenment, courtesy of Guy Adams and Paul Marshall; and the officers of the Exo Transfer Control face more alien oddness in Grey Area by Dan Abnett and Patrick Goddard!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 07 November, 2013, 08:43:13 AM
Interesting New Year line-up. Dredd sounds very intriguing and I've been enjoy the current Strontium Dog stuff. The rest is all a bit wait and see, which isn't a bad thing by any stretch, though was hoping for some Sinister Dexter coming out of the X-Mas Prog.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 07 November, 2013, 08:55:49 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 07 November, 2013, 08:43:13 AM
Interesting New Year line-up. Dredd sounds very intriguing and I've been enjoy the current Strontium Dog stuff. The rest is all a bit wait and see, which isn't a bad thing by any stretch, though was hoping for some Sinister Dexter coming out of the X-Mas Prog.

My thoughts too.  I suppose Ulysses Sweet will fill the same quirky humour brief that Sinister Dexter can, but if the primo bulletrinas must be put on extended hold, could we not have Lobster Random or Dandridge in in that slot?  There goes my fear of something new old oh I dunno, change

Still, having recently re-read Life and Death books 1 and 2 I am keen to see it continue, especially if it keeps Ezquerra from being wasted on Boring When I Was Little
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 07 November, 2013, 02:58:01 PM
Quote from: dodsy on 06 November, 2013, 09:21:14 PM
Quote from: janus stark on 06 November, 2013, 08:33:42 PM
is it time to start speculating whats in the end of year prog?

No need for speculation:

https://forbiddenplanet.com/110340-2000-ad-prog-2014/#product-description (https://forbiddenplanet.com/110340-2000-ad-prog-2014/#product-description)

Nice, I'd forgotten that we were getting a Ten Seconders epilogue in this - definitely looking forward to that.

Then next year we can have a complete Ten Seconders TPB - Tharg, make it so!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 November, 2013, 03:21:23 PM
Quote from: Judge Jack on 06 November, 2013, 08:50:52 PM
as a non-Meg buyer

Mind Boggling. You're as bad as Colin!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 11 November, 2013, 04:11:54 PM
Amazon.com has two new items. Judge Dredd the XXX Files by John Wagner and Hondo City Law: Revenge of the 47 Ronin by Morrison, McNeil, & Parkhouse
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 11 November, 2013, 04:15:59 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 11 November, 2013, 04:11:54 PM
Judge Dredd the XXX Files by John Wagner

Oooh maybe they are going to reprint the shortlived run from Razzle Readers Wives
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: judda fett on 11 November, 2013, 04:19:00 PM
'Readers Mutants'.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 November, 2013, 04:31:14 PM
Sinfield will not be amused.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 November, 2013, 09:19:45 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 11 November, 2013, 04:11:54 PM
Judge Dredd the XXX Files by John Wagner

It's a typo - It's meant to be "Judge Dredd: The Zzz files, a collection of the most boring Dredd tales from the last 35 years."  Can you guess what's in it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proteus4 on 12 November, 2013, 07:46:24 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 November, 2013, 09:19:45 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 11 November, 2013, 04:11:54 PM
Judge Dredd the XXX Files by John Wagner

It's a typo - It's meant to be "Judge Dredd: The Zzz files, a collection of the most boring Dredd tales from the last 35 years."  Can you guess what's in it?

Having just read Darkside and Fetish I'd have to nominate both. Shite.

Love
Dave
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 November, 2013, 08:39:04 AM
Quote from: Proteus4 on 12 November, 2013, 07:46:24 AM
Having just read Darkside and Fetish I'd have to nominate both. Shite.

Takes all sorts!  Fetish is a very odd thing, but I'd hardly call it boring.  And Darkside is a bit of a classic.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 12 November, 2013, 09:19:57 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 November, 2013, 08:39:04 AM
Quote from: Proteus4 on 12 November, 2013, 07:46:24 AM
Having just read Darkside and Fetish I'd have to nominate both. Shite.

And Darkside is a bit of a classic.

I'm a big fan of Darkside too.
Two factors in it's favor for me;

A continuation of sorts to 'City of the Damned'.
Marshall's artwork.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 12 November, 2013, 11:56:45 AM
I remember quite enjoying Darkside, but IIRC it's never actually explained why [spoiler]zombie-Dredd suddenly reanimates[/spoiler]. Possibly because the story was heavily edited so it could be run in the prog (it was originally supposed to appear in the Megazine in 9 page episodes?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 12 November, 2013, 12:35:23 PM
Every time I try to read it the colours burn my eyes
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 12 November, 2013, 12:46:55 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 12 November, 2013, 12:35:23 PM
Every time I try to read it the colours burn my eyes

Yes, there is that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 12 November, 2013, 01:43:26 PM
Crying out for a re-coloring job alright.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proteus4 on 12 November, 2013, 03:00:10 PM
I'd heard so many people speak fondly about john smith's work I was surprised that Darkside and Fetish were both as poor as they were. I nearly stopped reading both! The colouring on Darkside was shocking, as u rightly point out. I did really like the one panel in the second or third prog where u see the collectors stash and it's bunged with artefacts from dredd world like choppers board, spikes earring etc. I spent a wee while trying to spot it all.

Dave

Ps - I'm still confused why people like either of those stories (although devils Waugh is supercoolasfuck).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 November, 2013, 08:12:30 PM
Having read both quite recently as part of my John Smith retrospective I'd say neither are amongst his best work by a long way. I think Fetish suffers. horribly with poor art. Its just not for me. Now I did read the DC reprint which apparently does a pretty shocking job of the reproduction but its hard to see it ever actually being great. The storytelling is just poor.

Darkside is pretty good... but pretty good isn't good Smith. It felt a bit over long to me and might have worked better two to four episodes shorter. Its not bad, in fact its good. Just I kinda expect John Smith to be magnificent and its not. It probably also suffered from being read back to back with a load of his other wonderful stuff. Though Dredd doesn't bring the best out of the mighty Smith so that might be a factor too.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 12 November, 2013, 08:13:58 PM
To be fair, Fetish was heavily cut down. Iirc it was intended to be a proper 'Dredd in Africa' epic but there were endless delays with art so that's probably why it takes forever to get going then wraps up really quickly when he gets there.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 November, 2013, 08:16:39 PM
Quote from: radiator on 12 November, 2013, 08:13:58 PM
To be fair, Fetish was heavily cut down. Iirc it was intended to be a proper 'Dredd in Africa' epic but there were endless delays with art so that's probably why it takes forever to get going then wraps up really quickly when he gets there.

Did not know that.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 12 November, 2013, 08:16:48 PM
And yes it's hard to overstate how horrible the repro in the Dc reprint is. It's so murky that I found it unreadable. The art as presented in the Hamlyn version is infinitely better - gorgeous, rich colours - though storytelling was never Siku's strong point.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 12 November, 2013, 10:55:30 PM
I'd love it if Mr Smith could shed light on what should have been for Fetish and Darkside - and if they were considerably cut. I know he sometimes haunts the halls here.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proteus4 on 12 November, 2013, 11:55:55 PM
Siku's art was beautiful in fetish but I don't like his Dredd and his storytelling was awful in that strip.

On another note, can anyone tell me what the fork the 'fetish' was and why it was called fetish?

Dave
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 13 November, 2013, 06:42:29 AM
Quote from: Skullmo on 12 November, 2013, 10:55:30 PM
I'd love it if Mr Smith could shed light on what should have been for Fetish and Darkside - and if they were considerably cut. I know he sometimes haunts the halls here.

From memory - and this is nearly 20 years ago, so the details are hazy - Darkside wasn't cut. Originally commissioned for the Megazine, it was written to different specifications: eight eps of nine pages each. But the Meg budget got guillotined and we had a shortage of ready Dredd for 2000AD, so Darkside got re-purposed into 12 eps of six pages each. As a consequence, two thirds of the episode endings seen in 2000AD were not originally intended as cliffhangers. But that was only a factor for episodic publication - any collected edition presents Darkside complete and uncut.

Fetish proved something of a monumental effort, with at least one artist starting but unable to finish [Ashley Wood, IIRC]. The opening scripts underwent radical surgery to get them down to a more manageable length [yes, that long opening was originally even longer]. Siku got asked to repaint parts of the art to make Dredd's chin less enormous [yes, that long chin was originally even longer].

Fetish is far from perfect, the story shape and structure are problematic - but I still have a lot of affection for it. There are some gorgeous double-page spreads in the art, and wonderfully John Smith touches to the script. Just a shame no version since the Hamlyn edition has truly captured the vibrant colours, etc.

davidbishop
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 13 November, 2013, 07:53:25 AM
I really enjoyed Fetish, and at a time when The Meg was on the wane, it was one of the few things that kept me buying it.

And yeah Siku's art was frequently gorgeous on the strip and he comes in for a lot of unfair criticism, in my opinion.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 November, 2013, 08:04:31 AM
Cheers for that excellent info David, but it just isn't the same if you don't frame this stuff with "Bishop recalls...", or "the editor at the time confesses a fondness for...".   ;)

While wondering wistfully what an Ashley Wood Fetish would have looked like, I also have a soft spot for the version we got, despite neither being a big Siku fan nor considering it Smith's best work by any stretch of the imagination.  It's different, it's unsettling, it has some great-if-static images, and as unlikely team-ups (Dredd, Devlin and... Tarzan?) go it's a lot better than most.   

I've probably actually complained about Fetish the past, and like many of the stranger Dredd tales, I wouldn't want it every week - but I'm glad we got it when we did.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheldipez on 13 November, 2013, 09:10:12 AM
Quote from: DarkDaysBish-OP on 13 November, 2013, 06:42:29 AM
Siku got asked to repaint parts of the art to make Dredd's chin less enormous [yes, that long chin was originally even longer].

Man! this is a chin I need to see.  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 13 November, 2013, 09:25:41 AM
I didn't like Siku's art when I was reading it as a youngster but have grown to think it rather excellent. And the double spreads are quite amazing in it.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 November, 2013, 10:10:04 AM
Durham Red: The Bitch (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Durham-Red-Bitch-John-Wagner/dp/1781082510/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384309427&sr=1-1&keywords=Durham+Red%3A+The+Bitch)

144 pages, 16th September 2014
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 November, 2013, 10:15:25 AM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 11 November, 2013, 04:11:54 PM
Hondo City Law: Revenge of the 47 Ronin by Morrison, McNeil, & Parkhouse

Hondo City Justice (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hondo-City-Justice-Robbie-Morrison/dp/1781082499/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384309308&sr=1-1&keywords=Hondo+City+Justice)

160 pages, 8th July 2014

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Hondo_zpsbc290950.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 13 November, 2013, 11:23:28 AM
Curiously both US titles, judging by the prices.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 13 November, 2013, 11:37:25 AM
Looks like Case Files 08 has been added to the US schedule for next year also.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 13 November, 2013, 11:55:44 AM
That Hondo City Justice story was in the Meg.  It was quite good and featured some really beautiful artwork.  My only criticism is that it ended very abruptly although it did suggest there was more to come. 

I know that amazon are not always accurate, but that 160 page count sounds a lot.  I think it was only a 4 parter - perhaps we are getting some more of this in the Meg before the TPB comes out?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 13 November, 2013, 12:15:58 PM
The art was fantastic...
But the recent run was a return of the story, according to Barney first appearance Meg 300.
Maybe other runs pad it out further too (also, are page-counts always reliable?)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: AlexF on 13 November, 2013, 04:35:36 PM
QuoteOn another note, can anyone tell me what the fork the 'fetish' was and why it was called fetish?

Well, Dave, as any Tintin fan can tell you, a 'fetish' is a carving, usually of an animal, often associated with ritual magic. The story 'Fetish' takes its name from said object, as used by the villain of the piece in his rituals that help him commit long-range murders from his home in Africa. Obviously the word has other connotations which I'm sure Smith was keen to put in the readers mind (I have a vague memory of the villain having a pretty sexual reaction to blood and murder, and obviously Devlin Waugh, as a vampire, has a strong link to both of thise things as well. Perhaps Smith was implying that Dredd himself does, too, although he has presumably sublimated his own sexual release into violence). This is all a lot more thought than I've put into the themes of the story before! Frankly it's pretty hard to read, although many of the pages are gorgeous.

I've just re-read this and realised it's incredibly patronising. But I can't be bothered to rewrite now. Sorry all.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Cactus on 13 November, 2013, 06:50:06 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 05 November, 2013, 12:32:24 PM
New editions of the Great Game and The Courtship of Jena M will be released in 2014.

For real? Really for reals? Like, rilly? I want to have your babies.

As for Fetish I remember writing to the Meg at the time saying, amongst other things, how much I liked Siku's exaggerated chin. Did John complete the script before the art difficulties prompted the reduced in length? That would be an interesting read.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proteus4 on 13 November, 2013, 07:20:32 PM
Quote from: AlexF on 13 November, 2013, 04:35:36 PM
QuoteOn another note, can anyone tell me what the fork the 'fetish' was and why it was called fetish?

Well, Dave, as any Tintin fan can tell you, a 'fetish' is a carving, usually of an animal, often associated with ritual magic. The story 'Fetish' takes its name from said object, as used by the villain of the piece in his rituals that help him commit long-range murders from his home in Africa. Obviously the word has other connotations which I'm sure Smith was keen to put in the readers mind (I have a vague memory of the villain having a pretty sexual reaction to blood and murder, and obviously Devlin Waugh, as a vampire, has a strong link to both of thise things as well. Perhaps Smith was implying that Dredd himself does, too, although he has presumably sublimated his own sexual release into violence). This is all a lot more thought than I've put into the themes of the story before! Frankly it's pretty hard to read, although many of the pages are gorgeous.

I've just re-read this and realised it's incredibly patronising. But I can't be bothered to rewrite now. Sorry all.

I didn't find that patronising at all, just very informative - I got the sexual suspect of the reference and the inclusion of DW (what with him being a vamp) but had no idea a Fetish was also a carving used for ritual magic.

Thanks dude
Dave
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 14 November, 2013, 01:32:05 PM
Quote from: Proteus4 on 13 November, 2013, 07:20:32 PM
Quote from: AlexF on 13 November, 2013, 04:35:36 PM
QuoteOn another note, can anyone tell me what the fork the 'fetish' was and why it was called fetish?

Well, Dave, as any Tintin fan can tell you, a 'fetish' is a carving, usually of an animal, often associated with ritual magic. The story 'Fetish' takes its name from said object, as used by the villain of the piece in his rituals that help him commit long-range murders from his home in Africa. Obviously the word has other connotations which I'm sure Smith was keen to put in the readers mind (I have a vague memory of the villain having a pretty sexual reaction to blood and murder, and obviously Devlin Waugh, as a vampire, has a strong link to both of thise things as well. Perhaps Smith was implying that Dredd himself does, too, although he has presumably sublimated his own sexual release into violence). This is all a lot more thought than I've put into the themes of the story before! Frankly it's pretty hard to read, although many of the pages are gorgeous.

I've just re-read this and realised it's incredibly patronising. But I can't be bothered to rewrite now. Sorry all.

I didn't find that patronising at all, just very informative - I got the sexual suspect of the reference and the inclusion of DW (what with him being a vamp) but had no idea a Fetish was also a carving used for ritual magic.

Thanks dude
Dave

Really it can be inanimate object attributed with supernatural abilities or acting as a focus for ritual magic, not necessarily a carving. Due to my fascination with tribal culture and mysticism which goes back to my childhood, I encountered this meaning of the word before the more commonly used meaning as in sexual fetish.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 14 November, 2013, 01:44:32 PM
If you have a sexual fetish for inanimate objects attributed with supernatural abilities or acting as a focus for ritual magic do you have a fetish fetish?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proteus4 on 14 November, 2013, 07:37:33 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 14 November, 2013, 01:44:32 PM
If you have a sexual fetish for inanimate objects attributed with supernatural abilities or acting as a focus for ritual magic do you have a fetish fetish?

Just you mate
:D
Dave
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 14 November, 2013, 09:50:18 PM
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 14 November, 2013, 01:32:05 PM
Really it can be inanimate object attributed with supernatural abilities or acting as a focus for ritual magic, not necessarily a carving. Due to my fascination with tribal culture and mysticism which goes back to my childhood, I encountered this meaning of the word before the more commonly used meaning as in sexual fetish.

I was pretty baffled when I encountered the word in an early PD James novel, A Mind for Murder.  One of the patients in a very sixties psychiatric clinic - they do LSD therapy there - carries this wooden fetish everywhere he goes.  Had a devil of a time, dirty-minded teen that I was, trying to visualize what the heck they meant...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 November, 2013, 01:33:33 AM
Judge Dredd Classics Volume 1: Apocalypse War [Hardcover] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Classics-Apocalypse-War/dp/1613779356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384651916&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd+Classics+Volume+1%3A+Apocalypse+War)

Blurb:
Re-presenting classic Judge Dredd tales with all-new colors by Charlie Kirchoff! In "Block Mania," Dredd must track down a villain who has poisoned the city, which leads into the five-part "Apocalypse War" storyline about the eruption of the long-contained tensions between Mega-City One and East-Meg One.

IDW Publishing, 192 pages, 6th May 2014
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheldipez on 18 November, 2013, 08:49:55 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 17 November, 2013, 01:33:33 AM
Judge Dredd Classics Volume 1: Apocalypse War [Hardcover] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Classics-Apocalypse-War/dp/1613779356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384651916&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd+Classics+Volume+1%3A+Apocalypse+War)

Blurb:
Re-presenting classic Judge Dredd tales with all-new colors by Charlie Kirchoff! In "Block Mania," Dredd must track down a villain who has poisoned the city, which leads into the five-part "Apocalypse War" storyline about the eruption of the long-contained tensions between Mega-City One and East-Meg One.

IDW Publishing, 192 pages, 6th May 2014

I wonder if IDW take the opportunity of the hardback to present these in their original size without the massive white space at the bottom like the single comics.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 18 November, 2013, 08:56:22 AM
Nice - was hoping for this! I'm not too fussed about size, but I hope the presentation is up to standard.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 18 November, 2013, 04:44:12 PM
Quote from: sheldipez on 18 November, 2013, 08:49:55 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 17 November, 2013, 01:33:33 AM
Judge Dredd Classics Volume 1: Apocalypse War [Hardcover] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Classics-Apocalypse-War/dp/1613779356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384651916&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd+Classics+Volume+1%3A+Apocalypse+War)

Blurb:
Re-presenting classic Judge Dredd tales with all-new colors by Charlie Kirchoff! In "Block Mania," Dredd must track down a villain who has poisoned the city, which leads into the five-part "Apocalypse War" storyline about the eruption of the long-contained tensions between Mega-City One and East-Meg One.

IDW Publishing, 192 pages, 6th May 2014

I wonder if IDW take the opportunity of the hardback to present these in their original size without the massive white space at the bottom like the single comics.

I dropped the series because the blank space was bugging the crap out of me.  The coloring may have be better, but I prefer the old Eagle reprint.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 18 November, 2013, 05:07:59 PM
You can write footnotes on the text in that space
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 November, 2013, 01:29:24 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 17 November, 2013, 01:33:33 AM
Judge Dredd Classics Volume 1: Apocalypse War [Hardcover] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Classics-Apocalypse-War/dp/1613779356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384651916&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd+Classics+Volume+1%3A+Apocalypse+War)

Blurb:
Re-presenting classic Judge Dredd tales with all-new colors by Charlie Kirchoff! In "Block Mania," Dredd must track down a villain who has poisoned the city, which leads into the five-part "Apocalypse War" storyline about the eruption of the long-contained tensions between Mega-City One and East-Meg One.

IDW Publishing, 192 pages, 6th May 2014

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Apoc_zpse33f2c71.jpg)

Urgh!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 November, 2013, 01:39:31 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 21 September, 2013, 02:25:57 AM
Another flash from Dash:

Judge Dredd: The Complete Cam Kennedy Volume 2 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Cam-Kennedy/dp/1613778686/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379726308&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd%3A+The+Complete+Cam+Kennedy+Volume+2+%5BHardcover%5D)
328 pages, IDW Publishing, 18th February 2014, Hardcover

More classic Judge Dredd tales from master illustrator Cam Kennedy! Reprinted in classic b/w and featuring a wealth of complete stories, this collection features 'progs' such as "No Man's Land," "Big Deal at Drekk City," "Beyond Our Kenny," and more.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Cam2_zpsee0a8a58.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 20 November, 2013, 01:49:15 PM
why they recolour that cover it looks fine damn yanks and recolouring what don't need it
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 20 November, 2013, 01:55:02 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 November, 2013, 01:29:24 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 17 November, 2013, 01:33:33 AM
Judge Dredd Classics Volume 1: Apocalypse War [Hardcover] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Classics-Apocalypse-War/dp/1613779356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384651916&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd+Classics+Volume+1%3A+Apocalypse+War)

Blurb:
Re-presenting classic Judge Dredd tales with all-new colors by Charlie Kirchoff! In "Block Mania," Dredd must track down a villain who has poisoned the city, which leads into the five-part "Apocalypse War" storyline about the eruption of the long-contained tensions between Mega-City One and East-Meg One.

IDW Publishing, 192 pages, 6th May 2014

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Apoc_zpse33f2c71.jpg)

Urgh!

Oh.

Really hope that's a placeholder, doesn't bode well for the presentation of this book otherwise.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 20 November, 2013, 01:59:18 PM
I think IDW are doing some great work at the moment pushing Dredd in the US.  However, I do find some of their covers to be awful - this was ugly when it was on the floppy and why would they use it for the TPB?  Same goes for Dredd: Year One, I thought they used the ugliest cover of all four for the TPB.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 20 November, 2013, 07:15:39 PM
Quote from: radiator on 20 November, 2013, 01:55:02 PM
Oh.

Really hope that's a placeholder, doesn't bode well for the presentation of this book otherwise.


Yeah, not the best cover - if this is indeed the finished article. King Carlos should be given that honour.

Least there not re-using the one of Dredd surfing on the warhead.....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 November, 2013, 08:15:46 PM
I'd say 'nah, that has to be a placeholder' if I hadn't already seen the state of the AW floppies. And while streets ahead of that one, of all the great Kennedy covers to choose from, we get a pointlessly recoloured Hoolie? 

Makes you realise how lucky we are with Rebellion's GN team Tharg's droids.

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/hires/718.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 November, 2013, 09:36:34 AM
Quote from: Recrewt on 20 November, 2013, 01:59:18 PM
I think IDW are doing some great work at the moment pushing Dredd in the US.  However, I do find some of their covers to be awful - this was ugly when it was on the floppy and why would they use it for the TPB?  Same goes for Dredd: Year One, I thought they used the ugliest cover of all four for the TPB.

I totally agree!

Carlos did a great Apocalypse War cover for volume 2 of his IDW collection, they should've got him to do another for this collection.  Otherwise, there's some great Bolland covers from the Eagle (Quality?) comics that they could use - Dredd about to be squashed by an enormous Sov tank for example.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 November, 2013, 11:10:52 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 25 October, 2013, 10:54:37 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 September, 2013, 01:32:30 PM
A.B.C. Warriors: Solo Missions (http://www.amazon.co.uk/B-C-Warriors-Solo-Missions/dp/178108226X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379651276&sr=1-1&keywords=A.B.C.+Warriors%3A+Solo+Missions+%5BPaperback%5D)
Pat Mills, Alan Moore, Steve Dillon, Henry Flint, Kev Walker
96 pages, 13th February 2014

Cover now up on Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Solo_zps8539bdcc.jpg)

New cover now up on Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Solo2_zps25577b24.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 November, 2013, 12:00:25 PM
I like that!  Never gave any thought to Deadlock's feet before, and 'Tubular Caine' is a good gag too.   Is it original or re-used?  And who's the artist - is that Boo Cook trying out a new palette, or could it even be Steve Roberts making a play for the big league?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 23 November, 2013, 12:03:07 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 November, 2013, 12:00:25 PM
And who's the artist - is that Boo Cook trying out a new palette, or could it even be Steve Roberts making a play for the big league?

It's Tharg's design droid, PYE-01, I believe...

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 November, 2013, 12:17:26 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 23 November, 2013, 12:03:07 PM
It's Tharg's design droid, PYE-01, I believe...

Durnit, you're right of course.  At least he can't be insulted by being mistaken for Boo or Steve!

It's interesting the way the so-called mind works - I wasn't that fussed by this volume under the re-used cover, but with the new cover it really takes my fancy. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: amines2058 on 23 November, 2013, 12:57:20 PM
This should go in the things that go over your head thread, but I have looked at and admired that cover a few times now but only just realised that the other warriors are actually in the rock formations! Cracking cover made even better!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 23 November, 2013, 09:44:07 PM
Great cover by Pye.
Very Nemesis-y look for Deadlock. I like it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 24 November, 2013, 01:12:53 AM
More Deadlock solo series would be great. great cover, and your TB, its amazing what an original over will make to  desirability!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 25 November, 2013, 01:26:54 PM
I'd love that cover as a print, it's grand!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 25 November, 2013, 02:01:22 PM
Quote from: maryanddavid on 24 November, 2013, 01:12:53 AM
More Deadlock solo series would be great. great cover, and your TB, its amazing what an original over will make to  desirability!
I know there is only so much Henry Flint to go around but why this hasn't happened and yet there is more Greysuits on the way I have no idea.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 25 November, 2013, 02:03:43 PM
That Deadlock cover is the bollocks. Amazing stuff!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 25 November, 2013, 03:54:17 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 25 November, 2013, 02:01:22 PM

I know there is only so much Henry Flint to go around

If anyone could fit it into an already busy schedule, I'm sure Mr. Flint could.
He's our John Romita Jnr.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 November, 2013, 02:22:10 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 06 October, 2013, 11:18:48 AM
According to Digital Spy, a Kingdom novel, "Kingdom: Fiefdom" will be published in print and e-book format in July 2014.  Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent are the authors, and the story is set 100 years after the prog strip.

http://www.digitalspy.com.au/comics/news/a517946/dan-abnett-writing-2000-ad-kingdom-novel.html

It's now listed for pre-order at Amazon UK:


Fiefdom: A Kingdom Novel
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiefdom-Kingdom-Novel-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781082359/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385777849&sr=1-1&keywords=Fiefdom%3A+A+Kingdom+Novel)

by Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent
5th August 2014, 384 pages, Abaddon Books

I'm looking forward to this and will snap it up as soon as it is available.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 November, 2013, 02:34:36 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 06 October, 2013, 11:18:48 AM
The article also mentions upcoming (e-book?) novels "Strontium Dog" and "Judge Anderson: Rookie".

No sign of "Rookie" yet but I assume this is the e-book only S/D novel mentioned above:

Strontium Dog: Among the Missing (The Alpha/Sternhammer Years) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strontium-Dog-Among-Missing-Sternhammer-ebook/dp/B00GB24L6A/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385778372&sr=1-1&keywords=Strontium+Dog%3A+Among+the+Missing+%28The+Alpha%2FSternhammer+Years%29)

by Matt Smith
29th October 2013, 392kb/98 pages, Abaddon Books.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 09 December, 2013, 12:32:47 PM
Some cracking stuff coming up next year:

https://www.facebook.com/2000AD/posts/10151779712571366
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 09 December, 2013, 12:54:47 PM
Yeah thats my christmas list sorted
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 09 December, 2013, 01:14:07 PM
Daily Dredds Vol 1 - November 6th 2014.
Good things come to those who wait. Interesting to see how many of the new books are hardbacks. This makes me both happy and sad.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 09 December, 2013, 02:59:27 PM
Yeah some great stuff there. So happy to see 'Return to Armageddon' get the outing it so richly deserves.

I'm intrigued to see the content of Swimming in Blood and Psi Files 4 to see if they justify the purchase.

Its just wonderful to see those Dante volumes finally get another release. Might not be the nice shiny editions we called for but just happy people will be able to get their hands on the complete story now.

Never read Dredd vs. Predators... not entirely sure I want to!

And finally its a joy that the Dailies are finally getting an appearance again. Overall half that list reads like a veritable wish for the folks on this here board so hats off to Rebellion. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 09 December, 2013, 03:15:33 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 09 December, 2013, 12:32:47 PM
Some cracking stuff coming up next year:

https://www.facebook.com/2000AD/posts/10151779712571366

Wow - I am really looking forward to some of these!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 09 December, 2013, 03:20:03 PM
Colin: The Predators strip... isn't great. Still, nice to have it in trade format somewhere, and there's some bloody great stuff elsewhere on that list. Brass Sun in December is an absolute bastard though—I was hoping that'd arrive much sooner. I hope that doesn't point to when the strip will next appear in the Prog.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 09 December, 2013, 05:05:25 PM
Looks like Rogue Trooper 04 will collect the following:

Cinnabar
What Lies Beneath
Weapons of War
Overkill
Lions
A Visit to the Boneyard
Requiem
Angels
Ghouls)
Realpolitik
Condor Six Down
Dead Ringer
What If... Gunnar Survived the Quartz Zone Massacre?

I guess that I'll be buying both Dredd Case Files, the Tales from Nu-Earth, Volgan War Volume 04, Psi Files 04 & the Daily Dredds with both Alien vs Dredd vs Predator & Devlin Waugh also getting a look in!!!

Two questions for the Graphic Novel Team:

1) Is Devlin Waugh the first in a series of Devlin Waugh trades??
2) Is the Aliens vs Dredd vs Predator trade part of the Dredd Case Files, i.e. will it have the same, or a similar spine??
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 09 December, 2013, 05:09:02 PM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 09 December, 2013, 05:05:25 PM
2) Is the Aliens vs Dredd vs Predator trade part of the Dredd Case Files, i.e. will it have the same, or a similar spine??
It's a hardback so I guess it might be matching the JD vs Batman trade ?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 09 December, 2013, 05:20:05 PM
Hardback :o I thought it was a paperback!!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 09 December, 2013, 05:25:41 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 09 December, 2013, 01:14:07 PM
Interesting to see how many of the new books are hardbacks. This makes me both happy and sad.

Yup, a few titles to look forward to there.  I kind of feel the same about hardbacks - on the one hand they look good on the shelf and keep upright but then this is really comic material and a paperback just feels closer to the original to me.  I'm not saying I won't but hardbacks but if I had the choice, I prefer to go with paperback.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 09 December, 2013, 06:25:38 PM
Flicking through the rest of the catalogue, I'm delighted to see the two Dredd Year One ebooks are going to see a physical release :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 09 December, 2013, 06:40:27 PM
Yeah just saw that apparently it's also going to have a piece written by Mr. Ewing, did i miss a book?


Edit: Sorry spoke before finishing reading the Ewing story is debuting in the omnibus, hope it gets a separate digital release
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 December, 2013, 06:47:48 PM
My jaw hit the floor with some of those titles. Return to Armageddon huh. Nice. :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 09 December, 2013, 06:53:05 PM
Yeah I remember Keef mentioning it on the ECBT2000AD podcast
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: moly on 09 December, 2013, 07:06:58 PM
Some great stuff there for next year
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 303 on 09 December, 2013, 07:23:19 PM
Looks like my bank balance will be taking a hit next year with some of the goodies coming out.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 09 December, 2013, 07:29:51 PM
some good stuff coming out .anyone got a bigger pic of the aliens vs Dredd vs predator cover?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 December, 2013, 09:14:17 PM
Lots of good stuff there.  Good to see the dailies, Return to Armageddon and the eBooks all getting a look-in.  Nice to see more Rogue & Psi Files too (love that Psi files cover!).

Does the catalogue make posting cover pictures and dates here redundant?

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Robust_zps46947ea6.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Slaine_zpsf6c3226a.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 09 December, 2013, 09:33:55 PM
no because they are tiny in there
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 09 December, 2013, 09:35:40 PM
And we need to know when they're listed for pre-order on Amazon!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 09 December, 2013, 10:18:28 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 30 November, 2013, 02:22:10 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 06 October, 2013, 11:18:48 AM
According to Digital Spy, a Kingdom novel, "Kingdom: Fiefdom" will be published in print and e-book format in July 2014.  Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent are the authors, and the story is set 100 years after the prog strip.

http://www.digitalspy.com.au/comics/news/a517946/dan-abnett-writing-2000-ad-kingdom-novel.html

It's now listed for pre-order at Amazon UK:


Fiefdom: A Kingdom Novel
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiefdom-Kingdom-Novel-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781082359/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385777849&sr=1-1&keywords=Fiefdom%3A+A+Kingdom+Novel)

by Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent
5th August 2014, 384 pages, Abaddon Books

I'm looking forward to this and will snap it up as soon as it is available.

I predicted the e-book!!!  http://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/fiefdom-an-original-novel-coming-soon-by-dan-abnett-and-nik-vincent/
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 December, 2013, 10:23:52 PM
Man, that (final!) Slaine volume has an incredible cover.  Can't wait for that one. 

Also, Disaster Squads?  Have I been misreading that subtitle all these years?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 09 December, 2013, 10:52:26 PM
What the story with the Ro-Busters book, why do we need a new edition?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 09 December, 2013, 10:56:39 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 09 December, 2013, 10:52:26 PM
What the story with the Ro-Busters book, why do we need a new edition?

One with a decent cover?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 10 December, 2013, 02:02:18 AM
Be nice if they re-instate the original dialogue at the end of Hammerstein's War Memoirs...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 10 December, 2013, 07:48:49 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 09 December, 2013, 02:59:27 PM
Yeah some great stuff there. So happy to see 'Return to Armageddon' get the outing it so richly deserves.

I'm intrigued to see the content of Swimming in Blood and Psi Files 4 to see if they justify the purchase.
Psi Files 4 definitely will.

No mention on whether ABC Warriors will feature the original centrespreads in glorious technicolour. An unmissable purchase if it does, still pretty high on the list if it doesn't.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 10 December, 2013, 07:52:39 AM
Noice line up for 2014. Slightly disapointed that they are all revealed now. Kind of takes the excitement of anticipation of their announcement out of the whole year.


Really hoping these all see digital release as well. The 2000 AD shop was recently updated with 3 new trades. None of them having digital editions. Very disheartening.

Also, what's up with Nikolia Dante Vol.3 getting a rename? Is it going to reprint Tzar Wars Vol.1 as well? That'll making the numbering all goofy no doubt.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 10 December, 2013, 07:56:37 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 10 December, 2013, 07:52:39 AM
Also, what's up with Nikolia Dante Vol.3 getting a rename? Is it going to reprint Tzar Wars Vol.1 as well? That'll making the numbering all goofy no doubt.
I doubt it (Love and War is the name of the final story in the original volume as well as part of Tsar Wars) but I did mean to mention that stroke of completist baiting genius.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 10 December, 2013, 08:03:19 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 10 December, 2013, 07:52:39 AM
Also, what's up with Nikolia Dante Vol.3 getting a rename? Is it going to reprint Tzar Wars Vol.1 as well? That'll making the numbering all goofy no doubt.

It might well but I reckon two Dante volumes in one year should be enough to keep us happy. Its now up to us to buy the hell out of these to make sure Tsar Wars 1 gets done.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 December, 2013, 08:04:26 AM
Yup. Strange how The Romanov Dynasty isn't getting reprinted....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 10 December, 2013, 08:06:24 AM
Romanov Dynasty got reprinted by S&S as Too Cool to Kill very recently, so it totally makes sense* for Rebellion to skip it. According to the 'Still Available' section of the catalog, Tsar Wars 1 and 2 are still available directly from Rebellion. So I don't much see the need of a reprinting. Yet.


*makes sense. But the quest to get a proper Dante Vol.1 spine is sure to be a plague upon collectors for ages to come.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 December, 2013, 08:13:43 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 10 December, 2013, 08:06:24 AM
Romanov Dynasty got reprinted by S&S as Too Cool to Kill very recently, so it totally makes sense* for Rebellion to skip it. According to the 'Still Available' section of the catalog, Tsar Wars 1 and 2 are still available directly from Rebellion. So I don't much see the need of a reprinting. Yet.


*makes sense. But the quest to get a proper Dante Vol.1 spine is sure to be a plague upon collectors for ages to come.

Totally forgot about that. I have the old Rebellion edition with crummy paper stock. But it'll suffice until, as you say, an improved edition with matching spine is released.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 10 December, 2013, 10:05:21 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 10 December, 2013, 07:52:39 AM
Really hoping these all see digital release as well. The 2000 AD shop was recently updated with 3 new trades. None of them having digital editions. Very disheartening.

Unfortunately we only have limited resources for putting together digital editions - the priority at the moment is getting big chunks of the popular back catalogue up first.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 10 December, 2013, 11:18:39 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 10 December, 2013, 08:03:19 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 10 December, 2013, 07:52:39 AM
Also, what's up with Nikolia Dante Vol.3 getting a rename? Is it going to reprint Tzar Wars Vol.1 as well? That'll making the numbering all goofy no doubt.

It might well but I reckon two Dante volumes in one year should be enough to keep us happy. Its now up to us to buy the hell out of these to make sure Tsar Wars 1 gets done.

I believe - and I may be wrong here - that the renaming ('Too Cool to Kill' 'Love and War') and the new, more dynamic covers are down to the fact that browsers found the old ones unappealing. So the new titles and covers are playing up the action/adventure/sci-fi elements and playing down the historical, old-timey feel that was apparently confusing/off-putting to new readers.

I mean you have to admit, this isn't really going to shift many copies is it? Looks like a kind of bawdy historical romance (which admittedly is part of Dante, but maybe not the part you want to sell it on?).

(http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/nikolai_dante_romanov_dynasty.jpg)

Anyway, that's one damn fine looking line-up we're looking at for next year - could not have turned out better if they let me put together my own dream list.

Erm, anyone have any tips about shipping books to the US....?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 10 December, 2013, 11:20:33 AM
It's a cold hearted soul who doesn't find that Romanov Dynasty cover a wonderful draw if you ask me.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 10 December, 2013, 11:25:08 AM
I'm none plussed by it. It exists, neither as a great nor terrible Cover from Simon.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 10 December, 2013, 11:40:59 AM
Romanov Dynasty collection was my gateway drug to 2000AD. So... the title/cover did something right.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 December, 2013, 12:05:05 PM
Quote from: radiator on 10 December, 2013, 11:18:39 AMSo the new titles and covers are playing up the action/adventure/sci-fi elements and playing down the historical, old-timey feel that was apparently confusing/off-putting to new readers.

I really love the old cover, but I'm all for trying anything that might get Dante into more hands.  The words 'underappreciated masterpiece' don't come close.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 December, 2013, 12:39:35 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 December, 2013, 10:23:52 PM
Also, Disaster Squads?  Have I been misreading that subtitle all these years?

Hopefully they'll fix that.

And while they're at it, I know the "Daily Dredds" cover isn't finalised, but it's got "Dredd's" (with an apostrophe) instead of just "Dredds" (plural).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 10 December, 2013, 01:09:40 PM
Each to their own. Personally I don't think it does a very good job of getting across what the series actually is. I actually really love the cover for the original Romanov Dynasty trade - it has a really polished feel unlike a lot of Simon Fraser's work which tends to be looser (which, to clarify, I like as well!). Dunno why, but this particular image always looked to me like a still from an amazing Dante animated movie. Lovely colour palette too:

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cmoMeISWzmE/SrFVtarRHsI/AAAAAAAAAhg/_Liu35VSGx0/s1600/GN.jpg)

I love the original Great Game cover too. I can't tell you how excited I was to get this book, as I had dearly wanted a Dante trade collection series for years and years, and never once thought we might actually get one! I was living in France at the time and have fond memories of it turning up in the post and just staring at it for ages. Gorgeous, bold use of colour again here.

(http://www.2000adonline.com/books/assets/covers/nikolai_dante_great_game.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 December, 2013, 01:19:21 PM
Those are the two covers I have as well (the first on the proper-size Gulag-Archipelago-lacking album), and I agree, they are both truly awesome, and very representative of the contents.  At the same time, looking at that new catalogue I find myself having a certain amount of faith in the direction the House of Tharg is going with its reprints: who could have imagined anything like the current range even 10 years ago?  If they feel they need to shake things up to shift Dante trades, I'm happy to let them at it.

I also don't think the Vol 2 and 3 covers in the catalogue are finalised. If  Keef is taking requests, anything with Simon's architectural genius or his head-montages would do it for me.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 10 December, 2013, 01:43:19 PM
Yeah the Dante covers appear to be placeholders - but they got Fraser to do a brand new cover for Too Cool to Kill, so maybe they'll keep that going with these reprints?

As I say, I could be wrong about the reason for the changes - it's just that ISTR Keef(?) mentioning it somewhere.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 10 December, 2013, 01:49:59 PM
The cool thing about getting Si to do some new covers is new Dante artwork which is always to be praised.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 10 December, 2013, 01:54:20 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 10 December, 2013, 12:05:05 PM
I really love the old cover, but I'm all for trying anything that might get Dante into more hands.  The words 'underappreciated masterpiece' don't come close.

Yeah somehow, some day the world will stop, take breathe and as one re-evaluate Dante (or in the case of most evaluate it for the first time) and it will be judged well. People will take their copies of Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, Maus and other so called classic and throw them onto a fire to try to pay penance to this great series. Robbie Morrison, Simon Fraser and John Burner will be carried through the streets hauled and our new overlords and we'll finally get those nice (but not too thick) hardcover collections we all crave...

... to far?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 10 December, 2013, 04:12:13 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 10 December, 2013, 01:54:20 PMJohn Burner
Former artist turned pyromaniac.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 December, 2013, 09:17:31 PM
Yes, keep your toilets and Mr. Burdis away from him.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 10 December, 2013, 10:31:38 PM
I was just wondering about next year's Daily Star Dredd hardcover and, considering it is labelled as volume 1 of potentially a number, whether it will eventually include both the 'weekly Dredd strip' (1981-86) and the 'daily continuity strip' (1986-98)? Being somewhat of a completist and being totally unfamiliar with all this material, I was hoping everything would be collated at some point. Could anyone shed any light on this??
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 11 December, 2013, 11:21:23 AM


Yeah somehow, some day the world will stop, take breathe and as one re-evaluate Dante (or in the case of most evaluate it for the first time) and it will be judged well. People will take their copies of Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, Maus and other so called classic and throw them onto a fire to try to pay penance to this great series. Robbie Morrison, Simon Fraser and John Burner will be carried through the streets hauled and our new overlords and we'll finally get those nice (but not too thick) hardcover collections we all crave...

... to far?



Should of started with "I have a dream!"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 11 December, 2013, 11:42:10 AM
I tried reading the first dante book and just did not find it that engaging
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 11 December, 2013, 12:04:44 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 11 December, 2013, 11:42:10 AM
I tried reading the first dante book and just did not find it that engaging
Keep at it. It's only yourself you are cheating by not reading it
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 11 December, 2013, 12:06:07 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 11 December, 2013, 11:42:10 AM
I tried reading the first dante book and just did not find it that engaging

Yeah, I feel the same way about Dante as I do SinDex.  It's good but it's not the best from the House of Tharg.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 11 December, 2013, 12:20:11 PM
I think Dante is very much a 'large canvas' story. The early stories alone are very (seemingly) inconsequential but stick with it and it all pays off...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 11 December, 2013, 12:24:37 PM
Dante was something I'd never seen before and captured my attention from its first moments. It's the perfect combination of general weirdness and emotional drama. Shit be epic.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 11 December, 2013, 04:57:26 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 11 December, 2013, 11:21:23 AM


Robbie Morrison, Simon Fraser and John Burner will be carried through the streets hauled and our new overlords and we'll finally get those nice (but not too thick) hardcover collections we all crave...

... to far?



Should of started with "I have a dream!"

I have a dream that Burns & Fraser will redraw any & all chapters that were drawn by other artists. (except for maybe the Weston drawn chapter.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 11 December, 2013, 05:11:14 PM
The first time Dante 'clicked' for me was the Courtship of Jena. Before that I was largely ambivalent. After that I was hooked and along for one of the greatest rides of 2000 AD history.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 December, 2013, 06:41:12 PM
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 11 December, 2013, 05:11:14 PM
The first time Dante 'clicked' for me was the Courtship of Jena. Before that I was largely ambivalent. After that I was hooked and along for one of the greatest rides of 2000 AD history.

Same for me.  I actively disliked Dante when it appeared first, I thought of it as a cod-Russian version of Dry Run with a cruel streak, badly-designed cyborg weapon things, cliched characters and gratingly repetitive dialogue.  I took a long break from the prog thenabouts, and came back at the start of Courtship and was frankly a bit annoyed to find it was still going.  My tune quickly changed, until I was wiping away a tear at the end of the Prog 2000 story. 

Re-reading it recently I would happily rate it as one of the all-time great 2000AD stories, with a strong internal rhythm to the plot and plausible development of likeable and loatheable characters, all seasoned with silliness and leavened with broad humour, and blessed by an exquisite tag-team of artists.  The end, which I was (appropriately enough) ambivalent about at the time now reads like the perfect conclusion, a masterclass in both restraint and vast ambition.

If you can hang on to the end of the first three collections, I'd be very surprised if you didn't stick with until the end.  The early stuff isn't bad on its own (certainly not in the way some early Dredd can be), but it really becomes something when you can appreciate it as part of the whole.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dan Banks on 11 December, 2013, 08:42:43 PM
Liking the look of the new Dante books chaps, seems like now is the time to get involved! Can anyone point me towards volume 1? Preferably with a cover that matches the new ones?!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 December, 2013, 09:00:13 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 10 December, 2013, 10:31:38 PM
I was just wondering about next year's Daily Star Dredd hardcover and, considering it is labelled as volume 1 of potentially a number, whether it will eventually include both the 'weekly Dredd strip' (1981-86) and the 'daily continuity strip' (1986-98)? Being somewhat of a completist and being totally unfamiliar with all this material, I was hoping everything would be collated at some point. Could anyone shed any light on this??

Whether we see more or not will come down to how well it sells, but there's obviously plenty of people who'd like to see it (at least on here), the fact that it's numbered gives hope of more and Rebellion seem to like having ancillary Dredd lines (like the Restricted Files) to leaven the Case Files releases with.  I'm going to buy it hoping for more but if it doesn't happen then I will look upon it as one being better than none.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 11 December, 2013, 09:20:50 PM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 11 December, 2013, 08:42:43 PM
Liking the look of the new Dante books chaps, seems like now is the time to get involved! Can anyone point me towards volume 1? Preferably with a cover that matches the new ones?!
As far as I'm aware, your choice is between the old DC/Rebellion Romanov Dynasty or the new Too Cool To Kill, neither of which matches. The latter is a far superior print though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 11 December, 2013, 09:43:01 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 11 December, 2013, 12:20:11 PM
I think Dante is very much a 'large canvas' story. The early stories alone are very (seemingly) inconsequential but stick with it and it all pays off...

I thought that would probably be the case  - which is why I think a case files style collection would be better for me
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 11 December, 2013, 11:36:50 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 11 December, 2013, 09:20:50 PM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 11 December, 2013, 08:42:43 PM
Liking the look of the new Dante books chaps, seems like now is the time to get involved! Can anyone point me towards volume 1? Preferably with a cover that matches the new ones?!
As far as I'm aware, your choice is between the old DC/Rebellion Romanov Dynasty or the new Too Cool To Kill, neither of which matches. The latter is a far superior print though.

Why is it superior? I have the DC one & it seems fine to me. Does it have more stuff?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 December, 2013, 11:51:53 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 11 December, 2013, 11:36:50 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 11 December, 2013, 09:20:50 PM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 11 December, 2013, 08:42:43 PM
Liking the look of the new Dante books chaps, seems like now is the time to get involved! Can anyone point me towards volume 1? Preferably with a cover that matches the new ones?!
As far as I'm aware, your choice is between the old DC/Rebellion Romanov Dynasty or the new Too Cool To Kill, neither of which matches. The latter is a far superior print though.

Why is it superior? I have the DC one & it seems fine to me. Does it have more stuff?
Better print quality. Nice and glossy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 12 December, 2013, 12:04:24 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 11 December, 2013, 11:51:53 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 11 December, 2013, 11:36:50 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 11 December, 2013, 09:20:50 PM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 11 December, 2013, 08:42:43 PM
Liking the look of the new Dante books chaps, seems like now is the time to get involved! Can anyone point me towards volume 1? Preferably with a cover that matches the new ones?!
As far as I'm aware, your choice is between the old DC/Rebellion Romanov Dynasty or the new Too Cool To Kill, neither of which matches. The latter is a far superior print though.

Why is it superior? I have the DC one & it seems fine to me. Does it have more stuff?
Better print quality. Nice and glossy.

I actually like the less glossy paper on the older DC/Rebellion trades. I'll have to track one down & look at it.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 12 December, 2013, 11:30:23 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 10 December, 2013, 07:48:49 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 09 December, 2013, 02:59:27 PM
Yeah some great stuff there. So happy to see 'Return to Armageddon' get the outing it so richly deserves.

I'm intrigued to see the content of Swimming in Blood and Psi Files 4 to see if they justify the purchase.
Psi Files 4 definitely will.

No mention on whether ABC Warriors will feature the original centrespreads in glorious technicolour. An unmissable purchase if it does, still pretty high on the list if it doesn't.

There's also a mis-print that needs fixing in the current Rebellion & S&S editions. The series title for the second episode of the Deadlock intro story can't decide what the 'ABC' stands for.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 December, 2013, 12:01:07 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 12 July, 2013, 12:46:38 PM
Now listed for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Banzai Battalion: Just Another Bug Hunt (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Banzai-Battalion-Just-Another-Hunt/dp/1781082189/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373601718&sr=1-1&keywords=Banzai+Battalion%3A+Just+Another+Bug+Hunt) - 160 pages, March 2014

Fear not, fellow forumites.  Dash here again keeping you covered.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Banzai_zps03129cb9.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 13 December, 2013, 12:33:11 PM
QuoteNo mention on whether ABC Warriors will feature the original centrespreads in glorious technicolour. An unmissable purchase if it does, still pretty high on the list if it doesn't.

Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure 2000ad confirmed it would have the colour centre spreads on their facebook page.

I'm tempted to buy the first two Mek Files, and I don't even like ABC Warriors.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 13 December, 2013, 01:40:06 PM
As long as hardback JD Casefiles follow with similar colour spreads we'll all be happy and there will be no need for violence*


(*well sulking)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 13 December, 2013, 02:40:55 PM
Quote from: radiator on 13 December, 2013, 12:33:11 PM
Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure 2000ad confirmed it would have the colour centre spreads on their facebook page.

Correct.

No plans for hardback Judge Dredd Case Files though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 13 December, 2013, 02:41:44 PM
#sulk#
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 13 December, 2013, 02:43:55 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 13 December, 2013, 02:41:44 PM
#sulk#

Don't sulk, Earthlet.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 13 December, 2013, 03:41:52 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 13 December, 2013, 02:43:55 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 13 December, 2013, 02:41:44 PM
#sulk#

Don't sulk, Earthlet.

You re-release Dante as asked, release the Dredd Dailys as asked, we are just too used to getting our own way. :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 13 December, 2013, 03:56:31 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 13 December, 2013, 03:41:52 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 13 December, 2013, 02:43:55 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 13 December, 2013, 02:41:44 PM
#sulk#

Don't sulk, Earthlet.

You re-release Dante as asked, release the Dredd Dailys as asked, we are just too used to getting our own way. :D


Yeah, let us sulk you've only got yourself to blame for spoiling us so mucn :I
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 December, 2013, 07:41:30 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 13 December, 2013, 03:41:52 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 13 December, 2013, 02:43:55 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 13 December, 2013, 02:41:44 PM
#sulk#

Don't sulk, Earthlet.

You re-release Dante as asked, release the Dredd Dailys as asked, we are just too used to getting our own way. :D

I think you're forgetting Zenith and Return to Armageddon.  Frankly I'm expecting Keef round my house to do the washing-up any... minute.... now...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 13 December, 2013, 08:11:31 PM
Those colour ABC Warrior centre-spreads are fantastic. Hopefully that means we won't be treated to the 'Comic.Bacterial.Chemical Warriors' on the Ewins/Deadlock strip again!

Fingers crossed that the Black Hole storyline will have the pages from Prog 575 in the correct order (the mistake crept into the S&S edition, as well).


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 December, 2013, 09:40:35 PM
The bottle!  The bottle!  The bottle!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbYJITUCYAARiAO.jpg:large)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 13 December, 2013, 09:56:49 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 December, 2013, 09:40:35 PM
The bottle!  The bottle!  The bottle!

I had one of those, but I lost it...

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 13 December, 2013, 10:05:48 PM
Still hoping the Death's return is misdirection. Really don't want him restored.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 13 December, 2013, 10:13:15 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 13 December, 2013, 10:05:48 PM
Still hoping the Death's return is misdirection. Really don't want him restored.


You're going to be disappointed.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 13 December, 2013, 10:14:52 PM
I know.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 December, 2013, 10:19:01 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 13 December, 2013, 09:56:49 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 December, 2013, 09:40:35 PM
The bottle!  The bottle!  The bottle!

I had one of those, but I lost it...

It looks like the same thing's happened to P.J. Maybe too.

Ah well, better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 14 December, 2013, 05:33:44 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 13 December, 2013, 10:05:48 PM
Still hoping the Death's return is misdirection. Really don't want him restored.

I agree.

I'm just afraid it'll be the end of Cass.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 14 December, 2013, 05:52:10 AM
Cass? I'm afraid of losing PJ Maybe in the crossfire somewhere!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 14 December, 2013, 06:06:26 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 14 December, 2013, 05:52:10 AM
Cass? I'm afraid of losing PJ Maybe in the crossfire somewhere!

That would suck as well. PJ is Dredd's Moriarty.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Silent_Bomber on 15 December, 2013, 11:16:32 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 09 December, 2013, 03:20:03 PM
Colin: The Predators strip... isn't great.
Agreed, seems to have its fans though.

Comicvine forum users just voted Judge Schaefer into 4th best Judge Dredd character :(

I tried to push her down the list, but there were just nowhere near enough voters LOL
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 16 December, 2013, 02:54:56 AM
Quote from: Molch-R on 13 December, 2013, 02:40:55 PM
Quote from: radiator on 13 December, 2013, 12:33:11 PM
Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure 2000ad confirmed it would have the colour centre spreads on their facebook page.

Correct.


& the same size as the Clint Langley hardcovers too. As shall be the Brass Sun & Zenith hardcovers too.


This fills Stevie with an infundibulum of delight. Fingers crossed that this means matching editions of Nemesis & Slaine in the same format further down the line.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 18 December, 2013, 10:16:00 PM
Smudge is not John Burns.  Hmmm.  Enthusiasm for Sin Dex not at its high point, I'm afraid.  Everything else sounds quite promising though!


The UK's Eisner-nominated SF anthology enters its thirty-seventh year of continuous weekly publication, and the Thrills are coming faster than ever! Prog 1873 sees a brand-new line-up commence - a whistleblower goes on the run in Judge Dredd: Mega-City Confidential by John Wagner and Colin MacNeil; Celtic barbarian Slaine sets out to honor the Earth Goddess in 'A Simple Killing' by Pat Mills and Simon Davis; something murderous is on the path to vengeance in sci-fi thriller Outlier by T.C. Eglington and Karl Richardson; hitmen Sinister Dexter go offroad in the backwoods of Generica in 'Gun Shy' by Dan Abnett and Smudge; and meet Atalia Jaegir of the Nordland State Security Police, trawling the underbelly of Nort society for war criminals and genetic outcasts, in 'Jaegir' by Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby! (NOTE: Pack contains #1871-1874.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dan Banks on 19 December, 2013, 07:18:42 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 11 December, 2013, 09:20:50 PM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 11 December, 2013, 08:42:43 PM
Liking the look of the new Dante books chaps, seems like now is the time to get involved! Can anyone point me towards volume 1? Preferably with a cover that matches the new ones?!
As far as I'm aware, your choice is between the old DC/Rebellion Romanov Dynasty or the new Too Cool To Kill, neither of which matches. The latter is a far superior print though.

Thanks! Should be a nice little present for myself.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 19 December, 2013, 07:55:30 AM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 18 December, 2013, 10:16:00 PM
Smudge is not John Burns. 

I'd be happy to see Smudge on Sin/Dex, but I'd be even happier if it was in B&W as Grud surely intended.  Not sure colour works as well over his dense inks. Not likely that I'll get my wish.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 19 December, 2013, 12:03:07 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 December, 2013, 07:55:30 AM

I'd be happy to see Smudge on Sin/Dex, but I'd be even happier if it was in B&W as Grud surely intended. 

Wat dat man said.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 December, 2013, 12:15:43 PM
The cover for the fourth IDW Dredd collection is now up on Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/IDWDredd4_zpsac230a38.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 19 December, 2013, 12:18:56 PM
Talk about false advertising...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 19 December, 2013, 12:45:16 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 December, 2013, 12:18:56 PM
Talk about false advertising...

Why? Is Judge Dredd not in it?

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 19 December, 2013, 01:48:55 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 December, 2013, 12:18:56 PM
Talk about false advertising...

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I got it LP.  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 December, 2013, 04:08:10 PM
That cover makes it look good. Their is the false advertisement.   ;)

A steaming dog turd would have better fit. Or better still, a brown paper bag.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 19 December, 2013, 05:58:13 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 19 December, 2013, 04:08:10 PM
That cover makes it look good. Their is the false advertisement.   ;)

A steaming dog turd would have better fit. Or better still, a brown paper bag.

Hmmm, skirting a bit close to the wind. Please moderate your language.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 December, 2013, 06:25:32 PM
A speck of sheep poop?  :|
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 19 December, 2013, 06:29:41 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 19 December, 2013, 06:25:32 PM
A speck of sheep poop?  :|

*finger hovers over 'ban' button*
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 19 December, 2013, 08:52:07 PM
Ahem, anyhow.

Smudge is a darn fine artist, but Sin Dex roared back into "best thrill of 2013" status on the strength of John Burns working in perfect synch with Abnett.  Understanding that Sin Dex has had something like sixty different artists, Burns made last year's story so amazing that even the previously-definitive Sin Dex artist, Simon Davis, managed to disappoint when he showed up to fill in.

On the other hand, dang, Tharg, what a wild preview image by Lee Carter for the new Indigo Prime story.  My.  Can't wait to see what the heck that's about.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 December, 2013, 10:29:14 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 19 December, 2013, 06:29:41 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 19 December, 2013, 06:25:32 PM
A speck of sheep poop?  :|

*finger hovers over 'ban' button*
I would urge you to recomsider...if I wasn't a huge masochyst. Come on, hit me! ;)


Back on topic, for my money, Smudge is a great artist, certainly worth a gig on Sin/Dex. Though I to hope his art is kept monotone, couloir would ruin the effect.


...ahem.....so whens this next series of Absalom coming again?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 24 December, 2013, 12:59:46 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 09 December, 2013, 01:14:07 PM
Daily Dredds Vol 1 - November 6th 2014.
Good things come to those who wait. Interesting to see how many of the new books are hardbacks. This makes me both happy and sad.

Or as the mock-up cover reads "The Daily Dredd's"... I'm glad it's not final. Powers that Be, please remove the catastrophe, apostrophe from the final cover. We don't want to add fuel to the fire for those who thing comics are for illiterates. :|
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 25 December, 2013, 05:54:41 AM
Agreed (but already pointed out).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 28 December, 2013, 07:15:33 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 25 October, 2013, 05:36:37 PM
All the items in the foreground are listed in the back of the collection.

Mike Perkins did a fantastic job.

As promised, the back of the Sc-Fi Thrillers collection lists the 25 items on the cover...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 December, 2013, 10:32:25 AM
Yes, but some of them aren't actually on the cover because they didn't use the whole picture (though it is reproduced in full inside the book).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 31 December, 2013, 03:23:44 AM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 12 December, 2013, 12:04:24 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 11 December, 2013, 11:51:53 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 11 December, 2013, 11:36:50 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 11 December, 2013, 09:20:50 PM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 11 December, 2013, 08:42:43 PM
Liking the look of the new Dante books chaps, seems like now is the time to get involved! Can anyone point me towards volume 1? Preferably with a cover that matches the new ones?!
As far as I'm aware, your choice is between the old DC/Rebellion Romanov Dynasty or the new Too Cool To Kill, neither of which matches. The latter is a far superior print though.

Why is it superior? I have the DC one & it seems fine to me. Does it have more stuff?
Better print quality. Nice and glossy.

I actually like the less glossy paper on the older DC/Rebellion trades. I'll have to track one down & look at it.

Thanks.

I picked up a copy of "Too Cool To Kill" for about $10 including shipping.


I HATE IT! Absolutely hate it.

All the color has been muted & made consistent. In one panel the colorist used blue to highlight the folds in a white shirt. Now the blue is barely perceivable. Every page is like that. It's almost like removing the brush strokes from a painting.

They have also taken out the titles & credits off the individual chapters, except for the Henry Flint story. Russia's Greatest Love Machine by Chris Weston has a spot in the artwork designed for both the title & the credits. It's left blank.

But worst of all, they take out much of the text. In each prog there would be a caption or two of recap. Half way through volume 1 the recaps became these little historical quotes about the situation Dante is in. They didn't so much recap what happened last prog as set the stage going forth. Both the recaps & the historical quotes have been removed. Once again the Henry Flint story is presented untouched other than the color. I wouldn't mind the recap being removed but removing the historical quotes is senseless.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 31 December, 2013, 06:04:28 AM
They removed the historical quotes? That's pretty nuts.

Its pretty common for resent 2000 AD strips to remove the title, credits, and recaps in trades (and most comics are designed for this in mind), but the early Dante stuff preseeds that trend I think. So unless they went back to the original page scans (unlikely?) they must have manually edited them all out via photoshop.

That's pretty sucky. But somewhat understandable... but the historical quotes... those are pretty dang integral to the Nikolia Dante strip's character!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 December, 2013, 03:34:56 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 31 December, 2013, 03:23:44 AMI wouldn't mind the recap being removed but removing the historical quotes is senseless.

This sounds awful, but it is a natural consequence of the whole ridiculous practice of removing episode titles, credit boxes, recaps and next progs, which seeks to pretend that this was some seamless 'graphic novel' and not a collected story ingeniously told in satisfying 5-page weekly chunks which is what it is

AFAIC all it ever achieves is making the scripter look like a chump who doesn't understand story structure, and leaving ugly blank spaces all over the art.  Arguing that Americans/young people/non-scrots won't read something if they think it's in small chunks may have some validity, but when 'they' do read these bowdlerised collections they must be very disappointed, which I suspect is worse.

As I know I've ranted before, if the writer and artists produced a strip the specific intent that it be best presented as an unbroken story, then that's fine (although I suspect it would be a rare beast that would work like this and read well week-to-week).  Otherwise, leave it alone.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 31 December, 2013, 04:42:04 PM
What TB said.
If you consider this fiddling as abridgement, I'd vote for unabridged every time.
Have Rebellion ever asked the readership about this? The Megazine floppy springs to mind.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 01 January, 2014, 12:11:10 AM
There is one story there Simon had drawn an establishing shot of a city scape for the first panel of chapter 2. The original has a one line recap & a note of what city they are in, now it's blank. So in the middle of a confrontation there is a random wordless panel of a cityscape.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 03 January, 2014, 02:15:34 PM
Apologise of this has been put up somewhere before but I've not seen it. Some images for up-coming Thrills over at Robot 6. That Paul Grist strip in the Meg looks particularly nice... even if it might be responsible for us not getting any Mudman for over a year!

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/01/2000ad-offers-peek-at-paul-grists-demon-nic-plus-more-thrills/ (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/01/2000ad-offers-peek-at-paul-grists-demon-nic-plus-more-thrills/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 03 January, 2014, 03:50:36 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 03 January, 2014, 02:15:34 PM
Apologise of this has been put up somewhere before but I've not seen it. Some images for up-coming Thrills over at Robot 6. That Paul Grist strip in the Meg looks particularly nice... even if it might be responsible for us not getting any Mudman for over a year!

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/01/2000ad-offers-peek-at-paul-grists-demon-nic-plus-more-thrills/ (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/01/2000ad-offers-peek-at-paul-grists-demon-nic-plus-more-thrills/)

Looks great! Especially Dark Justice this summer! Wonder if it'll start around the same time Day of Chaos: Fallout is released (june5) ? Would make a good fit.

Dark Justice is also said to be a multi part epic sounds really nice  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 03 January, 2014, 11:56:22 PM
The mighty Phil Winslade draws a comic that Stevie actually wants to read for the first time in two decades!?


(http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LAWLESS-.jpg)


GET THE SNUT IN!  :) :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 04 January, 2014, 12:13:09 AM
What Stevie said.

Dear Lord.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 04 January, 2014, 02:12:11 AM
Looks like Dan Abnett got a promotion.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 January, 2014, 03:25:00 AM
I saw that and liked it too.

So, all those stars. A Texas City Judge or some kind of Cursed Earth sheriff?

I like the design of the bolero jacket, with the integrated shoulder pads and the pouches matching those on the belt.

Not so sure about the title "Demon Nic".  It's obviously meant to be 'demonic' but the verbal connection jars a bit.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 January, 2014, 03:40:59 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 31 December, 2013, 03:34:56 PM
As I know I've ranted before, if the writer and artists produced a strip the specific intent that it be best presented as an unbroken story, then that's fine (although I suspect it would be a rare beast that would work like this and read well week-to-week).  Otherwise, leave it alone.

I love the earlier Case Files, with their unremovable captions.  Reading the newer trades leaves me feeling breathless as I can never work out where to stop.  It's like trying to read the Hound of the Baskervilles served up as one long block of text with no chapter breaks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 04 January, 2014, 04:41:34 AM
QuoteNot so sure about the title "Demon Nic".  It's obviously meant to be 'demonic' but the verbal connection jars a bit.

Dominic?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 January, 2014, 09:38:50 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 04 January, 2014, 04:41:34 AM
QuoteNot so sure about the title "Demon Nic".  It's obviously meant to be 'demonic' but the verbal connection jars a bit.

Dominic?
The twist has been rumbled. No need to publish the strip.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 04 January, 2014, 11:40:29 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 04 January, 2014, 03:25:00 AM

So, all those stars. A Texas City Judge...?


Snap. Stevie's thoughts exactly. If Lawless is half as thrill-powered as Insurrection then it's  going to be a right corker & no mistake.

Excited
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 08 January, 2014, 01:34:46 PM
All the promised trades for 2014 seem to be pre-listed at Amazon UK, including the two early Dantes, the first two Zenith volumes, etc.

A quick selection of links -


Judge Dredd Day of Chaos: Fallout
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Day-Chaos-Fallout/dp/1781082715/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389187113&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd+Day+of+Chaos%3A+Fallout) - 5 Jun 2014, 240 pages


Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu Earth 4
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rogue-Trooper-Tales-Nu-Earth/dp/1781082308/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389187057&sr=1-1&keywords=Rogue+Trooper%3A+Tales+of+Nu+Earth+4) - John Smith, Gordon Rennie, Andy Diggle, Steve Dillon, Simon Coleby, Staz Johnson. 19 Jun 2014, 288 pages


Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 04
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Anderson-Psi-Files-04/dp/1781082367/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389187005&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Anderson%3A+The+Psi+Files+04) - 17 July 2014, 304 pages


Return to Armageddon
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Return-Armageddon-Malcom-Shaw/dp/1781082707/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389187921&sr=1-3&keywords=Return+to+Armageddon) - 14 Aug 2014, 144 pages


Judge Dredd: v. 23: The Complete Case Files
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781082529/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389187265&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd%3A+v.+23%3A+The+Complete+Case+Files) - 14 Aug 2014, 320 pages


Predator vs Dredd vs Aliens: Incubus and More
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Predator-Dredd-Aliens-Incubus-More/dp/1781082537/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389187221&sr=1-1&keywords=Predator+vs+Dredd+vs+Aliens%3A+Incubus+and+More) - 11 Sep 2014, 208 pages

Age of the Wolf (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Age-Wolf-Alec-Worley/dp/1781082634/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389187175&sr=1-3&keywords=Age+of+the+Wolf) - 23 Oct 2014, 160 pages


The Daily Dredds: v. 1
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Daily-Dredds-v-1/dp/1781082642/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389186803&sr=1-1&keywords=Daily+Dredds) - 6 Nov 2014, 320 pages


Brass Sun
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brass-Sun-Ian-Edington/dp/1781082693/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389186910&sr=1-2&keywords=Brass+Sun) - 4 Dec 2014, 208 pages
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 08 January, 2014, 04:33:26 PM
And good news for us fans of John Cooper, Titan are continuing their Johnny Red series. Book 4: England or Bust is up for pre-order now

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848564449/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 January, 2014, 08:58:00 AM
Also up for pre-order at Amazon UK, the physical collection of the e-books by Smith, Carroll and Ewing.  Look on their works, ye mighty, and despair!

Judge Dredd: Year One: Omnibus (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Year-One-Omnibus/dp/1781082731/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389238928&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd%3A+Year+One%3A+Omnibus) - 6 Nov 2014
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tombo on 09 January, 2014, 06:35:51 PM
Wait, 208 pages for Brass Sun?  That suggests there's to a third story printed in the Prog before the trade comes out which would explain the long delay, either that or it's going to have a really, really long foreword and a massive sketchbook at the back.

Edit, either that or Amazon is just wrong, which is quite common especially when they're saying it's hardback (oh I sort of hope it is, Brass Sun deserves to be a hardback collection).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 January, 2014, 08:50:01 PM
Amazon always seem to list these things as a hardback, which is why I don't include it as a detail when posting the links, however the Rebellion publishing catalogue for 2014 confirms Brass Sun is indeed a hardback, and 208 pages.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tombo on 09 January, 2014, 09:06:35 PM
In that case I believe the correct term to use is W00T!!11!oneone! although I may be mistaken.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 09 January, 2014, 09:33:00 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 08 January, 2014, 01:34:46 PM

Judge Dredd Day of Chaos: Fallout
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Day-Chaos-Fallout/dp/1781082715/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389187113&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd+Day+of+Chaos%3A+Fallout) - 5 Jun 2014, 240 pages

So this is basically the start of collecting six months worth of Dredd stories in Case Files-style volumes soon after they appear in the comic, right? Good idea, and I suppose they've basically been doing as much for the last few years. Publishing and collecting those 26 part Wagner story cycles under a single title lends trades of stuff like Tour of Duty a cohesiveness, but those books in particular are really just Case Files with an organising theme.

Collecting a bunch of recent short stories under a title like Fallout makes me wonder if we're moving into an era where a years worth of Dredd stories are going to consist of two six month blocks organised around a big, centrepiece story by either Williams or Carroll each, with others riffing off their leads. I'd be happy to see the current very promising Titan and its repercussions serve as the basis for more stories, so they can be collected into a themed trade.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dan Banks on 10 January, 2014, 08:07:28 AM
Quote from: Tombo on 09 January, 2014, 06:35:51 PM
Wait, 208 pages for Brass Sun?  That suggests there's to a third story printed in the Prog before the trade comes out which would explain the long delay, either that or it's going to have a really, really long foreword and a massive sketchbook at the back.

Edit, either that or Amazon is just wrong, which is quite common especially when they're saying it's hardback (oh I sort of hope it is, Brass Sun deserves to be a hardback collection).

Great spot! My excitement for the year ahead just doubled. I think it's safe to say that Brass Sun was created with collected format in mind so book 3 should have an ending worthy of closing out the act. And hardback as well, lovely.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 January, 2014, 08:16:35 AM
I'd like to offer my vote against Sauchie's hypothetical scheme, please.  'Events' are only interesting when they deviate from the normal course of things, and having regular cycles of stories grouped around a 'major' story takes away from the everyday craziness that should be the heart of the strip. 

That said, biannual collections under a title that suggests a cohesiveness of period is a great idea: I just don't personally want to see writers writing to that kind of brief (Day of Chaos follow-ons being an exception, since it's really the only game in town).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 10 January, 2014, 09:15:35 AM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 10 January, 2014, 08:07:28 AM
Quote from: Tombo on 09 January, 2014, 06:35:51 PM
Wait, 208 pages for Brass Sun?  That suggests there's to a third story printed in the Prog before the trade comes out which would explain the long delay, either that or it's going to have a really, really long foreword and a massive sketchbook at the back.

Edit, either that or Amazon is just wrong, which is quite common especially when they're saying it's hardback (oh I sort of hope it is, Brass Sun deserves to be a hardback collection).

Great spot! My excitement for the year ahead just doubled. I think it's safe to say that Brass Sun was created with collected format in mind so book 3 should have an ending worthy of closing out the act. And hardback as well, lovely.

I kinda hope that's all right as it would mean more Brass Sun soonish which I'm all for and Tharg playing with formats and ideas. It might all of course just be Amazon nonsense.

If I was going to guess and of course this would just be an utter guess based on nowt but my reading, I'd suggest if Brass Sun was 'designed' for anything it feels more like something for the European market. Yeah part so far would fit beautifully into an album and it has a similar sensibility to a lot of what I read from Cinebooks...

... of course the truth of the matter is its probably written and structured to suit the story and a weekly anthology comic and anything else is just me reading too much into things!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 10 January, 2014, 11:54:03 AM
Another reading: DoC sold well, hence a follow-up.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 10 January, 2014, 12:07:39 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 10 January, 2014, 11:54:03 AM
Another reading: DoC sold well, hence a follow-up.

Someone who knows how all this works.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 10 January, 2014, 12:31:16 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 10 January, 2014, 12:07:39 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 10 January, 2014, 11:54:03 AM
Another reading: DoC sold well, hence a follow-up.
Someone who knows how all this works.
All my years in marketing and publishing have to count for something, right?

*painedexpressionface*
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 January, 2014, 12:53:43 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 10 January, 2014, 09:15:35 AM
I kinda hope that's all right as it would mean more Brass Sun soonish which I'm all for and Tharg playing with formats and ideas. It might all of course just be Amazon nonsense.

I refer the honourable gentleman to my earlier reply (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,35334.msg804863.html#msg804863) and the Rebellion publishing catalogue for 2014:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/BrassSun_zpsab3fee17.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 January, 2014, 01:00:51 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 30 November, 2013, 02:22:10 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 06 October, 2013, 11:18:48 AM
According to Digital Spy, a Kingdom novel, "Kingdom: Fiefdom" will be published in print and e-book format in July 2014.  Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent are the authors, and the story is set 100 years after the prog strip.

http://www.digitalspy.com.au/comics/news/a517946/dan-abnett-writing-2000-ad-kingdom-novel.html

It's now listed for pre-order at Amazon UK:


Fiefdom: A Kingdom Novel
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiefdom-Kingdom-Novel-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781082359/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385777849&sr=1-1&keywords=Fiefdom%3A+A+Kingdom+Novel)

by Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent
5th August 2014, 384 pages, Abaddon Books

I'm looking forward to this and will snap it up as soon as it is available.

Amazon UK are also pre-listing a special edition hardback in addition to the paperback:

Fiefdom: A Kingdom Novel [Special Edition] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiefdom-Kingdom-Novel-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781082561/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389357337&sr=1-1&keywords=Fiefdom%3A+A+Kingdom+Novel+Special+Edition)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 10 January, 2014, 01:20:42 PM
Now we need to know what's so special about it...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 January, 2014, 02:30:15 PM
Well for starters the price is pretty breathtaking!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 10 January, 2014, 02:46:41 PM
Standard price for a new release hard back book. No one pays that as its usually between £12 and £15 by the time its discounted by retailers
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 10 January, 2014, 03:37:53 PM
Sorry, a hard cover doesn't make it 'special' just more expensive. There must be more to it than that...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 10 January, 2014, 03:48:20 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 10 January, 2014, 12:53:43 PM

I refer the honourable gentleman to my earlier reply (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,35334.msg804863.html#msg804863) and the Rebellion publishing catalogue for 2014:


I think that's the second time you've won me at the Internet this week!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 10 January, 2014, 04:22:31 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 10 January, 2014, 01:20:42 PM
Now we need to know what's so special about it...


Didn't I read that Dan Abnett was signing a limited amount of copies?

Probably one of them.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 10 January, 2014, 05:11:09 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 10 January, 2014, 08:16:35 AM
I'd like to offer my vote against Sauchie's hypothetical scheme, please.  'Events' are only interesting when they deviate from the normal course of things, and having regular cycles of stories grouped around a 'major' story takes away from the everyday craziness that should be the heart of the strip. 

That said, biannual collections under a title that suggests a cohesiveness of period is a great idea: I just don't personally want to see writers writing to that kind of brief (Day of Chaos follow-ons being an exception, since it's really the only game in town).

Eek! Not my scheme, just me trying to divine the will and the ways of the gods from spilt entrails, Cathbad style. I agree completely, but it seems like it would make financial sense to have a new collection hitting the shelves alongside vintage Case Files once or twice per year, rather than waiting for revenue from trade paperbacks of the EVENT! stories, which - by their nature - have to be rationed to retain their unique appeal.

The comments above from Johnny Depp's dad seem to indicate that's not the case, though.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: strontium71 on 10 January, 2014, 05:37:32 PM
New Hardback versions of the ABC Warriors chronicles...

Volume 1: http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-B-C-Warriors-Mek-Files-Mills/dp/1781082588/ref=pd_rhf_sc_s_cp_3_BJT7?ie=UTF8&refRID=032MKQ9HKCDT284TSE2G

Volume 2: http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-B-C-Warriors-Mek-Files-Mills/dp/1781082596/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 10 January, 2014, 05:54:41 PM
"This is the same size as the sell-out hardback Volgan War series!"

But over three times the thickness and yet only double the cost (and about the same as buying two colour softback volumes at somewhat discounted rates).

This could be a really good format for Rebellion to pursue. Now imagine if they reprinted Nikolai Dante like that! *drool*
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 10 January, 2014, 05:57:41 PM
Dante is the obvious candidate for this. Well. Obvious to me.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 10 January, 2014, 10:06:53 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 10 January, 2014, 05:54:41 PM
"This is the same size as the sell-out hardback Volgan War series!"

But over three times the thickness and yet only double the cost (and about the same as buying two colour softback volumes at somewhat discounted rates).

This could be a really good format for Rebellion to pursue. Now imagine if they reprinted Nikolai Dante like that! *drool*


Oh please don't tease me
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 10 January, 2014, 10:14:42 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 10 January, 2014, 05:54:41 PM
"This is the same size as the sell-out hardback Volgan War series!"

But over three times the thickness and yet only double the cost (and about the same as buying two colour softback volumes at somewhat discounted rates).

This could be a really good format for Rebellion to pursue. Now imagine if they reprinted Nikolai Dante like that! *drool*

I didn't buy the Volgan War hardbacks because they only reprinted one 'book' per trade, which is a ridiculous and expensive way to do it. I'd love to think that come Book 4 (or so) of this series, when it's time to reprint Volgan War again, they stick at least two books under each cover. Hell, you could stick the entirety of it under one cover and it'd only be slightly bigger than these buggers!

And yes, this would be a great format to pursue via other series!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 January, 2014, 01:52:28 AM
There's a fair few hardbacks lined up for 2014.  Perhaps Rebellion have found a more cost effective way of publishing in hard cover, or realised the appeal?  It certainly looks like something we'll see more of in the future. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 January, 2014, 08:23:39 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 10 January, 2014, 10:14:42 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 10 January, 2014, 05:54:41 PM
"This is the same size as the sell-out hardback Volgan War series!"

But over three times the thickness and yet only double the cost (and about the same as buying two colour softback volumes at somewhat discounted rates).

This could be a really good format for Rebellion to pursue. Now imagine if they reprinted Nikolai Dante like that! *drool*
My thoughts exactly.
I didn't buy the Volgan War hardbacks because they only reprinted one 'book' per trade, which is a ridiculous and expensive way to do it. I'd love to think that come Book 4 (or so) of this series, when it's time to reprint Volgan War again, they stick at least two books under each cover. Hell, you could stick the entirety of it under one cover and it'd only be slightly bigger than these buggers!

And yes, this would be a great format to pursue via other series!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 11 January, 2014, 12:46:23 PM
It's just a shame, given that a new printing of Ro-Busters is on the cards, that it isn't also a hardback - it'd go very nicely with these 'Mek-Files books', and presenting the Starlord stuff in colour would help perk it up no end.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 January, 2014, 01:05:14 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 11 January, 2014, 12:46:23 PM
It's just a shame, given that a new printing of Ro-Busters is on the cards, that it isn't also a hardback - it'd go very nicely with these 'Mek-Files books', and presenting the Starlord stuff in colour would help perk it up no end.

Why do you say such things.  Now I can think of nothing else.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 January, 2014, 02:00:52 PM
This thread is often my source of what I like to call The Anti-Silver Lining Effect. See. Yoincks followed Closely By Bah!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 11 January, 2014, 04:37:02 PM
Something like this would be great, assuming they stick to the 'two books per volume':

1 - Meknificent Seven & Black Hole
2 - Khronicles of Khaos & Hellbringer
3 - Third Element & Shadow Warriors I
4 - Shadow Warriors II & III
5 - Volgan War I &II
6 - Volgan War III & IV
7 - Return to Earth & Return to Mars

Plus of course a matching book of Ro-Busters and a couple for Nemesis.  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 11 January, 2014, 11:36:36 PM
As per Stevie's post  of 15/12/13:

Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 16 December, 2013, 02:54:56 AM
This fills Stevie with an infundibulum of delight. Fingers crossed that this means matching editions of Nemesis & early Slaine in the same format further down the line.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 22 January, 2014, 07:11:20 PM
Black Shuck (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01/22/leah-moore-john-reppion-steve-yeowell-bring-viking-tale-black-shuck-to-2000ad/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 24 January, 2014, 02:06:51 AM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 22 January, 2014, 07:11:20 PM
Black Shuck (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01/22/leah-moore-john-reppion-steve-yeowell-bring-viking-tale-black-shuck-to-2000ad/)

Am so looking forward to posting that to the Alan Moore Facebook group.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 24 January, 2014, 05:55:06 PM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 24 January, 2014, 02:06:51 AM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 22 January, 2014, 07:11:20 PM
Black Shuck (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01/22/leah-moore-john-reppion-steve-yeowell-bring-viking-tale-black-shuck-to-2000ad/)

Am so looking forward to posting that to the Alan Moore Facebook group.

Trouble maker. The art on that looks extraordinary, and should go some way to addressing the criticism of detail fiends who dislike Yeowell's use of negative space. When he really engages with the material he's illustrating there aren't many who can touch him.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 January, 2014, 08:32:23 PM
Hope to goodness somebody sensible is colouring this, although I really wish no-one was. Most preferably not Yeowell himself.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 24 January, 2014, 08:38:45 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 24 January, 2014, 08:32:23 PM
Hope to goodness somebody sensible is colouring this, although I really wish no-one was. Most preferably not Yeowell himself.

I've got Alan Craddock's number.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 24 January, 2014, 08:56:34 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 24 January, 2014, 08:38:45 PM
I've got Alan Craddock's number.

You're a funny guy... That's why I'm going to kill you last.

Cheers!

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 25 January, 2014, 07:10:28 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 24 January, 2014, 08:32:23 PM
...although I really wish no-one was...

Surely this. We have no indication that this (Black Shuck) will be in colour and with the Mighty Yeowell on art I really hope we get some black and white viking goodness.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 25 January, 2014, 08:27:30 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 25 January, 2014, 07:10:28 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 24 January, 2014, 08:32:23 PM
...although I really wish no-one was...

Surely this. We have no indication that this (Black Shuck) will be in colour and with the Mighty Yeowell on art I really hope we get some black and white viking goodness.

Alas, from the linked article: 
Quoteit's going to be in color throughout its nine-part series.

I'll send Tharg a fiver if it's Peter Doherty on the fingerpaints.  And a tenner if it's in B&W.

I don't think Steve's art takes colour well unless it is handled with extreme subtlety, and despite the fact that his own colouring is obviously a deliberate and considered style, I don't personally like it.  Yeowell is one of the most original and creative B&W artists of all, no need to cover him up.

Although that's not to say I'm not really looking forward to this.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 26 January, 2014, 11:32:44 AM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 24 January, 2014, 08:56:34 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 24 January, 2014, 08:38:45 PM
I've got Alan Craddock's number.

You're a funny guy... That's why I'm going to kill you last.

Cheers!

Jim


Remember when I said I'd kill you last... I lied
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 26 January, 2014, 12:15:14 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 25 January, 2014, 08:27:30 AM
I don't think Steve's art takes colour well unless it is handled with extreme subtlety, and despite the fact that his own colouring is obviously a deliberate and considered style, I don't personally like it.  Yeowell is one of the most original and creative B&W artists of all, no need to cover him up.

Precisely.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 28 January, 2014, 12:30:59 AM
Both hands way  up in the Van Allen Belt with you on that one. But even withnames like that attached, color [sic] is an easier  sell on the eventual trade in the septic market.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: judgerufian on 28 January, 2014, 10:31:56 AM
Im sure I will enjoy Steve Yeowell on crazy fantasy stuff again as his current run on DeMarco in the Meg isnt doing much for me. I have always found his drawings of Judges a bit stiff.

That said I am slightly worried that it will just seem like the further adventures of The Red Seas gang (which wasnt my favourite story) so looking forward to seeing my fears dashed against a very large negative space.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 30 January, 2014, 01:31:59 PM
Do we have any information about the 'Judge Dredd: The XXX Files' that's available for per-order on amazon?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2014, 02:07:46 PM

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CF23_zpsb409b81b.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2014, 02:08:16 PM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Fallout_zpsf49aca23.jpg)


(A few of these covers are slightly grainy because I blew them up.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2014, 02:08:35 PM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Fiefdom_zpsb314a68a.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2014, 02:09:01 PM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Mek_zpsd0d3c767.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2014, 02:09:50 PM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Psi4_zps1490a978.jpg)

(A few of these covers are slightly grainy because I blew them up.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2014, 02:10:08 PM

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/PvDvA_zps7a7a6dcf.jpg)

(Kaboom!)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2014, 02:10:27 PM


(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Return_zps4895f753.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2014, 02:10:46 PM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Rogue4_zpsaf2d09fc.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheldipez on 31 January, 2014, 03:13:38 PM
Nice that the PSI files are moving on but would be even nicer if they got a digital release though!! Don't know what the deal is there, they that unloved?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 January, 2014, 03:30:09 PM
Incubus and other stories? Not just vs. Predator then? But what could it be? Colour me curious....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 31 January, 2014, 04:26:41 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 31 January, 2014, 03:30:09 PM
Incubus and other stories? Not just vs. Predator then? But what could it be? Colour me curious....

Pretty sure the Dredd/Lobo crossover is one of them.  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 January, 2014, 04:33:23 PM
That was in the Batman/ Dredd reprint from last year. Still need to get that actually....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 31 January, 2014, 05:27:40 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 31 January, 2014, 04:33:23 PM
That was in the Batman/ Dredd reprint from last year. Still need to get that actually....

You're right, it was!  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Leigh S on 31 January, 2014, 05:42:35 PM
REturn to Armageddon wins my vote... lovely new Redondo cover... if only they could get him to redraw the one (?) episode he didnt do
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 31 January, 2014, 06:37:34 PM
Interesting credits on Mek Files 2. Gibbons, O'Neill, McMahon & Bisley, with Mills and Langley as writers... Surely those are the Vol 1 artists?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 31 January, 2014, 07:09:01 PM
Langley intro perhaps?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2014, 10:55:54 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 31 January, 2014, 03:30:09 PM
Incubus and other stories? Not just vs. Predator then? But what could it be? Colour me curious....

I assume Jock & Bolland are listed because of a covers gallery, but what's the red writing to the right of Jock's credit?  "And more"?  "And Zocko"?  "And 2000AD"?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 31 January, 2014, 11:41:06 PM
Day of Chaos: Fallout, any ideas what stories that will be included?

Being John Wagner, Alan Grant, Rob Williams, Trevor Hairsine and Ben Willsher as writers.

Alan for example, that mean the latest Anderson will be in it?

Rob should mean the Closet story is included, and Wagner the one with Judge Bender?

I'v haven't read much of it, but I'v heard about some of it. Dredd facing blame, judge clones and russian refugees. Anything more?
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 01 February, 2014, 12:24:48 AM
I'd say the Wagner stories Bender and Wastelands are a given, and looking at the credits probably Michael Carrol's Dolman arc and probably Rob Williams arc too - I'd guess the stories with that SJS judge. Not sure about Grant - my grasp of recent Dredd is a little patchy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mabs on 01 February, 2014, 01:10:36 AM
Quote from: Apestrife on 31 January, 2014, 11:41:06 PM
Day of Chaos: Fallout, any ideas what stories that will be included?

Being John Wagner, Alan Grant, Rob Williams, Trevor Hairsine and Ben Willsher as writers.

Alan for example, that mean the latest Anderson will be in it?

Rob should mean the Closet story is included, and Wagner the one with Judge Bender?

I'v haven't read much of it, but I'v heard about some of it. Dredd facing blame, judge clones and russian refugees. Anything more?

I'm really intrigued by this forthcoming title. Of course I probably would've read some, if not most of it in the Prog, but this'll definitely be high on my shopping list when it comes out.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 01 February, 2014, 06:13:20 AM
Hopefully the Grant story will be the Dredd/Anderson story from Meg 330.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 01 February, 2014, 07:06:04 AM
You do all realise these aren't necessarily the final covers?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 01 February, 2014, 11:13:35 AM
Quote from: radiator on 01 February, 2014, 12:24:48 AM
I'd say the Wagner stories Bender and Wastelands are a given, and looking at the credits probably Michael Carrol's Dolman arc and probably Rob Williams arc too - I'd guess the stories with that SJS judge. Not sure about Grant - my grasp of recent Dredd is a little patchy.

I'v read Bender and Wastelands, and also the clone story where they go looking for the Dredd clone gone missing. I remember Bender and the clone chase being really good, Wasteland felt a bit like a wasted opportunity due to the ending not being the best one.

Quote from: Mabs on 01 February, 2014, 01:10:36 AMI'm really intrigued by this forthcoming title. Of course I probably would've read some, if not most of it in the Prog, but this'll definitely be high on my shopping list when it comes out.

I hope they find a thread for the stories to lean on, similar to how Tour of duty worked in collected form. I also hope there's some stuff that could be tied into Dark Justice (That should start in the prog shortly after Fallout it released). The doubt angle could perhaps be a good one. One I think Grant's latest Anderson story seems to be nailing (also the first Anderson in years, for me, that's been an actual good read).

Also hope that "The man comes around" will be included. Would make a nice ending :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 February, 2014, 11:44:13 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 01 February, 2014, 07:06:04 AM
You do all realise these aren't necessarily the final covers?

Of the lot I posted yesterday, only Fallout and the Mek Files are marked as "Not Final Cover" in the Rebellion 2014 catalogue, so we can take Case Files 23, Anderson 4, Rogue 4, Return to Armageddon, and Aliens vs Dredd vs Predator as final.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 01 February, 2014, 12:19:52 PM
The Rogue 4 which clearly has the wrong Prog numbers on it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 February, 2014, 12:47:25 PM
Good spotting - though I thought you meant the images rather than the text.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 04 February, 2014, 01:41:40 PM
Quote from: radiator on 01 February, 2014, 12:24:48 AM
I'd say the Wagner stories Bender and Wastelands are a given, and looking at the credits probably Michael Carrol's Dolman arc and probably Rob Williams arc too - I'd guess the stories with that SJS judge. Not sure about Grant - my grasp of recent Dredd is a little patchy.

Debris (Progs 1792 to 1796)
Innocent (Progs 1798 to 1799)
Payback (Progs 1801 to 1802)
Sealed (Prog 1816)
The Pits (Meg 332)
Save Him (Prog 1819)
Wolves (Progs 1820 to 1822)
Cypher (Progs 1824 to 1825)
The Forsaken (Progs 1830 to 1835)
Skulls1 (Prog 1836)
Power Struggle (Meg 336)
Wastelands (Progs 1837 to 1841)
Bender (Progs 1845 to 1849)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 04 February, 2014, 01:46:38 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 February, 2014, 11:44:13 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 01 February, 2014, 07:06:04 AM
You do all realise these aren't necessarily the final covers?

Of the lot I posted yesterday, only Fallout and the Mek Files are marked as "Not Final Cover" in the Rebellion 2014 catalogue, so we can take Case Files 23, Anderson 4, Rogue 4, Return to Armageddon, and Aliens vs Dredd vs Predator as final.

"Not Final Cover" is in reference to the cover art only. We are aware that the info on some of these covers is incorrect - these placeholders are usually put together long before final content has been finalised.

Quick update - that Fallout cover is the final cover.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: BPP on 04 February, 2014, 01:53:44 PM
Sad to see Wagner's Dredd mixed in with not-Wagner Dredd. Am not given to criticising on here but post-Trifecta there was a lot of stuff that simply hasn't been my cup of tea. Rob Williams being the honourable exception.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: smiffy on 04 February, 2014, 01:58:58 PM
Quote from: Leigh S on 31 January, 2014, 05:42:35 PM
REturn to Armageddon wins my vote... lovely new Redondo cover... if only they could get him to redraw the one (?) episode he didnt do

What Leigh S said! Lovely cover. Looking forward to buying this.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mike Carroll on 04 February, 2014, 05:58:59 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 04 February, 2014, 01:41:40 PM
Debris (Progs 1792 to 1796)
Innocent (Progs 1798 to 1799)
Payback (Progs 1801 to 1802)
Sealed (Prog 1816)
The Pits (Meg 332)
Save Him (Prog 1819)
Wolves (Progs 1820 to 1822)
Cypher (Progs 1824 to 1825)
The Forsaken (Progs 1830 to 1835)
Skulls1 (Prog 1836)
Power Struggle (Meg 336)
Wastelands (Progs 1837 to 1841)
Bender (Progs 1845 to 1849)

Woohoo! By my calculations, that's 212 pages, of which 114 were written by me!

--Mike
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 04 February, 2014, 07:02:17 PM
Do you get 'royalties' per page Mike?  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Art on 04 February, 2014, 09:20:28 PM
Seriously, you deserve it - DoC has really brought out some great work from you.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 February, 2014, 09:22:23 PM
Funny thing is,mI remember liking some of those but can't remember everything about them. Sealed, Save Him and Power Struggle namely (though I think the last one was a follow on from Trifecta...). Will make a smashing companion to the other two DoC trades.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 05 February, 2014, 07:21:29 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 04 February, 2014, 01:41:40 PM

Debris (Progs 1792 to 1796)
Innocent (Progs 1798 to 1799)
Payback (Progs 1801 to 1802)
Sealed (Prog 1816)
The Pits (Meg 332)
Save Him (Prog 1819)
Wolves (Progs 1820 to 1822)
Cypher (Progs 1824 to 1825)
The Forsaken (Progs 1830 to 1835)
Skulls1 (Prog 1836)
Power Struggle (Meg 336)
Wastelands (Progs 1837 to 1841)
Bender (Progs 1845 to 1849)

Looks good, thanks! And a congrats to Mike regarding the page count of his ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 February, 2014, 08:03:50 AM
Interesting collection, and well done Mr. C in particular for owning the aftermath. 

The omissions are interesting too.  There's the Christmas stories, Weston's Dan-E Cannon and Grant & Roach's psi-witch tale, which really don't fit the tone, Mike's Heavy Ordnance (which is only very loosely a post-DoC tale so fair enough),  Rob's Asleep (which certainly fits the Sov agent theme, but again is fairly loosely connected) and Scavengers (which is a post-Trifecta story), it all makes good sense.

Then the puzzling absence: Gordon and Emma's Suicide Watch, which to my mind is the most effective of the aftermath stories. 

I wonder does that hint at an eye on a future Hamida collection? 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JSouth5942 on 11 February, 2014, 11:16:42 AM
What ever happended to The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in His Wake) GN?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 11 February, 2014, 11:35:56 AM
Quote from: JSouth5942 on 11 February, 2014, 11:16:42 AM
What ever happended to The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in His Wake) GN?

We are waiting for the next series to run before collecting it up.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JSouth5942 on 11 February, 2014, 11:46:49 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 11 February, 2014, 11:35:56 AM
Quote from: JSouth5942 on 11 February, 2014, 11:16:42 AM
What ever happended to The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in His Wake) GN?

We are waiting for the next series to run before collecting it up.

Great, thanks for letting us know.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 13 February, 2014, 06:31:21 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 04 February, 2014, 05:58:59 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 04 February, 2014, 01:41:40 PM
Debris (Progs 1792 to 1796)
Innocent (Progs 1798 to 1799)
Payback (Progs 1801 to 1802)
Sealed (Prog 1816)
The Pits (Meg 332)
Save Him (Prog 1819)
Wolves (Progs 1820 to 1822)
Cypher (Progs 1824 to 1825)
The Forsaken (Progs 1830 to 1835)
Skulls1 (Prog 1836)
Power Struggle (Meg 336)
Wastelands (Progs 1837 to 1841)
Bender (Progs 1845 to 1849)

Woohoo! By my calculations, that's 212 pages, of which 114 were written by me!

--Mike


Internet Hi-Five man keep em coming can't wait to see more developments
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 February, 2014, 10:55:03 PM
Any plans for a re-release of Insurrection containing the final series?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: judda fett on 13 February, 2014, 10:59:48 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 13 February, 2014, 10:55:03 PM
Any plans for a re-release of Insurrection containing the final series?

It's not the same Luther as seen on tv  ;) Hope the third series gets its own volume though having already bought the collected volumes 1 & 2.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: BPP on 14 February, 2014, 12:00:44 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 11 February, 2014, 11:35:56 AM
Quote from: JSouth5942 on 11 February, 2014, 11:16:42 AM
What ever happended to The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in His Wake) GN?

We are waiting for the next series to run before collecting it up.

Ooooh.. who is on art? DR?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 14 February, 2014, 08:04:35 PM
..or Quinch?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dan Banks on 17 February, 2014, 06:52:12 AM
So, any ideas about what's going to appear in the next jumping on prog? Stickleback? SinDex? A new series of 3rillers?!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 17 February, 2014, 08:15:40 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 13 February, 2014, 10:55:03 PM
Any plans for a re-release of Insurrection containing the final series?

No re-release planned. The third series is long enough to be collected up on its own.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 17 February, 2014, 08:32:41 AM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 17 February, 2014, 06:52:12 AM
So, any ideas about what's going to appear in the next jumping on prog? Stickleback? SinDex? A new series of 3rillers?!

Well my guess is (and it is of course just that) we'll get a short Sinister Dexter before the jumping on point - we have 4 progs to go right? When Strontium Dog finishes next week we'll have time for a 3riller as well?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 17 February, 2014, 12:58:44 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 17 February, 2014, 08:32:41 AM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 17 February, 2014, 06:52:12 AM
So, any ideas about what's going to appear in the next jumping on prog? Stickleback? SinDex? A new series of 3rillers?!

Well my guess is (and it is of course just that) we'll get a short Sinister Dexter before the jumping on point - we have 4 progs to go right? When Strontium Dog finishes next week we'll have time for a 3riller as well?

Do we know what number the next jumping on prog will be? I'm thinking of giving a digital subscription a go but I'm waiting for the next jumping on point so it's like starting from scratch.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dan Banks on 17 February, 2014, 01:49:00 PM
Quote from: Dodsy on 17 February, 2014, 12:58:44 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 17 February, 2014, 08:32:41 AM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 17 February, 2014, 06:52:12 AM
So, any ideas about what's going to appear in the next jumping on prog? Stickleback? SinDex? A new series of 3rillers?!

Well my guess is (and it is of course just that) we'll get a short Sinister Dexter before the jumping on point - we have 4 progs to go right? When Strontium Dog finishes next week we'll have time for a 3riller as well?

Do we know what number the next jumping on prog will be? I'm thinking of giving a digital subscription a go but I'm waiting for the next jumping on point so it's like starting from scratch.

Yeah, I haven't got the latest prog to hand but Tharg mentions it in his opening waffle. As Colin says it's 3/4 progs away so 72/73 maybe.

@Colin, sensible suggestions there. I've been a big fan of both SinDex and the 3rillers since I started reading so will be happy to see both. And even more so because it means a bit more variety in story length (even more so again if Grey Area continues through). It really does help the prog balance out a bit, rather than having four, eleven-episode stories going on at the same time. I wonder if Tharg took notice of that forum discussion from late last year on this very topic?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 February, 2014, 02:19:50 PM
Quote from: Dodsy on 17 February, 2014, 12:58:44 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 17 February, 2014, 08:32:41 AM
Quote from: Dan Banks on 17 February, 2014, 06:52:12 AM
So, any ideas about what's going to appear in the next jumping on prog? Stickleback? SinDex? A new series of 3rillers?!

Well my guess is (and it is of course just that) we'll get a short Sinister Dexter before the jumping on point - we have 4 progs to go right? When Strontium Dog finishes next week we'll have time for a 3riller as well?

Do we know what number the next jumping on prog will be? I'm thinking of giving a digital subscription a go but I'm waiting for the next jumping on point so it's like starting from scratch.

1874 for the jump-on according to Tharg. No idea what's going to be in it, or what'll fill the prog until then.

Hope the new series of Stickleback is coming in 1874.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 17 February, 2014, 02:27:26 PM
As always, the answers are all in this very thread if you're prepared to look back a few pages...

Quote from: Grant Goggans on 18 December, 2013, 10:16:00 PM
Prog 1873 sees a brand-new line-up commence - a whistleblower goes on the run in Judge Dredd: Mega-City Confidential by John Wagner and Colin MacNeil; Celtic barbarian Slaine sets out to honour the Earth Goddess in 'A Simple Killing' by Pat Mills and Simon Davis; something murderous is on the path to vengeance in sci-fi thriller Outlier by T.C. Eglington and Karl Richardson; hitmen Sinister Dexter go offroad in the backwoods of Generica in 'Gun Shy' by Dan Abnett and Smudge; and meet Atalia Jaegir of the Nordland State Security Police, trawling the underbelly of Nort society for war criminals and genetic outcasts, in Jaegir by Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby! (NOTE: Pack contains #1871-1874.)

Wagner's back on Dredd! Woot!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 8-Ball on 17 February, 2014, 02:46:26 PM
Wagner's back on Dredd! Woot!


Colin MacNeil is back on Dredd! Woot! Woot!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 17 February, 2014, 02:46:56 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 February, 2014, 02:27:26 PM
As always, the answers are all in this very thread if you're prepared to look back a few pages...

Quote from: Grant Goggans on 18 December, 2013, 10:16:00 PM
Prog 1873 sees a brand-new line-up commence - a whistleblower goes on the run in Judge Dredd: Mega-City Confidential by John Wagner and Colin MacNeil; Celtic barbarian Slaine sets out to honour the Earth Goddess in 'A Simple Killing' by Pat Mills and Simon Davis; something murderous is on the path to vengeance in sci-fi thriller Outlier by T.C. Eglington and Karl Richardson; hitmen Sinister Dexter go offroad in the backwoods of Generica in 'Gun Shy' by Dan Abnett and Smudge; and meet Atalia Jaegir of the Nordland State Security Police, trawling the underbelly of Nort society for war criminals and genetic outcasts, in Jaegir by Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby! (NOTE: Pack contains #1871-1874.)

Wagner's back on Dredd! Woot!

That's a killer lineup!!  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 17 February, 2014, 03:45:16 PM
Two new thrills, now that can't be a bad thing - well it can of course, they might be rubbish BUT its the type of thing we should encouraging!

With Sinister Dexter and Wagner Dredd we have very exciting back-ups (might make a mockery of my prediction we'll get some S&D in the build up though?) and the all important question.

With Simon Davis on art on Slaine will Pat Mills finally bring the character back to his best (I'm not enjoyed his tales for quite some time now)...

All in all a very intriguing line-up and can't wait to see how it turns out.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 February, 2014, 03:52:34 PM
Agree that new thrills are a good thing but only Outlier is 100% original with Jaegir being a Rogue Trooper spin.

Hope it's better that The 86ers which I found to be sorely lacking in Thrill Power.

High hopes for the new Slaine and Wagner/MacNeill on Dredd!
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 19 February, 2014, 08:33:33 AM
Cannot bloody wait for Mega City Confidential, been a real dearth of Wagner Dredd since Day of Chaos ended, just Wastelands, Bender and a Meg one-off in the last 18 months iirc.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 19 February, 2014, 05:09:18 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 February, 2014, 02:27:26 PM
As always, the answers are all in this very thread if you're prepared to look back a few pages...

Quote from: Grant Goggans on 18 December, 2013, 10:16:00 PM
Prog 1873 sees a brand-new line-up commence - a whistleblower goes on the run in Judge Dredd: Mega-City Confidential by John Wagner and Colin MacNeil; Celtic barbarian Slaine sets out to honour the Earth Goddess in 'A Simple Killing' by Pat Mills and Simon Davis; something murderous is on the path to vengeance in sci-fi thriller Outlier by T.C. Eglington and Karl Richardson; hitmen Sinister Dexter go offroad in the backwoods of Generica in 'Gun Shy' by Dan Abnett and Smudge; and meet Atalia Jaegir of the Nordland State Security Police, trawling the underbelly of Nort society for war criminals and genetic outcasts, in Jaegir by Gordon Rennie and Simon Coleby! (NOTE: Pack contains #1871-1874.)

Wagner's back on Dredd! Woot!

Woot, indeed.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 20 February, 2014, 10:32:12 PM
Leonard O'Grady mentioned he is colouring a 2000AD series Simon Coleby is illustrating, anyone know what this is?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 February, 2014, 11:18:56 PM
Jaeger?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 20 February, 2014, 11:33:42 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 20 February, 2014, 11:18:56 PM
Jaeger?

How likely is it that the first Prog cover featuring Jaegir will feature an explosion with the tag-line 'Jaegir Bomb'?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: jackstarr on 21 February, 2014, 02:16:01 PM
QuoteHow likely is it that the first Prog cover featuring Jaegir will feature an explosion with the tag-line 'Jaegir Bomb'?

"Moves like Jaegir"?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 23 February, 2014, 07:23:09 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 20 February, 2014, 11:18:56 PM
Jaeger?

Oh yeah I forgot about that, for some reason I kept thinking it was in black & white like classic Rogue Trooper.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 25 February, 2014, 07:52:32 PM
Now this looks more like it!

Leah Moore and John Reppion interview about Black Shuck over at CBR. Looks and sounds great fun. And oh that Mighty Yeowell, that oh so Mighty Yeowell.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=50946 (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=50946)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 26 February, 2014, 01:12:07 AM
That looks... glorious.

Can't wait.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 February, 2014, 12:01:53 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 20 February, 2014, 11:18:56 PM
Jaeger?

A Nort policeman: Picture and brief description here. (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/12/gordon-rennie-reveals-plans-for-2014-bringing-back-two-classics/)

He looks a bit like the Traitor General.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 26 February, 2014, 01:03:20 PM
I forgot about hat Robert Burns, Witch Hunter! Damn that looks good! White Trash too!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 27 February, 2014, 07:16:49 AM
Having bought the first issue back in the Orosirian period, Orson Welles – Special Agent! is the one that Stevie's on tenterhooks for.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mabs on 27 February, 2014, 09:29:03 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 25 February, 2014, 07:52:32 PM
Now this looks more like it!

Leah Moore and John Reppion interview about Black Shuck over at CBR. Looks and sounds great fun. And oh that Mighty Yeowell, that oh so Mighty Yeowell.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=50946 (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=50946)

Lovely stuff. Are you on Twitter, Colin? Leah & John both are, and they have updates on the progress of Black Shuck, lovely couple too by the way.

And yes, Steve Yeowell is indeed mighty. I love his work (although I've probably mentioned that many times already on the forum!).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 27 February, 2014, 01:06:54 PM
Quote from: Mabs on 27 February, 2014, 09:29:03 AM
And yes, Steve Yeowell is indeed mighty. I love his work (although I've probably mentioned that many times already on the forum!).

You can never say how great The Mighty Yeowell is too many times.

Alas I only Tweet when experimenting with it for work and checking if Mudman will ever return!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Cactus on 27 February, 2014, 02:04:45 PM
So Black Shuck is nothing to do with the wild dog of Norfolk legend? That's disappointing but I'm sure it'll be great anyway.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 March, 2014, 02:01:22 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 November, 2013, 01:39:31 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 21 September, 2013, 02:25:57 AM
Another flash from Dash:

Judge Dredd: The Complete Cam Kennedy Volume 2 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Cam-Kennedy/dp/1613778686/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379726308&sr=1-1&keywords=Judge+Dredd%3A+The+Complete+Cam+Kennedy+Volume+2+%5BHardcover%5D)
328 pages, IDW Publishing, 18th February 2014, Hardcover

More classic Judge Dredd tales from master illustrator Cam Kennedy! Reprinted in classic b/w and featuring a wealth of complete stories, this collection features 'progs' such as "No Man's Land," "Big Deal at Drekk City," "Beyond Our Kenny," and more.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Cam2_zpsee0a8a58.jpg)

Thanks to the wonders of the Amazon "Look Inside" feature, I can see the contents are listed as:

Cardboard City
Beyond Our Kenny
Who's Wally?
The Contract
Alien Town's Burning
Old Pals' Act
No Man's Land
*SABs
*Bodies of Evidence
*Alien Wedding
*The Bazooka
*The Student Prince
*It's Deja Vu All Over Again
*Block Court
The Trial of Orlok
*Big Deal at Drekk City
*Who? Dares Wins
*Blackout
Direct Action

* = stories included in "The Art of Kenny Who?".... so it's not just the cover that's almost identical.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 March, 2014, 03:38:53 PM
Ooops, post deleted cos I'm an eejit.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 01 March, 2014, 10:30:52 PM
Coming in May:

More electrifying thrills from the UK's Eisner-nominated anthology! Judge Dredd must stop the planned carnage in 'Shooters Night' by John Wagner and John McCrae; Celtic barbarian Slaine battles giants on the island of Monadh in 'A Simple Killing' by Pat Mills and Simon Davis; the net closes in on Caul in sci-fi revenge thriller 'Outlier' by T.C. Eglington and Karl Richardson; transdimensional troubleshooting organization Indigo Prime returns in 'Perfect Day' by John Smith and Lee Carter; and there's terror on the tundra in 'Colony' by Kek-W and Vince Locke! (NOTE: Pack contains #1880-1883.)
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 02 March, 2014, 12:11:53 AM
More Wagner Dredd is always a good thing.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 02 March, 2014, 06:47:14 AM
Quote from: radiator on 02 March, 2014, 12:11:53 AM
More Wagner Dredd is always a good thing.

And equal import Indigo Prime is back. Wayhey more of any John Smith strip is a good thing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 02 March, 2014, 07:32:59 AM
Wagner, Smith, Eglington, and Kek-W almost make up for the blackhole that is Slaine.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 March, 2014, 01:35:36 PM
Whatever happened to the second Major Eazy collection? Colin? :|
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 02 March, 2014, 02:15:21 PM
 Never happened. Given that we've seen Rat Pack show up at The Works got to think some of the collections didn't sell too well and we'll not see much more. With any luck the stuff under the Ennis banner will do better and we'll get more stuff that wAy?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 02 March, 2014, 02:29:26 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 02 March, 2014, 02:15:21 PM
Never happened. Given that we've seen Rat Pack show up at The Works got to think some of the collections didn't sell too well and we'll not see much more. With any luck the stuff under the Ennis banner will do better and we'll get more stuff that wAy?

Given that Garth says in his introduction to 'HMS Nightshade' that the only way the recent (excellent) collection got published at all was by using his name on the front, I expect you are sadly right about low sales on these books. It's a shame - like Lew Stringer said on his blog when discussing Hibernia's new Tower King book, the history of UK comics (with certain exceptions) is not well represented in modern trade form.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 March, 2014, 03:06:50 PM
Well that sucks. Major Eazy was my favourite Battle reprint. That being said I had, until the i'll fated Rat Pack, only bought Cross of Iron and Darkies Mob. Not got round to buying Johnny Red or Charleys War.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 02 March, 2014, 04:32:27 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 March, 2014, 03:06:50 PM
Not got round to buying Johnny Red or Charleys War.

I know you have a long list of stuff to get and I'll probably say the same about the interest you've shown in Cinebook publications (if you want recommendations there just ask but if you can get to an event they are at its well worth waiting as they have great offers at events), but you should defo get around to both of those they are both brilliant. Charley's in particular.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 02 March, 2014, 11:51:08 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 02 March, 2014, 07:32:59 AM
Wagner, Smith, Eglington, and Kek-W almost make up for the blackhole that is Slaine.

Some great artists in that mix too.
I'm eagerly anticipating Simon Davis' take on Slaine, am quite a fan of Vince Locke and think John McCrea is currently producing some of the best stuff of his career.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 03 March, 2014, 01:08:45 AM
I totally glossed over Davis on Slaine.

Okay Slaine, you've got one shot. Don't screw this up.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 03 March, 2014, 09:32:28 AM
indigo  prime wooooooooooohooooooo
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bongo_clive on 03 March, 2014, 03:32:03 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 02 March, 2014, 04:32:27 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 March, 2014, 03:06:50 PM
Not got round to buying Johnny Red or Charleys War.

I know you have a long list of stuff to get and I'll probably say the same about the interest you've shown in Cinebook publications (if you want recommendations there just ask but if you can get to an event they are at its well worth waiting as they have great offers at events), but you should defo get around to both of those they are both brilliant. Charley's in particular.

I second this. And thrice it. Charley's War must be one of the finest examples in the comic book field. Brilliant in every way.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 05 March, 2014, 01:32:15 PM
Is Slaine in the next prog?


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 05 March, 2014, 01:35:20 PM
I assume 1874 jump on prog will be when it starts
http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/2000_ad_prog_1874
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 March, 2014, 09:05:05 PM
Well, now we know why the Kingdom hardback is such a high price - it's signed.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 06 March, 2014, 12:47:32 AM
I pre-ordered mine.....:)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 07 March, 2014, 03:58:24 AM

Quote from:

Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 02 March, 2014, 02:15:21 PM
Given that Garth says in his introduction to 'HMS Nightshade' that the only way the recent (excellent) collection got published at all was by using his name on the front, I expect you are sadly right about low sales on these books. ]


Sales of which may have been  higher is Diamond US had actually filled their all of their pre-orders.

Just putting that out there.

Quote from: Grant Goggans on 01 March, 2014, 10:30:52 PM
and there's terror on the tundra in 'Colony' by Kek-W and Vince Locke! (NOTE: Pack contains #1880-1883.)

Stevie's calling that as a Colony Earth reboot. Can't wait.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 07 March, 2014, 12:38:48 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 05 March, 2014, 01:35:20 PM
I assume 1874 jump on prog will be when it starts
http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/2000_ad_prog_1874

Is the price of the prog going up again? The jumping on prog is selling for £2.45 in the store.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 07 March, 2014, 01:05:20 PM
that looks like the cost on the cover too zooming in. Is that more than usual? I never look at the price.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 07 March, 2014, 01:10:43 PM
It's been £2.35 for a while. Given the amount of original content in the Prog, the price still seems pretty reasonable to me though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 March, 2014, 01:17:41 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 07 March, 2014, 01:10:43 PM
It's been £2.35 for a while. Given the amount of original content in the Prog, the price still seems pretty reasonable to me though.

Considering page count, production standards and talent, it is (and always has been) the best value comic available IMHO.
A small price increase every few years doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 07 March, 2014, 09:57:01 PM
How's that comparable to US comics over there?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 07 March, 2014, 10:27:22 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 07 March, 2014, 09:57:01 PM
How's that comparable to US comics over there?

IDW's Rogue Trooper will set you back three pounds and thirty pence: http://www.forbidden-planet.co.uk/ (http://www.forbidden-planet.co.uk/)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 08 March, 2014, 02:36:45 AM
That's actually a pretty good conversion since Rogue will set you back Four American Funbux over here.

Edit. Or not. Apparently that's like $5.50 here. Yikes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 08 March, 2014, 06:29:52 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 08 March, 2014, 02:36:45 AM
That's actually a pretty good conversion since Rogue will set you back Four American Funbux over here. Edit. Or not. Apparently that's like $5.50 here. Yikes.

Expressed in the base unit of international consumerism, 2000ad is now about the same price as a happy meal from McDonalds (http://www.burgerlad.com/2013/01/mcdonalds-menu-items-and-prices-in-uk.html).

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 March, 2014, 06:59:58 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 07 March, 2014, 10:27:22 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 07 March, 2014, 09:57:01 PM
How's that comparable to US comics over there?

IDW's Rogue Trooper will set you back three pounds and thirty pence: http://www.forbidden-planet.co.uk/ (http://www.forbidden-planet.co.uk/)

Well that is Forbidden Planet for you. At my LCS a $2.99 book is either £2.20 and a $3.99 book $2.80. Which ever way you look at it Tharg is as ever generous to us all. Extra story pages, over-sized and, well, ya know just plain better than most everything else so. Yeah he's good to us.

Edited cos I forgot to say: Even when he does put prices up he does so in small increments - this time resisting the temptation to even go to say £2.50. In the US market for whatever reason it was decided that after $2.99 the next 'price point' (oh how I hate that phrase) was $3.99 - what like $3.25, or $3.50 whatever could never have existed... well okay there is the odd $3.50 book but the point carries I hope.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 08 March, 2014, 04:13:16 PM
How much is Rogue Trooper #1 in the USA? I thought it was $3.99, in which case FP's pricing is OTT, but not quite as bad as if the original was $2.99. ($3.99 = £2.39 under current exchange rates; £3.30 is $5.52. Note that there are no taxes in the UK on print comics, although there will be on digital.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 March, 2014, 01:13:48 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 08 March, 2014, 06:59:58 AM
Edited cos I forgot to say: Even when he does put prices up he does so in small increments - this time resisting the temptation to even go to say £2.50. In the US market for whatever reason it was decided that after $2.99 the next 'price point' (oh how I hate that phrase) was $3.99 - what like $3.25, or $3.50 whatever could never have existed... well okay there is the odd $3.50 book but the point carries I hope.

Good point Colin.
Tharg the non-corporate greed-monger.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 10 March, 2014, 01:25:28 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 08 March, 2014, 04:13:16 PM
How much is Rogue Trooper #1 in the USA? I thought it was $3.99, in which case FP's pricing is OTT, but not quite as bad as if the original was $2.99. ($3.99 = £2.39 under current exchange rates; £3.30 is $5.52. Note that there are no taxes in the UK on print comics, although there will be on digital.)

I had never really thought much about the exchange rate in FP but that is really a bit shocking.  Might not sound a lot but I bet it really makes a difference when you are getting a few comics each visit. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 March, 2014, 01:39:14 PM
Don't want to FP bash, but I stopped shopping there over a year ago. Their prices are criminal.
The exchange rate and arbitrary price differences in the Dublin branch were absolutely outrageous.

I now get my comics from three sources;

Big Bang Comics- best comic shop in the Republic (Dollar to Euro parity, and a mere €2.65 for the Prog, which is almost a Euro cheaper than everywhere else).
Comixology- still the best digital comics platform, month after print price decreases & bargain sales keep me as a regular customer.
Midtown Comics- great for exclusives / signed comics, or generally for sourcing a comic I may have missed the first time around. Shipping is pricey, but works out fine if you buy 6-7 comics.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: MercZ on 11 March, 2014, 08:41:01 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 08 March, 2014, 04:13:16 PM
How much is Rogue Trooper #1 in the USA? I thought it was $3.99, in which case FP's pricing is OTT, but not quite as bad as if the original was $2.99. ($3.99 = £2.39 under current exchange rates; £3.30 is $5.52. Note that there are no taxes in the UK on print comics, although there will be on digital.)

I haven't bought the IDW Rogue Trooper but it is indeed $3.99. IDW also has their Judge Dredd as well as Year One and the Mars Attacks crossover for the same price. That is before taxes of course, so usually when I buy a $3.99 comic at the city sales tax here I'm putting out $4.32 if I buy those.

I've seen some publishers price them at lower numbers, I read another series from Image called East of West which retails at $3.50 before taxes so $3.79 on that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 12 March, 2014, 05:56:36 PM
Interesting item from IDW next week; http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/dp.asp?PRID=1320437

I've previously purchased Locke & Key Treasury Editions, and they're a thing of beauty.
Cant think of an artist who'd suit this format more than Mick McMahaon.

Some classic Dredd stories in there, and a decent price. I'll give this a shot.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 12 March, 2014, 07:00:36 PM
So is that a book or a big comic? As for Locke & Key, I really REALLY wish IDW would release the paperback earlier. I've read everything bar the last book and own them all in paperback. But — ARGH — hardback-only again, presumably for a year (unless you're German of French).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 12 March, 2014, 07:34:09 PM
According to FP, comic binding - 72 pages.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 13 March, 2014, 06:57:26 AM
Yep, deffo big comic chock full of oversized glory.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 13 March, 2014, 09:26:02 PM
Does anyone know the contents for 'Judge Dredd: The XXX Files', which I think is due to be released in June? Is it perhaps an American release like the recent Fatties and Mutant books?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ming on 14 March, 2014, 12:08:13 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 12 March, 2014, 05:56:36 PM
Interesting item from IDW next week; http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/dp.asp?PRID=1320437

I've previously purchased Locke & Key Treasury Editions, and they're a thing of beauty.
Cant think of an artist who'd suit this format more than Mick McMahaon.

Some classic Dredd stories in there, and a decent price. I'll give this a shot.

Although it's not just McMahon in there; the FPI description indicates "Written by John Wagner and others, with art by Kevin O'Neill, Mike McMahon, Cliff Robinson, Ron Smith and Ian Gibson, with cover artwork by Cliff Robinson."

IDW, comic binding, 72 pages, published March 2014

http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/judge-dredd-big-drokkin-treasury-edition
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 14 March, 2014, 12:18:11 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 12 March, 2014, 05:56:36 PM
Interesting item from IDW next week; http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/dp.asp?PRID=1320437

I've previously purchased Locke & Key Treasury Editions, and they're a thing of beauty.
Cant think of an artist who'd suit this format more than Mick McMahaon.

Some classic Dredd stories in there, and a decent price. I'll give this a shot.

Somehow conspired to miss this. Anyway hats off to IDW for trying a Treasury Edition to get around the page size issues. I really hope this works for them!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 14 March, 2014, 01:38:44 PM
Quote from: ming on 14 March, 2014, 12:08:13 PM

Although it's not just McMahon in there; the FPI description indicates "Written by John Wagner and others, with art by Kevin O'Neill, Mike McMahon, Cliff Robinson, Ron Smith and Ian Gibson, with cover artwork by Cliff Robinson."


All the better.
Quite a few classics will fit in those 72 pages.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 14 March, 2014, 02:24:48 PM
Does anyone remember the Robocop Vs The Terminator mini-series that came out in the mid 90s?  It was only a 4-parter and each comic included a cardboard stand-up of Robocop, Terminator, ED-209.  90s me was all over this but it had never been reprinted........until now.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/1602/dark-horse-release-new-editions-frank-miller-walte (http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/1602/dark-horse-release-new-editions-frank-miller-walte)

Now, I know some may not exactly see this as a classic - it's pretty basic with a lot of the characters and perhaps does get a little carried away towards the end but as I recall it worked pretty well.  Of all the Robocop/Terminator comics I have read, this is one of the best.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 14 March, 2014, 06:08:49 PM
Quote from: Recrewt on 14 March, 2014, 02:24:48 PM
Does anyone remember the Robocop Vs The Terminator mini-series that came out in the mid 90s?  It was only a 4-parter and each comic included a cardboard stand-up of Robocop, Terminator, ED-209.  90s me was all over this but it had never been reprinted........until now.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/1602/dark-horse-release-new-editions-frank-miller-walte (http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/1602/dark-horse-release-new-editions-frank-miller-walte)

Now, I know some may not exactly see this as a classic - it's pretty basic with a lot of the characters and perhaps does get a little carried away towards the end but as I recall it worked pretty well.  Of all the Robocop/Terminator comics I have read, this is one of the best.


Yes, its a pretty darn good comic. I've often re-read this, and this post has reminded me that its due another airing.
Following that link, its not totally clear (or maybe im missing the obvious), but is that reprint an artists edition? ie; All original art?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 14 March, 2014, 06:15:52 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 02 March, 2014, 02:15:21 PM
Given that we've seen Rat Pack show up at The Works got to think some of the collections didn't sell too well and we'll not see much more.

£3.99! But yes, saw this today in my local branch. Had a good few of them in stock (at least ten copies).

Note to self; Pop in The Works more often.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 15 March, 2014, 06:22:26 AM
Quote from: Spikes on 14 March, 2014, 06:15:52 PM
£3.99! But yes, saw this today in my local branch. Had a good few of them in stock (at least ten copies).


Ooh hello. So that's where Stevie's pre-order through Diamond has gotten to.


It looks like Zenith Phase I, Phase II & Brass Sun hardcovers will be receiving simultaneous S&S editions (http://search.simonandschuster.com/books/_/N-/Ntt-2000AD?Nao=0).

No such luck for The Mek Files, but there this US only trade Durham Red: The Bitch (http://books.simonandschuster.com/Durham-Red-The-Bitch/John-Wagner/9781781082515) due September.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 March, 2014, 02:09:16 PM
The Thrills keep a-comin; http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/front-page-comic-news/80518-rebellion-diamond-retailer-day-return-robo-hunter-rogue-trooper-new-zenith-art-more-dredd-movie-sequel-comics-paul-grists-demon-nic.html

Nice to see so much Wagner.

And Mike Carroll can now finally spill the (cool) beans about those Nick Percival pages he views on his iPad every night before going to sleep.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 15 March, 2014, 02:44:38 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 15 March, 2014, 02:09:16 PM
The Thrills keep a-comin; http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/front-page-comic-news/80518-rebellion-diamond-retailer-day-return-robo-hunter-rogue-trooper-new-zenith-art-more-dredd-movie-sequel-comics-paul-grists-demon-nic.html

I can only really think of one problem with the idea of new stories featuring Orlok. Wagner/McNeil/Flint on Dredd demonstrates that editorial know who their A-team are; I suppose using all-new talent to resurrect eighties strips might alleviate the saudade; and the return of the themed Summer Special complements the year-end prog's revival of the old annual format (and price point?). Cheers, Link.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mike Carroll on 15 March, 2014, 02:52:09 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 15 March, 2014, 02:09:16 PM
And Mike Carroll can now finally spill the (cool) beans about those Nick Percival pages he views on his iPad every night before going to sleep.

iPad? Pfff! I don't think so!

Thanks for the link! It's odd, though, how many people seem to be unable to spell my name... Surely neither "Michael" nor "Carroll" are that unusual?

(http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMG_1408.jpg)

For the record: "Michael" has the A before the E (it's AlphabEtical, you see!), and there are two Ls (and two Rs) in "Carroll"

-- Mike
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 March, 2014, 03:06:48 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 13 March, 2014, 09:26:02 PM
Does anyone know the contents for 'Judge Dredd: The XXX Files', which I think is due to be released in June? Is it perhaps an American release like the recent Fatties and Mutant books?

The Simon & Schuster website says:
"Judge Dredd is famous for showing no emotion and upholding justice, but what happens when the citizens of Mega-City One want to cut loose, let their hair down and really lay down the law? In this brand new collection launching first in the US and Canada, Dredd discovers that the sin-seekers of the Big Meg are more inventive, funny and down sexier than he could have imagined."

Presumably that "down sexier" should read "downright sexier".
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 March, 2014, 03:11:21 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 15 March, 2014, 02:09:16 PM
The Thrills keep a-comin; http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/front-page-comic-news/80518-rebellion-diamond-retailer-day-return-robo-hunter-rogue-trooper-new-zenith-art-more-dredd-movie-sequel-comics-paul-grists-demon-nic.html

Interesting, Bleeding Cool says "Oh yes, and new Zenith art by Steve Yeowell for the first paperback collection", confirming we're not just getting individual Zenith Phase hardbacks from Rebellion but paperbacks as well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mardroid on 15 March, 2014, 04:50:34 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 15 March, 2014, 02:52:09 PMFor the record: "Michael" has the A before the E (it's AlphabEtical, you see!), and there are two Ls (and two Rs) in "Carroll"

-- Mike

There's a student at the college where I work who has his name spelt the other way '(Micheal') but that's pretty unusual to be sure. He's also Nigerian so English wouldn't have been is parents' first language. I actually spelt it the (to me eye) correct the way and he corrected me! Heh.

Article writers should really check this stuff though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 15 March, 2014, 05:00:13 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 15 March, 2014, 03:11:21 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 15 March, 2014, 02:09:16 PM
The Thrills keep a-comin; http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/front-page-comic-news/80518-rebellion-diamond-retailer-day-return-robo-hunter-rogue-trooper-new-zenith-art-more-dredd-movie-sequel-comics-paul-grists-demon-nic.html

Interesting, Bleeding Cool says "Oh yes, and new Zenith art by Steve Yeowell for the first paperback collection", confirming we're not just getting individual Zenith Phase hardbacks from Rebellion but paperbacks as well.

That's an error by Bleeding Cool - these editions are hardback only.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 15 March, 2014, 05:02:45 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 15 March, 2014, 02:52:09 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 15 March, 2014, 02:09:16 PM
And Mike Carroll can now finally spill the (cool) beans about those Nick Percival pages he views on his iPad every night before going to sleep.

iPad? Pfff! I don't think so!

Thanks for the link! It's odd, though, how many people seem to be unable to spell my name... Surely neither "Michael" nor "Carroll" are that unusual?

(http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMG_1408.jpg)

For the record: "Michael" has the A before the E (it's AlphabEtical, you see!), and there are two Ls (and two Rs) in "Carroll"

-- Mike

Sorry, Mike - that's the product of B3N hurriedly putting that presentation together the day before (see also mispelling of Emma's name and any other typos on those slides)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 March, 2014, 05:20:05 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 15 March, 2014, 05:02:45 PM
Sorry, Mike - that's the product of B3N hurriedly putting that presentation together the day before (see also mispelling of Emma's name and any other typos on those slides)

Bloody prima donnas, just call 'em all Yer Man and have done with it.  Except Emma, obviously.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mike Carroll on 15 March, 2014, 08:56:53 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 15 March, 2014, 05:02:45 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 15 March, 2014, 02:52:09 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 15 March, 2014, 02:09:16 PM
And Mike Carroll can now finally spill the (cool) beans about those Nick Percival pages he views on his iPad every night before going to sleep.

iPad? Pfff! I don't think so!

Thanks for the link! It's odd, though, how many people seem to be unable to spell my name... Surely neither "Michael" nor "Carroll" are that unusual?

(http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMG_1408.jpg)

For the record: "Michael" has the A before the E (it's AlphabEtical, you see!), and there are two Ls (and two Rs) in "Carroll"

-- Mike

Sorry, Mike - that's the product of B3N hurriedly putting that presentation together the day before (see also mispelling of Emma's name and any other typos on those slides)

No worries - as long as my name's spelled correctly on the comics and books, I'm happy! (Also: it's nowhere near as bad as the time someone misspelled my surname as "Scott").

-- Mike
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 March, 2014, 10:40:19 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 15 March, 2014, 08:56:53 PMAlso: it's nowhere near as bad as the time someone misspelled my surname as "Scott").

They deserve a bang on the ear.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 16 March, 2014, 12:34:19 AM
Return of Robo-Hunter is an interesting development. Disapointed it doesn't appear to be about Samantha thou.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 16 March, 2014, 07:01:58 AM
Some really intriguing stuff in that Special by the sound and really looking forward to seeing what's in there BUT have to agree with Adventurer would personally much prefer to see Samantha finish up her story rather than her Granddad being rolled out again.

Come on what could possibly go wrong with returning a replacement character that wasn't that popular in the first place, which created division amomgst the creative droids (apparently) and got left with a now 7 year old cliffhanger that very few readers either remember or care about... damnit I'm not helping my case there am I...

...where's Grant Goggins to fight ya corner when you need him?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 16 March, 2014, 08:42:07 AM
A return of Samantha Slade is super easy; A) you gloss over her cliffhanger and have her back in the robo hunting status quo (perhaps in Paris full time?), B) do a quick reminder of her relationship with her grandfather, and C) throw Hoggie and Stogie into the sun. And you're good to go.

Then use the 2nd story to tie up cliffhanger loose ends.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 16 March, 2014, 09:56:58 AM
Sorry, I'm all confused- is this an actual new, separate magazine "summer special"- ie something I have to go on holiday to Blackpool with my mum and dad and buy from a tatty rack in an unfamiliar newsagents before losing myself in it for the rest of the week? Or is it just a codeword for this year's summer offensive?

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 16 March, 2014, 11:23:02 AM
I read it as a separate magazine since it's distinct from Forthcoming Thrills.

I may be completely wrong though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 16 March, 2014, 12:50:09 PM
Not seen it mentioned here, but sorry if I missed it. In the second part of the ECBT 2000ad Pat Mills interview it was revealed that Flesh will return with Clint Langley on art. Some way off as its not even written yet so will be a while.

In two minds about this, really pleased the story is coming back but not convinced Clint Langley is the artist I want to see on the series. Still will have to wait and see and hope it all turns out lovely.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 16 March, 2014, 12:53:41 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 16 March, 2014, 12:50:09 PM
Flesh will return with Clint Langley on art.

I think... yes, yes, I've just cum.

And Steve- that's how I read it too, but these days you never know, what with the twisty-turny hype machine. Let's hope it is, as I honestly miss the specials and annuals so much it hurts.

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 16 March, 2014, 01:12:20 PM
B&W Langley is amazing. Color Langley is fairly awful.

I'm hoping that Flesh is still in B&W.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 16 March, 2014, 01:32:49 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 16 March, 2014, 01:12:20 PM
B&W Langley is amazing. Color Langley is fairly awful. I'm hoping that Flesh is still in B&W.

I'm sure I remember Mills saying Langley's Flesh will be rendered in black and white, in the podcast mentioned above. Langley and Mills have collaborated on dinosaur comics (http://www.djfood.org/djfood/wp-content/gallery/earthside-8/earthside-8-dinosty.jpg) before, and I think he's a great fit for the strip:

(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/aeb30a96-caf4-491b-9ea9-f6795fbd8f73.jpg?t=1394975954)(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/d0011f72-bb88-41e3-8047-23c641848415.jpg?t=1394976717)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Recrewt on 16 March, 2014, 10:45:06 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 14 March, 2014, 06:08:49 PM
Quote from: Recrewt on 14 March, 2014, 02:24:48 PM
Does anyone remember the Robocop Vs The Terminator mini-series that came out in the mid 90s?  It was only a 4-parter and each comic included a cardboard stand-up of Robocop, Terminator, ED-209.  90s me was all over this but it had never been reprinted........until now.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/1602/dark-horse-release-new-editions-frank-miller-walte (http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/1602/dark-horse-release-new-editions-frank-miller-walte)

Now, I know some may not exactly see this as a classic - it's pretty basic with a lot of the characters and perhaps does get a little carried away towards the end but as I recall it worked pretty well.  Of all the Robocop/Terminator comics I have read, this is one of the best.


Yes, its a pretty darn good comic. I've often re-read this, and this post has reminded me that its due another airing.
Following that link, its not totally clear (or maybe im missing the obvious), but is that reprint an artists edition? ie; All original art?

I think there are two versions coming out:

A regular sized hardback with re-coloured artwork.

An oversized hardback that reproduces the original art at full size in b&w.  This one sounds good but is very expensive - $125.  I like it, but not that much!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 17 March, 2014, 04:29:22 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 16 March, 2014, 09:56:58 AM
is this an actual new, separate magazine "summer special"

Yes. Out on May 28th, I understand.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 March, 2014, 04:39:13 PM
That will explain why they went to all the trouble of creating a new section in the app called 'specials' rather than just lumping underbelly in the Dredd GN's. Super excited about that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 17 March, 2014, 05:16:23 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 17 March, 2014, 04:29:22 PM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 16 March, 2014, 09:56:58 AM
is this an actual new, separate magazine "summer special"

Yes. Out on May 28th, I understand.

W00t!!!

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 18 March, 2014, 08:33:44 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 16 March, 2014, 07:01:58 AM
Some really intriguing stuff in that Special by the sound and really looking forward to seeing what's in there BUT have to agree with Adventurer would personally much prefer to see Samantha finish up her story rather than her Granddad being rolled out again.

Come on what could possibly go wrong with returning a replacement character that wasn't that popular in the first place, which created division amomgst the creative droids (apparently) and got left with a now 7 year old cliffhanger that very few readers either remember or care about... damnit I'm not helping my case there am I...

...where's Grant Goggins to fight ya corner when you need him?

He's wondering why, after all this time, you're misspellin' his name.  *sob

Well, it's not like I didn't make the case for Samantha loudly, and fought the good fight.  Tharg knows how I feel.

So, sadly, we'll have to move on.  I don't recognize the artist, but I like Alec Worley's work a whole heck of a lot.  I'm looking forward to seeing what he'll do with our old pal.  I hope that it's a successful one-off and that it leads to a longer story in the prog.

And I hope that Worley has studied the original to know that Sam's adventures are so memorable because of the escalating chaos that the hero has to overcome.  And I hope that Tharg will give him the space, in weekly stories, to stretch out the lunacy, to make Sam suffer through games of Monopoly, kisses by Clark Cable, or being strapped to a chair for an entire episode.  The shot glass of rocket fuel approach doesn't apply to Sam Slade.

And I hope that Tharg doesn't say "Hey, that was good.  Let's do another six week adventure again, two and a half years down the road!"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 18 March, 2014, 09:26:30 AM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 18 March, 2014, 08:33:44 AM
He's wondering why, after all this time, you're misspellin' his name.  *sob

Ah Grant but you can't go treating me like that. Abandon me for weeks then come rolling in at whatever time of night you call this, excepting me to remember complex stuff like your name and what not.

I think the whole of the Summer Special ideas wise seems very exciting. Lets hope the execution lives up to that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin Zeal on 18 March, 2014, 12:10:56 PM
I'm really looking forward to the return of the summer special as I always enjoyed the previous ones. One other good thing it suggests to me is that sales of the Prog and Meg are strong enough that Rebellion can try this from a position of confidence that it will sell. If that is the case then it really is very good news.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 18 March, 2014, 08:36:33 PM
So does this mean we can expect a summer this year?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Prodigal2 on 19 March, 2014, 10:23:48 AM
A summer special?

Those words alone make me drool for adventure, pop, ice-cream and the sound of the sea.............
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 19 March, 2014, 10:09:00 PM
i know we get the end of year bumper progs but i'd be will to pay more for a nice yearbook/annual like the old days
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 20 March, 2014, 11:38:42 AM
Hi all, just lifting my head from the drawing board, may have forgot how to do that :), anyway thought that some people may be interested in seeing some sneak previews of Indigo Prime, a few non spoilers and a few panel close ups..     
http://mrleecarter.deviantart.com/gallery/
or
http://mrleecarter.blogspot.co.uk/

cheers :)
lee
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 20 March, 2014, 11:41:49 AM
Quote from: Judge Nutmeg on 19 March, 2014, 10:09:00 PM
i know we get the end of year bumper progs but i'd be will to pay more for a nice yearbook/annual like the old days

Quoth Andy Diggle, when asked why the annuals/yearbooks were discontinued: "Because nobody bought them."

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ming on 20 March, 2014, 11:44:48 AM
Quote from: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 20 March, 2014, 11:38:42 AM
Hi all, just lifting my head from the drawing board, may have forgot how to do that :), anyway thought that some people may be interested in seeing some sneak previews of Indigo Prime, a few non spoilers and a few panel close ups..     

Those are great - really looking forward to more Indigo Prime, and those really whet the appetite.  That Perfect Day spread is just incredible...   :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 March, 2014, 11:45:57 AM
Quote from: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 20 March, 2014, 11:38:42 AM
Hi all, just lifting my head from the drawing board, may have forgot how to do that :), anyway thought that some people may be interested in seeing some sneak previews of Indigo Prime, a few non spoilers and a few panel close ups..   

Look, you had me at 'John Smith and Lee Carter', never mind Indigo Prime, and never mind this:   :o

(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2013/354/1/5/2000ad_indigo_prime_perfect_day_double_page_spread_by_mrleecarter-d6ynp3e.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 20 March, 2014, 11:49:05 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/SVbAiQ4.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 20 March, 2014, 11:51:20 AM
Quote from: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 20 March, 2014, 11:38:42 AM
a few non spoilers and a few panel close ups..

Nazi Reptiles? Has Stalag 666 taught us nothing?!

I hope John's ready for an interesting post bag... :-)

Cheers!

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 March, 2014, 05:36:09 PM
Dat art tho.

(http://iliketowastemytime.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_preview/omg_omg_omg_whats_happening_cat.gif)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 20 March, 2014, 05:54:28 PM
Quote from: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 20 March, 2014, 11:38:42 AM
Hi all, just lifting my head from the drawing board, may have forgot how to do that :), anyway thought that some people may be interested in seeing some sneak previews of Indigo Prime, a few non spoilers and a few panel close ups.. 
   
http://mrleecarter.deviantart.com/gallery/
or
http://mrleecarter.blogspot.co.uk/

Even if the story turns out to be about the characters finding a magic whistle, that art means it'll be one of the highlights of the year. Remember all those stories about HD telly, where manufacturers claimed to be worried folk would experience cognitive dissonance and motion sickness because of the pin-sharp detail of the imagery, and try to walk through big tellies because they think they're doorways? That's the uncanny feeling of staring at those pages.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 20 March, 2014, 07:17:40 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 15 March, 2014, 10:40:19 PM
Quote from: Mike Carroll on 15 March, 2014, 08:56:53 PMAlso: it's nowhere near as bad as the time someone misspelled my surname as "Scott").

They deserve a bang on the ear.

Don't worry, TB, I saw what you did there...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 20 March, 2014, 07:20:16 PM
Thanks all :), really enjoying drawing from Johns scripts,
no need for anything to be sent in the post Jim :)
and cheers sauchie :),  one of the pages I haven't shown made my eyes bleed :), I may have got carried away with myself on some of the  pages :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 March, 2014, 07:36:39 PM
Is that really a giant octopus juggling radioactive meerkats?  Just when you think meerkats might be played out...  :o
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 20 March, 2014, 07:49:20 PM
That was Johns very words, think it's balancing on a step ladder too,,, talented :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 20 March, 2014, 08:01:03 PM

What's it like working with John Smith, Lee? I'd imagine the level of insanity in his work means his description of the stuff he's asking you to visualize would make Alan Moore's famously lengthy panel descriptions look like hastily scrawled post-it notes.

Does he explain all the complicated ideas he's trying to put across, and tell you exactly how he wants things to look, or does he just tell you to he wants five panels on a page and trust you to fill it with Luis Bunuel-meets-Reeves and Mortimer wallpaper?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 20 March, 2014, 08:32:29 PM
It's great working with John and I have said it before it's such a shame people dont get to see the full scripts descriptions. As it's such a amazing read in it self :)
So yup I would imagine johns scripts take quite a few a4 print outs
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 20 March, 2014, 09:18:24 PM
That Indigo Prime art is amazing!   :o

Can't wait!   :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 22 March, 2014, 11:29:13 PM
i would pay many groats for a john smith script book

also dat art i never thought anyone could top chris weston....but my god
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 23 March, 2014, 02:40:48 AM
Snap. & not some pixelly ebook either but a proper hard copy with design sketches & whatnot.

Same goes for Pat Mills.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 23 March, 2014, 03:30:48 AM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 20 March, 2014, 11:41:49 AM
Quote from: Judge Nutmeg on 19 March, 2014, 10:09:00 PM
i know we get the end of year bumper progs but i'd be will to pay more for a nice yearbook/annual like the old days

Quoth Andy Diggle, when asked why the annuals/yearbooks were discontinued: "Because nobody bought them."

Cheers

Jim

Everybody that did buy them is probably on here... Full set :)

I too would love to see Annuals again. I guess we'd be paying at least £15.00... £20.00 maybe for anything close to what we used to get as a hardcover. I know I'd be unwrapping one on Christmas Day though :)

Guess it is less likely than a Dredd Sequel :(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 23 March, 2014, 06:04:59 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 March, 2014, 11:45:57 AM
Quote from: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 20 March, 2014, 11:38:42 AM
Hi all, just lifting my head from the drawing board, may have forgot how to do that :), anyway thought that some people may be interested in seeing some sneak previews of Indigo Prime, a few non spoilers and a few panel close ups..   

Look, you had me at 'John Smith and Lee Carter', never mind Indigo Prime, and never mind this:   :o

(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2013/354/1/5/2000ad_indigo_prime_perfect_day_double_page_spread_by_mrleecarter-d6ynp3e.jpg)

Wow, is the new Indigo Prime?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 March, 2014, 10:56:55 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mega-City-Two/dp/1631400800/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395614982&sr=8-1&keywords=dredd+idw+mega+two)
Paperback, 124 pages, IDW Publishing, 19th August 2014

Blurb:
Dredd heads Californee way! As part of a judicial exchange program, Dredd is sent packing to Mega-City Two, a sprawling city covering 5,000 square miles of the Californian West Coast and centered in what was once known as Los Angeles, where he soon discovers that they do things differently there.


Judge Dredd: City Limits (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-City-Limits/dp/1631400371/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395614898&sr=8-1&keywords=judge+dredd+city+limits)
Hardcover, 324 pages, IDW Publishing, 9th September 2014

Anyone know what this is?  The hardcover listing (and price - £37.99) suggest it's a another themed volume of proper/UK Dredd reprints.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 24 March, 2014, 12:17:13 AM
1884-1887 up for preorder:

The UK's cult anthology comic surges into summer with another top line-up of stories: All hell breaks loose on the streets of Mega-City One in Judge Dredd: Traumatown; Celtic barbarian Slaine fights for his life in the bloodsoaked finale to A Simple Killing; Nort monster-hunter Atalia Jaegir returns and scours the dregs of the criminal underworld in Circe; Indigo Prime operatives Danny and Unthur are targeted by terrorists in Perfect Day; and a time-twisting tower block is the setting for In Seconds Flat. (NOTE: Pack contains #1884-1887.)



Lee, is there any chance you can share how many episodes Perfect Day is?  Your previews are wonderful!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 24 March, 2014, 09:33:31 AM
Don't think I can say how long the new indigo prime is going to be, it is longer than it was supposed to be, which was great for me
Cheers and thanks all :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 March, 2014, 10:16:06 AM
Quote from: LeeCarter_Artdroid on 24 March, 2014, 09:33:31 AM
Don't think I can say how long the new indigo prime is going to be, it is longer than it was supposed to be, which was great for me

Don't crack and spill the beans Lee, he's like a dog with a bone, this one!

Quote from: Grant Goggans on 16 September, 2013, 01:24:07 AM...
Indigo Prime [is an] absolutely brilliant concept for changing up between longer stories of 10-12 weeks and shorter ones, like the old classics did  ...  It's got a cast of dozens, any of whom could take the lead for one or two weeks, building up our understanding of the agency and situations while also telling a neat, weirdo sci-fi story and developing more characters.  Do an 8-week story with art by Carter, a 2-part sidestory with art by A New Talent, a 10-parter by Bagwell, a one-off, then another longer story by Carter, etc.

Embrace the uncertainty, Goggans!   ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ming on 24 March, 2014, 10:27:42 AM
Because (A) I have no shame and (B) it's mildly appropriate for this thread, I'm shoehorning this in here...

(http://i.imgur.com/wuosCvE.jpg)

:P
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 24 March, 2014, 10:29:54 AM
Superb! He always creeped me out when I was a kid...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 24 March, 2014, 12:21:46 PM
Brilliant!

And I am really enjoying the Return to series of ABC Warriors stories
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 24 March, 2014, 09:58:55 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 24 March, 2014, 10:16:06 AM
Embrace the uncertainty, Goggans!   ;)

I WILL BE DISAPPOINTED WITH ANY NUMBER LESS THAN 39.  WHY, THARG, WHY, etc etc
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 28 March, 2014, 12:40:58 PM
Sinister Dexter (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinister-Dexter/dp/163140038X/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396006738&sr=1-16&keywords=idw)

Paperback, 172 pages, IDW Publishing, 26th August 2014.

This is Downlode, a super-sized urban sprawl that used to be Western Europe, and these are the stories of Irishman Finnigan Sinister and his smooth comrade, Ramone Dexter - killers for hire, and the best gun-sharks money can buy! You pay, they slay! Collecting all seven issues of IDW's run from the classic stories by Dan Abnett and Andy Clarke.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 8-Ball on 29 March, 2014, 06:34:03 PM
I'm not the biggest fan but for some reason I'm getting quite excited about the forthcoming release of the A.B.C. Warrior Mek Files but I was left with a quandry - is it worth buying the Volgan War series and the Return To... material or will they be collected in Mek Files at some point as well?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 29 March, 2014, 10:04:35 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 24 March, 2014, 10:29:54 AM
Superb! He always creeped me out when I was a kid...

Is he still cannon?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 29 March, 2014, 10:24:27 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 29 March, 2014, 10:04:35 PM
Is (Dr Feelygood) still cannon?

You been reading the Warriors recently? Not only did everything happen, but we're seeing it at least twice, what happened in-between, and from each different character's perspective. Book XI will be Dr Feelygood's Case Book, in which we discover that the Doc was the surgeon who carried out Joe Pinapples's gender reassignment surgery, and Clint Langley will redesign him as a humanoid mek with an enormous scalpel for a chin.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 29 March, 2014, 11:42:07 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 29 March, 2014, 10:24:27 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 29 March, 2014, 10:04:35 PM
Is (Dr Feelygood) still cannon?

You been reading the Warriors recently? Not only did everything happen, but we're seeing it at least twice, what happened in-between, and from each different character's perspective. Book XI will be Dr Feelygood's Case Book, in which we discover that the Doc was the surgeon who carried out Joe Pinapples's gender reassignment surgery, and Clint Langley will redesign him as a humanoid mek with an enormous scalpel for a chin.

Apart from the last bit, I like the sound of this!

TBH my fingers are crossed that we'll finally find out what happened to the robots on Titan...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 29 March, 2014, 11:54:29 PM
I read that as 'enormous chin' (it's late, sue me)  in which case Dredd is revealed as Joe P,  the Dreddverse and Millsverse and the rest converge and everyone lives Happily Ever After. The End.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 March, 2014, 12:14:17 AM
Markmanship... check.
Laconic... check.
Loads of leather and zips...  check.
Strange sex life... check.

I'm not sure we've ever had the 'put his brain in Joe Pineapple's body' answer to the Dredd-ageing problem.  Now you say it, it seems perfect - the union of Mills and Wagner concepts at the end as at the beginning.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 March, 2014, 07:22:20 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 March, 2014, 10:56:55 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mega-City-Two/dp/1631400800/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395614982&sr=8-1&keywords=dredd+idw+mega+two)
Paperback, 124 pages, IDW Publishing, 19th August 2014

Blurb:
Dredd heads Californee way! As part of a judicial exchange program, Dredd is sent packing to Mega-City Two, a sprawling city covering 5,000 square miles of the Californian West Coast and centered in what was once known as Los Angeles, where he soon discovers that they do things differently there.


Judge Dredd: City Limits (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-City-Limits/dp/1631400371/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395614898&sr=8-1&keywords=judge+dredd+city+limits)
Hardcover, 324 pages, IDW Publishing, 9th September 2014

Anyone know what this is?  The hardcover listing (and price - £37.99) suggest it's a another themed volume of proper/UK Dredd reprints.

Covers now up on Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CityofCourts_zps64d13283.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CityLimits_zps9144dad8.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 March, 2014, 09:59:21 AM
Much as I like that image, I'd have gone with the crustaceatastic cover to Issue 3 - that one would really stand out.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 02 April, 2014, 01:23:52 PM
The paperback edition of Dredd screenplay now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Dredd: The Illustrated Movie Script and Visuals (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Illustrated-Movie-Script-Visuals/dp/178108291X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396441208&sr=8-1&keywords=dredd+illustrated+movie+script)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 02 April, 2014, 02:36:03 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 29 March, 2014, 11:42:07 PM
TBH my fingers are crossed that we'll finally find out what happened to the robots on Titan...

Until we're told differently, my take on it is that the eventual encroachment of the Terran Empire across the Sol system forced them to leave Terran space and migrate for the Fringe Worlds, where they founded the free robot planet of Mekka (as featured in Nemesis Book IV.)

And not forgetting the Little Mo/Dr Feely-Good cameo in Hellbringer, o' course.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 02 April, 2014, 07:01:41 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 02 April, 2014, 02:36:03 PM
And not forgetting the Little Mo/Dr Feely-Good cameo in Hellbringer, o' course.

You what now?

I completely missed that, never having read all or even much of Hellbringer.  The thing about Mekka had occurred to me too, but it lacks all the cool gold-clad robots that Titan promised.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 April, 2014, 01:40:57 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 13 March, 2014, 09:26:02 PM
Does anyone know the contents for 'Judge Dredd: The XXX Files', which I think is due to be released in June? Is it perhaps an American release like the recent Fatties and Mutant books?

No details as yet but here's the cover.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/DreddXXX_zps9e755dfe.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Pete Wells on 11 April, 2014, 02:18:33 PM
Wow what a cover! Weston?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 12 April, 2014, 12:16:18 PM
Judge Dredd Volume 4: 13 Judges (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-4-Duane-Swierczynski/dp/1613779577/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397300863&sr=1-1&keywords=judge+dredd+volume+4)

"Dredd returns to Mega-City One - still recovering from the ravages of "The Long Fail" - only to find the Justice Department under siege! Seems that someone has snuffed 12 Judges in creative and shocking ways!"

Paperback, 104 pages, IDW Publishing, 3 June 2014


(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/13JudgesB_zps3aed611a.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 12 April, 2014, 12:25:48 PM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 15 March, 2014, 06:22:26 AM
there this US only trade Durham Red: The Bitch (http://books.simonandschuster.com/Durham-Red-The-Bitch/John-Wagner/9781781082515) due September.

Durham Red: The Bitch (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Durham-Red-Bitch-John-Wagner/dp/1781082510/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397301790&sr=1-1&keywords=Durham+Red%3A+The+Bitch)

Paperback, 144 pages, 16th September 2014

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Durham_zps8634e202.jpg)


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 April, 2014, 12:14:25 PM
Not Tooth really but any chance of a One Eyed Jack reprint?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 April, 2014, 10:14:39 PM
IDW Judge Dredd Volume 5 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-5-Nelson-Daniel/dp/1631401173/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398373296&sr=1-4&keywords=Judge+Dredd+Volume+5)

Dredd's most vicious and unstoppable enemies - the Dark Judges - are clawing their way into Mega-City One, determined to transform it into a new city of the dead. But the only thing more horrifying than the Dark Judges' onslaught are drastic measures the Justice Department is willing to take to repel them!

Paperback, 104 pages, IDW Publishing, 23rd September 2014)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/IDWDredd5_zps774f0ddd.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 April, 2014, 11:05:28 PM
I'm pleased to see we're getting the collected Rogue Trooper - though as someone else pointed out, it's virtually inevitable with IDW!

Rogue Trooper (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rogue-Trooper-Alberto-Ponticelli/dp/1631400452/)

Nu-Earth, just another planet ravaged by a galaxy-wide war, its atmosphere poisoned by chemical weapons. Created to fight in such conditions were the G.I.s - genetically engineered infantrymen. But now only one remains, the man known as... Rogue Trooper. Join noted author Brian Ruckley and artist Alberto Ponticelli in this all-new story.

Paperback, 104 pages, IDW Publishing, 16th September 2014

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/IDWRogue_medium_zps97d03685.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 26 April, 2014, 02:11:30 PM
That IDW dark judges cover is fabulous. Who is that by?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 27 April, 2014, 04:45:19 PM
Quote from: Richard on 26 April, 2014, 02:11:30 PM
That IDW dark judges cover is fabulous. Who is that by?

Shane Pierce. No, me neither.

(http://i1026.photobucket.com/albums/y321/msellar001/2000AD/kneepad_zps505fcae3.jpg) (http://s1026.photobucket.com/user/msellar001/media/2000AD/kneepad_zps505fcae3.jpg.html)

I do like this style...
http://www.shanepierce.com/art/
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 28 April, 2014, 08:33:07 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 April, 2014, 01:40:57 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 13 March, 2014, 09:26:02 PM
Does anyone know the contents for 'Judge Dredd: The XXX Files', which I think is due to be released in June? Is it perhaps an American release like the recent Fatties and Mutant books?

No details as yet but here's the cover.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/DreddXXX_zps9e755dfe.jpg)

I'm guessing the contents will include:

Heavy Metal Dredd (possibly the pinball one)
The Dredd from the Sex Prog
The Megazine one about the kid's parents buying him a sex robot

... can't think of any more though. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 28 April, 2014, 08:37:55 PM
The Sex-Mek Slasher?

Sleaze?

Sex, Lies and Vid-Slugs?

The one about the Olympic sex team couple from the meg and it's prog sequel with the mutant with the talking penis?

A lot of the Dredd's from late-period Megazine v3 seemed to skew a bit adult as it was 'Not For Sale to Children' for a while.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 28 April, 2014, 09:42:47 PM
Quote from: radiator on 28 April, 2014, 08:37:55 PM
The Sex-Mek Slasher?

Sleaze?

Sex, Lies and Vid-Slugs?

The Felching Of Sector House Nine?

Letter From A Dactylate?

Day Of Choad?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 29 April, 2014, 06:00:44 PM
Closet could perhaps be a good fit, with it's Dredd-fetish  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 29 April, 2014, 07:10:03 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 02 April, 2014, 02:36:03 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 29 March, 2014, 11:42:07 PM
TBH my fingers are crossed that we'll finally find out what happened to the robots on Titan...

Until we're told differently, my take on it is that the eventual encroachment of the Terran Empire across the Sol system forced them to leave Terran space and migrate for the Fringe Worlds, where they founded the free robot planet of Mekka (as featured in Nemesis Book IV.)

And not forgetting the Little Mo/Dr Feely-Good cameo in Hellbringer, o' course.

It wasn't Titan though was it?

It was called Saturn Six, so it's Enceladus - where Nixon and the Titan lot are now freezing their arses off.

Enceladus is Mekka, and the robots built a planetary engine into it and f**ked off out of the solar system (or flew it into the Black Hole bypass) before they were drafted by the Terran Empire.

(Yes it's 300 miles across but...)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 May, 2014, 04:25:32 PM
Wasn't Sooner or Later lined up for a release this year? Can't find anything about it online.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 02 May, 2014, 05:15:10 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 May, 2014, 04:25:32 PM
Wasn't Sooner or Later lined up for a release this year? Can't find anything about it online

Treat yourself to The Best Of Milligan And McCarthy (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Best-Milligan-McCarthy-Brendan/dp/1616551534), Kesmonger.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 May, 2014, 05:20:35 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 02 May, 2014, 05:15:10 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 May, 2014, 04:25:32 PM
Wasn't Sooner or Later lined up for a release this year? Can't find anything about it online

Treat yourself to The Best Of Milligan And McCarthy (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Best-Milligan-McCarthy-Brendan/dp/1616551534), Kesmonger.
I've yet to buy that actually. Does anyone have details on the content?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 02 May, 2014, 05:39:15 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 May, 2014, 05:20:35 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 02 May, 2014, 05:15:10 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 May, 2014, 04:25:32 PM
Wasn't Sooner or Later lined up for a release this year? Can't find anything about it online

Treat yourself to The Best Of Milligan And McCarthy (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Best-Milligan-McCarthy-Brendan/dp/1616551534), Kesmonger.

I've yet to buy that actually. Does anyone have details on the content?

Sooner Or Later (http://www.newsarama.com/19030-milligan-and-mccarthy-retrospective-pt-1.html) for one, which is presumably why you heard that story was being reprinted. I can't remember hearing Keith Richardson mentioning Rebellion having plans to collect the Adventures of Mickey Flynn. You can have a flick through the contents via the LOOK INSIDE function of that Amazon page:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Best-Milligan-McCarthy-Brendan/dp/1616551534#reader_1616551534

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 May, 2014, 05:45:34 PM
Top job. I'll order it ASAP. £12 on Book depo. Very nice. :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 03 May, 2014, 10:40:22 AM
Here are some summer thrills from 1888-1892:

More brain-blistering sci-fi from the UK's award-winning anthology! A Klegg is targeted for murder in Judge Dredd: 'The Heart is a Lonely Klegg Hunter' by Rob Williams and Chris Weston, while the lawman leads a squad of rangers in 'Ghost Town' by Ian Edginton and Dave Taylor; steampunk series Brass Sun returns in 'Floating Worlds' by Ian Edginton and INJ Culbard, as Wren must descend into the dangerous depths of Hot Air; soul-gatherer Aquila is now the pet killer of the Emperor Nero as he ascends to godhood in 'Carnifex' by Gordon Rennie and Leigh Gallagher; the bastard son of Viking king Ivar washes up on his shore, but he is not all that he seems in new story 'Black Shuck' by Leah Moore, John Reppion and Steve Yeowell; and there are some serious messiah complexes going on in SF thriller Grey Area: 'Nearer My God to Thee' by Dan Abnett and Mark Harrison! (NOTE: Pack contains #1888-1892.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 03 May, 2014, 12:37:12 PM
Line up looking very good going forward. Looking forward to all of those, but Dave Taylor on a new series, Brass Sun back make me particularly happy.

The only downside is if there's no Indigo Prime in Prog 1888 then my jig of delight at its return this week is slightly tempered by the fact its going to be a relatively short run my the look.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 May, 2014, 05:07:47 PM
WHAT IS THIS MADNESSSS????!!!

http://instagram.com/p/nyATlSKpPd/

But seriously, the The Great Game spine. Really?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 09 May, 2014, 05:09:19 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 09 May, 2014, 05:07:47 PM
But seriously, the The Great Game spine. Really?

AAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH!

Why do they hate us? Why? I bet it won't even have a number '2' on it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 09 May, 2014, 05:19:16 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 09 May, 2014, 05:09:19 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 09 May, 2014, 05:07:47 PM
I bet it won't even have a number '2' on it.

*checks books on desk*

Nope, no #2...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 09 May, 2014, 05:24:05 PM
In all seriousness, any reason for the lack of spine numbers on so many of the more recent trades? In terms of new or lapsed readers getting on-board with a long-ish Tooth series like Dante, surely they're invaluable?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 09 May, 2014, 07:15:42 PM
Reminds me a bit of what DC used to do with Sandman and the like. Drove me a little bit nuts. Ah well, I'll just have to scribble a number on using crayon.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 May, 2014, 07:42:44 PM
Probably not the place to note how much the new Dante trade dress has grown on me.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 09 May, 2014, 07:57:04 PM
The new Dante design looks lovely - is that how Too Cool to Kill looks as well? Tempted to get 1-3 if the repro is that much better - those early Dante stories are some of my favourite 2000ad comics ever, and the pages in my old copy of Courtship are a bit loose. Have we seen the final covers for these new editions yet?

Also: are these US books? Can't seem to see them on Amazon.com
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 09 May, 2014, 08:06:40 PM
Quote from: radiator on 09 May, 2014, 07:57:04 PM
Have we seen the final covers for these new editions yet?

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EDoo6Iw4L.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91EpTjbUdGL._SL1500_.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 09 May, 2014, 08:07:57 PM
Lovely jubbly.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 May, 2014, 08:13:21 PM
That Love and War cover is brilliant, but if you didn't know the story you might imagine that Dante is snogging his Mum in the background there... Has Roger gone all Pete Wells on us and started commissioning his own covers?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 09 May, 2014, 08:21:07 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 May, 2014, 08:13:21 PM
but if you didn't know the story you might imagine that Dante is snogging his Mum in the background there...

If you didn't know the story how would you know she was his mum?

EH?!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 09 May, 2014, 08:21:42 PM
Quote from: radiator on 09 May, 2014, 07:57:04 PM
The new Dante design looks lovely - is that how Too Cool to Kill looks as well? Tempted to get 1-3 if the repro is that much better - those early Dante stories are some of my favourite 2000ad comics ever, and the pages in my old copy of Courtship are a bit loose.

Yes, this is the same design as TCTK - which does take the edge of my annoyance a bit. TCTK is no longer going to stick out like such a sore thumb on my shelf.

And I have to say, for those that have not seen it, the repro and design is fantastic. I compared various pages of TCTK against my old DC Romanov Empire and there's simply no contest. The colours pop, the contrast is amazing, and it all looks generally fabulous. They also edited out most of the original episode titles, recap boxes and 'next prog' taglines where appropriate - and I know that'll annoy some purists, but it really makes the world of difference. The art looks so much cleaner and less cluttered, and pages flow from one to the next really well. And 'where appropriate' is the key bit of info there, of course.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 May, 2014, 08:24:33 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 09 May, 2014, 08:21:07 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 May, 2014, 08:13:21 PM
but if you didn't know the story you might imagine that Dante is snogging his Mum in the background there...

If you didn't know the story how would you know she was his mum?

EH?!
Never seen Moment By Moment then, eh!

Though knowing Dante I wouldn't put it past him to do his mommie dearest.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 May, 2014, 08:27:41 PM
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 09 May, 2014, 08:21:07 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 May, 2014, 08:13:21 PM
but if you didn't know the story you might imagine that Dante is snogging his Mum in the background there...

If you didn't know the story how would you know she was his mum?

Let me rephrase that: you might think that the lady he's 'love'-ing with in the background is the lady he's 'war'-ing with in the foreground.  Albeit a younger fully binocular version.

Not to take away from what is a top cover.  Hey, is this now the canonical side for Katerina's eyepatch?   ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 09 May, 2014, 09:44:51 PM
Wow those look just great. So happy this is happening but I must admit I assumed they'd be Simon and Shuster or at least a continuation of the US line ... either way time to get Dante'd up I feel.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 09 May, 2014, 10:58:58 PM

Glenn Fabry's forgotten how to draw Judge Dredd, but not that he's an artistic genius, thankfully:

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/4b5b8ffd373e3da02f10ffc767318eb7/tumblr_n5bnhbsod41qf427ko1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 May, 2014, 05:43:46 AM
It looked to me like Dredd had forgotten how to work his lawgiver.  Then I noticed his knee and my perception of the picture changed completely.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: amines2058 on 10 May, 2014, 11:04:54 AM
I am getting a bit of an Arnie vibe off Dredd's face on that cover...or is it just me?? :-*
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 May, 2014, 12:38:49 PM
Now you mention it....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 10 May, 2014, 03:44:47 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 09 May, 2014, 08:21:42 PM

They also edited out most of the original episode titles, recap boxes and 'next prog' taglines where appropriate - and I know that'll annoy some purists, but it really makes the world of difference. The art looks so much cleaner and less cluttered, and pages flow from one to the next really well. And 'where appropriate' is the key bit of info there, of course.

They also edited out quite a few of the historical quotes which is unforgivable.

I actually like the coloring in the older trade, it's like seeing the painters brushstrokes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Andrew_J on 10 May, 2014, 11:54:24 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 10 May, 2014, 05:43:46 AM
It looked to me like Dredd had forgotten how to work his lawgiver.  Then I noticed his knee and my perception of the picture changed completely.

Ha Ha! Edit out the knee and you've got a very senile looking Dredd.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 10 May, 2014, 11:59:21 PM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 10 May, 2014, 03:44:47 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 09 May, 2014, 08:21:42 PM

They also edited out most of the original episode titles, recap boxes and 'next prog' taglines where appropriate - and I know that'll annoy some purists, but it really makes the world of difference. The art looks so much cleaner and less cluttered, and pages flow from one to the next really well. And 'where appropriate' is the key bit of info there, of course.

They also edited out quite a few of the historical quotes which is unforgivable.

I actually like the coloring in the older trade, it's like seeing the painters brushstrokes.

Hmm, yeah I remember that now you mention it. I'm normally in favour of removing the titles, recaps etc but I feel like the Dante recaps were kind of essential to the flavour of the thing. That's a shame.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 11 May, 2014, 03:35:47 PM
I wonder why they were removed. Any droids care to say?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: judgerufian on 12 May, 2014, 09:26:26 AM
Quote from: sauchie on 09 May, 2014, 10:58:58 PM

Glenn Fabry's forgotten how to draw Judge Dredd, but not that he's an artistic genius, thankfully:

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/4b5b8ffd373e3da02f10ffc767318eb7/tumblr_n5bnhbsod41qf427ko1_500.jpg)

Dredd in left handed lawgiver shock....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 May, 2014, 09:29:02 AM
Just read the four Daily Star Judge Dredd strips in the FCBD prog. These are extremely good fun and i'm completely down for the collected edition in november. :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 26 May, 2014, 12:09:33 PM
Could Robo-K33f, if you happen to see this, detail the numbers of progs and megs which will feature in the JD Case Files volume 23? Also, if it's not too much trouble, could you list which stories will appear in Anderson volume 4 (including any bonus strips)? Thank you very much!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 26 May, 2014, 07:00:37 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 26 May, 2014, 12:09:33 PM
Could Robo-K33f, if you happen to see this, detail the numbers of progs and megs which will feature in the JD Case Files volume 23? Also, if it's not too much trouble, could you list which stories will appear in Anderson volume 4 (including any bonus strips)? Thank you very much!

Always worth trying this very thread, the info's usually already buried in here somewhere -

Quote from: Robo-K33F on 30 September, 2013, 11:05:42 AM
CF23 contents (TBC);

PROGS
Goodnight Kiss
Blowout
Language Barrier
The Return of Rico
The Neon Man
Megalot
Caught Short
Jigsaw
Blaster Buddy
Statue of Judgement
Bad Frendz
My Son the Hero
To Thing with Love
The Decision
Awakening of Angels
MEGS
Repeat Offender
Whatever Happened to Bill Clinton
Skedway Madness
Bug Crazy
Face of Justice
Family Feud
Get Me to the Church on Time
The Wall
The Three Amigos
Hot Pursuit
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 May, 2014, 09:40:13 AM
Heart of a Lonely Klegg from Rob Williams and CHRIS WESTON (!!!) coming in prog 1888.

More sensative Klegg! :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 29 May, 2014, 11:38:11 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 29 May, 2014, 09:40:13 AM
Heart of a Lonely Klegg from Rob Williams and CHRIS WESTON (!!!) coming in prog 1888.

More sensative Klegg! :D

More sensitive Klegg can only be a good thing!

And the preview of the Weston cover from the latest Thrill-mail looks stunning!   :o
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 May, 2014, 11:42:29 AM
It's not 2000AD but it's Talbot, so what the hey!

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/GrandvilleNoel_zps721dc81c.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 04 June, 2014, 04:57:57 PM
With the Nikolai Dante the Great Game sitting on my shelf today and later this year love and war, what is the status of Tsar Wars volume 1.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 04 June, 2014, 05:01:43 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 04 June, 2014, 04:57:57 PM
With the Nikolai Dante the Great Game sitting on my shelf today and later this year love and war, what is the status of Tsar Wars volume 1.

It's just reprints of volumes 2 and 3 that are on the schedule, Earthlet.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 04 June, 2014, 05:06:57 PM
fair enough I believe I have the progs under my stairs
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 04 June, 2014, 05:34:45 PM

The cover of IDW's Judge Dredd #24 is (Sci-fi) special:

(https://2000ad.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/image.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: monsterx on 09 June, 2014, 11:19:06 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 04 June, 2014, 04:57:57 PM
With the Nikolai Dante the Great Game sitting on my shelf today and later this year love and war, what is the status of Tsar Wars volume 1.

I've got vol 2 of tsar wars for sale on ebay search for cyberleaderx for maximum thrill power!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 10 June, 2014, 09:42:46 AM
Quote from: monsterx on 09 June, 2014, 11:19:06 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 04 June, 2014, 04:57:57 PM
With the Nikolai Dante the Great Game sitting on my shelf today and later this year love and war, what is the status of Tsar Wars volume 1.

I've got vol 2 of tsar wars for sale on ebay search for cyberleaderx for maximum thrill power!


I have vol 2 thank you tho
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 10 June, 2014, 09:44:19 PM

Preview of Weston's forthcoming Sensitive Klegg from our own Chiefy (http://chiefy2shoes.tumblr.com/post/88096791574/saturdays-6s). That's what Weston considers a convention sketch, folks:

(http://media.tumblr.com/cb94c8a1f4d7ff90f50bec1de1168480/tumblr_inline_n6t9e7eI221rshm8r.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 11 June, 2014, 04:33:08 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 March, 2014, 10:56:55 PM
Judge Dredd: City Limits (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-City-Limits/dp/1631400371/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395614898&sr=8-1&keywords=judge+dredd+city+limits)
Hardcover, 324 pages, IDW Publishing, 9th September 2014

Anyone know what this is?  The hardcover listing (and price - £37.99) suggest it's a another themed volume of proper/UK Dredd reprints.

Says now on Amazon that it's a "collection of the first 12 issues of IDW's ongoing series, plus all of the back-up stories.". Looks like it collects the robot war and Cursed Earth story lines.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 June, 2014, 12:17:12 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 April, 2014, 01:40:57 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 13 March, 2014, 09:26:02 PM
Does anyone know the contents for 'Judge Dredd: The XXX Files', which I think is due to be released in June? Is it perhaps an American release like the recent Fatties and Mutant books?

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/DreddXXX_zps9e755dfe.jpg)

I can confirm the contents are:

Love Story
Love Story II - Futile Attraction
Love Story III - The End of the Affair
The Great Arsoli
Attack of the Sex-Crazed Love Dolls
Bum Rap
To Die For
Sleaze
Stone Killer
Sex Beast!
Driving Desire
Cheating Drokkers
The Girlfriend
The Marriage Game
Holding On
Crime of Passion
Love Hurts!
(This is not a) Mega City 1 Love Story no.1: Callista
The Sexmek Slasher
The Performer
Tour of Duty: Lust in the Dust
Sex, VI and Vidslugs
Harry Sheemer, Mon Amour
Bonus Thrill! Judge Hershey Naked & Ashamed

They've added an Justice dept Eagle-and-badge to the right of the cover illustration, with the words "Justice Dept Warning - Not Suitable for Juves!"

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 21 June, 2014, 01:01:46 AM
That warning seems a bit ineffective -- how many parents will know that Juves means children? Oh well.

What is the Hershey Naked and Ashamed thing at the end? Reprint or new?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 June, 2014, 06:01:14 AM
It's a reprint from the Judge Dredd Yearbook 1994.  It's written by Robbie Morrison with art by Paul Peart.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 21 June, 2014, 08:14:32 AM
Quote from: Richard on 21 June, 2014, 01:01:46 AM
That warning seems a bit ineffective -- how many parents will know that Juves means children?

There cover features three enormous Xs, the words SEXY and ADULT in sleazy neon letters, a stripper, and a truncheon being used to simulate an erect penis.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 21 June, 2014, 01:33:40 PM
Thanks Dash.

Good point, Sauchie! Makes the warning a bit redundant really...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 8-Ball on 21 June, 2014, 06:20:57 PM
Advance disclaimer: I'm not having a go at our North American cousins. I cannot repeat that enough.

Is it because North American culture is notoriously prudish. Guns=good and boobies=bad? Is the warning there to protect Simon and Schuster from accusations by unsuspecting parents of smut peddling? Would that warning be there if this was a Rebellion edition for the U.K. market?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 21 June, 2014, 07:06:57 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 21 June, 2014, 06:20:57 PM
Is it because North American culture is notoriously prudish. Guns=good and boobies=bad? Is the warning there to protect Simon and Schuster from accusations by unsuspecting parents of smut peddling? Would that warning be there if this was a Rebellion edition for the U.K. market?

It's there because it's funny?

I mean - 'Justice Department warning' - it couldn't be more tongue-in-cheek if it tried!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 8-Ball on 21 June, 2014, 07:35:15 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 21 June, 2014, 07:06:57 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 21 June, 2014, 06:20:57 PM
Is it because North American culture is notoriously prudish. Guns=good and boobies=bad? Is the warning there to protect Simon and Schuster from accusations by unsuspecting parents of smut peddling? Would that warning be there if this was a Rebellion edition for the U.K. market?

It's there because it's funny?

I mean - 'Justice Department warning' - it couldn't be more tongue-in-cheek if it tried!

I came to the same conclusion in the Other Reviews section. :D
Quote from: 8-Ball on 18 June, 2014, 08:29:52 PM
I take it the the cover message: "Justice Department Warning - Not suitable for juves" is tongue-in-cheek. There are grisly deaths in Dredd all the time so it's very odd that the odd exposed nipple or bare buttock should warrant any sort of restriction.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 22 June, 2014, 06:33:18 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 21 June, 2014, 07:06:57 PM
It's there because it's funny?

Yeah, it looks great and fits in with the character of the thing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 22 June, 2014, 09:13:36 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 22 June, 2014, 06:33:18 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 21 June, 2014, 07:06:57 PM
It's there because it's funny?

Yeah, it looks great and fits in with the character of the thing.

I put it on there for a giggle - to my unsophisticated mind it is quite amusing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 22 June, 2014, 12:32:16 PM
This is what happens when I over-analyse things... but then again, that is what the Internet is for after all.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 25 June, 2014, 02:23:31 PM
All seems a little quiet on the trades announcements front - any new information for the rest  of the year/start of next?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 25 June, 2014, 04:42:37 PM
Quote from: credo on 25 June, 2014, 02:23:31 PM
All seems a little quiet on the trades announcements front - any new information for the rest  of the year/start of next?

Amazing to think we're now halfway through that '2014 tpb releases' primer that we saw late last year!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 July, 2014, 01:44:32 PM
Cover change for Durham Red: The Bitch (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Durham-Red-Bitch-John-Wagner/dp/1781082510/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397301790&sr=1-1&keywords=Durham+Red%3A+The+Bitch)

Paperback, 144 pages, 16th September 2014

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Durham_zps8634e202.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/B-word_zpsade31475.jpg)

I don't think the vampire mouth improves the design, but good to see Red's had time to put on some nail polish.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proteus4 on 03 July, 2014, 04:16:00 PM
I much prefer the new design - seems a little southern gothic, but the old font was awful. I like the nail varnish!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 03 July, 2014, 07:29:19 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 22 June, 2014, 09:13:36 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 22 June, 2014, 06:33:18 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 21 June, 2014, 07:06:57 PM
It's there because it's funny?

Yeah, it looks great and fits in with the character of the thing.

I put it on there for a giggle - to my unsophisticated mind it is quite amusing.

No - it is hilarious Robo-K33f! Very fitting.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 July, 2014, 02:07:42 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Stickleback: The Number of the Beast (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stickleback-Number-Beast-Ian-Edginton/dp/1781082936/)

Paperback, 160 pages, 6th November 2014

Blurb:
London, the end of the nineteenth century. Stickleback, the Pope of Crime, rules the capital's criminal fraternity as the boss of a powerful gang made up of freaks, oddballs and semi-supernatural entities. But this position is far from stable and now a mysterious figure stationed on an airship soaring high above the city, is vying for power. A brutal encounter is inevitable, but one thing is for certain - live or die, Stickleback's future is going to get a whole lot more complicated!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 11 July, 2014, 10:01:18 PM
Dredd: Urban Warfare out 15 Feb 2015

Looks like a collection of the Dredd sequel comics. The movie tie in, Underbelly and Uprise.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Urban-Warfare-Henry-Flint/dp/1781083177/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405112205&sr=1-2&keywords=DREDD
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 8-Ball on 11 July, 2014, 10:18:36 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 11 July, 2014, 10:01:18 PM
Dredd: Urban Warfare out 15 Feb 2015

Looks like a collection of the Dredd sequel comics. The movie tie in, Underbelly and Uprise.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Urban-Warfare-Henry-Flint/dp/1781083177/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405112205&sr=1-2&keywords=DREDD

Urban Warfare? Oh, very good.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 12 July, 2014, 09:38:53 AM
Oh dear, I need to mention this in the 'Things that went over your head' thread...  :-[
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 12 July, 2014, 09:46:05 AM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 11 July, 2014, 10:18:36 PM
Urban Warfare? Oh, very good.

Haha, I didn't spot that at first. Goes with the titles of the Wyatt penned stories. Up, Rise. Under, Belly. A bit punny.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 12 July, 2014, 02:49:07 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 11 July, 2014, 10:01:18 PM
Dredd: Urban Warfare out 15 Feb 2015

Looks like a collection of the Dredd sequel comics. The movie tie in, Underbelly and Uprise.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Urban-Warfare-Henry-Flint/dp/1781083177/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405112205&sr=1-2&keywords=DREDD

Good spot Apestrife!  I came here to post it and you're way ahead of me!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 12 July, 2014, 02:55:51 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK: Dark Justice (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Justice-Gregg-Staples/dp/1781083193), Wagner & Staples, 112 pages, hardback
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 12 July, 2014, 03:33:05 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 12 July, 2014, 02:55:51 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK: Dark Justice (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Justice-Gregg-Staples/dp/1781083193), Wagner & Staples, 112 pages, hardback

That's a healthy page-count for fully-painted, even considering non-story  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 12 July, 2014, 05:54:51 PM
Does anyone know how far Greg Staples has got with this?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 12 July, 2014, 05:55:18 PM
Not that I want him to rush it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grugz on 12 July, 2014, 05:59:06 PM
Quote from: 8-Ball on 11 July, 2014, 10:18:36 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 11 July, 2014, 10:01:18 PM
Dredd: Urban Warfare out 15 Feb 2015

Looks like a collection of the Dredd sequel comics. The movie tie in, Underbelly and Uprise.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dredd-Urban-Warfare-Henry-Flint/dp/1781083177/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405112205&sr=1-2&keywords=DREDD

Urban Warfare? Oh, very good.

do we know if it will contain the prequel tale as well?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 12 July, 2014, 06:00:18 PM
Quote from: tootyfruity on 12 July, 2014, 05:59:06 PM
do we know if it will contain the prequel tale as well?


Matt Smith is named as an author so I think that would be yes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 12 July, 2014, 06:45:36 PM
Quote from: Richard on 12 July, 2014, 05:54:51 PM
Does anyone know how far Greg Staples has got with this?

Greg does.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 12 July, 2014, 07:14:32 PM
Quote from: Richard on 12 July, 2014, 05:54:51 PM
Does anyone know how far Greg Staples has got with this?

It starts serialisation in the end of year prog, so it doesn't matter whether Staples is still wildly spraying the pages with hair lacquer as a courier's waiting to take them to the printers on the first of December - prog 2015's as early as we'll get our grubby wee paws on them.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 12 July, 2014, 07:43:36 PM
Thanks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ZenArcade on 12 July, 2014, 07:54:21 PM
Not too bothered, the last year or so of Dredd has been pretty damn good, plus I'm not the greatest fan of the Dark Judges, well apart from Necropolis. No doubt JW and GS will happily prove me wrong. Z
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 12 July, 2014, 08:05:18 PM
He sent his first Dark Justice prog cover to the offices this very week.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 14 July, 2014, 12:04:57 AM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 12 July, 2014, 07:54:21 PM
Not too bothered, the last year or so of Dredd has been pretty damn good, plus I'm not the greatest fan of the Dark Judges, well apart from Necropolis. No doubt JW and GS will happily prove me wrong. Z

While I do love the Dark Judges, I love PJ Maybe so much more & am worried that this might his last story.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 July, 2014, 05:41:12 PM
Paperback edition of Marshal Law. I'll be getting this as I had to sell my hard back to help cover my dry suit repairs in March.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 21 July, 2014, 10:27:23 PM

If this has been featured here I missed it. Ben Willsher, y'all:

(http://www.previewsworld.com/catalogimages/STK_IMAGES/STK640001-660000/STK651471.jpg)

http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/71/920?stockItemID=AUG141635 (http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/71/920?stockItemID=AUG141635)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 22 July, 2014, 10:39:25 AM
"Ongoing sequel", "1 of 2". I'm confused. Does this imply an ongoing monthly series of story arcs, like Dark Horse's Conan, for example? That would be a welcome move.

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 22 July, 2014, 10:49:35 AM
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 22 July, 2014, 10:39:25 AM
"Ongoing sequel", "1 of 2". I'm confused. Does this imply an ongoing monthly series of story arcs, like Dark Horse's Conan, for example? That would be a welcome move.
I think it just means that the current Meg story is going to be longer than the last one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 22 July, 2014, 10:50:11 AM
I'd just read it to mean it wasn't 'Underbelly'. I'm sure with the way Underbelly sold it wont be the last though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grugz on 22 July, 2014, 11:32:45 AM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 14 July, 2014, 12:04:57 AM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 12 July, 2014, 07:54:21 PM
Not too bothered, the last year or so of Dredd has been pretty damn good, plus I'm not the greatest fan of the Dark Judges, well apart from Necropolis. No doubt JW and GS will happily prove me wrong. Z

While I do love the Dark Judges, I love PJ Maybe so much more & am worried that this might his last story.

maybe (pun not intended but it fits) he's going to be death reborn/resurrected/rebooted seeing as how the original Sydney got cast into hell ?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Michael Evans on 22 July, 2014, 02:01:48 PM
Enjoying Rebellion's new line of US sized comics.
1. Dredd Underbelly (one shot)
2. Brass Sun (6 issue series)
3. Jaegir (one shot)
4. Dredd Uprise (2 issue series)
Are there any that I've missed? Surely they can't be far off doing a new monthly Dredd based on the film? I'd certainly appreciate it if they took the IDW licence back and did a US Dredd themselves.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 23 July, 2014, 05:51:42 PM

According to Nick Percival (https://www.facebook.com/nick.percival?fref=nf), the 2000ad Winter Special for which he's currently producing a pin-up will have a horror theme. News to me, anyway.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 23 July, 2014, 06:37:30 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 23 July, 2014, 05:51:42 PM

According to Nick Percival (https://www.facebook.com/nick.percival?fref=nf), the 2000ad Winter Special for which he's currently producing a pin-up will have a horror theme. News to me, anyway.

"Chilling Tales for Cold Winter Nights"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 July, 2014, 09:41:16 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 23 July, 2014, 05:51:42 PM

According to Nick Percival (https://www.facebook.com/nick.percival?fref=nf), the 2000ad Winter Special for which he's currently producing a pin-up will have a horror theme. News to me, anyway.

Did we even know there was a Winter Special? Or to put it another way did you lot all know and I was just too dozy to pick up on it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 23 July, 2014, 10:36:28 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 23 July, 2014, 09:41:16 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 23 July, 2014, 05:51:42 PM

According to Nick Percival (https://www.facebook.com/nick.percival?fref=nf), the 2000ad Winter Special for which he's currently producing a pin-up will have a horror theme. News to me, anyway.

Did we even know there was a Winter Special? Or to put it another way did you lot all know and I was just too dozy to pick up on it?

It's been confirmed 2 or 3 times in a low-key way - I think one was in a Nerve Centre reply - but blink and you'd miss them...
it implies regular Sci-Fi and Winter Specials (?), so yeah, due an announcement  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 23 July, 2014, 10:48:03 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 23 July, 2014, 09:41:16 PM
Quote from: sauchie on 23 July, 2014, 05:51:42 PM

According to Nick Percival (https://www.facebook.com/nick.percival?fref=nf), the 2000ad Winter Special for which he's currently producing a pin-up will have a horror theme. News to me, anyway.

Did we even know there was a Winter Special? Or to put it another way did you lot all know and I was just too dozy to pick up on it?

You didn't get the invitation from Matt to the launch party? I would have saved you a sneaky bit of the life size Tharg shaped cake, but security at the Dorchester is really tight and I didn't stay the full weekend. If I see you at this year's Nerve Centre Open Day I'll buy you a pint to make it up to you.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 July, 2014, 06:48:11 AM
Arh as I expected... but 2 or 3 times and even in the Nerve Centre, even by my standards you'd think that had sunk in... I having a feelin' I might have even commented on it... sigh, sometimes I do wonder...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 25 July, 2014, 08:30:11 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 12 July, 2014, 02:55:51 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK: Dark Justice (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Justice-Gregg-Staples/dp/1781083193), Wagner & Staples, 112 pages, hardback

Great. Thanks. Can't wait for this one  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 25 July, 2014, 03:10:10 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 13 November, 2013, 10:15:25 AM
Quote from: Judge Brian on 11 November, 2013, 04:11:54 PM
Hondo City Law: Revenge of the 47 Ronin by Morrison, McNeil, & Parkhouse

Hondo City Justice (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hondo-City-Justice-Robbie-Morrison/dp/1781082499/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384309308&sr=1-1&keywords=Hondo+City+Justice)

160 pages, 8th July 2014


(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Hondo_zpsbc290950.jpg)

Do we know what the contents of Hondo City Justice are?  Is it largely the same material as Hondo City Law or perhaps Shimura?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 July, 2014, 03:14:04 PM
Kinda curious myself. It seems a fairly hefty tome, so maybe the Hondo City Justice material thus far?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 8-Ball on 25 July, 2014, 08:16:15 PM
Flicking through it I can tell you from the title pages that Hondo City Justice contains:

The Harder They Come (Megs 238 - 243)
Project Behemoth (Megs 324 - 326)
Revenge Of The 47 Ronin (Megs 332 - 334)
and Tiger Sun Dragon Moon (Progs 1426 - 1432)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 July, 2014, 08:19:06 PM
Yep, i'll be getting this then. Nice slab if thrill's their, Revenge of the 47 Ronin had phenomenal art work.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 25 July, 2014, 08:55:28 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 25 July, 2014, 03:10:10 PM
Do we know what the contents of Hondo City Justice are?  Is it largely the same material as Hondo City Law or perhaps Shimura?

Shimura consists mostly of the Shimura solo stories (naturally). Hondo City Law reprints Our Man in Hondo, a couple of the Shimura strips and then begins the Inaba Hondo City strips.  Hondo City Justice is basically Vol 2 of the latter.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ZenArcade on 25 July, 2014, 09:13:16 PM
Christ how I miss Shakara and I wasn't even there during its run....please God bring it back! Z
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 26 July, 2014, 09:19:05 AM
Great info.  Thanks guys. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 July, 2014, 01:46:58 PM
Kindle edition of Jaegir (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jaegir-Gordon-Rennie-ebook/dp/B00M1RFYXI/ref=sr_1_26?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406704094&sr=1-26&keywords=2000ad)

File Size: 42933 kb, 37 pages, 27th August 2014

Blurb:
"A war-crimes investigator in future fascist state, Kapitan-Inspector Atalia Jaegir must bring a monster down before he can murder his own family. In the universe of 2000 AD's  classic series Rogue Trooper, the endless war between the Southers and the Norts rages on countless planets. Scarred war veteran Atalia Jaegir of the Nordland State Security Police, hunts down escaped war criminals and roots out corruption in the ranks. But her fearsome reputation will not protect her from the inhuman quarry that she is tasked with finding... An entirely new heroine leads this action-packed adventure illustrated by Simon Coleby (The Royals, Judge Dredd Year One), written by Gordon Rennie (Judge Dredd, Department of Monsterology)."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Zenith 666 on 01 August, 2014, 03:10:51 PM
Jumping on Prog. 1900 lineup has[spoiler]Stickleback,kingdom,Greysuit and New Dredd epic block judge by Wagner and ezquerra [/spoiler] according to Midnight comics.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 01 August, 2014, 03:13:21 PM
Oh how I hope your spoiler is [spoiler]not full of wrong![/spoiler]

That is a cracking line-up.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Zenith 666 on 01 August, 2014, 03:16:03 PM
Yes love [spoiler]Stickleback[/spoiler].having only just joined the forum I'll surely be banned for life if I've given false hope for [spoiler]Kingdom[/spoiler].
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 01 August, 2014, 09:17:27 PM
Some listings for collections for January 2015 are up on Amazon.co.uk:

- Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles Volume 1

- Strontium Dog: Dogs of War: Life and Death of Johnny Alpha 2
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 02 August, 2014, 09:07:34 AM
My reaction in order of occurance while reading that spoiler.

Yes.

YES!

ffffffffffffffffff

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Zenith 666 on 02 August, 2014, 01:07:39 PM
What's fffffffffffff is that good or bad.believe [spoiler]Icabod[/spoiler]is back in prog 1901 so that is an amazing line-up.drooling all ready and still have mike carrolls new Dredd story before all this.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 07 August, 2014, 02:31:08 PM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Wolf_zps1a77d072.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 15 August, 2014, 07:42:22 PM
Quick question for Keith Richardson, Graphic Novels Editor, if you're reading this - will any of the extra stories, that appeared in various specials, feature in the ABC Warriors Mek Files, perhaps as bonus material? Just to be nice and complete!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: zombemybabynow on 15 August, 2014, 07:55:13 PM
1900 for [spoiler]kingdom[/spoiler]. Hurrah
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 15 August, 2014, 08:05:41 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 15 August, 2014, 07:42:22 PM
Quick question for Keith Richardson, Graphic Novels Editor, if you're reading this - will any of the extra stories, that appeared in various specials, feature in the ABC Warriors Mek Files, perhaps as bonus material? Just to be nice and complete!

Red Planet Blues should have been in Volume 1 (and wasn't) and there's been no mention of Dishonourable Discharge or Joe P's Greatest Hits in Volume 2, so... that seems like a no.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 15 August, 2014, 08:29:34 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 15 August, 2014, 08:05:41 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 15 August, 2014, 07:42:22 PM
Quick question for Keith Richardson, Graphic Novels Editor, if you're reading this - will any of the extra stories, that appeared in various specials, feature in the ABC Warriors Mek Files, perhaps as bonus material? Just to be nice and complete!

Red Planet Blues should have been in Volume 1 (and wasn't) and there's been no mention of Dishonourable Discharge or Joe P's Greatest Hits in Volume 2, so... that seems like a no.

Pity!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 August, 2014, 08:37:49 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 15 August, 2014, 08:05:41 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 15 August, 2014, 07:42:22 PM
Quick question for Keith Richardson, Graphic Novels Editor, if you're reading this - will any of the extra stories, that appeared in various specials, feature in the ABC Warriors Mek Files, perhaps as bonus material? Just to be nice and complete!

Red Planet Blues should have been in Volume 1 (and wasn't) and there's been no mention of Dishonourable Discharge or Joe P's Greatest Hits in Volume 2, so... that seems like a no.

Figured as much when RPB wasn't included in Mek Files 1.
Maybe due to the very recent publication of 'Solo Missions'?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 17 August, 2014, 05:56:45 PM
Question whats the diffrence between these two?


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brass-Sun-The-Wheel-Worlds/dp/1781082847/ref=pd_rhf_pe_s_cp_5_E91A?ie=UTF8&refRID=0CAWXESD4P2HBYA8F8VB


http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781082693/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=22AB2N632QJAI&coliid=I1U1WZTQE2YEEQ
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 18 August, 2014, 05:24:20 AM
Mention in Meg 351 of a complete Tales of Telguth coming next year. Whether that's as a trade or a series of floppies remains to be seen.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 18 August, 2014, 11:07:36 AM
Quote from: IronGraham on 17 August, 2014, 05:56:45 PM
Question whats the diffrence between these two?
48 pages, by the looks of it. My guess is one's an old submission that Amazon hasn't removed. (Amazon's good that that...)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: zombemybabynow on 18 August, 2014, 05:03:06 PM
Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles Volume 1 - have to buy it davis on slaine is magnificient
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 August, 2014, 10:39:31 AM
I love this cover.  The only thing that could improve it would be if Death's fingers hung over the Dredd logo instead of being masked off behind it.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/DarkJustice_zps8cb2986d.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Urban_zpsd1ec0e76.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 22 August, 2014, 11:41:39 PM

(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/35305e03-9f33-4fd1-a220-3ed4331c9b5f.jpg?t=1408747183)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 22 August, 2014, 11:53:17 PM
Good Grud, the man's on a roll
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 23 August, 2014, 05:39:17 PM
Quote from: zombemybabynow on 18 August, 2014, 05:03:06 PM
Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles Volume 1 - have to buy it davis on slaine is magnificient

Buy a page from the story if you like it - Simon is selling them :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 August, 2014, 02:36:24 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

IDW Judge Dredd volume 6 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-6-Nelson-Daniel/dp/1631401998) - paperback, 104 pages, 27th January 2015

Blurb:
Judge Anderson is trying to make it back to Mega-City One in "To Live and Die in Deadworld" and Judge Dredd must go inside the area formerly known as Sector One to rescue the Chief Justice and the Council of Five in "Black Light District."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 August, 2014, 03:27:33 PM
Quote from: sauchie post office on 22 August, 2014, 11:41:39 PM

(http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/35305e03-9f33-4fd1-a220-3ed4331c9b5f.jpg?t=1408747183)
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 28 August, 2014, 11:41:45 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Strontium Dog: Dogs of War: Life and Death of Johnny Alpha 2 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781083363) - 144 pages, 15th January 2015.

Blurb:
Late 22nd century. After the Atomic Wars, many survivors were warped by the Strontium 90 fallout. These 'mutants' became a victimised underclass, and the only job open to them was bounty hunting. One such Search/Destroy agent, or STRONTIUM DOG, is Johnny Alpha, who was thought killed. But he has been resurrected and is now leading mutantkind in a revolution against the Norms...  Written by Strontium Dog co-creator John Wagner (A History of Violence) with art by his co-creator Carlos Ezquerra (Judge Dredd) Johnny Alpha's explosive return from beyond concludes in this action-packed finale.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 September, 2014, 06:02:03 AM
Wear Iron (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wear-Iron-Judge-Dredd-Year-ebook/dp/B00NA8Q9WM) - a Dredd e-novel by Al Ewing.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 05 September, 2014, 12:25:55 PM
Is this the third, previously unannounced, novella in the Year One omnibus?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 07 September, 2014, 07:19:07 PM


SPOILER


http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/dc4c0d0c-6110-43ec-82f7-ef396a8268b7.jpg?t=1410113288 (http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s410/sauchieboy/dc4c0d0c-6110-43ec-82f7-ef396a8268b7.jpg?t=1410113288)


I don't know - I was pretty happy with the sweet resolution Wagner provided for that [spoiler]one in Tour of Duty[/spoiler]. I know it's sort of inevitable with [spoiler]a company-owned character[/spoiler] that someone will try to push the reset button at some point ([spoiler]as Wagner and Grant both did themselves with that same character[/spoiler]), but I thought we'd sort of moved beyond that as readers. I suppose I can just ignore it and let those who will enjoy it do so in peace, but that's not what the internet's for.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Zenith 666 on 07 September, 2014, 08:41:24 PM
I need to read tour of duty again.have no recollection of [spoiler]The mean machine[/spoiler].
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Montynero on 07 September, 2014, 09:07:08 PM
Two talented creators, but as a reader I want another story with that character like I want electric eels in my undercrackers.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 07 September, 2014, 09:28:15 PM
Well I'll wait to see as I've enjoyed much that Mike Carroll has done, but as others have said the announcement (of sorts) itself leaves me cold.

Was his Tour of Duty stuff in the Megazine then as I don't recall it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 07 September, 2014, 09:38:09 PM
Quote from: Zenith 666 on 07 September, 2014, 08:41:24 PM
I need to read tour of duty again.have no recollection of [spoiler]The mean machine[/spoiler].

The story in question ran over two years before Tour of Duty, so that's probably why you don't remember!

As to the news itself... hmm. I'll wait to reserve judgement, but after such a fitting ending the character seemed more or less done with. Please, please let it not be a story that involves another relapse back to [spoiler]his butting ways[/spoiler].
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 07 September, 2014, 10:13:58 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 07 September, 2014, 09:38:09 PM
The story in question ran over two years before Tour of Duty, so that's probably why you don't remember!

I only ever read that in collected form,  so [spoiler]Fifty Year Man's[/spoiler] just the prologue to me. Just the Damn fine prologue. What Wagner did with the character there was so thematically perfect for what else was going on in the story that it's difficult to imagine what else can be done with him. Carroll's probably the writer who's most acutely aware of the history of the strip - much more so than JW - so it's impossible to imagine he doesn't understand that.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 07 September, 2014, 11:50:47 PM
Hmm. Suppose it could be a flashback or fit in with Spurrier's Tales Of... stuff.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 07 September, 2014, 11:51:38 PM
Which would clearly be the same thing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Rio De Fideldo on 08 September, 2014, 12:51:18 AM
"Carroll's probably the writer who's most acutely aware of the history of the strip - much more so than JW - so it's impossible to imagine he doesn't understand that"

Michael Carroll, as a fan made good, is much more aware of the history of Judge Dredd than John Wagner, the creator of Judge Dredd and the writer of the majority of the stories? Impossible to imagine that Michael Carroll doesn't understand that its difficult to imagine what else can be done with Mean Machine? Sweeping statements. The thing is with the internet its really easy to take stuff out of context and to quote directly what someone else has said and to accidentally misunderstand what they were meaning but that's exactly what I'm doing. The wife's away for the weekend so I have time to think too hard about what I assume is a throw away comment on a forum devoted to a comic. I'm also very aware that I'm doing that and I don't mean to diss Sauchie Karate Club but I don't think that just because Michael Carroll, who as a fan turned writer can recall continuity issues without consulting W R Logan it follows that his take on Mean Machine will be particularly revolutionary and that what ever he as written for Nick Percival to illustrate doesn't involve a return of the dial and claw which had been removed as of Fifty Year Man.

If Carroll (Michael? Mr Carroll?) somehow writes a story which acknowledges the neutered Mean with those returned Angels Pa and Junior alongside his "nephew" Ratfink, his bride to be Porsha and his son Junior and makes it fresh and fun to read then I'll be amazed/delighted.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Montynero on 08 September, 2014, 01:01:26 PM
John writes brilliant stories, he doesn't sit around indexing them or discussing every detail the way fans do. :)

Some writers ask trusted fans to go and research something they've written, if they need to delve back into continuity. Stephen King famously remembers absolutely nothing about entire novels he wrote.  The only upside is he can enjoy reading them like the rest of us do.

If there's a whole new take on [spoiler]Mean[/spoiler], that'd work for me. :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Nick Percival on 09 September, 2014, 01:06:27 PM
This will be a very different look at the character and quite a sad tale...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 September, 2014, 01:11:01 PM
Quote from: Nick Percival on 09 September, 2014, 01:06:27 PM
This will be a very different look at the character and quite a sad tale...

Interesting Nick, interesting.
No chance you'll post some preview art?  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 09 September, 2014, 01:12:32 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 09 September, 2014, 01:11:01 PM
No chance you'll post some preview art?  ;)

Mek-Quake on standby...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Nick Percival on 09 September, 2014, 01:16:55 PM
Sorry - can't show even a sausage at this stage....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proudhuff on 09 September, 2014, 01:19:15 PM
Quote from: Nick Percival on 09 September, 2014, 01:06:27 PM
This will be a very different look at the character and quite a sad tale...

The final death? pleeeease!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 September, 2014, 01:19:40 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 09 September, 2014, 01:12:32 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 09 September, 2014, 01:11:01 PM
No chance you'll post some preview art?  ;)

Mek-Quake on standby...

:-X

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 09 September, 2014, 01:44:51 PM
Having worked with Mike on a 'Crimea River' for Zarjaz (way back in issue 07- but copies still available) I am pretty confident that if 'Sad' is the order of the day then we should all set thrill-buffers to maximum absorbancy!

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sYeN_eTWfsY/SgAYfM3zAbI/AAAAAAAAAew/gjWBjBDvFRg/s320/Z07Happy.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 09 September, 2014, 02:30:52 PM
Quote from: Nick Percival on 09 September, 2014, 01:16:55 PM
Sorry - can't show even a sausage at this stage....

Nobody wants to see your sausage Nick!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 09 September, 2014, 02:57:00 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 09 September, 2014, 02:30:52 PM
Quote from: Nick Percival on 09 September, 2014, 01:16:55 PM
Sorry - can't show even a sausage at this stage....

Nobody wants to see your sausage Nick!
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/everystockphoto/fspid30/13/30/48/45/judgedredd-no25-oct1987-13304845-o.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 09 September, 2014, 09:09:45 PM
I personally would love to see more of him and I'll go up to four on any low down stinking coyote who says otherwise
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 09 September, 2014, 09:44:25 PM
It's going to be great to see where Michael takes it - Mean effectively neutered - whether the remaining Angels are still involved, their reaction to him if so.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 09 September, 2014, 10:23:50 PM
I thought pa and junior surviving had been retconned ( is that a word?) out of the strip? I'd like to see mean go up against Dredd one last time even give old Joe a bit of a kicking .
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 09 September, 2014, 10:27:17 PM
I don't know, have they?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 09 September, 2014, 10:46:41 PM

Not mentioning something EVER again isn't the same as saying it never happened.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 10 September, 2014, 03:22:01 PM
Quote from: Judge Nutmeg on 09 September, 2014, 10:23:50 PM
I thought pa and junior surviving had been retconned ( is that a word?) out of the strip? I'd like to see mean go up against Dredd one last time even give old Joe a bit of a kicking .

The Spurrier Angel Gang series in the Megazine were both subtitled Before they wuz dead; the few in-strip references to the Angels since have been very much in the past-tense and certainly suggestive, at least, that they aren't an ongoing concern; and a year or two back Tharg categorically said on the letters page that Awakening of Angels was a mistake, and to all intents and purposes never happened.

Not to mention the fact that if they were really alive, what the bloody hell have they been doing? I'll have been reading 2000AD for exactly half my life next year, and the Awakening of Angels story - which was before my time - ran so long ago I'd never have known it had happened if not for occasional online mentions. Seems fairly safe to just ignore it rather than feel the need to 'have' to explain it after all this time.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 10 September, 2014, 03:30:53 PM
Didn't Tharg say that the rebuilding of MC2 never happened, but it was mentioned in California Babylon?

I prefer Michael's approach to the 'let's never speak of this again' route.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 10 September, 2014, 07:52:39 PM
The only time I think the resurrected angels were seen again was in a strip called Hell's Angels , they were locked up in iso block 666 with the devil from the classic story beat the devil, it was pretty dire as I recall
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 10 September, 2014, 09:25:21 PM

Pye Parr reports he's sent prog 1900, with the new look logo, off to the printers. I expect this one to be more divisive than the succession of the prophet.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 10 September, 2014, 09:28:33 PM
New logo BUT I HATE CHANGE...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SuperSurfer on 10 September, 2014, 09:36:12 PM
I hope it's a radical change – along the lines of the designs he Tweeted a few months ago.

Doubt it's a new look logo though. New look masthead maybe. Hopefully!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 10 September, 2014, 09:45:56 PM

Yeah, it's what Parr calls the banner component which has received an update.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 10 September, 2014, 09:51:13 PM
Quote from: Judge Nutmeg on 10 September, 2014, 07:52:39 PM
The only time I think the resurrected angels were seen again was in a strip called Hell's Angels , they were locked up in iso block 666 with the devil from the classic story beat the devil, it was pretty dire as I recall
They're in The Three Amigos.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 10 September, 2014, 10:23:27 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 10 September, 2014, 09:51:13 PM
Quote from: Judge Nutmeg on 10 September, 2014, 07:52:39 PM
The only time I think the resurrected angels were seen again was in a strip called Hell's Angels , they were locked up in iso block 666 with the devil from the classic story beat the devil, it was pretty dire as I recall
They're in The Three Amigos.

yeah forgot about that, As much as I loved Pa and Junior was never keen on them coming back
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 10 September, 2014, 10:35:11 PM
Is the three amigos counted as canon? Though it was a clearly defined what if
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 10 September, 2014, 11:46:02 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 10 September, 2014, 10:35:11 PM
Is the three amigos counted as canon? Though it was a clearly defined what if

That's certainly how I choose to see it.

I think the opening caption calls it 'the never before told story...' So take from that what you will.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 September, 2014, 12:06:36 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 10 September, 2014, 10:35:11 PM
Is the three amigos counted as canon? Though it was a clearly defined what if
No idea. I only read it for the first time in the latest Case Files so I don't know how it was presented at the time. However, it was published in the latest Case Files so it's as canon as The Midnight Surfer and Judge Planet for me.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 11 September, 2014, 06:17:33 AM
It doesn't matter not a jot that I know exactly what you're talking about my mind still wonders why your discussing whether Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short slapping their shoulders and hips before shouting 'Huh!' should be considered cannon... and to be honest I think its as much chance as the strip itself... if it matters.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 11 September, 2014, 06:54:49 AM

There's no such thing as canon; if it saw print, it's part of the strip's history. Dredd has a niece who doesn't make sense, made friends with a talking cat, and his dad pretended to be dead but wasn't really. No matter how crap the story or idea is, it happened.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 September, 2014, 11:27:03 AM
'Cough'Mega-city2contradictorytimeline'cough'
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 11 September, 2014, 11:39:13 AM
Quote from: sauchie karate club on 11 September, 2014, 06:54:49 AM

There's no such thing as canon; if it saw print, it's part of the strip's history. Dredd has a niece who doesn't make sense, made friends with a talking cat, and his dad pretended to be dead but wasn't really. No matter how crap the story or idea is, it happened.

That doesn't make any sense! What you are saying implies that Dredd is a story written by a collection of different writers. Whereas we all know that it is real.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 September, 2014, 01:18:51 PM
Will be real.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 11 September, 2014, 02:08:29 PM
After reading Case Files 23 and reminding myself of the return of the Angel Gang I am really looking forward to their forthcoming tales!

Dear Tharg - can more characters please be saved by hidden nets?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 11 September, 2014, 07:25:51 PM
Quote from: Killer Hawk Queen on 11 September, 2014, 11:27:03 AM
'Cough'Mega-city2contradictorytimeline'cough'

Imagine if the main strip about judges in 2000ad had always been told from the perspective of a Brit Cit judge whose adventures occasionally take him to MC1. Readers would have been confused by the way the US city consisted of 800 million, 400 million, and 40 million during various visits. One minute it's ruled by robots, then Sovs, then zombie judges, just zombies, criminal judges, robots again, then alien judges.

All without so much as an explanation of how any this happened, because this is a strip about a British judge in Brit Cit.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 12 September, 2014, 04:27:09 PM
Quote from: Judge Nutmeg on 10 September, 2014, 07:52:39 PM
The only time I think the resurrected angels were seen again was in a strip called Hell's Angels , they were locked up in iso block 666 with the devil from the classic story beat the devil, it was pretty dire as I recall

Can you say which Prog or Meg this story appeared in as I am unfamiliar with it?
Thanks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 12 September, 2014, 04:38:22 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 12 September, 2014, 04:27:09 PM
Quote from: Judge Nutmeg on 10 September, 2014, 07:52:39 PM
The only time I think the resurrected angels were seen again was in a strip called Hell's Angels , they were locked up in iso block 666 with the devil from the classic story beat the devil, it was pretty dire as I recall

Can you say which Prog or Meg this story appeared in as I am unfamiliar with it?
Thanks.

The Ballad of Devil Angel, 965-966.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 12 September, 2014, 05:01:16 PM
That was by Alan Grant wasn't it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 12 September, 2014, 05:16:34 PM
Barney says yep.

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=965 (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=965)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/966.jpg)


Progs 965-966.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 12 September, 2014, 05:18:19 PM
Quote from: radiator on 12 September, 2014, 05:01:16 PM
That was by Alan Grant wasn't it?

... wth art by Simon Jacob.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 16 September, 2014, 04:11:16 PM
Case Files 24 up for pre-order on Amazon, and the blurb makes for interesting reading given Molcher had previously suggested there'd be no Hammerstein included -

The streets don't come much meaner than those found in Mega-City One. Only the Judges - empowered to dispense law and order - keep the city from falling into total anarchy. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the law and these are his stories. In this 24th volume of the bestselling Case Files series, Dredd is faced with one of his hardest challenges yet - dispensing justice in the Big Meg's worst sector known as 'The Pit'! Also, the ultimate lawman faces a legendary war robot, when Judge Dredd squares off against the ABC Warrior Hammerstein!

A february releasse date, and a page count of 320 pages, which some clever person could probably use to work out the stories inside...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 16 September, 2014, 07:34:07 PM
Can you add a link Jimbo
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 16 September, 2014, 07:55:08 PM
D'oh!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Volume-Complete-Files/dp/1781083398/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-1&keywords=dredd+case+files+24
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 16 September, 2014, 08:10:01 PM
Thanks Jimbo
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 September, 2014, 08:32:04 PM
Ah! So they did decide to include Hammerstein after all.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 16 September, 2014, 08:55:58 PM
Is that the Hammerstein story that tied in with the '95 Dredd movie?
Had some rather gorgeous art if I remember correctly-Kev Walker or Jim Murray wasn't it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 16 September, 2014, 08:59:36 PM
Quote from: dweezil2 on 16 September, 2014, 08:55:58 PM
Is that the Hammerstein story that tied in with the '95 Dredd movie?
Had some rather gorgeous art if I remember correctly-Kev Walker or Jim Murray wasn't it?

Jason Brashill. Can't say I ever liked his art, but he definitely had his fans.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 16 September, 2014, 09:02:24 PM
Ah yeah, that's the fella!
Cheers!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 16 September, 2014, 09:37:04 PM
Up for pre-order on amazon.co.uk (apologies if some of these have been listed already):

Tales of Telguuth: A Tribute to Steve Moore (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Telguuth-Tribute-Steve-Moore/dp/178108341X/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410899162&sr=1-9) - March 2015

Insurrection: Liberty (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Insurrection-Liberty-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781083401/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410899162&sr=1-8) - March 2015

Zenith: Phase 3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zenith-Phase-3-Grant-Morrison/dp/1781083215/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410899162&sr=1-7) - April 2015

Not available to pre-order but listed:

Judge Dredd: Luna-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Luna-John-Wagner/dp/1781083428/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=1-4) - April 2015
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 16 September, 2014, 09:52:21 PM
Tales of Teleguuth is a must for me. Sounds like an excelent old school tale.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 16 September, 2014, 10:24:38 PM
A Telguuth collection is long overdue. It's not great, but it is a great deal of fun. Just a shame this never happened when Steve was still with us - but then I doubt the other Moore (Alan) could have been induced to write a foreword.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 16 September, 2014, 11:00:10 PM
Quote from: Killer Hawk Queen on 16 September, 2014, 09:52:21 PM
Tales of Teleguuth is a must for me. Sounds like an excelent old school tale.

Tales.
Think of Tales of Telguuth as a collection of medieval fantasy 'Future Shocks'.
A mixture of one-offs and small multi-parts, my most vivid recollection is that some (if not most) of the art was superb, and the tales themselves very generally very entertaining, with some flashes of brilliance.

Think I'll be getting this.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 17 September, 2014, 12:03:59 AM
Interesting that the Tales of Telguuth is getting out there, I was under the impression that it was creator owned, Thinking about it I have no idea why I thought that I must check further!
Some of the Telguuth tales are fun, dunno about a collection though.
Absolom Daak, Axel Pressbutton and Jonni Future all by Moore are a must read for how fun comics can be.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 17 September, 2014, 12:40:19 PM
I loved Tales of Telguuth. My favourite episode was the first, but I like the whole series. Definitely going to get this.

Not sure what the point is of Judge Dredd: Luna-1 though, given that it is all in the Complete Case Files 1, with other stories too. Maybe it's in colour?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 17 September, 2014, 05:13:52 PM
When Steve Moore was still alive I remember reading that he was preparing a collection of Tales of Telguuth for reprint by a small publisher. I wonder what changed. . .
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 17 September, 2014, 05:44:28 PM
Quote from: maryanddavid on 17 September, 2014, 12:03:59 AM
Interesting that the Tales of Telguuth is getting out there, I was under the impression that it was creator owned, Thinking about it I have no idea why I thought that I must check further!
Some of the Telguuth tales are fun, dunno about a collection though.
Absolom Daak, Axel Pressbutton and Jonni Future all by Moore are a must read for how fun comics can be.

Absolom Daak was really, really, really good!

Not reread those stories in ages.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 September, 2014, 05:46:36 PM
Quote from: Bat King on 17 September, 2014, 05:44:28 PM
Quote from: maryanddavid on 17 September, 2014, 12:03:59 AM
Interesting that the Tales of Telguuth is getting out there, I was under the impression that it was creator owned, Thinking about it I have no idea why I thought that I must check further!
Some of the Telguuth tales are fun, dunno about a collection though.
Absolom Daak, Axel Pressbutton and Jonni Future all by Moore are a must read for how fun comics can be.

Absolom Daak was really, really, really good!

Not reread those stories in ages.
His first appearance plus the series of short comics titled Star Tigers have been collected by Panini in Nemesis of the Daleks. Really, really good fun.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 17 September, 2014, 05:49:48 PM
QuoteNot sure what the point is of Judge Dredd: Luna-1 though, given that it is all in the Complete Case Files 1, with other stories too. Maybe it's in colour?

Probably, maybe it's a hardback too?

Those stories suck but always get reprinted because of the Bolland artwork.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 17 September, 2014, 05:58:21 PM
Quote from: Richard on 17 September, 2014, 12:40:19 PM
Not sure what the point is of Judge Dredd: Luna-1 though, given that it is all in the Complete Case Files 1, with other stories too. Maybe it's in colour?

It's the next B-format book, same as the B&W ones we've done before.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 17 September, 2014, 06:38:02 PM
Molcher is Hammerstein story apart of case files 24 or not now?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 17 September, 2014, 06:55:46 PM
Quote from: radiator on 17 September, 2014, 05:49:48 PM
QuoteNot sure what the point is of Judge Dredd: Luna-1 though, given that it is all in the Complete Case Files 1, with other stories too

Those stories suck but always get reprinted because of the Bolland artwork.

I agree completely, but I'm surprised how many folk new to Dredd seem to enjoy that early stuff. Maybe if you're used to US comics and the wacky early history of those characters you're more forgiving of the 1977 and 1978 Dredd stories that aren't The Ape Gang or The Academy of Law. I think those two might be the earliest Dredd outings I actually enjoy.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 17 September, 2014, 07:13:55 PM
QuoteI agree completely, but I'm surprised how many folk new to Dredd seem to enjoy that early stuff. Maybe if you're used to US comics and the wacky early history of those characters you're more forgiving of the 1977 and 1978 Dredd stories that aren't The Ape Gang or The Academy of Law. I think those two might be the earliest Dredd outings I actually enjoy.

Fair point, though the very first Dredd collection I ever bought was a Titan Bolland collection and I really disliked the Luna 1 stuff even then. I always preferred Dredd to be in MC-1. I also distinctly remember reading that Lunar Olympics/War story and thinking "Is this that 'Apocalypse War' story I've heard so much about?

Also: no love for The Return of Rico?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 17 September, 2014, 07:53:15 PM
Quote from: radiator on 17 September, 2014, 07:13:55 PM
Also: no love for The Return of Rico?

I'll say it's certainly a very important story in the history of the strip, and then run away to make my tea to avoid the collective wrath of fandom ...


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ZenArcade on 17 September, 2014, 07:59:55 PM
Which return of Rico, I loved them both! Z
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 17 September, 2014, 09:05:24 PM
Quote from: radiator on 17 September, 2014, 05:49:48 PM
Those stories suck


Luna-1 is entirely justified by The Oxygen Board (Prog 57).


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 17 September, 2014, 10:32:41 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 17 September, 2014, 09:05:24 PM
Quote from: radiator on 17 September, 2014, 05:49:48 PM
Those stories suck
Luna-1 is entirely justified by The Oxygen Board (Prog 57).
It's entirely justified by this cover:
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/usreprints/hires/edredd2.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 17 September, 2014, 10:45:31 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 17 September, 2014, 06:38:02 PM
Molcher is Hammerstein story apart of case files 24 or not now?

No idea, sorry. I did ask but haven't had an answer.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 17 September, 2014, 11:28:50 PM
Quote from: sauchie polling station on 17 September, 2014, 06:55:46 PM
Quote from: radiator on 17 September, 2014, 05:49:48 PM
QuoteNot sure what the point is of Judge Dredd: Luna-1 though, given that it is all in the Complete Case Files 1, with other stories too

Those stories suck but always get reprinted because of the Bolland artwork.

I agree completely, but I'm surprised how many folk new to Dredd seem to enjoy that early stuff. Maybe if you're used to US comics and the wacky early history of those characters you're more forgiving of the 1977 and 1978 Dredd stories that aren't The Ape Gang or The Academy of Law. I think those two might be the earliest Dredd outings I actually enjoy.

No love for The Robot Wars?

Pah! No pleasing some people!  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 19 September, 2014, 10:17:29 AM
Why wouldn't the 'Hammerstein' story be included??
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 19 September, 2014, 10:29:32 AM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 19 September, 2014, 10:17:29 AM
Why wouldn't the 'Hammerstein' story be included??

Pretty sure it wasn't the 'headline' Dredd strip in the issues it appeared, was it?

(This is smack in the middle of my 'wilderness years' for the prog — I think I bought these issues, but I'm not sure I actually read them...)

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 19 September, 2014, 10:42:45 AM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 19 September, 2014, 10:29:32 AM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 19 September, 2014, 10:17:29 AM
Why wouldn't the 'Hammerstein' story be included??

Pretty sure it wasn't the 'headline' Dredd strip in the issues it appeared, was it?

(This is smack in the middle of my 'wilderness years' for the prog — I think I bought these issues, but I'm not sure I actually read them...)

Cheers

Jim

Exactly. Prog 960 is the last prog I bought back then (excluding my still-bagged prog 1000). The Cal Files and Hammerstein stories run concurrently at this time. With the prog slog in 'unread' territory at 820, it feels a long way off...   :o
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 19 September, 2014, 10:58:05 AM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 19 September, 2014, 10:29:32 AM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 19 September, 2014, 10:17:29 AM
Why wouldn't the 'Hammerstein' story be included??

Pretty sure it wasn't the 'headline' Dredd strip in the issues it appeared, was it?


This shouldn't really be a problem as previous Case Files have always included the secondary story as well as the main (see CF 23 for example). Anyway, being the completist that I am, I do hope that it makes the final cut.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 19 September, 2014, 11:06:35 AM

It had one cover but arguably it belongs in The Restricted Files.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 19 September, 2014, 11:07:22 AM
There are lots of 'Dredd' strips that haven't though. America for one and I seem to remember some of the Kenny Who ones too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 September, 2014, 11:14:30 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 19 September, 2014, 11:07:22 AM
There are lots of 'Dredd' strips that haven't though. America for one and I seem to remember some of the Kenny Who ones too.
Thats because not only the editorial team but the creative temas also consider them less Dredd strips as they do their own series.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 September, 2014, 11:19:52 AM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 19 September, 2014, 10:29:32 AM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 19 September, 2014, 10:17:29 AM
Why wouldn't the 'Hammerstein' story be included??

Pretty sure it wasn't the 'headline' Dredd strip in the issues it appeared, was it?
It was. It was during the period immediately after the film when there were two Dredd strips in every Prog in the same way as Return of Return of Rico.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 September, 2014, 11:20:57 AM
Quote from: Killer Hawk Queen on 19 September, 2014, 11:14:30 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 19 September, 2014, 11:07:22 AM
There are lots of 'Dredd' strips that haven't though. America for one and I seem to remember some of the Kenny Who ones too.
Thats because not only the editorial team but the creative temas also consider them less Dredd strips as they do their own series.
It's because they were explicitly printed under the banner of another series, like The Dead Man. Hammerstein wasn't.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 19 September, 2014, 11:36:38 AM
I still think omitting America was an error—the one big mis-step of the CFs—and I wonder how much it had to do with impacting on trade sales elsewhere. Given that follow-ups were under the Dredd banner, America was essentially a Judge Dredd tale, and the story had such an impact on the strip, its lack of inclusion is a huge shame. (Didn't that love story one with the garden also get omitted, yet the sequel show up in the CFs?)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Anzati on 19 September, 2014, 11:45:46 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 19 September, 2014, 11:36:38 AM
I still think omitting America was an error—the one big mis-step of the CFs—and I wonder how much it had to do with impacting on trade sales elsewhere.

It was for this reason alone that I own the America graphic novel...I do wonder how many others followed suit. I've also been umming and aaarrring ove the Kenny Who trade, but isn't that only one 10 page story that's missing, making it less worthwhile picking up :(

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 19 September, 2014, 11:36:38 AM
(Didn't that love story one with the garden also get omitted, yet the sequel show up in the CFs?)

I read Case Files 17 a few days ago, which contains what I presume is the sequel you mention; it certainly read like one...any idea where I can find the first story? Thanks :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 19 September, 2014, 11:53:06 AM
The first story is in one of the Restricted Files - it was originally in a Sci-Fi Special.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 19 September, 2014, 01:28:21 PM
That Kenny Who? Story was three episodes. It was the second in a trilogy, and the first and third parts were Judge Dredd stories so it was mental to leave it out. I'm quite sure that Wagner would have written it and America as Judge Dredd stories and the editor pretended they were their own spin-off series to create the illusion of variety, even though Dredd is in every episode of each story.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 19 September, 2014, 01:44:44 PM
Quote from: Richard on 19 September, 2014, 01:28:21 PM
I'm quite sure that Wagner would have written it and America as Judge Dredd stories and the editor pretended they were their own spin-off series to create the illusion of variety, even though Dredd is in every episode of each story.

John Wagner was consulting editor on the Megazine when it was launched and heavily involved in its development - I would imagine he was aware of how the stories would be published.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 19 September, 2014, 02:52:22 PM
Even before he wrote them?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 19 September, 2014, 03:43:26 PM
What does TPO say about this?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 19 September, 2014, 04:14:13 PM
TPO just says that Wagner wrote Young Death, America and Kenny Who? for the Megazine whilst in his (full-time) consulting editor role, which he subsequently gave up 'cos he didn't like sitting in judgement on other people's scripts. Steve MacManus then took over editorial control. It doesn't say anything either way about the decision to run the stories as self-titled strips rather than under the 'Judge Dredd' banner - could be Richard is right and MacManus made that decision, could be it was Wagner.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 September, 2014, 04:16:22 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 16 September, 2014, 04:11:16 PM
Case Files 24 up for pre-order on Amazon ...A february release date, and a page count of 320 pages, which some clever person could probably use to work out the stories inside...
It's hard to say. 320 seems to be the default pagecount Amazon put on everything. Although that might be just be because they are all 320 pages.

Either way, from the The Cal Files to the end of The Pit is 270 pages. Given the normal division between Prog and Meg in the Case Files to keep the reprints broadly aligned in publication order, that means either splitting The Pit in half or only including a handful of Meg stories in this volume and heavily weighting the next one in compensation.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 19 September, 2014, 05:17:12 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 19 September, 2014, 10:17:29 AM
Why wouldn't the 'Hammerstein' story be included??

As a complete guess I would say some people see this as a movie tie in, trying to bring hammerstein into dredd's world and are therefore unhappy with it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 19 September, 2014, 06:01:01 PM
Quote from: Skullmo on 19 September, 2014, 05:17:12 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 19 September, 2014, 10:17:29 AM
Why wouldn't the 'Hammerstein' story be included??

As a complete guess I would say some people see this as a movie tie in, trying to bring hammerstein into dredd's world and are therefore unhappy with it.
The time line is messy enough thanks to Nemesis already featuring a Judge in it, so just give them the story.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 19 September, 2014, 06:28:43 PM
There's absolutely no reason for it not to be included - it's billed as a 'Judge Dredd' story.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 19 September, 2014, 06:33:32 PM
Quote from: Anzati on 19 September, 2014, 11:45:46 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 19 September, 2014, 11:36:38 AM
I still think omitting America was an error—the one big mis-step of the CFs—and I wonder how much it had to do with impacting on trade sales elsewhere.

It was for this reason alone that I own the America graphic novel...I do wonder how many others followed suit. I've also been umming and aaarrring ove the Kenny Who trade, but isn't that only one 10 page story that's missing, making it less worthwhile picking up :(

Maybe these anomalies will be corrected in the Super Deluxe Omnibus Case Files! (hint, hint)




Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 19 September, 2014, 06:55:24 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 19 September, 2014, 04:16:22 PM
...from the The Cal Files to the end of The Pit is 270 pages. Given the normal division between Prog and Meg in the Case Files to keep the reprints broadly aligned in publication order, that means either splitting The Pit in half or only including a handful of Meg stories in this volume and heavily weighting the next one in compensation.

Either way, the next two volumes are going to be quite interesting!

What's the art like on the Meg stories at this point? I remember hearing that they were used as 'try-outs' for unproven artists for a while in the '90s - if that's the case a Meg-heavy volume might be a bit of a clunker.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 September, 2014, 07:25:39 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 19 September, 2014, 06:55:24 PM
What's the art like on the Meg stories at this point? I remember hearing that they were used as 'try-outs' for unproven artists for a while in the '90s - if that's the case a Meg-heavy volume might be a bit of a clunker.
No idea, beyond what's been in the Case Files so far and that would seem like a fair description.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 8-Ball on 19 September, 2014, 07:35:29 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 19 September, 2014, 07:25:39 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 19 September, 2014, 06:55:24 PM
What's the art like on the Meg stories at this point? I remember hearing that they were used as 'try-outs' for unproven artists for a while in the '90s - if that's the case a Meg-heavy volume might be a bit of a clunker.
No idea, beyond what's been in the Case Files so far and that would seem like a fair description.

Like the great philosopher Alan Hansen once said, "You can't win anything with kids." The Meg material in the current Case Files is interesting to say the least and it is good to see the early tryouts of today's established artists. I'm just not sure that I would like to buy a whole CF devoted to it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 19 September, 2014, 08:17:25 PM
Quote from: radiator on 19 September, 2014, 06:28:43 PM
There's absolutely no reason for it not to be included - it's billed as a 'Judge Dredd' story.


So was America; as it was printed in the first Megazine:


(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff248/burlearth/AMER_zpsd7fad431.jpg)





Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tombo on 19 September, 2014, 10:09:50 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 19 September, 2014, 06:55:24 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 19 September, 2014, 04:16:22 PM
...from the The Cal Files to the end of The Pit is 270 pages. Given the normal division between Prog and Meg in the Case Files to keep the reprints broadly aligned in publication order, that means either splitting The Pit in half or only including a handful of Meg stories in this volume and heavily weighting the next one in compensation.

Either way, the next two volumes are going to be quite interesting!

Somewhere in the depths of the forum's archives someone (Small Blue Thing I think) created a rough listing in what would be appearing in the Case Files up to the mid to late 20's.  Since we no longer have a search function here I'll see if I can remember where I saw it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 19 September, 2014, 10:36:32 PM
Quote from: Tombo on 19 September, 2014, 10:09:50 PM
Somewhere in the depths of the forum's archives someone (Small Blue Thing I think) created a rough listing in what would be appearing in the Case Files up to the mid to late 20's.  Since we no longer have a search function here I'll see if I can remember where I saw it.

That's the excellent radiator's schtick. Bookmark this for future reference, or type '2000adonline, radiator, case files' into google:

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,34204.msg626214.html#msg626214


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tombo on 19 September, 2014, 10:42:03 PM
Just this second found it, apologies to Radiator for attributing his hard work to someone else and cheers to Sauchie co-op for posting the link.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 19 September, 2014, 11:40:42 PM
Note that that's already totally wrong - The Pit is in CF24.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 22 September, 2014, 08:33:47 AM
Note also that SmallBlueThing has neither the time nor the intelligence to create something like that, no matter how inaccurate it eventually turns out to be. In fact, SmallBlueThing can't even put together a short shopping list that includes cat food despite writing said shopping list explicitly to buy cat food, and now has to back round the shop before work because he managed to buy everything except cat food.

In short, SmallBlueThing is a fuckwit.

But a Tales of Telguuth collection has made his day.

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 September, 2014, 03:09:18 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 30 March, 2014, 07:22:20 AM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CityLimits_zps9144dad8.jpg)


The Amazon blurb for City Limits says it is "the first 12 issues of IDW's ongoing series, plus all of the back-up stories", in other words, a collection of the collections they've already got out at the moment.  Is that right?  Is that something IDW normally do?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 27 September, 2014, 11:55:02 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 September, 2014, 03:09:18 AMThe Amazon blurb for City Limits says it is "the first 12 issues of IDW's ongoing series, plus all of the back-up stories", in other words, a collection of the collections they've already got out at the moment.  Is that right?  Is that something IDW normally do?

No idea if they normally do it, but it's definitely correct. Also quite possibly an encouraging sign that the series is doing well if they're prepared to release it in three formats. Personally, I get the normal four-issue trade collections, and I'll be sticking to that format for the foreseeable future.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 27 September, 2014, 01:00:49 PM
IDW repackage their strips in as many different combinations as they can. Expect hardcover collections, 24 issue collections, etc etc
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 September, 2014, 03:59:28 PM
Thanks guys.  I'm happy to support the line but don't want to double up on stuff.  (At least not the IDW stuff, he says, eyeing Case Files, trades, Xtremes, Best of Monthlys, B formats, Prion hardcovers...)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 27 September, 2014, 05:55:05 PM
The Daily Dredds. What sort of stories will it have? Same as the regular prog but retold as news paper strips? Where there anu epics?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 27 September, 2014, 06:10:58 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 27 September, 2014, 05:55:05 PM
The Daily Dredds. What sort of stories will it have? Same as the regular prog but retold as news paper strips? Where there anu epics?


They were original stories by Wagner, Grant & Smith.

http://dreddreviews.blogspot.ie/2011/08/judge-dredd-mega-collection.html


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 27 September, 2014, 07:49:37 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 27 September, 2014, 06:10:58 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 27 September, 2014, 05:55:05 PM
The Daily Dredds. What sort of stories will it have? Same as the regular prog but retold as news paper strips? Where there anu epics?


They were original stories by Wagner, Grant & Smith.

http://dreddreviews.blogspot.ie/2011/08/judge-dredd-mega-collection.html

Much thanks to "Dredd Reckoning" I'm asking, since Wolk says that Apocalypse war was written into a strip. I really like the sound of it.

Looks like some really good fun either way. Will definitely buy the Daily Dredds book!

I can't stop laughing at this one haha
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/icon_uk/11800056/1339943/original.jpg
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 27 September, 2014, 07:51:58 PM
Apocalypse War was condensed into a single half page strip! There are a few multi-partners in this volume, though I think 4 parts is the longest. If Vol 2 happens, that includes the daily strips  with much longer stories.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 28 September, 2014, 04:51:13 PM
Dredd CF 24

(http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/cvr9781781083390/judge-dredd-casefiles-24-9781781083390_lg.jpg)

http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Casefiles-24/John-Wagner/9781781083390

"Dredd is faced with one of his hardest challenges yet - dispensing justice in the 'Big Meg's' worst sector known as 'The Pit'! Also, the ultimate lawman faces a legendary war robot, when Judge Dredd squares off against the ABC Warrior Hammerstein!"

I haven't seen the cover before. Any ideas if it collects the whole pit and/or other stories?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 28 September, 2014, 05:10:37 PM
I am, admittedly, guessing but by my reckoning this should run up to the end of the end of the initial 'The Pit' multi-parter with the 'spin-off/fall-out' stories comprising a large part of CF25! I will be wrong though...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Art on 28 September, 2014, 07:36:13 PM
Super excited for this one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 29 September, 2014, 02:25:38 PM
Insurrection: Liberty now available for pre-order at Amazon UK: (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Insurrection-Liberty-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781083401)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Liberty_zps98395460.jpg)

96 pages, Paperback, 12th March 2015

Blurb:
Mega-City colonial space, 2135AD. Mining colony K Alpha 61 renamed itself Liberty after cutting loose from the Big Meg. Furious at this dissent, and in a bid to stop the revolt spreading to other colonies, the SJS launched a blistering attack on Colonial Marshal Kerel Luther's forces. Now the alien Zhind have been defeated, and the SJS are turning on the insurrectionists.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 September, 2014, 07:19:33 PM
Uh looking forward to the last Insurrection volume very much.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 October, 2014, 10:16:58 AM
No fan fare for the Luther Arkwright compendium? I've never had the privelige of reading LA before but I adore Takbot's other works so this is a must buy for me. Hope that page count is wrong mind you.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arkwright-Integral-Bryan-Talbot/dp/1616553871/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arkwright-Integral-Bryan-Talbot/dp/1616553871/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 01 October, 2014, 01:01:02 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 01 October, 2014, 10:16:58 AM
No fan fare for the Luther Arkwright compendium? I've never had the privelige of reading LA before but I adore Takbot's other works so this is a must buy for me. Hope that page count is wrong mind you.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arkwright-Integral-Bryan-Talbot/dp/1616553871/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arkwright-Integral-Bryan-Talbot/dp/1616553871/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y)

Glad to see Luther again, it became more about the art for me as it progressed. Not that the art is less dense than the story, now I come to think of it :) Such a labour of love...

What the link did alert me to also was: Saga Deluxe HC and Johnny Nemo HC. That 18-issue collected Saga is mightily tempting, even if it's re-buying. And shamefully my Johnny Nemo collection remains unread. For 25 years, it seems. More hours in the day, please?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 October, 2014, 02:03:38 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 01 October, 2014, 10:16:58 AM
No fan fare for the Luther Arkwright compendium? I've never had the privelige of reading LA before but I adore Takbot's other works so this is a must buy for me. Hope that page count is wrong mind you.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arkwright-Integral-Bryan-Talbot/dp/1616553871/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arkwright-Integral-Bryan-Talbot/dp/1616553871/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y)

Oh I'll be having that, there's a big hole in my bookshelf crying out to be filled: I love both series, but only have them in very dog-eared floppies (the original run collected from secondhand racks all over these islands).  All except my issue of Heart of Empire that's signed by (Sir) Kenny Baker, which is kept in carbonite.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 01 October, 2014, 02:38:50 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 01 October, 2014, 02:03:38 PM
All except my issue of Heart of Empire that's signed by (Sir) Kenny Baker, which is kept in carbonite.

You're my kinda nerd, TB.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 01 October, 2014, 07:31:12 PM
Slaine: The Brutania Chronicles Bk 1 Now up for pre-order

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Brutania-Chronicles-Pat-Mills/dp/1781083355/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_cart_3_p?ie=UTF8&refRID=1Z0KMKHCMWR7KZ463EQN
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: J.Smith on 03 October, 2014, 03:56:30 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 01 October, 2014, 07:31:12 PM
Slaine: The Brutania Chronicles Bk 1 Now up for pre-order

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Brutania-Chronicles-Pat-Mills/dp/1781083355/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_cart_3_p?ie=UTF8&refRID=1Z0KMKHCMWR7KZ463EQN

Great to see that this will be continuing the hardback line for Slaine, though I suppose the page length will put it more in line with the four Volgan War hardcovers, which is probably even better since there's no gutter loss on those things at all. Good stuff either way.

Anyway, this reminds me - I really would love if the earlier Slaine stories were re-collected in the same style as these Mek Files books for the ABC Warriors in the next year or so. It'd save buying all the various paperbacks for one thing, but having all the colour splash pages back in print in a book more in line with the size of the Prog would be smashing too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: SmallBlueThing on 03 October, 2014, 04:02:06 PM
Quote from: J.Smith on 03 October, 2014, 03:56:30 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 01 October, 2014, 07:31:12 PM
Slaine: The Brutania Chronicles Bk 1 Now up for pre-order

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaine-Brutania-Chronicles-Pat-Mills/dp/1781083355/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_cart_3_p?ie=UTF8&refRID=1Z0KMKHCMWR7KZ463EQN

Great to see that this will be continuing the hardback line for Slaine, though I suppose the page length will put it more in line with the four Volgan War hardcovers, which is probably even better since there's no gutter loss on those things at all. Good stuff either way.

Anyway, this reminds me - I really would love if the earlier Slaine stories were re-collected in the same style as these Mek Files books for the ABC Warriors in the next year or so. It'd save buying all the various paperbacks for one thing, but having all the colour splash pages back in print in a book more in line with the size of the Prog would be smashing too.

Absolutely. Put me down for copies of all.

SBT
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 03 October, 2014, 06:54:52 PM
I already have all the Slaine paperbacks and would have no qualms at all about re-buying in the larger hardback format!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 03 October, 2014, 07:26:43 PM
QuoteGreat to see that this will be continuing the hardback line for Slaine, though I suppose the page length will put it more in line with the four Volgan War hardcovers, which is probably even better since there's no gutter loss on those things at all.

It's funny, I've been bemoaning the ending of the beautifully realised softback reprint line, and lamenting that I'll have to change format to hardback to get the Langley years - but the prospect of a 'Simple Killing' hardback fills me with glee! 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 20 October, 2014, 06:19:04 PM
Prog & Meg schedule for end of year:

Quote
2000 AD PROGS 1910 & 1911
Searing SF action from the Eisner-nominated UK anthology! Everything wraps up in the final two regular issues of the year — the Ichabod Azrael saga comes to a bullet-sprayed close by Rob Williams and Mike Dowling, Stickleback gears up for the final fight, courtesy of Ian Edginton and D'Israeli, and secret agent John Blake battles his nemesis in Greysuit: Prince of Darkness by Pat Mills and John Higgins. Plus more zero-tolerance law enforcement in Judge Dredd!

2000 AD PROG 2015
(W/A/CA) Various
Celebrate Xmas with the traditional end-of-year issue — 100 pages of barnstorming sci-fi from the finest writers and artists in the galaxy! One of the most eagerly awaited Dredd stories starts this issue, Dark Justice by John Wagner and Greg Staples, as the lawman's most feared enemies, the Dark Judges, make their terrifying reappearance. Plus Bill Savage is back on the frontline fighting the Volgs in Grinders by Pat Mills and Patrick Goddard; Kek-W and John Burns take us back to the 13th century for a brand-new SF/fantasy saga The Order; the psychotic Ulysses Sweet is a wanted man in "Psycho Therapist" by Guy Adams and Paul Marshall; sharpsuited informer Max Normal revisits an escapade in Apetown in "No Comics For Old Men" by Guy Adams and Ben Willsher; and there's complete Low Life, Jaegir and Visible Man stories!

JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #355
More action and adventure in the future-shocked world of Judge Dredd! "Dead Zone" comes to its fiery climax courtesy of John Wagner and Henry Flint; there's a new case for P.I. Galen DeMarco by Michael Carroll and Steve Yeowell; an epic new Dredd saga begins in "The Cop" by Al Ewing and Ben Willsher; and American Reaper returns for its final arc by Pat Mills and Clint Langley. Plus the usual features, interviews and more, and in the bagged graphic novel this month, to celebrate the return of the Dark Judges in 2000 AD, we revisit the dark days of Plagues of Necropolis by Si Spencer, Simon Davis and more!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ZenArcade on 20 October, 2014, 06:28:56 PM
Gonna be a thrill packed winter by the looks of it. Prog 2015 looks unmissable. Ulysees Sweet....I'm in hog heaven. Z
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 October, 2014, 06:32:36 PM
Prog seem's to be on fire from now till chrimbob. Prog 2015 sounds phenomenal with the one down side that thiers no festive Absalom this year round. But thst just me being a pessimist.

Plagues of Necropolis though, I think that speaks for itself.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 20 October, 2014, 06:39:35 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 27 September, 2014, 07:49:37 PM


Much thanks to "Dredd Reckoning" I'm asking, since Wolk says that Apocalypse war was written into a strip. I really like the sound of it.

Looks like some really good fun either way. Will definitely buy the Daily Dredds book!




Quote from: glassstanley on 27 September, 2014, 07:51:58 PM
Apocalypse War was condensed into a single half page strip!

It was indeed.


(http://i.imgur.com/VUtGoUi.jpg)

A scan taken from the original art

But great news that the first book is landing next month.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 20 October, 2014, 07:15:32 PM

Cheers, Batson! I wondered what the excellent Willsher was doing with himself - I loved his take on Max Normal in the Lenny Zero story of which we no longer speak, so allowing him to promenade his take on the dapper gent who's never bent over the course of a solo series, which hopefully includes talking polar bears (but no [spoiler]pseudo drug rape[/spoiler]), seems like a great idea.

The title is either a crack at the expense of a readership who can remember when telly showed a test card until quarter to four in the afternoon, or indication that the story will riff on Max Normal's debut in prog 20's The Comic Pusher.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Prodigal2 on 21 October, 2014, 10:43:45 AM
Prog 2015 has my thrill circuits overloading at the thought (except for Ulysees Sweet which doesn't do much for me).

The festive big one still feels like a Chrimbo old school "annual" to me and I dearly love it for that reason.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 21 October, 2014, 11:02:04 AM
Quote from: sauchie welfare on 20 October, 2014, 07:15:32 PM
... I wondered what the excellent Willsher was doing with himself - I loved his take on Max Normal in the Lenny Zero story of which we no longer speak, so allowing him to promenade his take on the dapper gent who's never bent over the course of a solo series...
I rather hope it's a one-off instead of a series. Two painfully unfunny comedy strips running alongside Bill Savage goes Cottaging would be a bit much.

Of far more interest to me is Willsher's Meg outing which also features the very welcome return of Al Ewing to Dredd. Surprised nobody else is eager to see that.

There's no pleasing some people (me) is there?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 11:17:48 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 21 October, 2014, 11:02:04 AM

Of far more interest to me is Willsher's Meg outing which also features the very welcome return of Al Ewing to Dredd. Surprised nobody else is eager to see that.

There's no pleasing some people (me) is there?
Al hasn't done Dredd yet has he? It's all been Art so far?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 October, 2014, 11:21:27 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 11:17:48 AM
Al hasn't done Dredd yet has he? It's all been Art so far?

Correct- and he's done a pretty decent job so far.

Having Al Ewing back at all is also excellent news.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 11:22:32 AM
More Al Ewing is always a good thing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 21 October, 2014, 11:28:07 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 11:17:48 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 21 October, 2014, 11:02:04 AM

Of far more interest to me is Willsher's Meg outing which also features the very welcome return of Al Ewing to Dredd. Surprised nobody else is eager to see that.

There's no pleasing some people (me) is there?
Al hasn't done Dredd yet has he? It's all been Art so far?

Don't get your Als and Arts in a twist. Al Ewing wrote all the Dredd episodes of Trifecta along with many other Dredd stories over the past few years.

On another note - "American Reaper returns for its final arc by Pat Mills and Clint Langley" - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 October, 2014, 11:37:52 AM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 21 October, 2014, 11:28:07 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 11:17:48 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 21 October, 2014, 11:02:04 AM

Of far more interest to me is Willsher's Meg outing which also features the very welcome return of Al Ewing to Dredd. Surprised nobody else is eager to see that.

There's no pleasing some people (me) is there?
Al hasn't done Dredd yet has he? It's all been Art so far?

Don't get your Als and Arts in a twist. Al Ewing wrote all the Dredd episodes of Trifecta along with many other Dredd stories over the past few years.

Sure of course- I took it this was regarding Al writing (movie-verse) Dredd, not 'Judge Dredd'.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 11:42:46 AM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 21 October, 2014, 11:28:07 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 11:17:48 AM

Al hasn't done Dredd yet has he? It's all been Art so far?

Don't get your Als and Arts in a twist. Al Ewing wrote all the Dredd episodes of Trifecta along with many other Dredd stories over the past few years.

On another note - "American Reaper returns for its final arc by Pat Mills and Clint Langley" - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't get your Dredds and Judge Dredds in a twist ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 21 October, 2014, 12:21:20 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 11:42:46 AM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 21 October, 2014, 11:28:07 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 11:17:48 AM

Al hasn't done Dredd yet has he? It's all been Art so far?

Don't get your Als and Arts in a twist. Al Ewing wrote all the Dredd episodes of Trifecta along with many other Dredd stories over the past few years.

On another note - "American Reaper returns for its final arc by Pat Mills and Clint Langley" - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't get your Dredds and Judge Dredds in a twist ;)

BAH!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 October, 2014, 01:08:16 PM
And then there's IDW Dredd, LotF Dredd, Heavy Metal Dredd, Animated Dredd Adventures, Ultimate Dredd, Earth 2 Dredd, Elseworlds Dredd, Nu52 Dredd, Vertigo Mature Readers Dredd, Dredd Max...

Well, a squaxx can dream.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 01:18:18 PM
dont forget DC Dredd, LotL Dredd and Macro Zone Alpha Dredd
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 21 October, 2014, 01:22:25 PM
Dark Horse Presents Dredd, Zombie Dredd, Manga Dredd, All-Star Gruddamn Dredd, Galen Loves Joe Dredd...

Hush now, I can hear the cries of the Earth 616 Commando Forces' starving family...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 21 October, 2014, 01:42:45 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 21 October, 2014, 11:28:07 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 11:17:48 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 21 October, 2014, 11:02:04 AM

Of far more interest to me is Willsher's Meg outing which also features the very welcome return of Al Ewing to Dredd. Surprised nobody else is eager to see that.

There's no pleasing some people (me) is there?
Al hasn't done Dredd yet has he? It's all been Art so far?
K



On another note - "American Reaper returns for its FINAL arc by Pat Mills and Clint Langley" - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHOO HOO!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: NapalmKev on 21 October, 2014, 01:54:20 PM
WHOO HOO Indeed!

I like American Reaper, look forward to its return!*

Cheers


*No, I'm not joking. And I'm not stoned either.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 October, 2014, 01:54:55 PM
On the one hand, American Reaper sucks so goddamn much. On the kther, once it's done it's done.
I say git er done.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 21 October, 2014, 01:56:02 PM
Hmmmmm, I may not have been as clear as I intended there! WHOO HOO! It's nearly finished, then we'll never have to see it again! Better?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: NapalmKev on 21 October, 2014, 01:59:42 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 21 October, 2014, 01:56:02 PM
Hmmmmm, I may not have been as clear as I intended there! WHOO HOO! It's nearly finished, then we'll never have to see it again! Better?

My mistake.

I still say it's a good series, better than some other strips I've read of late, including strips in the Prog!

Cheers
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 21 October, 2014, 02:01:50 PM
I'm not sure if to wish for a less luxuriant page count for Sexy Ostriches so its less distracting or for it to be over as quick as possible. On the plus side, it's the last series so as long as it doesn't finish with 'bloke who looks like Clint Langley will return in American Reaper Book II : Ostrich Boogaloo" I'm happy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 21 October, 2014, 02:41:10 PM
I could get pn board with 'Ostrich Boogaloo'!  :-[
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 21 October, 2014, 10:54:51 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 21 October, 2014, 01:22:25 PM
Dark Horse Presents Dredd, Zombie Dredd, Manga Dredd, All-Star Gruddamn Dredd, Galen Loves Joe Dredd...

Hush now, I can hear the cries of the Earth 616 Commando Forces' starving family...

And don't forget the next IDW crossover. My Little Dredd.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 21 October, 2014, 11:48:48 PM
I'm awaiting the return of Slaine in the progs! I just know that story hasn't ended.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 22 October, 2014, 09:35:52 AM
Quote from: Fungus on 21 October, 2014, 10:54:51 PM
And don't forget the next IDW crossover. My Little Dredd.

Not to mention the cutesy adventures of a gang of adorable baby jays, the so-called "Li'l Judges".
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Prodigal2 on 22 October, 2014, 12:31:31 PM
Ugh I hadn't picked up on Ostriches. A meg dropper for the duration potentially.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 22 October, 2014, 03:38:35 PM
On the plus side - Low Life one-off for the xmas prog!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: NapalmKev on 22 October, 2014, 04:04:41 PM
Quote from: Prodigal2 on 22 October, 2014, 12:31:31 PM
Ugh I hadn't picked up on Ostriches. A meg dropper for the duration potentially.

Would you really stop buying the Meg just because of one story (out of four) that you don't like?

Cheers
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 22 October, 2014, 04:09:53 PM
Plus the free floppy!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 22 October, 2014, 04:34:38 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 22 October, 2014, 03:38:35 PM
On the plus side - Low Life one-off for the xmas prog!
Low Life is always good news in my book.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 22 October, 2014, 09:12:41 PM
Remember talking to Wilsher at thought bubble asking what he was working on and he said a Dredd series with Al Ewing I asked how long he said 12 parts hope it still is.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 22 October, 2014, 09:16:35 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 21 October, 2014, 01:22:25 PMGalen Loves Joe Dredd...

I want a Valentine special issue just to have this
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 22 October, 2014, 09:17:19 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 22 October, 2014, 09:12:41 PM
Remember talking to Wilsher at thought bubble asking what he was working on and he said a Dredd series with Al Ewing I asked how long he said 12 parts hope it still is

A 12 part story serialised in a monthly publication - that would mean the Megazine Dredd slot would be all Al Ewing, all the year round. Nice.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 October, 2014, 09:24:52 PM
Quote from: sauchie welfare on 22 October, 2014, 09:17:19 PM
Nice.

Very nice.

As this is 'Dredd'- and therefore will likely be sold in US format too- I guess we can expect it to be coloured.
Which for me is a slight dissappointment, Willsher is an excellent monochrome artist IMO.

PS- cheers for the scoop Graham.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 22 October, 2014, 09:33:56 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 22 October, 2014, 09:24:52 PM
Quote from: sauchie welfare on 22 October, 2014, 09:17:19 PM
Nice.

Very nice.

As this is 'Dredd'- and therefore will likely be sold in US format too- I guess we can expect it to be coloured.
Which for me is a slight dissappointment, Willsher is an excellent monochrome artist IMO.

PS- cheers for the scoop Graham.

Well it took all my journalistic skills
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 22 October, 2014, 09:39:38 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 22 October, 2014, 09:33:56 PM
Well it took all my journalistic skills

You should try pumping Mike Carroll for info- Erin Brockovich would get more out of a 6 year old hall monitor.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Prodigal2 on 23 October, 2014, 11:31:23 AM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 22 October, 2014, 04:04:41 PM
Quote from: Prodigal2 on 22 October, 2014, 12:31:31 PM
Ugh I hadn't picked up on Ostriches. A meg dropper for the duration potentially.

Would you really stop buying the Meg just because of one story (out of four) that you don't like?

Cheers

It does my nut in Kev and consumes what seems like a huge proportion of the meg so I might.
On the other hand I might just be having a rant and cave in when it comes to it. Dunno.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 October, 2014, 11:40:22 AM
Grin an bare it mate. Not worth ignoring some cracking Dredd stuff for.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 23 October, 2014, 12:13:42 PM
Quick divergence if you will what do we know will be in the new Stickleback collection Edgington mentioned it would have the first three stories, is that still the case?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 October, 2014, 12:36:34 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 23 October, 2014, 12:13:42 PM
Quick divergence if you will what do we know will be in the new Stickleback collection Edgington mentioned it would have the first three stories, is that still the case?
Englands Glory has been OOP for sometime, so a collection of the first few stories would be much welcome.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 23 October, 2014, 12:44:47 PM
I quite like American Reaper. The extra room Clint has for this strip really works for me. This reminds me very much of a Euro BD strip that just happens to be run in the Meg. I 'am' hoping for it to be finished this volume though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 23 October, 2014, 01:01:15 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 23 October, 2014, 12:36:34 PM
Englands Glory has been OOP for sometime, so a collection of the first few stories would be much welcome.


Here's a copy I recently bought. think it's a reprint, since it gives a word about Number of the beast coming out.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stickleback-2000-Ad-Ian-Edginton/dp/1905437749/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414065537&sr=1-1&keywords=stickleback+2000ad

Quote from: IronGraham on 23 October, 2014, 12:13:42 PM
Quick divergence if you will what do we know will be in the new Stickleback collection Edgington mentioned it would have the first three stories, is that still the case?

Cool, when was this mentioned? Any info on this? A hard cover?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 October, 2014, 01:13:11 PM
Well thats my christmass stocking filler sorted! :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 23 October, 2014, 02:23:43 PM
"Only 1 left in stock."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 October, 2014, 02:25:09 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 23 October, 2014, 02:23:43 PM
"Only 1 left in stock."
Not from Book Depository theri isn't.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 23 October, 2014, 05:24:52 PM
Quote
Cool, when was this mentioned? Any info on this? A hard cover?

When I was talking to him at thought bubble


Modified to fix broken quote.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 24 October, 2014, 07:41:09 AM
Quote from: IronGraham on 23 October, 2014, 05:24:52 PM
Quote
Cool, when was this mentioned? Any info on this? A hard cover?

When I was talking to him at thought bubble

Cool! Perhaps they'll release it in a similar way as Brass sun, first 6 issues and then a hardcover collection of those.

For me Stickleback's "London's Burning" makes more sense as an ending than a middle (as collected in Number of the beast.).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 October, 2014, 10:27:56 AM
Now available to pre-order from Amazon UK:

Rogue Trooper Classics (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rogue-Trooper-Classics-Dave-Gibbons/dp/1631400703) by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons, Cam Kennedy, Colin Wilson, Brett Ewins, and Mike Dorey.

Paperback, 212 pages, IDW Publishing, 24th March 2015

In this battle-scarred landscape called Nu Earth, the Norts and Southers fight where only the Genetic Infantrymen can survive unaided. Rogue is one such soldier, and these are his tales. Created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons, this collection features stories such as "Rogue Trooper," "Doomsday Valley," "Ascent to Buzzard," "The Body Looters," and more.


(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/RTC_zps9de3b262.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 24 October, 2014, 11:34:45 AM
Ah. I did wonder what that one was—makes sense that it's IDW and not Rebellion. (I'd not looked at the publisher.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 24 October, 2014, 11:45:55 AM
That is a beautiful cover
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 24 October, 2014, 12:41:57 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 24 October, 2014, 11:45:55 AM
That is a beautiful cover

It is. The very talented John McCrea I believe.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 October, 2014, 12:54:28 PM
Do we know if these have been coloured?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 24 October, 2014, 01:02:11 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 24 October, 2014, 12:54:28 PM
Do we know if these have been coloured?

Will be coloured, as the 8-issue (aborted) series (http://www.idwpublishing.com/product/rogue-trooper-classics-8/), collected.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 October, 2014, 01:31:15 PM
There's my reason for rebuying those stories, right there.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 24 October, 2014, 02:59:24 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 24 October, 2014, 12:41:57 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 24 October, 2014, 11:45:55 AM
That is a beautiful cover

It is. The very talented John McCrea I believe.


Do we have to do something he's too good feel like something should be done
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 October, 2014, 04:57:33 PM
Cor that's a good cover.  McCrea is a star.  I'll admit to temptation on this score - I've so-far resisted buying any collected Rogue, not sure why, but I wonder would this be a useful book to lend to kids.  I know I found early Rogue Trooper completely irresistible when I started scouring parish sales and charity shops for old progs back in the early 80's, so much so that I think it was the very first long-running story that I 'completed' - and I wonder would the colour be helpful ingredient for the younger generation.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Adamskilad on 25 October, 2014, 07:47:23 PM
2000 AD Pack (Jan 2015)

"Searing SF action from the Eisner-nominated UK anthology! Judge Dredd and Psi-Judge Anderson head into space to stop a slaughter on the pioneer starship the Mayflower as the Dark Judges cut a bloody swathe through the crew in the stunning series Dark Justice by John Wagner and Greg Staples; Bill Savage discovers who is behind the augmented activists in Savage: Grinders by Pat Mills and Patrick Goddard; The Order descend into the sewers of Prague to battle the interdimensional Wurms, courtesy of Kek-W and John Burns; Maniac For Hire Ulysses Sweet has been made a target in Psycho Therapist by Guy Adams and Paul Marshall; and East-Meg assassin Orlok returns for flashback story Eurozoned by Arthur Wyatt and Jake Lynch as he makes an enemy in the Sov Diktatoriat!"

The Mayflower? Dark Judges in space? Colour me intrigued...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ZenArcade on 25 October, 2014, 08:02:15 PM
That sounds amazing man. Z
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 25 October, 2014, 08:05:55 PM
The  Order sounds great. As it's set in Prague and is painted by Burns i'm hoping for some beautifuly surreal building designs.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 26 October, 2014, 12:08:28 AM
Looks like those planned IDW colour reprints of the Dark Judges stories are back on track for next year!   :)

(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/mubhceeb/imagejpg1-13.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/mubhceeb/media/imagejpg1-13.jpg.html)


(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/mubhceeb/imagejpg2-4.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/mubhceeb/media/imagejpg2-4.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 26 October, 2014, 01:16:23 AM
Are there any plans to re-release Slaine - Book of Invasions as part of the latest re-release of the others?



Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 27 October, 2014, 09:55:49 AM
Dark Judges in space sounds really rad! Can't wait to read it  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: amines2058 on 27 October, 2014, 12:56:38 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 27 October, 2014, 09:55:49 AM
Dark Judges in space sounds really rad! Can't wait to read it  :D

Oh I don't know....I am not sure if it will have much atmosphere??


I will get my coat  :-[
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 27 October, 2014, 06:33:10 PM
Does any one know if their will be new Armitage
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 27 October, 2014, 11:34:44 PM
Paul Marshall has been a great droid for Tharg, the art on Dan Fransisco was among his best, and Guy Adams has shown he can write a bit, but more Ulysses Sweet? The same for the Wyatt and Lynch, talented droids, I'm not saying that these stories wont be good, just I would much prefer to see their talents put to creating new characters.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 27 October, 2014, 11:50:32 PM
Quote from: dweezil2 on 26 October, 2014, 12:08:28 AM
Looks like those planned IDW colour reprints of the Dark Judges stories are back on track for next year!   :)

(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/mubhceeb/imagejpg1-13.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/mubhceeb/media/imagejpg1-13.jpg.html)


(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/mubhceeb/imagejpg2-4.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/mubhceeb/media/imagejpg2-4.jpg.html)

Ah, nice! Feared the series had been shitcanned. I got the Apoc War hardback recently and it's a really nice book. Will definitely be buying the Dark Judges one, and dearly hope one day for The Judge Child and Oz to get the same treatment.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 28 October, 2014, 12:48:04 AM
My problem with Ulysses Sweet boils down to 'Zombo is better'.

Nice art obviously.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: inkymonkey on 28 October, 2014, 12:55:12 AM
Quote from: radiator on 27 October, 2014, 11:50:32 PM
Quote from: dweezil2 on 26 October, 2014, 12:08:28 AM
Looks like those planned IDW colour reprints of the Dark Judges stories are back on track for next year!   :)

(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/mubhceeb/imagejpg1-13.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/mubhceeb/media/imagejpg1-13.jpg.html)


(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/mubhceeb/imagejpg2-4.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/mubhceeb/media/imagejpg2-4.jpg.html)

Ah, nice! Feared the series had been shitcanned. I got the Apoc War hardback recently and it's a really nice book. Will definitely be buying the Dark Judges one, and dearly hope one day for The Judge Child and Oz to get the same treatment.


Likewise for me! I didn't mind the colouring, though a bit irritated with the lazy errors (leaving unused photoshop masks on, that sort of gear...).  Did they fix that up in the hardback?

I'd be interesting to see how they'd blend in the computer colouring with the art droids' painted double pager spreads in Oz.  I don't think there'd be copies of those pages uncoloured... McCarthy's, in particular.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 28 October, 2014, 02:52:10 AM
Interdimensional Wurms under Prague?

...that should be a larf...

;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 28 October, 2014, 07:09:05 AM
Quote from: inkymonkey on 28 October, 2014, 12:55:12 AM
Quote from: radiator on 27 October, 2014, 11:50:32 PM
Quote from: dweezil2 on 26 October, 2014, 12:08:28 AM
Looks like those planned IDW colour reprints of the Dark Judges stories are back on track for next year!   :)


Ah, nice! Feared the series had been shitcanned. I got the Apoc War hardback recently and it's a really nice book. Will definitely be buying the Dark Judges one, and dearly hope one day for The Judge Child and Oz to get the same treatment.


Likewise for me! I didn't mind the colouring, though a bit irritated with the lazy errors (leaving unused photoshop masks on, that sort of gear...).  Did they fix that up in the hardback?

I'd be interesting to see how they'd blend in the computer colouring with the art droids' painted double pager spreads in Oz.  I don't think there'd be copies of those pages uncoloured... McCarthy's, in particular.


The errors were fixed inkymonkey, it's a really nice collection!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Classics-Volume-Apocalypse/dp/1613779356/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414480024&sr=8-1&keywords=apocalypse+war

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 28 October, 2014, 12:04:36 PM
That Darick Robertson Death cover is top notch.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 28 October, 2014, 01:47:38 PM
I doubt they can get more than 2 issues out of the original Dark Judges story. I wonder if they are going to reprint the Anderson strips as well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 28 October, 2014, 02:00:37 PM
There is quite a page count if they put all the Judge Death appearances in. Young Death ran for 12 issues in the Megazine.

So it all depends what stories they pick.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: BPP on 28 October, 2014, 06:46:55 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 28 October, 2014, 12:48:04 AM
My problem with Ulysses Sweet boils down to 'Zombo is better'.

Nice art obviously.

It reads really well in one batch, the sort of wacky where weekly you're a bit disinterested but as a whole it zips along in a fun way. Good to see it back.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 October, 2014, 07:15:06 PM
Yeah, despite not being at all enamoured with it at the start, Sweet had won me over by the end - due in no small part to brilliant greyscale art from Marshall: have high hopes for this new run.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Adamskilad on 29 October, 2014, 11:05:04 AM
I really enjoyed Ulysses Sweet at first but it dragged a bit across 10 (?) episodes. Hopefully the new series will be a shorter punch to the trachea.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 30 October, 2014, 07:10:42 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 23 October, 2014, 12:13:42 PM
Quick divergence if you will what do we know will be in the new Stickleback collection Edgington mentioned it would have the first three stories, is that still the case?

What's this I hear about a new Stickleback trade???
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 30 October, 2014, 08:05:34 PM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 30 October, 2014, 07:10:42 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 23 October, 2014, 12:13:42 PM
Quick divergence if you will what do we know will be in the new Stickleback collection Edgington mentioned it would have the first three stories, is that still the case?

What's this I hear about a new Stickleback trade???
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stickleback-Number-Beast-Ian-Edginton/dp/1781082936/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414699502&sr=8-1&keywords=stickleback
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 30 October, 2014, 08:53:08 PM
What the heck? But what about the later storues? Whrn wiplvthey br released, if ever?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 30 October, 2014, 09:29:16 PM
The next trade after that one will collect the three after
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 October, 2014, 10:20:59 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 30 October, 2014, 08:05:34 PM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 30 October, 2014, 07:10:42 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 23 October, 2014, 12:13:42 PM
Quick divergence if you will what do we know will be in the new Stickleback collection Edgington mentioned it would have the first three stories, is that still the case?

What's this I hear about a new Stickleback trade???
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stickleback-Number-Beast-Ian-Edginton/dp/1781082936/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414699502&sr=8-1&keywords=stickleback

Bloody Tharg. Since the glory that is the Mek-Files and Zenith Phase 1 I find myself disappointed when I see a new trade is going to be a paperback, despite the affordability effect.  >Wearily shakes fist at evil alien pusher<
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 31 October, 2014, 10:57:21 AM
I just got the ABC Warriors Mek Files vol 2 (vol 1 still in the post) and it's mouth wateringly lovely.

To save me trawling through this thread, has there been any news of a volume 3 yet?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 31 October, 2014, 12:23:01 PM
So, 2015 looks like this so far?

January: Strontium Dog - Life & Death of Johnny Alpha 2; Slaine - Brutannia Chronicles 1

February: JD Case Files 24

March: Tales of Telguuth; Insurrection: Liberty; Dredd: Urban Warfare

April: Zenith Phase 3

August: Judge Dredd - Dark Justice

Autumn: Dan Dare 1 (& possibly 2)

Unplaced, but possibilities for 2015: Zenith Phase 4; Mek-Files 3; JD Case Files 25; Ichabod Azrael (planned for earlier release but postponed to collect 3rd story); Daily Dredds 2

Plus IDW collections of Judge Anderson and the ongoing Judge Dredd series.

Does that seem right so far?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 31 October, 2014, 12:39:46 PM
DAN DARE?????? :o
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 31 October, 2014, 12:47:17 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 31 October, 2014, 12:39:46 PM
DAN DARE?????? :o

Yes. (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,41337.0/topicseen.html)

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 01 November, 2014, 10:24:33 AM
News that The Inspectre is to get the floppy treatment should bring cheer to at least one black heart. I've never read it so I'll give it a go, and excuse myself for not getting the pun in the name for years. The same listing also seems to imply that the Ewing/Willsher Dredd is real rather than movieland.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 01 November, 2014, 02:04:57 PM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 30 October, 2014, 08:53:08 PM
What the heck? But what about the later storues? Whrn wiplvthey br released, if ever?

Damn Gremlins!!! >:( Meant to say"But what about the later stories? When will they be released?"

Quote from: IronGraham on 30 October, 2014, 09:29:16 PM
The next trade after that one will collect the three after

Including the Christmas special?? What did he say specifically?

Quote from: glassstanley on 31 October, 2014, 12:23:01 PM
So, 2015 looks like this so far?

January: Strontium Dog - Life & Death of Johnny Alpha 2; Slaine - Brutannia Chronicles 1

February: JD Case Files 24

March: Tales of Telguuth; Insurrection: Liberty; Dredd: Urban Warfare

April: Zenith Phase 3

August: Judge Dredd - Dark Justice

Autumn: Dan Dare 1 (& possibly 2)

Unplaced, but possibilities for 2015: Zenith Phase 4; Mek-Files 3; JD Case Files 25; Ichabod Azrael (planned for earlier release but postponed to collect 3rd story); Daily Dredds 2

Plus IDW collections of Judge Anderson and the ongoing Judge Dredd series.

Does that seem right so far?

Don't forget the supposedly next Stickleback trade, as well!!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 04 November, 2014, 09:43:24 PM
Quote from: glassstanley on 31 October, 2014, 12:23:01 PM
So, 2015 looks like this so far?

January: Strontium Dog - Life & Death of Johnny Alpha 2; Slaine - Brutannia Chronicles 1

February: JD Case Files 24

March: Tales of Telguuth; Insurrection: Liberty; Dredd: Urban Warfare

April: Zenith Phase 3

August: Judge Dredd - Dark Justice

Autumn: Dan Dare 1 (& possibly 2)

Unplaced, but possibilities for 2015: Zenith Phase 4; Mek-Files 3; JD Case Files 25; Ichabod Azrael (planned for earlier release but postponed to collect 3rd story); Daily Dredds 2

Plus IDW collections of Judge Anderson and the ongoing Judge Dredd series.

Does that seem right so far?

You can add this to the list:

April: Zenith Phase 4, Judge Dredd: Luna-1

May: ABC Warriors: Return to Mars

June: Devlin Waugh: Red Tide

Also listed for June, The V.C's:Hell in the Heavens, perhaps a small collection like Luna-1 book?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 04 November, 2014, 09:48:50 PM
A final V.C.s volume? Yes please!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 04 November, 2014, 09:51:05 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 04 November, 2014, 09:43:24 PM
Also listed for June, The V.C's:Hell in the Heavens, perhaps a small collection like Luna-1 book?

Yes, it's a B-format collection of the original storyline.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 04 November, 2014, 10:02:00 PM
Oh so it's not a Vol 3 finishing off the Abnett / Williams stuff?  Sad face.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 04 November, 2014, 10:04:17 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 04 November, 2014, 10:02:00 PM
Oh so it's not a Vol 3 finishing off the Abnett / Williams stuff?  Sad face.

Correct.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 04 November, 2014, 10:08:30 PM
Any word if one will be released?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 04 November, 2014, 10:13:19 PM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 04 November, 2014, 10:08:30 PM
Any word if one will be released?

It's not on the current schedule, which stretches into early 2016.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 05 November, 2014, 12:17:59 AM
I'd concede to some Floppy Reprints to wrap it up.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 05 November, 2014, 05:02:19 PM
Don't I feel the silly bugger http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/stickleback_number_of_the_beast
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 05 November, 2014, 06:53:57 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 05 November, 2014, 12:17:59 AM
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.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 05 November, 2014, 06:54:29 PM
Duplicate post, ignore.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 05 November, 2014, 06:55:01 PM
Are we going to get a catalogue again this year? Last year's steered me towards Abbadon and Solaris books, and now I'm working my way through their back catalogues.

And another vote for the VCs Vol 3, please.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 05 November, 2014, 06:56:12 PM
I'd absolutely love to see 'Skizz' get a new single volume with all three runs in it too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proteus4 on 05 November, 2014, 08:12:16 PM
Um... What's a b-format book? Also, what are the other terminologies for other types of reprint?

Sorry for my noobishness
Dave
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 05 November, 2014, 08:36:14 PM
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.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 05 November, 2014, 11:39:52 PM
Yeah, Digest or 'Manga' sized. And yeah, I can't imagine it being the best size for decent reproduction of those older strips.

But whatever the kids are into these days, I guess it can't hurt!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 November, 2014, 09:22:43 AM
Though I never bought any I did flick through the Cursed Earth and Day the Law Died collections and the repro work is actualy very good considering the size.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 06 November, 2014, 10:43:54 AM
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 05 November, 2014, 06:56:12 PM
I'd absolutely love to see 'Skizz' get a new single volume with all three runs in it too.

Seconded.

I'd also go for VC's volume III.  We've still got the advert in the back of one of the previous trades.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 06 November, 2014, 03:22:16 PM
I'd love to see the rest of the V.C.'s collected.

Get Colin Macneil to supply them with a cover as well...(http://www.futurequake.co.uk/images/shop/zarjaz5.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 November, 2014, 03:57:43 PM
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 06 November, 2014, 03:22:16 PM
I'd love to see the rest of the V.C.'s collected.

Get Colin Macneil to supply them with a cover as well...(http://www.futurequake.co.uk/images/shop/zarjaz5.jpg)

Colin has been very quiet lately, wonder what he's up to?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 06 November, 2014, 03:59:30 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 06 November, 2014, 03:57:43 PM
Colin has been very quiet lately, wonder what he's up to?

I think I know!  :-X
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proudhuff on 06 November, 2014, 04:15:48 PM
As long as he's hale, hearty and working for Tharg, I'm happy!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 06 November, 2014, 04:33:17 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 06 November, 2014, 03:59:30 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 06 November, 2014, 03:57:43 PM
Colin has been very quiet lately, wonder what he's up to?

I think I know!  :-X


I did ask him about a DoC commission. Is it that?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 06 November, 2014, 04:43:58 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 06 November, 2014, 03:59:30 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 06 November, 2014, 03:57:43 PM
Colin has been very quiet lately, wonder what he's up to?

I think I know!  :-X

Tease. I have no idea, but he's been speaking about doing his own WWI comic for ages.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 06 November, 2014, 05:17:54 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 06 November, 2014, 04:15:48 PM
As long as he's hale, hearty and working for Tharg, I'm happy!

Can't comment on the man's personal condition, but the last part will make you happy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 November, 2014, 07:23:59 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 06 November, 2014, 03:57:43 PM
Colin has been very quiet lately, wonder what he's up to?

Making tea for The Legendary Shark, of course.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 07 November, 2014, 03:24:05 PM
Y'know- I've never seen Sharky and Colin in the same room...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 07 November, 2014, 03:38:39 PM
More painted Dredd would be good!   ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 08 November, 2014, 03:56:56 AM
Looking forward to the next instalment of Slaine : A Simple Killing illustrated by Simon Davis.

I knew the story hasn't ended where it was last left.

Any news about that one?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 08 November, 2014, 09:40:57 AM
Simon is currently working on it!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 23 November, 2014, 06:29:45 PM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-America-John-Wagner/dp/1781083703/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416767094&sr=1-3&keywords=2000AD


What known about this?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Timothy on 23 November, 2014, 08:33:55 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 23 November, 2014, 06:29:45 PM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-America-John-Wagner/dp/1781083703/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416767094&sr=1-3&keywords=2000AD


What known about this?

Well it's got the same page count as the current edition of America so I assume it's a straight reprint. Possibly with a flashy new cover and introduction at best.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 24 November, 2014, 11:13:02 PM
The Grievous Journey Of Ichabod Azrael is being released as a U.S. miniseries (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,41424.0.html) a la Brass Sun, so maybe a hardback collection for it at the end of 2015?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 25 November, 2014, 11:18:01 AM
Quote from: Timothyjacobs on 23 November, 2014, 08:33:55 PM
Quote from: IronGraham on 23 November, 2014, 06:29:45 PM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-America-John-Wagner/dp/1781083703/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416767094&sr=1-3&keywords=2000AD


What known about this?

Well it's got the same page count as the current edition of America so I assume it's a straight reprint. Possibly with a flashy new cover and introduction at best.

That's Amazon.co.uk erroneously listing the American edition of 'America', which is part of our summer 2015 schedule.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 25 November, 2014, 11:54:51 AM
Adding to that, a good way for Squaxx to filter US books is via pricing: they mostly end in odd numbers, due to currency conversion. By contrast, British books usually end in a 9 or 0.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 29 November, 2014, 10:59:08 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 28 August, 2014, 11:41:45 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Strontium Dog: Dogs of War: Life and Death of Johnny Alpha 2 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781083363) - 144 pages, 15th January 2015.

Blurb:
Late 22nd century. After the Atomic Wars, many survivors were warped by the Strontium 90 fallout. These 'mutants' became a victimised underclass, and the only job open to them was bounty hunting. One such Search/Destroy agent, or STRONTIUM DOG, is Johnny Alpha, who was thought killed. But he has been resurrected and is now leading mutantkind in a revolution against the Norms...  Written by Strontium Dog co-creator John Wagner (A History of Violence) with art by his co-creator Carlos Ezquerra (Judge Dredd) Johnny Alpha's explosive return from beyond concludes in this action-packed finale.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/LampDofJA_zpsf4079027.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 04 December, 2014, 10:13:40 PM
While sharing the script to Sensitive Klegg, Rob Williams revealed that he and Flint are working on a sequal to Judge Dredd: Titan!

http://www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk/archives/986

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ZenArcade on 04 December, 2014, 10:33:37 PM
Now a sequel to Titan sounds just my thing. Z
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 05 December, 2014, 12:40:26 AM
Personally, I can't wait for twelve weeks of Bill Savage giving out hand shandies in an abandoned public toilet.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 08 December, 2014, 11:29:12 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 29 November, 2014, 10:59:08 AM

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/LampDofJA_zpsf4079027.jpg)

That is a great cover by Mark Harrison.
Y'know- the renowned artist of Strontium Dogs & Durham Red, frequent collaborator of Ho-Gan.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tiplodocus on 09 December, 2014, 12:23:32 PM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 04 December, 2014, 10:33:37 PM
Now a sequel to Titan sounds just my thing. Z

If it's not called JUDGE DREDD: URANUS I'll be sorely disappointed.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 December, 2014, 12:30:36 PM
I beg your pudding, Tips? :o
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 09 December, 2014, 07:29:30 PM
At last, The Harlem Heroes get the floppy treatment in Meg 357.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 December, 2014, 07:37:25 PM
But it already has a TPB...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 09 December, 2014, 07:41:42 PM
Oh god we are getting fleisher crap...we've burrowed below the barrel and hitconcrete shit
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 09 December, 2014, 07:48:06 PM
Quote from: The monarch on 09 December, 2014, 07:41:42 PM
Oh god we are getting fleisher crap...we've burrowed below the barrel and hitconcrete shit

That was my reaction to the comment on HH too. The floppies are a drokking chore and I'll probably skip Rose O'Rion, glance at the pictures. The first few pages were grim to read. If it's not Meg-worthy, please don't bundle this stuff needlessly.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 09 December, 2014, 08:01:22 PM
There's hope for Straitjacket Fits one day, if HH post-700 run is hitting the floppy...  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 09 December, 2014, 08:19:32 PM
Quote from: DarkDaysBish-OP on 09 December, 2014, 08:01:22 PM
There's hope for Straitjacket Fits one day, if HH post-700 run is hitting the floppy...  ;)

I would think Straitjacket Fits is many, many places ahead of Fleisher HH in any notional queue.  One of the few strips even Steve Dillon couldn't save.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 09 December, 2014, 08:29:30 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 09 December, 2014, 08:19:32 PM
Quote from: DarkDaysBish-OP on 09 December, 2014, 08:01:22 PM
There's hope for Straitjacket Fits one day, if HH post-700 run is hitting the floppy...  ;)

I would think Straitjacket Fits is many, many places ahead of Fleisher HH in any notional queue.  One of the few strips even Steve Dillon couldn't save.

It was Tharg spitting a toothpick into Dillon's eye.

I would genuinely welcome The Straightjacket Fits as a floppy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Woolly on 09 December, 2014, 09:17:12 PM
Add another vote for the Straitjacket Fits please (but only if it includes the final episode from the yearbook!)
It was quite charming in its made-up-on-the-fly ways. (ISTR an old interview with Bish-Op where he admitted as much. Hope I'm not wrong  :-\)


And then Finn Bk2? Pretty please?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 09 December, 2014, 09:48:10 PM
Harlem Heroes? The strip with possibly the worst dialogue in 2000 AD's entire history?* Seriously? Good grief. It's only a matter of time before Wireheads at this rate. Surely, there was a better option than that dreck?

* [spoiler]"Hey! What the hell happened to our quintuple-X-rated movie?"[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Monarch on 09 December, 2014, 10:35:11 PM
I think i said in another thread i would welcome straightjacket fits for the yearbook episode just so i know how it ended
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 09 December, 2014, 10:55:56 PM
I only have vague memories of the yearbook Straitjacket Fits story. Think it was black & white, not sure it resolved anything - sorry!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 10 December, 2014, 09:28:56 AM
Quote from: DarkDaysBish-OP on 09 December, 2014, 10:55:56 PM
I only have vague memories of the yearbook Straitjacket Fits story. Think it was black & white, not sure it resolved anything - sorry!

T'was indeed black & white (like most Yearbook fare of that era- I blame the incumbent Tharg).

It did include a delicious pop at Mark Millar, and of course Jack Nicholson as drawn by Roger Landridge- so yeah, worth a look!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ZenArcade on 10 December, 2014, 06:27:45 PM
Mark (f**king) Millar. Haven't heard of him for a long time...not long enough. Z
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 11 December, 2014, 02:51:42 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 09 December, 2014, 09:48:10 PM
Harlem Heroes? The strip with possibly the worst dialogue in 2000 AD's entire history?


..it's only a matter of time I guess we hit Junker territory them... ~shudder~

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 11 December, 2014, 10:51:06 AM
Yeah, that too, but Junker at least had fairly nice Ridgeway art. Wireheads was just entirely awful. Not a great period in 2000 AD's history to mine, frankly.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 11 December, 2014, 06:48:23 PM
I'm stoked to read HH. Both the original and the new(er); the latter 'cos it has Dillon on art.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 11 December, 2014, 06:53:26 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 11 December, 2014, 06:48:23 PM
the latter 'cos it has Dillon on art.

Mainly inked by Kev Walker, but not even the Cinnabar art team can rescue it. Latterly, Dillon bails and Kev soldiers on but then he developed an eye infection *coughcoughyeahrightcough* and ISTR there's an episode drawn (or possibly inked) by Simon Jacob, whose work I love but which is entirely out of keeping with the rest of the art.

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 11 December, 2014, 07:02:21 PM
I recall it also rather beautifully retcons the HH universe out of Dredd continuity, thereby making it a choice for the 2000 AD geek between Judge Giant existing and nu-HH being a thing. Nu-HH doesn't stand a chance.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Woolly on 11 December, 2014, 08:59:39 PM
Off on a slight tangent here, but: What are the chances of getting Steve Dillon back in the prog?
We've seen alot of golden-era droids return for the odd episode or cover in recent years, but not the mighty Dillon.

Just wondering if theres a reason for this (as i would love to see him back on Dredd!)
Anyone with me?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 11 December, 2014, 09:02:55 PM
I suspect in most cases, it's down to time (theirs) and money (the comic's), but stranger things have happened. It'd certainly be great to see a new Dillon Dredd one of these days.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 11 December, 2014, 09:21:24 PM
Definitely Dillon!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: inkymonkey on 12 December, 2014, 02:54:08 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 11 December, 2014, 09:02:55 PM
I suspect in most cases, it's down to time (theirs) and money (the comic's), but stranger things have happened. It'd certainly be great to see a new Dillon Dredd one of these days.

Seconded, thirded and fourthed.  Make it so! :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 12 December, 2014, 10:45:23 AM
Amazon UK are listing this reissue of America (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781083703).

I like the cover.  It looks like a dirtied down version of those Hatchette covers we've seen.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/America_zpsf646e653.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 12 December, 2014, 10:54:48 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 12 December, 2014, 10:45:23 AM
Amazon UK are listing this reissue of America (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781083703).

That's the American edition for next year and is also not the final cover.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: inkymonkey on 12 December, 2014, 11:00:46 AM
Quote from: Molch-R on 12 December, 2014, 10:54:48 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 12 December, 2014, 10:45:23 AM
Amazon UK are listing this reissue of America (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781083703).

That's the American edition for next year and is also not the final cover.

I quite like it...!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 12 December, 2014, 04:31:40 PM
Definitely deliver a Dredd drama deftly drawn by Dillon directly. Don't dilly-dally. Danke.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 13 December, 2014, 10:24:10 AM
...and a Bolland Fatties tale...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 30 December, 2014, 06:08:52 AM
Has anyone heard when Anderson returns to the Meg?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 07 January, 2015, 05:04:12 PM
Just wondering if the full rundown of graphic novels to be released in 2015 will be available soon?!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JSouth5942 on 23 January, 2015, 09:59:23 AM
Does this book contain any material not included in the three Durham Red TPB's already released in the UK (ie. Empty Suns, Vermin Stars and Scarlet Cantos)?

Not sure if I should order it or not.
Thanks in advance.
JSouth5942

Quote from: Dash Decent on 12 April, 2014, 12:25:48 PM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 15 March, 2014, 06:22:26 AM
there this US only trade Durham Red: The Bitch (http://books.simonandschuster.com/Durham-Red-The-Bitch/John-Wagner/9781781082515) due September.

Durham Red: The Bitch (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Durham-Red-Bitch-John-Wagner/dp/1781082510/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397301790&sr=1-1&keywords=Durham+Red%3A+The+Bitch)

Paperback, 144 pages, 16th September 2014

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Durham_zps8634e202.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JSouth5942 on 23 January, 2015, 10:02:41 AM
Was a PDF Brochure of Rebellions 2015 schedule ever released? If so where can I find it?

JSouth5942

Quote from: Max Headroom on 07 January, 2015, 05:04:12 PM
Just wondering if the full rundown of graphic novels to be released in 2015 will be available soon?!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 23 January, 2015, 10:11:41 AM
To June ...
http://www.2000adonline.com/downloads/rebellion_publishing_catalogue_2015.pdf
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 January, 2015, 10:40:57 AM
Nice to see more Devlin Waugh. Must get around to getting that first volume...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 January, 2015, 10:51:53 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 23 January, 2015, 10:11:41 AM
To June ...
http://www.2000adonline.com/downloads/rebellion_publishing_catalogue_2015.pdf

That's a really remarkable catalogue they have there, even leaving aside the juicy comics section.  Rather fancy that Cannonbridge book, and somehow I seem to have missed the fact that Ack Ack Macaque won the BSFA Best Novel. 

Anyone care to speculate what the new Waugh volume includes?  Very tempted. 

On a slightly negative note, I'm not really feeling the new cover for Zenith Phase III. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 January, 2015, 10:53:45 AM
Just about to mention that. No Acid Archie. >:(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 23 January, 2015, 11:04:48 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 January, 2015, 10:51:53 AM
That's a really remarkable catalogue they have there, even leaving aside the juicy comics section.

Misplaced apostrophe on the very first text page! Outrage!

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 23 January, 2015, 11:10:19 AM
Also, on page 46, they've ring-fenced the wrong 3 books as 'Alan Moore graphic novels'.

Chuck a large spanner at the design droid responsible.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JSouth5942 on 23 January, 2015, 11:17:03 AM
Thanks for that your a star!

Quote from: James Stacey on 23 January, 2015, 10:11:41 AM
To June ...
http://www.2000adonline.com/downloads/rebellion_publishing_catalogue_2015.pdf
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 23 January, 2015, 04:12:11 PM
It was last year's catalogue that steered me towards Abaddon & Solaris Books, and I haven't regretted it at all. I'll be pre-ordering some of those paperbacks, as well as the graphic novels. Pleased to see another Ritual Crime Unit there!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 23 January, 2015, 10:37:34 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 January, 2015, 10:51:53 AM


Anyone care to speculate what the new Waugh volume includes?  Very tempted. 

By my reckoning, the next Devlin Waugh trade should (hopefully!) include the following:

Red Tide prologue - Meg 201
Red Tide - Megs 202-213
Vile Bodies - Meg 227
All Hell - Megs 231 -237
Innocence and Experience - Megs 253-256
Body and Soul - JD Yearbook 1994

This would complete the series thus far including everything that was not re-printed in the 'Swimming In Blood' trade (which featured seven different stories; so the page count for the new edition looks about right).

Will definitely be picking this up in June.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 23 January, 2015, 10:46:19 PM
Cheers Max. If your prediction is right I'll definitely get that. It'll be a little weird to have Innocence and Experience left as a cliffhanger, but better that than waiting for it to continue...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Zenith 666 on 24 January, 2015, 01:03:11 AM
Sure that Devlin was a thrill of the future in last few years.has it really been eight years.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 27 January, 2015, 06:33:40 PM
Quote from: JSouth5942 on 23 January, 2015, 09:59:23 AM
Does this book contain any material not included in the three Durham Red TPB's already released in the UK (ie. Empty Suns, Vermin Stars and Scarlet Cantos)?

Not sure if I should order it or not.
Thanks in advance.
JSouth5942


Considering Carlos Ezquerra is credited, I would assume it does. The art in the 3 TPBs you refer to was by Mark Harrison. The story "Bitch" however was originally printed as a Strontium Dog story and is reprinted in one of the Agency Files volumes (Vol. 4?). There was a story called "lsle of the Damned" which was printed under the Durham Red title which may be in it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 January, 2015, 06:38:03 PM
Island of the Damned was also a floppy a few years back. A damn good story as well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 27 January, 2015, 07:45:28 PM
According to Bleeding Cool Alan Moore will be writing the introduction to 'Tales of Telguuth'... which they think is news, so who am I to argue.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/01/27/alan-moore-writes-introduction-to-steve-moores-tales-of-telguuth/ (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/01/27/alan-moore-writes-introduction-to-steve-moores-tales-of-telguuth/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 27 January, 2015, 08:07:37 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 23 January, 2015, 10:37:34 PM
By my reckoning, the next Devlin Waugh trade should (hopefully!) include the following:

Red Tide prologue - Meg 201
Red Tide - Megs 202-213
Vile Bodies - Meg 227
All Hell - Megs 231 -237
Innocence and Experience - Megs 253-256
Body and Soul - JD Yearbook 1994

Also the 2-part Bite Fight, Megazines 224-225, given that John Burns is mentioned as an artist.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 28 January, 2015, 12:40:56 AM
Quote from: Zenith 666 on 24 January, 2015, 01:03:11 AM
Sure that Devlin was a thrill of the future in last few years.has it really been eight years.



Is that eight years since his last story 'Innocence and Experience - Megs 253-256'...?

... it must be if we are on issue 356... shit the bed... that's flown by...

It's not as long as the continuation to Witch World though!

;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2015, 11:25:10 PM
Judge Dredd Case Files 01 in hardback (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Casefiles-John-Wagner/dp/1781083320), out in August.

"To celebrate ten decades of this mighty tome, Case Files One is being released as a hardback edition, complete with original colour centre spreads..."

(Even though the description says hardback, Amazon UK still have it listed as a paperback! ;) )



Jaegir: the Enemy Within
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jaegir-Enemy-Within-Gordon-Rennie/dp/1781083967) - 11th September 2015, paperback, 176 pages

"While war rages across the galaxy between the Great Nordland Republic and their Souther enemies, Kapiten-Inspector Atalia Jaegir of the Nordland State Security is charged with investigating and tracking down war criminals. It's a thankless task - viewed with suspicion and hatred by her own people, Jaegir is no stranger to conflict and betrayal..."



Judge Dredd: Casefiles 25
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Casefiles-John-Wagner/dp/1781083312) - 13th August 2015, paperback, 320 pages

"Mega-City One - American city of the future. Only the Judges - empowered to dispense instant justice - can stop total anarchy on the crime-ridden streets. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the law and these are his stories...This 25th volume of the bestselling Case Files series features includes the return of Dredd's greatest nemesis, Judge Death, and his foul cadre of henchmen, the Dark Judges Fire, Mortis and Fear. Also, a legendary judge dies bringing the law to the lawless in the Cursed Earth. Case Files 25 features the unique artwork of Trevor Hairsine (Captain America), Henry Flint (Zombo), Carlos Ezquerra (Strontium Dog) amongst others, written by John Wagner (A History of Violence), John Smith (Indigo Prime) and Robbie Morrison (Nikolai Dante)."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 31 January, 2015, 11:48:24 PM
Holy Mavis Mother of Jovis, Tharg you big green dastard!  How many colour spreads are there in CF1 anyway? Surely Dan Dare held that slot for a good while? Nonetheless, IT MUST BE MINE.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 01 February, 2015, 12:00:27 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2015, 11:25:10 PM
Judge Dredd Case Files 01 in hardback (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Casefiles-John-Wagner/dp/1781083320), out in August.

"To celebrate ten decades of this mighty tome, Case Files One is being released as a hardback edition, complete with original colour centre spreads..."

Ten decades?!? Dredd's certainly getting a bit long in the tooth now.  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 01 February, 2015, 01:32:46 AM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 01 February, 2015, 12:00:27 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2015, 11:25:10 PM
Judge Dredd Case Files 01 in hardback (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Casefiles-John-Wagner/dp/1781083320), out in August.

"To celebrate ten decades of this mighty tome, Case Files One is being released as a hardback edition, complete with original colour centre spreads..."

Ten decades?!? Dredd's certainly getting a bit long in the tooth now.  :lol:

And, there aren't yet 25 Case Files as reported.
Do Amazon proof-read anything? Where you don't know, say nothing. Clowns.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 February, 2015, 01:47:09 AM
Quote from: Fungus on 01 February, 2015, 01:32:46 AM
And, there aren't yet 25 Case Files as reported.

CF25 is slated for release on the same day as the hardback CF01.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 February, 2015, 01:49:27 AM
Quote from: Tim Tailz on 01 February, 2015, 12:00:27 AM
Ten decades?!? Dredd's certainly getting a bit long in the tooth now.  :lol:

Good pick up!  It's meant to be in celebration of ten years of Case Files.

Perhaps Tharg started the CF line earlier on one of the other planets you can (apparently) get the prog!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 01 February, 2015, 01:54:54 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 February, 2015, 01:47:09 AM
Quote from: Fungus on 01 February, 2015, 01:32:46 AM
And, there aren't yet 25 Case Files as reported.

CF25 is slated for release on the same day as the hardback CF01.

Hm, OK. Says 25 volumes printed 'to date'. Whereas CF24 will be my first volume and it's not out yet.
Ta for clarification. Hardback due August.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 01 February, 2015, 08:17:56 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 31 January, 2015, 11:48:24 PM
Holy Mavis Mother of Jovis, Tharg you big green dastard!  How many colour spreads are there in CF1 anyway? Surely Dan Dare held that slot for a good while? Nonetheless, IT MUST BE MINE.

A lot of the early episodes finished on the colour back page - hopefully these will be included.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 01 February, 2015, 11:09:59 AM
Will it be just Case Files 1 that gets the hardcover treatment? I have long wanted the entire series to go this way. Perhaps it's setting some kind of precedent...?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: J.Smith on 01 February, 2015, 01:27:11 PM
Oh bloody hell, I certainly want that! And on the contrary to what a few people understandably said in the catalogue thread, I certainly wouldn't mind more (okay, ALL) of the series going that way or similar one's either for that matter.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 February, 2015, 03:26:48 PM
Looks like Dredd is in centrespread format from midway through the Luna 1 stories, so while some of those stories in the current CF1 seem to be repro'd from B&W pages I presume all those would have been coloured. Nice!
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 01 February, 2015, 06:43:39 PM
The perfect volume would also include the strips from the Summer Special & 1978 annual.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 8-Ball on 01 February, 2015, 07:24:27 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 01 February, 2015, 03:26:48 PM
Looks like Dredd is in centrespread format from midway through the Luna 1 stories, so while some of those stories in the current CF1 seem to be repro'd from B&W pages I presume all those would have been coloured. Nice!

That "colour" page from The Wreath Murders in CF1 is a good example of why a coloured edition would be most welcome. I just wonder what the trade dress will be like. Will it just be the original Case Files cover but in glossy hardback or will it be something newly commissioned? If it is going to be the current cover will there be a fix to fill in the bit of Dredd's leg where Walter has been snipped out? And what about the spine? Oooh!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 02 February, 2015, 09:15:57 AM
Quote from: J.Smith on 01 February, 2015, 01:27:11 PM
Oh bloody hell, I certainly want that! And on the contrary to what a few people understandably said in the catalogue thread, I certainly wouldn't mind more (okay, ALL) of the series going that way or similar one's either for that matter.

^ I'm with Smith block.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 04 February, 2015, 09:42:41 AM
JDCF 24 only collected the first half of The pit right? With 25 to collect the rest + Dead reckoning?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 04 February, 2015, 09:48:19 AM
Quote from: Apestrife on 04 February, 2015, 09:42:41 AM
JDCF 24 only collected the first half of The pit right? With 25 to collect the rest + Dead reckoning?
Correct. I think 24 goes up to the end of the story The Pit while the others which came under the The Pit: banner will be in 25.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 05 February, 2015, 05:33:01 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 04 February, 2015, 09:42:41 AM
JDCF 24 only collected the first half of The pit right? With 25 to collect the rest + Dead reckoning?

Aye - we know that CF24 runs up to the end of The Pit initial story; and based on the blurb and pagecount for CF25 (plus knowing the contents of CF24) the prog material should run via the rest of the Pit stories, Dead Reckoning and Death of a Legend up to The Pack - a bit weird not holding the first story of the Hunting Party over for the next volume, but then it's a bit weird that the rest of the story doesn't immedately follow anyway. The Megazine stuff will include America II.

So the 'big stories' of CF26 will be Darkside, The Hunting Party and Fetish (and possibly the first apperance of Oola Blint). CF28 looks set to be 'the Doomsday one.'
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Zenith 666 on 05 February, 2015, 06:00:12 PM
Prog 1924 jumping on point for people like me with no patience[spoiler]Judge Dredd Enceladus,Slaine book2 of  Brutttanica chronicles,Outlier 2,Absolom Under a false flag and Strontium Dog the king Jong job.[/spoiler]i swear to god I love this comic more than air.for those who don't want it spoiled its worth the wait.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 05 February, 2015, 06:59:09 PM
Quote from: Zenith 666 on 05 February, 2015, 06:00:12 PM
Prog 1924 jumping on point for people like me with no patience[spoiler]Judge Dredd Enceladus,Slaine book2 of  Brutttanica chronicles,Outlier 2,Absolom Under a false flag and Strontium Dog the king Jong job.[/spoiler]i swear to god I love this comic more than air.for those who don't want it spoiled its worth the wait.

I don't mind waiting the current line up is solid
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 February, 2015, 08:30:31 PM
As great as the current line up is, the prospect of haveing five of my favourite thrills in the same pages is one I can barely wait for. Oh what a joyous time to be alive!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 February, 2015, 09:37:06 PM
Intrigued that [spoiler]Outlier[/spoiler] is coming back (do we need spoiler tags???). I really enjoyed the first one but wasn't particularly expecting a return, though as I recall it left itself open. So very pleased to see this back so soon.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 February, 2015, 10:16:43 PM
SPOILER was rather good, justifying its quasi-torture-porn elements by making them sickeningly inventive.  A further outing will answer the question of whether  [spoiler]the Hurde [/spoiler]universe itself is sufficiently interesting when stripped of the mysterious killing machine as driver of plot. I certainly hope so, and I'd rather fancy something along the lines of Elizabeth Bear's Boojum stories.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Zenith 666 on 05 February, 2015, 10:31:43 PM
Pretty sure it needed the spoiler some people like to be surprised.[spoiler]its going to be interesting to see if strontium dog is set after the last story or is another untold Alpha bounty tale.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 05 February, 2015, 10:45:28 PM
Quote from: Zenith 666 on 05 February, 2015, 10:31:43 PM
Pretty sure it needed the spoiler some people like to be surprised.[spoiler]its going to be interesting to see if strontium dog is set after the last story or is another untold Alpha bounty tale.[/spoiler]

I'm betting on the former, now that the 'resurrection' arc has finally ended.
I'm still finding it...unpalatable. Would prefer to see the formidable Wagner & Ezquerra Droids back on Dredd.

Rest of the line-up looks rock solid, and I'm quite happy [spoiler]Outlier[/spoiler] is back too, very enjoyable first series.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 05 February, 2015, 11:12:12 PM
Quote from: Zenith 666 on 05 February, 2015, 10:31:43 PM
Pretty sure it needed the spoiler some people like to be surprised.
Pretty sure these people shouldn't be reading a thread called "Forthcoming a Thrills" then. This is probably even worse than complaining about spoilers in the Prog review thread.

Two big hitters in there for me, along with a hardy perennial, an unexpectedly-revitalised-but-can-it-keep-the-momentum and Marauder 2.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 05 February, 2015, 11:13:01 PM
Hmm. Hope nobody notices that spoiler for the return of Maria.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 06 February, 2015, 03:28:17 AM
Quote from: Zenith 666 on 05 February, 2015, 06:00:12 PM
Prog 1924 jumping on point for people like me with no patience[spoiler]Judge Dredd Enceladus,Slaine book2 of  Brutttanica chronicles,Outlier 2,Absolom Under a false flag and Strontium Dog the king Jong job.[/spoiler]i swear to god I love this comic more than air.for those who don't want it spoiled its worth the wait.


Really glad to hear Columbo's alter ego is back for another run. Along with Stickleback, he's the best thing to happen to 2000ad for a long time.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 06 February, 2015, 09:34:40 AM
"Now be a good little Nazi or i'm going to do something to you no amount of NHS surgery could ever repair."

Hands down one of my favourite lines from the prog.  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 06 February, 2015, 12:36:09 PM
Quote from: Zenith 666 on 05 February, 2015, 06:00:12 PM
Prog 1924 jumping on point for people like me with no patience[spoiler]Judge Dredd Enceladus,Slaine book2 of  Brutttanica chronicles,Outlier 2,Absolom Under a false flag and Strontium Dog the king Jong job.[/spoiler]i swear to god I love this comic more than air.for those who don't want it spoiled its worth the wait.

Sounds like a good prog for me to start buying digitally, running out of space in the house  :(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 18 February, 2015, 09:17:50 AM
As shown on the News page (http://www.2000adonline.com/news/17-02-2015/2000adannounces2015graphicnovelsschedule/):

UK & Ireland graphic novels schedule for 2015

March
Tales of Telguth
Insurrection: Liberty

April
Zenith: Phase Three
Judge Dredd: Luna-1 (digest format)

May
ABC Warriors: Return to Mars

June
Devlin Waugh: Red Tide
The VCs: Hell in the Heavens (digest format)

July
Judge Dredd: Dark Justice
Zenith Phase 4
Zenith: Apex Edition
Zenith Phase One: The Apex Edition will reproduce at full size the original artwork from Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's seminal superhero story from the late 1980s. Carefully hidden away by Yeowell for almost 30 years and curated by 2000 AD's design team, July's Apex Edition will be the closest readers can get to holding the original artwork in your hands – right down to seeing faded speech balloons pasted to the surface, editorial and design marks, and Yeowell's brush and pen strokes.

August
Judge Dredd: Case Files 01: 10th Anniversary Edition

September
Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos: Fourth Faction
Jaegir

October
The Complete Ro-Busters: Nuts and Bolts Vol. I

November
Judge Dredd: Trifecta (paperback)
Dan Dare: Vol. 1
As he celebrates his 65th birthday this year, in November 2000 AD will publish the first of a two-volume series presenting the never-before-collected stories of Dan Dare from its pages. Presented in a beautiful hardcover edition, this will include extensive rare and hard-to-find art by UK Comics Laureate and Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons as well as art by cult Italian artist and 2000 AD legend Massimo Bellardinelli. This is the last, great un-reprinted story from 2000 AD's first issue and will present the entire story re-scanned from the original film, in full colour (where the strip wasn't black and white), digitally restored by 2000 AD's reprographics specialists.

December
The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (And The Dead Left In His Wake)
ABC Warriors: Mek Files 03
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 18 February, 2015, 10:03:16 AM
Slight amend from the press release: Case Files 25 has been inserted into August for the UK.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin Zeal on 18 February, 2015, 10:14:00 AM
The Zenith Apex edition sounds fantastic. Having already got the Complete Zenith and the individual Phase I volume I really don't need another copy, but something tells me I'll crack and buy it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 18 February, 2015, 10:52:37 AM
why is fourth faction on the list?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 18 February, 2015, 11:05:49 AM
I have the Elfquest Gallery edition which I assume is the same deal as the Zenith Apex edition. Full colour scans of the original black and white art at the original size. It gives you a whole new appreciation of the artwork. Not sure Zenith is something I like enough to warrant the expenditure but I'm sure it will be a lovely book.
Molch-r is the hardback Casefiles 1 purely a one off, part of a planned run or dependant on the reception of the first ?

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 18 February, 2015, 11:09:25 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 18 February, 2015, 11:05:49 AM
Molch-r is the hardback Casefiles 1 purely a one off, part of a planned run or dependant on the reception of the first ?

Purely a one-off. If it becomes the best-selling book of all time then, yeah, we'd be daft not to consider more but at the present time it's just a special anniversary edition.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 18 February, 2015, 11:29:26 AM
Hi Molch-r, can you tell us how tall the Apex edition of Zenith will be?  I assume "full size" means the size it was drawn at rather than the size it was originally printed at (prog size)?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 18 February, 2015, 11:32:52 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 February, 2015, 11:29:26 AM
Hi Molch-r, can you tell us how tall the Apex edition of Zenith will be?  I assume "full size" means the size it was drawn at rather than the size it was originally printed at (prog size)?

I can't give you exact measurements but when we say 'full size' we mean of the original artwork.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 18 February, 2015, 11:44:49 AM
So, the inexact measurements are...?   :D




(Hopes for approximate answer, waits for ludicrously over-the-top answer...)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 18 February, 2015, 11:47:03 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 February, 2015, 11:44:49 AM
So, the inexact measurements are...?   :D




(Hopes for approximate answer, waits for ludicrously over-the-top answer...)

Six Egyptian cubits by three 17th Century London tradesman's spans...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 18 February, 2015, 11:51:18 AM
Phew!  I thought you were going to fob me off with some joke answer.  I knew that you'd have the artwork and a ruler handy in the office somewhere.

[Bill Cosby]"Lord, what's a cubit?"[/Bill Cosby]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: J.Smith on 18 February, 2015, 11:54:00 AM
Quote from: Molch-R on 18 February, 2015, 11:09:25 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 18 February, 2015, 11:05:49 AM
Molch-r is the hardback Casefiles 1 purely a one off, part of a planned run or dependant on the reception of the first ?

Purely a one-off. If it becomes the best-selling book of all time then, yeah, we'd be daft not to consider more but at the present time it's just a special anniversary edition.

So in other words, people, buy the crap out of it! But I am a little surprised that it's the only one like it being considered. My thinking when I read that it was a special edition, possibly the only one like it, was that you'd pick and compile those short stories with the best colour spreads in celebration rather than fully reprinting the first book alone. Not that I'm complaining, mind. People may suggest that new readers start a little later on but I love all those early stories very much. Hope it does well enough to warrant a continuation of such a line.

Hm, wonder how big Yeowell's original art is then... To be honest, I don't expect anything quite of the same unbelievable high quality as IDW or Dark Horse's line of similar books but if it's appropriately huge, can lay flat at almost any page and has the most minimal bleed through possible - or better yet, of course, none at all - then a happy chap I shall be. Really though, although you said in another thread that there aren't plans for more books like it, it's the kind of thing I would eat up no matter the price and probably no matter the artist (because these things are reserved for the very best in the business anyway). Hope I'm further surprised (it really wasn't anything I ever expected to be published, so it was a delight to see that such a book was being put together yesterday) when more details are released in the future! Truly an excellent year for some bloody smashing books.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 18 February, 2015, 12:05:23 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 February, 2015, 11:51:18 AM
Phew!  I thought you were going to fob me off with some joke answer.  I knew that you'd have the artwork and a ruler handy in the office somewhere.

[Bill Cosby]"Lord, what's a cubit?"[/Bill Cosby]

;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 18 February, 2015, 03:37:48 PM
The whole list looks pretty wonderful, but tell us more about the Ro-Busters book!  We've already had a phonebook done-in-one Complete Ro-Busters, so what's this?  Broken down into a pair of hardcovers, maybe?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 18 February, 2015, 03:48:53 PM
I'VE SAID TOO MUCH!!

(http://cdn.theglow.com.au/app/uploads/2014/09/running-styles-jack-sparrow.gif)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: J.Smith on 18 February, 2015, 04:22:40 PM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 18 February, 2015, 03:37:48 PM
The whole list looks pretty wonderful, but tell us more about the Ro-Busters book!  We've already had a phonebook done-in-one Complete Ro-Busters, so what's this?  Broken down into a pair of hardcovers, maybe?

One of the droids said somewhere in some thread that it'll reprint the colour spreads and I guess then, with it being hardcover, it'll be like the Mek Files volumes, as in covering everything (not just covers but pin-ups and the like too).

Too many good books! July alone's a bastard, especially if the Apex Edition's a big expensive thing!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 18 February, 2015, 05:18:36 PM
Quote from: J.Smith on 18 February, 2015, 04:22:40 PM
...and I guess then, with it being hardcover, it'll be like the Mek Files volumes...

Probably worth pointing out that nobody's mentioned it being a hardcover. I doubt it will be to be honest. I asked when the Mek Files first came out if there were any plans for matching Ro-Busters/Nemesis books and was told 'no.'

Anyway, here's Keith -

Quote from: Robo-K33F on 28 January, 2015, 08:36:00 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 28 January, 2015, 03:23:21 PM
(On a related note, I hope the new edition of Ro-Busters appears back on the schedule at some point.)

Ro-Busters will be split into two volumes, the first coming out later this year. Yes, it will be sporting a brand new cover from a legendary art droid. Yes, the colour spreads will be included.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 February, 2015, 05:22:34 PM
I doub't they'll bother reprint the Langley years from the Warriors in Mek File format either seeing as they are all already in hardback. A shame because I missed out on the Volgan War hardbacks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 18 February, 2015, 05:41:27 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 18 February, 2015, 05:22:34 PM
I doub't they'll bother reprint the Langley years from the Warriors in Mek File format either seeing as they are all already in hardback. A shame because I missed out on the Volgan War hardbacks.

Yeah, but the hardcovers are long since sold out - and the Mek Files came about because the early softcovers had become so hard to find, so there's hope yet!

The entire Volgan War saga would just - only just, mind - fit in a single hardcover, so that'd be one hell of a volume 4 (and arguably read much better than in single books). Alternatively they could split it between two books fairly easily. Then a volume 5 (or 6) would be thematically pretty pleasing, too - Return to Earth, Return to Mars and Return to Ro-Busters.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 February, 2015, 05:51:33 PM
'Blushes and covers trousers with pillow'
Stop it! The thought of such a beautiful collection is too much for me!

....

But imagine if we then got Invasion!/Savage hardbacks.....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Magnetica on 18 February, 2015, 05:56:30 PM
Case Files 01 with colour spreads - yes please.

What I really would really like to see is a printing of The Cursed Earth with colour spreads. Has this ever been done? The re-prints I have are all in black and white.

A quick question  - how many centre spreads did Ro-busters have? I didn't think it was that many. I only have a handful of the Progs from then but do have the old Titan re-prints. Book One only has I think one centre spread (Terra Meks part 2) and I don't have book 2 to hand - I guess most were from that period?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 18 February, 2015, 06:00:02 PM
Quote from: Magnetica on 18 February, 2015, 05:56:30 PM
A quick question  - how many centre spreads did Ro-busters have? I didn't think it was that many.

Well, I'm guessing that all the Starlord stuff did, and won't that make up the bulk of the first book?
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Post by: I, Cosh on 18 February, 2015, 06:14:15 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 18 February, 2015, 06:00:02 PM
Quote from: Magnetica on 18 February, 2015, 05:56:30 PM
A quick question  - how many centre spreads did Ro-busters have? I didn't think it was that many.
Well, I'm guessing that all the Starlord stuff did, and won't that make up the bulk of the first book?
I'd assume so too. From the Prog, only episode 2 of The Terra-Meks was a centrefold.

Looking forward to the forthcoming colour SD Files 01 announcement.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 18 February, 2015, 06:21:57 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 18 February, 2015, 11:32:52 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 February, 2015, 11:29:26 AM
Hi Molch-r, can you tell us how tall the Apex edition of Zenith will be?  I assume "full size" means the size it was drawn at rather than the size it was originally printed at (prog size)?

I can't give you exact measurements but when we say 'full size' we mean of the original artwork.

This is excellent news, I've always been interested in IDW's beautiful looking 'artist edition' books, but could never justify the expense.
That reasoning will definitely be overruled by Thrill Power.

Everyone and their mother will surely pitch an idea for a similar tome, so here's mine; Firekind by John Smith & Paul Marshall.
IMO one of the greatest one-and-done stories ever published in the Prog, with sublime 'classic period' Marshall artwork.
Crucially; Paul Marshall still has all of the original artwork.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Magnetica on 18 February, 2015, 06:24:32 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 18 February, 2015, 06:14:15 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 18 February, 2015, 06:00:02 PM
Quote from: Magnetica on 18 February, 2015, 05:56:30 PM
A quick question  - how many centre spreads did Ro-busters have? I didn't think it was that many.
Well, I'm guessing that all the Starlord stuff did, and won't that make up the bulk of the first book?
I'd assume so too. From the Prog, only episode 2 of The Terra-Meks was a centrefold.

Looking forward to the forthcoming colour SD Files 01 announcement.

Oh ok I have all the Starlords, so if the Ro-busters ones are mainly those, I don't think I will double dip.

Having recently borrowed the black and white SD Files 1 from the library I can say the colour spreads of Stront in Starlord are definitely worth seeing for those who haven't got them. As I said I have all the Starlords, so that isn't me. :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 18 February, 2015, 06:43:45 PM
The new Dredd Case Files Vol 1 makes much of the colour centre-spreads. Has it been confirmed anywhere that the other colour pages will be keeping their colour? A lot of the early Dredd strips were printed as the last story in the prog and their last page was in colour on the back page. A good example can be found in the Mr Buzzzz reprint in Mutants in Mega-City One.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 18 February, 2015, 09:32:16 PM
Yeah I doubt very much I'll be able to justify the cost of Zenith Apex but by gosh I'm very happy to know that such a thing will exist for me to me in great envuy for those that can get it. Can't wait to see one... and then give it back daggnabbit!
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Post by: J.Smith on 18 February, 2015, 11:51:29 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 18 February, 2015, 05:18:36 PM
Quote from: J.Smith on 18 February, 2015, 04:22:40 PM
...and I guess then, with it being hardcover, it'll be like the Mek Files volumes...

Probably worth pointing out that nobody's mentioned it being a hardcover. I doubt it will be to be honest. I asked when the Mek Files first came out if there were any plans for matching Ro-Busters/Nemesis books and was told 'no.'

Ah, I was misremembering what Keith said then, although I guess I also presumed they'd be hardcovers because that way they'd fit in with the Mek Files series which serve the same purpose, and because Dan Dare is being split into two hardcovers. Perhaps we can hear official word on which it is (great either way, mind)?

On the Mek Files and their inclusion of the Volgan Wars (which I can confirm were a pain in the arse to get hold of at a good price, the hardcovers being out of print) and remainder of the series, they could always collect those first four books in a volume or two and then take a break before collecting the Return To... books later on, perhaps taking the time to start another hardcover line, non-subtle hint hint?  :D As much more as possible of Pat Mills' various series' would get my vote.

Oh, and as for fantasising about the possibilities of other artist editions, I have no idea what books would be possible to put together collecting certain story arcs, but I will say that 2000AD has had over a thousand amazing covers and a short series of books reprinting the best covers they could get a hold of would...well, I can't even describe how that would make me feel really.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 19 February, 2015, 10:41:43 PM
Quote from: J.Smith on 18 February, 2015, 11:54:00 AM
Hm, wonder how big Yeowell's original art is then...

I'm sure there was a page of original Zenith art at the British Library exhibition last year. Not massively huge - as some original art can be, if i recall correctly...

But interesting, and exciting, that Rebellion is going down the 'artist edition' route, at last.

If you see this post Molch - Is there owt else planned? Be lovely to see some other releases.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 20 February, 2015, 06:42:41 AM
Quote from: Spikes on 19 February, 2015, 10:41:43 PM

If you see this post Molch - Is there owt else planned? Be lovely to see some other releases.

He's said elsewhere that at this stage alas not. We can only hope and its fun to speculate but looks like nowt else is coming.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 February, 2015, 10:40:27 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 20 February, 2015, 06:42:41 AM
Quote from: Spikes on 19 February, 2015, 10:41:43 PM

If you see this post Molch - Is there owt else planned? Be lovely to see some other releases.

He's said elsewhere that at this stage alas not. We can only hope and its fun to speculate but looks like nowt else is coming.

There won't be anything else until Rebellion's programme of winding Morrison up is complete: the B-format Zenith digest, the coloured Phase I-III, the decoloured Phase IV, the Complete Grant Morrison, the Complete Peyne Files, the prose novel, the IDW Zenith miniseries...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 20 February, 2015, 11:21:23 AM
Quote from: Professor Cardigan on 20 February, 2015, 10:40:27 AMthe decoloured Phase IV
Ah, if only. (Same too for those coloured pages in Phase I.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 20 February, 2015, 11:33:44 AM
I assume Zenith was viable due to all the original art being in the same place, which wouldn't be a case for most classic thrills.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 20 February, 2015, 11:43:56 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 20 February, 2015, 11:33:44 AM
I assume Zenith was viable due to all the original art being in the same place, which wouldn't be a case for most classic thrills.

(http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n493/cfoh456/Fall%202011%20Random%20Gifs/bingo.gif)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 20 February, 2015, 11:46:20 AM
You could go round to Robbie Cox's house for Meltdown Man.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 20 February, 2015, 12:11:25 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 20 February, 2015, 11:33:44 AM
I assume Zenith was viable due to all the original art being in the same place, which wouldn't be a case for most classic thrills.

Yeah, watching Dave Sim trying to assemble the original art for the remastered Cerebus project has been a revelation - and that's self-published material that only ever went from Dave's house to the printers and back, and then was sold directly to collectors. Not the sorry story of airmail envelopes and indifferent storage across moves and editors and changes of ownership.
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Post by: TordelBack on 20 February, 2015, 12:12:29 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 20 February, 2015, 11:21:23 AM
Quote from: Professor Cardigan on 20 February, 2015, 10:40:27 AMthe decoloured Phase IV
Ah, if only. (Same too for those coloured pages in Phase I.)

Heretic.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: J.Smith on 20 February, 2015, 01:43:52 PM
So, do many other 2000AD artists keep hold of their artwork that we know of? It'd be a dying shame, if this book turns out to be as glorious as I picture it in my head, for it be the only one at all, that's for sure. A workaround to a lack of all original artwork would be to follow IDW's line of thinking with their Artifact Editions, which reprint as much original art of a series that they could get a hold of (e.g. the Watchmen book collects 80 or 90-something pages of Gibbons' art on the series from various chapters) but you'd need enough pages to make that possible too obviously, so it's not much of a workaround really. Plus, though I don't follow the selling of 2000AD's original artwork, from what I have seen I've always gotten the impression that a significant amount of it - some of the best stories in particular - is in collector's hands rather than in the artist's homes, which is why this edition of Zenith has come as a big surprise to me.

I suppose, of course, that whether we will get any more artist edition books at all depends entirely on how well this first one sells, like the new edition of the first Case Files. Assuming it's an expensive one (again, daydreaming of the quality), those of you who have never bought such a book before needn't be put off. Those IDW books may have intimidating price tags but they're simply unbelievable when you behold the things in person and worth every penny if you're a big fan of the artist in question.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 20 February, 2015, 02:24:31 PM
Quote from: Professor Cardigan on 20 February, 2015, 12:12:29 PM
Quote
Ah, if only. (Same too for those coloured pages in Phase I.)
Heretic.
The colouring just always felt unnecessary. And Phase IV's art ended up being gloomy rather than starkly horrific as it might have otherwise been.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 20 February, 2015, 02:27:55 PM
Quote from: Professor Cardigan on 20 February, 2015, 10:40:27 AM
the IDW Zenith miniseries...

...written by Mark Millar.

Cheers

Jim
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 20 February, 2015, 04:00:43 PM
Quote from: J.Smith on 20 February, 2015, 01:43:52 PM
So, do many other 2000AD artists keep hold of their artwork that we know of?


Phil Winslade keeps all of his art (in spite of my begging)...  :'(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 20 February, 2015, 04:07:37 PM
I think David Roach keeps his too ?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 20 February, 2015, 04:13:22 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 20 February, 2015, 11:33:44 AM
I assume Zenith was viable due to all the original art being in the same place, which wouldn't be a case for most classic thrills.

I think that Steve still owns the bulk of Zenith, but not all of it. There is a handful of pages over on CAF that have flown the roost, and of course there's the page from eBay that was 'binned' by a courier recently. Presumabley that's gone for good...
It seems to be quite common practice by artist's to keep scans of their art, so im guessing this is what would have happened here.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 20 February, 2015, 04:27:29 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 20 February, 2015, 04:00:43 PM
Quote from: J.Smith on 20 February, 2015, 01:43:52 PM
So, do many other 2000AD artists keep hold of their artwork that we know of?


Phil Winslade keeps all of his art (in spite of my begging)...  :'(

Maybe its more common practice now to keep hold of your art? Or hold onto it for longer, at any rate.
Certainly the older vintage stuff is scattered to the winds, and I doubt any of the longer form stories remain intact in the respective artists own collections.

Some collectors do own complete big name Dredd stories, so that could be a possible option.

And Robert Cox, unfortunately, hasnt mangaged to track down all of the Meltdown Man story. (I think he's missing about a dozen, but even he's not sure! And he also fears that a couple of pages may no longer exist).

The first Dredd, and Rogue Trooper episodes are complete, for instance, and are out there somewhere. As are a good few other vintage individual episodes from various 2000ad strips.
A collection of these would be nice to see.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 20 February, 2015, 05:23:14 PM
I think that Firekind all sits happy with Paul Marshal, but I'm happy to be corrected there. Alas however good it is (and it is so good) I doubt it has the public awareness to justify this treatment. It should have but doesn't.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 20 February, 2015, 05:26:11 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 20 February, 2015, 04:13:22 PM
It seems to be quite common practice by artist's to keep scans of their art, so im guessing this is what would have happened here.

Would the artists take high quality colour scans which would be needed for this sort of endeavour or just black and white scans?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 20 February, 2015, 05:44:49 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 20 February, 2015, 04:07:37 PM
I think David Roach keeps his too ?

David has kept a few choice pages but a lot are in collectors' hands, mine included!  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 February, 2015, 10:30:44 AM
Quote from: Spikes on 20 February, 2015, 04:27:29 PM

The first Dredd, and Rogue Trooper episodes are complete, for instance, and are out there somewhere. As are a good few other vintage individual episodes from various 2000ad strips.
A collection of these would be nice to see.

If it's impossible to get out a complete story or collection themed on a particular character, then the only hope for another Apex edition would be to make a collection of different 2000AD stories.  It would probably be just as impossible to assemble any complete progs (regardless of whether they form a run or not), but that way we'd at least see a second volume and it would also showcase a lot of different stories and artists. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 February, 2015, 12:10:24 PM
Now available for pre-order at Amazon UK:

IDW Judge Dredd volume 7 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1631403583)
Paperback, 152 pages, IDW Publishing, 4th August 2015

Dredd has defeated the Dark Judges and broken out of Sector One... only to find himself a fugitive in Judge Cal's insane surveillance state, with only Anderson in his head helping him survive Cal's rabid chase, in "Mega-City Manhunt." Collects issues 25-30.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/IDFW%20Dredd%207_zps23sscqdu.jpg)
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Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 March, 2015, 10:17:54 PM
Oh what can it be?  ;)
https://www.facebook.com/2000AD/posts/10152656053461366:0
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 March, 2015, 11:05:53 PM
Don't tell we're actually getting that much-needed epilogue!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 04 March, 2015, 11:09:04 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 04 March, 2015, 10:17:54 PM
Oh what can it be?  ;)
https://www.facebook.com/2000AD/posts/10152656053461366:0
Intriguing. As I just posted on FB: "Interesting. That's definitely the prow of the Cradle of Filth from Red Seas. Maybe an epilogue or something?"
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Post by: James Stacey on 05 March, 2015, 07:28:15 AM
Curiously from that small snippet I get more of a Si Fraser vibe than Yeowell
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 March, 2015, 08:30:38 AM
Colour me intrigued.

The clouds I'd defo say The Mighty Yeowell, the sea less so.

If it is more Red Seas then I'm excited, but seems odd that a series that only finished  2 years ago (almost to the day by the date on the teaser) would return so soon.

Maybe they are going to announce it as the next US series? Both The Mighy Yeowell and Edginton have US name recognition?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 March, 2015, 10:19:34 AM
The clouds, rain and rigging all say Yeowell for sure, but the sea is curiously densely drawn for him. If it is a Red Seas epilogue I'll be thrilled - there's much character stuff that needed to be resolved, not to mention the links to the future interlude strips and other Library Doors stories.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 05 March, 2015, 10:26:56 AM
A portion of Yeowell's work on the recent DeMarco P.I. strip in the Meg was inked by the capable Lee Townsend- could be that he (or another inker) are collaborating with Yeowell on this.

Either way, I'd be very happy to see The Red Seas back, even just for a one-off.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 March, 2015, 10:35:46 AM
My bet's are on for an epilogue of sorts tying up loose ends from the last few runs. But....I still hold out hope for future collections.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 05 March, 2015, 11:03:00 AM
I read somewhere that Stickleback & the Red sea's are set in the same era? (which I doubted) Some kind of merging of the stories?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 March, 2015, 11:09:20 AM
Alternative realities, same era. I remember back when Brass Sun started trying to rationalise where it played out in the Edginton-verse, only to have those ideas dashed last year when I.E. himself declared it not an official part of his plans.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: M.I.K. on 05 March, 2015, 04:59:27 PM
I can't remember if it was specifically stated, but going by how everyone is dressed in The Red Seas, I'd assume it was set some time in the 18th century, (very early 19th at the latest), whereas Stickleback is set towards the end of the 19th century.

It's not the same era.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 March, 2015, 07:36:25 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 March, 2015, 11:09:20 AM
Alternative realities, same era.

They're the same era in the sense that they occur roughly simultaneously in relation to the struggles of the Brotherhood of the Book, but in fact the 13 different worlds behind the doors in the Brotherhood's Library are all at different points in their histories - thus Ampney Crucis (1920/30s) can travel to a lovecraftian world that is obviously the ruins of a future London, while Jack Dancer (late 18th C) can meet a young George Washington (1770's) and an unnaturally preserved Isaac Newton (d. 1720s), and Stickleback (late 19th C) can meet the daughter of (IIRC) Ada Lovelace (d. 1850s) and Benjamin D'Israeli (d. 1880s), even as their adventures affect each other's worlds and their more enlightened characters can meet up for a chat.

Brass Sun, by contrast, is many hundreds if not thousands of years in all our futures.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 March, 2015, 08:17:20 PM
You forgot War or the Worlds. Snd Scarlet Traces. And Gorgo....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 06 March, 2015, 11:20:17 AM
We've had Judge Dredd vs Predator, and now this. This is a real thing. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1616558059)  And why not, given that Archie has already teamed up with KISS (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Archie-Meets-KISS-Dan-Parent/dp/1936975041) and met President Obama (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Archie-Obama-Riverdale-Friends-All-Stars/dp/187979487X)?


(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Archie%20vs%20Predator_zpswdygsfz9.jpg)

Look out for the inevitable Dredd-Andrews team-up to really finish off those warlike aliens.
"Who the hell's going to mess with us?"
"Er, Miss Grundy?"
Co-starring Anderson as Betty and Hershey as Veronica.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 06 March, 2015, 12:07:10 PM
Don't forget the team-up with Frank Castle either, Dash.

Archie vs Predator is as dumb an idea as you'll likely come across.
I'll be buying it.  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 06 March, 2015, 12:22:26 PM
Thanks Link Prime - simply amazing.

It doesn't take much to imagine Dredd there in place of the Punisher.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dan Banks on 11 March, 2015, 06:56:19 AM
So there's the answer to the Red Seas mystery facebook tease, complete digitial collections of the entire series, excellent!

A fair few posters have requested these (myself included) so I hope they sell pretty well!

See:
http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/digitalgn_the_red_seas_book_i
http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/digitalgn_the_red_seas_book_ii
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 March, 2015, 07:16:07 AM
That's bloody great news!

But I would still prefer some physical collections.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 11 March, 2015, 07:44:41 AM
Time, about god damn of it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 March, 2015, 09:22:11 AM
So no epilogue. Ah well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 11 March, 2015, 09:40:47 AM
I'm actually tempted. A pity the series didn't sell well enough to get these in paper though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 11 March, 2015, 12:59:02 PM
I find it hard to justify double dip and especially in this case since I've recently read. HOWEVER this feels like something I should support as you gotta thing if this sails (gettit, gettit, ya see what I did there?) you kinda thing it might led to other digital releases and that would surely mean Sinister Dexter...

... what, no I will not get off my bandwagon thank you very much.

As Indigo Prime said shame it can't justify a print release, I was hoping for some US release, but I guess this covers that to a degree.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 11 March, 2015, 01:57:10 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 06 March, 2015, 11:20:17 AM
We've had Judge Dredd vs Predator, and now this. This is a real thing. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1616558059)  And why not, given that Archie has already teamed up with KISS (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Archie-Meets-KISS-Dan-Parent/dp/1936975041) and met President Obama (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Archie-Obama-Riverdale-Friends-All-Stars/dp/187979487X)?


(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Archie%20vs%20Predator_zpswdygsfz9.jpg)

I'd like to see that one, ad I have the KISS version as well.

Look out for the inevitable Dredd-Andrews team-up to really finish off those warlike aliens.
"Who the hell's going to mess with us?"
"Er, Miss Grundy?"
Co-starring Anderson as Betty and Hershey as Veronica.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dan Banks on 11 March, 2015, 01:58:51 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 11 March, 2015, 12:59:02 PM
I find it hard to justify double dip and especially in this case since I've recently read. HOWEVER this feels like something I should support as you gotta thing if this sails (gettit, gettit, ya see what I did there?) you kinda thing it might led to other digital releases and that would surely mean Sinister Dexter...

That's my thinking too. This release sets a precedent for other stories that may not be commercially viable for physical release but do still have a decent fanbase.

I think Durham Red might be another possibility? Good backlog of content, decent fanbase...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 March, 2015, 02:29:45 PM
And of course the other aspect is that once the files are in good order, and the potential market is widened, it becomes more viable to produce a nice print edition. The fact that there are two versions of the first volume lying around the comic shops and bargain bookshops shows that there's no point in pushing ahead without a new strategy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: J.Smith on 11 March, 2015, 04:44:20 PM
Yeah, I'm not big on reading my comics digitally but I have to admit that I'm very tempted to make an exception for these and would certainly pick up a Sinister Dexter and other like-minded collections.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ZenArcade on 11 March, 2015, 06:58:57 PM
Think Red Sea's is set in or around the person from the seven years war up until around 1785 character and costumewise. Z
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 March, 2015, 10:53:04 PM
Yeah, that's it exactly. Late 1760s-Early 1770s would be my guess. Although with the proviso that this an alternate Earth to our own, where the term 'dinosaur' was in common usage a century early (oh alright, and a few other minor differences too).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 15 March, 2015, 04:33:03 PM

(http://41.media.tumblr.com/374fdf7b889572e1bab35f50e95681fb/tumblr_nl84horiAB1qf427ko1_500.jpg)


I confidently assert, without fear of contradiction, that this represents the first time Brian Bolland has depicted Sláine. Turns out Brian Bolland's Sláine is a lot like Simon Bisley's Sláine with a more refined inking technique, but a first's a first, and a Brian Bolland first is firstier than almost any other first.

He's drawn Alpha lots (http://www.2000ad.org/covers/specials/hires/2000AD82.jpghttp://www.2000ad.org/covers/specials/hires/2000AD82.jpg) and lots (http://www.2000ad.org/covers/specials/hires/2000AD83.jpg), and lots (http://www.2000ad.org/covers/specials/hires/PROG2000.jpg) of times, sometimes more successfully than he's managed here, but Johnny's a tricky character, goddamit.

Again, I issue this statement knowing my words are as true as the kingfisher swooping to pluck its prey without disturbing the reflecting glass of the water, when I say that this is the first time Bolland has tackled the MKII lawgiver as well.

Bolland's crack at the now superseded MKII is much more on the mark, probably because he's working from Planet Replica's design (I wonder if Dan Carey-George bunged Bolland a freebie?). I don't know what Bolland was using as his model the last time he updated the look of the lawgiver, but I hope he gave it a wash first:


(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/hires/891.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 March, 2015, 04:37:55 PM
Nice little line-up there.Always happy to see Grey Suits and after the conclusion of the last Orlok I'm hoping this one works better episodically but I have hope.

Of course the others are a given (which until what a year ago I hadn't said about Slaine in a long, long time!)
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 15 March, 2015, 04:53:27 PM
Area not Suits fortunately
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Zenith 666 on 15 March, 2015, 04:55:58 PM
Was sure Absolom was to return in 1924 not Orlok.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 March, 2015, 05:00:50 PM
NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

I wanted more Absalom!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Leigh S on 15 March, 2015, 05:05:15 PM
Always loved that 1983 annual Bolland Stront - definitely his best attempt at the character
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 March, 2015, 06:09:23 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 15 March, 2015, 04:53:27 PM
Area not Suits fortunately

It is and that's also what I meant as well. Just as every there is a massive disconnect between what my brian* thinks and my fingers type. I've learnt to live with it and you lot always seem very forgiving.

*For once deliberate - honest.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 March, 2015, 08:13:36 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 15 March, 2015, 06:09:23 PM
I've learnt to live with it and you lot always seem very forgiving.


It's cause we love you!

Cheers for the Prog 1924 promo Sauchie, it has engaged my anticipation circuits.

Can't wait for Slaine, personally.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 16 March, 2015, 11:01:40 AM
Now available for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd Classics: The Dark Judges (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1631403729)
Hardcover, 120 pages, IDW Publishing, 25th August 2015
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 March, 2015, 11:23:16 AM
If there's one thing Judge Death and Judge Death Lives! needs it's a lick of paint.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: J.Smith on 19 March, 2015, 02:35:40 PM
Not an upcoming story or anything but I thought this was as good a place as any to post this little tweet from 2000AD:

https://twitter.com/2000AD/status/578547551781154817 (https://twitter.com/2000AD/status/578547551781154817)

Hooray, hooray. Think I and a few other people on the forums thought that would be a pretty neat addition to house these really nice books.

Somewhat related, regarding the limited bookplate Apex Edition that went up for pre-order yesterday, I asked over Twitter if, in the absence of an art print this time, the bookplate won't be like other publishers - not stuck to any of the book's pages / loose and separate from the book, doubling as a mini art print. Should hear back today on that apparently.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mark Taylor on 21 March, 2015, 07:29:04 PM
Quote from: J.Smith on 11 March, 2015, 04:44:20 PM
Yeah, I'm not big on reading my comics digitally but I have to admit that I'm very tempted to make an exception for these and would certainly pick up a Sinister Dexter and other like-minded collections.

Same here. I will definitely be making an exception for The Red Seas, it's an awesome series.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 March, 2015, 11:18:17 AM
Now listed for pre-order on Amazon UK:

The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in His Wake) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178108372X) - paperback, 178 pages, December 2015.  Let's hope it sees the light this time.

Aquila (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084076) - paperback, 192 pages, 12th January 2016

Jaegir: Beasts Within (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781083959) - paperback, 128 pages, 6th October 2015 (following hot on the heels of Jaegir: the Enemy Within (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jaegir-Enemy-Within-Gordon-Rennie/dp/1781083967) - paperback, 176 pages, 11th September 2015)

I'm sure this one has been mentioned but in case it hasn't been linked, the B format (AKA 'manga size' AKA pocket edition AKA my eyes are watering) digest that is  The V.C.'s: Hell in the Heavens (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781083282) - paperback, 144 pages, 18th June 2015.

And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 March, 2015, 11:24:51 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 16 March, 2015, 11:01:40 AM
Now available for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd Classics: The Dark Judges (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1631403729)
Hardcover, 120 pages, IDW Publishing, 25th August 2015

And here's the dark cover for IDW's colourised The Dark Judges:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/IDW%20Dark%20Judges_zpsxyld7sot.jpg)

Anything to get Anderson's bum in shot.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 27 March, 2015, 12:23:39 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 March, 2015, 11:24:51 AM
And here's the dark cover for IDW's colourised The Dark Judges:
Death, Fire, Mortis and Deadmaus.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 March, 2015, 01:03:19 PM
I was thinking Crowtisss.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 27 March, 2015, 07:08:48 PM
No wonder Judge Death is grinning, like where Anderson's hand is - scandalous!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 27 March, 2015, 07:20:05 PM
Quote from: DarkDaysBish-OP on 27 March, 2015, 07:08:48 PM
No wonder Judge Death is grinning, like where Anderson's hand is - scandalous!

Ha, never going to unsee that now.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 March, 2015, 07:22:02 PM
Comic book creaters are pure filth.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 27 March, 2015, 07:52:39 PM
Robertson has been producing some great covers for IDW lately, but this is the weakest of them I think.

He's a great artist mind, would love to see him take on a Prog or Meg cover.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 27 March, 2015, 09:06:22 PM
Better than those awful Apocalypse War ones that other guy did at any rate.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 28 March, 2015, 08:51:46 AM
You'd think that if you were doing a deluxe colour edition of a book containing classic Bolland artwork that the choice of cover artist would be a no-brainer.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 March, 2015, 09:33:35 AM
Robertson is a great artist with a proper 2000AD sensibility, but for this they either had to commission Bolland or re-use existing art for this book of all books.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 March, 2015, 07:40:20 PM
Looks like Metalzoic is getting a reprint, from DC. Tucked in article from Bleeding Cool about DCs uo coming releases is this little gem.

QuoteFollowing up on Marshall Law, Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill get their Metalzoic series reprinted.

Full article (with some other interesting none tooth stuff coming up including the long awaited (well by some) GMozz Wonder Woman Earth 1  book)

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/03/29/more-dc-omnibus-deluxe-and-long-awaited-collections-for-2015/ (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/03/29/more-dc-omnibus-deluxe-and-long-awaited-collections-for-2015/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 29 March, 2015, 10:07:20 PM
About damn time. It's still a terrific story, and it deserves another airing. (I was fortunate enough to pick up a reprint on eBay for a song a while back, but it's a bit battered and dinged, and so I'd be tempted by a new reprint, if it's high quality.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 30 March, 2015, 01:36:30 PM
Metalzoic is a cracking tale and one I'm very happy to see coming back.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 31 March, 2015, 12:19:31 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 29 March, 2015, 10:07:20 PM
About damn time. It's still a terrific story, and it deserves another airing. (I was fortunate enough to pick up a reprint on eBay for a song a while back, but it's a bit battered and dinged, and so I'd be tempted by a new reprint, if it's high quality.)

same story here paid 20 quid for a battered copy but did'nt regret it, met Mills a few years ago and he said he was trying to get a reprint from dc.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 04 April, 2015, 05:08:19 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 March, 2015, 11:24:51 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 16 March, 2015, 11:01:40 AM
Now available for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd Classics: The Dark Judges (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1631403729)
Hardcover, 120 pages, IDW Publishing, 25th August 2015

And here's the dark cover for IDW's colourised The Dark Judges:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/IDW%20Dark%20Judges_zpsxyld7sot.jpg)

Anything to get Anderson's bum in shot.

Anderson's bum was the star of the strip when Brett was drawing it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 10 April, 2015, 01:40:57 PM
Strong looking Meg coming up from 361. Rennie and Ezquerra's El Maldito, a new series of Lawless and Paul Grist's Demon Nic in the creator owned slot.

All that and another Sci-Fi Special. Huzzah!

Quote from: TotalHack on 28 March, 2015, 09:33:35 AM
Robertson is a great artist with a proper 2000AD sensibility, but for this they either had to commission Bolland or re-use existing art for this book of all books.
Looking at this again, Anderson herself is good and firmly in keeping with the contents of the story, but the DJs are all a bit squiffy. I guess it's one of the risks of interpretation. A bit like when Carlos did an arc of The Boys and none of the characters looked quite right.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 April, 2015, 10:09:26 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 31 January, 2015, 11:25:10 PM
Judge Dredd Case Files 01 in hardback (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Casefiles-John-Wagner/dp/1781083320), out in August.

"To celebrate ten decades of this mighty tome, Case Files One is being released as a hardback edition, complete with original colour centre spreads..."

Amazon UK have the cover on display:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/JDCF1_HBK_zpsreglmhoz.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: everdefiant on 14 April, 2015, 04:46:26 PM
A new set of Diceman wouldn't go astray.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 27 April, 2015, 02:26:58 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Dan Dare the 2000 AD Years volume 01 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dan-Dare-2000-Years-Vol/dp/1781083495) - Hardcover, 320 pages, 5th November 2015

Waking from suspended animation after two hundred years, Dan Dare faced an unfamiliar universe, filled with terrible new threats, but also included all too familiar ones...such as his old nemesis The Mekon! Collected up for the first time, the first volume of this punk-fuelled space opera features the superb writing of Pat Mills (Nemesis the Warlock), Steve Moore (Doctor Who) and Gerry Finley-Day (Rogue Trooper) with art by Massimo Belardinelli (Slaine) and Dave Gibbons (Watchmen).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 April, 2015, 02:38:04 PM
I'm pre-ordering but hoping for a price-drop. Thats quite a pricey volume despite a nice meaty page count.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 27 April, 2015, 02:50:15 PM
I imagine there's some added in there for the licence required from Dan Dare Corp.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 27 April, 2015, 04:20:33 PM
Also it has the colour center-spreads, or at least that what either Molch-R or Keef alluded to. There's a bit of me tempted to wait for a paperback should there be one... but to miss this would be criminal! 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 27 April, 2015, 04:28:52 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 27 April, 2015, 02:38:04 PM
I'm pre-ordering but hoping for a price-drop. Thats quite a pricey volume despite a nice meaty page count.

Mek Files RRP was £25.00, but Forbidden Planet (online) and others sold them for £17; Daily Dredds RRP was £30, but you could get it for two thirds of that if you shopped around. I imagine it should be fairly easy to get Dare for a similar real-world discount when released.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 27 April, 2015, 04:30:55 PM
Oh I very much suspect so. As it is it fits in to my 10 pages per £1 rule but it's cutting it fine....
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 27 April, 2015, 07:00:25 PM
Of course, we'll end paying full price plus for the book mark edition.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jock Savage on 28 April, 2015, 10:30:55 PM
AL EWING - GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN:

"Welcome to Battleworld -- where, in what's left of Mondo-City One, Boss Cage is the law!

The fascist futuropolis of Mondo City, originally invented by Jeff Parker, which is an analogue for a certain sci-fi mega-city I've written about in the past, one that British comic readers -- and fans of cool, cult sci-fi movies -- will be very familiar with. It's ruled over by the Bosses, who are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of them all is Boss Cage, aging but still undefeatable clone of Luke Cage's grandson Danny.

It's no secret to anyone that I'm a huge fan of Judge Dredd. I've worked on the strip many times -- in fact, I have a Dredd story running in the Judge Dredd Megazine right now. So naturally, I would heartily recommend that anyone interested in this story or in good comics in general picks up some Dredd. Right now! If you've not read Dredd, particularly the Wagner Dredd, you're missing out on some of the very best sci-fi satire/action/drama ever written."

Check out an exclusive first look at Alan Davis and colorist Jordie Bellaire's cover for Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders #1 below, and look for the series in comic-book stores this July http://www.blastr.com/2015-3-24/exclusive-captain-britain-and-mighty-defenders-join-marvels-secret-wars
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 29 April, 2015, 01:23:08 AM
Does anyone have any more info about the rumoured return of Ace Trucking Co with art by Nick Dyer?

Ta
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 April, 2015, 06:01:14 AM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 29 April, 2015, 01:23:08 AM
Does anyone have any more info about the rumoured return of Ace Trucking Co with art by Nick Dyer?

Ta

Interesting, rumoured where? Not heard of this.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 29 April, 2015, 06:33:21 AM
It was mentioned on the 2000 AD facebook page and the link took you to  COMICS ALLIANCE (http://comicsalliance.com/2000-ad-summer-special-ace-trucking-company/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 29 April, 2015, 09:30:55 AM
Yes Dan Dare will be a mix of colour & black and white. My article about future releases covers that aspect, no previews yet.
I also assume a licence had been paid... But I am assuming no facts held.

https://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/2000ad-to-release-more-firsts-in-2015-well-see/

Plus I coveted the early preview of the Summer Special. No preview art but yup Ace Trucking is back. Previews of Survival Geeks & Robo-Hunter pencils without dialogue.

https://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/2015-summer-special-out-in-print-and-digital-on-24-june/

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 April, 2015, 11:57:50 AM
Okay that's very cool. Nick Dyer on anything is a good thing. On Ace Trucking it does seem particularly good news. Thanks for the pointers everyone.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 29 April, 2015, 01:33:12 PM
Quote from: Bat King on 29 April, 2015, 09:30:55 AM
Plus I coveted the early preview of the Summer Special. No preview art but yup Ace Trucking is back. Previews of Survival Geeks & Robo-Hunter pencils without dialogue.

https://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/2015-summer-special-out-in-print-and-digital-on-24-june/

Nice scoop there BK, looks like a fun line-up.

Ace Trucking Co, eh? Who'd have thunk it.
Also very nice to see Guy Adams getting another outing on Rogue Trooper, his previous two one-off's were great.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 April, 2015, 01:27:27 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

ABC Warriors - The Mek Files volume 3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/ABC-Warriors-Mek-Files-Vol-03/dp/1781083347) - Hardcover, 272 pages, 3rd December 2015.

The human colonists have ravaged Mars and the sentient planet has had enough! Martian natives have taken up the cause and are fighting back for their world. With tensions between the different factions at an all-time high, the A.B.C. Warriors are sent in to 'increase the peace'. But this mission is fraught with danger and at least one Warrior is destined to fall! Written by 2000 AD creator Pat Mills (Ro-Busters), this stunning black and white collection features the work of Henry Flint (Zombo, Judge Dredd), Mick McMahon (Slaine, Judge Dredd) and Carlos Ezquerra (Strontium Dog) amongst others.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 30 April, 2015, 01:51:36 PM
Let's hope the repro is better than that shocking effort in Book 1
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 01 May, 2015, 01:53:35 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 29 April, 2015, 11:57:50 AM
Okay that's very cool. Nick Dyer on anything is a good thing. On Ace Trucking it does seem particularly good news. Thanks for the pointers everyone.

I quite like Nick Dyers art, it's not groundbreaking but solid & reminds me of Cam Kennedy in a good way...

Ace Trucking Co.: Star's Truck by Eddie Robson & Nick Dyer

Eddie Robson on the other hand hasn't floated my boat at all. I wanted him to get some great stuff into the prog, but I've found his scripts to be way below par & sometimes just confusing without any fundamental realisation of the the story.

Sorry Eddie... here's hoping though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 02 May, 2015, 03:43:46 AM
Finding a retread of Ace Trucking a highly strange cboice but I like Eddie Robson and Nick Dyer... Hope they pull this off...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 02 May, 2015, 10:40:38 AM
The ending of "Death Rock" part one in the 2015 FCBD prog caught me by surprise.  Is this a strip currently running in the prog?  With Ace Garp and Rogue trooper due to make reappearances, I wonder if there's any reason for revisiting some of these old characters (not that I mind) - tribute, anniversary, some kind of copyright refreshing?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 02 May, 2015, 06:49:52 PM
New Rogue Trooper? Surely you mean Bad Company?

But i'd take a re-release of Ace Trucking co. Vol.1 anyway, one of the biggest gaps in my tooth GN collection and one I dearly wish to fill.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 02 May, 2015, 07:50:51 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 02 May, 2015, 10:40:38 AM
With Ace Garp and Rogue trooper due to make reappearances, I wonder if there's any reason for revisiting some of these old characters (not that I mind) - tribute, anniversary, some kind of copyright refreshing?

I think as well as being a bit of a proving ground for new talent, the specials are pitched mainly at the nostalgia market (or at least more so than, say, the prog) - hence a lot of adventures for characters who haven't been current for a while now; Rogue, Robo-Hunter, etc.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 May, 2015, 03:04:38 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 May, 2015, 06:49:52 PM
New Rogue Trooper? Surely you mean Bad Company?

I know about Bad Company, but I thought I'd read a recent post on the forum that an artist had mentioned on their blog that they were working on Rogue Trooper.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jock Savage on 03 May, 2015, 09:46:49 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 03 May, 2015, 03:04:38 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 02 May, 2015, 06:49:52 PM
New Rogue Trooper? Surely you mean Bad Company?

I know about Bad Company, but I thought I'd read a recent post on the forum that an artist had mentioned on their blog that they were working on Rogue Trooper.

It was mentioned on the previous page of this thread:

QuoteOn June 24, 2000 AD is putting out the latest in their line of 48-page seasonal anthologies, and as you might expect, the Summer Special is set to feature all the usual suspects that you get in the weekly prog. There's a Judge Dredd story, of course and Rogue Trooper makes an appearance,

Judge Dredd: Let's Go To Work by Mike Carroll & Jake Lynch
Rogue Trooper: Death of a Demon by Guy Adams & Darren Douglas
Ace Trucking Co.: Star's Truck by Eddie Robson & Nick Dyer
Survival Geeks: Movie Night by Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby & Neil Googe
Robo-Hunter: Iron Sam by Alec Worley & Mark Simmons
Future Shocks: Dust by Gary Blatchford & John Higgins

http://comicsalliance.com/2000-ad-summer-special-ace-trucking-company/?trackback=tsmclip
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 03 May, 2015, 10:04:33 AM
Well thats what I get! Ignore me being a numpty, gentlemen, and instead rejoice in the knowledge that we're getting another Darren Douglas Rogue story! Loved his last one-shot with the character.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 May, 2015, 01:10:37 PM
Thanks Jock Savage.  Glad to know it wasn't just another strange dream caused by eating that old cheese I found behind the cooker.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 May, 2015, 08:26:35 AM
New cover for Dark Justice: (Why no big Dredd logo?)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Dark%20Justice2_zps1gkhxfln.jpg)

Quote from: Dash Decent on 21 August, 2014, 10:39:31 AM
I love this cover.  The only thing that could improve it would be if Death's fingers hung over the Dredd logo instead of being masked off behind it.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/DarkJustice_zps8cb2986d.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 10 May, 2015, 09:28:08 AM
It doesn't really need a big obtrusive logo. The image is eye-catching enough.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PsychoGoatee on 11 May, 2015, 01:25:18 AM
Looks terrific!
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 11 May, 2015, 09:28:54 PM
Where can I buy the edition of Indigo Prime - Killing Time that's pictured at the end of the Devlin Waugh Mega-Collection volume? The spine will match Anthropocalypse :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 12 May, 2015, 04:18:44 PM
Great news for some as The Vort gets a Meg floppy outing and better news for every one of us as Rob and Henry are straight back in the mix with Enceladus: Old Life.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 13 May, 2015, 01:44:50 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 12 May, 2015, 04:18:44 PM
and better news for every one of us as Rob and Henry are straight back in the mix with Enceladus: Old Life.


...do we know which prog yet?

ta

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 13 May, 2015, 11:05:09 PM
Speaking of knowing which progs - just seen this, so apols if posted before, but might get someones pulse beatin like it did mine...

The new Bad Company story – FIRST CASULATIES – will debut in 2000 AD Prog 1950

Script by Peter Milligan
Art by Rufus & Jim McCarthy

...lovely...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 14 May, 2015, 06:06:37 AM
Very much looking forward to that and glad to hear we won't have toooo long to wait.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Zenith 666 on 14 May, 2015, 08:13:43 AM
The July pack for 2000ad mentions Enceladus:Old life.so sometime in July hopefully.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 14 May, 2015, 12:28:35 PM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 13 May, 2015, 01:44:50 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 12 May, 2015, 04:18:44 PM
and better news for every one of us as Rob and Henry are straight back in the mix with Enceladus: Old Life.
...do we know which prog yet?
Not exactly, but I just had a thought. If this doesn't lead into Enceladus: Low Life, I'll be disappointed.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 14 May, 2015, 12:43:51 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 14 May, 2015, 12:28:35 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 12 May, 2015, 04:18:44 PM
...and better news for every one of us as Rob and Henry are straight back in the mix with Enceladus: Old Life.
...I just had a thought. If this doesn't lead into Enceladus: Low Life, I'll be disappointed.

:lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 14 May, 2015, 01:58:49 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 14 May, 2015, 12:28:35 PM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 13 May, 2015, 01:44:50 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 12 May, 2015, 04:18:44 PM
and better news for every one of us as Rob and Henry are straight back in the mix with Enceladus: Old Life.
...do we know which prog yet?
Not exactly, but I just had a thought. If this doesn't lead into Enceladus: Low Life, I'll be disappointed.



Thanks guys... glad someone twigged with that, nice one!

There are some great plot threads left dangling & I can't remember being this into a Dredd arc for some time.

Cheers

Si
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 18 May, 2015, 05:49:09 PM
Expect more news to be trumpeted about Dark Justice at the end of this month in an Exclusive...

Then By me on 1st June. I've starting writing this in my head already.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tjm86 on 30 May, 2015, 11:48:06 AM
Can someone clear up something for me.  The 10th Anniversary edition of the first case files is described as hardback but Amazon has it as a paperback.  At £35 that is a bit steep, even with coloured pages but something I might be tempted by if hardback.  Molch-R originally touted it as HB but has a mind been changed somewhere or is Amazon wrong? :-*
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 30 May, 2015, 12:52:58 PM
Amazon is often wrong when it comes to Rebellion bindings. At that price, it will be hardback.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tjm86 on 30 May, 2015, 02:29:47 PM
Thanks.  I thought as much but wondered if someone had bottled it somewhere.  On the pricing front Amazon can sometimes get it interestingly and spectacularly wrong.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 30 May, 2015, 02:56:16 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 30 May, 2015, 11:48:06 AM
Molch-R originally touted it as HB but has a mind been changed somewhere or is Amazon wrong? :-*

Amazon is incorrect. It will be a hardback edition.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tjm86 on 30 May, 2015, 05:08:03 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 30 May, 2015, 02:56:16 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 30 May, 2015, 11:48:06 AM
Molch-R originally touted it as HB but has a mind been changed somewhere or is Amazon wrong? :-*

Amazon is incorrect. It will be a hardback edition.

Bolshoi spaceba.  Nice to have the official line.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 31 May, 2015, 01:26:29 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 18 February, 2015, 10:03:16 AM
Slight amend from the press release: Case Files 25 has been inserted into August for the UK.

Nice cover:
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CF25_zpskryuuppz.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 01 June, 2015, 11:40:53 AM
Hmm. If the issue info given on the cover of CF25 is accurate the book's only going to be 201 pages, the smallest for some time.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 02 June, 2015, 10:55:13 PM
Surely we can do better than that?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 12 June, 2015, 11:31:06 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK: Judge Dredd 2016 Calendar (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00WB4NEZ6)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 June, 2015, 10:40:24 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 February, 2015, 09:17:50 AM
October
The Complete Ro-Busters: Nuts and Bolts Vol. I

Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK: Ro-Busters: The Nuts and Bolts volume 1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/books/dp/1781082626) - hardback, 240 pages, 8th October 2015.

"2000 AD brings you the first volume of the Ro-Busters, featuring the restored original coloured pages." (...as Robo-Keef mentioned earlier.)

Can you guess who the cover artist is? : D  Nice gun, Ro-jaws!
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Nuts%20amp%20Bolts_zpsvtf8akl6.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 13school on 18 June, 2015, 03:15:46 PM
Just got an email from Amazon.com telling me my pre-order of the DC reprint of Metalzoic has been cancelled. Anyone else get the same news?

My guess is that DC didn't get enough pre-orders from comic shops and store to make it worth their while going through with the reprint, dammit.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 June, 2015, 07:03:03 PM
....Herm. Nothing from me. Still up for pre-order and all....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 13school on 19 June, 2015, 01:16:13 AM
It's now only up at Amazon.co.uk - being in Australia I ordered it from the US, and they no longer have a listing for the reprint at all.

I'm not optimistic.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 June, 2015, 02:09:07 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 March, 2015, 11:18:17 AM
Now listed for pre-order on Amazon UK:

The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in His Wake) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178108372X) - paperback, 178 pages, December 2015.  Let's hope it sees the light this time.

Aquila (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084076) - paperback, 192 pages, 12th January 2016

Jaegir: Beasts Within (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781083959) - paperback, 128 pages, 6th October 2015 (following hot on the heels of Jaegir: The Enemy Within (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jaegir-Enemy-Within-Gordon-Rennie/dp/1781083967) - paperback, 176 pages, 11th September 2015)

I'm sure this one has been mentioned but in case it hasn't been linked, the B format (AKA 'manga size' AKA pocket edition AKA my eyes are watering) digest that is  The V.C.'s: Hell in the Heavens (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781083282) - paperback, 144 pages, 18th June 2015.

And now back to Bob in the studio.

The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in His Wake) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grevious-Journey-Ichabod-Azrael-Dead/dp/1781083711) has a new listing at Amazon UK, presumably superceding the link I posted back in March.  The page count has jumped from 176 pages to 320 pages.

Amazon have added the cover for Jaegar: The Beast Within to their Jaegar: The Enemy Within (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jaegir-Enemy-Within-Gordon-Rennie/dp/1781083967) listing.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Ichabod_zpsimylbyuw.jpg)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Jaegar_zpsdd0akiqz.jpg)


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 20 June, 2015, 04:48:31 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 15 June, 2015, 10:40:24 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 18 February, 2015, 09:17:50 AM
October
The Complete Ro-Busters: Nuts and Bolts Vol. I

Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK: Ro-Busters: The Nuts and Bolts volume 1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/books/dp/1781082626) - hardback, 240 pages, 8th October 2015.

"2000 AD brings you the first volume of the Ro-Busters, featuring the restored original coloured pages." (...as Robo-Keef mentioned earlier.)

Can you guess who the cover artist is? : D  Nice gun, Ro-jaws!
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Nuts%20amp%20Bolts_zpsvtf8akl6.jpg)


looks like cover is by D'Israeli
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 20 June, 2015, 06:39:39 PM
Quote from: Judge Nutmeg on 20 June, 2015, 04:48:31 PM
...looks like cover is by D'Israeli

:o It's McMahon.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Nutmeg on 20 June, 2015, 06:41:41 PM
bloomin' heck
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 07 July, 2015, 09:46:00 AM
Just for a little nudge along ... shouldn't we be due a new Savage trade soon? Having also just thoroughly enjoyed the Best of Milligan and McCarthy it seems there's a bunch of Milligan stories that could be reprinted in floppy or trade format (Shadows, The Dead, Bix Barton).

Is Milligan back for the forthcoming return of Bad Company?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 07 July, 2015, 12:33:29 PM
Quote from: credo on 07 July, 2015, 09:46:00 AM
Is Milligan back for the forthcoming return of Bad Company?

Yeah and there was a nice full page ad for it in this Sci-Fi Special. Can't wait.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 08 July, 2015, 06:36:41 PM
Was just looking at adverts for the forthcoming Dredd Case Files 25 and saw that one says it will feature Progs 984-1007, whilst this Rebellion's own shop lists it as 984-1028. Wondered if anyone could clarify? (Also, whichever is correct, the input from the Megs looks a bit sparse - only 3.16-3.18)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 09 July, 2015, 08:04:44 AM
Judge Dredd - Dead zone by John Wagner, Henry Flint and Richard Elson. Out in Feb. 2016.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61J5yShTrjL._SX359_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Dead-John-Wagner/dp/1781084262/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436426401&sr=1-2

Love Flint on Dredd. Can't wait till Titan get's collected.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 July, 2015, 02:21:26 PM
Good spot, Apestrife!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 09 July, 2015, 03:29:44 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 08 July, 2015, 06:36:41 PM
Was just looking at adverts for the forthcoming Dredd Case Files 25 and saw that one says it will feature Progs 984-1007, whilst this Rebellion's own shop lists it as 984-1028. Wondered if anyone could clarify? (Also, whichever is correct, the input from the Megs looks a bit sparse - only 3.16-3.18)

Yeah, it's all a bit weird. The Meg stuff looks to be 3.16-3.19 - sparse, as you say, but that runs up to the start of the six-episode America II, so you can see why they made the split where they did. (That story's immediately followed by the 85-page Fetish, incidentally, so we already know what a big chunk of Case Files 26 is going to be)!

No idea what's happening with the prog stuff, though. The solicitation/blurb that most sites are using for their pre-orders mentions Death of a Legend (prog 1009), Trevor Hairsine (1012-1013) and Henry Flint (1014-1016) - suggesting that we run up to prog 1016 at least. The very next story is Darkside, which runs to 1028 but would add another 72 pages to the book, so it seems unlikely that wasn't held over for CF26. But the placeholder cover that's doing the rounds says prog 1007, and the creator list backs that up (no John Smith, no Hairsine, no Flint) - which would make the volume a relatively slim 200 or so pages!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 10 July, 2015, 01:01:23 AM
Placeholder is the key word there, though.

Assuming neither Fading of the Light nor Dredd vs Predator (six months worth of Meg Dredd there) are going to be included in the Case Files, there will have to be two or three volumes skewed more heavily towards the Progs just to make sure they're in sync for Doomsday
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 10 July, 2015, 05:14:17 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 10 July, 2015, 01:01:23 AM
...there will have to be two or three volumes skewed more heavily towards the Progs just to make sure they're in sync for Doomsday.

The Case Files are currently battling through a fairly ropey period for the Megazine, so that's no bad thing, to be honest. From 3.34 onwards they were all written by Wagner (with two Alan Grant fill-ins) right up to Doomsday, though, so there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Big_Dave on 11 July, 2015, 11:44:13 AM
Dreams Of Deadworld, a Dark Judges prequel/reimagining by Kek-W and Dave Kendall, announced by Rebellion at SDCC

(http://i.imgur.com/nPp1ZrT.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 July, 2015, 09:56:14 PM
Liking the look of Dreams of Deadworld a lot!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 18 July, 2015, 12:37:45 AM
Dave Kendall's work is some of the most disturbing I've seen since Dave Mckeans... I love it!

Here's Death, minus eyeballs... brrr...

(http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q629/Simon_Jacques/BhO6n2xCEAAH6J2_zpstz5jygca.jpg) (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Simon_Jacques/media/BhO6n2xCEAAH6J2_zpstz5jygca.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 18 July, 2015, 09:19:19 AM
Another one, from the thrill mail.

(https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a6e40236aa24d482cfff600d2/images/fdf18a42-f057-4424-bb18-2539dcd3f5d3.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 18 July, 2015, 10:15:15 AM
Looks terrific. Evil almost wafts off the page! Love the skull Moon. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 July, 2015, 06:45:34 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 March, 2015, 11:18:17 AM
Now listed for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Aquila (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084076) - paperback, 192 pages, 12th January 2016

And now back to Bob in the studio.

Cover now up:
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Aquila_zps7l8surms.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 August, 2015, 01:18:08 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 12 June, 2015, 11:31:06 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK: Judge Dredd 2016 Calendar (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00WB4NEZ6)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/2016%20calendar%20rear_zpsh1frs5ex.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 07 August, 2015, 10:21:48 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd: Casefiles 26 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084319)

Paperback, 14th January 2016, 320 pages.

Mega-City One - a nightmarish enclosure located along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. Only the Judges - powerful law enforcers supporting the despotic Justice Department - can stop total anarchy running rife on the crime-ridden streets. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the law and these are his stories...

After a pack of vicious Dune Sharks attack Mega-City One, Judge Dredd sets out into the Cursed Earth with a group of cadets, intent on finding where the alien fish fiends have come from, so he can wipe them out once and for all! Meanwhile in another classic adventure from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine, Dredd teams up with the celebrity freelance exorcist, Devlin Waugh, to battle Kigishu the evil sorcerer on the plains of Pan-Africa...


And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 09 August, 2015, 05:13:36 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 09 July, 2015, 08:04:44 AM
Judge Dredd - Dead zone by John Wagner, Henry Flint and Richard Elson. Out in Feb. 2016.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61J5yShTrjL._SX359_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Dead-John-Wagner/dp/1781084262/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1436426401&sr=1-2

Love Flint on Dredd. Can't wait till Titan get's collected.


Ooooh, nice! (....and just seen the release date; February next year. Bugger.)

But as a non-Meg reader, I've been keen to read this strip. A relatively slim volume at less than a hundred pages, but an essential purchase, methinks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 09 August, 2015, 06:34:28 PM
Will it include Breaking Bud? That seems kind of integral.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 09 August, 2015, 06:35:38 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 09 August, 2015, 06:34:28 PM
Will it include Breaking Bud? That seems kind of integral.

Yes - Richard Elson's namechecked on the cover along with Henry Flint.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 10 August, 2015, 06:47:45 PM
I've just seen a copy of the new Ro-Busters hard-cover on sale in Brighton. Unfortunately the cover was damaged, so I didn't buy - I'd sooner wait in case there's a book-plate edition up for pre-order. I did have a scan through. I can confirm that all the bits that should be in colour *are* in colour; that the correct dialogue on the end of the final episode of Hammerstein's War Memoirs has been restored (linking to Ro-Jaws' Memoirs); that there's a Pat Mills introduction; that the publication date is October 2015 and that it includes the full run of Star Lord episodes, plus the 2000AD episodes up to and including Ro-Jaws' Memoirs. The strip from the Star Lord Holiday Special is included as a bonus. That leaves the Terra-Meks and the Fall and Rise of Ro-Jaws & Hammerstein for Vol 2, along with 5 2000AD Annual stories and (fingers crossed) the Mills/O'Neill one-off Ro-Jaws strip from Prog 144.

The shop also had copies the the 10th anniversary edition of the Complete Case Files Vol 1. Again, I have a pre-order so am happy to wait. Nice to see that everything that should be in colour is in colour, including the single pages of various episodes that ended up on the back cover. There's also a colour cover gallery. The whole volume looks fantastic and I would seriously consider purchasing any future volumes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 10 August, 2015, 08:08:48 PM
Damn you Tharg, damn you to Zrag. Would it kill you to just once put out some substandard pile of crud that I don't automatically covet?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 10 August, 2015, 10:14:41 PM
Quote from: glassstanley on 10 August, 2015, 06:47:45 PM
I've just seen a copy of the new Ro-Busters hard-cover on sale in Brighton. That leaves the Terra-Meks and the Fall and Rise of Ro-Jaws & Hammerstein for Vol 2, along with 5 2000AD Annual stories and (fingers crossed) the Mills/O'Neill one-off Ro-Jaws strip from Prog 144.
How is that possible as it is scheduled for October ??
I am with you for the expected content of volume 2.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 August, 2015, 11:21:09 PM
Quote from: TotalHack on 10 August, 2015, 08:08:48 PM
Damn you Tharg, damn you to Zrag. Would it kill you to just once put out some substandard pile of crud that I don't automatically covet?

I know what you mean!

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Dare_zpspksteuy3.jpg)

(Source: downthetubes.net (http://downthetubes.net/?p=24497))
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 10 August, 2015, 11:39:04 PM
That hand/gun looks so awkward - more like he's holding a microphone.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 11 August, 2015, 06:58:09 AM
Hoping there's not much recoil on one of those guns :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 August, 2015, 09:24:09 AM
The original 2000AD logo! :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Eamonn Clarke on 11 August, 2015, 01:21:39 PM
Quote from: glassstanley on 11 August, 2015, 06:58:09 AM
Hoping there's not much recoil on one of those guns :)

No recoil on a laser blaster, except maybe at a quantum entanglement level. (I may have just made that last bit up)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 August, 2015, 01:22:49 PM
Quote from: radiator on 10 August, 2015, 11:39:04 PM
That hand/gun looks so awkward - more like he's holding a microphone.

The barrel should be raised more so it's pointed at the reader.

If I had the digital chops, I'd do a test edit, cutting around the circular sections and raising them to see what difference it made.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 August, 2015, 01:24:35 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 11 August, 2015, 09:24:09 AM
The original 2000AD logo! :D

I like that the current logo (on the spine) is done to match with '2000 AD' in red and the surrounding flash in yellow.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: M.I.K. on 11 August, 2015, 03:50:26 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 August, 2015, 01:22:49 PM
The barrel should be raised more so it's pointed at the reader.

Depends what bit of the reader he's aiming at.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 11 August, 2015, 05:50:27 PM
Yup. He's not looking directly at the viewer. He's looking... dan dare.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 August, 2015, 06:06:55 PM
I'll be nabbing that at Thought Bubble and no mistake!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 August, 2015, 06:53:51 PM
Quick! Everybody tell Dave Drokkin' Gibbons how he should draw Dan Dare!  Gotta love the internet!  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 16 August, 2015, 09:48:21 PM
Quote from: radiator on 10 August, 2015, 11:39:04 PM
That hand/gun looks so awkward - more like he's holding a microphone.

Holding a microphone and scratching turntable with the other hand you say, I don't think it looks anything like that!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2015, 01:12:27 AM
QuoteThat hand/gun looks so awkward - more like he's holding a microphone.

Thanks, now I can't stop seeing Dan Dare as a dashing jazz crooner.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 17 August, 2015, 06:56:47 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2015, 01:12:27 AM
QuoteThat hand/gun looks so awkward - more like he's holding a microphone.

Thanks, now I can't stop seeing Dan Dare as a dashing jazz crooner.

Mis-read your reply, am now seeing Dan Dare as a dashing jazz coroner. Quincy Jones, MD stylee.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 17 August, 2015, 11:09:04 PM
(http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q629/Simon_Jacques/Deadworld_zps1825cyeg.jpg) (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Simon_Jacques/media/Deadworld_zps1825cyeg.jpg.html)


hooo boy! Not many sleeps to go for this beauty (& the beasts...)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2015, 11:43:42 PM
So spoopy
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 17 August, 2015, 11:52:40 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2015, 11:43:42 PM
So spoopy

:o Uh... indeed.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 18 August, 2015, 12:04:42 AM
The Dark Judges could be sooooooooo good if finally done in a suitably macabre style. No idea if this is that series, but as a fan of Kek-W, here's hoping. Dave Kendall's art fits this like a glove.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 19 August, 2015, 12:34:36 AM
I always thought Mortis was the most disturbing of the Dark Judges, but Dave Kendall seems to have taken him to the next level of darkness and I hate to use a yoof buzz word, but he looks sick...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 August, 2015, 12:46:48 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 August, 2015, 11:52:40 PM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 August, 2015, 11:43:42 PM
So spoopy

:o Uh... indeed.

Or spooky, even.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 19 August, 2015, 02:20:47 PM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 19 August, 2015, 12:34:36 AM
I always thought Mortis was the most disturbing of the Dark Judges, but Dave Kendall seems to have taken him to the next level of darkness and I hate to use a yoof buzz word, but he looks sick...

Yes, Mortis looks excellent there, as do all the Dark Judges. Really stoked for this series.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 19 August, 2015, 03:24:50 PM
Quote from: Fungus on 18 August, 2015, 12:04:42 AM
The Dark Judges could be sooooooooo good if finally done in a suitably macabre style. No idea if this is that series, but as a fan of Kek-W, here's hoping. Dave Kendall's art fits this like a glove.

This is so true. I'm not a fan of the Dark Judges since Necropolis really, but this looks like it might be good... mind I've said that before, so we'll see...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 19 August, 2015, 06:30:42 PM
Hark on me double posting.

Anyway have we seen the 'Thrills of the Future' for Blink by Dan Abnett and Ian Culbard before. Its on the latest Thrill mail and I don't remember it, but then that could just be my addled brain?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ZenArcade on 19 August, 2015, 07:42:02 PM
That is an intriguing picture. Mortis looks particularly disturbing. Love it Z
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tjm86 on 19 August, 2015, 08:19:47 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 19 August, 2015, 06:30:42 PM
Hark on me double posting.

Anyway have we seen the 'Thrills of the Future' for Blink by Dan Abnett and Ian Culbard before. Its on the latest Thrill mail and I don't remember it, but then that could just be my addled brain?

I noticed that as well.  Is this part of Brass Sun or something else?  That still has some distance to go doesn't it?  The end of book 3 last year said that book 4 would be coming some time ("Moorhead" I think). 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 19 August, 2015, 08:23:24 PM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 19 August, 2015, 08:19:47 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 19 August, 2015, 06:30:42 PM
Hark on me double posting.

Anyway have we seen the 'Thrills of the Future' for Blink by Dan Abnett and Ian Culbard before. Its on the latest Thrill mail and I don't remember it, but then that could just be my addled brain?

I noticed that as well.  Is this part of Brass Sun or something else?  That still has some distance to go doesn't it?  The end of book 3 last year said that book 4 would be coming some time ("Moorhead" I think).

I wouldn't have thought it was anything to do with Brass Sun as Brink is written by Dan Abnett.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 August, 2015, 08:36:11 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 19 August, 2015, 06:30:42 PM
Anyway have we seen the 'Thrills of the Future' for Blink by Dan Abnett and Ian Culbard before. Its on the latest Thrill mail and I don't remember it, but then that could just be my addled brain?
Think it was mentioned from some Con maybe, but that's the first I've seeen that image.

Hate to be that guy but I'm very surprised at the love for Mortis in that preview image. To me, the other three look really good while Mortis resembles a side of beef in a leather jacket. Although, looking again, I think it might just be something about the overlap of the jaw and the shoulderpad which is throwing me off as he's a nice sickly hue.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 19 August, 2015, 08:41:27 PM
Mortis is perfect! I worked on a dairy farm in my youth and when a cow dies in the field overnight that's pretty much what you'll find - a great bloated corpse of a thing, oozing and stinking on the ground. It's one of the reasons I'm semi-vegan...  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 19 August, 2015, 10:26:10 PM
"Whyyyyyyy a Cow Skkkkkkull?"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 19 August, 2015, 11:13:11 PM
This is the kind of thing you miss if you're not on Facebook - it all started last November with a dream Dave Kendall had; the series was comissioned off the back of the great reception the images got when Dave posted them.

(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/Darkjimbo2/Kendall_zpsyw3be2kl.jpg~original) (http://s10.photobucket.com/user/Darkjimbo2/media/Kendall_zpsyw3be2kl.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 August, 2015, 08:59:21 AM
I believe it's a sheeps skull actualy, and I believe in certain pagan traditions it's used as an idol of death.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Skullmo on 20 August, 2015, 09:05:36 AM
A reboot that looks excellent!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 20 August, 2015, 09:18:26 AM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 19 August, 2015, 08:41:27 PM
Mortis is perfect! I worked on a dairy farm in my youth and when a cow dies in the field overnight that's pretty much what you'll find - a great bloated corpse of a thing, oozing and stinking on the ground. It's one of the reasons I'm semi-vegan...  ;)
I don't doubt it. I guess I'm just used to him looking skeletal rather than decaying. Interesting that Dave's FB post says he's meant to look like exactly what I criticised it for.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 20 August, 2015, 09:27:52 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 19 August, 2015, 08:19:47 PM
I noticed that as well.  Is this part of Brass Sun or something else?  That still has some distance to go doesn't it?  The end of book 3 last year said that book 4 would be coming some time ("Motorhead" I think).
Brass Sun is back in Prog 1950. As is Sinister Dexter.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 August, 2015, 09:31:33 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 20 August, 2015, 09:27:52 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 19 August, 2015, 08:19:47 PM
I noticed that as well.  Is this part of Brass Sun or something else?  That still has some distance to go doesn't it?  The end of book 3 last year said that book 4 would be coming some time ("Motorhead" I think).
Brass Sun is back in Prog 1950. As is Sinister Dexter.
YEEEEESSSS!!!!!BOLLOCKSSSS!!!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 20 August, 2015, 01:13:14 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 20 August, 2015, 09:18:26 AM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 19 August, 2015, 08:41:27 PM
Mortis is perfect! I worked on a dairy farm in my youth and when a cow dies in the field overnight that's pretty much what you'll find - a great bloated corpse of a thing, oozing and stinking on the ground. It's one of the reasons I'm semi-vegan...  ;)
I don't doubt it. I guess I'm just used to him looking skeletal rather than decaying. Interesting that Dave's FB post says he's meant to look like exactly what I criticised it for.


I wasn't keen on the rotting version of Mortis either, though it does make sense that he would - pristine white bones don't really convey decay...


This mini-series is to be set on Deadworld before they travelled to MC1, right?  So even 'in continuity' it could be before the flesh had rotted from his bones...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 20 August, 2015, 01:27:55 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 20 August, 2015, 09:31:33 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 20 August, 2015, 09:27:52 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 19 August, 2015, 08:19:47 PM
I noticed that as well.  Is this part of Brass Sun or something else?  That still has some distance to go doesn't it?  The end of book 3 last year said that book 4 would be coming some time ("Motorhead" I think).
Brass Sun is back in Prog 1950. As is Sinister Dexter.
YEEEEESSSS!!!!!BOLLOCKSSSS!!!!

No I think you'll find you mean

YEEEEESSSS!!!!! YEEEEESSSS!!!!!

Don't make me do my dance again...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tjm86 on 20 August, 2015, 01:47:32 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 20 August, 2015, 01:27:55 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 20 August, 2015, 09:31:33 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 20 August, 2015, 09:27:52 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 19 August, 2015, 08:19:47 PM
I noticed that as well.  Is this part of Brass Sun or something else?  That still has some distance to go doesn't it?  The end of book 3 last year said that book 4 would be coming some time ("Motorhead" I think).
Brass Sun is back in Prog 1950. As is Sinister Dexter.
YEEEEESSSS!!!!!BOLLOCKSSSS!!!!

Taverramuch for that.  I'm going with the Y/B version though.  SinDex has crawled up its own continuity and died for my money.  Perhaps the next run will correct this view?

As an aside, has anyone received their copy of the 10th Anniversary Case Files 1?  I thought the release date was a week or so ago.

No I think you'll find you mean

YEEEEESSSS!!!!! YEEEEESSSS!!!!!

Don't make me do my dance again...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 20 August, 2015, 03:38:53 PM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 17 August, 2015, 11:09:04 PM
(http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q629/Simon_Jacques/Deadworld_zps1825cyeg.jpg) (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Simon_Jacques/media/Deadworld_zps1825cyeg.jpg.html)


hooo boy! Not many sleeps to go for this beauty (& the beasts...)

That's a dark take on the old  Tears for Fears (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST86JM1RPl0) song.

Back when this was song was popular, some others would change the words a bit to sound like more like that thing that males commonly like doing with women....

PM me if you want know more about that ;)

BTW I like the cover art work so much, I might be interested in getting that too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 20 August, 2015, 09:24:59 PM
If you mean the original artwork, Dave Kendall paints digitally most of the time these days and certainly the story pages are 100% digital on this.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 21 August, 2015, 02:07:34 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 19 August, 2015, 11:13:11 PM
This is the kind of thing you miss if you're not on Facebook

I'm not, so cheers for posting that Jimbo.

Very much looking forward to this series.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 21 August, 2015, 04:59:13 PM
Jesus, these new Dark Judge designs are horrific and I really like them; particularly Fat Mortis.  Really, really looking forward to this - would it be sacrilege to say that I'm expecting more from it than the last DJ outing?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Eamonn Clarke on 21 August, 2015, 06:24:20 PM
Anyone get a link to that cartoon where Mortis is freaking out about having a sheep's head?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 21 August, 2015, 06:25:07 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 August, 2015, 04:59:13 PM
...would it be sacrilege to say that I'm expecting more from it than the last DJ outing?

I wouldn't say my last outing was that bad - it's just that I had work the next morning so had to leave earlier than I intended.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 21 August, 2015, 08:00:11 PM
QuoteAnyone get a link to that cartoon where Mortis is freaking out about having a sheep's head?

Pretty sure that was a PJ Holden comic, so I suspect its still on his Blog.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 23 August, 2015, 04:35:09 PM
Glad that Case Files 25 turned out to be bigger than predicted. Was good to read Darkside again.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 23 August, 2015, 09:04:34 PM
Any word on a Nikolai Dante Tsar Wars Vol 1 & 2 reprint.  They're the last two I need.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 23 August, 2015, 09:11:32 PM
Just thinking ahead about Case Files 26 and wondered whether 'Fading of the Light' will be included, or is it considered a stand-alone 'America' story and therefore will be omitted?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 24 August, 2015, 08:14:37 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 21 August, 2015, 06:25:07 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 August, 2015, 04:59:13 PM
...would it be sacrilege to say that I'm expecting more from it than the last DJ outing?

I wouldn't say my last outing was that bad - it's just that I had work the next morning so had to leave earlier than I intended.


OK, I'll admit it: I was just frustrated because you didn't put out.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 24 August, 2015, 07:51:28 PM
Leaving out the first America was an insane decision. Doing it twice would be bonkers.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 24 August, 2015, 09:43:54 PM
I think the argument was America was its own stand-alone strip*.  Pretty sure Dying the Light Was the Dredd strip at the time, and I know Cadet was. So they both should get reprinted.

*Same reason Beyond our Kenny didn't make it in either.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 24 August, 2015, 10:42:00 PM
QuoteI think the argument was America was its own stand-alone strip

I thought so too, though someone did recently post a scan of the original title page as it appeared in the Megazine, and it was actually credited as a 'Judge Dredd' strip.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 29 August, 2015, 01:41:42 PM
When are we going to find out what happened to PJ Maybe?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 29 August, 2015, 01:47:18 PM
Quote from: Richard on 29 August, 2015, 01:41:42 PM
When are we going to find out what happened to PJ Maybe?
Prog 1950 I believe.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 29 August, 2015, 03:29:11 PM
Thank you.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 September, 2015, 04:55:14 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Brit-Cit Noir (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brit-Cit-Noir-John-Smith/dp/1781084149) - Paperback, 7th April 2016, 96 pages.

The British equivalent of Mega-City One, Brit-Cit is a crowded metropolis that sprawls across southern England, the future Scotland of Cal-Hab and the South Welsh Peninsula. Buttressed by its own 'Cursed Earth', it is a bizarre vision of Britain old and new. Even before the Atomic Wars, Britain had more ghosts and ghouls per square miles than anywhere in the world - and now Brit-Cit is the focal point for an abundance of weird, occult occurrences. Detective Inspector Jericho Strange heads up the Endangered Species Squad - a unit within Brit-Cit's Justice Department charged with investigating arcane cases. His exposure to a supernatural artefact called the 'Black Mirror' has left him with a face his new partner, Becky Darke, will never forget...Meanwhile, Lillian Storm is a loner Judge who can talk to the dead - but what terrible secrets will she uncover in England's haunted north? Collecting Strange & Darke: New Blood & Storm Warning: The Relic.


Sooner or Later (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sooner-Later-Peter-Milligan/dp/1781084289) - Paperback, 7th April 2016, 96 pages.

1986. Thatcher's Britain. The financial 'big bang' saw the rich get richer. Riots errupt in prisons across the country. And Micky Swift is still on the dole! Disillusioned with his dour existence in dreary Camden, Micky's life is suddenly turned inside out, when he is plucked from the present and dragged into the 30th century as the property of one Mr & Mrs Katsbreath - a case of mistaken identity. Unwanted, trapped in the future and still unemployable, If Micky wants to return home (time travel isn't cheap you know!), sooner or later he will need to find a job!


Strontium Dog: Outlaw (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084300) - Paperback, 11th February 2016, 128 pages.

In the far future mutants twisted by radiation are outcasts from society and given only the dirtiest job - bounty hunting. Johnny Alpha is the greatest mutant working for the Search/Destroy Agency, hunting down the criminals for the Galactic Crime Commission. The inhabitants of Jock's Landing on the water world of Och-Eleven have been slaughtered and everyone thinks Johnny Alpha and his partner Wulf are the murderers! Framed by two sinister Stix brothers in retaliation for the murder of their brother, the hunters become the hunted and must evade a legion of Strontium Dogs, whilst trying to clear their names.

And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 04 September, 2015, 06:41:47 AM
Excited that Strange and Darke is getting collected - a horrible John Smith hole in my collection.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 04 September, 2015, 07:05:08 AM
But does that mean we'll never see the thing again? Thats a little gutting.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 04 September, 2015, 10:28:06 AM
Given the time we often have between John Smith series, collecting now rather than later probably makes sense. As for the other stuff, interesting to see Sooner or Later in there—a lost classic, really—but what will be in the book? Even Sooner or Later and Swifty's Return together makes for only 55 pages out of 96. There are two Milligan/McCarthy Future Shocks, I suppose (already reprinted in the best of)—Sixty Hours that Shook the World and Bad Maxwell—along with the three-page Breathless. That's still only another 11 pages. Alternatively, Freaks is only 30 pages, and Tribal Memories 21, although both lack McCarthy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 04 September, 2015, 10:38:53 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 04 September, 2015, 10:28:06 AM
Given the time we often have between John Smith series, collecting now rather than later probably makes sense. As for the other stuff, interesting to see Sooner or Later in there—a lost classic, really—but what will be in the book? Even Sooner or Later and Swifty's Return together makes for only 55 pages out of 96. There are two Milligan/McCarthy Future Shocks, I suppose (already reprinted in the best of)—Sixty Hours that Shook the World and Bad Maxwell—along with the three-page Breathless. That's still only another 11 pages. Alternatively, Freaks is only 30 pages, and Tribal Memories 21, although both lack McCarthy.

Sooner or Later
Swifty's Return
Sixty Hours that Shook the World
Bad Maxwell
Breathless
The Walking Dredd
and a Pete Milligan interview from the Megazine.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 04 September, 2015, 11:30:03 AM
Aha. I didn't think of McCarthy minus Milligan. Smart choice.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 September, 2015, 12:43:54 PM
Is there anything special about the SD: Outlaw release, Robo-K33F (apart from the story and the art!)?  B format, coloured,...?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 04 September, 2015, 01:27:49 PM
Given the price, that surely has to be B-format.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Taryn Tailz on 04 September, 2015, 01:40:32 PM
Brit-Cit Noir will be a must buy for me, seeing as I missed Strange & Darke the first time round.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 04 September, 2015, 01:53:54 PM
Brit-Cit Noir seems like a strange hodgepodge of a collection, kind of like Mega-City Undercover actually. They must not be expecting much from Storm Warning if they're just tossing it in.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 04 September, 2015, 03:19:04 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 04 September, 2015, 01:27:49 PM
Given the price, that surely has to be B-format.

Correct.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Ancient Otter on 04 September, 2015, 09:13:34 PM
I didn't see this mentioned earlier but also listed for release next year:


March - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet


January -  Slaine: The Brutania Chronicles Volume 2
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 04 September, 2015, 09:50:50 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 04 September, 2015, 09:13:34 PM

March - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet


Whooh, what that is very cool, very, very cool. Not only 'cos I've never read Planet of the Damned (Death Planet... well its there, but the planet is so undeadly... anyway I digress) BUT since the understanding is that 2000ad only has the rights to strips that carried through from Starlord (and Tornado) into 2000ad this suggests that Rebellion might have branched out and snapped up the rights to other stuff.

Least ways, if this is a success could it mean that we might get more of the stuff from Tornado and Starlord... and who knows what else.

Time(quake) will tell.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 04 September, 2015, 10:01:31 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 04 September, 2015, 10:38:53 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 04 September, 2015, 10:28:06 AM
Given the time we often have between John Smith series, collecting now rather than later probably makes sense. As for the other stuff, interesting to see Sooner or Later in there—a lost classic, really—but what will be in the book? Even Sooner or Later and Swifty's Return together makes for only 55 pages out of 96. There are two Milligan/McCarthy Future Shocks, I suppose (already reprinted in the best of)—Sixty Hours that Shook the World and Bad Maxwell—along with the three-page Breathless. That's still only another 11 pages. Alternatively, Freaks is only 30 pages, and Tribal Memories 21, although both lack McCarthy.

Sooner or Later
Swifty's Return
Sixty Hours that Shook the World
Bad Maxwell
Breathless
The Walking Dredd
and a Pete Milligan interview from the Megazine.

This is the most exciting and enticing collection Too Loud and Crazy has produced in yonks. Thankyewthankyewthankyew.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 07 September, 2015, 07:54:08 PM
Goldtiger- a candidate for serialisation in the Megs creator owned slot?

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/09/07/guy-adams-and-jimmy-broxtons-goldtiger-to-be-published-by-2000ad/
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 08 September, 2015, 07:36:53 PM
What Colin said.

Mind Wars was a great Starlord series.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 09 September, 2015, 12:07:32 AM
Quote from: Richard on 08 September, 2015, 07:36:53 PM
What Colin said.

Mind Wars was a great Starlord series.

Mind Wars was definitely my favourite Starlord series which didn't have a life outside its bi-weekly pages (apart from a forgettable prologue in one of the annuals, if memory serves?)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 September, 2015, 06:55:14 AM
I know their are a few fans of Mind of Wolfy Smith around here so that seems a good choice to collect.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 September, 2015, 12:24:32 PM
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 04 September, 2015, 09:13:34 PM
I didn't see this mentioned earlier but also listed for release next year:
March - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet

Amazon UK link:

Planet of the Damned & Death Planet (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Damned-Death-Pat-Mills/dp/1781084130)

Beyond the Bermuda Triangle lies a world so hostile to human beings that those stranded there know it as 'The Planet Of the Damned!' When a Tri-Star jet crashes on this treacherous world, the survivors find themselves being relentlessly attacked by all forms native flora and fauna, including the monstrous Ab-humans. Fortunately they are discovered by Flint - another human resident stranded on this world long ago. With their axe-wielding guide in taking charge, some of the survivors may just find a way to return home alive! It's the 23rd century and the starship Eternity sets out from Earth carrying a cargo of colonists bound for new lives on distant worlds. When the ship is knocked off course, crashing on an unknown alien planet, Commander Lorna Varn and colonist leader Richard Cory must set aside their differences and work together to keep everyone alive.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 September, 2015, 12:28:40 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 07 September, 2015, 07:54:08 PM
Goldtiger- a candidate for serialisation in the Megs creator owned slot?

Amazon UK link:


Goldtiger (Antonio Barreti's Goldtiger)
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goldtiger-Antonio-Barretis-Barretti/dp/1781084718) Paperback, 10th March 2016, 128 pages

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE 60s GREATEST UNSEEN COMIC Of all the Sixties newspaper strips one of the most discussed yet rarely read has to be Antonio Barreti and Louis Shaeffer's answer to MODESTY BLAISE: GOLDTIGER. Uncollected until today, this astonishing book lifts the lid on comics' most unsung creation and also reveals its incredible connection to British Comics Icon and the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, 2000 AD! REALLY? HOW STRANGE... I KNOW A LOT ABOUT COMICS BUT I'VE NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE Working with Shaeffer, a writer entrenched in the world of crime and sci-fi pulp magazines, Barreti produced the first serial in its entirety. Unfortunately the strip was deemed too sensational (not least because both of its main characters were openly homosexual) and publication was cancelled. This caused a mental breakdown for the artist. Not one to let insanity hold him back, Barreti continued to produce GOLDTIGER strips, with Shaeffer posting the artist his scripts. IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU INVENTED THE WHOLE THING AND EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID WAS A PACK OF LIES. Louis Shaeffer is believed to have died off the coast of Corfu in 1972 and, after his release from care, Barreti vanished altogether. At least the majority of their work remains, perhaps in time to gain a whole new audience. Using extensive restoration techniques and after many years of scouring the archives, GOLDTIGER is ready to be presented again, complete from the very beginning, starting with their debut adventure THE POSEIDON COMPLEX. GOLDTIGER NEVER REALLY EXISTED AT ALL DID IT? If it didn't before, it does now. This first volume of collected strips is a lavish affair, combining the full debut adventure with 'behind the scenes' material: letters, scripts, interviews, sketches... all documenting the creation of the strip and the outlandish lives of its creators and their unbelievable brush with 2000 AD.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 09 September, 2015, 02:19:58 PM
Goldtiger sounds terrific.  I love "secret histories" and can't wait to learn more.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Big_Dave on 09 September, 2015, 02:27:27 PM
so is goldtiger the same
kind of deal as gunheadz?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 10 September, 2015, 10:17:13 AM
Probably only in the Dame way that Gunheadz was similar to Watchmen.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 10 September, 2015, 09:27:50 PM
I have just ordered the upcoming 'Dan Dare' hardcover and was very pleased to see that five of the extra stories from Specials and Annuals will be included. By my reckoning, if text-only stories are omitted, that leaves three of these other stories to be collected in volume two (from 2000ad Annuals 1979, 1980 and Dan Dare Annual 1980). Just wondered if Robo-K33f could confirm these additional three will make the final cut for all us completists out there?
Thanks!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 September, 2015, 03:24:22 PM
Now up on Amazon UK for pre-order:

Metalzoic (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metalzoic-Pat-Mills/dp/1401254381) - Hardcover, 10th November 2015, 144 pages, DC Comics.

Is this confirmed as a hardback?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: jacob g on 11 September, 2015, 03:30:16 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 September, 2015, 03:24:22 PM
Now up on Amazon UK for pre-order:

Metalzoic (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metalzoic-Pat-Mills/dp/1401254381) - Hardcover, 10th November 2015, 144 pages, DC Comics.

Is this confirmed as a hardback?

Maybe it's part of DC Deluxe like they did with new edition of Marshal Law.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 11 September, 2015, 03:40:40 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 10 September, 2015, 09:27:50 PM
I have just ordered the upcoming 'Dan Dare' hardcover and was very pleased to see that five of the extra stories from Specials and Annuals will be included. By my reckoning, if text-only stories are omitted, that leaves three of these other stories to be collected in volume two (from 2000ad Annuals 1979, 1980 and Dan Dare Annual 1980). Just wondered if Robo-K33f could confirm these additional three will make the final cut for all us completists out there?
Thanks!

Extras in vol. 01 include;

Untitled strip from 2000 AD Summer Special 1977

The Curse of Mytax strip from 2000 AD Annual 1978

Visco strip from 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1978

Untitled strip from Dan Dare Annual 1979

Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Origin (our title) from 2000 AD Annual 1979

So the text stories will be included in vol.02...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 11 September, 2015, 03:44:03 PM

Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Origin (our title) from 2000 AD Annual 1979

So the text stories will be included in vol.02...
[/quote]

Sorry - should read Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Origin from Dan Dare Annual 1979
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 11 September, 2015, 08:30:17 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 11 September, 2015, 03:40:40 PM
Untitled strip from 2000 AD Summer Special 1977

The Curse of Mytax strip from 2000 AD Annual 1978

Visco strip from 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1978

Untitled strip from Dan Dare Annual 1979

Hopefully without any spot colour!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 11 September, 2015, 10:34:13 PM
QuoteDan Dare - The 2000 AD Origin
Probably the best 2000ad Dare story IMO. Art by Trevor Goring I think.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 14 September, 2015, 09:06:53 PM
Anyone know:

a) What the lineup is for prog 1950?

and

b) When Wagner is returning to Dredd?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 14 September, 2015, 09:18:58 PM
Quote from: radiator on 14 September, 2015, 09:06:53 PM
Anyone know:

a) What the lineup is for prog 1950?

and

b) When Wagner is returning to Dredd?

A) Brass Sun, Defoe and Bad Company.

B) Prog 1950! With Macneil and PJ Maybe!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 14 September, 2015, 10:21:50 PM
Quote from: radiator on 14 September, 2015, 09:06:53 PM
b) When Wagner is returning to Dredd?


And there's this...


(https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a6e40236aa24d482cfff600d2/images/5459c290-9e4f-4379-8295-c23b06494031.jpg)


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 14 September, 2015, 10:40:10 PM
Thanks chums. Sad to say I've fallen way behind with my 2000ad reading since Wagner took an extended hiatus from Dredd and Nikolai Dante ended.

So are we looking at America IV there?

I really hope 'Total War Are Back' is the actual title of the story.  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: capatom on 14 September, 2015, 11:19:14 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 11 September, 2015, 08:30:17 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 11 September, 2015, 03:40:40 PM
Untitled strip from 2000 AD Summer Special 1977

The Curse of Mytax strip from 2000 AD Annual 1978

Visco strip from 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1978

Untitled strip from Dan Dare Annual 1979

Hopefully without any spot colour!


Apologies if I have missed this, but may I ask if the various cutaways and star scans are to be included?  Hopefully in colour..?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 14 September, 2015, 11:47:26 PM
Quote from: capatom on 14 September, 2015, 11:19:14 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 11 September, 2015, 08:30:17 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 11 September, 2015, 03:40:40 PM
Untitled strip from 2000 AD Summer Special 1977

The Curse of Mytax strip from 2000 AD Annual 1978

Visco strip from 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1978

Untitled strip from Dan Dare Annual 1979

Hopefully without any spot colour!


Apologies if I have missed this, but may I ask if the various cutaways and star scans are to be included?  Hopefully in colour..?

They ARE included.

I wanted to include them in my Preview but can only include the first 6 pages in any Preview. In this case that would include one half of a double-spread so I stuck to 5...

I then FORGOT to say in my Preview that the posters are there.

My Preview (https://judgetutorsemple.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/dan-dare-the-2000ad-years-5th-november-2015-spoiler-light-with-preview-pages/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: capatom on 15 September, 2015, 02:00:04 AM
That's great, thanks for the confirmation and the link to the article.  I'd read the Mills interview/recollection in SA - very informative and a great inclusion. :D

Thank you to all concerned.

Slight cheeky note - I don't suppose any of the Quality reprint covers are/will be included?  Or indeed those great DD annual covers?  And perhaps the 2000AD 1978 annual cover - that is DD, after all. :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 15 September, 2015, 12:26:30 PM
The US Tv series you mention - is that Buck Rogers in the Twentieth Century? Because that was based on a novella & comic strip published in the twenties, which does indeed pre-date publication of the DD strip.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 15 September, 2015, 01:41:20 PM
Ah... but it is the TV fans that annoy me lol.

That's why I don't name the show.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 15 September, 2015, 02:15:19 PM
Prog 1950 preview on Comics Alliance; http://comicsalliance.com/exclusive-chris-burnham-2000-ad/

Chris Burnham Dredd cover looks great.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 15 September, 2015, 08:10:27 PM
We are scarily close to 'prog 2000' right now. ISTR Molcher saying they had already figured out what they were going to do re: naming/issue number etc.

I'm going to just put this out there... my guess is that the issue after prog 1999 will be....

Volume 2 prog 1....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 15 September, 2015, 08:13:48 PM
'Sctratches palms and supreses a shudder'
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 September, 2015, 09:13:04 PM
Quote from: radiator on 15 September, 2015, 08:10:27 PM

I'm going to just put this out there... my guess is that the issue after prog 1999 will be....

Volume 2 prog 1....

You utter monster


It'll quite obviously be called App 2000.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 15 September, 2015, 09:47:05 PM
NNNNNNOOOOOOO, WWWHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY

DON'T LIKE CHANGE. DON'T LIKE CHANGE. DON'TLIKECHANGE DON'TLIKECHANGE.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 15 September, 2015, 10:22:03 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 15 September, 2015, 09:13:04 PM
Quote from: radiator on 15 September, 2015, 08:10:27 PM

I'm going to just put this out there... my guess is that the issue after prog 1999 will be....

Volume 2 prog 1....

You utter monster


It'll quite obviously be called App 2000.


Not 3000 A.D. then? ;-)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 15 September, 2015, 10:49:12 PM
Can't Tharg just take 16 weeks off? That was my plan for when Prog 2000 finally rolled round in 2016...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 16 September, 2015, 02:12:50 AM
A Renumber at this stage would be the WORST.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 16 September, 2015, 08:37:00 AM
Not this old chestnut again...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 September, 2015, 09:23:31 AM
Quote from: Bat King on 16 September, 2015, 08:37:00 AM
Not this old chestnut again...

Yeah, it's time to move on to All-New Giant-sized Chestnut Vol 2. Issue 1.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 16 September, 2015, 09:39:53 AM
Grecian 2000.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 16 September, 2015, 09:41:02 AM
prog 2000.1
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 16 September, 2015, 10:07:13 AM
My prediction: Tharg just carries on regardless, possibly retrospectively renaming the end-of-year Prog in some subtle Betelgeusian way (New Year Special 2000, or something equally innocuous) . Remember '99!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 September, 2015, 10:17:50 AM
Quote from: capatom on 15 September, 2015, 02:00:04 AMSlight cheeky note - I don't suppose any of the [Dan Dare] Quality reprint covers are/will be included? Or indeed those great DD annual covers?  And perhaps the 2000AD 1978 annual cover - that is DD, after all. :)
The recent Zenith collections included some of these so I don't see why not. However, none of the stories in this first volume have ever been reprinted. The Quality run started with Doppelganger from Prog 52.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 September, 2015, 10:21:30 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 14 September, 2015, 09:18:58 PM
Quote from: radiator on 14 September, 2015, 09:06:53 PM
Anyone know what the lineup is for prog 1950?
Brass Sun, Defoe and Bad Company.
Plus Brass Sun and "...hitmen Sinister Dexter go head to head with crimelord Holy Moses Tanenbaum for the final time in 'The Taking of the Michael' by Dan Abnett and Patrick Goddard!"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 16 September, 2015, 11:15:02 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 16 September, 2015, 10:21:30 AM
Plus Brass Sun and "...hitmen Sinister Dexter go head to head with crimelord Holy Moses Tanenbaum for the final time in 'The Taking of the Michael' by Dan Abnett and Patrick Goddard!"

Had it in the back of my mind that Sinister Dexter were coming back. I thought it might be 1951, as I'm sure I've seen somewhere that 1950 has only the four stories (Brass Sun, Defoe and Bad Company alongside Dredd) one of which you'd assume would be double length.

Hadn't heard it was Patrick Goddard, very excited to see his take on our deadly duo and the story outline might keep a lot of naysayers happy!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 16 September, 2015, 11:18:15 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 16 September, 2015, 11:15:02 AM
Had it in the back of my mind that Sinister Dexter were coming back. I thought it might be 1951, as I'm sure I've seen somewhere that 1950 has only the four stories (Brass Sun, Defoe and Bad Company alongside Dredd) one of which you'd assume would be double length.
It probably is, but what's one Prog between friends? Anyone care to bet against Brass Sun for the doubler?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 16 September, 2015, 11:31:47 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 16 September, 2015, 11:18:15 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 16 September, 2015, 11:15:02 AM
Had it in the back of my mind that Sinister Dexter were coming back. I thought it might be 1951, as I'm sure I've seen somewhere that 1950 has only the four stories (Brass Sun, Defoe and Bad Company alongside Dredd) one of which you'd assume would be double length.
It probably is, but what's one Prog between friends? Anyone care to bet against Brass Sun for the doubler?

I'd like to back Bad Company... but then I was never wise with my money!

In another note, from down thread I have a really impractical idea that will never happen, but I like it. As 2000th Prog approaches (as opposed to Prog 2000) I was thinking Tharg could commission some themed covers. 1977th Prog would have a pastiche of an icon Prog from 1977, the 1978th Prog one from 1978, the 1979th Prog one from 1979, etc etc, you get the idea. That's be great. Never happen, but it'd be great.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: amines2058 on 16 September, 2015, 11:57:21 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 16 September, 2015, 11:15:02 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 16 September, 2015, 10:21:30 AM
Plus Brass Sun and "...hitmen Sinister Dexter go head to head with crimelord Holy Moses Tanenbaum for the final time in 'The Taking of the Michael' by Dan Abnett and Patrick Goddard!"

Had it in the back of my mind that Sinister Dexter were coming back. I thought it might be 1951, as I'm sure I've seen somewhere that 1950 has only the four stories (Brass Sun, Defoe and Bad Company alongside Dredd) one of which you'd assume would be double length.

Hadn't heard it was Patrick Goddard, very excited to see his take on our deadly duo and the story outline might keep a lot of naysayers happy!

Patrick has been posting some very small snippets of SD art on his facebook page, and it is looking mighty fine so far!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 16 September, 2015, 12:39:34 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 16 September, 2015, 11:31:47 AM
I was thinking Tharg could commission some themed covers. 1977th Prog would have a pastiche of an icon Prog from 1977, the 1978th Prog one from 1978, the 1979th Prog one from 1979, etc etc, you get the idea. That's be great. Never happen, but it'd be great.

That's a great idea!  Anyone care to pick the covers to pastiche?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 16 September, 2015, 12:54:41 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 16 September, 2015, 10:07:13 AM
My prediction: Tharg just carries on regardless, possibly retrospectively renaming the end-of-year Prog in some subtle Betelgeusian way (New Year Special 2000, or something equally innocuous) . Remember '99!

This.  Just number it 2000, Tharg.  We'll work out some scheme where we refer to the 2016 prog 2000 or something.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 16 September, 2015, 01:01:36 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 16 September, 2015, 11:31:47 AM

In another note, from down thread I have a really impractical idea that will never happen, but I like it. As 2000th Prog approaches (as opposed to Prog 2000) I was thinking Tharg could commission some themed covers. 1977th Prog would have a pastiche of an icon Prog from 1977, the 1978th Prog one from 1978, the 1979th Prog one from 1979, etc etc, you get the idea. That's be great. Never happen, but it'd be great.

The cover has to have Tharg, cake, and a bunch of current and past favourite characters.

The prog has to include two pages devoted to eight mini cut-out-and-keep pages replicating the first prog (or prog 0 or that prog that got very little distribution due to flooding at the warehouse (1227?); something like that).  If Tharg can work in some ads for Weetabix dressed as skinheads, strange licorice, Monster Munch and KP Skips, all the better.  Plus there should be a free gift (glossy poster folded up inside) and the return of Dash Decent.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheldipez on 16 September, 2015, 01:02:22 PM
I heard a rumor that they will start again at #1 and it will be available on ComiXology*

*Honestly, I don't know which is less likely.  :lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 16 September, 2015, 04:47:44 PM
Honestly being avalible on ComiXology would be a great step, if only to continue to increase international exposure. They could even do like Dark Horse did and start offering digital collected editions via Comixology but keep the Prog/Meg to their own app.

That said Viz just added the Weekly Shonen Jump weekly to Comixology after having their collected editions avalible for a while. And they do their own subscription  app too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Anzati on 16 September, 2015, 05:01:36 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 14 September, 2015, 10:21:50 PM
Quote from: radiator on 14 September, 2015, 09:06:53 PM
b) When Wagner is returning to Dredd?


And there's this...


(https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a6e40236aa24d482cfff600d2/images/5459c290-9e4f-4379-8295-c23b06494031.jpg)

Oooohhh I look forwards to that...and a 10p price increase too...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 16 September, 2015, 05:04:51 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 16 September, 2015, 10:17:50 AM
Quote from: capatom on 15 September, 2015, 02:00:04 AMSlight cheeky note - I don't suppose any of the [Dan Dare] Quality reprint covers are/will be included? Or indeed those great DD annual covers?  And perhaps the 2000AD 1978 annual cover - that is DD, after all. :)
The recent Zenith collections included some of these so I don't see why not. However, none of the stories in this first volume have ever been reprinted. The Quality run started with Doppelganger from Prog 52.

[spoiler]none of those covers are in [/spoiler]Volume 1
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 16 September, 2015, 05:05:19 PM
Just out of interest, why would restarting at volume 2, issue 1 bother people so much?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 16 September, 2015, 05:06:38 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 14 September, 2015, 10:21:50 PM
(https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a6e40236aa24d482cfff600d2/images/5459c290-9e4f-4379-8295-c23b06494031.jpg)

God, it only just really clicked with me what I'm seeing there - they've rebuilt the Statue of Judgement(again)!
And only the other night I was thinking it was a shame that we hadn't seen the ruin feature in more stories.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 16 September, 2015, 08:52:49 PM
QuoteJust out of interest, why would restarting at volume 2, issue 1 bother people so much?

If you have to ask, you'll never know.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 16 September, 2015, 09:19:50 PM
See: what happened with three (ultimately four) renumberings of the Megazine.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 16 September, 2015, 09:27:44 PM
Er, what did happen?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 16 September, 2015, 10:02:52 PM
They renumbered twice, volumes 1, 2, and 3, with weird cover numbering (3.17 for 'Meg 120 for example), then ultimately just changed the numbering to a single volume whole number with Meg 201. BECAUSE THAT MAKES SENSE.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bat King on 17 September, 2015, 12:25:52 AM
Quote from: radiator on 16 September, 2015, 05:05:19 PM
Just out of interest, why would restarting at volume 2, issue 1 bother people so much?

Because it is just awful... Gimmicky. Pointless.

There is simply no need to alter the numbering.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 17 September, 2015, 01:26:38 AM
Quote from: Bat King on 17 September, 2015, 12:25:52 AM
There is simply no need to alter the numbering.

But that ship has sailed. The numbering WAS altered with progs 2000, 2001, etc.

Personally I'd be happy with issue 2.1, would bother me not one bit. Might garner a whole load of new readers too. However, I don't think for a second this is something The Mighty [volume 2] One would do.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 17 September, 2015, 01:32:24 AM
Quote from: radiator on 16 September, 2015, 05:05:19 PM
Just out of interest, why would restarting at volume 2, issue 1 bother people so much?


Good lord, no. The number of the prog is just that and should be kept simple and straightforward as is...

pretty much the same reason why 2000AD wasn't renamed in the year 2000... no point - it's timeless...

Si
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: M.I.K. on 17 September, 2015, 01:41:11 AM
It'll probably just be called 'prog 2000 (2)' or something, (but I'm still hoping for a free space spinner).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 17 September, 2015, 02:00:05 AM

It'll be called Starlord.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 September, 2015, 02:22:39 AM
QuoteBut that ship has sailed. The numbering WAS altered with progs 2000, 2001, etc.

Those are YEARS. Not issue numbers. 2000 AD Prog 2000 isn't the same thing as 2000 AD #2000. You don't file Prog 2014 after Prog 1949. You file it behind 1862.

You know, unless you're a wild person.

QuoteJust out of interest, why would restarting at volume 2, issue 1 bother people so much?

Because so many other, lesser, publishers thing large numbers scare people. We live in a world where DC has relaunched Action and Detective comics for god's sake. Hell, even Archie caved and relauched Archie at #1! Steamrolling history like that for some small fleeting sales pop doesn't feel like a 2000 AD thing to do. It wears those huge numbers on its sleave and makes things plainly accessible with the Year end progs and jumping on issues.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 17 September, 2015, 08:41:44 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 September, 2015, 02:22:39 AM
QuoteBut that ship has sailed. The numbering WAS altered with progs 2000, 2001, etc.

Those are YEARS. Not issue numbers.

:o

All's I'm saying is the purity of numbering from 1 up is gone. Rebellion do it too. It's 'prog 2015'. Clunky and unfortunate.

Some progs (http://shop.2000adonline.com/categories/comics/2)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Satanist on 17 September, 2015, 11:03:11 AM
They should just do away with the prog number and use the issue date. This not only gets rid of the confusion two prog 2000s causes but also stops the arguments on how to pronounce prog.

They could also use the extra space to increase the font size for the price as my local newsie isn't getting any younger.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 September, 2015, 11:25:18 AM
Quote from: Fungus on 17 September, 2015, 08:41:44 AM
Quote from: The Adventurer on 17 September, 2015, 02:22:39 AM
QuoteBut that ship has sailed. The numbering WAS altered with progs 2000, 2001, etc.

Those are YEARS. Not issue numbers.

:o

All's I'm saying is the purity of numbering from 1 up is gone. Rebellion do it too. It's 'prog 2015'. Clunky and unfortunate.

Some progs (http://shop.2000adonline.com/categories/comics/2)

Wait, are you saying the REAL 2000th 2000AD Prog isn't Prog 2000 or even Prog 2000? It's actually Prog 1985?  Crisis averted, I'd say.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 17 September, 2015, 11:57:48 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 17 September, 2015, 11:03:11 AM
...but also stops the arguments on how to pronounce prog.

There isn't any argument any more is there. I'm pretty sure that the magnificent souls who know its pronounced prog as in Prog Rock, rhythms with bog, or clog drove out the heathen mindless hoard that claimed it was pronounced Prog as in rhythms with rogue or brogue.

I'm fairly sure all that other lot have been smited by now?
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 17 September, 2015, 12:09:52 PM
There once was a lad wearing brogues
To the newsagent he went for his prog(ue)s
'You mad heathen dog,
Should know it's pronounced Prog'
Said the Newsie, and sent him off on his toes
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 17 September, 2015, 12:19:12 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 17 September, 2015, 12:09:52 PM
There once was a lad wearing brogues
To the newsagent he went for his prog(ue)s
'You mad heathen dog,
Should know it's pronounced Prog'
Said the Newsie, and sent him off on his toes

Arh I remember your glorious war chant as we charged into battle so very well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Big_Dave on 17 September, 2015, 01:16:34 PM
Quote from: Fungus on 17 September, 2015, 08:41:44 AM
All's I'm saying is the purity of numbering from 1 up is gone. Rebellion do it too. It's 'prog 2015'. Clunky and unfortunate.

the year end progs are just that years annual
prog 2000 was the first 2000 ad annual since the early 90s
not a proper prog
& they have their own numbering system based on the date
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Goaty on 17 September, 2015, 02:58:22 PM
Once a 2000AD, always a 2000AD, kept it that way.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 17 September, 2015, 03:05:15 PM
Quote from: Big_Dave on 17 September, 2015, 01:16:34 PM& they have their own numbering system based on the date
Only there's no obvious distinction in that numbering system. So you have the 'Prog 2003' end-of-year and the 'Prog 2003' weekly barreling towards us in the note-too-distant.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 17 September, 2015, 03:56:29 PM
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/09/17/rebellion-buys-up-a-creator-owned-property-for-the-first-time-ian-edginton-and-disraelis-scarlet-traces/
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 17 September, 2015, 04:06:45 PM
Interesting. What do you own now, then? I have the DH collections of Scarlet Traces and also the Edginton/D'Israeli WoTW, all of which are fantastic. Thrilled to see it has the possibility of continuing now.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proudhuff on 17 September, 2015, 04:10:55 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 17 September, 2015, 03:56:29 PM
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/09/17/rebellion-buys-up-a-creator-owned-property-for-the-first-time-ian-edginton-and-disraelis-scarlet-traces/

That is great news, Rebellion continuing some of the best of British comics, hopefully they will match the quality and size of the Dark Horse issues.

Ian Edginton said: "'Is Scarlet Traces going to be reprinted?' and 'Is there going to be another series?' are the two questions we're always asked when we do signings and conventions. It pleases me no end to say that I can now give hearty 'yes!' to both. :D

Also found out this on the same page:

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FOWz627T64A/VYE0fg0edLI/AAAAAAAAP-w/ZRhw1RGI3zM/s640/BOOM-WildsEnd-v2-001-Culbard-30024.jpg)

series two of Wild's End out this month!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 17 September, 2015, 04:27:46 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 17 September, 2015, 03:56:29 PM
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/09/17/rebellion-buys-up-a-creator-owned-property-for-the-first-time-ian-edginton-and-disraelis-scarlet-traces/

HA! ever the marketing droid trying to break up our conversations about how to pronounce made up words and the numbering system of a comic with you actual news. Don't think I don't see what you...

... oh hold on BLOODY GREAT NEWS. Love these stories and would be delighted to see more.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 17 September, 2015, 04:50:54 PM
Good to hear - Scarlet Traces is fantastic.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 September, 2015, 04:55:47 PM
Never got Scarlet Traces first time around so will relish a reprint, Thargy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Will Cooling on 17 September, 2015, 05:03:58 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 17 September, 2015, 03:05:15 PM
Quote from: Big_Dave on 17 September, 2015, 01:16:34 PM& they have their own numbering system based on the date
Only there's no obvious distinction in that numbering system. So you have the 'Prog 2003' end-of-year and the 'Prog 2003' weekly barreling towards us in the note-too-distant.

How about Prog 2000 AD for the end of year special (AD denotes date) and Prog 2000 # (# denotes number).

Will
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Big_Dave on 17 September, 2015, 05:38:08 PM
just call end year progs annuals
thats what they are
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 September, 2015, 06:16:33 PM
Quote from: Big_Dave on 17 September, 2015, 05:38:08 PM
just call end year progs annuals

And Mega-City 1 has always been at war with Sino-Cit.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 17 September, 2015, 07:16:41 PM
That Scarlet Traces news is pretty dismaying.

Not because Scarlet Traces isn't wonderful - it is, especially The Great Game - but because what had been a creator-owned series has now been snaffled by a corporation.

I know that not everybody really cares about creator rights, but personally I think it's shocking that something like this can still happen.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Leigh S on 17 September, 2015, 07:27:53 PM
Presumably they didnt break their fingers to get them, though I understand the thought.. Is it possible they plan to merge it into the 2000AD Edgiverse in some crossovery way that this would facilitate?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 September, 2015, 07:30:33 PM
Their WotW adaptation is a treat too - lovely stuff.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PreacherCain on 17 September, 2015, 07:53:26 PM
Quote from: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 17 September, 2015, 07:16:41 PM
That Scarlet Traces news is pretty dismaying.

Not because Scarlet Traces isn't wonderful - it is, especially The Great Game - but because what had been a creator-owned series has now been snaffled by a corporation.

I know that not everybody really cares about creator rights, but personally I think it's shocking that something like this can still happen.

Seems clear enough from the press blurb that the creators in question are supportive of this move. If they want to sell it to a corporation, then they can. Like Gaiman with the Angela character.

As for renumbering, I'm agin' it.

Just rename 2000AD to Future Stories & Junk Prog 1. With a space spinner.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin Zeal on 17 September, 2015, 08:02:40 PM
The renumbering issue is much like the spines of trades for me. I don't care what they do and am slightly surprised that people give it so much thought. Maybe I'm just a bit odd though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 17 September, 2015, 08:17:27 PM
I understand that the creators willingly signed away their rights, it's happened many times in comics over the years, and it's very seldom the publisher that gets the poor end of the deal.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 17 September, 2015, 08:55:12 PM
I sign away my rights all the time. Sometimes, it makes me a little sad and sometimes it doesn't. Much of that comes down to the deals I have and the publishers. I imagine in this case, the deal must be a win-win.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 17 September, 2015, 11:48:26 PM
I'd love to see Scarlet Traces reissued in a nice rainbow spine edition and 2000 AD trade dress!

And wow, I really like the suggestion of progs 1977 on each having cover looks from the relevant year.  I'd *really*  love to see a new one-off episode in each issue from the year in question.

Shako! in prog 1977
Visible Man in prog 1978
Ro-Busters in prog 1979
The VCs in prog 1980
Mean Arena in prog 1981
Rogue Trooper in prog 1982, etc.

Failing that, get a bunch of newly-commissioned art droids to bang up some star scans of each for the back cover.  Call 'em "Tharg's Thrill-Memories" or such.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 18 September, 2015, 11:04:08 AM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 17 September, 2015, 11:48:26 PM
I'd love to see Scarlet Traces reissued in a nice rainbow spine edition and 2000 AD trade dress!

And wow, I really like the suggestion of progs 1977 on each having cover looks from the relevant year.  I'd *really*  love to see a new one-off episode in each issue from the year in question.

Shako! in prog 1977
Visible Man in prog 1978
Ro-Busters in prog 1979
The VCs in prog 1980
Mean Arena in prog 1981
Rogue Trooper in prog 1982, etc.

Failing that, get a bunch of newly-commissioned art droids to bang up some star scans of each for the back cover.  Call 'em "Tharg's Thrill-Memories" or such.


Love that idea - even one off star scans of thrills from each year would be great.

Cover tributes for each year to get started ...

Prog 17, 18th June 1977

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 18 September, 2015, 03:59:27 PM

Alex Worley's second Rookie Anderson e-book, "Abyss", is now listed on Amazon UK for December 2015 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abyss-Judge-Anderson-Rookie-Book-ebook/dp/B015FXUYFC):

Mega-City One, 2100 AD. Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson's first year on the streets as a full-Eagle Judge.

Moriah Cage, leader of the notorious terror group 'Bedlam,' has been captured, but her followers are still at large, and Anderson's been sent to Psych-Block 06 to psychically interrogate her. She's able to get just one snippet of information – Bedlam's planning on detonating a huge bomb, somewhere in the sector – before Cage's followers storm the cell and release her, taking over the entire Psych-Block.

In the chaos immediately after the takeover, Anderson has to make a choice: get out before they lock it down, or stay – unarmed and alone – to find out where the bomb is...


(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Abyss_zpse8fbrksk.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Judge Brian on 18 September, 2015, 06:45:46 PM
Aren't the end of year progs just annuals?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: capatom on 19 September, 2015, 10:59:03 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 16 September, 2015, 10:17:50 AM
Quote from: capatom on 15 September, 2015, 02:00:04 AMSlight cheeky note - I don't suppose any of the [Dan Dare] Quality reprint covers are/will be included? Or indeed those great DD annual covers?  And perhaps the 2000AD 1978 annual cover - that is DD, after all. :)
The recent Zenith collections included some of these so I don't see why not. However, none of the stories in this first volume have ever been reprinted. The Quality run started with Doppelganger from Prog 52.

The Zenith inclusion was primarily why I was asking but, yes, you're absolutely right in terms of reprints - so volume 2 hopefully?

I'll petition again for inclusion of those 2000AD/DD annual covers though. :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 September, 2015, 02:03:44 PM
Dash Decent got an annual cover?

Oh, the other fellow.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 September, 2015, 12:32:31 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 17 September, 2015, 08:55:12 PM
I sign away my rights all the time. Sometimes, it makes me a little sad and sometimes it doesn't. Much of that comes down to the deals I have and the publishers. I imagine in this case, the deal must be a win-win.

From the interviews it sounds like a win-win, and the two creators are hardly running screaming from Rebellion with their other output. I really don't think Matt will be 'doing a Pat' in thirty years time.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 September, 2015, 12:38:03 PM
sorry for double post:

Matt Brooker said: "Scarlet Traces began its life in print at the Judge Dredd Megazine in 2002, so in many ways this feels like coming home. Ian and I have always had an excellent relationship with 2000 AD, who have backed us in doing some of our best work. It's always tough to let your offspring go, but we trust Rebellion to do a great job both in publishing and promoting Scarlet Traces, and we've every confidence it will thrive in its new home."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 October, 2015, 11:11:55 AM
So, does the deal also cover their adaptation of War of the Worlds, or just the two series of Scarlet Traces?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 05 October, 2015, 11:27:50 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 05 October, 2015, 11:11:55 AM
So, does the deal also cover their adaptation of War of the Worlds, or just the two series of Scarlet Traces?

http://www.2000adonline.com/news/21-09-2015/2000adacquiresianedgintonanddisraelisscarlettraces/
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 October, 2015, 11:29:44 AM
 ::)

How typical, an official update had been released and I didn't think to check the home page! Many thanks for that, Molch-R.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 05 October, 2015, 12:33:52 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 05 October, 2015, 11:27:50 AMhttp://www.2000adonline.com/news/21-09-2015/2000adacquiresianedgintonanddisraelisscarlettraces/
That URL could do with some extra hyphens!

Good to know you've the rights to the WOTW adap. That's really nicely done too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 October, 2015, 01:08:02 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 05 October, 2015, 12:33:52 PM
Good to know you've the rights to the WOTW adap. That's really nicely done too.

It's one of the best adaptations of the book in any medium, I think.  Dizzy in particular brings both the horror and humanity right down to the reader's level - catches that same nightmarish quality that the Tom Cruise flick achieves in its first act (before it goes all gung-ho and crap).  The scene where the reporter is taken in and cared for by a family, amidst all the destruction and loss of London, is extraordinarily moving.  Not easy to do with material that you've seen a thousand times in innumerable forms.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 05 October, 2015, 02:03:40 PM
I also love the whole alt-reality universe they created. I've never understood the fascination with modern-day adaptations of WOTW. It becomes yet another run-of-the-mill contemporary disaster movie. What I want to see on the big screen is a stripped-down version of the original story: techno-organic steampunk tripods vs Sharpe, essentially. (Well—ish. Sharpe's 80 years too early, but you get the idea.)

Failing that, a big-screen adap of all three Scarlet Traces books would do nicely. Anyone got a spare $300 million down the back of the sofa?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Eamonn Clarke on 05 October, 2015, 02:43:38 PM
A good moment for me to promote my annotations site with notes about all the references in the Scarlet Traces series, with official Ian Edginton & D'Israeli approval.
See my links below.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 05 October, 2015, 05:43:04 PM
Just wondered if anyone knows if the forthcoming 'Ichabod Azrael' release in December is a paperback or a hardcover? Forbidden Planet seems to suggest a softback, but I was sure I saw something from 2000ad themselves that suggested a hardcover. Also, will it comprise the entire story from start to end?

Any help gratefully received.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 05 October, 2015, 07:26:02 PM
320pp, too? Seems wrong.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 06 October, 2015, 09:19:31 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 05 October, 2015, 07:26:02 PM
320pp, too? Seems wrong.

192pp.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Eamonn Clarke on 06 October, 2015, 09:06:59 PM
For those who have signatures turned off

https://sites.google.com/site/scarlettracesannotations/home
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 October, 2015, 01:30:11 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 04 September, 2015, 04:55:14 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Brit-Cit Noir (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brit-Cit-Noir-John-Smith/dp/1781084149) - Paperback, 7th April 2016, 96 pages.

The British equivalent of Mega-City One, Brit-Cit is a crowded metropolis that sprawls across southern England, the future Scotland of Cal-Hab and the South Welsh Peninsula. Buttressed by its own 'Cursed Earth', it is a bizarre vision of Britain old and new. Even before the Atomic Wars, Britain had more ghosts and ghouls per square miles than anywhere in the world - and now Brit-Cit is the focal point for an abundance of weird, occult occurrences. Detective Inspector Jericho Strange heads up the Endangered Species Squad - a unit within Brit-Cit's Justice Department charged with investigating arcane cases. His exposure to a supernatural artefact called the 'Black Mirror' has left him with a face his new partner, Becky Darke, will never forget...Meanwhile, Lillian Storm is a loner Judge who can talk to the dead - but what terrible secrets will she uncover in England's haunted north? Collecting Strange & Darke: New Blood & Storm Warning: The Relic.

Cover is up

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Noir_zpsutwspky2.jpg)

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 October, 2015, 01:32:04 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 04 September, 2015, 04:55:14 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Sooner or Later (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sooner-Later-Peter-Milligan/dp/1781084289) - Paperback, 7th April 2016, 96 pages.

1986. Thatcher's Britain. The financial 'big bang' saw the rich get richer. Riots errupt in prisons across the country. And Micky Swift is still on the dole! Disillusioned with his dour existence in dreary Camden, Micky's life is suddenly turned inside out, when he is plucked from the present and dragged into the 30th century as the property of one Mr & Mrs Katsbreath - a case of mistaken identity. Unwanted, trapped in the future and still unemployable, If Micky wants to return home (time travel isn't cheap you know!), sooner or later he will need to find a job!

Cover is up.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Sooner_zpsbq4jrdaz.jpg)

And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 09 October, 2015, 01:33:20 PM
John Smith, should you ever read this, please for the love of god give us more Strange and Darke.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 09 October, 2015, 01:53:16 PM
Strange and Darke was awesome. Jury is still out on Storm Warning
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 09 October, 2015, 08:03:33 PM
About two years ago, I resolved myself to the story that Smith has some very sensitive government job, like Mycroft Holmes or something, and he only has about half an hour a day to write all the things that he should be writing for Tharg.  Either that or he's bored and actually doesn't like any of his characters anymore.  Either makes as much sense as they other, and they're equally tragic.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 October, 2015, 11:20:10 AM
The DVD of the documentary Future Shock! The Story Of 2000AD (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B015KOIOPI) is now up for pre-order at Amazon UK.  Release date is 7th December 2015.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 13 October, 2015, 01:47:36 PM
No blu ray?  :'(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 13 October, 2015, 03:52:42 PM
Quote from: hippynumber1 on 13 October, 2015, 01:47:36 PM
No blu ray?  :'(

Yeah, bit of a pisser that! :(

Still, better than not at all!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 13 October, 2015, 07:35:00 PM
Considering they haven't officially announced it, maybe it's a little premature to declare one way or the other.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: hippynumber1 on 13 October, 2015, 08:23:24 PM
Quote from: Steve Green on 13 October, 2015, 07:35:00 PM
Considering they haven't officially announced it, maybe it's a little premature to declare one way or the other.

True, which is why I phrased it as a question.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 13 October, 2015, 09:10:41 PM
My comment was aimed at Dweezil2, not your original question.

The Oz itunes version is HD, but they don't have to worry about higher mastering costs or narrowing the market that comes with producing a hard copy.

It may be limited to a DVD (The BBC sometimes release HD material on DVD only), depends how much extra it cost, or maybe they're just seeing how a DVD sells first.

It's all speculation until Stanton Media announce it properly anyway.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 13 October, 2015, 09:18:43 PM
Apparently there's already an Oz DVD out

https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/documentary/future-shock-the-story-of-2000ad/761694/ (https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/documentary/future-shock-the-story-of-2000ad/761694/)

People have already mentioned about the cost of getting stuff cleared legally - again, speculation that a BR might be dependent on this selling enough to justify it, and including that material.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 13 October, 2015, 09:31:32 PM
Unlike the BBC's older releases needing money to remaster for blu-ray Future Shock is shot and mastered for HD so I'm certain it'll get a blu-ray release.

Or oddly in the case of Ken Russell's The Devils Warner's only allowed the BFI a region 2 DVD release last year because someone apparently in Warner would rather the film didn't exist at all - the film only lasted 3 days on itunes and never seems to get released in the US.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 13 October, 2015, 09:38:46 PM
I'm not sure it's a certainty.

Inside No 9 was made in HD but only got DVD releases.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 14 October, 2015, 11:40:51 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 13 October, 2015, 09:31:32 PM
Or oddly in the case of Ken Russell's The Devils Warner's only allowed the BFI a region 2 DVD release last year because someone apparently in Warner would rather the film didn't exist at all - the film only lasted 3 days on itunes and never seems to get released in the US.

Fantastic monument to insanity that it is.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: moldovangerbil on 15 October, 2015, 09:16:35 AM
Anyone know if we're getting an Autumn/Winter Special this year?  I've not seen anything anywhere about it which makes me think last year's experiment is not being repeated.  :( :( :(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 15 October, 2015, 12:14:13 PM
No Winter Special this year, sorry.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 October, 2015, 12:27:06 PM
Quote from: Steve Green on 13 October, 2015, 09:18:43 PM
Apparently there's already an Oz DVD out

https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/documentary/future-shock-the-story-of-2000ad/761694/ (https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/documentary/future-shock-the-story-of-2000ad/761694/)

Thanks for the tip-off Steve.  I will head down to JB Hifi on Saturday and be in like Flynn.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 15 October, 2015, 01:34:51 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 15 October, 2015, 12:14:13 PM
No Winter Special this year, sorry.

Just 'cos you've got a new hardback on the shelves every two weeks, plus regular podcasts, on top of the usual output, you think you can all act like lazy drokkers this year.  Cheek.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 15 October, 2015, 03:10:12 PM
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/10/15/barry-kitson-returns-for-a-judge-dredd-mega-nificent-25-years/
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 15 October, 2015, 03:16:42 PM
Quote from: Batman's Superior Cousin on 15 October, 2015, 03:10:12 PM
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/10/15/barry-kitson-returns-for-a-judge-dredd-mega-nificent-25-years/
Zarjaz!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 15 October, 2015, 03:45:22 PM
Nice cover, shortly before someone says: "Yeah, but villain defeats aside, the population of the city you're sworn to protect is only 6.25% of what it was a mere 30 years ago, Dredd."

Dredd then packs up his showing-off holograph, and has a long bath while dreaming about tight boots.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Alec Worley on 16 October, 2015, 05:06:30 PM
Wotcha!
The collected misadventures of DANDRIDGE is due to come parping down your digital thrill-funnels on Wednesday 28th October.
Stuffed with extra bits of nonsense from the Doctor's personal archives.
Fancy.
(Will tweet a pic of the front cover as this 'insert image' button doesn't seem to like me.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 18 October, 2015, 02:48:48 AM
Quote from: Steve Green on 13 October, 2015, 09:18:43 PM
Apparently there's already an Oz DVD out

Score!

If any Aussies are looking for this, it's a JB Hifi exclusive (see sticker).  They had it in the "Special Interest" section with other documentaries, and it was great to see they had lots of copies, not just two or three.

The SKU number is 761694.  If you take that number with you they can find it quicker on the shelf if you have to ask for help locating it.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/FS1_zpsimjjlooz.jpg)

My next photo is lousy but I just wanted to show the on-disc art (or lack of).  It will be interesting to see what the UK release looks like.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/FS3_zpslwcgvqxn.jpg)

Here's the back of the slick.  There is nothing printed on the reverse of the slick (not surprising as it comes in a black case).

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/FS4_zpsdrr7gdkg.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 18 October, 2015, 10:39:39 AM


Or you can buy it online:


https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/documentary/future-shock-the-story-of-2000ad/761694/
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 October, 2015, 12:07:13 PM
I love the way they animated some frames and covers!

Should we tell TS there's about two seconds of animated Slaine?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dandontdare on 20 October, 2015, 12:30:20 PM
Region 4 unfortunately - is there an easy way of playing these without buying an Australian DVD player?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 20 October, 2015, 12:34:40 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 October, 2015, 12:30:20 PM
Region 4 unfortunately - is there an easy way of playing these without buying an Australian DVD player?
PC/Laptop should handle it I think. Assuming you've still got an optical drive.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 20 October, 2015, 12:36:20 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 October, 2015, 12:30:20 PM
Region 4 unfortunately - is there an easy way of playing these without buying an Australian DVD player?

There were a few standalone DVD players which could be switched region, depends what you have.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: jacob g on 20 October, 2015, 03:42:47 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 October, 2015, 12:30:20 PM
Region 4 unfortunately - is there an easy way of playing these without buying an Australian DVD player?

And what about PS3 or PS4 player?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 20 October, 2015, 05:01:05 PM
Not to my knowledge.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 20 October, 2015, 08:58:50 PM
Quote from: jacob g on 20 October, 2015, 03:42:47 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 October, 2015, 12:30:20 PM
Region 4 unfortunately - is there an easy way of playing these without buying an Australian DVD player?

And what about PS3 or PS4 player?
Sony NEVER allow region free on their DVD/BD players, that includes games consuls.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 21 October, 2015, 02:20:58 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 October, 2015, 12:07:13 PM
I love the way they animated some frames and covers!

Should we tell TS there's about two seconds of animated Slaine?

Animated Slaine!!!!!

Are these DvD's available now?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 October, 2015, 11:45:02 AM
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 21 October, 2015, 02:20:58 AM
Animated Slaine!!!!!

Hi TS, yes, they're on sale at JB Hifi for $20.  Have a look on line or try your local.

When I say 'animated', it is a bit but not huge amounts.  Think more along the lines of "the eyes roll to one side" rather than full-on CGI cartoon wizardry.  It does look good but it really is a short and minor part of the DVD.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 October, 2015, 11:45:33 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 20 October, 2015, 12:30:20 PM
Region 4 unfortunately - is there an easy way of playing these without buying an Australian DVD player?

You could rip it to hard drive with something like MakeMKV.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 21 October, 2015, 11:53:13 AM
Probably worth noting that quite a few internal and external PC/Mac DVD drives do have a region lock or permit only a very small number of region switches. Take care to investigate how yours works before going all Aussie, or you might have to stick with it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ming on 21 October, 2015, 12:08:27 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 21 October, 2015, 11:53:13 AM
Probably worth noting that quite a few internal and external PC/Mac DVD drives do have a region lock or permit only a very small number of region switches. Take care to investigate how yours works before going all Aussie, or you might have to stick with it.

VLC is a good workaround for that stupid, annoying need to region-switch with the internal Mac DVD player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 28 October, 2015, 05:35:29 PM
Surprised and delighted to have picked up Mek Files 3 & Ichabod Azrael GNs today. Both recent strips, so no worries about the quality of reproductions. Nice collections both :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: janus stark on 28 October, 2015, 05:47:17 PM
is it to early to ask what the line up is for the end of year prog?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dandontdare on 28 October, 2015, 06:36:45 PM
thanks for all the advice on region 4 viewing - I've seen it on the big screen already, so there's no urgency - I think I'll wait for the official UK release.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 29 October, 2015, 07:00:57 AM

(http://i.imgur.com/IIJP1vM.png?2)


Not on Amazon.co.uk - http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Cursed-Earth-Uncensored/dp/1781084440


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 October, 2015, 07:04:28 AM
Well I'll be, if that comes to light it will be quite the thing. But don't they realise it will surely makd the value of my original issues tumble... well yes it is al about me!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 October, 2015, 08:25:44 AM
'Kin hell! Someone check the thermostat I think hell just froze over. :o
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 29 October, 2015, 08:47:40 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 29 October, 2015, 07:04:28 AM
But don't they realise it will surely makd the value of my original issues tumble... well yes it is al about me!

Never mind your comics, what about my original art? Worthless now. Worthless...

But this does raises a few questions. Not least of all is this a real thing?
Over to you Tharg...

And if real, I wonder if anything was altered to get it into print?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 29 October, 2015, 09:00:20 AM
Quote from: glassstanley on 28 October, 2015, 05:35:29 PM
Surprised and delighted to have picked up Mek Files 3 & Ichabod Azrael GNs today. Both recent strips, so no worries about the quality of reproductions. Nice collections both :)

Hi glassstanley - could you tell me whether the Ichabod Azrael graphic novel is a hardback or a softcover. Much obliged.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 29 October, 2015, 09:04:56 AM
Quote from: janus stark on 28 October, 2015, 05:47:17 PM
is it to early to ask what the line up is for the end of year prog?

The Galaxy's Greatest Comic sees out the year with another bumper 100-page special Christmas issue featuring a fantastic line-up of talent - Rob Williams and Henry Flint team up for Judge Dredd: Melt, in which the perils of the ice storm that recently engulfed Mega-City One haven't gone away; Johnny Alpha returns in Strontium Dog: Repo Men by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, where Alpha and his fellow S/D agents take on a job that may be too big for even them; ABC Warriors: Return to the Ro-Busters by Pat Mills and Clint Langley flashes back to Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein's time with the Disaster Squad of Distinction and reveals the truth behind Ro-Jaws' rebellious attitude, and much more!

New series of The Order in January as well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 29 October, 2015, 11:14:16 AM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 29 October, 2015, 09:00:20 AM
Quote from: glassstanley on 28 October, 2015, 05:35:29 PM
Surprised and delighted to have picked up Mek Files 3 & Ichabod Azrael GNs today. Both recent strips, so no worries about the quality of reproductions. Nice collections both :)

Hi glassstanley - could you tell me whether the Ichabod Azrael graphic novel is a hardback or a softcover. Much obliged.

It's a softcover.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 29 October, 2015, 08:43:01 PM
Quote from: glassstanley on 28 October, 2015, 05:35:29 PM
Surprised and delighted to have picked up Mek Files 3 & Ichabod Azrael GNs today. Both recent strips, so no worries about the quality of reproductions.

You say that, but at least one of the pages of ABC Warriors: Third Element was a pixellated mess in the softcover collection - it looked like a corrupted jpeg. Have they fixed it for the Mek Files? It was the last page of Liam Sharp's story.
Title: Re: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 29 October, 2015, 09:13:40 PM
You're right - there's still a problem with that page. Hard to pin it down exactly. To be honest, I find the art in that story very odd. There's some excellent work interspersed with some much weaker stuff and the latter makes it hard to follow the story at times. That final page didn't leap out as a problem because of that.

At least it's no longer called the Thrid Element.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 October, 2015, 09:15:27 PM
Welp. Looks like we wont be getting the Dandridge collection in TPB. And holy moly has it really been over 100 progs and two years since we last saw the chap?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 29 October, 2015, 10:21:12 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 29 October, 2015, 09:15:27 PM
Welp. Looks like we wont be getting the Dandridge collection in TPB. And holy moly has it really been over 100 progs and two years since we last saw the chap?

Wut?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 30 October, 2015, 12:15:58 AM
Quote from: Butch on 29 October, 2015, 07:00:57 AM

(http://i.imgur.com/IIJP1vM.png?2)


Not on Amazon.co.uk - http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Cursed-Earth-Uncensored/dp/1781084440

I'm very tempted to get this just to take into every  MacDonald's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9UjD7emjwk) restaurant in my home town (We have three!) and take it out and read the thing right in front them.  I don't think they would even notice and get it (The current generation working there in this day!) and be offended or take action against me. Otherwise, they bloody deserve it, the slack arses and if I wasn't so hungry for fast food (I'm much faster!) at that time of the night I wouldn't bother with them at all.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 30 October, 2015, 12:41:58 AM
They would be oblivious to your hilariously satirical meal, as they performed their menial, low-paid jobs.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 30 October, 2015, 01:14:31 AM
mcDonalds Corporate probably doesn't even remember the situation. It's probably in some archived legal brief in a file somewhere. Unknown by any but the most curious of corporate lawyers.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 October, 2015, 05:27:49 AM
It would be interesting to know how Rebellion renegotiated the promise to never reprint the material, or if there are other considerations (e.g. the old agreement was limited to certain territories).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 30 October, 2015, 07:47:03 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 30 October, 2015, 05:27:49 AM
It would be interesting to know how Rebellion renegotiated the promise to never reprint the material, or if there are other considerations (e.g. the old agreement was limited to certain territories).

Well, it's not like Rebellion ever made a promise not to reprint the material (or even existed at the time - I'm guessing Jason and Chris were schoolkids at the time).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 30 October, 2015, 10:05:40 AM
Wasn't it just General Mills that got its knickers in a twist originally anyway? The whole thing's bizarre, really. Plenty of British comics have done far harder satire than this story.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 30 October, 2015, 02:27:44 PM
End of year Prog 2016 = Prog 1961????

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/exclusive-simon-bisley-returns-to-judge-dredd-for-2000-ad-variant
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: jabish on 30 October, 2015, 02:45:49 PM
Just saw that. I guess with the actual Prog 2000 happening next year they have to have the bumper end of year prog just be part of normal numbering. Makes sense because there will be an actual Prog #2016 fairly soon. Nice line up though:

Judge Dredd: Melt by Rob Williams & Henry Flint
Strontium Dog: Repo Men by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
The Order: In the Court of the WyrmQueene by Kek-W & John Burns
Absalom: Family Snapshots by Gordon Rennie & Tiernen Trevallion
ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters by Pat Mills & Clint Langley
Kingdom: Beast of Eden by Dan Abnett & Richard Elson
Future Shock: The Mighty Mykflex by Martin Feekins & Jesus Redondo
Sinister Dexter: Blank Ammo by Dan Abnett & Simon Davis
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 30 October, 2015, 03:06:41 PM
Well. That certainly solves that question.

Hooray for Simon Davis on Sin-Dex!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 30 October, 2015, 03:13:14 PM
Storming line-up there. Stront AND Kingdom? Happy days indeed.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: janus stark on 30 October, 2015, 03:24:48 PM
not complaining , but isn't the end of year prog  the same as last year?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 October, 2015, 03:41:14 PM
Quote from: jabish on 30 October, 2015, 02:45:49 PM
Just saw that. I guess with the actual Prog 2000 happening next year they have to have the bumper end of year prog just be part of normal numbering. Makes sense because there will be an actual Prog #2016 fairly soon. Nice line up though:

Judge Dredd: Melt by Rob Williams & Henry Flint
Strontium Dog: Repo Men by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra
The Order: In the Court of the WyrmQueene by Kek-W & John Burns
Absalom: Family Snapshots by Gordon Rennie & Tiernen Trevallion
ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters by Pat Mills & Clint Langley
Kingdom: Beast of Eden by Dan Abnett & Richard Elson
Future Shock: The Mighty Mykflex by Martin Feekins & Jesus Redondo
Sinister Dexter: Blank Ammo by Dan Abnett & Simon Davis

Sweet mother of God how great is that line-up! Seriously how fuckin' good, well clearly good enough to make me swear!

Looking at it my guess for Prog 1962 (interesting shift in the numbering there) is Dress (well of course) Strontium Dog, The Order (very happy to have this back) ABC Warriors and Kingdom. If so bloody how good is that too.

As already mentioned always great to see Simon Davis on S&D too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 30 October, 2015, 03:55:03 PM
Elson still on Kingdom! Phew!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Satanist on 30 October, 2015, 03:59:03 PM
That's a nice lookin line up. More Kingdom inawizlikyass!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 30 October, 2015, 04:03:32 PM
A salon AND The Order?! Ooooooh yeeeesssss!!!!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Citi-Def_Joe on 30 October, 2015, 06:34:09 PM
Holy teapots of mumu, thats quite the lineup, happier to be back in the 2000ad fold with every passing prog, megazine, collection and announcement of this type
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 01 November, 2015, 01:36:16 AM
Quote from: jabish on 30 October, 2015, 02:45:49 PM

Sinister Dexter: Blank Ammo by Dan Abnett & Simon Davis


...that won't be anything new, Sinister Dexter have been shooting blanks for years...

...someone had to say it!

::)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 01 November, 2015, 03:52:19 PM
QuoteWell, it's not like Rebellion ever made a promise not to reprint the material (or even existed at the time - I'm guessing Jason and Chris were schoolkids at the time).
Rebellion is bound by the undertakings given by the previous owner.

QuotePlenty of British comics have done far harder satire
It's not about satire, it's about trade mark infringement.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 01 November, 2015, 04:51:05 PM
Trademark infringement is a tough legal battle to win. In the cases of obvious parody, you'd have had a hell of a time in court in the 1970s, let alone now.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 01 November, 2015, 05:06:29 PM
Ok. But breach of a contractual agreement not to reprint the material must be pretty easy to prove.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Leigh S on 01 November, 2015, 05:15:04 PM
IPC signed up to the no reprint thing 40 years ago now getting on... IPC never had to sign a thing - I dont think the companies had a leg to stand on if they had pursued legal action at the time. Howeverm they were either scared by the big guys, or wanting to rein in an editorial team that was already causing them trouble with their loosey goosey ways.

The legality of an individual contract that Rebellion inherited (or maybe didnt) is likely to be open to all kinds of easy outs for someone determined enough to reprint.  That said, the story as read on io9 about a change in Laws seems to suggest something else behind the sudden ability to reprint. 

Publish and be damned!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 01 November, 2015, 11:32:10 PM
Wicked, thanks.

"But now that UK law on parody has been updated to the point that Rebellion wouldn't be sued into oblivion for these parodies, The Cursed Earth can be released as it was originally intended to be for the first time in nearly four decades... the release will also mark the first time The Cursed Earth's color work will have been restored."
http://io9.com/youll-soon-be-able-to-read-a-classic-judge-dredd-comic-1739509529 (http://io9.com/youll-soon-be-able-to-read-a-classic-judge-dredd-comic-1739509529)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 01 November, 2015, 11:40:07 PM
Id say at the time Action had caused enough grief in the comic department that IPC didn't need the bad publicity of a court case, however weak from international corporations.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 02 November, 2015, 08:52:51 PM
The contract issue has been anticipated and taken care of:

"30A    Caricature, parody or pastiche
(1) Fair dealing with a work for the purposes of caricature, parody or pastiche does not infringe copyright in the work.
(2) To the extent that a term of a contract purports to prevent or restrict the doing of any act which, by virtue of this section, would not infringe copyright, that term is unenforceable."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Magnetica on 02 November, 2015, 09:37:56 PM
A Cursed Earth volume with a) the so called banned issues included and b) the centre spreads in colour has been debated quite a lot - see the Mega Collection thread for example.

Now I would love to get my hands on such a thing - even if it means buying a third Cursed Earth collected edition.

But for me, this currently falls into the "believe it when I see it" category pending any official word from Rebellion.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 02 November, 2015, 11:23:19 PM
Any official word? All those news articles are based on Rebellion's press release.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Magnetica on 02 November, 2015, 11:34:04 PM
ok hadn't seen them when I posted that - have now read the other thread. Was just so surprised - never thought it would happen. Especially given the previous comments on the Mega Collection thread along the lines of "why would  Rebellion take the risk". But looks like they are sure it is now ok.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 November, 2015, 02:59:47 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

2000 AD: The Creator Interviews, Volume Two [Kindle Edition] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-AD-Creator-Interviews-Two-ebook/dp/B017JCNVQQ) - 11th November 2015

Exclusive interviews and career overviews of key comics creators taken from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine. In this second collection Alex Garland, Jim McCarthy, Jock, Greg Staples, Chris Weston, Will Simpson, Karl Urban and Arthur Wyatt discuss their work in comics, 2000 AD and many other titles in great detail.


2000 AD: The Creator Interviews, Volume Three [Kindle Edition] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-AD-Creator-Interviews-Three-ebook/dp/B017JCNT4K) - 18th November 2015

Exclusive interviews and career overviews of key comics creators taken from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine. In this third collection Dave Gibbons, Simon Fraser, Kevin O'Neill, Jesus Redondo, David Roach, John Hicklenton, John Cooper and Dave Taylor discuss their work in comics, 2000 AD and many other titles in great detail.


2000 AD: The Creator Interviews, Volume Four [Kindle Edition] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-AD-Creator-Interviews-Four-ebook/dp/B017JD5PUK) - 25th November 2015

Exclusive interviews and career overviews of key comics creators taken from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine. In this fourth collection Alan Moore, Brett Ewins, Liam McCormick-Sharp, John Higgins, Colin Wilson, Dylan Teague and Peter Doherty discuss their work in comics, 2000 AD and many other titles in great detail.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 November, 2015, 06:15:29 AM
Very pleased about those creator interviews are coming out love this kinda thing. You have to say Rebellion are knocking it out the park at the moment. The amount of good stuff coming out, both directly or by licencing, the amount of new things being tried and you kinda hope doing well given it all seems to still be coming, is just fantastic.

If you compare it to 10 years  ago when I first got back into 2000ad... well it just doesn't.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 November, 2015, 08:42:13 AM
Agreed!

I'd love to see some more computer games though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IronGraham on 11 November, 2015, 09:56:47 AM
So glad the interviews are back  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 November, 2015, 01:54:46 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd Casefiles 27 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084327) - Paperback, 19th May 2016, 320 pages.

Blurb: Mega-City One - a nightmarish enclosure located along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. Only the Judges - powerful law enforcers supporting the despotic Justice Department - can stop total anarchy running rife on the crime-ridden streets. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the law and these are his stories...The madness of Mega-City One comes to light once more, as Judge Dredd fends off a mob of sex-crazed robots, battles corruption in the Mega-City fast food championship and takes a tough stance against the latest Mega-City fashion trend - the peek-a-boo pants!

And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 17 November, 2015, 08:05:52 AM
Quote from: Richard on 02 November, 2015, 08:52:51 PM
The contract issue has been anticipated and taken care of:

"30A    Caricature, parody or pastiche
(1) Fair dealing with a work for the purposes of caricature, parody or pastiche does not infringe copyright in the work.
(2) To the extent that a term of a contract purports to prevent or restrict the doing of any act which, by virtue of this section, would not infringe copyright, that term is unenforceable."

But is it a caricature to portray multi-nationals as war-mongering narcissists?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bad City Blue on 17 November, 2015, 08:27:56 AM
Just a quick post hijack to ask some of you to read and vote in our latest brilliant short story comp "1600AD". There is a 2000AD Graphic Novel for a random voter

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=42741.0
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: credo on 24 November, 2015, 11:02:00 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 17 November, 2015, 01:54:46 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd Casefiles 27 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084327) - Paperback, 19th May 2016, 320 pages.


Is it just me, or is that a faster rate of publication for the Case Files than we have seen in recent years?

That'll be 2 by May, when we only got 2 in the whole of last year (Feb and Aug). With Cursed Earth Uncensored in July, can we expect a Case Files 28 before Xmas 2016?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 24 November, 2015, 12:55:21 PM
We all knew it was imminent...

Judge Dredd: Titan (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Titan-Rob-Williams/dp/1781084416/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Apestrife on 24 November, 2015, 04:24:26 PM
Titan deserves HC!

Wonder if it'll collect the upcoming "Melt"?

Regardless. Looking forward to reading it in collected form.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 24 November, 2015, 06:41:01 PM
Quote from: Apestrife on 24 November, 2015, 04:24:26 PM
Wonder if it'll collect the upcoming "Melt"?

Hey,it's Tharg, of course it'll be in there - he ain't no mark for the Venus of the hardsell.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 November, 2015, 08:53:40 PM
And The Complete Nemesis athe Warlock volume 1 is set for a reprint in January as well. Nice!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 25 November, 2015, 06:28:13 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 24 November, 2015, 12:55:21 PM
We all knew it was imminent...

Judge Dredd: Titan (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Titan-Rob-Williams/dp/1781084416/)


No real surprise, as you say, but great that it's being announced.
And seconded for a HC release. Would be nice.

Be nice if Tharg could organise a signing for it as well....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 25 November, 2015, 11:15:09 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 24 November, 2015, 08:53:40 PM
And The Complete Nemesis athe Warlock volume 1 is set for a reprint in January as well. Nice!
On what paper, I wonder. The same as before, or the newer, lovelier, whiter stock?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 26 November, 2015, 07:57:30 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 25 November, 2015, 11:15:09 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 24 November, 2015, 08:53:40 PM
And The Complete Nemesis athe Warlock volume 1 is set for a reprint in January as well. Nice!
On what paper, I wonder. The same as before, or the newer, lovelier, whiter stock?
I second this question. Any added coloured material (for the cover gallery for example)?
This is the second print right?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 26 November, 2015, 10:19:41 AM
Quote from: vark on 26 November, 2015, 07:57:30 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 25 November, 2015, 11:15:09 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 24 November, 2015, 08:53:40 PM
And The Complete Nemesis athe Warlock volume 1 is set for a reprint in January as well. Nice!
On what paper, I wonder. The same as before, or the newer, lovelier, whiter stock?
I second this question. Any added coloured material (for the cover gallery for example)?
This is the second print right?

Sorry, this is just a reprint rather than a reissue so will be exactly the same as the previous volume.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 27 November, 2015, 05:08:24 PM
Talking of 'reissues' - could we have one of 'Slaine: Demon Killer' with correct printing of 'Cauldron of Blood' (Dice Man 1) - just to keep things nice and tidy?

(Wouldn't mind seeing the two other Slaine Gaming Book strips also re-printed somewhere along the line!)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 December, 2015, 11:52:17 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 09 September, 2015, 12:24:32 PM
Amazon UK link:

Planet of the Damned & Death Planet (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Damned-Death-Pat-Mills/dp/1781084130)

Beyond the Bermuda Triangle lies a world so hostile to human beings that those stranded there know it as 'The Planet Of the Damned!' When a Tri-Star jet crashes on this treacherous world, the survivors find themselves being relentlessly attacked by all forms native flora and fauna, including the monstrous Ab-humans. Fortunately they are discovered by Flint - another human resident stranded on this world long ago. With their axe-wielding guide in taking charge, some of the survivors may just find a way to return home alive! It's the 23rd century and the starship Eternity sets out from Earth carrying a cargo of colonists bound for new lives on distant worlds. When the ship is knocked off course, crashing on an unknown alien planet, Commander Lorna Varn and colonist leader Richard Cory must set aside their differences and work together to keep everyone alive.

Cover now up on Amazon UK.  I like the way they've done this.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/POD_zpszxpeyfqw.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 December, 2015, 11:53:20 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 09 September, 2015, 12:28:40 PM
Amazon UK link:


Goldtiger (Antonio Barreti's Goldtiger)
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goldtiger-Antonio-Barretis-Barretti/dp/1781084718) Paperback, 10th March 2016, 128 pages

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE 60s GREATEST UNSEEN COMIC Of all the Sixties newspaper strips one of the most discussed yet rarely read has to be Antonio Barreti and Louis Shaeffer's answer to MODESTY BLAISE: GOLDTIGER. Uncollected until today, this astonishing book lifts the lid on comics' most unsung creation and also reveals its incredible connection to British Comics Icon and the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, 2000 AD! REALLY? HOW STRANGE... I KNOW A LOT ABOUT COMICS BUT I'VE NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE Working with Shaeffer, a writer entrenched in the world of crime and sci-fi pulp magazines, Barreti produced the first serial in its entirety. Unfortunately the strip was deemed too sensational (not least because both of its main characters were openly homosexual) and publication was cancelled. This caused a mental breakdown for the artist. Not one to let insanity hold him back, Barreti continued to produce GOLDTIGER strips, with Shaeffer posting the artist his scripts. IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU INVENTED THE WHOLE THING AND EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID WAS A PACK OF LIES. Louis Shaeffer is believed to have died off the coast of Corfu in 1972 and, after his release from care, Barreti vanished altogether. At least the majority of their work remains, perhaps in time to gain a whole new audience. Using extensive restoration techniques and after many years of scouring the archives, GOLDTIGER is ready to be presented again, complete from the very beginning, starting with their debut adventure THE POSEIDON COMPLEX. GOLDTIGER NEVER REALLY EXISTED AT ALL DID IT? If it didn't before, it does now. This first volume of collected strips is a lavish affair, combining the full debut adventure with 'behind the scenes' material: letters, scripts, interviews, sketches... all documenting the creation of the strip and the outlandish lives of its creators and their unbelievable brush with 2000 AD.

Cover now up on Amazon UK:
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Goldtiger_zpsvies6ga4.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 December, 2015, 11:59:49 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greysuit-Monarch-Dossier-Pat-Mills/dp/1781084807) - Paperback, 13th September 2016, 272 pages.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Doss_zpsmeqxkiec.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 December, 2015, 12:00:40 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 24 November, 2015, 12:55:21 PM
We all knew it was imminent...

Judge Dredd: Titan (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Titan-Rob-Williams/dp/1781084416/)

Cover now up at Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Titan_zpslztcq72b.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 December, 2015, 12:03:50 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 07 August, 2015, 10:21:48 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd: Casefiles 26 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084319)

Paperback, 14th January 2016, 320 pages.

Mega-City One - a nightmarish enclosure located along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. Only the Judges - powerful law enforcers supporting the despotic Justice Department - can stop total anarchy running rife on the crime-ridden streets. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the law and these are his stories...

After a pack of vicious Dune Sharks attack Mega-City One, Judge Dredd sets out into the Cursed Earth with a group of cadets, intent on finding where the alien fish fiends have come from, so he can wipe them out once and for all! Meanwhile in another classic adventure from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine, Dredd teams up with the celebrity freelance exorcist, Devlin Waugh, to battle Kigishu the evil sorcerer on the plains of Pan-Africa...


Cover now up at Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CF26_zps56m6qpbf.jpg)

Quote from: Dash Decent on 07 August, 2015, 10:21:48 AM
And now back to Bob in the studio.

What the man said.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 01 December, 2015, 12:08:47 PM
Some great covers there, although the shift in colouring style on Greysuit jars a bit.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 01 December, 2015, 01:02:01 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 26 November, 2015, 10:19:41 AM
Quote from: vark on 26 November, 2015, 07:57:30 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 25 November, 2015, 11:15:09 PM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 24 November, 2015, 08:53:40 PM
And The Complete Nemesis athe Warlock volume 1 is set for a reprint in January as well. Nice!
On what paper, I wonder. The same as before, or the newer, lovelier, whiter stock?
I second this question. Any added coloured material (for the cover gallery for example)?
This is the second print right?

Sorry, this is just a reprint rather than a reissue so will be exactly the same as the previous volume.
Thanks for the reply
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 01 December, 2015, 01:33:20 PM
Whereas i think the Greysuit cover looks great. The change in styles is really effective to my eyes.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 01 December, 2015, 01:40:59 PM
Yeah - that Greysuit cover is really striking and works well. White backgrounds do seem to stand out.
272 pgs is a hefty volume, could read a lot (as opposed to a bit) better collected.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 01 December, 2015, 01:51:39 PM
Quote from: Fungus on 01 December, 2015, 01:40:59 PM
Yeah - that Greysuit cover is really striking and works well. White backgrounds do seem to stand out.
272 pgs is a hefty volume, could read a lot (as opposed to a bit) better collected.
Especially as there have only been 192 pages (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&Comic=2000AD&choice=greysuit) of it so far. Does that late 2016 release date indicate a typo another story next year or just Amazon placeholder values not being updated?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 01 December, 2015, 03:44:21 PM
Yeah I really like the Greysuits use of two styles. The only thing I find a bit weird is the grimdark* images under the big painted image seem to be forming a heart. Now this might be me seeing to much but once you have it in ya head its either a deliberate juxtaposition or the must violent valentines since 1929.

*If you've read the Superman vs. Batman thread you'll understand why I've used this term... and will probably a few more time until I get bored of it!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 01 December, 2015, 03:48:23 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 01 December, 2015, 03:44:21 PM
Yeah I really like the Greysuits use of two styles. The only thing I find a bit weird is the grimdark* images under the big painted image seem to be forming a heart. Now this might be me seeing to much but once you have it in ya head its either a deliberate juxtaposition or the must violent valentines since 1929.
Surely it's a butterfly. Like the one in the actual title of the book. And the picture of one just above it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 01 December, 2015, 03:59:19 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 01 December, 2015, 03:48:23 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 01 December, 2015, 03:44:21 PM
Yeah I really like the Greysuits use of two styles. The only thing I find a bit weird is the grimdark* images under the big painted image seem to be forming a heart. Now this might be me seeing to much but once you have it in ya head its either a deliberate juxtaposition or the must violent valentines since 1929.
Surely it's a butterfly. Like the one in the actual title of the book. And the picture of one just above it.

Well yes but it looks like a heart. Even if its a butterfly its a pretty grimdark one.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 01 December, 2015, 04:18:07 PM
Took it as a butterfly too. It could even have worked if done more subtly...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 December, 2015, 06:18:47 PM
Planet of the Damned and Goldtiger are both in my pre-order queue and those covers only make me more excited.  :D
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 December, 2015, 07:52:35 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd Year Two: The Righteous Man (Kindle Edition) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B018SNVGW6) by Michael Carroll, 15th January 2016
As the Judges cart Rico Dredd away for questioning and exile on Titan, his clone-brother Joe comes under scrutiny. They're cut from the same cloth; can Joe Dredd be trusted? An investigation begins, and Dredd is shipped off to an iridium-mining town in the Cursed Earth, which has come under pressure from mutant raiders.  But everything is not as it seems. When the reason for the raids becomes clear, Dredd will have some tough decisions to make.

Judge Dredd Casefiles 27 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084327)  – 19th May 2016, 320 pages, paperback.
The madness of Mega-City One comes to light once more, as Judge Dredd fends off a mob of sex-crazed robots, battles corruption in the Mega-City fast food championship and takes a tough stance against the latest Mega-City fashion trend – the peek-a-boo pants!

And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 11 December, 2015, 02:07:36 PM
Of all the many things I'm really looking forward to from the House of Tharg, Goldtiger is the runaway winner.  I can't wait to read that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 December, 2015, 02:18:14 PM
Sure I saw Rob Williams say something about a new Sensitive Klegg outing on Twitter recently.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 December, 2015, 12:55:17 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 09 October, 2015, 01:32:04 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 04 September, 2015, 04:55:14 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Sooner or Later (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sooner-Later-Peter-Milligan/dp/1781084289) - Paperback, 7th April 2016, 96 pages.

1986. Thatcher's Britain. The financial 'big bang' saw the rich get richer. Riots errupt in prisons across the country. And Micky Swift is still on the dole! Disillusioned with his dour existence in dreary Camden, Micky's life is suddenly turned inside out, when he is plucked from the present and dragged into the 30th century as the property of one Mr & Mrs Katsbreath - a case of mistaken identity. Unwanted, trapped in the future and still unemployable, If Micky wants to return home (time travel isn't cheap you know!), sooner or later he will need to find a job!

Cover is up.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Sooner_zpsbq4jrdaz.jpg)

New cover:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Sooner_zpsbmhblpu0.jpg)

And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 December, 2015, 12:55:51 PM
(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/FCBD2016_zps3z77m7nm.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 17 December, 2015, 01:52:40 PM
Is it just me or are all of those poses lifts? I mean it is a nice cover, though why is Rogue looking a bit pale and someone has pulled Alpha's arms a bit. But the whole thing looks like lifts...

TMO- was that part of the brief?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 17 December, 2015, 06:50:39 PM
That's a Mike Allred cover? Definitely doesn't feel like one of his best.

Also, maybe its just the image, but does it look a bit narrow? Like it's US comic sized?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 17 December, 2015, 11:37:46 PM
Lifts alright - Rogue for definite (almost looks like a cutout pasted on), Anderson perhaps not.

But I actually really like it! Very bright and fresh, which is to say very Allred.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 17 December, 2015, 11:58:45 PM
Dredd's a lift of a Bolland scan as well.

I like it though, Allred is a good sort.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 18 December, 2015, 02:30:04 AM
Quote from: Hawkmonger on 17 December, 2015, 11:58:45 PM
Dredd's a lift of a Bolland scan as well.

Definitely.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dodsy on 18 December, 2015, 01:05:41 PM
Quote from: Bolt-01 on 17 December, 2015, 01:52:40 PM
Is it just me or are all of those poses lifts? I mean it is a nice cover, though why is Rogue looking a bit pale and someone has pulled Alpha's arms a bit. But the whole thing looks like lifts...

TMO- was that part of the brief?

Durham is from the cover of one of the graphic novels as well if memory serves correctly
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 18 December, 2015, 01:55:20 PM
It's an eye-catching cover and will hopefully do the job. It does raise a few questions:

Is Anderson projecting a Prog into the comic fan's mind, or is she reading what is already in there?

Who shot the comic shop up - Dredd, to the result of the fan's TPO?

Why does the font used for 'comics' look so familiar?

Why is Johnny wearing a pubic wig on the outside of his clothes?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 18 December, 2015, 02:01:21 PM
The Comic shop sign is the font used for the Fantastic Four logo back in the day...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ming on 18 December, 2015, 03:03:17 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 17 December, 2015, 12:55:17 PMNew cover:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Sooner_zpsbmhblpu0.jpg)

And now back to Bob in the studio.

Fantastic to see this is finally being reprinted; a long-awaited treat.  Hopefully the font used for the title is not final - fairly hideous and not a patch on a lot of those used for titles in the strip itself.  It's also a shame that Brendan McCarthy wasn't even aware that this was getting a reprint until I mentioned it to him a couple of weeks back... 

If this reprint is being based on all the original artwork (as was mentioned in a recent Thrill-cast) then it seems like a missed opportunity if this has gone ahead without a blurb or something from the original creators.  Ho hum.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: JOE SOAP on 18 December, 2015, 03:49:54 PM


A classic that'll look better than it ever did in the prog.

We have a 4 month wait so anything could be planned in that time.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Satanist on 18 December, 2015, 04:10:44 PM
I am so lookin forward to re-reading Sooner or Later all in one go printed on something better than school bog roll!

One of my all time faves as a kid! Didn't understand it but loved the weirdness and that Tharg seemingly just gave the back page to two creators to do whatever the fuck they wanted.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 18 December, 2015, 04:33:28 PM
Quote from: ming on 18 December, 2015, 03:03:17 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 17 December, 2015, 12:55:17 PMNew cover:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Sooner_zpsbmhblpu0.jpg)

And now back to Bob in the studio.

Fantastic to see this is finally being reprinted; a long-awaited treat.  Hopefully the font used for the title is not final - fairly hideous and not a patch on a lot of those used for titles in the strip itself.  It's also a shame that Brendan McCarthy wasn't even aware that this was getting a reprint until I mentioned it to him a couple of weeks back... 

If this reprint is being based on all the original artwork (as was mentioned in a recent Thrill-cast) then it seems like a missed opportunity if this has gone ahead without a blurb or something from the original creators.  Ho hum.

I told Brendan that I intended to collect this material up months ago, long before production began.

Pete Milligan has written an introduction.

Kat has done a sterling job on cleaning up and scanning in the original film.

So you can take a deep, relaxing breath.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ming on 18 December, 2015, 05:47:19 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 18 December, 2015, 04:33:28 PM
I told Brendan that I intended to collect this material up months ago, long before production began.

Pete Milligan has written an introduction.

Kat has done a sterling job on cleaning up and scanning in the original film.

So you can take a deep, relaxing breath.

Good stuff; I thought it was odd that Brendan hadn't even been told about it (but as I say, as of two weeks ago this all seemed to be news to him).  Great that the original films were put to use (although the Thrill-cast mentioned all the original artwork, which really would have been something amazing).  Anyway, can't wait for this!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 18 December, 2015, 08:21:15 PM
Quote from: Satanist on 18 December, 2015, 04:10:44 PM
I am so lookin forward to re-reading Sooner or Later all in one go printed on something better than school bog roll!

One of my all time faves as a kid! Didn't understand it but loved the weirdness and that Tharg seemingly just gave the back page to two creators to do whatever the fuck they wanted.

This, this and thrice this!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 24 December, 2015, 06:50:44 PM
Did we know about this latest addition to the Meg's creator owned slot?

Quotethe first publication of a terrifying black-metal vampire epic, Realm of the Damned by Alec Worley and Pye Parr.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 24 December, 2015, 06:54:14 PM
THE PARR DROID RETURNS TO US!!!!!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 December, 2015, 09:07:58 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 December, 2015, 06:50:44 PM
Did we know about this latest addition to the Meg's creator owned slot?

Quotethe first publication of a terrifying black-metal vampire epic, Realm of the Damned by Alec Worley and Pye Parr.

That sounds mighty interesting... but what is 'black metal'? I'm so out of touch!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 28 December, 2015, 12:17:40 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 24 December, 2015, 09:07:58 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 24 December, 2015, 06:50:44 PM
Quotethe first publication of a terrifying black-metal vampire epic, Realm of the Damned by Alec Worley and Pye Parr.
That sounds mighty interesting... but what is 'black metal'? I'm so out of touch!
last.fm (http://www.last.fm/tag/black+metal)
Black metal is an extreme sub-genre of heavy metal featuring harsh screams or evil voices as the vocal styles, fast electric guitars with tremolo picking and blast beat drumming and raw recording and extreme guitar distortion and a harsh guitar sound with satanic or haunting lyrics. Often played by bands wearing all black, long usually black hair, black corpse paint make-up, spikes and studs, blood theatrics, pentagrams, upside-down crosses, black leather and white face paint. Some forms of black metal put an emphasis on the nuances of ambient or atmospheric aspects which include the suicidal or depressive subgenres of black metal, while others focus more on melody or technicality.

wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_metal)
Black metal is an extreme subgenre and subculture of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures and an emphasis on atmosphere, though many different characteristics and techniques may be employed. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 08 January, 2016, 01:14:19 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 27 March, 2015, 11:18:17 AM
Now listed for pre-order on Amazon UK:

Aquila (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084076) - paperback, 192 pages, 12th January 2016

Amazon UK and the Book Depository both have two listings for Aquila:

12th Jan, 192 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1781084076 (US publication)
14th Jan, 176 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1781084069 (UK publication)...ISBN 10 ends 68.

The second one has the same ISBN as the Thrillshop but Tharg's listing is only 140 pages and hardcover.

Molch-R, are there different versions of this coming out? It seems to me these e-tailers are befuddled and that following the ISBN would be the safest bet.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Heath C Ackley on 08 January, 2016, 05:21:55 PM
Just found this on CBR (please forgive if posted elsewhere):

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/alan-moores-forgotten-work-monster-receives-reprint-from-2000-ad

Good news for us Moore fans!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 08 January, 2016, 06:33:31 PM
Quote from: ZippoCreed on 08 January, 2016, 05:21:55 PM
Just found this on CBR (please forgive if posted elsewhere):

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/alan-moores-forgotten-work-monster-receives-reprint-from-2000-ad

Fine news. The article states 190 pgs, that poses other questions about what else we get besides... plenty Scream content to choose from. So many questions.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 08 January, 2016, 07:00:43 PM
Quote from: Fungus on 08 January, 2016, 06:33:31 PM
Quote from: ZippoCreed on 08 January, 2016, 05:21:55 PM
Just found this on CBR (please forgive if posted elsewhere):

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/alan-moores-forgotten-work-monster-receives-reprint-from-2000-ad

Fine news. The article states 190 pgs, that poses other questions about what else we get besides... plenty Scream content to choose from. So many questions.

Wow very cool. Have to be honest to my shame I didn't even know this existed so this is pretty exciting.

A bit of me feel sorry for Maranddavid after all his good, no great, no SENSATIONAL work with Hibernia Rebellion are stealing his thunder!* But then it'll probably find a bigger audience this way.

*This is of course utterly unfair as I have no idea if Hibernia had any plans to do this, or whether they'd have had the clout to get it, but its not going to stop me leaping to unfounded conclusions!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 08 January, 2016, 07:23:26 PM
Knowing M&D he's probably just happy to see it reprinted at all. As we all should be, fantastic news.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 08 January, 2016, 10:55:28 PM
QuoteA bit of me feel sorry for Maranddavid after all his good, no great, no SENSATIONAL work with Hibernia Rebellion are stealing his thunder!* But then it'll probably find a bigger audience this way.

Not at all Colin, It's great news. I have known of it for a while, I even got to help out in a small way on the book. Looking forward to it, Rebellion know how to package this sort of material, The Dan Dare book was fantastic.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 08 January, 2016, 11:02:52 PM
Glad to read that, maryanddavid, very magnanimous. Wouldn't be surprised to see Hibernia credited in this new collection, feels like they kickstarted this most excellent trend for reprints.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 09 January, 2016, 01:02:41 AM
The more material out the better, and it's great to see Rebellion looking at stories from Scream and Eagle.  If they enlarge into the horror reprint pitch, well, it will just mean maryanddavid will be able to consider that UK funny comic reprint title a bit sooner!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 23 January, 2016, 08:50:08 PM
Any chance the powers-that-be could provide us with a complete listing of the year's graphic novel releases?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 24 January, 2016, 07:00:18 AM
Now listed for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero - volume 1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1631406272) – 23rd June 2016, IDW, paperback, 100 pages.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 22 February, 2016, 10:36:03 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Monster (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178108453X) - Paperback, 14th July 2016, 192 pages.

For all of his young life, Kenneth had been plagued by a feeling that there was something horrific dwelling in his house of secrets. But he had to know what was up there. He had to know what had killed his dad. And now he would face the horrors behind the attic door...


ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084432) -  Hardcover, 14th July 2016, 96 pages.

Mars, the far future. War droids created for a conflict that ended centuries ago, the ABC Warriors are resistant to Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical warfare. Charged with bringing peace to the civil war-ravaged frontier colonies on the Red Planet, the Warriors have finally recruited ex-member Happy Shrapnel.

Realising that their maker, Ro-Busters CEO Howard Quartz, is the figurehead behind most of the devastation on Mars, the Warriors decide to terminate him. The problem is that due to their programming, they can't.

And yet, there was one robot who defied Quartz on a regular basis. An ex-sewer droid with a bad attitude... An ally of the A.B.C. Warriors called Ro-Jaws...



Bad Company: First Casualties (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084424) -  Paperback, 16th June 2016, 96 pages.

It's been a decade since the vicious war with the Krool on the planet Ararat. Ex-members of the legendary guerrilla unit known as Bad Company are preparing for a ten-year anniversary memorial service.

But now their near-mythic leader, Kano, has resurfaced and Danny Franks, Thrax, Mad Tommy and Fly-Trap, have stopped taken their meds and travelled back to Ararat for answers...



And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 26 February, 2016, 02:36:52 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 23 January, 2016, 08:50:08 PM
Any chance the powers-that-be could provide us with a complete listing of the year's graphic novel releases?
I second that!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 26 February, 2016, 10:10:37 PM
MAY SOLICITATIONS

20000AD - [spoiler]Blazing SF action from the Eisner-nominated UK anthology! In Judge Dredd: "The Lion's Den" by Michael Carroll and PJ Holden, the conspiracy tightens on Judge Joyce as he goes on the run in Brit-Cit, and the power struggle continues in Mega-City One. Elsewhere, the Survival Geeks have a cuckoo in the midst in "Lord of the Ringers" by Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby and Neil Googe; the investigation continues in the darkest of deep space in "Brink" by Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard; a planet succumbs to the Dark Judges in "Tainted: The Fall of Deadworld" by Kek-W and Dave Kendall; and the third book of the Brutania Chronicles begins in Slaine: "Psychopomp" by Pat Mills and Simon Davis, as the Celtic warrior fights to free himself from the clutches of the evil Drune Lords![/spoiler]

Judge Dredd Megazine - [spoiler]More action and adventure in the future-shocked world of Judge Dredd! Judges Rico and Koburn head deeper into the Cursed Earth in Judge Dredd: "Dust to Dust" by Michael Carroll and Henry Flint; Deputy Pettifer must make a choice about picking up the Lawgiver and becoming Marshal in "Lawless" by Dan Abnett and Phil Winslade; a brand-new story starts in the shape of "Blunt" by T.C. Eglington and Boo Cook, as a crash on frontier planet means a desperate hunt for survivors; and there's more bloodsoaked drama in the terrifying black-metal vampire epic "Realm of the Damned" by Alec Worley and Pye Parr. Plus, in the bagged graphic novel this month, future sport has never been more bizarre than slamboarding in "Second City Blues" by Kek-W and Warren Pleece![/spoiler]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 March, 2016, 11:45:02 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Anderson-Psi-Files-5/dp/1781084467) - Paperback, 11th August 2016, 320 pages.

Psi-Division's toughest Judge, Cassandra Anderson, returns to the streets of Mega-City One, having awoken from the coma she fell into following her exposure to the Half-Live virus.

But there is no respite for this Psi Judge. City-wide disasters face her at every turn, including everything from a hideous new disease manufactured by the Sisters of Death and Block-sized city-stomping robots!




Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ro-Busters-Complete-Nuts-Bolts-Vol/dp/1781084475), Hardcover, 11th August 2016, 246 pages.

The robots are in revolt! The boss of Ro-Busters Howard Quartz also known as Mr. Ten Per Cent (90% of him is robotic), has seen his stocks plummet due to his involvement in the attempted demolition of Northpool.  In order to stop from going bankrupt, Quartz plans to destroy a number of his robots in a staged accident, including Hammerstein & Ro-Jaws!

Having got wind of Quartz's plan, the duo seek out the robot underground, who organise the safe evacuation of unwanted robots to a distant moon. Before long, it's man Vs machine in a battle for freedom!
This action-packed finale to the Ro-Busters strip includes star-studded backup stories from Alan Moore, Steve Dillon and Bryan Talbot.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 03 March, 2016, 12:09:12 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 03 March, 2016, 11:45:02 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Anderson-Psi-Files-5/dp/1781084467) - Paperback, 11th August 2016, 320 pages.

Psi-Division's toughest Judge, Cassandra Anderson, returns to the streets of Mega-City One, having awoken from the coma she fell into following her exposure to the Half-Live virus.

But there is no respite for this Psi Judge. City-wide disasters face her at every turn, including everything from a hideous new disease manufactured by the Sisters of Death and Block-sized city-stomping robots!



FANTASTIC - I've been waiting for this one. This volume brings the series up to the stuff I've not got from the Meg. Can't wait!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ming on 03 March, 2016, 01:38:35 PM
Sooner or Later is nearing release, which is fantastic, but is there a reason why Tony Wright (Riot) doesn't get a credit on the cover?  He's in the credit boxes on most episodes and contributed a lot to this.  Just curious...

(http://i.imgur.com/IWklN4v.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/0CsG28w.png)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 March, 2016, 09:29:28 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 22 February, 2016, 10:36:03 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Bad Company: First Casualties (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084424) -  Paperback, 16th June 2016, 96 pages.

It's been a decade since the vicious war with the Krool on the planet Ararat. Ex-members of the legendary guerrilla unit known as Bad Company are preparing for a ten-year anniversary memorial service.

But now their near-mythic leader, Kano, has resurfaced and Danny Franks, Thrax, Mad Tommy and Fly-Trap, have stopped taken their meds and travelled back to Ararat for answers...


Cover.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Casual_zps1dtovx0p.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 05 March, 2016, 09:31:07 AM
Heeerm. I presumed The Complete Bad Companies seeming OOP status meant they where going to reprint it with Furst Casualties in it....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 March, 2016, 09:31:40 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 03 March, 2016, 11:45:02 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Anderson-Psi-Files-5/dp/1781084467) - Paperback, 11th August 2016, 320 pages.

Psi-Division's toughest Judge, Cassandra Anderson, returns to the streets of Mega-City One, having awoken from the coma she fell into following her exposure to the Half-Live virus.

But there is no respite for this Psi Judge. City-wide disasters face her at every turn, including everything from a hideous new disease manufactured by the Sisters of Death and Block-sized city-stomping robots!


Here's the cover for Psi 5 (No, not that one. (http://gb64.com/game.php?id=5988))

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Psi-5_zpsqugdwpj9.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 March, 2016, 09:33:32 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 December, 2015, 07:52:35 AM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Judge Dredd Casefiles 27 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781084327)  – 19th May 2016, 320 pages, paperback.
The madness of Mega-City One comes to light once more, as Judge Dredd fends off a mob of sex-crazed robots, battles corruption in the Mega-City fast food championship and takes a tough stance against the latest Mega-City fashion trend – the peek-a-boo pants!

Cover.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CF27_zpsu3raadda.jpg)

And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 05 March, 2016, 10:13:39 AM
Ah lads. Is that Craddock colour messing up some sweet Alex Ronald lawmaster action on the cover? 

That said, this is the first insta-buy Casefiles for me for a while, collecting stuff from just before I started reading again, a period when endless attempts at sticking boobs on the cover kept me away.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 05 March, 2016, 11:02:02 AM
Quote from: Tordelback on 05 March, 2016, 10:13:39 AM
Ah lads. Is that Craddock colour messing up some sweet Alex Ronald lawmaster action on the cover?

"How are you tackling this one, Alan?"

"Eagle? Shiny.

"Laser? Shiny.

"Bodywork? Shiny.

"Tyres? Shiny."

"Tyres, Alan? Shiny? Really?"

"Yes. Tyres, shiny. Faces shiny. Fabric shiny. Shiny! SHINY! CONCRETE SHINY! EVERY FUCKING THING SHINY!"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 05 March, 2016, 03:57:55 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 05 March, 2016, 10:13:39 AM
Ah lads. Is that Craddock colour messing up some sweet Alex Ronald lawmaster action on the cover? 

That said, this is the first insta-buy Casefiles for me for a while, collecting stuff from just before I started reading again, a period when endless attempts at sticking boobs on the cover kept me away.

It's also something we've been waiting 27 volumes for without even knowing it - 320 pages of Wagner Dredd. And nobody else...!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: DarkDaysBish-OP on 05 March, 2016, 05:32:07 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 05 March, 2016, 11:02:02 AM
Quote from: Tordelback on 05 March, 2016, 10:13:39 AM
Ah lads. Is that Craddock colour messing up some sweet Alex Ronald lawmaster action on the cover?

"How are you tackling this one, Alan?"

"Eagle? Shiny.

"Laser? Shiny.

"Bodywork? Shiny.

"Tyres? Shiny."

"Tyres, Alan? Shiny? Really?"

"Yes. Tyres, shiny. Faces shiny. Fabric shiny. Shiny! SHINY! CONCRETE SHINY! EVERY FUCKING THING SHINY!"

Perhaps he was a big Haysi Fantayzee fan?
https://youtu.be/ZLqC3zs4r3Y?t=40s
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Rio De Fideldo on 06 March, 2016, 01:36:41 AM
Based on the Meg numbers looks like Dredd v Predator will be in case files 27.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 06 March, 2016, 09:42:49 AM
Flicking through Barney, I reckon I've read about 10 pages of Casefiles 27. Salivating already.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 06 March, 2016, 10:35:58 AM
Quote from: Richard T Field on 06 March, 2016, 01:36:41 AM
Based on the Meg numbers looks like Dredd v Predator will be in case files 27.


Judging by the lack of the artist Enrique Alcatena on the cover index, it doesn't look like it.



Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 06 March, 2016, 11:38:44 AM
Molch-R has said elsewhere on this forum that 'Predator Vs Judge Dredd' will definitely feature in Case Files 27.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Big_Dave on 06 March, 2016, 11:47:57 AM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 06 March, 2016, 11:38:44 AM
Molch-R has said elsewhere on this forum that 'Predator Vs Judge Dredd' will definitely feature in Case Files 27.

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=42482.msg908626#msg908626
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 06 March, 2016, 01:11:59 PM
Quote from: Big_Dave on 06 March, 2016, 11:47:57 AM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 06 March, 2016, 11:38:44 AM
Molch-R has said elsewhere on this forum that 'Predator Vs Judge Dredd' will definitely feature in Case Files 27.

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=42482.msg908626#msg908626

Strange that the artist's name has been omitted, still good news none the less I enjoyed the story when it ran in The Meg, it was a good old fashioned romp!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:05:14 PM
Now listed for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Fink Angel: Legacy (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fink-Angel-Legacy-John-Wagner/dp/1781084971) - Paperback, 160 pages, 11th October 2016.

From the world of Judge Dredd, comes the story of Fink Angel, the most rotten son in the Angel Gang!

A new story set in the Cursed Earth, following the Summer 2016 release of the long-awaited Judge Dredd: The Complete Cursed Earth, bringing readers bang up to date!

THE EVIL IS PASSED ON FROM FATHER TO SON!
The Angel gang are the meanest, most deranged villains ever to come out of the Cursed Earth. An all-male family of psychopathic cannibal hillbillies, the gang comprised of Pa, the patriarchal leader, and his sons Link, Junior and Mean. Mega-City One's greatest lawman Judge Dredd thought that he had seen the last of the Angels after his epic quest to find the Judge Child. And then he encountered the Fink, eldest sibling of the clan, whose speciality and passion in life involved him creating deadly poisonous concoctions to use on his poor victims.

The latest member of the Angel gang is Ratfink, a Cursed Earth-dwelling fiend who preys on passing helltrekkers. Just like his father Fink Angel, Ratfink has a love of poisons, rodents and mayhem.

Features art from the incredible talents of Mick McMahon, Carlos Ezquerra, Peter Doherty, & Tiernen Trevallion



The 2000 Ad Script Book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-Ad-Script-Book/dp/1781084688) -  Paperback, 192 pages, 9th November 2016.
By Pat Mills, John Wagner, Peter Milligan, Al Ewing, Rob Williams, Dan Abnett, Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie, Ian Edginton, Alan Grant, Leah Moore, John Reppion, John Smith, Simon Spurrier, & Kek-W.

Original scripts and the accompanying final art from the leading comics writers from the annals of the world famous 2000 AD comic.

FROM THE MINDS OF THE MEGA-MASTERS
For the first time Rebellion presents an astonishing and insightful collection of "2000 AD" scripts, written by some of the most successful and critically lauded talent behind the Galaxy's Greatest Comic . Featuring original script drafts and the final published artwork for comparison, this is a must-have for fans of "2000 AD" and is an essential purchase for anyone interested in writing comics.



The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Scarlet-Traces-Vol/dp/1781085021) - Hardcover, 176 pages,17th January 2017.

The celebrated comic book sequels to H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" in a brand new omnibus edition.

The ground-breaking series from Ian Edginton and D'Israeli is collected in this the first of two volumes. Starting with their visionary adaptation of the original novel, the collection also includes the first of three sequel stories set a decade after the Martian invasion. Great Britain has cannibalised Martian technology and now Hansom cabs scuttle along on multi-limbed crab legs, and the Martian heat-ray has become the weapon with which the British Empire dominates the world. When the bodies of several young women are found washed up on the banks of the Thames Captain Robert Autumn, retired solider and adventurer, and his former Sergeant-Major Archie Currie are drawn into a mystery that leads them from gin palaces to the corridors of power and the very Hall of the Martian King.


And now back to Bob in the studio.

[P.S. Molch-R, I don't know where Amazon got their blurbs from but they must've been typed up by the work experience kid: "rotton", "poisions", "canibalised", "the the", "Mega-Cities greatest lawman" and more!  NOT TO MENTION HE SEEMS VERY EXCITED IN PLACES!]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 14 March, 2016, 12:12:46 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:05:14 PM
[P.S. Molch-R, I don't know where Amazon got their blurbs from but they must've been typed up by the work experience kid: "rotton", "poisions", "canibalised", "the the", "Mega-Cities greatest lawman" and more!  NOT TO MENTION HE SEEMS VERY EXCITED IN PLACES!]
Everyone knows it's spelt Pizzen
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:27:23 PM
As long as it doesn't mean PJ Maybe is working for 2000AD Publicity, or I could be in big trouble!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 14 March, 2016, 02:15:53 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 14 March, 2016, 12:12:46 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:05:14 PM
[P.S. Molch-R, I don't know where Amazon got their blurbs from but they must've been typed up by the work experience kid: "rotton", "poisions", "canibalised", "the the", "Mega-Cities greatest lawman" and more!  NOT TO MENTION HE SEEMS VERY EXCITED IN PLACES!]
Everyone knows it's spelt Pizzen
:lol:
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 14 March, 2016, 02:18:56 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:05:14 PM
[P.S. Molch-R, I don't know where Amazon got their blurbs from but they must've been typed up by the work experience kid: "rotton", "poisions", "canibalised", "the the", "Mega-Cities greatest lawman" and more!  NOT TO MENTION HE SEEMS VERY EXCITED IN PLACES!]

Hmmm, thanks for this - I've had a word with the droid responsible for Amazon listings.

Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:27:23 PM
As long as it doesn't mean PJ Maybe is working for 2000AD Publicity, or I could be in big trouble!

I'm already destroying 2000 AD from within, a lifetime of mass murder isn't that much of a step...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 14 March, 2016, 05:01:12 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 14 March, 2016, 02:18:56 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:05:14 PM
[P.S. Molch-R, I don't know where Amazon got their blurbs from but they must've been typed up by the work experience kid: "rotton", "poisions", "canibalised", "the the", "Mega-Cities greatest lawman" and more!  NOT TO MENTION HE SEEMS VERY EXCITED IN PLACES!]

Hmmm, thanks for this - I've had a word with the droid responsible for Amazon listings.
Well, Mek-Quake needs the work...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 15 March, 2016, 01:27:43 PM
Now up for order elsewhere, this! (http://www.comicsy.co.uk/hibernia/store/products/the-eagle-adventure-special/)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 March, 2016, 03:42:11 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:05:14 PM
Now listed for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Fink Angel: Legacy (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fink-Angel-Legacy-John-Wagner/dp/1781084971) - Paperback, 160 pages, 11th October 2016.

From the world of Judge Dredd, comes the story of Fink Angel, the most rotten son in the Angel Gang!

A new story set in the Cursed Earth, following the Summer 2016 release of the long-awaited Judge Dredd: The Complete Cursed Earth, bringing readers bang up to date!

THE EVIL IS PASSED ON FROM FATHER TO SON!
The Angel gang are the meanest, most deranged villains ever to come out of the Cursed Earth. An all-male family of psychopathic cannibal hillbillies, the gang comprised of Pa, the patriarchal leader, and his sons Link, Junior and Mean. Mega-City One's greatest lawman Judge Dredd thought that he had seen the last of the Angels after his epic quest to find the Judge Child. And then he encountered the Fink, eldest sibling of the clan, whose speciality and passion in life involved him creating deadly poisonous concoctions to use on his poor victims.

The latest member of the Angel gang is Ratfink, a Cursed Earth-dwelling fiend who preys on passing helltrekkers. Just like his father Fink Angel, Ratfink has a love of poisons, rodents and mayhem.

Features art from the incredible talents of Mick McMahon, Carlos Ezquerra, Peter Doherty, & Tiernen Trevallion



The 2000 AD Script Book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-Ad-Script-Book/dp/1781084688) -  Paperback, 192 pages, 9th November 2016.
By Pat Mills, John Wagner, Peter Milligan, Al Ewing, Rob Williams, Dan Abnett, Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie, Ian Edginton, Alan Grant, Leah Moore, John Reppion, John Smith, Simon Spurrier, & Kek-W.

Original scripts and the accompanying final art from the leading comics writers from the annals of the world famous 2000 AD comic.

FROM THE MINDS OF THE MEGA-MASTERS
For the first time Rebellion presents an astonishing and insightful collection of "2000 AD" scripts, written by some of the most successful and critically lauded talent behind the Galaxy's Greatest Comic . Featuring original script drafts and the final published artwork for comparison, this is a must-have for fans of "2000 AD" and is an essential purchase for anyone interested in writing comics.



The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Scarlet-Traces-Vol/dp/1781085021) - Hardcover, 176 pages,17th January 2017.

The celebrated comic book sequels to H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" in a brand new omnibus edition.

The ground-breaking series from Ian Edginton and D'Israeli is collected in this the first of two volumes. Starting with their visionary adaptation of the original novel, the collection also includes the first of three sequel stories set a decade after the Martian invasion. Great Britain has cannibalised Martian technology and now Hansom cabs scuttle along on multi-limbed crab legs, and the Martian heat-ray has become the weapon with which the British Empire dominates the world. When the bodies of several young women are found washed up on the banks of the Thames Captain Robert Autumn, retired solider and adventurer, and his former Sergeant-Major Archie Currie are drawn into a mystery that leads them from gin palaces to the corridors of power and the very Hall of the Martian King.


And now back to Bob in the studio.

[P.S. Molch-R, I don't know where Amazon got their blurbs from but they must've been typed up by the work experience kid: "rotton", "poisions", "canibalised", "the the", "Mega-Cities greatest lawman" and more!  NOT TO MENTION HE SEEMS VERY EXCITED IN PLACES!]

Cover for the script book.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Scripts_zps4iravqd4.jpg)

[P.S. Molch-R, FYI the Amazon listings still have all those errors, including references to '2000 Ad', full stops hanging out with spaces before them, etc.]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 21 March, 2016, 01:29:38 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 March, 2016, 03:42:11 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:05:14 PM
The 2000 AD Script Book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-Ad-Script-Book/dp/1781084688) -  Paperback, 192 pages, 9th November 2016.
By Pat Mills, John Wagner, Peter Milligan, Al Ewing, Rob Williams, Dan Abnett, Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie, Ian Edginton, Alan Grant, Leah Moore, John Reppion, John Smith, Simon Spurrier, & Kek-W.

Original scripts and the accompanying final art from the leading comics writers from the annals of the world famous 2000 AD comic.

FROM THE MINDS OF THE MEGA-MASTERS
For the first time Rebellion presents an astonishing and insightful collection of "2000 AD" scripts, written by some of the most successful and critically lauded talent behind the Galaxy's Greatest Comic . Featuring original script drafts and the final published artwork for comparison, this is a must-have for fans of "2000 AD" and is an essential purchase for anyone interested in writing comics.



Cover for the script book.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Scripts_zps4iravqd4.jpg)
Now I like the look of that!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 March, 2016, 05:51:15 PM
Yes, thats an essential purchase!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 25 March, 2016, 12:42:16 PM
Steve MacManus's mighty tome is now up for pre-order at Amazon UK: The Mighty One (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mighty-One-Steve-MacManus/dp/1781084750) - Paperback, 8th September 2016.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 27 March, 2016, 09:19:58 AM
Hi everybody
Perhaps it is discussed elsewhere, but I can't seem to see where the new Flesh and Harlem Heroes "next Month" reprints (as advertised in the 16th March 2000 AD thrill mail) are available for preorder.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 29 March, 2016, 11:43:53 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:05:14 PM
Now listed for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Fink Angel: Legacy (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fink-Angel-Legacy-John-Wagner/dp/1781084971) - Paperback, 160 pages, 11th October 2016.

From the world of Judge Dredd, comes the story of Fink Angel, the most rotten son in the Angel Gang!

A new story set in the Cursed Earth, following the Summer 2016 release of the long-awaited Judge Dredd: The Complete Cursed Earth, bringing readers bang up to date!

THE EVIL IS PASSED ON FROM FATHER TO SON!
The Angel gang are the meanest, most deranged villains ever to come out of the Cursed Earth. An all-male family of psychopathic cannibal hillbillies, the gang comprised of Pa, the patriarchal leader, and his sons Link, Junior and Mean. Mega-City One's greatest lawman Judge Dredd thought that he had seen the last of the Angels after his epic quest to find the Judge Child. And then he encountered the Fink, eldest sibling of the clan, whose speciality and passion in life involved him creating deadly poisonous concoctions to use on his poor victims.

The latest member of the Angel gang is Ratfink, a Cursed Earth-dwelling fiend who preys on passing helltrekkers. Just like his father Fink Angel, Ratfink has a love of poisons, rodents and mayhem.

Features art from the incredible talents of Mick McMahon, Carlos Ezquerra, Peter Doherty, & Tiernen Trevallion


And now back to Bob in the studio.

Cover.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Fink_zpshxvv4vtt.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 29 March, 2016, 11:49:23 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 March, 2016, 03:42:11 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:05:14 PM
Now listed for pre-order at Amazon UK:

The 2000 AD Script Book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-Ad-Script-Book/dp/1781084688) -  Paperback, 192 pages, 9th November 2016.
By Pat Mills, John Wagner, Peter Milligan, Al Ewing, Rob Williams, Dan Abnett, Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie, Ian Edginton, Alan Grant, Leah Moore, John Reppion, John Smith, Simon Spurrier, & Kek-W.

Original scripts and the accompanying final art from the leading comics writers from the annals of the world famous 2000 AD comic.

FROM THE MINDS OF THE MEGA-MASTERS
For the first time Rebellion presents an astonishing and insightful collection of "2000 AD" scripts, written by some of the most successful and critically lauded talent behind the Galaxy's Greatest Comic . Featuring original script drafts and the final published artwork for comparison, this is a must-have for fans of "2000 AD" and is an essential purchase for anyone interested in writing comics.

And now back to Bob in the studio.

Cover for the script book.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Scripts_zps4iravqd4.jpg)

New cover - with the short-lived rectangular logo retconned out of existence (and wasn't there another hovering display, perhaps even referring to a Mr Feet Smells of this parish?).

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Scripts2_zpsoprppony.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 29 March, 2016, 11:55:55 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 29 March, 2016, 11:49:23 AM
New cover

FYI I'm led to believe that this is a temporary placeholder cover.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 29 March, 2016, 11:59:42 AM
I like it, except for the absence of the "red badge" 2000AD logo at the top.

I also like seeing draft covers, so will look forward to seeing what we get next.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: jannerboyuk on 29 March, 2016, 12:30:21 PM
Quote from: Molch-R on 29 March, 2016, 11:55:55 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 29 March, 2016, 11:49:23 AM
New cover

FYI I'm led to believe that this is a temporary placeholder cover.
a bloody good one!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Citi-Def_Joe on 29 March, 2016, 04:00:05 PM
Quote from: vark on 27 March, 2016, 09:19:58 AM
Hi everybody
Perhaps it is discussed elsewhere, but I can't seem to see where the new Flesh and Harlem Heroes "next Month" reprints (as advertised in the 16th March 2000 AD thrill mail) are available for preorder.

I was also wondering the same, don't think it's been mentioned elsewhere
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 March, 2016, 04:06:19 PM
Like most reprints of OOP TPB's they'll not be listed for pre-order and will only turn up online on day of release.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Citi-Def_Joe on 29 March, 2016, 08:50:33 PM
Thanks Hawkmumbler I wasnt aware of that
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 29 March, 2016, 10:51:33 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 29 March, 2016, 04:06:19 PM
Like most reprints of OOP TPB's they'll not be listed for pre-order and will only turn up online on day of release.
It was not the case for the one I have bought, i.e. reprints of the Complete Nemesis book 3 (haven't bought the January reprint of book one but it was available for preorder), or reprints of Slaine Time Killer and Sláine the king, or warrior dawn etc.. (even the first reprint of Flesh). They were all available for preorder at amazon (for example) way before the release date.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 29 March, 2016, 10:54:48 PM
and the odd thing is amazon still lists the 2010 reprint of Harlem Heroes, and the 2011 reprint of Flesh, both only available as marketplace "new & used", but with the new covers advertised by 2000 AD 2 weeks ago  :o :-*
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 March, 2016, 12:58:57 AM
Amazon confuse everything!  They put reviews for movies against the book of the same name, or reviews for old VHS releases against recent DVD releases of the same movie, etc.  It can be very frustrating and skews the star ratings & reviews.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 April, 2016, 01:56:22 PM
I wasn't sure about the politics of posting this one given it's meant to be a CBR exclusive.  It's since been posted on the Cursed Earth Uncensored thread without being taken down so here's a larger version.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Cussed_zpsquvgoxwp.jpg)

N.B. Seven settings on the Lawgiver?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ZenArcade on 03 April, 2016, 02:03:54 PM
The seventh setting's for forumites who post covers behind Molch-r's back! Z  ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 03 April, 2016, 02:48:24 PM
The internet doesn't do secrets/surprises....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 April, 2016, 04:05:59 AM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 03 April, 2016, 02:03:54 PM
The seventh setting's for forumites who post covers behind Molch-r's back! Z  ;)

Gulp!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 04 April, 2016, 10:18:50 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 04 April, 2016, 04:05:59 AM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 03 April, 2016, 02:03:54 PM
The seventh setting's for forumites who post covers behind Molch-r's back! Z  ;)

Gulp!

Fear not, 'exclusive' only means it's announced first through a specific site, not that no-one can ever, ever, ever distribute that image ever. It's a common PR thing to elicit converage from a specific news provider - feel free to spread the word!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: BLAZINOAH on 04 April, 2016, 05:00:56 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 03 April, 2016, 01:56:22 PM
I wasn't sure about the politics of posting this one given it's meant to be a CBR exclusive.  It's since been posted on the Cursed Earth Uncensored thread without being taken down so here's a larger version.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Cussed_zpsquvgoxwp.jpg)

N.B. Seven settings on the Lawgiver?

Badass Artwork!  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 05 April, 2016, 08:42:00 PM
Oh, I like the references to each of the 'banned' episodes!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bojay1997 on 07 April, 2016, 04:50:02 AM
Any word on a bookplate or signed edition of Cursed Earth Uncensored? 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 07 April, 2016, 06:45:25 AM
Quote from: Bojay1997 on 07 April, 2016, 04:50:02 AM
Any word on a bookplate or signed edition of Cursed Earth Uncensored?

Molch-R mentioned somewhere that any special edition, or such like, would be announced about a month or so before release... at least I think he did, my memory is rotten...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Michael Evans on 08 April, 2016, 12:00:01 PM
Is there a current list of what is forthcoming somewhere?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 08 April, 2016, 12:55:05 PM
Quote from: Michael Evans on 08 April, 2016, 12:00:01 PM
Is there a current list of what is forthcoming somewhere?
Yes - if your screen is anything like mine, click on any of the links at the top of the page except for community (because that's the link to this forum) - then go to the bottom of page, click on publishing catalogue and you'll download the pdf.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Michael Evans on 08 April, 2016, 01:57:50 PM
Brilliant! Thank you!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 08 April, 2016, 02:05:20 PM
Sheridan - I can't find the link for the publishing catalogue. Could you be a bit more specific? Or, maybe some kind person would like to list here what's coming out this year...?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 08 April, 2016, 02:20:51 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 08 April, 2016, 02:05:20 PM
Sheridan - I can't find the link for the publishing catalogue. Could you be a bit more specific? Or, maybe some kind person would like to list here what's coming out this year...?
The link is in the black bottom border of the home page but it's for the 2015 catalogue and it doesn't work anyway!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 April, 2016, 04:06:00 AM
This is worth noting in the Forthcoming Thrills thread.

Discussion thread already going here: Click! (https://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=43219.msg913117)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/IDW%20PvDvA_zpsduexwjdt.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 10 April, 2016, 04:46:34 AM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 08 April, 2016, 02:05:20 PM
Or, maybe some kind person would like to list here what's coming out this year...?

Decent by name, Decent by nature!

If only some kind person was alerting us to these when they became available for pre-order, and sometimes even providing pictures!  ;) :D

14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: Casefiles 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      (Don't bother; the map says 'Here Be Thrill-suckers')
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: Casefiles 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters      
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)      
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier      
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book      
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1

TBA - Misty collection
TBA - IDW Predator vs Judge Dredd vs Aliens
TBA - That third VCs book announced on the back cover of the second collections
TBA - The Dash Decent Case Files (one frame per page)
TBA - Renni-aissance Man (Gordon Rennie)
TBA - Equerrestrian (The Carlos book of Horse Drawings)   
TBA - Rogue Trooper goes Quantity Surveying
TBA - Pete Wells, Feet Smells (J Burdis)
TBA - Never Bind the Molch-Rs (Matt Smith's book on the failure of tying up PR staff as a means of mangerial control)
TBA - Tilting at Patmills (not even going there)
TBA - Bishop's Gambit (David Gambit*)
TBA - Fags, Blags, Jags, Slags and Wags - the Guv'nor of 2000AD tells his story (John Wagner)
TBA - Why I Was Booted off the Forum (Dash Decent)




* ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: jannerboyuk on 10 April, 2016, 08:17:47 AM
I need a pay rise!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: ThryllSeekyr on 10 April, 2016, 11:57:51 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 10 April, 2016, 04:46:34 AM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 08 April, 2016, 02:05:20 PM
Or, maybe some kind person would like to list here what's coming out this year...?

Decent by name, Decent by nature!

If only some kind person was alerting us to these when they became available for pre-order, and sometimes even providing pictures!  ;) :D

14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      


I could do that for you, now that I know how to use Facebook to operate my camera. Just let me know how much of that is okay to show with out causing infringements.

????
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 10 April, 2016, 07:17:26 PM
Dan Dare volume 2 maybe scheduled for December 2016??
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bojay1997 on 14 April, 2016, 11:29:49 PM
Gosh! Comics is doing an exclusive bookplate version of the new Bad Company First Casualties volume.  It's available to preorder now or you can get one at the signing in early June it looks like.   
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 25 April, 2016, 11:29:22 AM
Quote from: Molch-R on 04 April, 2016, 10:18:50 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 04 April, 2016, 04:05:59 AM
Quote from: ZenArcade on 03 April, 2016, 02:03:54 PM
The seventh setting's for forumites who post covers behind Molch-r's back! Z  ;)

Gulp!

Fear not, 'exclusive' only means it's announced first through a specific site, not that no-one can ever, ever, ever distribute that image ever. It's a common PR thing to elicit converage from a specific news provider - feel free to spread the word!
is there some news about the Flesh and Harlem Heroes reprints advertised in the thrill mail last Month for an April release?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Southstreeter on 28 April, 2016, 08:54:03 PM
Have the Nikolai Dante collections died a death then? The latest reprint (2014?) only got as far as Love and War (vol 3). This is a massive pain, as I'm missing Tsar Wars, which seems to be unavailable in the older edition, unlike the later volumes, that are still around. Pondering whether to wait in vain, get the digital (which I dislike) or dig out the progs to cover this gap in my reread.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 April, 2016, 05:04:19 AM
Scarlet Traces: Cold War & the next book of Flesh with Clint Langley on art chores in the prog as of July according the listing in the latest US edition of Previews. Am unsure at this stage if Langley will actually be drawing this with pencil & ink or merely importing photographs of real dinosaurs into Photoshop.

Has anybody mentioned the John Wagner & Brendan McCarthy Dredd strip in 2016 Summer Special yet?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 29 April, 2016, 12:47:01 PM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 April, 2016, 05:04:19 AM
Scarlet Traces: Cold War & the next book of Flesh with Clint Langley on art chores in the prog as of July according the listing in the latest US edition of Previews. Am unsure at this stage if Langley will actually be drawing this with pencil & ink or merely importing photographs of real dinosaurs into Photoshop.
Photographs of real dinosaurs?  What, their skeletons, in museums? :-P
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 01 May, 2016, 07:35:15 PM
Looking at Titan on the 2000AD website it doesn't list 'Fit' or 'Melt' in the contents. Surely any collection of this storyline needs to contain all the related stories particularly since Henry Flint drew all of them. Does anyone have a definitive list of the contents?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 02 May, 2016, 02:20:41 AM
I suspect that's accurate. As unfortunate as that is. Those two are essential to the arc.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 02 May, 2016, 02:42:42 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 April, 2016, 05:04:19 AM

Has anybody mentioned the John Wagner & Brendan McCarthy Dredd strip in 2016 Summer Special yet?

Or the fact that the Ace Trucking Co strip in the self same special marks the return to the fold of none other than Nigel Dobbyn?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 02 May, 2016, 06:39:14 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 02 May, 2016, 02:42:42 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 April, 2016, 05:04:19 AM

Has anybody mentioned the John Wagner & Brendan McCarthy Dredd strip in 2016 Summer Special yet?

Or the fact that the Ace Trucking Co strip in the self same special marks the return to the fold of none other than Nigel Dobbyn?

Does it really. I'd not picked up on that. Now that is a perfect news and get to have my call

GET THE DROID BACK IN THE PROG

Which I've made for Nigel heeded for once*

*As of course Tharg is listening to me and it has nothing to do with the fact that any comics editor could see Mr Dobbyn's emmense talent and that he's a fantastic fit for the strip.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 02 May, 2016, 01:13:48 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daily-Dredds-Vol-2/dp/1781084599) - Hardcover, 6th October 2016, 96 pages.

This second volume of the Daily Star Dredds features the weekly strips published in the popular national tabloid that ran between July 1986 to the end of 1988, featuring action-packed stories from John Wagner and Alan Grant and sumptuous  art from Ian Gibson, Mike Collins and the legendary Ron Smith.

96 pages seems a bit slim after the 320 pages in the first volume.  Are these in colour?

And here's the double-whammy:

Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dan-Dare-2000-Years-Vol/dp/1781084602) - Hardcover, 3rd November 2016, 320 pages.

Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future ids a British icon. He was created by Frank Hampson in 1950, and first appeared in the Eagle comic where he was an instant hit with the British public. Almost a decade after the original series had ended, Dan Dare was resurrected in the pages of a brand new sci-fi comic for boys – 2000 AD! In this volume: Dan Dare and the crew of the Eagle One continue their journey through deep, uncharted space, where they encounter a host of evil alien tyrants, including dare's arch-nemesis the Mekon! This volume of Dan Dare concludes the iconic British hero's adventures within the pages of 2000 AD.

And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 03 May, 2016, 04:48:18 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 02 May, 2016, 06:39:14 AM
*As of course Tharg is listening to me and it has nothing to do with the fact that any comics editor could see Mr Dobbyn's emmense talent and that he's a fantastic fit for the strip.

If we learnt anything from Red Razors it is that Nigel Dobbyn can draw a cracking old skool Dredd.

So if Mister Tharg in his emerald eminence has, say, any Young Anderson scripts spare with no artist currently attached  (hinthintittyhint)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 May, 2016, 12:58:38 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 02 May, 2016, 01:13:48 PM
Now up for pre-order at Amazon UK:

The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daily-Dredds-Vol-2/dp/1781084599) - Hardcover, 6th October 2016, 96 pages.

This second volume of the Daily Star Dredds features the weekly strips published in the popular national tabloid that ran between July 1986 to the end of 1988, featuring action-packed stories from John Wagner and Alan Grant and sumptuous  art from Ian Gibson, Mike Collins and the legendary Ron Smith.

96 pages seems a bit slim after the 320 pages in the first volume.  Are these in colour?

And now back to Bob in the studio.

Cover now up:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Daily%20Ds%202_850_zpshmpaep0j.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 03 May, 2016, 01:00:40 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 25 March, 2016, 12:42:16 PM
Steve MacManus's mighty tome is now up for pre-order at Amazon UK: The Mighty One (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mighty-One-Steve-MacManus/dp/1781084750) - Paperback, 8th September 2016.

Nice large view of the cover:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/TMO_850_zpszjdqhhxo.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 03 May, 2016, 07:23:31 PM
That Daily Dredds vol. 2 cover is a place holder? The images of Dredd and Anderson are from a couple of lovely Star Scans I remember very fondly.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 03 May, 2016, 07:35:22 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 03 May, 2016, 07:23:31 PM
That Daily Dredds vol. 2 cover is a place holder? The images of Dredd and Anderson are from a couple of lovely Star Scans I remember very fondly.

Pretty much the final cover with a few minor tweaks.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 04 May, 2016, 12:26:10 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 03 May, 2016, 07:35:22 PM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 03 May, 2016, 07:23:31 PM
That Daily Dredds vol. 2 cover is a place holder? The images of Dredd and Anderson are from a couple of lovely Star Scans I remember very fondly.

Pretty much the final cover with a few minor tweaks.


Oooo. Suddenly Stevie isn't disappointed that it is not another Ron Smith.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 04 May, 2016, 12:21:24 PM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 02 May, 2016, 02:42:42 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 April, 2016, 05:04:19 AM

Has anybody mentioned the John Wagner & Brendan McCarthy Dredd strip in 2016 Summer Special yet?

Or the fact that the Ace Trucking Co strip in the self same special marks the return to the fold of none other than Nigel Dobbyn?

Excellent news.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 04 May, 2016, 04:21:11 PM
That Mighty One cover is just amazing.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Leigh S on 04 May, 2016, 08:07:33 PM
By my reckoning, you would have a Vol 2 of about 351 pages if yopu printed the 10 stories below:

Weirdies () featuring Citizen Snork!
The Mean MAchine (IG) featuring...
Bride of Death (IG) featuring...
Vigilante (IG)
A Guide to Mega City Law (IG)
Crime of Passion (BK)
Fat City (IG & SD)
Cursed Earth (IG) featuring Henry Ford!
Undercity (IG) featuring Anderson
The Menagerie (MC)

That wouldnt quite get you up to 1989 though - you would need another story (The Monster Maker, also Mike Collins) and another 34 pages... I suspect it should really read 1986 to 1988 on the cover, given teh blurb says up to the end of 1988 (if you count end of October as near the end as dammit)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Leigh S on 04 May, 2016, 08:23:52 PM
Vol 3 would then run to near the end of the Wagner Grant run - you could bumper it up to make a neater end of things, though you would be looking at a 400 page book then, so probably run up to Sheriff of Festering Hole, leaving 3 more Wagner/Grant/Collins tales to go in Vol 4 with the Millar and McKenzie ones
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 04 May, 2016, 09:51:34 PM
Out of interest does the fact that Uncensored is up for pre-order mean that we're not likely to get a special edition type thing? I can't remember do the limited editions normally get advertised around the time the regular edition goes on pre-order?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bojay1997 on 05 May, 2016, 06:32:04 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 04 May, 2016, 09:51:34 PM
Out of interest does the fact that Uncensored is up for pre-order mean that we're not likely to get a special edition type thing? I can't remember do the limited editions normally get advertised around the time the regular edition goes on pre-order?

I'm curious about this as well.  I know Gosh is offering to sell signed copies if you e-mail them so maybe there is no bookplate or 2000AD store exclusive this time?  Seems odd given how huge this book is in the history of 2000AD. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 May, 2016, 06:55:40 AM
Quote from: Grant Goggans on 04 May, 2016, 04:21:11 PM
That Mighty One cover is just amazing.

There's something slightly unreal about it.  It gives me the same kind of vibe I get from Mike Carroll's all-rendered-in-CGI Advent calendar entries.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 May, 2016, 01:19:24 PM
14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: Casefiles 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      (Don't bother; the map says 'Here Be Thrill-suckers')
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: Casefiles 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special      
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)      
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book      
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1

TBA - Misty collection
TBA - IDW Predator vs Judge Dredd vs Aliens
TBA - That third VCs book announced on the inside back cover of the second collection
TBA - The Dash Decent Case Files (one frame per page)
TBA - Renni-aissance Man (Gordon Rennie)
TBA - Equerrestrian (The Carlos book of Horse Drawings)   
TBA - Rogue Trooper goes Quantity Surveying
TBA - Pete Wells, Feet Smells (J Burdis)
TBA - Never Bind the Molch-Rs (Matt Smith's book on the failure of tying up PR staff as a means of mangerial control)
TBA - Tilting at Patmills (not even going there)
TBA - Bishop's Gambit (David Gambit)
TBA - Fags, Blags, Jags, Slags and Wags - the Guv'nor of 2000AD tells his story (John Wagner)
TBA - Why I Was Booted off the Forum (Dash Decent)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 May, 2016, 07:57:55 PM
Nice work on the summary update Dash Decent - thanks for that.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 06 May, 2016, 08:28:17 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 05 May, 2016, 01:19:24 PM
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier

What is this? What stories will be included in this?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 07 May, 2016, 11:45:10 AM
There's no real information on it at the moment other than the Amazon UK listing which says it will have 272 pages.  It's also now showing the release date pushed out by a year to 7th September 2017.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 10:12:49 AM
14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      (Don't bother; the map says 'Here Be Thrill-suckers')
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special   
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)      
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3 - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mega-City-Undercover-3-Rob-Williams/dp/1781084580)   
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28 - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781084335)
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1

TBA - Misty collection
TBA - IDW Predator vs Judge Dredd vs Aliens
TBA - That third VCs book announced on the inside back cover of the second collection
TBA - Rogue Trooper goes Quantity Surveying
TBA - Pete Wells, Feet Smells (J Burdis)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 May, 2016, 10:23:25 AM
Could it finally be the end for Philip Janet?
Quotea familiar murderous face reappears in a story so shocking we can't even reveal its name, courtesy of John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 May, 2016, 10:36:52 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 11 May, 2016, 10:23:25 AM
Could it finally be the end for Philip Janet?
Quotea familiar murderous face reappears in a story so shocking we can't even reveal its name, courtesy of John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra
Oh grief not The Angel Gang AGAIN??!!

;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 11 May, 2016, 10:46:25 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 11 May, 2016, 10:23:25 AM
Could it finally be the end for Philip Janet?
Quotea familiar murderous face reappears in a story so shocking we can't even reveal its name, courtesy of John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra
I doubt it as his face isn't familiar. It keeps changing :) Ratfink ?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 May, 2016, 10:54:31 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 11 May, 2016, 10:46:25 AM
Quote from: The Cosh on 11 May, 2016, 10:23:25 AM
Could it finally be the end for Philip Janet?
Quotea familiar murderous face reappears in a story so shocking we can't even reveal its name, courtesy of John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra
I doubt it as his face isn't familiar. It keeps changing :) Ratfink ?
High 5!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 11:51:55 AM
I think the clue is in the fact they've got Ezquerra drawing this one.  Who would you make sure King Carlos was assigned to draw?  Kazan?  If it wasn't an Ezquerra assignment I'd guess something like Rico or the Judge Child.

I haven't seen where the quote originally came from.  Does it say it's talking about a Dredd story?  The quote just mentions 'a story'.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 11:53:40 AM

Quotea familiar murderous face

What characters have we had that were just a head?

"Not another stinking hat for Christmas!  I'm going to bite you to death!"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 May, 2016, 12:09:33 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 11:51:55 AM
I think the clue is in the fact they've got Ezquerra drawing this one.  Who would you make sure King Carlos was assigned to draw?  Kazan?  If it wasn't an Ezquerra assignment I'd guess something like Rico or the Judge Child.

I haven't seen where the quote originally came from.  Does it say it's talking about a Dredd story?  The quote just mentions 'a story'.
Think it's just copied from Previews and yes, it's definitely Dredd.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 May, 2016, 12:58:31 PM
Just flicked through Casefiles 26. Oh. My. Dok!  All Wagner (I think), some modern art giants entering their mature phase, and I've barely read a dozen pages of it before!  Plus the pink volumes are always good.  Big invoice due to be paid tomorrow, I think it'll be straight down the shop for TB...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 11 May, 2016, 01:00:15 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 11 May, 2016, 12:58:31 PM
Just flicked through Casefiles 26. Oh. My. Dok!  All Wagner (I think), some modern art giants entering their mature phase, and I've barely read a dozen pages of it before!  Plus the pink volumes are always good.  Big invoice due to be paid tomorrow, I think it'll be straight down the shop for TB...

D'you mean 27? Yes, the very first all-Wagner volume!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 01:43:28 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 11 May, 2016, 12:09:33 PM
Think it's just copied from Previews and yes, it's definitely Dredd.

So he's not dead then?  Oh what a surprise!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 01:57:18 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 10:12:49 AM
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3 - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mega-City-Undercover-3-Rob-Williams/dp/1781084580)   

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/MCU3_zpslauvrcik.jpg)

Justice Department has many divisions within it – Tek, Psi-Div, PSU – and for undercover operations there is Wally Squad. So called because Judges have to adopt the bizarre fashions of the citizens to blend in, it's a dangerous job living on the streets – and for Judges like Dirty Frank, operating in the Big Meg's most rundown area, insanity is a way of life. Lenny Zero was a Wally Squad Judge, an undercover operative working the streets of the future metropolis. But when he ripped off the Mob, he quit Justice Department with no shortage of enemies out for his head!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 May, 2016, 02:10:52 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 11 May, 2016, 01:00:15 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 11 May, 2016, 12:58:31 PM
Just flicked through Casefiles 26. Oh. My. Dok!  All Wagner (I think), some modern art giants entering their mature phase, and I've barely read a dozen pages of it before!  Plus the pink volumes are always good.  Big invoice due to be paid tomorrow, I think it'll be straight down the shop for TB...

D'you mean 27? Yes, the very first all-Wagner volume!

I do indeed mean CF27.  Bit of TPO there, I'm afraid. It's a severely tasty book.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin Zeal on 11 May, 2016, 02:26:24 PM
Has anything been said about a further volume collecting the most recent Savage stories? Have there actually been enough to fill a volume since the last volume?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 11 May, 2016, 02:46:07 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 01:57:18 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 10:12:49 AM
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3 - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mega-City-Undercover-3-Rob-Williams/dp/1781084580)   

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/MCU3_zpslauvrcik.jpg)

Justice Department has many divisions within it – Tek, Psi-Div, PSU – and for undercover operations there is Wally Squad. So called because Judges have to adopt the bizarre fashions of the citizens to blend in, it's a dangerous job living on the streets – and for Judges like Dirty Frank, operating in the Big Meg's most rundown area, insanity is a way of life. Lenny Zero was a Wally Squad Judge, an undercover operative working the streets of the future metropolis. But when he ripped off the Mob, he quit Justice Department with no shortage of enemies out for his head!

Yoinks! I'll take that, it's a bloody good collection.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 11 May, 2016, 02:54:02 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 01:43:28 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 11 May, 2016, 12:09:33 PM
Think it's just copied from Previews and yes, it's definitely Dredd.
So he's not dead then?  Oh what a surprise!
Er... It's a Dredd strip. Doesn't mean he's in it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 11 May, 2016, 03:32:10 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 11:53:40 AM

Quotea familiar murderous face

What characters have we had that were just a head?

"Not another stinking hat for Christmas!  I'm going to bite you to death!"

The long overdue return of Sabbat the Necromagus clearly
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 11 May, 2016, 05:40:15 PM
Mmmmmmm, The Cursed Earth special edition is available to pre-order - but will it be sent out before the signing?


(http://i.imgur.com/RBwwAjd.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Michael Knight on 11 May, 2016, 07:34:21 PM
I am tempted to cancel my amazon pre-order and go for this version. Only thing stopping me is the horrendous wait last time I ordered book direct from shop.   
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: vark on 11 May, 2016, 08:00:15 PM
Quote from: Spikes on 11 May, 2016, 05:40:15 PM
Mmmmmmm, The Cursed Earth special edition is available to pre-order - but will it be sent out before the signing?


(http://i.imgur.com/RBwwAjd.jpg)

ordered! What is the most exciting beside the McMahon poster is the
QuoteSigned by Chris Lowder (aka Jack Adrian), and others (tbc).
Hope that Pat Mills will be one of the others.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 11 May, 2016, 08:06:22 PM
Ordered! Been holding back in the hope that Rebellion would be doing sonething. Looking forward to see who has signed it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PsychoGoatee on 12 May, 2016, 06:16:53 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 11 May, 2016, 01:00:15 PM
Quote from: Tordelback on 11 May, 2016, 12:58:31 PM
Just flicked through Casefiles 26. Oh. My. Dok!  All Wagner (I think), some modern art giants entering their mature phase, and I've barely read a dozen pages of it before!  Plus the pink volumes are always good.  Big invoice due to be paid tomorrow, I think it'll be straight down the shop for TB...

D'you mean 27? Yes, the very first all-Wagner volume!

Can't wait to pick that up! Love all those 90s Wagner stories.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: 13school on 12 May, 2016, 07:14:36 AM
Quote from: Colin Zeal on 11 May, 2016, 02:26:24 PM
Has anything been said about a further volume collecting the most recent Savage stories? Have there actually been enough to fill a volume since the last volume?

No, which is annoying as there's been three stories since the last collection (books one and two each collect three stories each) and the third story (9th overall) ended with a fairly definite wrap-up so the overall story -[spoiler] at least as far as Savage in a UK setting is concerned[/spoiler] - is over.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 13 May, 2016, 10:48:03 AM
14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      (Don't bother; the map says 'Here Be Thrill-suckers')
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special   
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)
08 Sep 2016 - Misty - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Misty-Pat-Mills/dp/1781084521) - 112 pages   
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1

TBA - IDW Predator vs Judge Dredd vs Aliens
TBA - That third VCs book announced on the inside back cover of the second collection
TBA - Rogue Trooper goes Quantity Surveying
TBA - Pete Wells, Feet Smells (J Burdis)

Blurb for Misty:
"Welcome to my world of mystery and shadows where the unusual is usual...where the unexpected is expected."

MOONCHILD
"Like her grandmother before her, Rosemary Black has discovered that she has the power to move things with her mind. A crescent shape on her forehead marks Rosemary as the Moonchild. While her jealous mother forbids her to use her new found abilities, the actions of a school bully push Ms Black closer and closer towards temptation and revenge."

THE FOUR FACES OF EVE
"Eve Marshall develops amnesia after an accident. Unable to remember anything about her past and haunted by nightmares involving the tragic deaths of three other girls, Eve sets out to discover the chilling truth of who...or what she really is. These eerie encounters are brought to you by Pat Mills, John Armstrong, Malcolm Shaw, Brian Delaney and, of course, your friend, Misty."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 13 May, 2016, 08:37:56 PM
Three Case Files this year is pretty good.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2016, 01:06:48 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 11 May, 2016, 10:12:49 AM
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28 - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781084335)

Cover now up at Amazon UK:

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CF28_800_zpscxfsde7y.jpg)

(Is it just me or does the fabric of those gloves make them look more like a pair of ladies evening gloves?)

"THE BAD AND THE MAD IN MEGA-CITY ONE! Mega-City One is plagued by a group of rebelling Jimmy Dean clones, underground murder clubs, a Sexmek serial killer and a revenge-filled taxidermist, back from the grave and looking for justice!"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2016, 01:07:31 PM
Volume 28 is 304 pages and apparently, like volume 27, all Wagner!

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CF28_credits_zpsjqh8ubln.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 17 May, 2016, 01:27:39 PM
Hope someone spell-checks 'Trevor' between now and December!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2016, 01:29:56 PM
[Mainwaring] I was wondering who'd be the first to spot that, Wilson! [/Mainwaring]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2016, 01:30:36 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 10 April, 2016, 04:46:34 AM
14 Jul 2016 - Monster (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monster-Alan-Moore/dp/178108453X)
192 pages

"For all of his young life, Kenneth had been plagued by a feeling that there was something horrific dwelling in his house of secrets. But he had to know what was up there. He had to know what had killed his dad. And now he would face the horrors behind the attic door..."

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Monster_800_zpsdlayhx4i.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2016, 01:33:27 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 10 April, 2016, 04:46:34 AM
14 Jul 2016 -
ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
(https://www.amazon.co.uk/ABC-Warriors-Ro-Busters-Pat-Mills/dp/1781084432)
Hardcover, 96 pages.

"Mars, the far future. War droids created for a conflict that ended centuries ago, the ABC Warriors are resistant to Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical warfare. Charged with bringing peace to the civil war-ravaged frontier colonies on the Red Planet, the Warriors have finally recruited ex-member Happy Shrapnel.

"Realising that their maker, Ro-Busters CEO Howard Quartz, is the figurehead behind most of the devastation on Mars, the Warriors decide to terminate him. The problem is that due to their programming, they can't.

"And yet, there was one robot who defied Quartz on a regular basis. An ex-sewer droid with a bad attitude...

"An ally of the A.B.C. Warriors called Ro-Jaws..."


(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Return_800_zpsukorxtk8.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2016, 01:39:58 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 10 April, 2016, 04:46:34 AM
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ro-Busters-Complete-Nuts-Bolts-Vol/dp/1781084475)
Hardcover, 246 pages.

"The robots are in revolt! The boss of Ro-Busters Howard Quartz also known as Mr. Ten Per Cent (90% of him is robotic), has seen his stocks plummet due to his involvement in the attempted demolition of Northpool.  In order to stop from going bankrupt, Quartz plans to destroy a number of his robots in a staged accident, including Hammerstein & Ro-Jaws!

"Having gotten wind of Quartz's plan, the duo seek out the robot underground, who organise the safe evacuation of unwanted robots to a distant moon. Before long, it's man Vs machine in a battle for freedom!

"This action-packed finale to the Ro-Busters strip includes star-studded backup stories from Alan Moore, Steve Dillon and Bryan Talbot."


("Having gotten" - tsk, tsk!  Please also fix "man Vs machine".)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Nuts%20Bolts%202_800_zpsn8htuuyi.jpg)

Hello Mr Asimov!  Hello Big E!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spaceghost on 17 May, 2016, 01:52:15 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2016, 01:30:36 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 10 April, 2016, 04:46:34 AM
14 Jul 2016 - Monster (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monster-Alan-Moore/dp/178108453X)
192 pages

"For all of his young life, Kenneth had been plagued by a feeling that there was something horrific dwelling in his house of secrets. But he had to know what was up there. He had to know what had killed his dad. And now he would face the horrors behind the attic door..."

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Monster_800_zpsdlayhx4i.jpg)

Kenneth and his Monster chum look like they're doing a dance routine on that cover.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2016, 01:55:21 PM
14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      (Don't bother; the map says 'Here Be Thrill-suckers')
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special
01 Aug 2016 - 2000AD Wall Calendar 2017 - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/2000AD-2017-Wall-BrownTrout-Publishers/dp/B01FM464Y4) - BrownTrout Publishers, 24 pages.   
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)
08 Sep 2016 - Misty   
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
20 Oct 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2 - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mega-City-Zero-2/dp/163140735X) - IDW Publishing, 100 pages.
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1

TBA - IDW Predator vs Judge Dredd vs Aliens
TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009, but don't set your sundial by it.)
TBA - Rogue Trooper goes Quantity Surveying
TBA - A Greggs in the Hand (by Anonymous of Pete Wells Block)


2000AD Wall Calendar 2017 blurb:
"2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction orientated comic, as a comic's anthology it serialises stories in each issue. First published by IPC Magazines 26 February 1977, It is most noted for its Judge Dredd stories, and has been contributed to by a number of artists and writers who became renowned in the field internationally. This 2017 wall calendar is for the true fans that will enjoy the iconic artwork throughout the year."

Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2 blurb:
"Dredd finds himself the only Judge in a Mega-City One that he barely recognises. Joined by a trio of feral girls, he has taken on his most challenging case yet: to uncover what happened to the city he has sworn to serve and protect. Collects issues no.5-8."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2016, 02:31:20 PM
Quote from: Spaceghost on 17 May, 2016, 01:52:15 PM
Kenneth and his Monster chum look like they're doing a dance routine on that cover.

You're right, Spaceghost!  Apparently the cover was originally going to be a homage to prog 301*

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Monster%20disco_zpss0ahuwa1.jpg)

* This is a fib.

Art (c) Rebellion.  Please don't kill me, Tharg.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 17 May, 2016, 03:20:37 PM
Hmm, not sure about that Ro-Busters cover. The colouring's a bit full-on and the image doesn't make any sense unless you've read the relevant story (to say nothing of being a big ol' spoiler.)

Really interested to know if the page count's accurate. The remaining strip stuff, plus every remaining Starlord/2K cover, and including the 3-page 'inside story' from prog 144, just for something else to bump the numbers up with - still only comes to 143 pages...!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 17 May, 2016, 03:36:13 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 17 May, 2016, 01:39:58 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 10 April, 2016, 04:46:34 AM
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ro-Busters-Complete-Nuts-Bolts-Vol/dp/1781084475)
Hello Mr Asimov!  Hello Big E!
I assume that's Mr Mills front and centre?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 17 May, 2016, 03:54:14 PM
Yep, Mills in the trtleneck talking to Dave Gibbons in the blue t-shirt.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 18 May, 2016, 10:51:56 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 May, 2016, 01:27:39 PM
Hope someone spell-checks 'Trevor' between now and December!

Done long ago :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mike Carroll on 18 May, 2016, 10:59:43 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 May, 2016, 03:54:14 PM
Yep, Mills in the trtleneck talking to Dave Gibbons in the blue t-shirt.
And Isaac Asimov on the very left side of the cover!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 18 May, 2016, 11:31:46 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 May, 2016, 03:20:37 PM
Hmm, not sure about that Ro-Busters cover. The colouring's a bit full-on and the image doesn't make any sense unless you've read the relevant story (to say nothing of being a big ol' spoiler.)

Really interested to know if the page count's accurate. The remaining strip stuff, plus every remaining Starlord/2K cover, and including the 3-page 'inside story' from prog 144, just for something else to bump the numbers up with - still only comes to 143 pages...!

With a strip that's 30 plus years old, spoilers don't factor in so much.

The book contains additional annual stories and a large cover/pin up gallery taking it up to 192 pages.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Steve Green on 18 May, 2016, 12:47:24 PM
Given the choice, I'd rather have the colour Gibbons cover used in the old Titan collection (and re-used for others)

It's just more dynamic than the poster image.

(http://www.brokenfrontier.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ro-busters.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 18 May, 2016, 12:59:04 PM
Quote from: Steve Green on 18 May, 2016, 12:47:24 PM
Given the choice, I'd rather have the colour Gibbons cover used in the old Titan collection (and re-used for others)

It's just more dynamic than the poster image.
Agreed - the new one is okay, but not a patch on the Titan cover.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: glassstanley on 18 May, 2016, 01:38:34 PM
The titles are coming through thick & fast for the rest of the year now! I'd been a little concerned that we'd be at the table end of the GN line having exhausted most o the big-hitters. Glad to see that's not the case. Along with the Mega-Collection, I don't think there's been as much 2000AD reprint available since ... early 90s?

Rebellion can have my money :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 18 May, 2016, 02:28:37 PM
Just received my copy of Titan; delighted to confirm that it does include all Henry Flint's relevant stories including Fit and Melt. Could have included 'The Man Comes Around' but I actually prefer an all Flint volume. Lovely stuff, looks terrific collected.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 18 May, 2016, 02:55:21 PM
Surely " The Man Comes Around" is essential to explain WHERE THE BLOODY HORSE CAME FROM!!!*

*Faux indignation, i'm still amused at the confusion prog only readers felt.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Southstreeter on 18 May, 2016, 10:25:55 PM
Where did the bloody horse come from?

Prog only reader.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 18 May, 2016, 10:40:57 PM
Don't worry, as a meg reader it still made no sense (but I guess the randomness was kind of the point).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 18 May, 2016, 10:45:52 PM
RoboKeef, does the pin up section include something that once hung in FP ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 May, 2016, 10:56:40 AM
Quote from: Southstreeter on 18 May, 2016, 10:25:55 PM
Where did the bloody horse come from?

Well, when a daddy horse loves a mummy horse very much....
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: robprosser on 19 May, 2016, 11:45:42 AM
Had a pleasant surprise yesterday. Got the new ABC Warriors, Bad Company and Case Files in Orbital Comics.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 19 May, 2016, 12:03:30 PM
Quote from: robprosser on 19 May, 2016, 11:45:42 AM
Had a pleasant surprise yesterday. Got the new ABC Warriors, Bad Company and Case Files in Orbital Comics.

Is that the new Return to Ro-Busters and First Casulaties??
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: robprosser on 19 May, 2016, 12:15:45 PM
That's the ones.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 May, 2016, 12:27:32 PM
14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      (Don't bother; the map says 'Here Be Thrill-suckers')
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
16 May 2016 - The 2000AD Action Heroines Colouring Book - Click! (http://snowbooks.com/products/82913?variant=21058992903) - Snowbooks, 56 Pages.
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special
01 Aug 2016 - 2000AD Wall Calendar 2017
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)
08 Sep 2016 - Misty   
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
20 Oct 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1

TBA - IDW Predator vs Judge Dredd vs Aliens
TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009, but don't set your sundial by it.)
TBA - Rogue Trooper goes to Monte Carlo
TBA - A Greggs in the Hand (by Anonymous of Pete Wells Block)

FINALLY someone listened to us about a colouring book!

"Kick-Ass Women from the Galaxy's Greatest Comic

Illustrated by Massimo Belardinelli, Brian Bolland, Jason Brashill, Andy Clarke, Eoin Coveney, INJ Culbard, Alan Davis, Jon Davis-Hunt D'Israeli, Jan Duursema, Richard Elson, Brett Ewins, Carlos Ezquerra, Glenn Fabry, Henry Flint, Simon Fraser, Leigh Gallagher, Ian Gibson, Patrick Goddard, Neil Googe, Mark Harrison, Jamie Hewlett, Joëlle Jones, David Pugh, Arthur Ranson, Dom Reardon, Steve Roberts, David Roach, Cliff Robinson, Steve Sampson, Dave Taylor, Dylan Teague, César López Vera, Kevin Walker, and Phil Winslade and cover design or artwork by Brett Ewins."


They sound a little unsure at the end there, but hey-ho let's go get this one!

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 19 May, 2016, 12:36:55 PM
Good work, DD  :)

Think it's the non-2000AD stuff (including script/memoir) that really appeals there.

Colouring heroines...? After what they did to that nice Lillian Storm ?-)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 19 May, 2016, 12:38:00 PM
Quote from: robprosser on 19 May, 2016, 12:15:45 PM
That's the ones.

That is ... weird. One shouldn't be out for a month and the other shouldn't be our for two months! Thanks for confirming, going to look into this...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: robprosser on 19 May, 2016, 12:44:02 PM
You can't have them back! :P
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 19 May, 2016, 12:52:02 PM
Too late, Mongrol's on his way round...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 May, 2016, 01:28:41 PM
Quote from: Trent on 18 May, 2016, 02:28:37 PM
Just received my copy of Titan; delighted to confirm that it does include all Henry Flint's relevant stories including Fit and Melt. Could have included 'The Man Comes Around' but I actually prefer an all Flint volume. Lovely stuff, looks terrific collected.

Where did you pick up JD:Titan, Trent?  That's another one that's not quite due out yet.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 19 May, 2016, 01:35:32 PM
From the 2000AD shop. Delivered yesterday along with Flesh and Harlem Heroes
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 19 May, 2016, 04:20:30 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 19 May, 2016, 10:56:40 AM
Quote from: Southstreeter on 18 May, 2016, 10:25:55 PM
Where did the bloody horse come from?

Well, when a daddy horse loves a mummy horse very much....

That made me laugh (giggle) out load on public transport. The passengers either side of me are looking a bit nervous and I'm having to stir intently at my phone...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dan Banks on 24 May, 2016, 02:49:56 PM
Do we have enough material for another Strontium Dog book yet?

We've had 2 stories since life and death right?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 24 May, 2016, 10:51:45 PM
Yes, the Stix Fix and Repo Men, the usual amount for an SD trade.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 30 May, 2016, 10:25:18 PM

NEW
SIMON BISLEY
ABC WARRIORS



Joe Pineapples/Rojaws solo series ... if two characters can have a solo series. He says he's about to start drawing it now, but don't hold your breath. Also, Pat Mills basically explains the entire plot of the new Colin MacNeil Defoe strip.

Part two of ECBT2000ad's epic chat with The Gaffer, HERE (http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/2/a/3/2a3026e1cfd929c2/ECBT2000AD_Ep256_Pat2.mp3?c_id=11780090&expiration=1464650087&hwt=02aa33fecce69bb9f882812337089fa6)


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 31 May, 2016, 04:23:32 AM
Quote from: Butch on 30 May, 2016, 10:25:18 PM
Rojaws

Aha! So proper ABC Warriors then. Sold.


Quote from: Butch on 30 May, 2016, 10:25:18 PMf the new Colin MacNeil Defoe strip.

Inspired choice of replacement.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 31 May, 2016, 01:14:27 PM
Quote from: Butch on 30 May, 2016, 10:25:18 PM

NEW
SIMON BISLEY
ABC WARRIORS

That's one's been on the cards for a while now... We've got four pages of thread about it!

https://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=41565.0
https://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=41572.0
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 01 June, 2016, 06:03:41 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 31 May, 2016, 01:14:27 PM

That's one's been on the cards for a while now... We've got four pages of thread about it!


This is the first that we have heard  of the inclusion of Rojaws. The inclusion of The Single Greatest 2000AD Character EVAH! elevates this news way beyond the Van Allen Belt of Newness & somewhere in the general direction of the Oort Cloud of New.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 01 June, 2016, 11:29:42 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 01 June, 2016, 06:03:41 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 31 May, 2016, 01:14:27 PM

That's one's been on the cards for a while now... We've got four pages of thread about it!


This is the first that we have heard  of the inclusion of Rojaws.

Not if you bought the new Ro-Busters collection late last year - Pat gives it all away in the intro. Those are great for spoilers - Pat revealed Tubal's identity as Happy Shrapnel in an intro, about three years before it actually happened in the strip!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Greg M. on 01 June, 2016, 11:37:11 AM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 01 June, 2016, 11:29:42 AM
Pat gives it all away in the intro.

Pat has a long history of doing this - I'm sure there's a Titan collection of Nemesis the Warlock where Pat mentions plot details that will eventually show up over a decade later in Nemesis Bk X!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Eamonn Clarke on 01 June, 2016, 01:00:48 PM
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r182/Caliban_photos/81JC0PjLyAL_zpsvdjkhk1o.jpg)

Ian Kennedy!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 June, 2016, 01:27:44 PM
Doh, beaten to the punch!

Well done, eamonn.  I'm going to post the blurb though!

Judging by the cover, this one contains "Dan Dare and the Tape Worm."
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 June, 2016, 01:32:57 PM
Fookin' 'ell! Kennedy can knock out wirks like this pushing 90?! Blokes a class act, a real classic of an artist!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 June, 2016, 01:39:11 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 19 May, 2016, 12:27:32 PM
20 Oct 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)         

Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover) (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dan-Dare-2000-Years-Vol/dp/1781084602)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/DD02_Kennedy_750_zpsewxm77rc.jpg)

The moon's Mekon's a balloon!

Blurb:
"Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future is a British icon. He was created by Frank Hampson in 1950, and first appeared in the Eagle comic where he was an instant hit with the British public. Almost a decade after the original series had ended, Dan Dare was resurrected in the pages of a brand new sci-fi comic for boys – 2000 AD! In this volume: Dan Dare and the crew of the Eagle One continue their journey through deep, uncharted space, where they encounter a host of evil alien tyrants, including dare's arch-nemesis the Mekon! This volume of Dan Dare concludes the iconic British hero's adventures within the pages of 2000 AD."

Interesting use of the word 'concludes' there - we don't "dare" hope for a fully wrapped-up finish when we know it just means "all we did, there ain't no more".


Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Mega-City-Zero-2/dp/163140735X)

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/MC0_2_zpsyybbfcfj.jpg)

Blurb:
"Dredd finds himself the only Judge in a Mega-City One that he barely recognises. Joined by a trio of feral girls, he has taken on his most challenging case yet: to uncover what happened to the city he has sworn to serve and protect. Collects issues no. 5-8."

Warning - dog wearing a Judge helmet.  And how did that tortoise climb up on Dredd's shoulder?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 01 June, 2016, 09:01:51 PM
Well while I'm not going to be getting that second DD hardcover you gotta say that cover is something quite special. Bloomin' heck its beautiful!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 01 June, 2016, 09:07:56 PM
I have no love for Toothy Dare, but that cover..!  :o
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 June, 2016, 05:28:39 AM
14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      (Don't bother; the map says 'Here Be Thrill-suckers')
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
16 May 2016 - The 2000AD Action Heroines Colouring Book
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special
01 Aug 2016 - 2000AD Wall Calendar 2017
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)
08 Sep 2016 - Misty   
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
20 Oct 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Predator-Versus-Judge-Dredd-Aliens/dp/1506701523) - Dark Horse Comics, 104 pages, paperback.

TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009, but don't set your sundial by it.)
TBA - Rogue Trooper goes Dutch
TBA - A Greggs in the Hand (by Anonymous of Pete Wells Block)

Blurb for PvDvA: Splice & Dice:
The ultimate science-fiction crossover pits the legendary lawman, Judge Dredd, against the universe's supreme hunters, the Predators, as they both try to survive an onslaught by the galaxy's ultimate killing machines, the Aliens! Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson have tracked a criminal cult across the Cursed Earth and into the Alabama morass, where a mad genetic scientist with destructive designs has acquired the best genes that evolution has to offer--a xenomorph skull! A Predator, attracted to the warm climate and superior prey, has declared hunting season as he calls for backup. All paths will cross in a mind-blowing sci-fi showdown with the fate of the Earth at stake!


Oh Dredd, you ruthless killer, you!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 23 June, 2016, 07:02:12 AM
Aye, that blurb seems to fistinctly not get Dredd.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: The Adventurer on 23 June, 2016, 07:41:46 AM
Dredd is the most ruthful killer I know! All the ruth.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 June, 2016, 02:22:49 PM
Not since Ruth left him, he hasn't been.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 29 June, 2016, 02:07:38 PM
"Forty years"!

14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      (Don't bother; the map says 'Here Be Thrill-suckers')
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
16 May 2016 - The 2000AD Action Heroines Colouring Book
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special
01 Aug 2016 - 2000AD Wall Calendar 2017
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)
08 Sep 2016 - Misty   
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
20 Oct 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power-overload: Forty Years of 2000 AD - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thrill-Power-overload-Forty-Years-2000/dp/1781085226) - 400 pages, hardback.
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice

TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009, but don't set your sundial by it.)
TBA - Rogue Trooper goes Crazy for Bing Crosby
TBA - A Greggs Down the Shirt (by Anonymous of Pete Wells Block)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bojay1997 on 29 June, 2016, 06:21:42 PM
Looks like the Thrill-Power Overload release is billed as "revised, updated and expanded" on Amazon in the US.  It also looks like Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls/Henry Flint and Michael Carroll is set for February 2017 and Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes is set for release in April 2017 per listings on US Amazon. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 29 June, 2016, 07:48:09 PM
More Thrill-power Overload?

I'll have some of that thank you!!!   :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 June, 2016, 09:46:40 PM
My excitment that Thrillpower Overload is getting updated and expanded is slightly diminished by the fact that its now 10 bloody years old!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Batman's Superior Cousin on 29 June, 2016, 11:38:26 PM
And I've YET to read mine. :o :'(
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Michael Knight on 29 June, 2016, 11:49:52 PM
Its a great read you wont be disappointed! Picked up mine couple of years back in forbidden planet and its signed By Mr. Dave Bishop himself!  :)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 June, 2016, 01:01:48 AM
Quote from: Bojay1997 on 29 June, 2016, 06:21:42 PM
Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes is set for release in April 2017 per listings on US Amazon.

Sounds like it must be the collected Batman crossovers.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: radiator on 30 June, 2016, 01:17:23 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 30 June, 2016, 01:01:48 AM
Quote from: Bojay1997 on 29 June, 2016, 06:21:42 PM
Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes is set for release in April 2017 per listings on US Amazon.

Sounds like it must be the collected Batman crossovers.

Maybe? But they just got their own collection a few years ago...

I'm thinking it'll be Bat Mugger, Fairly Hyperman, maybe Cycle of Violence/Marauder, the Eric Powell Dredd from the Free Comic Book Day prog. For Bisley... did any of the Heavy Metal Dredds feature some kind of superhero pastiche?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: jacob g on 30 June, 2016, 08:55:06 AM
Quote from: radiator on 30 June, 2016, 01:17:23 AM
For Bisley... did any of the Heavy Metal Dredds feature some kind of superhero pastiche?

Yes, one with some bat vigillantes, story is called "Chicken Run" (I recently translated HMD for Polish edition so I'm quite sure about this one).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 30 June, 2016, 10:46:07 AM
Quote from: radiator on 30 June, 2016, 01:17:23 AM
I'm thinking it'll be Bat Mugger, Fairly Hyperman, maybe Cycle of Violence/Marauder, the Eric Powell Dredd from the Free Comic Book Day prog. For Bisley... did any of the Heavy Metal Dredds feature some kind of superhero pastiche?

Yep, just what I was going to suggest - plus that Spurrier/Ezquerra two-parter from the Meg a few years ago.

Quote from: Dash Decent on 30 June, 2016, 01:01:48 AM
Sounds like it must be the collected Batman crossovers.

Trust me, if you're selling a Dredd/Batman collection you're going to want Batman's name in the title somewhere! And even if you don't, DC would insist on it...!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 30 June, 2016, 12:08:22 PM
Quote from: radiator on 30 June, 2016, 01:17:23 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 30 June, 2016, 01:01:48 AM
Quote from: Bojay1997 on 29 June, 2016, 06:21:42 PM
Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes is set for release in April 2017 per listings on US Amazon.

Sounds like it must be the collected Batman crossovers.

Maybe? But they just got their own collection a few years ago...

I'm thinking it'll be Bat Mugger, Fairly Hyperman, maybe Cycle of Violence/Marauder, the Eric Powell Dredd from the Free Comic Book Day prog. For Bisley... did any of the Heavy Metal Dredds feature some kind of superhero pastiche?

Correct.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 June, 2016, 12:51:21 PM
See what I did there to tease out the truth...? ;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 04:48:26 AM
14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      (Don't bother; the map says 'Here Be Thrill-suckers')
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
16 May 2016 - The 2000AD Action Heroines Colouring Book
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special
01 Aug 2016 - 2000AD Wall Calendar 2017
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)
08 Sep 2016 - Misty   
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
20 Oct 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power-overload
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Every-Empire-Falls/dp/1781085315) - Paperback, 240 pages.
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Cape-Cowl-Crimes/dp/1781085250) - Paperback, 160 pages.


TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009, but don't set your sundial by it.)
TBA - Rogue Trooper: Trump and the Traitor General.
TBA - Strontium Dog: The Brit-Cit Brexit Blag


Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes

COSTUMES ARE FOR CREEPS! From super-powered aliens to Cursed Earth mutants, Judge Dredd dishes out justice to all in this action-packed collection of stories from some of comic's biggest talents, including John Wagner, Alan Grant, Carlos Ezquerra, Mike Collins, Alan Davis, Simon Bisley, Richard Elson, Simon Spurrier and Eric Powell, amongst many others.

Welcome to Mega-City One, a nightmarish metropolis situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Poverty is rife, crime is rampant, and only the Judges empowered to dispense instant justice can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD.  He "is" the Law!

There are plenty of law-breaking freaks amongst the citizenship of the Big Meg. From Futsies to Umpty-baggers, the Judges have their hands full. But the worst offenders are those who try and enforce their own brand of justice. Especially that strange strain of vigilante who chooses to hit the streets in brightly-coloured spandex!"



Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls

R.I.P. JUDGE DREDD?

Following the decimation of Mega-City One during Chaos Day, Judges from other friendly Justice Departments have been brought in to strengthen the ranks and help maintain law and order on the streets. Amongst the newcomers is Fintan Joyce son of a former Emerald Isle Judge, who teamed up with Judge Dredd in one of the most fondly remembered Dredd stories.

Exploiting the Big Meg's weakened state, several groups have risen up against the Judges, including the Goblin King's Undercity army and a mutant group lead by the monstrous Thorn, who have been attacking Cursed Earth outposts. If things couldn't get any worse, Dredd has fallen foul of Brit-Cit and they want him in prison or on a slab. Have the odds finally stacked up enough to spell the end of Mega-City One's greatest lawman?


[What an awkwardly-worded final paragraph!]
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 01 July, 2016, 06:22:28 AM
Every Empire Falls is an omnious title!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 01 July, 2016, 08:51:16 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 01 July, 2016, 06:22:28 AM
Every Empire Falls is an omnious title!

But good, right?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 11:01:59 AM
It's a great title.  (And much better than something like "MCexit".)

At the opposite end of the spectrum, you should check out both the blurbs on Amazon UK as they need tidying up.  "Every Empire Falls" is missing apostrophes ("Big Meg s", "Goblin King s", "Mega-City One s") and at least one full stop ("...in prison or on a slab Have the odds...").  The last paragraph needs rearranging, at the very least.  The blurb ends with a set of quote marks that don't belong to anything else (greatest lawman?"). While I'm sticking the boot (knife) in, "...teamed up with Judge Dredd in one of the most fondly remembered Dredd stories." sounds weak, too.  (Being a pedant, I'd also hyphenate "fondly remembered" but I won't push the point.)

"Capes and Cowls" has punctuation on the wrong side of spaces ("Big Meg ." and "he "is "the Law!").  (I assume that should be a capitalised "He", and a full stop has been lost after "JUDGE DREDD"?)  This blurb also concludes with a closing set of double quotation marks (spandex!") with no matching opening set.

Er, let me just add that the above is meant helpfully.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 01 July, 2016, 11:18:25 AM
Based on the description and page count looks like Every Empire Falls will contain the earlier Joyce stories which set up the current epic. Good stuff.
Perhaps more interestingly the Capes and Cowls trade is a foray by Rebellion into the Mega Collection's territory with a thematically linked volume rather than a story arc or specific artist.
Given the Mega Collection won't run forever I hope this is a sign of things to come as it makes for a satisfying read that works quite differently from the Case Files.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 11:19:24 AM
The new edition of TPO has a blurb now, so...

Galaxy s Greatest comic - needs an apostrophe.

"2000 AD" s 40th anniversary - also needs an apostrophe.  Perhaps it was left off because it would look strange next to those double quotes, but you'd be better off getting rid of them instead.  (The blurb uses the 2000 AD name with success elsewhere - "From 2000 AD's humble and rocky beginnings", "former 2000 AD editor" - so you are also being inconsistent.)

Having "Galaxy s Greatest comic" and "ground-breaking comic" in the same sentence sounds wrong.

and many many more." - has picked up one of those loose double quote marks you guys seem to love shoving on the end of blurbs this week.  (Ah!  Now I know why you're saving up all the apostrophes!)

Your frendli prufe reeder,

Dash.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 11:22:25 AM
Quote from: Trent on 01 July, 2016, 11:18:25 AM
Based on the description and page count looks like Every Empire Falls will contain the earlier Joyce stories which set up the current epic. Good stuff.

Wow, talk about off-topic!  Can we please get back to discussing punctuation and stuff?

Seriously though, I agree - it does sound good.

I still think that cover image is very deliberately (in a good way) Bolland-like.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 01 July, 2016, 11:28:57 AM
Sorry Dash, I'll try to keep it relevant.
Talking of Empires where's Angela Merkel this morning? Forgive and forget eh Major?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 01 July, 2016, 12:03:48 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 11:01:59 AM
It's a great title.  (And much better than something like "MCexit".)

At the opposite end of the spectrum, you should check out both the blurbs on Amazon UK as they need tidying up.  "Every Empire Falls" is missing apostrophes ("Big Meg s", "Goblin King s", "Mega-City One s") and at least one full stop ("...in prison or on a slab Have the odds...").  The last paragraph needs rearranging, at the very least.  The blurb ends with a set of quote marks that don't belong to anything else (greatest lawman?"). While I'm sticking the boot (knife) in, "...teamed up with Judge Dredd in one of the most fondly remembered Dredd stories." sounds weak, too.  (Being a pedant, I'd also hyphenate "fondly remembered" but I won't push the point.)

"Capes and Cowls" has punctuation on the wrong side of spaces ("Big Meg ." and "he "is "the Law!").  (I assume that should be a capitalised "He", and a full stop has been lost after "JUDGE DREDD"?)  This blurb also concludes with a closing set of double quotation marks (spandex!") with no matching opening set.

Er, let me just add that the above is meant helpfully.

Yes , already noted. Just to be clear - I don't write these entries. maybe I should...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 01 July, 2016, 12:07:59 PM
Quote from: Trent on 01 July, 2016, 11:18:25 AM
Based on the description and page count looks like Every Empire Falls will contain the earlier Joyce stories which set up the current epic. Good stuff.
Perhaps more interestingly the Capes and Cowls trade is a foray by Rebellion into the Mega Collection's territory with a thematically linked volume rather than a story arc or specific artist.
Given the Mega Collection won't run forever I hope this is a sign of things to come as it makes for a satisfying read that works quite differently from the Case Files.

The Cape and Cowl trade is for the US market where themed compilation Dredd books seem to go down quite well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 01 July, 2016, 12:16:59 PM
Quote from: Trent on 01 July, 2016, 11:18:25 AM
Perhaps more interestingly the Capes and Cowls trade is a foray by Rebellion into the Mega Collection's territory with a thematically linked volume rather than a story arc or specific artist.

Yeah, we've already done this kind of thing for a while for the US market because, as Keith says, they're a better fit.
https://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Megacity-Masters-01/dp/1906735921
https://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Fatties-John-Wagner/dp/1781081336
https://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Cry-Werewolf-2000/dp/1781080321
https://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-Mutants-Mega-City-2000/dp/1781081670/
https://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dredd-XXX-Files-2000/dp/178108243X/
(Also, Capes and Cowls is for the US market, where the Mega Collection isn't available.)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 12:55:39 PM
Quote from: Trent on 01 July, 2016, 11:28:57 AM
Sorry Dash, I'll try to keep it relevant.
Talking of Empires where's Angela Merkel this morning? Forgive and forget eh Major?

A Basil Fawlty quote! Now you're talking!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 12:57:18 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 01 July, 2016, 12:03:48 PM
Just to be clear - I don't write these entries. maybe I should...

I'm narrowing it down... I know it's not you and it's not Molch-R.  I think it's that Matt bloke.  I keep telling him, there's TWO f's in "Smiff"!  Work experience people, eh?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 July, 2016, 12:59:49 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 12:57:18 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 01 July, 2016, 12:03:48 PM
Just to be clear - I don't write these entries. maybe I should...

I'm narrowing it down... I know it's not you and it's not Molch-R.  I think it's that Matt bloke.  I keep telling him, there's TWO f's in "Smiff"!  Work experience people, eh?
'As Dash rants on the rest of the forum looks to the sky, awaiting Thargs judgement on his unworthy being'
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 01 July, 2016, 01:16:53 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 01 July, 2016, 12:59:49 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 12:57:18 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 01 July, 2016, 12:03:48 PM
Just to be clear - I don't write these entries. maybe I should...

I'm narrowing it down... I know it's not you and it's not Molch-R.  I think it's that Matt bloke.  I keep telling him, there's TWO f's in "Smiff"!  Work experience people, eh?
'As Dash rants on the rest of the forum looks to the sky, awaiting Thargs judgement on his unworthy being'

No.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 July, 2016, 01:19:39 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 01 July, 2016, 01:16:53 PM
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 01 July, 2016, 12:59:49 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 12:57:18 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 01 July, 2016, 12:03:48 PM
Just to be clear - I don't write these entries. maybe I should...

I'm narrowing it down... I know it's not you and it's not Molch-R.  I think it's that Matt bloke.  I keep telling him, there's TWO f's in "Smiff"!  Work experience people, eh?
'As Dash rants on the rest of the forum looks to the sky, awaiting Thargs judgement on his unworthy being'

No.
THE BOSS MAN HAS SPOKETH!!!!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 04:20:48 PM
Two of the new covers:

Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 04:48:26 AM
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Every-Empire-Falls/dp/1781085315) - Paperback, 240 pages.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/JD_EEF_750_zpskywo0oz7.jpg)

Quote from: Dash Decent on 01 July, 2016, 04:48:26 AM
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Cape-Cowl-Crimes/dp/1781085250) - Paperback, 160 pages.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/JD_CampCC_750_zpsfrqejdmk.jpg)

And now back to Bob in the studio.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 01 July, 2016, 04:38:05 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 01 July, 2016, 08:51:16 AM
Quote from: Colin_YNWA on 01 July, 2016, 06:22:28 AM
Every Empire Falls is an omnious title!

But good, right?

I think where this type of story is concerned omnious is indeed good, very good...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 01 July, 2016, 06:16:26 PM
Dash, you're not going to let omnious go for a second time, surely?

;)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 01 July, 2016, 06:28:45 PM
TBH i thought they where saying amnibuses....omnibi...omnibus....phone book.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 01 July, 2016, 07:32:35 PM
Robo and Keith - thanks for the responses. I was aware of some of the US trades. Might wait to see what gets covered in the Mega Collection and then maybe dip into a few of these.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 02 July, 2016, 01:39:26 AM
Quote from: Fungus on 01 July, 2016, 06:16:26 PM
Dash, you're not going to let omnious go for a second time, surely?

;)

:D

I make too many typos myself to worry about what anyone else does!  The stuff that's out there officially and publicly representing Tharg is a different story though.  It might turn off potential buyers and we want 2000AD to keep selling so the prog keeps on going!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 04 July, 2016, 03:02:03 PM
2016 AD
14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
16 May 2016 - The 2000AD Action Heroines Colouring Book
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special
01 Aug 2016 - 2000AD Wall Calendar 2017
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)
08 Sep 2016 - Misty   
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
20 Oct 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2
01 Nov 2016  - Judge Dredd: City Limits Volume 2 - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-City-Limits-2/dp/1631407708) - Paperback, 404 pages, IDW.
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28

2017 AD
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power-overload
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes


To Be Advised
TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009, but don't set your sundial by it.)
TBA - Rogue Trooper goes to Ikea


Judge Dredd: City Limits Volume 2

In the 22nd century, crime runs rampant in Mega-City One, home to over 800 million citizens, robots, criminals, and lunatics. The only line of defense between order and chaos are the Judges. Writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Nelson Daniel continue with stories such as "The American Way of Death," "Black Light District," and "Mega-City Manhunt" from issues #13 30 of the Judge Dredd series. Also contains short stories from artists John Stanisci, Staz Johnson, Andy Belanger, Steve Scott, and Shane Pierce.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/JD_CL02_750_zps1mueocyb.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Bojay1997 on 14 July, 2016, 04:12:03 AM
So is Greysuit: Monarch really happening in just two months?  Amazon and Book Depository are showing it as September 2017 for some reason and there seems to be no sign of it on the 2000AD web shop.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 29 July, 2016, 04:57:06 AM
2016 AD
14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
16 May 2016 - The 2000AD Action Heroines Colouring Book
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special
01 Aug 2016 - 2000AD Wall Calendar 2017
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)
08 Sep 2016 - Misty   
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier      (??? Now listed as 07 Sep 2017)
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
20 Oct 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2
01 Nov 2016 - Judge Dredd: City Limits Volume 2
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28
05 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Brendan McCarthy Collection - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Brendan-McCarthy-Collection/dp/1631408240) - Hardback, 200 pages, IDW.

2017 AD
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power-overload
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes
07 Sep 2017 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier      (??? Was listed as 05 Sep 2016)

To Be Advised
TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009, but don't set your sundial by it.)
TBA - Rogue Trooper buys a Pipe, some Slippers and a copy of the Express


Judge Dredd: The Brendan McCarthy Collection
"Ground-breaking artist Brendan McCarthy has been at the fore-front of independent comics since the early 1980s as well as the TV and film industry, including co-writing and designing Mad Max Fury Road. This oversized hardcover collection showcases all of his stories and covers for Judge Dredd including "Oz," "The Day the Law Died," "Dr. Panic," "Atlantis," and more!"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 July, 2016, 05:45:07 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 29 July, 2016, 04:57:06 AM

Judge Dredd: The Brendan McCarthy Collection
"Ground-breaking artist Brendan McCarthy has been at the fore-front of independent comics since the early 1980s as well as the TV and film industry, including co-writing and designing Mad Max Fury Road. This oversized hardcover collection showcases all of his stories and covers for Judge Dredd including "Oz," "The Day the Law Died," "Dr. Panic," "Atlantis," and more!"

Dredd isn't Stevie's favourite character in the Meg, let alone the prog. But boyohoboy he wants this book NOW.

In the meantime we'll just have to make do with the first volume of Medivac 318 appearing in the Meg 377 floppy.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 July, 2016, 06:22:09 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 July, 2016, 05:45:07 AM
In the meantime we'll just have to make do with the first volume of Medivac 318 appearing in the Meg 377 floppy.

The first story is great. Admittedly the later stories aren't as good, but they ain't bad and yah know Nigel Dobbyn art! Glorious.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 03 August, 2016, 06:03:19 PM
Meg 375 Highlights; Dredd by Carroll & Willsher / Double length Lawless.

https://forbiddenplanet.com/200036-judge-dredd-megazine-375/

Meg 376 Highlights; Dredd by Wyatt & Lynch / Lawless finale / Realm of the Damned finale / 3rd Sinister Dexter floppy in a row.

https://forbiddenplanet.com/202371-judge-dredd-megazine-376/
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 19 August, 2016, 02:22:48 PM
2016 AD
14 Jan 2016 - Slaine Brutania Chronicles 2: Primordial      
14 Jan 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 26         
11 Feb 2016 - Strontium Dog: Outlaw   (B format, AKA here's your optometry bill)
11 Feb 2016 - Judge Dredd: Dead Zone         
10 Mar 2016 - Planet of the Damned & Death Planet      
10 Mar 2016 - Goldtiger      
07 Apr 2016 - Brit-Cit Noir            
12 Apr 2016 - Sooner or Later            
16 May 2016 - The 2000AD Action Heroines Colouring Book
19 May 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27         
16 Jun 2016 - Judge Dredd: Titan            
06 Jun 2016 - Bad Company: First Casualties      
07 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 1    (IDW)   
14 Jul 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored   
14 Jul 2016 - Monster               
14 Jul 2016 - ABC Warriors: Return to Ro-Busters
20 Jul 2016 - 2000ad Summer Special
01 Aug 2016 - 2000AD Wall Calendar 2017
11 Aug 2016 - Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Vol 2   
11 Aug 2016 - Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 5      
05 Sep 2016 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier      (??? Now listed as 07 Sep 2017)
08 Sep 2016 - The Mighty One (Steve McManus)
08 Sep 2016 - Misty   
10 Sep 2016 - The Art of Jock - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Jock-Will-Dennis/dp/1608878058) - Hardback, 160 pages, Insight Editions, a division of Palace Publishing Group.
06 Oct 2016 - The Daily Dredds Vol. 2 (Hardcover)      
06 Oct 2016 - Mega-City Undercover 3
11 Oct 2016 - Fink Angel: Legacy
20 Oct 2016 - Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 2
01 Nov 2016 - Judge Dredd: City Limits Volume 2
03 Nov 2016 - Dan Dare - The 2000 AD Years Vol. 2 (Hardcover)            
09 Nov 2016 - The 2000 Ad Script Book
01 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 28
05 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Brendan McCarthy Collection

2017 AD
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power-overload
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes
07 Sep 2017 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier      (??? Was listed as 05 Sep 2016)

To Be Advised
TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009, but don't set your sundial by it.)
TBA - Rogue Trooper and the Comfy Slippers


The Art of Jock
"Discover the uniquely dynamic work of acclaimed artist Jock, from his groundbreaking comics art to his stunning posters for the pop culture company Mondo and his evocative concept illustrations for a range of acclaimed films.

Mark Simpson, known by his pen name, Jock, is an internationally recognised three-time"New York Times "best-selling artist and Eisner Award nominee. Over the last two decades, Jock has become one of the most distinguished illustrators in comics, with credits that include titles with DC Comics/Vertigo ("The Losers, Batman: The Black Mirror, Green Arrow: Year One"), Marvel ("Savage Wolverine, Daredevil"), and his runaway success, "Wytches"(co-created with Scott Snyder for Image Comics). He is also known for his extensive work with Mondo the renowned pop culture company famous for its iconic poster designs and collectibles including electrifying posters that offer unique interpretations of fan-favorite movies such as "Shaun of the Dead," "The Thing," "Pan s Labyrinth," "The Dark Knight Trilogy," "Halloween," and many more. In the movie world, Jock's concept art has defined the look of major films such as "Dredd," "Ex Machina," and "Star Wars Episode VIII."

Made in collaboration with Mondo, "The Art of Jock" delves into the prolific artist's catalogue, showcasing not only the best of his sketches and published images but also personal notes from Jock himself that provide insight into the inner workings of his creative process. Featuring commentary from long-time collaborators, including Scott Snyder and Alex Garland, this look into the mind and method of one of the most critically acclaimed illustrators working today is a must-have for fans of comic book and pop culture art, as well as aspiring artists and illustrators.

Features two gatefolds, plus excusive vellum and acetate overlays that further illuminate Jock's creative process."


(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Art%20of%20Jock_800_zpsdxvmqmzx.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Grugz on 19 August, 2016, 06:12:35 PM
that's going on my wish list, that pale man is stunning!

going to get most of the dredds but monster is on my pile as well, is there any plan to collect more scream titles? or is it the old fuss about copyright etc?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 19 August, 2016, 06:41:10 PM
Quote from: Grugz on 19 August, 2016, 06:12:35 PM
going to get most of the dredds but monster is on my pile as well, is there any plan to collect more scream titles? or is it the old fuss about copyright etc?

I think all those copyrights reside with Egmont/Fleetway and have to be negotiated on a story-by-story basis. Hibernian have their book with the previously-unpublished Nightcomers material...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Goaty on 19 August, 2016, 06:45:23 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 19 August, 2016, 02:22:48 PM
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls

Wonder what this story about? Or not yet happens in 2000AD yet?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 19 August, 2016, 07:09:21 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 19 August, 2016, 06:41:10 PM
I think all those copyrights reside with Egmont/Fleetway and have to be negotiated on a story-by-story basis. Hibernia have their book with the previously-unpublished Nightcomers material...

Google-fu defeated me, briefly. The upcoming Hibernia book is discussed here. (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=43549.msg924397#msg924397)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: AlexF on 19 August, 2016, 07:11:47 PM
'Every Empire Falls' is the name for the full Michael Carroll epic, judging by the cover. Presumably it covers Grindstone Cowboys, The Lion's Den etc from the Summer. AKA a must buy!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 20 August, 2016, 01:48:30 AM
Yes (x 2!)

The blurb says:

"R.I.P. JUDGE DREDD?

Following the decimation of Mega-City One during Chaos Day, Judges from other friendly Justice Departments have been brought in to strengthen the ranks and help maintain law and order on the streets. Amongst the newcomers is Fintan Joyce son of a former Emerald Isle Judge, who teamed up with Judge Dredd in one of the most fondly remembered Dredd stories.

Exploiting the Big Meg's weakened state, several groups have risen up against the Judges, including the Goblin King's Undercity army and a mutant group lead by the monstrous Thorn, who have been attacking Cursed Earth outposts. If things couldn't get any worse, Dredd has fallen foul of Brit-Cit and they want him in prison or on a slab. Have the odds finally stacked up enough to spell the end of Mega-City One's greatest lawman?"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2016, 03:31:01 AM
2017 AD
12 Jan 2017 - Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cadet-Anderson-Teenage-Alan-Grant/dp/1781085390) - Paperback, 128 pages.
17 Jan 2017 - The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
07 Feb 2017 - Thrill Power Overload
09 Feb 2017 - 2000 AD's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill-Power! - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-ADs-Greatest-Celebrating-Thrill-Power/dp/1781085404) - Paperback, 112 pages.
14 Feb 2017 - Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls
09 Mar 2017 - Kingdom - Aux Drift - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingdom-Aux-Drift-Dan-Abnett/dp/1781085285) - Paperback, 144 pages.
09 Mar 2017 - The Order: Die Mensch Machine - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Order-Die-Mensch-Machine/dp/1781085277) - Paperback, 128 pages.
14 Mar 2017 - Predator Versus Judge Dredd Versus Aliens: Splice and Dice
06 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 29 - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Complete-Case-Files/dp/1781085269) - Paperback, 304 pages.
11 Apr 2017 - Judge Dredd: The Cape and Cowl Crimes
07 Sep 2017 - Greysuit: The Monarch Dossier      


To Be Advised
TBA - VCs: Old Soldiers (promised for 15th December 2009, but don't set your sundial by it.)
TBA - Molch-R Celebrates Five Well-written Product Blurbs


Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx
"When the psychically powerful three-year-old CASSANDRA ANDERSON killed her abusive father, she was taken into the custody of Justice Department, who blocked the memories of her traumatic childhood. Inducted into Psi-Division as a cadet, where the Judges use telepaths, empaths, precogs and others with psychic abilities to aid the fight against crime, Anderson is thrown in the deep end as she faces up to the worst Mega-City One has to offer."

2000 AD's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill-Power!
"From humorously twisted Future Shocks to the dystopian escapades of Judge Dredd, 2000 AD has inspired generations of readers and has spawned some of the greatest talents in the comics industry. To celebrate the creative droids behind the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, a selection of writers and artists from across 2000 AD's forty-year history were asked to choose their favourite one-off story by a fellow creator and explain why they chose it. The result is this incredible anthology featuring work by Alan Grant, Kevin O'Neill, Rob Williams, Brian Bolland, Chris Weston and Steve Dillon selected by creators such as founding editor Pat Mills, celebrated artist Jock and recent newcomer Tom Foster."

The Order: Die Mensch Machine
"In 13th Century Germany, while reading the papers of her dead father young Anna Kohl uncovers a shocking secret – that defending Earth from an other-worldly menace is a secret cadre of warriors known only as The Order. Now she, and her father's rag-tag former comrades, must do battle with the sinister forces of these eldritch creatures!  From Teutonic Knights with robot heads to gun-toting warriors in high speed pursuits on the streets of Elizabethan Engand, The Order is an incredible genre mash-up of medieval and Renaissance history, action movies, Michael Moorcock, Jack Vance, and Hammer Horror!"

[Amazon, do you have the right author bio?!?]

Kingdom - Aux Drift
"In the far future, mankind has been all but destroyed and survivors are forced to hide from 'Them' – giant insectile creatures that have taken over the world – with only savage genetically engineered dog-soldiers like Gene the Hackman to guard them. Having travelled the Earth without his pack, Gene now leads a band of mongrel "aux" warriors known as the Wild Bunch. They live alongside some human survivors in The Kingdom. But 'Them' are growing in number and the Kingdom is getting harder to defend..."

Judge Dredd: Complete Case Files 29
"The war on crime gets tougher, as the Justice Department (after Dredd's approval) unveil the brand new Lawgiver Mark II firearm!"
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 23 August, 2016, 06:26:44 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2016, 03:31:01 AM

2000 AD's Greatest: Celebrating 40 Years of Thrill-Power!
"From humorously twisted Future Shocks to the dystopian escapades of Judge Dredd, 2000 AD has inspired generations of readers and has spawned some of the greatest talents in the comics industry. To celebrate the creative droids behind the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, a selection of writers and artists from across 2000 AD's forty-year history were asked to choose their favourite one-off story by a fellow creator and explain why they chose it. The result is this incredible anthology featuring work by Alan Grant, Kevin O'Neill, Rob Williams, Brian Bolland, Chris Weston and Steve Dillon selected by creators such as founding editor Pat Mills, celebrated artist Jock and recent newcomer Tom Foster."

That sounds fun, if all reprint. Hope The Order does well, I'd love this series to become a regular one of my favourites.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 23 August, 2016, 01:27:26 PM
I've started a new thread for the 2017 releases here: Click! (http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=43620.0)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 07 September, 2016, 10:55:14 PM
.

I'm in the middle of writing the first text novel in a series with Kevin O'Neill that could be described as a darkly humorous alternative history of UK comics publishing in the 1970s.

The novel series is called Read Em And Weep. Volume one is called Serial Killer.

If you're a fan of murder mysteries, flawed and eccentric characters, 70s nostalgia, insider knowledge on creating comics, childhood revenge, and film noir, you'll probably like Read Em And Weep. It's due out in February 2017 and volume 2 will be published later the same year.


http://www.millsverse.com/home/4585194099/MISTY-LIVES/10889259


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: johnnystress on 08 September, 2016, 10:16:04 AM
A little out of the loop here but I just came across these

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/08/30/mondos-new-judge-dredd-prints-by-tom-whalen-and-matt-ferguson/
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 08 September, 2016, 12:00:02 PM
Quote from: Frank on 07 September, 2016, 10:55:14 PM
I'm in the middle of writing the first text novel in a series with Kevin O'Neill that could be described as a darkly humorous alternative history of UK comics publishing in the 1970s.

You always have interesting things to say, and with Mr O'Neill that's double-gold so I'll certainly look out for it.  What author name should we search for? (Not the butch Frank Sauchie, I'm sure!)  I'm imagining it with lots of footnotes in place of manifold hypertextual linkages.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 08 September, 2016, 12:30:40 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 08 September, 2016, 12:00:02 PM
Quote from: Frank on 07 September, 2016, 10:55:14 PM
I'm in the middle of writing the first text novel in a series with Kevin O'Neill that could be described as a darkly humorous alternative history of UK comics publishing in the 1970s.

You always have interesting things to say, and with Mr O'Neill that's double-gold so I'll certainly look out for it.  What author name should we search for? (Not the butch Frank Sauchie, I'm sure!)  I'm imagining it with lots of footnotes in place of manifold hypertextual linkages.

I'd stick to 'Pat Mills'  :-[
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 08 September, 2016, 01:52:03 PM
Oops!  I saw the hyperlink at the end but didn't realise Frank was quoting.  I did wonder how he'd been picked to write with KO'N!

I'll sit in the corner for a while with this pointy hat on.  D - for Dux?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 08 September, 2016, 02:12:28 PM

Fuck it, you've inspired me. If there can be two identical threads about Steve MacManus, me and Pat Mills can both write books called Read Em And Weep. I should probably try and find some guy whose name just happens to be Kevin O'Neill to illustrate it.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 08 September, 2016, 02:27:43 PM
I think I'd rather read your stuff anyway Frank!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: moldovangerbil on 16 September, 2016, 05:10:53 PM
Is there any sign of a super special/signed/bookplate* edition of the Daily Dredds Volume 2?

I'm an absolute sucker for that sort of thing and given that there's nothing been announced this close to release I'm guessing the answer is 'no' but wondered if anyone had caught wind of anything like this?

Ta


*Delete any/all as applicable
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 16 September, 2016, 11:49:06 PM
I know this thread is forthcoming thrills right? But I keep thinking it means the forthcoming stories in 2000AD and the Meg!

Sorry for being a dumbass, but is there a thread for this - or any snippets of 'new thrills' as in NEW thrills coming our way?

Thanks awfully  :wave:

Si
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 17 September, 2016, 04:27:04 AM
Hi Si!

You (or anyone) is certainly welcome to add any snippets of upcoming stories into this thread.

The thread was started by Radiator, fine upstanding citizen of this parish, and he used to pull together all manner of news on upcoming stories as well as trades etc.

I don't seem to come across any news of upcoming stories so I just try and contribute what I can, which has evolved from saying "Hey!  This book is coming out!" to running a bit of a list.

I would welcome anyone throwing in any news they hear.

Cheers,

Dash.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 20 September, 2016, 10:42:37 PM
Some snippets from the Forbidden Planet website:

Meg 377; The return of Angelic by Rennie & Carter (excellent news), a new 'Movie Dredd' Judge Anderson story by Worley & Davidson, and the reprinting of Medivac 318. Surely a Luke Kirby reprint is a genuine possibility at this stage.

Meg 378; New Dredd story by Pete Milligan(!) and Tiernan Trevallion.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: dweezil2 on 20 September, 2016, 11:12:30 PM
Quote from: Pink Lime on 20 September, 2016, 10:42:37 PM
Some snippets from the Forbidden Planet website:

Meg 377; The return of Angelic by Rennie & Carter (excellent news), a new 'Movie Dredd' Judge Anderson story by Worley & Davidson, and the reprinting of Medivac 318. Surely a Luke Kirby reprint is a genuine possibility at this stage.

Meg 378; New Dredd story by Pete Milligan(!) and Tiernan Trevallion.

More Angel Gang shenanigans is very welcome and I've enjoyed the movie Dredd tales, so looking forward to seeing how Worrley approaches movie Anderson, especially after his sterling work on the comic Anderson prose novels!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 21 September, 2016, 06:43:56 AM
Also interesting that Medivac 318 is getting a reprint. Wasn't Hilary Robinson's work under ownership dispute? I wonder if a deal has been done or if this is a case of the Zeniths? Lets see.

One can only hope about Luke Kirby.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 September, 2016, 12:55:24 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 29 July, 2016, 04:57:06 AM
05 Dec 2016 - Judge Dredd: The Brendan McCarthy Collection - Click! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Brendan-McCarthy-Collection/dp/1631408240) - Hardback, 200 pages, IDW.

Judge Dredd: The Brendan McCarthy Collection
"Ground-breaking artist Brendan McCarthy has been at the fore-front of independent comics since the early 1980s as well as the TV and film industry, including co-writing and designing Mad Max Fury Road. This oversized hardcover collection showcases all of his stories and covers for Judge Dredd including "Oz," "The Day the Law Died," "Dr. Panic," "Atlantis," and more!"

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/JD_BMcC_zpsutpwq3hh.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: BPP on 21 September, 2016, 06:30:15 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 21 September, 2016, 06:43:56 AM
Also interesting that Medivac 318 is getting a reprint. Wasn't Hilary Robinson's work under ownership dispute? I wonder if a deal has been done or if this is a case of the Zeniths? Lets see.

One can only hope about Luke Kirby.

Don't quote me but I think it was just Zippy Couriers (lovely art) that was in dispute as characters in it had appeared prior to 2000AD.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 21 September, 2016, 06:45:23 PM
Wait, which characters?  :|
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 21 September, 2016, 07:32:23 PM
.
According to Thrill-Power Overload (p.136), the court ruling Robinson obtained decreed that she owns Medivac 318, Zippy Couriers, and Chronos Carnival. Molcher told Laura Sneddon (http://www.comicsbeat.com/mad-mental-crazy-the-true-life-of-the-fabulous-zenith-part-2/) that Robinson owned all three strips and that those first two contained characters Robinson originated elsewhere.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 23 September, 2016, 11:51:16 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 17 September, 2016, 04:27:04 AM
Hi Si!

You (or anyone) is certainly welcome to add any snippets of upcoming stories into this thread.


Thanks Dash - here's a few that I've pulled out of the prog - Thrills of The Future- maybe for 2017...


Hope: - by Guy Adams & Jimmy Broxton

Flesh: Gorehead - by Mills & Clint Langley

Kingdom: As it is in Heaven - by Dan Abnett & Richard Elson

Anderson: The Deep End - by Alec Worley & Paul Davidson

Hunted - by Gordon Rennie & PJ Holden [spoiler](Nu Earth story)[/spoiler]

Anderson: Dragon Blood - by Alan Grat & Paul Marshall

Savage: The Marze Murderer - by Pat Mills & Patrick Goddard


...also there was an Indigo Prime Story mooted some time ago which I am very much looking forward to...

Any more for any more?

Si

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 24 September, 2016, 07:21:12 AM
Don't think I've commented on the new Flesh, I'm in a strange state of nervous excitment over it. I know its seriously divided folks here in its previous (recent) runs but I've really enjoyed them. The change in artist however is the issue. I love Clint Langley on ABC, really was a fan of his work on Slaine and I just can't work out how good a fit he'll be on Flesh, he might be magnificent.... he might be terrible... guess the proof will be in the pudding. It'll be interesting finding out either way.

As for the other stuff there's some exciting stuff on the way. Savage seems to have been missing for an age (it probably hasn't just feels that way) and its always a joy to have Kingdom about.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Jacqusie on 24 September, 2016, 02:08:44 PM
Having just read the prog, there will be a fair chunk of those stories in prog 2001!

I'm looking forward to 'Hope' down the line - it looks very interesting and I think that Guy Adams has been building this world beforehand in his books (I may be wrong...)

I'm expecting the new Flesh to look very nice, but I also expect Gorehead to be captured and not to be killed for several different 'reasons' as these books lumber ever on...

Still there is the return of Trevor Hairsine - thats a billy bonus!

:)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mute77 on 24 September, 2016, 05:57:37 PM
More savage is always welcome.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 27 September, 2016, 08:18:50 AM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 23 September, 2016, 11:51:16 PM


Hunted - by Gordon Rennie & PJ Holden [spoiler](Nu Earth [/spoiler][spoiler] -- don't look-- [/spoiler][spoiler]Traitor General story)[/spoiler]



FTFY Si
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 September, 2016, 12:56:56 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 24 September, 2016, 07:21:12 AM
Don't think I've commented on the new Flesh, I'm in a strange state of nervous excitement over it.

Mmmm.  I absolutely loved McKay's art from start to finish, and the move away from the 'soiled doves' nonsense to future eco-politics and arena battles towards the end of the last series was very welcome.  The idea of Langley, while a hugely accomplished artist, worries me - his dinosaurs in Slaine: The Amber Smuggler didn't really impress, but then he's the also the guy who drew Dinosty and Lord of Misrule, which did.  And then there's the familiar cast playing cowboys this time, and the issue of Cretaceous murk... Mills knows what he's doing, I suppose.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 27 September, 2016, 09:21:25 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 24 September, 2016, 07:21:12 AM
The change in artist however is the issue. I love Clint Langley on ABC, really WASN'T a fan of his work on Slaine and I just can't work out how good a fit he'll be on Flesh...

I'm such a numbnut!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tony Angelino on 27 September, 2016, 10:05:54 PM
I think they could have picked a better Brendan McCarthy illustration for the front cover of that book. Seems a strange choice. I also don't really think of him as a Dredd artist. I remember him doing part of Oz and the Atlantis story and but that's probably just because they recently featured in the Mega Collection. 
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tony Angelino on 27 September, 2016, 10:30:54 PM
Quote from: Frank on 21 September, 2016, 07:32:23 PM
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According to Thrill-Power Overload (p.136), the court ruling Robinson obtained decreed that she owns Medivac 318, Zippy Couriers, and Chronos Carnival. Molcher told Laura Sneddon (http://www.comicsbeat.com/mad-mental-crazy-the-true-life-of-the-fabulous-zenith-part-2/) that Robinson owned all three strips and that those first two contained characters Robinson originated elsewhere.

I haven't read any of the Hilary Robinson stories since they first appeared in the late 80's. I don't have fond memories of them though. I group her in with Michael Fleisher in that respect. I will have to dig out my old progs and have a re-read though.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 27 September, 2016, 10:50:09 PM
Quote from: Tony Angelino on 27 September, 2016, 10:30:54 PM
I group her in with Michael Fleisher in that respect

Dear grud, NO!  Robinson's stories are in general different from the usual 2000AD fare, a bit less incident-packed and more reflective or maybe gentler, but they have characters, plots and humour, and a sense of being set in a larger world. So nothing at all like Fleisher.

I can see why they weren't wildly popular, but they're not at all bad, and there's some gold in there.

Proceed with your re-read and report back!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 27 September, 2016, 10:51:43 PM
I'd happily have read a lot more Medivac.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: maryanddavid on 27 September, 2016, 10:58:07 PM
I liked Survivor. Better that the second Mean Team outing anyway.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 28 September, 2016, 06:39:18 AM
Yeah both Zippy Couriers and Medivac 318 really still hold up for me. So others aren't quite as strong but she was a very welcome different voice in the Prog for me.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 28 September, 2016, 09:51:52 AM
Rummaging through Barney, it's interesting to see the balance of work she did. I don't really remember her Future Shocks, but Medivac clocks in at 132 pages and also had some excellent Dobbyn art. I always thought that strip had legs and should have run for years. I know 2000 AD returned to ER in space with Mercy Heights, but Medivac was the stronger series, to my mind.

It looks like Zippy Couriers and Chronos Carnival were equal second in page count. I found the former inoffensive and perfectly readable, but wasn't keen on the latter, bar the excellent design of the dragon. Survivor was fine. I forgot about her Doghouse scripts, though, and they were fun.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 28 September, 2016, 11:37:35 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 28 September, 2016, 09:51:52 AM
Rummaging through Barney, it's interesting to see the balance of work she did. I don't really remember her Future Shocks, but Medivac clocks in at 132 pages and also had some excellent Dobbyn art. I always thought that strip had legs and should have run for years.

I'll admit that I've quite forgotten about it, and am looking forward to revisiting it in the next few Meg floppies.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 28 September, 2016, 02:33:49 PM
Does the FP website really quote a Medivac reprint in Meg 377?

I'd welcome that and am another who vaguely remembers this at the time... an enjoyable and different strip in tone (with nice shadow-laden Dobbyn art).
Thing is, Meg 376 shows more Sinister Dexter for 377. I'd trust the floppy over a website.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 28 September, 2016, 02:45:50 PM
Quote from: Fungus on 28 September, 2016, 02:33:49 PM
Does the FP website really quote a Medivac reprint in Meg 377?
...
Thing is, Meg 376 shows more Sinister Dexter for 377. I'd trust the floppy over a website.
The listing in Previews has Medivac in both 377 and 378. Maybe there's been a problem with it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 28 September, 2016, 03:45:26 PM
Quote from: I, Cosh on 28 September, 2016, 02:45:50 PM
Quote from: Fungus on 28 September, 2016, 02:33:49 PM
Does the FP website really quote a Medivac reprint in Meg 377?
...
Thing is, Meg 376 shows more Sinister Dexter for 377. I'd trust the floppy over a website.
The listing in Previews has Medivac in both 377 and 378. Maybe there's been a problem with it?

Much as I want to get my mitts on a Medivac 318 collection, the SinDex floppies have been so amazing lately that I'd like to see us roll straight through Malone and into the War of the Moses era before we take a break.  That said, it's win-win.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 28 September, 2016, 03:50:46 PM
Yup, I'm happy with either too.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tony Angelino on 28 September, 2016, 05:00:35 PM
I am stunned at the level of support for Hilary Robinson.

For me she was always part of the 'dark age' of 2000 AD for that led to me giving up on it for some time. I would re-read some of her old stories right now except I've put them in a place which is really awkward to get at.   
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 28 September, 2016, 05:35:22 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 28 September, 2016, 09:51:52 AM
Medivac ... should have run for years

Felt like it did. There's nothing wrong with Robinson's writing, but running alongside The Horned God, Zenith Phase III, The Final Solution, The Dead Man and Wagner readying Dredd for the Long Walk, it felt pedestrian and inconsequential.

Everyone's so blandly nice. Robinson was trying to get away from punching and guns, but there isn't even any conflict between characters. The strongest emotion expressed by any member of the human cast is mild derision (followed by good natured compliance).

I'm glad everyone who enjoyed it is getting a chance to read it again.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Magnetica on 28 September, 2016, 07:32:05 PM
I'd be happy if every floppy from now on featured Sinister Dexter until they run out of material. After that let's have some Battle and Action stuff, which is kinda implied on the Meg letter page this month.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 28 September, 2016, 08:10:29 PM
Quote from: Magnetica on 28 September, 2016, 07:32:05 PM
...After that let's have some Battle and Action stuff, which is kinda implied on the Meg letter page this month.

Yeah it will be interesting to see if material from the deal starts to appear in Floppies. You'd imagine a good chunk will be ear-marked for possible trade or hardcopy collection but you'd think they'd be plenty to go around. Though they might test the market to see how robust sales will be first before making too many decisions?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: IndigoPrime on 28 September, 2016, 08:12:12 PM
Quote from: Frank on 28 September, 2016, 05:35:22 PMbut running alongside The Horned God, Zenith Phase III, The Final Solution, The Dead Man and Wagner readying Dredd for the Long Walk, it felt pedestrian and inconsequential.
Although later on, it rubbed shoulders with Harlem Heroes, War Machine (which reads great in one sitting but not in weekly chunks), and Dry Run. Perhaps I'll feel differently on re-reading the strip, but I always liked Medivac, and it was certainly a lot better than Mercy Heights, which has already been flopped.

As for material from other comics, now Rebellion has a ton of content, the smart move would be to sometimes use the Meg floppy as a massive teaser for paper or digital collections.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 September, 2016, 07:08:16 AM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 24 September, 2016, 02:08:44 PM

I'm looking forward to 'Hope' down the line - it looks very interesting and I think that Guy Adams has been building this world beforehand in his books (I may be wrong...)


Hope debuts in the end of year prog so we won't have to wait too long, Jacqsie.

As do Kingmaker from Ian Edginton & Leigh Gallagher, Dabnett & Mark Harrison re-unite more Grey Area, a Fall of Deadworld one-off courtesy of Kek-W & Nick Percival. Aquila: Mars in Venella from Grennie & Paul Davidson, the next series of The Order & "The Festival Flipflop" sees Ace & co. back in the prog proper again thanks to Eddie Robson & Nigel Dobbyn.

Oh, & Dredd by Rob Williams & the esteemed Chris Weston.

Looking good, Green Bonce. Looking mighty good.

Zarjaz, even.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: abelardsnazz on 29 September, 2016, 08:23:37 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 September, 2016, 07:08:16 AM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 24 September, 2016, 02:08:44 PM


Looking good, Green Bonce. Looking mighty good.

Zarjaz, even.

Seconded.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Rio De Fideldo on 29 September, 2016, 11:33:54 AM
We must be due a Grey Area collection soon? Mind you I'm still waiting for the complete Damnation Station.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: GordonR on 29 September, 2016, 11:59:13 AM
QuoteAquila: Mars in Venella from Grennie & Paul Davidson

That sound you hear is a thousand Latin scholars wailing in anguish.

It's Mors Venetiae.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Magnetica on 29 September, 2016, 12:31:11 PM
Quote from: Rio De Fideldo on 29 September, 2016, 11:33:54 AM
We must be due a Grey Area collection soon? Mind you I'm still waiting for the complete Damnation Station.

Good shout on both of those. I'd even break my "I don't read stuff I've already got rule" for them.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Richard on 29 September, 2016, 01:16:34 PM
I don't buy stuff I've already got. But if I didn't even read stuff I've already got, then what would be the point of having it?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 29 September, 2016, 07:22:57 PM
Chuffed we're getting The Order back so soon.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 29 September, 2016, 08:08:57 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 29 September, 2016, 07:22:57 PM
Chuffed we're getting The Order back so soon.
Aye, i'll share thise terms. The best post 2010 thrill so far, IMHO. Freaking adore The Order.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 30 September, 2016, 09:29:23 AM
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 29 September, 2016, 07:08:16 AM
Quote from: Jacqusie on 24 September, 2016, 02:08:44 PM

I'm looking forward to 'Hope' down the line - it looks very interesting and I think that Guy Adams has been building this world beforehand in his books (I may be wrong...)


Hope debuts in the end of year prog so we won't have to wait too long, Jacqsie.

As do Kingmaker from Ian Edginton & Leigh Gallagher, Dabnett & Mark Harrison re-unite more Grey Area, a Fall of Deadworld one-off courtesy of Kek-W & Nick Percival. Aquila: Mars in Venella from Grennie & Paul Davidson, the next series of The Order & "The Festival Flipflop" sees Ace & co. back in the prog proper again thanks to Eddie Robson & Nigel Dobbyn.

Oh, & Dredd by Rob Williams & the esteemed Chris Weston.

Looking good, Green Bonce. Looking mighty good.

Zarjaz, even.

Nice work Stevie.

It'll be good to have both Ace Garp and Nigel Dobbyn back in the Prog, the recent one-off worked for me.

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Rio De Fideldo on 30 September, 2016, 09:56:24 AM
I wonder if Tharg is saving the Bisley Joe Pineapples strip for the 40th birthday issue.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 30 September, 2016, 10:59:26 AM
Quote from: Link Prime on 30 September, 2016, 09:29:23 AM
It'll be good to have both Ace Garp and Nigel Dobbyn back in the Prog, the recent one-off worked for me.

Indeed. Dobbyn does the impossible and makes a post-Massimo Ace look good - not an easy job, as many prior horrors have shown. Even Cliff's version on the poster is terrifying!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 30 September, 2016, 04:48:30 PM
Trying to work out what will be taking the 4 slots into the new year and what will be end of year one offs. I'm making the assumption that the two new thrills will be ongoing. I'm guessing The Order is a series, though this could be a one off leaving the last space for Aquila and Grey Area. Given that Aquila has a 'title' my guess, nowt more of course, is we'll see that in January and Grey Area and Ace are self contaones treat sized stories?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 05 October, 2016, 05:07:03 AM
Quote from: GordonR on 29 September, 2016, 11:59:13 AM
QuoteAquila: Mars in Venella from Grennie & Paul Davidson

That sound you hear is a thousand Latin scholars wailing in anguish.

It's Mors Venetiae.

Right you are, Gordon.

Stevie mistook that sound for the superstorm (http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/storm-warning-sydney-melbourne-brisbane-hobart-adelaide-to-be-battered/news-story/464829aed96e95286f1fdd16d315d0ce) that blacked out his entire home state & sent sent his cribbed-from-Nigel-Molesworth-&-dinosaur-books Latin whirling out the window.

Oh, & it's Dave "rhymes with Nick Percival" Kendall as it should beon Fall of Deadword now that the waters have receded & the lights are back on.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 10 October, 2016, 07:46:55 PM
.
"I've just finished a new Mechanismo story (https://m.facebook.com/groups/1414432215489154?view=permalink&id=1740724869526552&refid=18) with John McCrae on art, and soon will be moving on to a follow up to Dark Justice with Nick Percival"


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Magnetica on 10 October, 2016, 08:25:13 PM
Interesting. I thought John Wagner was on record that he was bored to tears with the Dark Judges. Didn't he say something like that in this summer's 3 part thrillcast?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 10 October, 2016, 08:38:17 PM

I'm guessing hardback sales were healthy. Wagner's been saying he's bored with the DJs for a quarter of a century, but if he doesn't write it someone else will.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: PsychoGoatee on 10 October, 2016, 10:38:41 PM
Very pleased to hear about those new stories, and any new stories by John Wagner in general!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Rately on 11 October, 2016, 08:51:16 AM
Quote from: PsychoGoatee on 10 October, 2016, 10:38:41 PM
Very pleased to hear about those new stories, and any new stories by John Wagner in general!

I'll second that.

Be interesting to see where the follow-up of Dark Justice takes us.

Also, has John McCrea ever done a Dredd strip before?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 October, 2016, 09:02:05 AM
Quote from: Rately on 11 October, 2016, 08:51:16 AM
Also, has John McCrea ever done a Dredd strip before?

He has, most recently the lovely work on Shooter's Night. An artist with a wide range of styles at his disposal, all of them lively and expressive.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 11 October, 2016, 09:02:05 AM
yeah hes done 3 or 4 before over the years
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Fungus on 11 October, 2016, 09:30:37 AM
And the Mars Attacks Judge Dredd series for IDW of course.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Rately on 11 October, 2016, 09:57:59 AM
Love John's art, and I'll definitely have to grab the stories mentioned.

Thanks for the replies, fellas.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 11 October, 2016, 10:51:27 AM
Chuffed Wagner is back on Dredd but not too thrilled by McCrea, Percival or the Dark Judges back but willing to be convinced.
What about PJ? 😉
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 October, 2016, 11:50:44 AM
Quote from: Frank on 10 October, 2016, 07:46:55 PM
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"I've just finished a new Mechanismo story (https://m.facebook.com/groups/1414432215489154?view=permalink&id=1740724869526552&refid=18) with John McCrae on art, and soon will be moving on to a follow up to Dark Justice with Nick Percival"

Good find there Frank, more Dredd by the Wagner Droid is always welcome.

Interesting that Percival is following Staples on the Dark Justice sequel, another connection for both Droids (Percival's Jonni Kiss story followed Staples' one-off intro, both artists were involved with The Clown II, and if I recall, they co-illustrated portions of Slaine: The Jealousy of Niamh).

Their styles were similar enough in the 90's, but have developed completely differently over time.
I can picture The Dark Judges in Percival's modern style in my minds eye, and I like it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 11 October, 2016, 12:29:12 PM
When did mechanismo last appear?  It's been some time (not including Dredd stories).
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 11 October, 2016, 01:04:30 PM
They were seen in Tour of Duty weren't they as township security ? They are also in the current IDW run but that probably doesn't count
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Link Prime on 11 October, 2016, 01:05:50 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 11 October, 2016, 12:29:12 PM
When did mechanismo last appear?  It's been some time (not including Dredd stories).

Day of Chaos ('The Days After') I think...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 11 October, 2016, 02:01:51 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 11 October, 2016, 01:05:50 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 11 October, 2016, 12:29:12 PM
When did mechanismo last appear?  It's been some time (not including Dredd stories).

Day of Chaos ('The Days After') I think...

Wastelands, mabe? (Prog 1837-1841). Although they could have been those BritCit battledroids, I can't remember. Either way it's clear Justice Dept makes ample use of robots, it's just not in the 'unsupervised Judge' role, which is probably what defined the Mechanismo programme.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 12 October, 2016, 08:49:21 AM
Quote from: Frank on 10 October, 2016, 08:38:17 PM

I'm guessing hardback sales were healthy. Wagner's been saying he's bored with the DJs for a quarter of a century, but if he doesn't write it someone else will.

Because the music that they constantly play - it says nothing to John about his life?

Perhaps his interest in things Deadworld-ish has been re-invigorated by the sterling efforts of the Kek-W & Percival droids?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 12 October, 2016, 09:31:50 AM

Maybe, but Tainted is a zombie virus strip. When Long took a crack at the DJs themselves (the four part Dreams of Deadworld) the results weren't great.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: O Lucky Stevie! on 13 October, 2016, 07:46:45 AM
Are you suggesting that this might be another case of how Jim Reid of the JAMC used to watch Top Of The Pops for musical inspiration, Frank?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 October, 2016, 09:44:24 AM
Quote from: Frank on 12 October, 2016, 09:31:50 AM
Maybe, but Tainted is a zombie virus strip. When Long took a crack at the DJs themselves (the four part Dreams of Deadworld) the results weren't great.

Disagree, Dreams was fantastic!  Re-reading Young Death courtesy of the Mega Collection I was struck by how well Kek-W picked up Wagner's ball and made a more interesting game with it, populating the gaps between the low-key comedy of Sidney's rise and the horrifying excess of Bolland's Deadworld with his own grotesques and nightmares.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 13 October, 2016, 02:06:52 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 October, 2016, 09:44:24 AM
Quote from: Frank on 12 October, 2016, 09:31:50 AM
Tainted is a zombie virus strip. When Long took a crack at the DJs themselves (the four part Dreams of Deadworld) the results weren't great.

Disagree, Dreams was fantastic!  ... Kek-W picked up Wagner's ball and made a more interesting game with it, populating the gaps between the low-key comedy of Sidney's rise and the horrifying excess of Bolland's Deadworld with his own grotesques and nightmares.

I enjoy lots about Dreams, but it's 50/50. I thought the hilarious perversity of Mortis's offal factory was breaking new and interesting ground, but it mostly fell back on the bathetic contrast between how Hieronymus they look and their comically banal patter.

There's nothing wrong with that, but it's the same approach Wagner has adopted for the last 25 years (including Dark Justice), which absolutely everyone here agrees has run its course.

Obviously Dave Kendall's art is fantastic throughout and Tainted was unanimously hailed* as the best thing in the comic during its run. That doesn't really change the fact that it's about the Dark Judges in the same way America is a Judge Dredd story.


* Proudhuff doesn't count
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: TordelBack on 13 October, 2016, 05:06:30 PM
While I  grant you that the core gag stays the same, I think Kek-W does more with the DJs in Dreams than you give him credit for - he gives them individual characters for a start, and suggests a link between their own fears and the nature of their powers... as well as (with Kendall, obviously) giving the whole Deadworld setup a Dancers at the End of Time aspect that it was lacking. For the first time I got a sense of a global-scale nightmare, and what it really meant to preside over the end of all life.  And from a purely personal perspective, he made me interested again in villains that I was wholely bored with.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 13 October, 2016, 05:55:01 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 13 October, 2016, 05:06:30 PM
Kek-W ... gives them individual characters ... and suggests a link between their own fears and the nature of their powers

That's certainly the case with Fear*, but I'm not sure that's true of the others.

You could read Shaun Skullface offering his guests homemade wine as gauche Abigail's Party social anxiety that would leave him mortified, but only the screenwriter of Edward Scissorhands would think Zippo literally burning with desire was subtle stuff.

Dreams was great as a series of outside continuity Annual stories, but I'm not sure it answered the question of whether there was anywhere new for those characters to go in the larger continuing narrative.


* I thought that was a really clever idea in what was otherwise the weakest of the four strips
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 13 October, 2016, 07:56:16 PM
Anyone know if or when Fink Angel: Legacy will be released?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Hawkmumbler on 13 October, 2016, 08:23:59 PM
Quote from: Max Headroom on 13 October, 2016, 07:56:16 PM
Anyone know if or when Fink Angel: Legacy will be released?
Came out yesterday, chap! Saw a copy in my local Travelling Man as well.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Mute77 on 13 October, 2016, 08:34:11 PM
Didn't realise Fink Angel had been released-Amazon has it scheduled for a December release. Haven't read much of this so it's going on the to buy list.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Max Headroom on 13 October, 2016, 08:36:12 PM
This is good news. Just a shame Forbidden Planet mail order (where I get most of my products) don't seem to list it.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Eamonn Clarke on 18 October, 2016, 04:02:58 PM
The updated Thrill-power Overload is up on Amazon.
Thrill-Power Overload: Forty Years of 2000 Ad: Revised, Updated and Expanded! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085226/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_iJJbybTVAPTJ4

Hopefully Tharg will have a bookplate edition for us.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 18 October, 2016, 04:34:52 PM
Quote from: Eamonn Clarke on 18 October, 2016, 04:02:58 PM
The updated Thrill-power Overload is up on Amazon.
Thrill-Power Overload: Forty Years of 2000 Ad: Revised, Updated and Expanded! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781085226/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_iJJbybTVAPTJ4

Hopefully Tharg will have a bookplate edition for us.

Timed to come out for the 40th bash!
But I do kinda like this being updated and expanded. Whether I'll buy it is another matter. (...and I've just started on the quest to get the 30th version signed by everyone).

I wonder how much new content Is in this edition?

And if we are talking about stuff being updated and expanded, then - as Rebellion now own the rights - a new release for the Action: History of a violent comic, would be greatly appreciated...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tony Angelino on 18 October, 2016, 04:43:57 PM
It says 400 pages on Amazon.

My hardback only has about 250 (and a very menacing picture of David Bishop on the dustjacket)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 18 October, 2016, 05:02:25 PM
I'm sure I'll end up getting it, but if its what's printing in the Meg at the moment its just an uninspiring listing of what thrills ran when. I appreciate since Rebellion came onboard its been a lot more smooth sailing for Tharg and his minions but it does seem to lack a lot of the interest from them early years.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Spikes on 18 October, 2016, 05:28:27 PM
Quote from: Tony Angelino on 18 October, 2016, 04:43:57 PM
It says 400 pages on Amazon.

Well, if that page count turns out to be true, then that'll be something else.

TPO is impressive enough at the original page count. Nearly double that, and you could knock a wall down with it...

The original TPO stops about around(-ish) Prog 1500, so everything that has happened since then will be tackled??

Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Tjm86 on 18 October, 2016, 06:35:48 PM
I guess we'd have to assume that's the case.  How much new information has come to light since it was originally published?  As Mr Stacey says, the Meg is currently printing material that doesn't seem to heavy at present.  I've only skimmed a few bits since I'm saving myself for the full release (sorry, really didn't think that sentence through properly, did I?)  That said, my original hardback is showing signs of wear in the binding so a replacement is not the worst idea on the face of the planet.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Frank on 18 October, 2016, 06:44:23 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 18 October, 2016, 05:02:25 PM
I'm sure I'll end up getting it, but if its what's printing in the Meg at the moment its just an uninspiring listing of what thrills ran when. I appreciate since Rebellion came onboard its been a lot more smooth sailing for Tharg and his minions but it does seem to lack a lot of the interest from them early years.

Less potential for drama when the same two people put the comic together for the last decade and a half. Maybe we'll find out Pye Parr always put too much milk in Matt Smith's tea when it was his turn to brew up.

Plus, most of the creators from the period covered still work for Tharg. If Alan McKenzie was still in the Command Module at the time Bishop wrote Thrillpower Overload, we'd never have heard the half of what went on.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Rogue Judge on 19 October, 2016, 06:21:18 AM
This is probably irrelevant to most of you (in the UK), but does anyone know when Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth v. 3 US edition will be released in North America? Tharg had responded to my inquiry this last January saying it would come out this December, but I don't see it listed anywhere.

I may have to just buy the UK editions for vol 3 and 4 if they are not being released in US volumes. (I have already switched to buying the UK case files as they are way ahead and have better trade dress)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: sheridan on 19 October, 2016, 01:13:07 PM
Having read today's Damage report I'm wondering if we can expect to see 'How to Draw Comics the IPC Way'...
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: James Stacey on 19 October, 2016, 01:17:00 PM
Quote from: Frank on 18 October, 2016, 06:44:23 PM
Less potential for drama when the same two people put the comic together for the last decade and a half. Maybe we'll find out Pye Parr always put too much milk in Matt Smith's tea when it was his turn to brew up.
Now thats the sort of red hot expose we'd all pay to read.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Trent on 19 October, 2016, 01:26:48 PM
Other than storytelling necessities one of the beauties of 2000AD and the Meg is the absence of a house style.
Geniuses like Mike McMahon, D'Israeli and O'Neill sit alongside Bolland, Ranson and everything in between. Many have not really fitted in with Marvel or DC due to their idiosyncracy.
I would love to see a compendium tutorial from 2000AD artists but I maintain that 'The IPC way' is a misnomer.
A partwork from 2000AD artists a la Draw the Marvel Way would be a complete dream.
For anyone unaware of them the Wizard tutorial books are a bit superhero heavy but have tutorials from Bolland and others which are excellent.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 October, 2016, 02:15:38 PM
This isn't a Rebellion title but it's got lots of 2000AD people involved (how many can you spot?) and it's for a great cause.

Thought Bubble Anthology Collection: 10 Years of Comics (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1534300678) -  Image Comics, 136 pages, paperback.

Available to buy NOW!

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Thought Bubble Festival, which takes place in Leeds, Northern England from Nov 1-6, 2016, this collection features short stories and art by - CHARLIE ADLARD, GABRIEL BAUTISTA, GABRIEL BA, KATE BEATON, JORDIE BELLAIRE, IVAN BRANDON, JEFFERY BROWN, MARK BUCKINGHAM, CLARK BURSCOUGH, ADAM CADWELL, MIKE CAREY, EMILY CARROLL, CLIFF CHIANG, BECKY CLOONAN, BOO COOK, FAREL DALRYMPLE, RUFUS DAYGLO, ANDY DIGGLE, D'ISRAELI, MARC ELLERBY, MING DOYLE, WARREN ELLIS, GARY ERSKINE, CARLOS EZQUERRA, RAY FAWKES, DUNCAN FEGREDO, ROBIN FURTH, LEIGH GALLAGHER, STUART GORDON, BRANDON GRAHAM, NICHOLAS GUREWITCH, TONY HARRIS, WILL MORRIS, ANTONY JOHNSTON, BARRY KITSON, ALES KOT, EMI LENOX, TULA LOTAY, SARAH MCINTYRE, FABIO MOON, STEPHEN MOONEY, RAMON PEREZ, SEAN PHILLIPS, RICK REMENDER, EMMA RIOS, TIM SALE, FIONA STAPLES, CAMERON STEWART, RICHARD STARKINGS, BABS TARR, EMMA VIECELI, ANNIE WU & SKOTTIE YOUNG. All profits from this collection go to Barnardo's, one of the largest children's charities in the UK. See more at: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/TBA10_zpsziqgb4dt.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 21 October, 2016, 02:30:16 PM
Just to egg the pudding further, the anthology contains a Strontium Dog/Elephantmen story and a Judge Dredd/Elephantmen story, both with art by Boo Cook.  Carlos Ezquerra adds a page for Judge Dredd/Elephantmen.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: I, Cosh on 21 October, 2016, 03:04:17 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 21 October, 2016, 02:15:38 PM
This isn't a Rebellion title but it's got lots of 2000AD people involved (how many can you spot?) and it's for a great cause.
I make it 16. What do I win?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 22 October, 2016, 03:12:39 AM
You win the chance to support a great cause by buying the Thought Bubble Anthology, you lucky duck!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 October, 2016, 10:02:30 AM
Cursed Earth Uncensored - paperback edition

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/CEU_750_zpsnljgztrl.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 30 October, 2016, 10:04:59 AM
The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison & the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/British%20Invasion_zpscczkas9z.jpg)

Sounds like those boys done good.  What was the name of that paper they used to work on in their early days?  The title was some kind of number I think.


Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 05 November, 2016, 12:35:12 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 29 March, 2016, 11:49:23 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 20 March, 2016, 03:42:11 AM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 March, 2016, 12:05:14 PM
Now listed for pre-order at Amazon UK:

The 2000 AD Script Book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/2000-Ad-Script-Book/dp/1781084688) -  Paperback, 192 pages, 9th November 2016.
By Pat Mills, John Wagner, Peter Milligan, Al Ewing, Rob Williams, Dan Abnett, Emma Beeby, Gordon Rennie, Ian Edginton, Alan Grant, Leah Moore, John Reppion, John Smith, Simon Spurrier, & Kek-W.

Original scripts and the accompanying final art from the leading comics writers from the annals of the world famous 2000 AD comic.

FROM THE MINDS OF THE MEGA-MASTERS
For the first time Rebellion presents an astonishing and insightful collection of "2000 AD" scripts, written by some of the most successful and critically lauded talent behind the Galaxy's Greatest Comic . Featuring original script drafts and the final published artwork for comparison, this is a must-have for fans of "2000 AD" and is an essential purchase for anyone interested in writing comics.

And now back to Bob in the studio.

Cover for the script book.

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Scripts_zps4iravqd4.jpg)

New cover - with the short-lived rectangular logo retconned out of existence (and wasn't there another hovering display, perhaps even referring to a Mr Feet Smells of this parish?).

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Scripts2_zpsoprppony.jpg)

New new cover

(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x418/Dash_Decent/Scripts_750_zpsioam30iv.jpg)
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Colin YNWA on 05 November, 2016, 12:52:37 PM
Have to say I adore that new cover! Henry Flint at his astonishing best.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Robo-K33F on 07 November, 2016, 12:13:54 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 05 November, 2016, 12:52:37 PM
Have to say I adore that new cover! Henry Flint at his astonishing best.

So do I - Mr Flint always delivers the goods.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 07 November, 2016, 09:22:50 PM
It's come a long way from that initial cover, though I do like the dimensions of the original, suggesting something more squat and bookish.  The Henry Flint cover is brilliant* but looks like it has the dimensions of other 2000AD trades (which isn't necessarily a bad thing when you're trying to shelve everything together) and the 2000 AD logo seems too small.


*...though how can Tharg tell off the droids for bad scripts if they're pumped out of his brain?  Are the droids acting as degradation filters to reduce the enormous amount of thrill power in each Tharg-inspired tale to levels mere human readers can cope with?
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 07 November, 2016, 09:26:23 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 07 November, 2016, 09:22:50 PM
It's come a long way from that initial cover, though I do like the dimensions of the original, suggesting something more squat and bookish.  The Henry Flint cover is brilliant* but looks like it has the dimensions of other 2000AD trades...

The book's got a corresponding page of finished comic for every page of script, so it's no real wonder it had to be standard 2k trade dimensions.
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Dash Decent on 08 November, 2016, 07:54:09 AM
Oh yes, I appreciate that but the dimensions of the first design suggest it may not have always been the intention.  Also it's a more pleasing shape!
Title: Re: Forthcoming Thrills!
Post by: Molch-R on 11 November, 2016, 02:49:30 PM
Quote from: Dash Decent on 07 November, 2016, 09:22:50 PM
It's come a long way from that initial cover, though I do like the dimensions of the original, suggesting something more squat and bookish.

Oh, I've just seen this. Um ... that first design was never the cover, nor even just a placeholder. It was just something I put together for the Thrill-Mail in the absence of both. Sorry for the confusion!