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#1
Prog / Re: Prog 2361 - Drokk Solid! Jo Stands His Ground
06 December, 2023, 07:28:41 PM
Have there been any announcements about giving digital copies to subscribers whose progs are still in the post? I'm two issues behind now, and only got Prog 2359 last week.
#2
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
10 November, 2022, 01:18:32 AM
At the time I hadn't read Invasion or any other Savage, but I remember liking it after I got used to the setting. Sadly it's only two stories, only a bit over 100 pages (21 parts but some of them were longer than 5 pages, might have even been one or two that were 10 pages) so it's unlikely to get collected, and adding the last Slaine story would be a bit of a tonal shift.

I don't know if there's any ABC Warriors left, but that might make sense
#3
Prog / Re: Prog 2238 - Dead stop!
29 June, 2021, 08:36:35 PM
Not a fan of Chimpsky's Law, the constant jokes in the captions don't land for me and just slow it down
#4
Other Reviews / Re: MISTY WINTER SPECIAL 2020
05 December, 2020, 05:37:12 AM
Quote from: Professor Bear on 03 December, 2020, 01:50:41 PM
The shorter strip is a neat update on The Night Gallery's The Cemetery by way of MR James so you can't say they aren't making an effort, but I'm pretty sure there's a more obvious influence that I can't put my finger on atm.
I'll call you in 7 days and tell you.

I kind of liked the first story, the only problem I have is you never see [spoiler]the ghost[/spoiler], which is kind of a missed opportunity. Even though I did really like the final page, and there's definitely a bit of Annihilation in the scene with all the journals in the shower.

In the second story, I think you see too many ghosts. And the ending did feel a bit rushed, I wasn't really sure why things happened. (Wasn't really sure why the phone ended up down the well in the first place, it looks like they get briefly possessed, but the boy's clearly talking to a ghost on the second page - which feels like two very different approaches)
#5
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
31 January, 2020, 12:29:18 AM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 30 January, 2020, 06:44:00 PM
athorist: lucky you. But their support page is littered with people who have major problems getting these books. My experience isn't unique.

I'm literally saying I've  been getting the books far later than you ever have, and you tell me I'm lucky?

I don't think I've ever gotten a book before the on-sale date, and at one point last year we were all a month behind
#6
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
30 January, 2020, 03:23:18 PM
I can tell from my Wikipedia edits this has never happened to me, the last one I did was about 2 weeks after the on-sale date. And I've been subscribed since day 1
#7
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
30 January, 2020, 01:41:57 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 29 January, 2020, 03:13:04 PM
(By my reckoning, 65/66 should have arrived on Friday, on the basis of my original subscription point. It's irritating being five weeks behind. If that turns into something like three months, that's just ludicrous.)

I just don't know why you think that, when Wikipedia has the on-sale date of 66 as 26th February. You're asking to be nearly a whole month early?

And the payment dates on the Hachette site are always backdated about 2 weeks
#8
Film & TV / Re: Doctor Who (13th Doctor)
13 January, 2020, 05:11:00 PM
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Quote from: IndigoPrime on 13 January, 2020, 09:58:55 AM
The reveal was hackneyed and could have been delivered in any number of other ways. (For example, rather than [spoiler]Earth, have the planet just be an alien one, but The Doctor say in a suitably chilling manner "and they used to be just like you – a civilisation at the top of their game, but they threw it all away".

But the whole point for us, the viewer, is that [spoiler]it's our earth[/spoiler]. Take that out and you might as well throw the whole episode away. I only wish they'd ran it December 11th

(And honestly they already did that, by introducing the idea of orphan planets, so you can talk about it without specifics)
#9
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
16 December, 2019, 03:30:22 AM
Been reading Sooner Or Later, and after this election, having someone take the piss out of them was really what I needed. And their system's much better
#10
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
05 November, 2019, 03:58:43 AM
Quote from: Jade Falcon on 04 November, 2019, 12:51:10 AM
Quote from: Tjm86 on 03 November, 2019, 06:37:37 AM
I'm sorry, are you saying that you do think it too many?

Yes, I've made no secret of the fact that I'm not a great fan of Slaine, and now that we're still going to get so many, and so often is a bit of a bummer.  If there was a way of doing a pick and choose order I'd do so, but that's not possible I'm afraid.

Look on the bright side, at least that means there wouldn't be any Slaine in the extension
#11
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
05 November, 2019, 03:51:24 AM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 02 November, 2019, 09:16:42 PM
Quote from: sintec on 31 October, 2019, 05:59:28 PM
I ummed and ahhhd about the Flesh book - but if we get an extension it would seem like a prime candidate for an early-period volume so I passed for now.

Don't take the risk its not worth it. Flesh is soooo good. If the sales still on get it. GET IT NOW... aham.... sorry got carried away now.... but do get it.

Although if you're a subscriber to 2000AD, you should have at least one 50% off coupon on your account (I've got two), so could still hold off for a few months
#12
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
20 October, 2019, 01:03:25 AM
I'm pretty sure Defoe is unlikely, seeing as it's been in the megazine the last 3 months, so that only leaves one book (and the current one). Having said that, I wouldn't complain about having it all in one volume. I think it definitely reads better collected than week by week.

On the other hand, they could just troll us and have another 10 volumes of Slaine.
#13
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
27 September, 2019, 03:31:07 PM
Given how many of the recent Mills books are out of stock, I'm wondering if they read his blog  :D
#14
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
13 September, 2019, 05:29:12 AM
Has anyone tried changing the delivery address, how much hassle is it? Not sure if I'll bother, when I've already got a postal redirect set up
#15
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
03 September, 2019, 12:32:01 AM
Quote from: Arkady on 02 September, 2019, 03:27:09 PM
Quote from: sintec on 02 September, 2019, 08:12:17 AM

Page count for both parts of Dominion would be slightly larger than the Deadworld content - although not too much for 1 volume.

I'm hoping it's because they've got a follow up volume planned for the, as yet unannounced, extension with both parts of Dominion and the rest of Fall Of Deadworld in it. Although that might be pushing the page count a bit. And of course there may not be any extension so...

I do think that's a bit odd then.
I think it might be that they decided what was in all the issues around the time of issue 1, or at least shortly afterwards. The Torture Garden only finished in June, and without that it's probably too short (Dominion's only about 50-60 pages).

It is kind of a shame that they didn't wait and give Fall Of Deadworld it's own single volume, but I'd only read it from the Prog 2011 story, so everything before that in the book was new to me.