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I don't know about that. You might have fond memories of it, but it was 30 years ago and memories get rose-tinted. I just bought a few '80s Eagles a few weeks ago, and Dan Dare was shit.

If Rebellion owns the rights to Eagle now, they do far better to reprint Doomlord and House of Daemon.

It's nice that Tharg still commissions a centre spread star scan once in a while.

Thanks Alec! Must have taken you a while.

Hoping that The Scarlet Cantos makes it into the Ultimate Collection.

Given the impressive level of detail in Chris Weston's work, I suspect we'd be waiting even longer between stories. Let's not break up a winning team again and keep CW on Dredd.

Bye, Dan Abnett's Durham Red stories were brilliant. The third one was hard to follow week by week, but all in one go it makes perfect sense.

We just saw her in the 40th anniversary prog.

Colin MacNeil painted The Final Solution. Today, he would just do a line drawing and Chris Blythe would colour it in for him. I don't mind that on Dredd, but for Alpha I'd rather stick with Carlos.

I would rather wait a year or two for an outstanding Strontium Dog story by Wagner than read a mediocre one, or even an adequate one, by somebody else every six months. We've seen what that looks like before.

[Judge Dredd]

A very good prog this week!

Judge Dredd brings back Judges Pin and Gerhart, with outstanding art by Chris Weston.

Jaegir gets off to an action-packed start.

There's a Future Shock with great art by Dylan Teague.

There's a funny Sinister Dexter one-off (although it's back next week) which made me laugh out loud twice.

The new series of Anderson starts very well and I'm interested to see where this is going. Written by Emma Beeby, and colour art by Dave Roach which looks fantastic. (Have we seen his work in colour before?)

There's a Judge Fear one-off by Kek-W, which was okay but would have looked much more atmospheric if they'd kept the usual artist.

And Strontium Dog finally comes back — I read this first, and was not disappointed. Some good Wagner humour. [spoiler]I assume Alpha is only being such a dick so that Kenton tries his hardest to impress and doesn't get killed.[/spoiler] Best strip in the prog for me.

No.

Thanks Mike, looks good.

(The Hugos are like the Oscars for science fiction and fantasy. There's a film category but it's mostly for prose.)

Al Ewing was brilliant and we should get him back at once.

Thanks Flip.

That looks brilliant! Can't wait.

Would like to see more from Brixton too.

Can't remember a Blackblood one-off, where was that?

Ah, right. I read that a bit literally.

there wasn't really any such thing.

Oh yes there was. Indigo Prime has explained why far more eloquently and persuasively than I can — but so have you, because half of the examples you've given for why the prog was good in that era actually fall before of after that era! 2000AD was much better by the time (or because) Dante, Sin-Dex and The Pit started.

Some people have criticised the 700s, which does include Zenith IV and Luke Kirby, but I think there are plenty of strong stories in that period (so to that extent I agree with you). It didn't get really bad until the Summer Offensive. Up until then occasional misfires like Trash, Dead Meat and new Robo-Hunter where outnumbered by some excellent stories, like Firekind. It went really downhill in 1993 until the late 900s, when for every Button Man II there were ten terrible strips, like Wireheads.