Would appreciate the hive-mind's assistance if possible! :)
Being a completist, it's bugging me not knowing what 2000AD related novels I still need to acquire. I tried using Barney - but didn't have much luck (maybe I was looking in the wrong place?). I'm not too concerned about the digital novels - just the ones that have made it to print. I'm fairly sure my collection is up-to-date, with the exception of the last few years - where I lose track of what's been printed on paper - and what has remained in the digital realm.
Here's what I have...
The 9 x original Virgin novels...
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Moving onto the 'Black Flame' ones. 4 x 'Fiends' novels...
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9 x Dredd novels...
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2 x ABC Warriors novels...
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3 x Dante novels...
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2 x Caballistics novels...
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5 x Strontium Dog novels...
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5 x Durham Red novels...
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2 x Slaine novels...
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3 x Anderson novels...
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3 x Rogue Trooper novels...
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And finally the Fiefdom novel...
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This is where it gets hazy for me...I know I'm missing a few from recent years? Any ideas?
Found one of the novels I'm missing (in this case, an omnibus).
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LN8AAOSwlndZBH3V/s-l500.jpg)
Collects: City Fathers, Cold Light of Day, Wear Iron.
Not sure if these three stories were ever published separately - perhaps only in the digital realm?
Actually, I tell a lie - I'd be keen to know the novels/stories that have remained digital as well.
A couple more e-books...
Judge Anderson - Heartbreaker - WORLEY
Judge Anderson - The Abyss - WORLEY
(http://www.abaddonbooks.com/pimg/00/02/fd.jpg)
(http://www.abaddonbooks.com/pimg/00/08/5a.jpg)
Dredd - Down & Out - SMITH
Dredd - The Righteous Man - CARROLL
(http://www.abaddonbooks.com/pimg/00/08/2d.jpg)
(http://www.abaddonbooks.com/pimg/00/06/6d.jpg)
Any more missing???
More than I thought!
More ebooks...
Judge Anderson - A Dream of the Nevertime - WORLEY
Judge Anderson - Year One - WORLEY
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Strontium Dog - Among the Missing - SMITH
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Dredd - The Third Law - CARROLL
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Not too many more I hope! :)
The more I dig...
Never heard of this ebook before...not quite sure what it contains?
(found on the rebellionstore.com website)
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From the mind of John Smith to the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine, eight stories are now together for the first time in this digital collection. From the sublime to the downright disturbing, these stand-alone short stories feature the worlds and characters from some of John Smith's best known series.
The reptillian nun, conceptual artist and cosmic bounty hunter, Tyranny Rex, must survive Demonic forces, Occult organisations and dimension-hopping dream parasites if she wants to keep her tail in tact!
Agents of the interdimensional INDIGO PRIME continue their work repairing (and often even rebooting) universes under threat from catastophic reality-shattering events including New York disappearing due to a mass LSD trip and a powerful Vodoo Priestess resurrecting Elvis Presley by way of Magickal haircuts.
Meanwhile, vampiric Vatican agent, international celebrity and bon vivant, Devlin Waugh, finds himself the target of an obsessed stalker and diabolic entities...
Thanks Eamonn - so I'm assuming it's reprinted material from the Megazine (text only or art/text I wonder?)
Also - thanks for the FCBD issue - it arrived safe and sound. :)
The Anderson heat one book is being published later this year
Excellent - thanks for that, moly. :)
I see (from a quick Amazon search) that Judge Anderson : Year One will collect Heartbreaker, The Abyss & A Dream of the Nevertime. Good stuff!
Favourite thread ever (at the moment, except for that one).
I feel a spreadsheet coming on...
I'll keep throwing more stuff up here - if for no other reason - so I can refer to it later!
From looking at Amazon - it looks like the 'The Third Law' (the Rico book by Carroll) made it to print in March 2017. Another to look out for.
Also, I see a Judge Dredd: Year Two omnibus is due for print in October 2017 - collecting The Righteous Man, Down & Out - and a third un-named Dredd story by Cavan Scott?
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RFDLAnjfL._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
However, looking at the cover above - no mention of Cavan Scott - but Al Ewing?
Mentioned upthread, for Year One there were two ebooks published previously, then one more that made its debut in the print collection. As well as the Year Two book, I'm hoping for something similar with the two Anderson ebooks published so far.
Yep, as moly mentioned above - it looks like the Judge Anderson Year One 'omnibus' will collect all three of Worley's stories.
Interestingly - when you look at all of the e-novels above - there only appears to be ONE story that won't see traditional print at some point - that being the Strontium Dog e-novel, "Among The Missing".
I may be forced to print it out and make a custom copy! :D
I'll also throw this up. I've got the original three printed novels, but it might be of interest to someone? The 'I Am The Law' omnibus...
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51AEAPS6K1L._SX326_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
Collects : Dredd vs Death, Bad Moon Rising and Black Atlantic (the first three Black Flame novels).
Question - I know that the Stallone movie received both a novelisation and a junior novelisation. Did the 2012 movie get it's own novel? (yep, I know it got an illustrated script) I can't find anything on eBay - so I'm assuming not?
Re: John Smith's 'Weird Vibes & Other Tales' e-book. A check on Amazon confirms that it's text-based stories. The one that they use as a 'Look Inside!' sample (Indigo Prime) is from the 2000AD Yearbook 1993.
So if it's all reprint material, I'll cross that one off the list. :)
This is a very interesting thread topic. I had no idea there were so many!
I'd just started reading the A.B.C. Warriors: The Medusa War novel by Pat Mills & Alan Mitchell published by Black Flame. Usually I don't give the novels much shrift as at all canonical, but Pat Mills' name on this made me change my mind. I'm still in the early chapters of the book, so I won't weigh in yet with on any judgment of it.
What (if indeed anything) this novel has to do with the ABC Warriors story arcs "The Third Element" and "The Shadow Warriors" (both collected in The Mek-Files 03 hardcover), which together comprise what in the comic is considered "The Medusa War", is unclear to me so far, beyond the fact that the novel takes place upon the Warriors return to Mars, and that Medusa is awakening and reacting violently against the encroachment of human colonists on Mars.
Flipping through the book at the back pages, I saw that it mentioned "The war will continue in Book Two: Rage Against the Machines", but I had no idea that a sequel was actually ever published (they fooled me by thinking it would again be authored by Mills & Alan Mitchell, or at least the latter on his own). I'll have to look for that one now.
The three Dante novels were also collected in an omnibus, "From Russia with Lust".
Don't read the blurb on the back cover of "Day of the Dogs", it gives away a plot twist.
Quote from: Krakajac on 13 May, 2017, 08:07:29 AM
Collects: City Fathers, Cold Light of Day, Wear Iron.
Not sure if these three stories were ever published separately - perhaps only in the digital realm?
Yes, digital only until collected in the omnibus. Ditto Dredd Year Two and Anderson Year One.
Quote from: Krakajac on 13 May, 2017, 10:57:54 AM
I know that the Stallone movie received both a novelisation and a junior novelisation. Did the 2012 movie get it's own novel?
Unfortunately not.
Cheers, DD. Thanks for that further info! :)
Quote from: Krakajac on 13 May, 2017, 10:57:54 AM
I'll also throw this up. I've got the original three printed novels, but it might be of interest to someone? The 'I Am The Law' omnibus...
Collects : Dredd vs Death, Bad Moon Rising and Black Atlantic (the first three Black Flame novels).
I had two out of the three in that, though I have a similar collection (received as a birthday present) with Karl Urban's face looking out and collecting Dredd Vs Death, Kingdom of the Blind and The Final Cut.
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Quote from: positronic on 13 May, 2017, 11:24:21 AMThis is a very interesting thread topic. I had no idea there were so many!
I have quite a few but didn't realise how many I didn't have!
QuoteI'd just started reading the A.B.C. Warriors: The Medusa War novel by Pat Mills & Alan Mitchell published by Black Flame.
Flipping through the book at the back pages, I saw that it mentioned "The war will continue in Book Two: Rage Against the Machines", but I had no idea that a sequel was actually ever published (they fooled me by thinking it would again be authored by Mills & Alan Mitchell, or at least the latter on his own). I'll have to look for that one now.
The second one is by Mike Wild and I can confirm that Rage Against the Machines did come out, as I have a copy sitting on my bookshelf!
The Fiends of the Eastern Front omnibus also contains Blood and Honour, an essay on how the trilogy came about including extracts from my original pitch documents for the series. Pretty sure that was written as a bonus inclusion for the omnibus and hasn't been reprinted elsewhere since...
Lurking on my hard drive is the 35,000 words that got cut from Fiends of the Rising Sun, intended for use in the second volume of my Japanese Fiends series. Alas, the Black Flame imprint closed down and I never got to continue that story.
davidbishop
"Pretty sure that was written as a bonus inclusion for the omnibus and hasn't been reprinted elsewhere since..."
Music to the ears of a completist. Just purchased the omnibus (all 672 pages of it!). :)
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"Lurking on my hard drive is the 35,000 words that got cut from Fiends of the Rising Sun, intended for use in the second volume of my Japanese Fiends series. Alas, the Black Flame imprint closed down and I never got to continue that story."
Now that's some cool trivia - thanks for sharing!
@Krackajac -
I didn't get the sense of whether you were looking to collect all the variants of a particular book, but Barney shows a version of Eclipse by David Bishop with a different cover than the one you've shown from your collection. In case you're interested in collecting these variant-cover printings, here it is:
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/specials/hires/eclipse.jpg)
Quote from: sheridan on 13 May, 2017, 10:10:30 AM
Mentioned upthread, for Year One there were two ebooks published previously, then one more that made its debut in the print collection. As well as the Year Two book, I'm hoping for something similar with the two Anderson ebooks published so far.
I'm curious as to what connection (adaptation, one way or the other? sequels?) Matt Smith's Judge Dredd Year One prose novels might have to this IDW miniseries (here in the collected edition), with artwork by Simon Coleby:
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ogP0W5A6L.jpg)
And the same question applies to Matt Smith's Judge Anderson for IDW:
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ozejj8IZL.jpg)
there was 2 versions of the novelisation of the Stallone Judge Dredd film from Boxtree, the regular version & the junior novelisation.
Also in 1980 2000ad published the 2000ad space quiz book
Quote from: positronic on 13 May, 2017, 03:14:42 PM
@Krackajac -
I didn't get the sense of whether you were looking to collect all the variants of a particular book, but Barney shows a version of Eclipse by David Bishop with a different cover than the one you've shown from your collection. In case you're interested in collecting these variant-cover printings, here it is:
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/specials/hires/eclipse.jpg)
There are a lot of random & incorrect covers on Amazon for the Black Flame novels, many with my name erroneously on them! The only Dredd novels I've written were The Savage Amusement, Cursed Earth Asylum (probably my favourite), and Sielncer - all for Virgin Books; plus Bad Moon Rising and Kingdom of the Blind for Black Flame.
davidbishop
As Dave suggested above, lots of variant covers - when it comes to online images of the 2000AD novels. Hence me posting pics of my physical copies. :)
Yep, also got the Quiz book.
Dave - pity to hear that a second 'Fiends of the Rising Sun' novel didn't see fruition.
I believe there was an omnibus collection of the three Dante novels, in addition to the original printings which you already have.
Quote from: rogue69 on 13 May, 2017, 11:04:33 PM
there was 2 versions of the novelisation of the Stallone Judge Dredd film from Boxtree, the regular version & the junior novelisation.
Also in 1980 2000ad published the 2000ad space quiz book
Technically the 2000AD Space Quiz Book was published by Mirror Group (no idea how that deal came about). It sits on my shelf next to my novels, as do my 5 copies of the Titan Books paperback versions of certain JD stories, but that's just because they're the same size as the novels, not because I think of them as novels.
You appear to have missed one, Krakajac -- and understandably so, as this book would appear for all the world to be one of those cheap mass-market small-format reprints of 2000 AD comic stories. Not so! It does in fact contain a selection of short prose stories drawn from the contents of past 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Annuals, and while not actually a novel, it does fit the description of a unique assemblage of 2000 AD short fiction never before collected under one cover.
(http://rebellionstore.com/images/covers/9781849973212.jpg)
QuoteFeaturing stories by New York Times best sellers Neil Gaiman and Dan Abnett, along with hit comics authors Mark Millar, Peter Milligan, Alan Grant and more, this amazing collection brings together nine thrilling and unusual short prose stories from the 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Annuals and Specials. Never seen outside of those pages until now, this ebook presents these hard-to-find tales in one collection.
Features Judge Anderson, Judge Hershey, Judge Dredd and a roster of Mega-City One's unconventional characters.
So far as I can tell, available only in ebook format...
http://rebellionstore.com/products/sweet_justice_selected_short_stories_from_the_2000_ad_and_judge_dredd_annuals (http://rebellionstore.com/products/sweet_justice_selected_short_stories_from_the_2000_ad_and_judge_dredd_annuals)
One point of confusion here is that the book is listed on the Rebellion ebook store as "128 pages" which would in fact be the same format as the ebook-first format novellas later compiled into 3-in-1 print omnibus editions - which would include most of the new prose fiction series based on 2000 AD characters published since August 2012:
Judge Dredd Year One,
Judge Dredd Year Two,
Judge Anderson: Rookie,
Rico Dredd: The Titan Years, and
Strontium Dog: The Alpha/Sternhammer Years). However, in checking Amazon, they list the same ebook at 87 pages, although this might conceivably have something to do with Amazon's reformatting of the book from Rebellion's offered Mobi and Epub into Amazon's proprietary Kindle format.
Now it would seem likely that they could easily dredge up another couple of comparable-length collections of prose fiction from past 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Annuals that could easily become another print omnibus edition. Easy-peasy.
Quote from: Krakajac on 13 May, 2017, 10:38:32 AM
Interestingly - when you look at all of the e-novels above - there only appears to be ONE story that won't see traditional print at some point - that being the Strontium Dog e-novel, "Among The Missing".
Well, never say never, Krakajac. The first of those
Judge Dredd Year One ebooks came out in August of 2012, but it took a couple of years until it made it into print omnibus format. The first of those Alex Worley
Judge Anderson: Rookie ebooks ("Heartbreaker") came out in October 2014, and the print omnibus (
Judge Anderson: Year One) won't come out until June 15, 2017, so that one took even longer. While it appears that Matt Smith's Strontium Dog novella "Among the Missing" did not sell well enough to inspire another SD novella, clearly the idea is inherent in the cover copy "The Alpha/Sternhammer Years #1". It could happen yet, or even be paired up with a couple of the earlier Black Flame paperbacks in a print omnibus edition.
And in fact, if they were to want to follow up on the Judge Dredd omnibus trilogy of reprinted early Black Flame novels, they could do a 3-in-1 volume of Rogue Trooper novels, and
two (if they included Matt Smith's ebook) of Strontium Dog, just based on existing prose fiction.
And if Michael Carroll's Rico Dredd - The Titan Years THE THIRD LAW can make it into a print edition at a mere 90 pages, who knows if Matt Smith's "Among the Missing" might not eventually do the same?
Quote from: Krakajac on 13 May, 2017, 10:57:54 AM
I'll also throw this up. I've got the original three printed novels, but it might be of interest to someone? The 'I Am The Law' omnibus...
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51AEAPS6K1L._SX326_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
Collects : Dredd vs Death, Bad Moon Rising and Black Atlantic (the first three Black Flame novels).
According to the "Look Inside" preview on the Amazon US site, the book also lists
Eclipse on the the contents page of this whopping 768-page omnibus.
One of the original Virgin Dredd novels was republished as a non-Dredd novel some time later, I seem to recall.
Quote from: Dash Decent on 14 May, 2017, 01:07:51 PM
One of the original Virgin Dredd novels was republished as a non-Dredd novel some time later, I seem to recall.
Are you thinking about the proposed Doctor Who / Judge Dredd crossover novel? The deal fell through so it Dave Stone re-wrote it as a pure Doctor Who novel with the IP-infringing elements filed off.
Dave Stone: Burning Heart (http://amzn.to/2re9Ccm).
From the Author's Note (spelling intentional):
QuoteI have to acknowledge several people, without whom this book would have taken an entirely different course...
Andy Lane, who builded a Dreddful, as it were, Church into the Who continuity
The Church referred to is the Church of Adjudication, which has an Inquisition that wields absolute power over the twenty million inhabitants of the Habitat.
The Hundredfold Problem by John Grant was re-written as a non-Dredd novel, I think because the licence to use Dredd had expired.
Quote from: Richard on 14 May, 2017, 11:10:43 PM
The Hundredfold Problem by John Grant was re-written as a non-Dredd novel, I think because the licence to use Dredd had expired.
Ahh, this one - I had heard of it before but don't own a copy (I have the proper Joe Dredd version, but not Dave Knuckle.
(https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1179650367l/941897.jpg)
I didn't know the ebooks were starting to be released as print versions, I must get!
The Black Flame novels IIRC were for the most part a lot of fun, Fiends and Anderson were standout, and and few of the Dredds, Stront and Rogues were solid tales too.
Quote from: sheridan on 15 May, 2017, 12:34:47 AM
Quote from: Richard on 14 May, 2017, 11:10:43 PM
The Hundredfold Problem by John Grant was re-written as a non-Dredd novel, I think because the licence to use Dredd had expired.
Ahh, this one - I had heard of it before but don't own a copy (I have the proper Joe Dredd version, but not Dave Knuckle.
(https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1179650367l/941897.jpg)
What in grud's name is going on in that cover?
Quote from: CalHab on 15 May, 2017, 01:34:43 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 15 May, 2017, 12:34:47 AM
Quote from: Richard on 14 May, 2017, 11:10:43 PM
The Hundredfold Problem by John Grant was re-written as a non-Dredd novel, I think because the licence to use Dredd had expired.
Ahh, this one - I had heard of it before but don't own a copy (I have the proper Joe Dredd version, but not Dave Knuckle.
(https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1179650367l/941897.jpg)
What in grud's name is going on in that cover?
Looks like the Hulks have surrendered to the Femizons. :o
Quote from: CalHab on 15 May, 2017, 01:34:43 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 15 May, 2017, 12:34:47 AM
Quote from: Richard on 14 May, 2017, 11:10:43 PM
The Hundredfold Problem by John Grant was re-written as a non-Dredd novel, I think because the licence to use Dredd had expired.
Ahh, this one - I had heard of it before but don't own a copy (I have the proper Joe Dredd version, but not Dave Knuckle.
(https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1179650367l/941897.jpg)
What in grud's name is going on in that cover?
This was the original:
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/specials/hires/hundred.jpg)