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What John Higgins's wondrous painted colour double page spreads for the absolutely essential, landmark Dredd story Revolution ever did to Keith Richardson to warrant such shabby treatment, I can't imagine.

Maybe you have a short memory, but I recall that the printing tech at the time was a problem for some of the chunky volumes, to the extent Rebellion genuinely wasn't sure what it was going to do for Nemesis 3 and Strontium Dog 5. In the end, the tech and costs became feasible to do the mixed CF-style volumes, hence we got the colour strips. I imagine that if the Case Files started from scratch today, there'd be no question about including colour strips in colour.

(Sidebar: Girl from Gaza? Really? That's in incredibly poor taste.)

It'd be nice to live in a world where people that want the old stories in colour have that option, and those that don't have that option, too. Maybe digital is where that will eventually happen, as people expect colour on their tablet screens. The only additional cost of production then would be paying the colourist, not the printer.

The thing is, companies need to make money. Rebellion can make cash off of repackaging old material for resale. But add a colourist to the mix and you're very rapidly eating into that profit margin. The only way that wouldn't be the case would be if the colouring happened to be done at speed, but then you could end up with the same botched-up mess that IDW created with its 'remastered' (and truly terrible) Transformers Classics volumes.

I also suspect that even if Rebellion got its best colourist on the case, the response from the US wouldn't be enough to justify the costs; and I can't imagine enough Brits would double-dip, so they'd be reliant on new sales. Even then, they're better off just doing a new run on an existing book, as and when needs arise.

Case Files vol 1 through 11. Those are black and white. As of Case Files 12, the volumes are mostly full-colour (as in, the strips are mostly full-colour—every volume has mostly colour strips). For the more recent trade collections, everything's in colour.

Maybe not—my sub copy hasn't arrived at all yet.

If none of them can be found we'll go with the low res copies. But, to be honest, they'd look pretty crap.

To expensive to have someone restore, or would that not be authentic enough for the collection? (Or both?)

"Judge Mortice"

I remember trying the C64 version of this disaster a while back. Ugh. Looks like the Speccy version's no better.

Well, if it resulted in more strips along the lines of The Incident on Mayger Minor, I wouldn't complain.

And bottom-left of the page: "In memory of Jan Shepherd." A lovely touch from the in-house team. (And, I admit, that logo does still do the business for me, now I see it on the page.)

I guess that explains why my resub pack took so long to arrive. Horrible to hear about the flooding—lots of that about of late.

Now... is the kind of person who has 200 action figures on permanent display also the kind of person who spends their free time in never-ending dusting?

There are no toys outside of my study, but quite a few Zoids in it. Most of the time, it's like they've been caught in a sandstorm. The little buggers are a nightmare to clean. Mind you, the collection's due to be heavily culled shortly—new baby means prioritising a bit differently. Similarly, lots of 2000 AD stuff to go too (on account of the fact I've, rather oddly, ended up with duplicates of a ton of issues and the like, now taking up suddenly very valuable loft space...)

I also use ComicZeal and find its nonexistent handling of Double page spreads quite annoying. I've not found a better alternative unfortunately.

Try Chunky. That's VERY nice on iPad, not least when it comes to upscaling and rendering.

As for Comixology, there's still the question of the cut; maybe Rebellion's happy being in control of its own offering, rather the ceding control to Amazon to do whatever the hell it wants (such as wrecking the UX of Comixology on iPad).

Well, assuming that you've decided that judgment isn't a perfectly acceptable spelling, for some reason...

Not from that clip.

I agree—if the magazine is worth it. I still much prefer 2000 AD in print, and love the current iteration of MacUser, which is more like a designer's bible than typical computer mag. And although people might argue the toss over sustainability, I imagine you'd from a resource standpoint get an awful lot of trees for the equivalent expenditure on a single shiny tablet!

Really glad to hear it, but I suspect comics might be an anomaly, and 2000 AD in particular may also be an outlier of sorts, due to availability issues outside of the UK. Tech mags and even beautifully created digital publications like Edge don't seem to be setting the world on fire though.