2000 AD Summer Special #1

[Judge MANSON]

Hi perps!!

I have just read the long listing of the April 2014 pre-orders form from my Online Comic Shop (86th Floor - UK) AND there is a Prog listed.
Its name is: 2000 AD Summer Special #1. Its cover price is £3.50.

Do someone has an idea about this Prog??? 

Thanks for your answers perps. In case you do not cooperate with the authorities, interrogation sessions will be used. No safety guaranteed.  A fee of 350 Creds will be required. Report to your main block entry any informations. False informations will be punished. Have a nice day, perps.

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Announcement here: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/03/15/rebellion-at-the-diamond-retailer-day-london-the-return-of-robo-hunter-more-dredd-sequels-and-paul-grists-demon-nic/

[Frank]

I'd assumed it was just going to be a bumper issue of the regular prog, in the same way the year end issue is sort of like the old annuals.

[Molch-R]

I'd assumed it was just going to be a bumper issue of the regular prog, in the same way the year end issue is sort of like the old annuals.

It is not, no.

[inkymonkey]

Lovely.  Looking forward to it...

[inkymonkey]

Molch-R, is it planned as a regular thing..?  And if so, how does one get to contribute..?

(I suspect I know the answer to this already, but shall ask anyway...)

[GordonR]

Fairly sure all the contributors mentioned so far have already been published in 2000AD - so it's not some open call try-out for undiscovered talent, I'm afraid.

[oshii]

So long as the cover features a group shot of 2000AD characters relaxing on a beach and/or having an ice cream from a Mr Whippy then everything else is just details.

[Frank]

Aye, it seems like the idea is to highlight a new stable of already published creators following the departure of a few writers to the US, and the apparent return to the idea of pairing relatively fresh talent with old house characters (see Guy Adams's Ulysses Sweet).

[Steve Green]

Yeah, it's a bit of a mixture, good to see Darren Douglas doing a strip, I was really impressed with that wraparound Dredd cover.

[Judge MANSON]

By Grud, I almost forgotten that I posted for this announcement... I musta go to the tek infirmary to check my memory chips!!

Anyway, this book will be mine!!

I hope that the future new ongoing Dredd will be released in the 2000 AD Prog size format. I have bough the Underbelly in its US size format and frankly, its unreadable. Fortunately enough that it was published into the JD Meg!!!

So, why not do a special "oversized trade" with the actual Dredd strips, shipped with the JD Meg??? That will be awesome!!

Until then, I have to keep the streets cleaned. Droids from Resyk will have hard works to do. Stay in the path of The Law. Trespass and you will be punished.

[Bat King]

I am looking forward to the Summer Special. Not going on a holiday though, my Mum used to buy Summer Specials to read on the train to our hols. I might just go somewhere on a train...

[Frank]

So, why not do a special "oversized trade" with the actual Dredd strips, shipped with the JD Meg??? That will be awesome!!

I hadn't thought about it before, but I suppose it's possible Rebellion might have some kind of deal with IDW which means they can get their hands on that American market material for a price that would make a UK-only reprint in the Megazine, or as trade collections, possible.

[Steve Green]

Get a cab to the seaside with some warm, flat lemonade and car sickness for the real experience.

[Molch-R]

I hope that the future new ongoing Dredd will be released in the 2000 AD Prog size format. I have bough the Underbelly in its US size format and frankly, its unreadable. Fortunately enough that it was published into the JD Meg!!!

So, why not do a special "oversized trade" with the actual Dredd strips, shipped with the JD Meg??? That will be awesome!!

We've not plans to do that - it's already being published in 2000 AD size as it'll be in the Megazine but when it's collected it'll be in US-format size. I'd disagree that it's unreadable - in fact, we received many, many compliments in Seattle last weekend about Underbelly and the decision to do it in US-format.