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Definitely an apt title for this week.  Interesting cover by Jake Lynch. 

Dredd - concluding Cascade.  My copy must have been a dodgy print judging by the washed out look on the first page.  Marshal on art duties is a pleasure as always.  Carroll does what he always does best, viewing mega city from an outsiders perspective.  Conclusion looks like it is setting up the next step in the arc started at the end of call of duty.  Can't recall the individual in the message though.  Could do with going back and tracking that down.

Aquila - barrelling along nicely.  Gallagher's art is a pleasure as always.

Brass Sun - really enjoying this and looking forward to reading it complete.

Black Shuck - not really getting this though.  See where it is going before reaching a final conclusion.  Yeowal on art duties is helping with the perseverance.

Jaegir - now this is where Rogue Trooper should have been taken a long time ago.  Coleby on art is a perfect match.  O'grady's colours do the artwork justice.

Best:  M*A*S*H

Worst:  all covered above.

No love for the Rogue Trooper annual? Or Starlord 1981 (which, IIRC, has a Dredd story in it)?

The Rogue Trooper Annual was not one of the best. Towards the end of the hardback annuals where what little love there was was diminishing rapidly.   The Starlord's are nice and well worth a read (as is the whole run that has not spiked in value for some reason even with the free gifts)  but you may be thinking of the 1980 (or 1979) Dan Dare annual that had a Dredd strip in.  If you haven't read it I wouldn't panic too much.  I need to look at replacing my 1981 Dredd Annual.  Looking a little well read!

Most of it is reprint material anyway. Worth owning for completists sake?  I wouldn't have said so.  The non reprint strips tend to be ok but nothing spectacular.

Didn't they reprint the Dredd in one of the Specials collections recently?

Disposable Heroes sells them cheaply at the time if you can't make it.

Tried that one this year.  Never showed.  emailed them a few times asking.  First one got a reply ... give it time.  Then nowt.  Only 99p so no major fowl (sic).  Would recommend Place in Space.  Used them quite a few times for one offs.  Very good service and reasonable prices.

I have to be honest I've been contemplating cancelling my subscription for a while.  Whilst it improved from the early issues where it appeared to be largely a clone of SFX with an unhealthy obsession with the film versions, I felt that it never really achieved it's full potential.  As a monthly / quarterly / whatever title it could never focus on current / upcoming titles but considering the rich history of comics on both sides of the atlantic I felt that it quite often skimmed the surface.  A classic example was it's review of Starlord(UK) which ran to a scant two or three pages.  The meg has done a far better job over the years in it's profiles of titles, story lines and writers and artists.

Charles Stross' latest Laundry novel, The Rhesus Chart.  In the same vein (excuse the pun) as his other Laundry novels.  Enjoyable, fast paced, plenty of black humour.  I guess I've been working for the government for too long since what he tries to present as a mickey take is way too close to reality on the mindless bureaucracy side of things.

A new movie-Dredd strip starts, not with Henry Flint this time but I like the art all the same.

I was in two minds when I first heard that Flint was not on art duties on this but reading it, I thought it was a good first episode and Davidson's art was well suited.

Overall this was a good meg for my money.  Month til the next one seems a long wait, which must be a good sign.

I'm just annoyed that I missed the whole Queen and Prince Phillips corpse issue.  Where was that again?

There are some things you can just see coming ....

That thread title was just a loaded gun, wasn't it?

and replied to.

there's not much I'm after at the moment so not sure swaps is way to go.  £25 inc p&p?

... but my new sub doesn't start until 1788...

Would now be a bad time to point out the current prog number? Not wanting to depress you or anything..

And received.  Thank you kindly.  None of these guys ever get this side of the Severn except for the Cardiff Comic Mart  (which seems to have fewer and fewer comics these days) so getting signed copies is a bit of a challenge.  If you manage to get the rest of the DOC trades signed let me know.

Calvin and Hobbes is yet ANOTHER series i've been meaning to read. I've been a Garfield fan as long as i've been reading comics but C&H has always been pushed further down my purchase pile...

I can't even believe anyone could even consider this!  Ca&H is phenomenal.  Has to be one of the best cartoon strips of it's time.  I replace all my trade paperbacks with the complete box set.  A beautiful edition that really allows you to savour the strips  (or binge if so inclined).  The subtlety, simplicity and incisive wit is a joy, as are the subtle visual gags.

Read it, you will not regret it!

Just had a rummage and it appears my list of duplicates is not as up to date as I think!

I have the following spares that you have listed:
301, 308, 309, 324, 325, 326, 332, 377, 378, 416, 417, 450, 455, 456, 457, 459, 460

Don't know why I'd missed them.


Any use?

The rest of my spares seem to be ones you already have.