ABC Warriors: The Solo Missions

[QuickQuag]

Anyone have any info on why the Hammerstein MC-1 story didn't make it in?

[Link Prime]

Anyone have any info on why the Hammerstein MC-1 story didn't make it in?

Would have been nice thematically, but that was a Judge Dredd story (I assume it will be included in the Case Files).

[QuickQuag]

Of course. I'm still scratching my head trying to think of what JD does in it! 

[Steve Green]

Hmm - bit of a strange one - I don't think there's any specific film licensing issues, and Top Dog appears in both the Case Files and the Agency Files.

[rogue69]

I understand that the MC-1 Hammerstein story is a different Hammerstein droid and is not part of the ABC Warriors storyline.
Also Pat Mills is not a fan of this story

[Molch-R]

It won't appear in the Case Files, I believe, as it was not part of the main Dredd strip in 2000 AD (it was an extra strip).

[Jo-L]

It won't appear in the Case Files, I believe, as it was not part of the main Dredd strip in 2000 AD (it was an extra strip).

So is this one a candidate for the restricted files, or is it a story that there is no particular urgency to reprint?  I don't recall it's quality. 

Does anyone know how well it fits in with the overall timeline?  Especially with the Hammersteins showing up in Savage, and their actual timeline being fleshed out.

[Molch-R]

So is this one a candidate for the restricted files, or is it a story that there is no particular urgency to reprint?  I don't recall it's quality. 

I doubt very much whether we'll bother - it's ... an odd one.

[TordelBack]

So is this one a candidate for the restricted files, or is it a story that there is no particular urgency to reprint?  I don't recall it's quality. 

I doubt very much whether we'll bother - it's ... an odd one.

And with this simple statement, Molcher unwittingly created the holy grail of the reprint-everything community.

[Molch-R]

And with this simple statement, Molcher unwittingly created the holy grail of the reprint-everything community.

*breaks out the cattle prods*

[HdE]

Aw, dang!

In all seriousness - and without wishing to spark an uproar - I'd actually really been looking forward to reading that Dredd / Hammerstein story at some point. Oh well...

Still, I'm glad of this thread's reminder that I need to pick up the restricted files.

[Steve Green]

Shame, it has some good Brashill art - I haven't read it in a long while, and I don't remember it being terrible - or even that odd, compared to some strips which have been reprinted.

[QuickQuag]

I doubt very much whether we'll bother - it's ... an odd one.

Speaking as an owner of the original progs with the strip having swapped speech balloons (with Durham Red, was it?) on one page, you're not wrong! 

[Link Prime]

Speaking as an owner of the original progs with the strip having swapped speech balloons (with Durham Red, was it?) on one page, you're not wrong! 

Yeah, I remember that.
Another reason to reprint, if not for Brashills lush art alone.

[vark]

Oddly around 50% of ABC Warriors/Ro-busters related material has been printed in France, and "hamerstein" is a part of it! It has indeed his own volume!