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We should start a campaign to bring the Chrome logo back!

I still love the "chrome" logo of the 1980s. I'm sorry. I've read all the arguments against it, but I still love it. Delighted to see it in the main Prog again after all this time. And it works so well on that cover.

Sorry. I know it's not a fashionable view to have.

Extra points for "499p Earth Money" as well.

An I see. Thanks.

Both look so good that I'm going to have to go out and buy the other one when it hits the shops.

Now I'm confused, that's not the cover I've got.

Lots to enjoy here though, great fun so far, I'm off to read the rest of it.

Had to go and chop onions while reading that Hershey ending....

That cover is amazing!

Can't wait for the actual Prog.

I accept I'm not the target market, but is "low grade Harry Potter rip off" *really* what young readers want? I'd be delighted if they do and I'm just a deluded old fuddy-duddy.

Is it just a Harry Potter rip-off, though? My knowledge of modern manga is limited, but from talking to my teenage nephew, I understand that Naruto and My Hero Academia are both very popular, and have similar setups to Lowborn High.

It feels like one to me, but I fully accept I'm not the target market and there has to be a reason Regened has turned into a Lowborn High Comic with a handful of backup strips. I am assuming it's because Lowborn High is popular and I'm an out of touch old fart. I can accept that.

I always assumed that most regular progs are bought either by subscribers or completists, which includes the Regened progs. So if you add in those that buy regened only, of course the numbers will be higher. If you took the prog number off and made it a quarterly special, I doubt sales would be so high (I wouldn't buy it).

Well, quite. Which is presumably why they don't do it as a standalone title.

You'll invoke Jim.....

I'm sure younger people really are buying it in good enough numbers. And I think that's something to be celebrated.

Us old farts may be less keen on the most recent Regened progs but in the nicest possible way that doesn't matter in the config Regened. We need new readers on board and if they like slightly different stuff to us, that's ok.

To be a bit more positive about things....art and colours in all the strips are very good. I could actually follow Lowborn High this time, just don't think the story is that interesting. Points for the pupil flying about on a Henry vacuum though! Also notice the crescent moon logo has been moved down so it no longer looks like Clowborn High.

I am a supporter of the Regened project but all this year's have left me cold.

This was a decent enough Dredd but nothing else works. How long is this "20+ pages of Lowborn High" going to go on for? Looks like same again next time. Is it because it's cheap to do, or is it genuinely hugely popular and we are all missing something?

I'm rarely this negative. I've loved many of the earlier Regened progs but this isn't doing it for me. I accept I'm not the target market, but is "low grade Harry Potter rip off" *really* what young readers want? I'd be delighted if they do and I'm just a deluded old fuddy-duddy.

The Hershey strip divides me.
On the one hand, it shouldn't exist, but on the other hand, it's brilliant so I'm glad it does.

I'll go against the grain a bit here.

I still enjoy Sinister Dexter. And I'm enjoying this. And I love the reveal, even though it's out of sync with known timelines.

So there!

A differing opinion? Get out.

I know. Edgy eh?

I'll go against the grain a bit here.

I still enjoy Sinister Dexter. And I'm enjoying this. And I love the reveal, even though it's out of sync with known timelines.

So there!

I mostly agree with that. But sometimes the age of the characters can make the story seem too implausible, like two teenage cadets running around Mega-City One fighting crime without adult supervision. All fiction requires a certain degree of suspension of disbelief, but some stories demand too much.

Hmmm yes, that is a good point regarding this Cadet Dredd story...which I mostly enjoyed for what it was.

Given we've established within Cadet Dredd itself that cadets are usually supervised, why were they out in the streets alone here?

I'm also unsure how old the two Dredds are meant to be in these stories. They are sometimes drawn to look very young, but other times they look and act like fully grown men.