2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection

[Hackenbush]

"The best of Sonny Steelgrave"

Why no Hershey volume?
I cannot be the only person who liked those stories in the megazine..
I assume the new ones written by Rob Williams are good too...

[Colin YNWA]

Why no Hershey volume?
...
I assume the new ones written by Rob Williams are good too...

They really are, but manage to stir up a hornets nest of controversy.

[sintec]

Why no Hershey volume?
I cannot be the only person who liked those stories in the megazine..
I assume the new ones written by Rob Williams are good too...

The new ones have fairly recently had a webshop exclusive HC which might make Rebellion less keen to put them in this collection as it might cannibalise sales. While I'm not the biggest fan of the Hershey spin off I'd rather have those here than Mean Arena, the art is fantastic.

Tbh I think there's still material for another extension - question is are the sales still there to support it?
I'd be happy to see any of the following get included in the collection.

Return to Armageddon
Brigand Doom
Armoured Gideon
Scarlet Traces 1
Scarlet Traces 2
Durham Red (incl Scarlet apocrypha)
Damnation Station
Survival Geeks
Stickleback vol 2
Kingdom vol 3
Flesh vol 2
Shako + Ant Wars
Savage vol 4
Mambo
3rillers
Milligan collection (Shadows, Freaks, Conterfeit Girl)

[IndigoPrime]

Another extension would require reasonable sales and also willingness from both parties. As you say, there's easily enough material for another ten books of objectively solid quality — in fact, that list looks better than the average quality in the current extension. The question is whether it's worth everyone's time at this stage in the publication's lifecycle.

[sintec]

Yeah I reckon they could do another 20 books and keep the quality pretty high. Whether that's viable probably comes down to how many subscribers are still signed up tbh.

[IndigoPrime]

Yep. Hard to know what the drop-off is like for this kind of thing. I imagine there is a gradual shift as the collection goes on, but at some point it must be reasonably slow, because people are in it for the long haul. That said, I stepped off at this new extension and imagine I wasn't alone.

[The Corinthian]

Can anyone confirm what Brass Sun Vol 2 includes yet?

[The Monarch]

all the rest of brass sun thats not in vol 1

thats all

[The Corinthian]

That's great. I wasn't sure it would be worth double-dipping on the Rebellion hardcover if this one didn't go right up to date.

[Arkady]

Late to the party I know, but MY GOD Cradlegrave is good. Some of the stuff in there is very disturbing by the prog's standards.

[Blue Cactus]

Late to the party I know, but MY GOD Cradlegrave is good. Some of the stuff in there is very disturbing by the prog's standards.

Great isn't it? So incredibly atmospheric.

[Richard]

Is Brass Sun ever coming back? It's been four years!

[Dark Jimbo]

Is Brass Sun ever coming back? It's been four years!

It's Edginton! Stickleback was gone for six; Helium's been gone for eight!

[Richard]

Alright then, we need to shackle him to a desk.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Alright then, we need to shackle him to a desk.

Don't threaten him with a good time!