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Thanks.

How many covers does it actually have (approximately) ?

I finally got my prog today. Very impressed indeed.

Dredd story was a strong one (in both episodes), enjoyed the Ezquerra homage. Somebody above commented about lack of character development or something, but I don't know about that -- apart from the question of how far you can do that in just 12 pages, I actually think that the SJS judge's character came across as pretty distinctive in just 2 1/2 pages, and I for one would enjoy seeing him again in anther story. [spoiler]And the judge at the end was a Tek-judge, not the sort of judge who executes perps in the line of duty, so I don't think there is really a plot-hole here. She equated "crime" with "violence," rather than considering the legal niceties of lawful execution.[/spoiler] Best non-Wagner Dredd this year.

15 was good fun. I like Tom Taylor's dialogue: "[spoiler]He's acting kinda crazy and I want to see what happens next[/spoiler]," and the "attack squiggle" last week. I have enjoyed this more than all the previous 3rillers.

3hrillers - Erm... a bit confusing this last part. I take it there's air in there so the dad-guy isn't going to die now?

No offence but I can't see what gave you that idea. He's still going to die, [spoiler]he just has one minute left to live, which he gets to spend with his son who he hasn't seen in a year[/spoiler].

Next series of Aquila looks quite promising.

Lenny Zero was fun.

I'm not as enthusiastic as other posters on this thread about a third series of Ichabod -- it seems to me that this week's episode would be a perfectly logical place to end the character. I don't see much room for any more story here (but maybe the writer will come up with something). I think that Antonio Fuso has done an excellent job in imitating his predecessor's style, so if there is a collection one day the different artists don't jar with each other but make a pretty seamless transition.

Hate next week's cover. If you had never read 2000 AD before, would you buy that?

So: no Mars and no mutants?
I have absolutely no interest in watching this.

Daily Star -- definitely yes.
Metro -- absolutely no way. Please don't. It was dreadful.

It's this kind of thing that makes me wish that Judge Dredd wasn't fiction.

I don't really think that one site and one comment should start the alarm bells ringing.

Well it's actually more like one site, one comment and one trailer for one massive film...

PS: Plus if we don't there will be two "prog 2000"s in about four years time.

(Apologies if anyone has already raised this in the last 48 hours but I have not been on the forum since Monday.)

Two days ago this web article pointed out that the latest trailer for the new Dredd film describes Dredd as being based on a comic, but omits to mention the comic's name:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2012/08/21/2000-ad-comic-book-is-snubbed-in-latest-dredd-3d-trailer/ "'2000 AD' Comic Book Is Snubbed in Latest 'Dredd 3D' Trailer"

Then in the Comments section somebody speculates that this could be because in 2012 a brand called "2000 AD" might be off-putting to people unacquainted with it.

Now I know that we have already been through all of this before, most notably around the Millenium, but with a new block-busting film about to take the world by storm (I hope), it seems to me that this problem has just become more urgent. A new Dredd film should be a massive marketing opportunity for the comic, and the name is increasingly tying our hands behind our back. It's all very well saying that people in Britain know what 2000 AD is, but Dredd 3D will be unleashed on a global market, and many people will see the 2000AD logo for the first time when they go to see the film.

Please can we not let this opportunity go to waste and change the comic's name before the sequel (if there is one) comes out?

If the studio commissions a sequel, would you definitely do it? Or have we assumed too much?

Yes it is (although not entirely consistent with the continuity of "The Pit" I think).

I think this is a pretty good collection of stories. It has the correct dates on the cover (not the dates on the cover shown in the advert in the prog or on Amazon). It has some of the old features which recapture the mood of the annuals the stories first apepared in. And it even has the "You Are Judge Dredd"-type story from Diceman, which they left out of the previous volumes because they thought it didn't count as a proper story -- it does in my book, and I'm delighted that it has finally been included.

As for Placebo and Funeral, they weren't very good and they were only merchandising ploys anyway, so try not to worry about it, you're not missing anything.

Kraken was the only survivor of the attack on the Grand Hall in MC1, which was later.

No that was something else. Dredd killed Nimrod in 2004's "Total War."

One you left out: Simeon, another Judda Dredd clone who was captured in Oz and could still be alive in a cube there.

[NOT]

NOT the Angel Gang or Rico, for goodness's sake!
The new films should not have anything in them reminiscent of the 1995 film.
Why would you just do a re-hash of the failed, discredited Stallone movie and thereby give all non-fans the impression that there is nothing else to Dredd than the same old recurring villains, as if there is not a huge cast from 1800 back issues of fresh material? I can't think of anything else which would make a sequel less likely to happen.

I liked Fargo on the 10,000 credit thing.