Forthcoming Thrills - 2024

[Dash Decent]

40 Years of Scream! Hardcover, 464 pages, 25 April 2024

464 pages!  Could this be every issue of Scream reprinted in a single volume?  Has "Diceman" kicked off a trend?  Will we soon see the Complete School Fun for everyone to, er, not buy?

Celebrating 40 years since IPC launched the UK's most iconic 'horror' anthology, this single volume collects all of the strips included in the 15-issue run of Scream!

Produced 'from the depths' of King's Reach Tower by the mysterious 'undead' editor Ghastly McNasty, the first issue of Scream! was unleashed on 24th March 1984. More tongue-in-cheek than horrific, the comic was an immediate hit with younger fans as it included a pair of fake vampire fangs attached to the cover and a number of fantastic new strips from such talents as Alan Moore, John Wagner, Jose Ortiz, Cam Kennedy, Tom Tully, Alan Grant and Eric Bradbury.

[nxylas]

I thought it ran for longer than 15 issues.

[Dash Decent]

There were five specials as well, but it doesn't look like they're included.

[Richard]

Stories in specials in those days were often quite poor and not written by the original writers, so it's probably no great loss.

[rs_jr]

I really hope Dante and Slaine get the same treatment nemesis definitive edition is getting

[broodblik]

Cover for Rogue Trooper "Blighty-Valley":

[IndigoPrime]

I really hope Dante and Slaine get the same treatment nemesis definitive edition is getting

I was curious to see how that would stack up. What surprised me is how compact Nemesis is, coming in at about 800 pages (which splits neatly across five books). Sláine is sprawling: close to 2500 pages. So that'd be a dozen volumes of this size (and I do wonder if there would be a drop of in sales after Horned God).

Dante surprised me, though – I knew it was hefty, but I didn't realise its page count rivalled Sláine's – from what I can tell, it's around 1800. So that'd make for nine deluxe volumes.

I'd love to see it, but to be honest I'm happy enough with the Hachette volumes for HC 2000 AD. And I'd be concerned about the series just stopping, given that we'd get, what, maybe a book a year? Nine years seems a punt, to say the least, even for one of my favourites.

[Trooper McFad]

I really hope Dante and Slaine get the same treatment nemesis definitive edition is getting

I was curious to see how that would stack up. What surprised me is how compact Nemesis is, coming in at about 800 pages (which splits neatly across five books). Sláine is sprawling: close to 2500 pages. So that'd be a dozen volumes of this size (and I do wonder if there would be a drop of in sales after Horned God).

Dante surprised me, though – I knew it was hefty, but I didn't realise its page count rivalled Sláine's – from what I can tell, it's around 1800. So that'd make for nine deluxe volumes.

I'd love to see it, but to be honest I'm happy enough with the Hachette volumes for HC 2000 AD. And I'd be concerned about the series just stopping, given that we'd get, what, maybe a book a year? Nine years seems a punt, to say the least, even for one of my favourites.

I'm still hopeful that they continue/expand the "Search & Destroy" Volumes (especially the web shop exclusives - nice)

[Link Prime]

Stories in specials in those days were often quite poor and not written by the original writers, so it's probably no great loss.

Au contraire - the Scream Holiday Special 1985 remains to this day on my all time top 10 comics list.

[Funt Solo]

Stories in specials in those days were often quite poor and not written by the original writers, so it's probably no great loss.

Au contraire - the Scream Holiday Special 1985 remains to this day on my all time top 10 comics list.

Side-note: the Revolver Horror Special (1990) was also rather good.

[Link Prime]

Stories in specials in those days were often quite poor and not written by the original writers, so it's probably no great loss.

Au contraire - the Scream Holiday Special 1985 remains to this day on my all time top 10 comics list.

Side-note: the Revolver Horror Special (1990) was also rather good.

100%.
I obtained a gratis copy of it from a generous boarder on this very forum many years ago.

[JohnW]

Cover for Rogue Trooper "Blighty-Valley":

That is a stone-cold killer of a cover, and possibly the best thing I've seen from the pen of Patrick Goddard.


(Mona Plankhurst diving through a block war - Prog 2263 - is a strong contender for personal favourite, though.)

[Max Headroom]

I really hope Dante and Slaine get the same treatment nemesis definitive edition is getting

I was curious to see how that would stack up. What surprised me is how compact Nemesis is, coming in at about 800 pages (which splits neatly across five books). Sláine is sprawling: close to 2500 pages. So that'd be a dozen volumes of this size (and I do wonder if there would be a drop of in sales after Horned God).

Dante surprised me, though – I knew it was hefty, but I didn't realise its page count rivalled Sláine's – from what I can tell, it's around 1800. So that'd make for nine deluxe volumes.

I'd love to see it, but to be honest I'm happy enough with the Hachette volumes for HC 2000 AD. And I'd be concerned about the series just stopping, given that we'd get, what, maybe a book a year? Nine years seems a punt, to say the least, even for one of my favourites.

I'm still hopeful that they continue/expand the "Search & Destroy" Volumes (especially the web shop exclusives - nice)

I think they will continue with the Strontium Dog volumes although I wish that there could be more than just one a year. I would also really like to see Slaine given the deluxe Nemesis treatment with improved repro for the earlier stories (although I take on board Indigo Prime's concern about the length of time it could take to finish). In my humble opinion, deluxe hardcover books for the most iconic stories is the way to go.

[nxylas]

I'd just like to see Slaine released in a uniform edition, with numbered volumes and a slightly more logical split between them. IIRC, Warrior's Dawn doesn't include the last couple of Belardinelli stories. Whereas to my mind, Kincaid/McMahon/Belardinelli is one era of the strip, and Fabry/Pugh/Pugh/Barney McGrew/Cuthbert/Dibble/Grubb is another.

[broodblik]

Black Max Vol 3: