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Yeah reckon it'll be somewhere around that, depends how much Megazine and specials content they include and the page counts of the remaining books. It's also worth noting that there'll be another years worth of Progs coming out in that time and I suspect none of that will make the collection so that'll drag the % down a little bit.

I had quite a lot of it done already. Just needed to add the last few months of UC volumes and the last year and a halfs worth of Progs to my spreadsheets. I've written a script which compares the 2 files and pumps out the data on how many stories were in each prog and which Hachette runs they've appeared in. If I hadn't started collating the data back in the early days of UC1 I doubt I'd start now as the amount of data entry would be daunting.

Also praise Barney. Without that resource this would have been much much more tedious.

Spent some time over the weekend updating my spreadsheets to see how much of the Prog the Hachette collections have now reprinted.



There's stil a pretty large dip in the early 90s but the 3rd UC extension has definitely filled that out a bit. There are now ~10 years where we have over 75% of the prog reprinted! With half of those being the "golden age" from 81-85 and most of the rest around 2008-2012 (is this the progs 2nd golden age?).

Overall we've got ~57% of the strips published in the Prog reprinted at this stage and there are 266 progs where we have all the strip content!

Sintec

 Have you updated your spreadsheet on percentage of published stories recently last one I found was a some time ago

https://imgur.com/p4llPOz.png

I haven't - will try to get it up to date over the weekend.

I'm still hoping against hope for a second volume of 'The Order' which would complete the story. It would feature the following:

Inbetween Days - Prog 2182
Land of the Free - Progs 2184-2195
Fantastic Voyage - Progs 2262-2272
Heart of Darkness - Progs 2317-2329

This would appear to be enough material for a book and the story and artwork certainly merit its inclusion.

Yeah 3 arcs is perfect for a book and it would definitely be nice to have the whole thing. Fingers crossed.

Out of interest what would you say is the other one?

Speed Racer.

Regardless of what you think of the movie itself, and lord do I know I'm in the minority of it's fans here, but it sure as hell captures the absolute fever dream that is the spirit of Speed Racer at its core.

Not seen it - will add it to the ever growing toWatch list.

Alita is the diamond in the rough, one of only two genuinely astounding manga to Hollywood adaptations.
More, Cameron and Rodriguez, I implore you for more!

Out of interest what would you say is the other one?

Next book is likely to be End of Days.

Yup, followed by 13 + Carver Hale + Future Shocks and Zenith vol2

From the artist credits it looks like that's going to collect everything Mike Carey has written for the prog.

Next book is likely to be End of Days.

Not the Dredd volume I was hoping for. Maybe it'll read better collected but it was a bit meh in the prog imo. vWonder what they'll pair it up with as I don't think it's long engough to fill and entire volume. Barney doesn't have the stats on it but it looks like it was 15 parts so that's what 90ish pages?

Narrowly managing to post this before the gig instead of after, but I'm going to this tonight:

Last July + Meg Lee Chin + Sex Bandit + Oogan + Guru Honey Badger at the Dublin Castle, Camden.

I had no idea Meg Lee Chin was still a going concern. Love her album Piece and Love.

Jeff Walker is an absolute bellend.
Good looking tour though, some small venues should give great atmosphere. Be interested to know how the gig goes - hope you have a great time.

Bellend is better than sex pest - which it appears Lindemann from Rammstein has now been outed as

Harlem Heroes: 160 pages is slim – almost like a Marvel volume! I imagine this will be HH and perhaps Inferno? I can't imagine Matt Smith will inflict the horrors of the reboot on the masses.

Yeah it's shorter than any of the Mega Collection volumes, although far from the shortest UC book (which was Book Of Scars). 

Original HH series is 112 pages according to Barney, so I'd guess this will be all of that plus some bits from annuals and the like. Second volume would then be 180+ pages and have all of Inferno. That'd be much nicer than splitting Inferno across the 2 books imo

Hachette did 2 hardback volumes which collected most of Bad Company in the Ultimate Collection. Think they missed out a couple of the more recent stories but from what I've heard that isn't a massive loss. They're out of stock on the Hachette site but you might be able to find them on ebay or somewhere.

Next few books have just appeared on the Hachette site

• 143: Harlem Heroes Vol 1
• 165: Button Man Vol 1
• 141: Slain Dragontamer + Black Siddha

From the credits on the Dragontamer book I suspect it'll also have the Lord Weird Sloug Feg story from the Villans special and The Bogatyr.

So it's all of the Machine Law trade and some of the Guatemala one missing out:

• By private contract
• The trouble with Harry
• Get Jerry Sing