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A Friday prog! Ntot had one of those since I don;t know when, so lets have a quick look

Dredd continues to be interesting and derivative in equal measure (could ahve done without Senior Leadership Team intrigue again  - get enough of that in real life!)

Pat couldnt have written a more PAt script for this one if its his last - evil wummin who we never heard of before is casually mentioned and is now super important to Joe's entire backstory (so now she just needs to tur up next week)

Hope: nope

The Out is pretty, but dragging its heels a bit - hope it gets a move on soon

Vex ... Vex I already feel like I need to reread the first few parts of this one, let alone the previous tales... frutstrating as an alien space opera should be right up my alley...

Not sure if "crossdress" is a phrase the kids are down with, so if not I apologise in advance!

He likes/d to crossdress, which is by no means the same thing

Since when did Joe have a thing for girls?

Since Day One, in fairness! He got booted out of his elite assassin unit over an affair with a human officer's wife before he met Hammerstein.

Really? I could swear he liked boys.

I'd have liked it better of he hadnt drawn it on A4

Mine is fine (and turned up before the shops got em!  back to sort of normal) - no inky problems

Dredd is a good tale, but man, Dredd remains verbose.  Niemand ticks many of the Wagner boxes to the degree I do sometimes wonder if this is how Greta Van Fleet fans feel, but the dialogue...

It's a common error to give Dredd too much to say (I know I found it a problem with Gordon's Dredd back in the day, which means I;m still not 100% convinced KN is his own person, just 90%  -same with his dick move on page 1)

It might have been Judge Bramm (?) who famously replied "Grim.", but that "exciting telegrams(?)" description of Wagner scripts should apply to the dialogue as well.  That final panel is as good an example as any -

"Citizen Aguerra, I'm recommending your accusation against the Night-shift cook at Petey's Hottie-2-Go is worth further investigation"

or

"Seems like you were right, Citizen" (or something better if Wagner wrote it!)

Elsewhere, I've lost a bit of enthusiam for The Out since the Tankinar arc kicked in, but still welcome

I lost Proteus Vex despite a reread before the last run, so I'm taking this run on its own merits, as any good story "should" work that way right?

2313 landed, so hopefully things will speed up from here - still arguably 6 days late, but better than 6 weeks!

i have 2310 and 11 so all the pre Xmas progs are here

Same offer as Colin - I have dups of 10,11 and 12 free to a good home if you are still without

Xmas prog arrived, but no 2310 or 11 (or 13)

The art on that looks loverly... but if it isnt Wagner, I'll be somewhat disappointed.  Given Wagners opinion on such crssovers, I'm guessing it isn't and they just started feeding Pre-Dredd Wagner scripts into the Niemand algorythm.

Got the Megazine this morning, but still missing the progs - If I was going to get one, that'a the one I resisted buying from the shop, so there is that!

But its weird that the Meg was the last of them to be released and the first to make it through.

I dont think anyone is blaming Rebellion - if anythign, I worry for them when they get a tidall wave of requets for duplicate copies while the originals languish in some backwater sorting office untouched for weeks.

It;s possible RM have a way of identifying magazine subscriptions and have depriorotized those, though IP's Phoenix's dont appear to have been half as badly affected as the only other datapoint we have

Some have also got through, so it can't be a blanket decision taken near the source. 

However, it's pretty frustrating that absolutely nothing has made it out to me after the best part of 5 weeks - In that time I've sent post 2nd class and it has taken a week or so to get through, so it does seem theres a specific issue with the prog for them to land in big chunks or not at all.

Still nothing since 2309 here - simultaneously relieved I bought some shop copies and perturbed that I'm never going to see them (or the Meg).  I understand a week or two or three delay, despite other post making it through - but over a month now for 2310? 

John a gent as always!

My understanding was that they worked out the plots together, but then wrote alternate scripts - so Pat wrote Iron Legion, John wrote City of the Damned (my personal favoourite - BARA BARA THE BLOOD BEAST!), PAt wrote Star Beast and so on 

If I was RTD, an adaptation of City of the Damned would be my first priority!

This is giving me heavy duty Deja-Vu - havent we been here before with this premise, which most obviously seems an "Ordinary" (by Rob Williams/Disraeli?) rip off, but then spirals into an argument about Mark Millar's Zenith text tale and prior sources of "inspiration"....

From the Guardian's 35 must see shows:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/28/the-35-must-see-tv-shows-to-look-forward-to-in-2023

Extraordinary

Imagine a world in which everyone has a superpower bar you. At the age of 18, everyone starts being able to walk through walls, commune with the dead, morph into a cat, or trigger an orgasm with a single touch. This fresh, witty comedy from first-time TV writer Emma Moran, and created by Killing Eve's producers, introduces us to Jen, who remains powerless at the age of 25 and is desperate to discover her gift, at any cost.

So the Christmas trailer seems to indicate this is a pretty close retelling of the original Star Beast (as close as can be with a different Doctor and 40 years between them)....

Not a peep out of Mills/Wagner or Gibbons about this on the Socials, so presuming they ahve been paid for the adapation (I;m sure Pat would let us know if not!), but I will be keeping the original in my canon over any remake!