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Homophone alert! Unless Vasilisa's plan was to enhance or physically lift Mega-City One above its current level, I think she meant to say "I will not rest until I raze this, your adopted city..."

Unless it's just a bad translation from the Sov.

The Order's got... quite involved.

I'm wondering how they'll be able to wrap it up in just one series.

Anyone else think that [spoiler]Buratino's[/spoiler] last line is a [spoiler]classic misdirect and he won't be the baddie after all?[/spoiler]

RIP

The Future Shock this time round felt like it could have come from a non-Regened Prog. Until the last page when it suddenly felt like it could have come from a non-Regened Prog from 1977-78 when the Future Shocks hadn't quite found their groove and were still doing "Adam and Eve were space people!" or "the ugly alien is actually beautiful to us!"-type punchlines.

ancient jokes (like Nikki Louder in Bladers punning off Niki Lauda, who retired in 1985 ffs, is an awful choice of name for a strip aimed at a young reader)

But kids won't notice that it's a pun, any more than I knew forty years ago what "Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein" was riffing off.

As I'm sure you know, you have to pay WHS an absolute fortune if you want to get them to display your title anywhere other the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'

Kids will assume the leopard is radioactive and open the filing cabinet in the hope of gaining superpowers.

I've said before, the big problem with the Regened progs is that everything in the regular prog grinds to a halt to make way for (mostly) less interesting stuff. Which is especially frustrating when the regular prog is on top form (Dredd and Chimpsky in particular).

It's also weird that they're interrupting Enemy Earth for a week when it's basically a Regened strip anyway.

The Dredd-verse strips (plus Dredd himself) are definitely the highlights of the prog at the moment. Given we're coming up to the tenth anniversary of Trifecta... and given Dirty Frank is still noodling over Smiley... does anyone else suppose we could be heading for a big crossover twist?

OK, just me then.

Thirteen pages is basically going to triple or quadruple the amount of Bonjo material Tharg has ever printed.

It feels like a long time since we've had some full-throated Dirty Frankisms. Welcome home.

This may be an unpopular thought in some quarters, but the new Chimpsky feels a lot more like what I'd expect from a properly 2000AD-flavoured Regened prog than a lot of what's appeared in the actual Regend progs.

This isn't the first time Johnny's had to deal with Zombie Wulf (who sadly is not coloured as green as der cucumber). You'd think he'd be getting deja vu.

This is the first time in ages that a Sinister Dexter episode has really clicked for me and it's amazing how it lifts the rest of the Prog (not that Dredd or Jaegir need much lifting, but everything feels more bouyant than it has been recently).

Even Skip Tracer seems tolerable now that it's heading for a conclusion.

Have we ever been told why Moe can see Dredd's helmet, belt, gloves and other accoutrements that might properly be considered clothes? Other than "because it's funnier that way"?

Also: part 23? Wow. Nice to see Tharg agreeing to play the long game with this. It's going to be a chunky collection when reprinted!)

Dan Abnett is the new Tom Tully.

I don't really find Brink that agreeable in episodic chunks and enjoy it more when I can read a whole series in one go. This one's a long time coming!