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- What are your favourite volumes so far collected?
- If you could tomorrow magic any 2000AD reprint into being, what would it be and why?
- Is there any chance one day that we'll see Devlin Waugh collections that don't have repro from hell (Swimming in Blood) or a ton of missing speech balloons (Red Tide)?

I actually rather like where Halo Jones ends and I never really saw it as a cliffhanger. It felt like, [spoiler]after years of being hemmed in, she finally got her wish of freedom[/spoiler]. I'm not sure any more was needed, and too much time has passed for Moore/Gibson in their respective styles for a new series to make any sense. (Not that they'd do anything for 2000 AD these days anyway.)

Realises he's been an old stick in the mud for so long, quits the system—but for real—phones DeMarco and invites her out on a date. Tries to put his helmet on the top shelf in the cupboard, but falls off the stepladder and bangs his head on a sideboard containing all of his Book of Law collection. A massive and unnecessary sound effect says IRONY in yellow. The department no longer keeps tabs and DeMarco's annoyed she's been stood up. She emigrates with a giant gorilla called Dave, while Dredd slowly bleeds out in his room, dreaming of what might have been.

Dredd's found seven days later after Rico checks up on him. The strip then abruptly shifts in tone as Dredd refuses to leave the city he loves and becomes Ghost Judge. His new catchphrase is "You won't have a ghost of a chance", and every speech balloon sentence has to end with an exclamation point. There may also be a Bash Street Kids crossover.

Amazon has no legal obligation to sell to you at any price until it's taken money from your account. Even its pre-order guarantee has a ton of legalese behind it that you'd be hard-pressed to unpick if you were some kind of magic lawyer. That all said, the price has been bouncing around for ages, so perhaps a tenner or so is the cost price.

I'm after a copy of the Judge Dredd Megazine 3.73 in good condition. As per the following image, this is the Jan 2001 edition, featuring Dredd, Devlin Waugh and reprint of Button Man.



I can pay via PayPal or trade from a selection of 2000 AD-related trades.

On graphics packages, RAM is the main issue. Any reasonably modern PC will be able to cope with the likes of Photoshop reasonably well, but you'll need enough RAM to ensure that won't cause a bottleneck. 4 GB minimum, but 8 GB is sensible these days.

One other thing: if you're not already doing so, budget for including back-up drives and software of some kind into the equation or else examine some kind of online service (like Crashplan)—getting a new machine is a good time to start such a good habit of you're not already backing up/cloning your drives.

if Card held and publicly voiced* similarly intolerant opinions about black or Jewish people, he simply would not have got the job. No question. DC's decision sends a message that intolerance of gay people is somehow less bad than racism or antisemitism.

*applause*

This is exactly right, and it shows how far we as a society have to go regarding equality.

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I'd love to see that, but given that the series has been rebooted once already (from Rebellion's old hardbacks to the standard softback) and never got past an initial volume, I can't imagine it's at the top of the 'absolute priority' list.

As for the line-up, it looks strong. Great also to see some volumes not only coming back into print but also being spruced up a little.

Then again, why did the Sovs invade? It's a bit ret-con-a-go-go, but the history painted in Dredd over the past decade or so has Booth holding countries to ransom and blowing up massive chunks of that. Post-atomic wars, it's clear MC1 retained its previous status as a superpower, pushing around the rest of the world. This certainly doesn't excuse the Sov invasion at all, but I think it's a bit more complex than "nasty Russians invade on a whim".

That said, everyone blaming Dredd is a wonderful nod to modern politics, where everyone seemingly forgets anything that happened more than one cycle previously. In the UK, Labour did a lot of horrible things, but now they're seen as saviours of Britain. In 2017, I'm sure people will be pining for something else, and so the cycle repeats.

On Dredd in general, I think the mutants arc could be Wagner's masterstroke. Previously, the way things had gone were pretty much "Dredd is right". Sometimes, people ignore him, and bad things happen. That of course is precisely what also happened during chaos day, but it turns out Dredd didn't fully think through the mutants issue, which sowed seeds of doubt. It'll be interesting to see where writers take these threads in the future, and also how MC1 survives now it's been knocked back a peg or three.

Given that the Hellboy cartoon DVDs got canned after the first two—despite the character at the time having already had a reasonably successful movie outing—I can't imagine Dredd doing terribly well in that field. On TV... it could work, but again you'd need enough Americans on-side to fund it, and I just can't see something like that happening either.

@James: Ugh. Don't even joke about that.

Also, it's hard to imagine where the series is going to go from here and I'm left wondering if we might see the actual death of Johnny Alpha before this story arc is over.

It does feel a bit like it's driven into a cul-de-sac, but it'd be a bit odd if Wagner just killed him off again.

Bar the slightly odd and Hellboyish mouth, I thought the Dredd art was great. More, please!

Time Killer's presumably a second edition. (Wow, was it really six years ago that book came out?) Trifecta's going to be interesting to compile; I don't envy the editor of that volume...

Indigo Prime (I think) seems to base the assumption on the price?

If it doesn't end in .99 or .00 on Amazon, it's a US edition. Some might be restickered for UK sale, however, such as the reprint of the first Nikolai Dante book.