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Probably no help whatsoever (as you're talking about iPads), but if you have access to a PC, then Adobe Reader can be set up to view the PDF versions of the comic sensibly (as regards page-spreads). I have a big monitor, so I'm basically viewing the comic at print-size.

[17 - Let Them Eat Cake]

17 - Let Them Eat Cake

Only twenty progs after the big 500, we got the tenth birthday prog's celebratory cake - which was the other method of honoring prog 2000...


Prog 520's Ten Zarjaz Years! (from 1987, by John Higgins) has a pretty solid line-up of thrills on offer. This is a landmark prog as the paper quality and size made a permanent shift for the first time since the progs 110-128 high quality blip.



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Prog 2000's Happy 2000th Issue, Squaxx (one of the variant covers from 2016, by Glenn Fabry and Ryan Brown) has everyone throw on a smile (which looks creepy on Dredd) - except for Cyber-Matt, who looks stressed out, and Tharg, who looks egomaniacal.













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Next: TFIF...

[Dredd Reckoning]

Dredd Reckoning

It's the end of days and Grud has returned to Mega City One to judge the right and wrongs doings of Judge Dredd actions and to pass judgement upon him

I figured this would happen at some point...

Yes, and be sure to keep us up to date on what your optician says.

Over eight hours now and still no update on the optician's appointment. I'm starting to think this appointment will never happen.

Not sure if Wagner really wants to rule.

Comic book market size in 2023 USD 16.05 billion. Not as much as video games and movies, but not to be sniffed at.

Uhm ... Mega-Tharg?! Big jobs for Mega-Mek-Quake here...

It's Judge Urko, not Jesus Urko. As a letterer, I'd have thought your attention to detail would be better, Jim. New glasses, maybe?

[Cover]

Cover: knocking on the door to be in the running for the Top Three this year.

Fudge Bread vs. Mega-Shako: the more of this we get, the more I love the art. Extra bonus points this week for getting the noise of a galloping bear to work.

ggggg: I feel the need, the need for a re-read. Raymond Hirsch, it feels like I should know from two series back, but maybe I'm imagining that. This episode does more than anything before to position things within the solar system, and provide some traveling time data to let us know why the gggg the Mercury event isn't something you can just pop over quickly and check on.

Blackhawk: I'm all like "wait, Spartacus is a woman now?". But it's Blackhawk's dead missus from back in the day. I'd forgotten about her. So had he. Life's like that. Bleak. Bleaker for the demonic slave-masters. Bleak for Blackhawk when Hannibal shoves an elephant up his arse in a couple of progs.

Periwinkle Supreme - I called it, mofos! Everyone in the prime-verse has magic plot armor. It is getting a little "The Trade Federation has destroyed all that we have worked so hard to build." It's a brave attempt to make corporate meeting rooms exciting, but that's an uphill struggle at the best of times. Also, Depp's face in my comic where he's not on the wrong end of a shitty stick makes me queasy. You know, because he's a "wife beater". Man, it feels wrong to quote the Sun, but they won their day in court on that one.

Is he really cut in half ... or will he just sew himself back together with a magic space zip?

Salamander Irk - At some point, Vex will appear in his own strip. How mad would this be for new readers? Mind you, Nemesis Book I played that card a little - with him not showing his face until the end of the third episode. So, there's pedigree to this tactic.

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In the pipe, five by five. Well, maybe 4.5 out of 5, because of the Depp thing. Fuck off, Depp!

Ahoy, matey, tech-heads!

It's currently impossible to make any profile changes. When you click the "Change Profile" button you get dumped onto a 403 Forbidden page.

Please fix this so our resident Shark can change his profile picture each day, as is his wont.

Bump!

Self-immolation for the worship of a weirdo conman without a single redeeming feature.  What the hell is going on?

https://www.thejournal.ie/man-sets-himself-on-fire-trump-6359959-Apr2024/

It seems like he was just a sadly deluded individual (an avid conspiracy theorist) - and not a Trump supporter. There's a photo on the Beeb of him holding up a sign the day before he immolated himself. His sign reads "Trump is with Biden and they're about to fascist coup us".

He was a registered Democrat, self-described "investigative researcher"*, and enjoyed a smorgasbord of current conspiracy tropes under the general umbrella of the Great Reset [wikipedia].

*What avid conspiracy theorists describe themselves as, these days, in an attempt to give credence to their wild fancies.

A retro-AIIIEEEEE! from Sinister Dexter in "The Gangbusters":

Maybe Glinner and Growling are lawyering up, buoyed by their recent culture war victories and looking to sue Rebellion?

See, now I'm feeling bad.

With N-AI-mand, I find that I can pick almost anything to complete this sentence: the argument begins and ends with Moe Hallem. (Replace Moe Hallem with, say, Kyle Asher, or Mona Plankhurst, or Age of the New Flesh, or Noam.)

There aren't many Dredd writers at the moment that seem to *get* the madness of the city aspect of Dredd quite as well as the N-AI-mand entity manages to calculate, having harvested all of the inputs available to it.

++The fleshy creators will die!!!++