2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection

[Mattofthespurs]

Volumes 57 & 58 arrived today. They look lovely at first glance.

[sintec]

New Slaine really is a huge step back in the right direction after the last couple of volumes.  My books turned up yesterday and I've already read the 4 shorter stories in there and thoroughly enjoyed all of them.  The Swan Children is absolutely glorious a beautiful little celtic fairy tale with stunning art to match.  Just got The Secret Commonwealth left to go. Although after a quick flick through the pages and I'm unconvinced by the art, the style just doesn't feel like a good fit for Slaine at first glance - maybe it'll grow on me with a proper read.

[IndigoPrime]

The Swan Children and Macha, in this case aka the moiré years. Yuck. (Probably unavoidable, but still.)

[Jade Falcon]

Tried phoning Hachette direct, after an hour on hold I gave up, they don't reply to emails. What a bunch of useless incompetents.

[IndigoPrime]

I assume they're not responding on Facebook? Try responding very publicly in feeds if not. That tends to get them to reply.

[The Monarch]

can't believe i had to reactivate my long ago terminated facebook account just to try to get an answer from these people

[sintec]

Just got The Secret Commonwealth left to go. Although after a quick flick through the pages and I'm unconvinced by the art, the style just doesn't feel like a good fit for Slaine at first glance - maybe it'll grow on me with a proper read.

Nope - over the half way mark and can say I'm still not a fan. Which is a shame as I think there's a good story buried in here. A very odd choice of artist for this strip.

[IndigoPrime]

Didn't Bircham redo a bunch of things for the reprint, or am I misremembering?

[abelardsnazz]

Issue 59 contains:
Sooner or Later
Swifty's Return
Hewligan's Haircut
Zaucer of Zilk
Future Shocks: 60 Hours that Shook the World & Bad Maxwell
One-off: Breathless

[Frank]

Issue 59 contains:
Sooner or Later
Swifty's Return
Hewligan's Haircut
Zaucer of Zilk
Future Shocks: 60 Hours that Shook the World & Bad Maxwell
One-off: Breathless

Just looked up Bad Maxwell. Disappointed to find it wasn't a preemptive warning to pensioners about the impending sale of IPC's youth group to the Daily Mirror conman, but delighted to discover a Brendan McCarthy story I wasn't aware of.

Story's awful dreck, but McCarthy's McCarthy.

[IndigoPrime]

Issue 59 contains:

That's a wird mix, but a pretty good one. I guess I'll get to enjoy that in ~28 days!

[Dark Jimbo]

That's a weird mix...

Is it? They're all pretty of a kind, I'd say - spaced-out psychedelia!

[IndigoPrime]

Well, more a mix of weird than a weird mix.

[Dark Jimbo]

  Quite!

[Steve Green]

Didn't Bircham redo a bunch of things for the reprint, or am I misremembering?

Clint Langley redid some bits of his Slaine work - maybe that's what you're thinking of?