Pimping the REBELLION TRADES.

[ukdane]

Well, anyone reading Previews May 2005, will have noticed as discussed elsewhere, the lack of Rebellion books in the DC section.

However the Eagle-eyed amongst you- and those able to do a "wrist-flick", might have noticed in the Rebellion section of Previews UK that the following books are listed:

Judge Dredd: Cursed Earth.
Slaine: Time Killers.
Nikolai Dante: The Courtship of Jena Makarov.
and...

.... I don't recall seeing/hearing it mentioned elsewhere....

...

Asylum UK.

[The Amstor Computer]

Ooh... that's interesting. I do have it on good authority that both "Cursed Earth" and "Time Killer" are to be placed on hold, so this listing may be a bit out-of-date, but interesting nonetheless.

Cheers, UKD!

[Grant Goggans]

Hmmm.  They're not in Previews US, but I'm not optimistic any of those three will appear in July.  The solicitations were almost certainly made in conjunction with DC, but, as we've seen a great deal in the last three weeks (has it just been three weeks?), the New York arm of this arrangement was not communicating well with anybody in Europe...

--Grant

[ukdane]

Grant,
As I say, it was Previews UK (the flip side of Previews).
And there are 4 titles listed, not 3. It's the first I've seen or heard of Asylum (given the controversy of Book 1 it seems somewhat surprising).
48 pages.
?9.99
Given that its only 48 pages, then that only collects book 1.
So expect a second small collection of book 2 too.

[The Amstor Computer]

The Asylum listing is intriguing, but  - and leaving aside the cutting religious satire of the "shitting vicar" (*ahem*) and the general quality of the series - I'm very disappointed to see yet another skimpy collection, especially when a "Complete Asylum" is entirely possible.

And that's not even mentioning the cost - ?10 for 48 pages? That's a damned expensive read for a pretty poor story, and the value-for-money just doesn't compare to the Rebellion/DC releases.

From memory, the only Euro books I've felt were reasonably priced for what you get were Banzai Battalion & Necronauts. Certainly, as nice as it looks, I don't know that nearly ?20 for Button Man I was a particularly thrifty purchase...