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The inside scoop from the Secret Dredd Writers' Club:

Every Lawgiver round incorporates all the special round features.  The default setting is Standard, but selecting a specific round type activates that mode in the next bullet to be fired.

Lawgiver rounds are probably really expensive to make...

Voice activated too - that's why Dredd has to shout out what he's about to do (the side-affect of which is warning the perps what to expect)

Good! Use your nerdy feelings, boy. Let the geek flow through you.

Racked on newsagents' shelves wrapped inside a plastic bag. Not because it was especially pornographic, but because it was shite:

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=profiles&choice=1066

Oh I don't know, the Dredd tale was pretty good and undoubtably prophetic!! 

Thought you were going to say prophylactic for a moment...

I've seen a few Jinty ads lately - looks like the resurrection of 1970s/1980s British children's comics is continuing apace.

I had a supremely creepy one yesterday.
I was on my way home from work in Manchester Piccadilly and in the crowd one waved to catch my attention and pointed behind me. "I think you dropped something-" so obviously I stopped to see what I had dropped, but when I turned around confused I saw him standing in front of me with his hand out. "Thanks for stopping, nice of you, would you be up for signing on to Virgin medias new broadband plan?".

So not anything to do with a charity then?  Odious term anyway, I refuse to use it.

What Tordelback said, thats pretty much my review in a nutshell.

One question: is the Judge Death tale set in Gotham?

Yep - though I'm sure if it was written in the story it would have taken a few years of negotiations between corporate lawyers of Rebellion and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc...

Needless to say, I have nothing against female comic creators*

*bought a great one today-

Didn't realise female comic creators were for sale these days?

I'm pleased that the Sci-Fi Special has returned, I remember an all female cast way back (in 1990?) although Tyranny Rex really has changed so much, I'm not sure it's the same Tyranny Rex that used to be in 2000AD - it must be a clone ey?

I think you're thinking of 1989: Judge Anderson/Corey, Tyranny Rex, Moon Runners, Zippy Couriers and Maze Dumoir

TYRANNY REX - Katy Rex (really?) delivers a pretty boring story, with Leana Kangas's sketchy art doing nothing to improve it.

I wondered about that name too.  As for the story, it was okay but style-wise seemed more like Sinister Dexter than Tyranny Rex.

What, have you never seen a sideways kneepad before?
Or a boot so large an old woman could live in it?
Or a bearded Dredd gazing longingly into what appears to be Frank Miller himself's eyes?

It's all genius, and you know it! 

Bearded Dredd?  Seems to happen when you get someone from the US to draw 'im ;-)

Said Frank Millar when he turned in 'that' cover.

It mightn't have been quite on the scale of Guernica, but 'that' cover certainly elicits a similar response of raw horror...

Named after an infamous bombing campaign - so the latest cover must be called Coventry, or Dresden?

Why on earth would Red be topless on the cover of 2000 AD? It's not the bloody Sun. Anyway...

Same reason Anderson was topless in a Sci-Fi special in the dreaded nineties!

So people who work for a charity are 'scum' are they?  Charming.  This is the kind of attitude that led to a person of my acquaintance (who, despite what rogue69 says did work for the charity in question) getting pushed into a busy road by a complete stranger (before anybody jumps to any conclusions - it was a passer-by who pushed my friend, not somebody who had been approached).

Just to combat other lies peddled by rogue69, the street fundraisers were paid a wage, not a commission.  The charities are not having money taken away from them - why would they pay for fundraising if it didn't bring in any funds?  That wouldn't make any kind of sense.

For those who think that getting paid to work for a charity is the worst thing in the world (usually at below-market rates, I might add) - if a charity wants to build a hospital, do you think the builders should donate all their time for free?  How about the architects, electricians, plumbers, doctors, nurses, health care assistants, cleaners, etc?

street fundraising

Zoe Saldana, 39.

Interesting what engages the mind at 7:04am...

I, er, had a dream...

Did it involve people on a jungle planet, the Starship Enterprise for some Galactic Guardians?  (didn't recognise the name so had to look her up - turned out I'd seen at least three films she's been in)

I'd be amazed if it's only three!

You're right, I've seen six - Pirates, ST, Avatar, STID, GotG, GotG 2 (still need to see ST III and the latest Avengers).

Zoe Saldana, 39.

Interesting what engages the mind at 7:04am...

I, er, had a dream...

Did it involve people on a jungle planet, the Starship Enterprise for some Galactic Guardians?  (didn't recognise the name so had to look her up - turned out I'd seen at least three films she's been in)