Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection discussion thread

[Tjm86]

So, throwing the speculation hat into the ring, any guesses for stories in this volume?

The Dillon one has got me seriously scratching my head.  I don't ever recall him doing a Klegg story (not the same as saying he didn't mind).  I wonder if this will be Trapper Hag by dint of them both being Alien Mercenaries?

[Arkwright99]

The Dillon one has got me seriously scratching my head.  I don't ever recall him doing a Klegg story (not the same as saying he didn't mind).

It's almost certainly a long shot but there's some mutant alligators in the Dillon drawn "Alabammy Blimps" serial; they look a bit like Kleggs, if you screw your eyes up and squint really hard. 

[Tjm86]

if you screw your eyes up and squint really hard. 

I tried that, it just looks like a really blurry seal of the president.

[Dark Jimbo]

The cover of volume 30, Klegg Hai!, is now on the official site. Cover credits are Robbie Morrison, Garth Ennis, Rob Williams, John Wagner, Colin MacNeil, Chris Weston, Carl Critchlow and Steve Dillon.

So, throwing the speculation hat into the ring, any guesses for stories in this volume?

Ennis, MacNeil and Morrison will be The Corp and Maelstrom; Williams, Weston and Critchlow will be the two post-Trifecta Sensitive Klegg stories; Wagner could be Night of the Blood Beast; Dillon has me stumped, though. I 'd be surprised if the Edgington/Collins Klegg one-off from Megazine 201 was not also in there.

[Dark Jimbo]

Dillon has me stumped, though.

Aha, no he doesn't! I'll be the Hunter's Club, of course!

[Timothy]

Dillon has me stumped, though.

Aha, no he doesn't! I'll be the Hunter's Club, of course!

Surely that shouldn't have an apostrophe.

[Dark Jimbo]

I'm fighting with Sensitive Klegg Block on this one!

[Timothy]

Of course the uber-pedant, such as Kleggy himself, would put the apostrophe at the end. Hunters' Club being a club for more than one hunter.

[Tjm86]

Dillon has me stumped, though.

Aha, no he doesn't! I'll be the Hunter's Club, of course!

Surely that shouldn't have an apostrophe.

Plus, 'it'll' if we're going with outright pedantry (unless you are announcing membership?)

- hmmm.  Lot's of death, the classic "Nah, he wasn't all covered in blood" line, but a Klegg?  Up on the wall possibly which would win the award for most tenuous link to a title (after Nicky Morgan as Minister for Education and Jeremy Hunt as Minister for Health).

[abelardsnazz]

As for speculation of the contents of the Judge Death Lives book...
Judge Death - 15 pages
Judge Death Lives - 32 pages
Revenge/Four Dark Judges - 62 pages
Theatre of Death - 12 pages
Dead Reckoning - 42 pages
so according to Barney that's about 163 pages - is there room for anything else?

The Facebook page has a preview which also lists Ian Gibson featuring in this volume, which probably indicates Ron Reagan Aftermath.

[Jade Falcon]

Read the Satans Island book, decent mix of stories, especially the Orlok ones.  I was always stumped by the hypocrisy of the East Meggers when you see what they did to Mega City One between Nikita Kramm, Block Mania and the Apocalypse War.

Is it possible there's a parallel to the people that protest about Dresden?  When you think in the cities that were flattened by the German forces, either through aerial bombing or artillery bombardment?  Or am I reading too much into it?

It was pretty obvious mind you that any idea of a 'fair' trial for Orlok was a forlorn hope.

[Hawkmumbler]

Dillon has me stumped, though.

Aha, no he doesn't! I'll be the Hunter's Club, of course!

Wasn't that Weston?

[Tjm86]

Dillon did the first Hunters Club story back in the mid eighties IIRC when he was doing quite a bit of Dredd.  I think Ron Smith did a couple of parts as well.

[abelardsnazz]

Finished reading Satan's Island. Enjoyed Sin City, some great ideas and almost a dry run for Day of Chaos. I found Orlok's execution a bit anticlimactic, but loved Jumped - a perfect mix of humour and tension. Lawcon I can take or leave.

Bring on the Kleggs.

[Skullmo]

Finished reading Satan's Island. Enjoyed Sin City, some great ideas and almost a dry run for Day of Chaos. I found Orlok's execution a bit anticlimactic, but loved Jumped - a perfect mix of humour and tension. Lawcon I can take or leave.

Bring on the Kleggs.

Thanks for the spoiler!