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61/62 just came, as others have said in a bag instead of the usual cardboard but amusingly it says fragile please handle with care, despite them clearly not giving a toss.

The Slaine book is all smashed up at the top. Wish me luck getting a replacement.

I've picked up Caballistics Inc from my local comic shop (who orders it for me) today. Number 64, I think. Haven't looked at it yet. Not sure if I'm ahead or behind or whatever but it generally seems to have been on schedule every fortnight.

According to the wiki its got a release date of today so you're spot on.

Certainly better than me as a subscriber, my last books were in December, 59/60 (release date 4/12/19)

A little off topic, but has anyone ever seen this for sale in an actual shop? I quite fancy the odd issue, but apart from the first few, I've never seen it sold at any branch of WH Smiths or Forbidden Planet.

The advert on the back of virtually every prog says "Ask for it at your local Newsagent" - is that irony? Do Newsagents exist any more? I mean, my local corner shop has a small shelf stocking newspapers and TV Quick, but I'm sure if I asked the bloke who runs it to reserve me a copy of "2000 AD The Ultimate Collection" he would probably think I was smoking something.

Usually Newsagent will stock just the first couple of issues of a partwork to try & get people to order it via themselves.

It's very unlikely you'll find a newsagent regularly stocking individual issues of a partwork so you could cherrypick, but I'm sure most could order them in if you asked though.

Just had a delivery, 59 Hewligan's Haircut & 60 Invasion.

Wow, I was expecting an extension of ten at the most to bring it in line with the Dredd Collection.

Will be very interesting to see what gets added, although the real shame is if this has been planned for awhile why the hell didn't they push a couple of those Slaine books into the extension?

At least Dante Vol. 9 (Spine number 80 isn't released until next July so hopefully they can avoid the spines not matching problem of the Dredd collection.

Just need to hope the missus isn't in when they're delivered!!

Well, 60% off, so they only cost about 11p, right?

Cheers, that is what I'll tell her.

Been holding off buying a few books just in case of them turning up in a possible extension, but the sale price for Luke Kirby & Zenith 1-4 were just too damn appealing.

Cheers for the heads up, managed to get Luke Kirby, Zenith 1-4, Dredd Restricted 1-4 & Chopper. Just need to hope the missus isn't in when they're delivered!!

All of these were showing correctly now under the Sales section.

The little tidbits I've heard about the show - something about a [spoiler]superhero reality TV show[/spoiler] and a [spoiler]Dr Manhattan dildo[/spoiler] - sound, on the face of it, really crass and stupid and would ordinarily put me off watching the show completely. But on the strength of the reception it's getting here and elsewhere I'll have to give it watch.

Like any shows there's a few things you could take out of context & deride a show for, but its well worth a watch. Like many on here I stubbornly watched the first episode expecting to hate it but instead its a really strong show & one of the few things on at the moment that I genuinely look forward to.

I generally don't mind Youtube ads - I understand channels need to make money etc etc and I'm perfectly fine with seeing ads for products or services I might be interested in based on my viewing habits... However I am so utterly sick and tired of the constant stream of Libertarian/far right propaganda (which is presumably funneled towards me in a laughable attempt to change my political stance).

I swear to God if I see one more ad for the 'Epoch Times' or another Prager U type bozo lecture about 'free speech' or why fossil fuels are great or whatever I'm going to throw my iPad through the nearest window. Aren't there any kind of rules or guidelines about the ratio of political advertising on Youtube? It's literally nonstop.

What the hell sort of videos are you watching to generate such ads? I often use YouTube to listen to music at the end of a shift & just get the usual generic adverts

£12 a book and looks like only one asterix story per book seems a bit toppy.

Just had 53/54 delivered, Slaine Vol "six" has no issues with the spine being misaligned so not sure if it was only a few that were misprinted or if they've already corrected the problem?

From looking at that I'd assume it was a poster for an animated movie.

Although after the last two it will be a pass from me anyway.

Can I inject some positivity into this thread? I've been getting mine from my local comic shop since day one, and the latest Slaine just landed (49, I think). Very pleasantly surprised- been getting narked off with the sheer amount of Slaine and ABC's in this collection, but I really enjoyed Treasures Of Britain.
Yes, one or two of the volumes have some printing issues, but mostly I'm thrilled that my collection is building up nicely and I've always got something to read. Also (in the case of Sinister Dexter and Dante, for example), I've found myself really enjoying some strips that I've never been able to get into in the prog, which has been a wonderful surprise!
Todays been a day of catching up on some volumes I've not got round to reading, and even if some leave me cold (genuinely can't see what's so good about ABC Warriors), I've had a great day just losing myself in the Galaxy's greatest. So glad I went along with this collection from the beginning.

PS. Come on, this collection NEEDS Zenith!

I'm looking forward to this Slaine vol as well, ties in with when I stopped reading 2000AD so will all be new to me & interested to see where the story goes.

Personally I'm loving the series as it's a mix of the classics I read as a kid & a lot of the new stuff (to me anyway) which has been great & deserves its place in the collection.

I agree about Zenith in the extension.
Would also love to see Luke Kirby, as well as vague memories of loving both Mean Arena & Harry 20 on the hard rock.
Very surprised neither Flesh or Shako have made the original run to be honest.
Also stunned that such a popular character as Dredd only has 3 books out of 80, yeah I know we've had the Mega Collection but there is a lot of great stuff that wasn't included in the 90 books that would fit in nicely here.

Still no sign of 43 and 44. I heard they simply forgot to send them out and don't care what happens with them , even after some retail pressure was applied. Not sure what to do here as if I wait much longer they might go out of stock on the website...

I got mine no problems & received 45/46 about a fortnight ago.