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« on: 28 December, 2002, 10:15:20 PM »
I haven't been around these parts in a while, but I hope you all had a merry Christmas, and will have a happy New Year.
Anyway, I had a stroke of luck before Christmas: I went into a bookshop, and found loads and loads of old comics for 1 euro (69p stg.?) a go. There was no 2000ads, but loads of American reprints of old stuff, including Sl?ine in Sky Chariots, Rogue Trooper in his earliest stories, Judge Dredd in Judge Cal, the Midnight Surfer, Block Mania and the Apocalypse War (neither of which I had read before). So basically loads of the good stuff from the early days, and none of the muck. Most were coloured in those old fashioned colouredy dots, which worked surprisingly well for Dredd (it's the way it used to be coloured in 2000ad, after all), but not for Sl?ine at all.
The only thing I'm pissed off about is that I couldn't find the last few episodes of the Apocalypse War and the first few of Block Mania, but all said and done the Apocalypse War is my new favourite Dredd epic (I kind of know the ending anyway). One thing bothers me, though: when Dredd launched the unsuccessful TAD strike was he planning on blowing up the entire world with East Meg 1? Cheers, Dredd, drag us into it too why don't you.