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I think it was this one (though I seem to remember reading some of the stories Barney lists in earlier issues). Still one of my favourite covers:

Ah, cool. Just wondered if someone had discovered somewhere selling new copies at a reasonable price.

The ones listed on Abebooks at £11.31 (which are probably from the same seller) are apparently new.

It's disappointing that Hope is taking a break just as the scene setting is complete and the story is starting to get going. Good prog, though.

He was outstanding in The Elephant Man and in so many other roles.

Went for the Aja cover as well. Love the look of it.

Yeah, it's a big disappointment that they never followed it up. It didn't seem to be given a chance.

Surely Image have already capitalised on superhero fatigue with Saga and The Walking Dead being notable big sellers.

Not by much really.Readers are not keen on paying the same money for a cbr/pdf file.

There might be a longer "tail". For example, I bought some Grant/Breyfogle Batman comics on Comixology a couple of months ago. DC must be quite happy to make (a little) money on thirty year old material that's not Watchmen or Dark Knight Returns. Likewise IDW might still be making money off their Dredd material in ten years time, licence permitting.

I think the last estimate I read (many years ago) put a 22-page North American comic book somewhere in the region of 27-30,000 dollars to produce, which means that if they sell 5,000 copies, each copy has to cost somewhere between 5 and a half/6 dollars just to recoup the cost of production - what other costs there are I can only speculate, such as printing and distribution.

I wonder how digital distribution changes this model?

A long drive today was the perfect opportunity to listen to the interview. Very enjoyable. I imagine that she could write a very interesting memoir along similar lines to Steve MacManus'.

That website doesn't seem to work very well.

Yeah, I don't seem to be able to get to the checkout on my iPad. Bit of a flaw.

Have they confirmed if subscribers need to order a copy?

I'm looking forward to listening to that one. Isn't she at Image these days?

Pity it only comes in extra large

Oh. Does it? I was wondering if I'd missed some way to tell them I wanted an 'M' when it arrived as 'XL' today. Pity.

I'm hoping it shrinks in the wash. Even after the Christmas holidays I wouldn't fill an XL shirt.

I took a good look and didn't see a thread for this series, only for mega city zero. My apologies if its redundant!

It's over in Books & Comics.

I quite enjoyed the interview with them on the last podcast. I didn't get very far with Mega City Zero, so I might go back and read that first.