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Yeah, I'm not so unreasonable as to expect a perfect image but stuff like this drives me nuts.
It's so obvious and it keeps happening.
My last volume of Dredd is the same, utterly out of whack and so noticeable.

I wish they'd just give up on the idea if they can't do it properly.

Response from customer support re Savage (arriving only ~90 mins after I asked):

I do apologise about this. This should have been sent with issues 81 - 82 and we are currently in the process of chasing this up for yourself and all customers to get a further update.

Similar response to me. In the past I remember the Horned God reprint was sent on its own so perhaps its just on its way. What's more worrying is that image on FB of the reprinted edition being itself wrong:

That's my photo.
What irritates is it's actually the other issue that's wrong, Savage is fine.
That's a misprint going back ages.

Sick of spine art, I have to buy unseen and my Dredd collection has a very obvious spine misalignment too.

Can't be arsed anymore, £800 for a bookshelf that's noticeably out of whack.
I was forced to buy Flesh for the reprinted Savage (Luckily I found out in advance and cancelled the order for the misprinted original).

Done with the series now, I would have continued the extension but only Fiends and the V.C's really interest me and Dredd should've stayed in the Dredd collection.

Will probably only pick up the Dark Judges volume because the art is so good.

Won't bother with Hatchette again unless they pull something spectacular like a Vertigo collection or something.

£10 is not THAT cheap either.
A standard DC hardback runs about £13 to £15 these days.
And Absolute editions that are slipcased and huge are generally around £40 on Amazon.

I picked up a couple of volumes of Zenith in hardback for around £8 new too.

And I can live with page cuts and internal misprints but to miss an obviously wrongly printed front cover smacks of "f**k it, let's just hope nobody bothers returning"

Got a reply on Facebook about the misaligned spine.
Because I'm not a subscriber,I have to take it back to the newsagent.

When questioned if there were ANY that weren't screwed up, no reply.

A far cry from the Dredd collection when they offered a replacement, even though I wasn't a subscriber.

Between this and the shitty, badly cut internal pages in every third book, I'm beginning to wish I hadn't bothered.
£800 all-in, for this level of quality control?

Be the last partwork I ever collect.☹️

I just did and there's already a post from someone else.
I'm thinking this is another "across the line" thing.

I only ever lurk here for info, but yeah, my book spine was well out of whack too, the art is actually wrapped into the front of the book.
Was wondering whether to return it to the shop where I have them reserved for me, but I'm betting this is going to be another "double book" thing again.