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Sooo .. here is a question,

Does anyone know what it happening with the premium figures? The last one i got was rouge - and I thought there was supposed to be 6 - every 7 deliveries or so - so i am guessing the next one would be due soon ?

Just a heads up - Hachette are discontinuing the Judge Dredd Mega Collection and removing it from their site in the next two weeks. Just in case anyone was still looking for those missing issues.

Thanks

I've always thought of the stock as being telescopic - it would slide in and out like a trombone...

Well if it also made the sound it would be an entirely different design flaw 😄

Is it just me but doesn't that figure show how stupid the GI rifle design was ..no wonder they were massacred , because despite the fact there is a shoulder butt and scope the rifle itself is impossible to shoulder fire because the trigger guard is not under the body of the rifle but in line with the shoulder butt so the firer has to wind their arm around the shoulder butt to reach the trigger in a really unatural way ?

With regards to a possible extension what would people want to expect

I would like to see some indigo prime / winwood and cord

The other I would like to see is zeneth

Yeah that has been up for a while - I would say at least before the weekend .... hmmmm :/

Can I just say it's great people are talking about the new books but as a premium subscriber I still haven't got 41/42 and none of my local shops carry these books anymore

Hi ... I was just wondering if anyone knows when the premium subcription (ha!j figurines are supposed to be released .

Not quite as much as a downer as the Galen stories at the end of the Simping Detective book. - well probably. But like then i guess the two stories are pretty much related  (kinda) .

Given the epics that have been and gone in the collection though, the only one I can see that remain include tour of duty, Luna 1 Wilderlands and the Judge Child. ( althoguht there are some related stories like the city of the dammed and of course In the Year 2120 .

I am a little concerned we are promised 3 volumes of Armatidge - I thought he was an interesting but kind of limited character when i fisrt saw him in the meagzine . - Se seem to have more supporting cast and anthologies to come which seems a little disappointing...

I think what is interesting in the collection is the illustration  of just how cyclical the whole judge Dredd world is an how the writers keep going back to the well, although this is not a criticism, more of an observation and generally later stories learn from previous failings. (As the characters in the 2000 AD world seem to learn (in some instances from their mistakes)

For example in the two issues this month (hostile takeover and Inferno) Inferno seemed to have a good idea (penal colony full of ex judges  taken over by the inmates) but the pacing was odd in the beginning - it was never clear if you were supposed to feel sorry for the Judges sentenced to serve on Titan, Also what was their motivation to head back to MC1 and follow Grice - surely most of them would have splintered off and run and then the attempt to maintain the high melodreama throughout the main story kind of made it a farce... and to be honest i kind of stopped paying attention part way through. (and was the reason I stopped reading 2000AD in the first place).


But then you have hostile take over - a totally different take. And although it really doesn't explain Amie Nixon or the other how Thora or Mortal decided to step over the line it managed to tell the story through Dirty Frank of the fine line between Law and Crime and how loosing everything can push someone from the brink of sanity to the other side and loosing sight of what drives them Judges can so easily pass the point of no return.

Then in Titan - I think it was interesting if flawed . It still suffered from the confusing pacing and is more of the Dredd getting to the end of his days which is mirrored by the slow and inevitable decay in Mega City 1 which just seems to be unable to get  back up after the crippling events of chaos day.

But at the end of the day there are only so many stories that can be told. 
   

I think Trifecta is the most film like mega epic I have ever read.

As a book it is a little difficult to follow as a collection as the deliberate native styles to the story don't flow easily and the characters are all very strong and have clear back stories and traits it felt a little like each character was diluted in the process (e.g Jack Point and Dirty Frank seem like support characters in a Dredd story that never really gets going) . I think it is a shame i never read it in the form it was originally intended and I think I will try and go back and re-read it at some point because it wasn't terrible, but like a cake where you add all off your favourite ingredients and the result is a nice cake that is somehow a little less than the sum of its parts..

I think it is interesting however the other book this month ALSO involved a cross over with a 2000AD favourite into Dredds world and for the time was some what risky and ground breaking in the fact it crossed from 2000AD to the Megazine with its story telling. I did  read this but I was a poor teenager at the time and I kind of missed the Megazine bits. The core story still remained but reading the story as a collection it is hard to see how anyone thought the Megazine bits were superfluous. It added some grit to what was quite a  light and fluffy mass extinction storyline.

Good books but I do wonder what is coming next month...

I think if this list is legitimate

https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/photos/p.1652688321655636/1652688321655636/

It kind of highlights how the mega-collection differs from the case files. While the case files give all the depth of the stories around a period the mega collection shines the light on the supporting cast showing just how deep Dredds world is.

Also
I was expecting at least one more Anderson book but apparently there are 3 more planned and another based on the PSI division.... which is interesting

It is just a matter non on how convincing I can be to the wife to justify the cost of the case files AND the mega collection

Sorry double post

Day of Chaos - wow. That's all I can say. Wow.

On the subject of print quality, the Story So Far page is impossible to read but I'm not too worried about that.

The concluding piece by Molch-R mentions Trifecta, does anyone know if this will be in a forthcoming volume?

Trifecta is (as per Facebook page) issue 24, judgement day 25, then low life; paranoia (?) issue 26

My thoughts on these boxes and I did get this myself is you can never really you should expect too much.

In fairness if you were to buy these items individually  the plush and the mug get you to about £18

add the dog tags (£3), card holder (£3) the hand warmers (£3-5 depending on where you look) and the comic (£2) you are around the £30 mark of merchandise for £20 - if you add the badge - which planet replicas themselves have at £20 then for £25 you have £50 worth of stuff .

You could argue "yes but I would not buy the meh stuff" - then don't buy a box in which you don't know whats in it, but then i guess that is pretty obvious  -

In terms of stuff i personally wanted, or see value in,  I kind of just about break even which for these kinds of products is not that bad