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Heh yeah was me. Have had a fair amount of life chaos over recent months so haven't been keeping all my spreadsheets up to date. Will try and find some time to add all the recently released volumes and get the graphs back up to date.

I'd be grateful if you get the opportunity to update them, found your previous graphs very interesting.

I think that was Sintec. Not sure it was their last post on the subject but you can find one on page 350, post #5242, from back in December 2021.

Contents of Issue 173 Scarlet Traces vol 2

Prog 1988-1999,2023-2034,2126-2138,2250-2261.

Wonder when we will shown the art work for the relatively short 'final extension'?

Glad I waited. Now available from Forbidden Planet at £65.

https://forbiddenplanet.com/420919-2000ad-the-art-of-steve-dillon-apex-edition-hardcover/

If anyone comes across a copy of issue 150 - Kingdom vol 3 for sale, please let me know, it's the only volume I'm missing. Many thanks

My best guess for issue 200 is Stainless Steel Rat. With the colourised version being released separately by Rebellion in Dec, I'm sure they won't mention it in advance, to stop us deciding to wait for the UC version.

I mean, it's not out yet. Presumably when it is, more places will stock it.

I hope so. I'm only comparing pre-release availability to the previous volumes, as I pre-ordered most from Forbidden Planet six months in advance, but we're three and a half months out from release now and nobody else appears to be offering it for sale.

Anyone know why 'The 2000 AD Art of Steve Dillon Apex Edition' only appears to be for sale direct from 2000ad? The other artist editions were also available from Forbidden Planet and comic shops, but a Google search only shows it available direct. Well, it also shows OK comics, but they are 'out of stock'.

Surprisingly Hatchette have updated their website today and 173/175 is Scarlet Traces 2 and 174/180 is Anderson Psi Div:NWO.

According to Matt Smith's intro, there is more Lawless coming in 2024, so may be enough pages for UC issue 200?

So where does this new book take the story through to?

Megazine 389-394 Breaking Badrock, 400-409 Ashes to Ashes and 415-423 Boomtown.

For those interested in such things, issue 172 is Spine 170.

Issue 172 is Lawless: Breaking Badrock.

Source is Hatchette website, dispatch note on my account.

To my mind, Stainless Steel Rat is the only great strip missing from the first five years not included so far. Using the term classic to mean old, rather than great, then there is still MACH 1,Tharg the Mighty, Ant Wars, Angel, Disaster 1990, Death Planet and Mind of Wolfie Smith. As there is already a precedent with Robusters and Blackhawk, surely we will be getting a Strontium Dog from Starlord volume? And then maybe we'll get other stories from Starlord and Tornado who didn't cross over in to 2000ad. Or maybe those final 20 odd unannounced volumes will mostly contain content from the past 30 years, but hopefully not much from the 90's. Or just loads of Dredd!