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Good luck with this one Matt!

Hey all,

Does anyone know of any PBeM Dredd RPG groups and/or the forums in which they're being played? GW, Mongoose d20, or Mongoose Traveller, I don't really mind.

If I can't find one, I might be interested in starting one. Any interest from the Dredderati around here?

Cheers!

Halo is without a doubt my favourite 2000AD series, and a contender for my favourite comic strip of all time. I spend an unhealthy portion of my day imagining what a HBO-like TV series set on the Hoop would be like (it would be awesome, of course).

Integra Fairbrook looks like a Gibson drawing come to life. Beautiful.

I adore Necropolis for all manner of reasons, but read in isolation it's a good but hardly essential read. What makes it so extraordinary is not just the extra-textuality of The Dead Man, but the fact that the storylines of Kraken, Dredd's aging and his dissatisfaction with his role in MC1 played out across several individual episodes and innumerable, seemingly casual lines in unrelated stories over the two or three years between Oz and Necropolis.

I agree almost completely. At the time I thought Necropolis was only average, but everything leading up to Dredd's long walk, and the mystery and reveal of The Dead Man's identity (guessed by my buddy before me -- git!) was absolute gold, some of my favourite ever Dredd.

I can imagine rattling through those collections was a treat :-) Got back on board myself just before
Trifecta and you'll of course love that...

It was like being a kid again, when I'd unload a box full of 2000AD's and spend entire Sundays reading them.

Have had a niggling doubt myself that in my 20 years in the 2000ad wilderness, I was missing so much quality stuff but realize through people's comments (& podcasts) that things were very lean in the 90's. It wasn't me and the inevitable loss of my faculties! Just the progs! [Combs hair proudly]

I've had the same regrets! There was a time when I was a kid that Dredd consumed every geek calorie I burned.

There is much wisdom in this thread! Thanks everyone for your answers, it looks like I'll be catching up on the CCF's.

*This of course reveals that there is a third way get to eBay and get the Progs themselves. You get Dredd and so much more besides. It was certainly a very interesting time in the comics history and from about 950 there is a slow (feels very slow at times) and steady up turn in quality until you reach the heights of today's 2000ad (well not specifically the very very current run which... no need to go there...)

That was my first instinct, as I've still got all my old progs and the idea of building out the collection appealed to the same collector's instinct I had when I was a kid. But, we're about to downsize and I made a promise to myself (and my wife!) that I'd stop accumulating stuff. This is why I'm limiting myself to collections and why I'm buying the mags in digital form these days.

Hi all!

I've just spent the most glorious couple of weeks catching up on Origins, Tour of Duty, Day of Chaos, and soon Trifecta in a bid to bring myself up-to-date before settling back into the comics, but I also want to fill in the blanks since I stopped reading sometime around Mechanismo.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd#Major_Judge_Dredd_storylines I can see all the major arcs since then and most or all of them seem to have collected editions on Amazon.

However, I also notice that the complete case files have just got around to almost the exact period where I stopped reading, so I have a conundrum.

Do I grab the collected editions of all the major stories, or do I just start collecting the CCF's?

How often do the CCF's come out? Are they released with regularity? Help me, discerning ones!

Yes it is possible to pay monthly (even for international reader), you can ask Denise at this adress:

spock@fpinternational.co.uk

Thanks for this, by the way. Should've said so at the time!

Hey all, simple question, hopefully simple answer. See topic!

(I submitted a question from the web form but it seems to have black-holed.)

Cheers!

What a great welcome. Thank-you all.

Hey folks, I haven't been able to help myself, and have got back into the comics after leaving them behind about fifteen years ago. The Dredd movie was just too damn good. I can no longer be on the outside.

Everything looks great! So much to catch up on, with the Day of Chaos anthologies dropping just at the right time. And in the meantime, six boxes of progs to pull from the attic and swim around in like Scrooge McDuck.

See you all on the forums!