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[Dash Decent]

As shown on the News page:

UK & Ireland graphic novels schedule for 2015

March
Tales of Telguth
Insurrection: Liberty

April
Zenith: Phase Three
Judge Dredd: Luna-1 (digest format)

May
ABC Warriors: Return to Mars

June
Devlin Waugh: Red Tide
The VCs: Hell in the Heavens (digest format)

July
Judge Dredd: Dark Justice
Zenith Phase 4
Zenith: Apex Edition
Zenith Phase One: The Apex Edition will reproduce at full size the original artwork from Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's seminal superhero story from the late 1980s. Carefully hidden away by Yeowell for almost 30 years and curated by 2000 AD's design team, July's Apex Edition will be the closest readers can get to holding the original artwork in your hands – right down to seeing faded speech balloons pasted to the surface, editorial and design marks, and Yeowell's brush and pen strokes.

August
Judge Dredd: Case Files 01: 10th Anniversary Edition

September
Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos: Fourth Faction
Jaegir

October
The Complete Ro-Busters: Nuts and Bolts Vol. I

November
Judge Dredd: Trifecta (paperback)
Dan Dare: Vol. 1
As he celebrates his 65th birthday this year, in November 2000 AD will publish the first of a two-volume series presenting the never-before-collected stories of Dan Dare from its pages. Presented in a beautiful hardcover edition, this will include extensive rare and hard-to-find art by UK Comics Laureate and Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons as well as art by cult Italian artist and 2000 AD legend Massimo Bellardinelli. This is the last, great un-reprinted story from 2000 AD's first issue and will present the entire story re-scanned from the original film, in full colour (where the strip wasn't black and white), digitally restored by 2000 AD's reprographics specialists.

December
The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (And The Dead Left In His Wake)
ABC Warriors: Mek Files 03

[Molch-R]

Slight amend from the press release: Case Files 25 has been inserted into August for the UK.

[Colin Zeal]

The Zenith Apex edition sounds fantastic. Having already got the Complete Zenith and the individual Phase I volume I really don't need another copy, but something tells me I'll crack and buy it.

[IronGraham]

why is fourth faction on the list?

[James Stacey]

I have the Elfquest Gallery edition which I assume is the same deal as the Zenith Apex edition. Full colour scans of the original black and white art at the original size. It gives you a whole new appreciation of the artwork. Not sure Zenith is something I like enough to warrant the expenditure but I'm sure it will be a lovely book.
Molch-r is the hardback Casefiles 1 purely a one off, part of a planned run or dependant on the reception of the first ?

[Molch-R]

Molch-r is the hardback Casefiles 1 purely a one off, part of a planned run or dependant on the reception of the first ?

Purely a one-off. If it becomes the best-selling book of all time then, yeah, we'd be daft not to consider more but at the present time it's just a special anniversary edition.

[Dash Decent]

Hi Molch-r, can you tell us how tall the Apex edition of Zenith will be?  I assume "full size" means the size it was drawn at rather than the size it was originally printed at (prog size)?

[Molch-R]

Hi Molch-r, can you tell us how tall the Apex edition of Zenith will be?  I assume "full size" means the size it was drawn at rather than the size it was originally printed at (prog size)?

I can't give you exact measurements but when we say 'full size' we mean of the original artwork.

[Dash Decent]

So, the inexact measurements are...?   




(Hopes for approximate answer, waits for ludicrously over-the-top answer...)

[Molch-R]

So, the inexact measurements are...?   




(Hopes for approximate answer, waits for ludicrously over-the-top answer...)

Six Egyptian cubits by three 17th Century London tradesman's spans...

[Dash Decent]

Phew!  I thought you were going to fob me off with some joke answer.  I knew that you'd have the artwork and a ruler handy in the office somewhere.

[Bill Cosby]"Lord, what's a cubit?"[/Bill Cosby]

[J.Smith]

Molch-r is the hardback Casefiles 1 purely a one off, part of a planned run or dependant on the reception of the first ?

Purely a one-off. If it becomes the best-selling book of all time then, yeah, we'd be daft not to consider more but at the present time it's just a special anniversary edition.

So in other words, people, buy the crap out of it! But I am a little surprised that it's the only one like it being considered. My thinking when I read that it was a special edition, possibly the only one like it, was that you'd pick and compile those short stories with the best colour spreads in celebration rather than fully reprinting the first book alone. Not that I'm complaining, mind. People may suggest that new readers start a little later on but I love all those early stories very much. Hope it does well enough to warrant a continuation of such a line.

Hm, wonder how big Yeowell's original art is then... To be honest, I don't expect anything quite of the same unbelievable high quality as IDW or Dark Horse's line of similar books but if it's appropriately huge, can lay flat at almost any page and has the most minimal bleed through possible - or better yet, of course, none at all - then a happy chap I shall be. Really though, although you said in another thread that there aren't plans for more books like it, it's the kind of thing I would eat up no matter the price and probably no matter the artist (because these things are reserved for the very best in the business anyway). Hope I'm further surprised (it really wasn't anything I ever expected to be published, so it was a delight to see that such a book was being put together yesterday) when more details are released in the future! Truly an excellent year for some bloody smashing books.

[Molch-R]

Phew!  I thought you were going to fob me off with some joke answer.  I knew that you'd have the artwork and a ruler handy in the office somewhere.

[Bill Cosby]"Lord, what's a cubit?"[/Bill Cosby]

[Grant Goggans]

The whole list looks pretty wonderful, but tell us more about the Ro-Busters book!  We've already had a phonebook done-in-one Complete Ro-Busters, so what's this?  Broken down into a pair of hardcovers, maybe?

[Molch-R]

I'VE SAID TOO MUCH!!