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Yeah, I echo the "get well soon" messages for Conrad - take your time, but really do hope it comes back

Gone from checking every day for a new upload to every week, and would be the saddest thing if we didnt get any more - by far my most enjoyed 2000AD related content of current times and thats with it still in the tail end of the dark days!

got to agree that in principle, a "defund the police" parallel story is a good starting point - one Wagner and Grant would/could have had fun with. 

The danger is the Garth Ennis ending - he did it with the Democracy storyline and with Helter Skelter -- the citizens should know their place and strong men are always required to pull your fat out the fire when the next bogey man comes along.

I;d say I'll be interested in what comes of it, but I;ve not been enthused by any of Williams Dredds, so I'll hope for an occasional Wagner or N-AI-Mand getting his algorythms synced up again

Dice Man was 2000ADs shameless Indy rip off? 

IIRC Barney is missing that story in its listing (possibly another story as well - seeed quite a short entry from memory?)

My guess for Gronk Affair is that it has been bumped into Vol 4 to fit in all the missed stories, which is fine really for the purposes of being chronological going forward

Thanks, Dash. Are you sure about the 1980 Sci-Fi Special?? Nothing Strontium Dog listed for this on Barney. Maybe another text-only story?

Aha!  Vol 3, now available for pre order seems to have picked up all the missing stories, so credit where credit is due, that at least catches it all up - not sure about not using a contemporary image for the Webship exclusive, but maybe thats a "not the final cover" type situation? 

I;d be using the "Never Surrender" cover myself

My sub voucher is up at the end of the month so put a hundred quids worth in the basket, then tried to log in...

password incorrect..

reset password - no email

REpeat the above a few times

Thats 50 quid I've saved too!

Only read the two Dredds so far

The "present" one was fine and worked for me though I felt it had an unnecessary wrinkle in making the guy a mutant - just have him be a Wally Squader would work a lot smoother (though ight make it more like an existing story?)

the 2099 one was also decent - the retro art is very well done - mybe setting it in 2079-2089 might make it more credible to have that many cops still wondering about

The Rogue Trooper I;ve read before - the story is ery well done, though I still think a bit bland in comparison to original Rogue - the art is a big OOF for me though - design wise, everything looks ten times worse than the Gibbons original designs for Rogue, Norts and Southers etc. Theres a reason why all of the covers for that series ignored the look of Rogue inside

WEirdly, I havent read Surfer or Spector... nt sure whats going on there, as Wagner is my top tier reason for still reading.. maybe dont want to exhaust his work when he inevitably retires for good.

Havent read the Steve Sampson interview yet, but if it isnt just cut and paste quotes from GQ magazine I wll be sorely disappointed.

That cover has me jonesing for Tazio Bettin Nikolai Dante

Oof!  Barney is 3 years out of date - I know the feeling as the last 3 years all feel like a bit of a gap - if I had the passwords, I wouldnt mind updating it as it would give me an excuse to go over the last 3 years and see if I can make some of it stick

Partying like its 2102 in Dredd. 

I wish Tharg had pointed out the prog numbers from the last Asher story as I can't recall the exact details of where it was all left - Dredd is already onto Asher, Asher is mobbing it up, but its a bit hazy - is Barney up to date enough to track em down?  As ever the KenPT Droid is pretty close to that Classic taste, and I appreciate a reference to ShepNerd, being one.  That said, I do feel the calibration of Dredd Softy/Bastard/Wanker scale seems to have been turned a bit too far to Wanker after some complaints about Softy setting coming through in the N-AI_mand bot.  Burning the corpse is fun in the moment, but is a 90s/00s flavour that jars a bit with the 70s/80s stylings elsewhere.

Portals & Black Goo is working better than Tomlinsons shorts, though as Barrington says, the "Racism" angle is a bit weird. We could presume that the story would reveal that the myths are all just that and the monsters arent "comin over here and taking our entrails", but we've kind of established that they are? 

Still at least theres a theme and I think thats the Void in Void Runners - whats it all about?  Drugs are cool?  Dunno, the comparisons to Ace Trucking arent putting this into teh best light - I could see a fun Ace Trucking story based rouhghly around the same plot points, but it would be half the length and twice the fun?  It;s OK, but feels a bit stretched thin.

Hershey is dead to me (literally)!

Azimuth - not too disappointed that it ties into Sun Dex as it wasnt that out of the blue, but I must have lost track of Sin Dex - wasnt Sinister still after Dexter and co and part of the Creep fakes?  Again, could do with going back if Barney has up to date enough info....

May I add to the general love for SpaceSpinner - once again my subscription prog is AWOL, but the only thing I'm checking regularly for is the new episode! 

192 pages for Search Destroy Vol 3 suggests that we are getting Muties Luck 6 pages/ Doc Quince Case 21 pages/ Bad Boys Bust 21 pages/ Portrait of a Mutant 93 pages / The Gronk Affair 22 pages


Thats 163 pages so Kid Knee sadly doesnt quite fit and will presuambly be split from the 200s run and bumped in with the 335 return era


Does leave room for Assault on Trigol 3 / Night of the Blood freaks / Kurtis Job / The Kroll Affair hopefully....

Search and Destroy

Stront is already getting the treatment it deserves.  Granted a lot of these have received the Ultimate Collection treatment but Rebellion do a far better job when it comes to spines (okay, Trigan Empire don't always align but .... AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!).

Don't get me started on the Stront series - They've already missed some material (the details of which evade me, but there was a thread about it I'll try and dig up).  I suppsoe they can add them in later volumes, but it's annoying that the chronology is put out of shape.

The big question is willthis avoid the problems of earlier versions or just blindly follow the Casefiles, with stories omitted or out of sequence (the main issues I recall being missing Tomb of Torquemada and the Bride of the Warlock story needing to be inserted at the right point to fit the narrative?)