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I see the collection's web page is now redirecting back to hachette. Guess the test is over and we wait to see what happens next!

Interesting, since that skips over Roadhouse and Tax Dodge, along with a couple of other tales. I'm still very tempted by this collection if it happens, but wondering how 'complete' certain series are going to be (rather than having two copies of Strontium Dog, etc., on the creaking living room shelves.

I seriously doubt it's going to be Complete for each character. Sounds like they have cherry-picked a SD jumping on point. There will be even more questions for the FB page with this collection than with the JDMC!

Anyone else end up with two prints & plates? No numbers unfortunately 😕

No sign of my copy yet, got the shipping email back on the 4th. Hope SOMETHING turns up before the weekend.

Loved the Future Shock - the artist struck me as a mid period Stuart Immonen crossed with modern Simon Coleby. Which is a good thing! More from this droid please 

Not familiar with Immonen, but I was thinking Coleby too.

Stuart Immonen is a Marvel Exclusive artist whose best work was with Warren Ellis on Nextwave Agents Of HATE. He recently did Empress with Mark Millar as well as a run on Star Wars.

Loved the Future Shock - the artist struck me as a mid period Stuart Immonen crossed with modern Simon Coleby. Which is a good thing! More from this droid please 

It's 's not clear on the Wikipedia page where the source of stating the next Missionary Man issue is Bad Moon Rising came from, so I guess it will be Treasure of the Sierra Murder, meaning we'll be getting the stories in reverse order. Oh well.

There were <ref> posts on each of the listings until recently when someone decided they weren't needed anymore 

Wow... I just read Armitage: Day Of The Dead (the main story). What a load of cack. Confusing, meandering and boring. The art is pretty good but it reminds me why I and many others didn't really like 2000AD in the 90s

It wasn't in 2000AD!  And I thought (and still think) City of the Dead is one of the better uses of the Dreddworld idea. Can be a bit painful at timeswatching Gillespie learning his craft, but there are moments of greatness, and at least he goes all-out avoiding the brown murk. I actually have more of a problem with the middle stories in the volume, which don't seem to make a lot of sense.

Just about made it through the second major story in the book last night. Pretty dull stuff I'm afraid.

Heads up! Hachette are indeed listing Mega City Justice as the next release!

So it's likely the next one will be a reversal on the Missionary Man book as well then!

Still coming down from the 40th, but am slowly getting back into the swing.
Next up is one of the few creators who wasn't in Hammersmith:
Andy Clarke

http://heroesof2000ad.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/no-96-andy-clarke.html

Added your blog to my Feedly. Great stuff 

How did it never occur to me to look up this thread before. Sorry to lurk, hello all.

Here's the link to the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/FMWVWGR
They ask lots of the right questions I think. They also mention Dark Justice as a possible to include, which would suggest they are definitely not extending the JDMC.

I'm wondering whether it will be one 'intro to dredd' book with his first story, suspiciously absent from the JDMC, along with some other choice classics. Then Dark Justice for sure.

With only (!) 80 books and so many characters to cover, Dredd will have to be limited.

Oh man we have been gagging for this since the launch of the JDMC. I really hope it can be timed to launch at the conclusion of the existing one since I've just signed up to Transformers. These were both basically my gateway into comics fandom and so I want to be able to enjoy them all without breaking the bank!

Such great news!

JDMC is due to wrap around February next year, so I would expect 2ADUC to launch August/January depending on which partwork cycle they aim for.

Didn't realise they launched partworks in August, but think the Transformers one tested in the latter half of the year before launching Dec/Jan, so maybe that could happen.

As far as what I'd like to see, the website has the classics! Chuffed to see DR & Quinch, Shakara & starting with Horned God is genius. I see Stickleback in the site too, Ace Trucking, Zombo, Rogue. I'd want to see Chris Weston's Indigo Prime for sure! Bad Company too! Whoop!

I'm one of those lapsed readers who returned to the prog thanks to the JDMC, and luckily I haven't gotten around to purchasing too many collections of classic runs (bar Mek Files 1&2 and Zenith ).

I will definitely be buying, unless they start this summer in which case I may be in trouble.

Oh man we have been gagging for this since the launch of the JDMC. I really hope it can be timed to launch at the conclusion of the existing one since I've just signed up to Transformers. These were both basically my gateway into comics fandom and so I want to be able to enjoy them all without breaking the bank!

Such great news!