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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...

Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 03:53:51 PM

I imagine Dreadnoughts is a cert, assuming the page count works. More broadly, exploring existing trades appears to be a good way to guess some of what's combing up, combined with completing (to whatever degree that's possible) existing strips.

On that latter point, I think the 2000 AD selection has done very well. It feels like a smartly curated set of books that cares about its fan base a whole lot more than other collections. It's perhaps unfair to gripe about the Marvel volumes (given the size of the catalogue compared to 2000 AD), but it was comparatively scattergun, leaving you with bits of arcs rather than the whole thing. And I recall the Transformers one bizarrely stopped not that long before it would have compiled the whole IDW run.

So hats off to Matt and whoever else has been making the decisions here. Although my straining bookshelves are perhaps a little less happy about all this.

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Film & TV / Re: Apple TV Neuromancer Serie...

Last post by Funt Solo - Today at 03:51:53 PM

I can't remember where I heard the quote, which was about media, but it was "90% of everything is shit". And then there's Shogun.

Think that was pope John Paul II

In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti, nonaginta centesimas omnium rerum stercore est. Amen.

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Film & TV / Re: Apple TV Neuromancer Serie...

Last post by Proudhuff - Today at 03:06:56 PM

I can't remember where I heard the quote, which was about media, but it was "90% of everything is shit". And then there's Shogun.

Think that was pope John Paul II

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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...

Last post by karlos - Today at 02:30:58 PM

What's in Anderson Psi Div N.W.O. ?

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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...

Last post by Tomwe - Today at 01:38:18 PM

Skip Tracer!
The Hershey series?
Feral & Foe?

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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...

Last post by Le Fink - Today at 01:25:36 PM

And almost 20(!) unknowns. It'll be interesting to see what they're filled with. A few more Dredd books must be on the way.

Likely:
- Brink
- Thistlebone
- Dreadnoughts
- SinDex and Azimuth volume or two
- Neimand Magatropolis and Dredd volume or two
- Wyatt/Williams Dredd volume
- Aquila

Possibly:

- a Carroll book with Vex completed and some Dredd?
- I think more Scarlet Traces is on the way? package it with some Edgington Fiends and / or Dredd?
- Maybe a classic thrill volume with the likes of Ant Wars and Mach 0?
- Remaining classic Dredd - the uncollected Ron Smith perhaps.
- Milligan - Freaks and Devils Railroad?
- Rogue - Blighty valley and other odds and sods?
- any remaining Lawless?
- Surfer?
- Best of Regened?

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Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Col...

Last post by The Monarch - Today at 12:54:14 PM

so the last two volumes of this extension is the order and possibly a dredd story then?

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Games / Re: Gamebooks

Last post by Barrington Boots - Today at 11:03:30 AM

Thanks mate. I actually did get through it without dying! There aren't many combats, although I was one point away from being killed by the Death Stone. The book is pretty forgiving, until you meet Myurr anyway. How did you beat him?

Nice! I got through on my 6th attempt. My saddest death using 'detect demon' on the monster on the cover thinking it was an illusion (it was not).
With Myurr, I had the magic sword still and I threw all my holy water over him - although looking at the book now I might be getting the fight muddled with the one in Vault of the Vampire (where you can also throw holy water) as I do remember destroying the special item as well..

Hopefully this is appropriate to the thread, but I've just listened to the latest 'Imaginary Worlds' podcast which, although I haven't played a gamebook myself in decades, I found a great listen — it's about the Lone Wolf series, and the unenviable task Joe Dever's son was given to finish the series... literally by his father on his deathbed!

I will check this out today! Thanks for the heads up!

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Games / Re: Gamebooks

Last post by Jim_Campbell - Today at 10:39:21 AM

Hopefully this is appropriate to the thread, but I've just listened to the latest 'Imaginary Worlds' podcast which, although I haven't played a gamebook myself in decades, I found a great listen — it's about the Lone Wolf series, and the unenviable task Joe Dever's son was given to finish the series... literally by his father on his deathbed!

Probably well worth a listen if gamebooks are your thing.

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Games / Re: Gamebooks

Last post by Richard - Today at 10:35:13 AM

Thanks mate. I actually did get through it without dying! There aren't many combats, although I was one point away from being killed by the Death Stone. The book is pretty forgiving, until you meet Myurr anyway. How did you beat him?