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#1
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
16 February, 2024, 10:06:16 AM
Just got my Harlem Heroes Vol 2 as well, but I'm on a three months delay after COVID
#2
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
08 January, 2024, 11:57:34 PM
Quote from: davidbishop on 08 January, 2024, 08:30:33 PM
Quote from: Bad Andy on 08 January, 2024, 05:36:26 PMUnder a pile of shite. No word of a lie, I found an unopened phone bill near it that was dated September 2012. That's not a typo. 

One advantage of this tidy up is that I've found my original 2000ad Big Finish CDs that are out of print and unavailable digitally.

Jonathan Clements wrote the best of those, imho.

You're 100% right. And the rest of his Big Finish output is FASCINATING. The only story that he's done that I haven't chimed with is Immortal Beloved. - https://www.bigfinish.com/search_results?search_value_selected=0&search_term=Jonathan+Clements

Got to hat tip though and say Judge Amy Steel was fully formed from the off. And War Crimes was the first story that made me think about audio dramas in a different way.

Anyway - enough of my Big Finish stuff. Back to the Ultimate Collection  :D
#3
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
08 January, 2024, 05:36:26 PM
Under a pile of shite. No word of a lie, I found an unopened phone bill near it that was dated September 2012. That's not a typo. 

One advantage of this tidy up is that I've found my original 2000ad Big Finish CDs that are out of print and unavailable digitally.
#4
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
08 January, 2024, 04:12:54 PM
Quote from: Bad Andy on 07 January, 2024, 10:26:01 AMJust organised all my books and can't find 110! I've read it (only read about a third of these books so far) so I know its in the house somewhere.

Good news. I found it.

#5
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
07 January, 2024, 10:26:01 AM
Just organised all my books and can't find 110! I've read it (only read about a third of these books so far) so I know its in the house somewhere.
#6
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
12 December, 2023, 02:51:49 PM
While not quite the Ultimate Collection, I've just re-read the Mega Collection's two Day of Chaos books.

Left me feeling a bit empty if I'm honest. Maybe they read better as a slow burn, but as a collection I was left a bit 'so what'.

Perhaps COVID has also desensitised me to these stories as the bug was pretty prescient in the end. 
#7
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
05 December, 2023, 05:12:35 PM
Seemed to remember liking Maniac 5. Or at least finding it semi-interesting.

Or maybe it was Yeowell's artwork.

https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/a-good-year-for-bastards-book-three-part-53-morrison-and-millars-judge-dredd-maniac-5
#8
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
04 December, 2023, 09:08:13 AM
I found a bunch of old 2000ads in the loft earlier this year and it happened to contain the run containing Purgatory/Inferno which I eagerly re-read as I remembered quite enjoying them at the time.

Maybe the week break between episodes did it some favours, but it is dreadful all at once. I mean truly, truly appalling storytelling. Even Carlos' artwork gets boring with all these super-jacked judges roaming around.
#9
Just finished that movie Dredd collection now.

Shame they moved away from the more-realistic depictions. Thought Dust felt a bit silly in this world and The Dead World felt a bit forced and out of place.

Glad to have this book in the collection though.
#10
I know I'm a few months behind most of you on the Thread but just reading the Movide Dredd collection for the first time. How good a story is Underbelly? Really entertaining. 
#11
Quote from: Le Fink on 08 June, 2023, 01:38:02 PM
Quote from: michaelarby on 07 June, 2023, 09:42:27 PMIs button man a good read?
Not sci-fi or fantasy but still one of the best strips I've read in Tooth. I'm a fan of Arthur Ranson's art.

If I remember rightly they opened it up with the line "One minute into the future..." or something so they could justify its inclusion.

What I loved from the first story is the fact that it could feasibly be published one page at a time, as each page told a mini narrative.
#12
Just finished the Fall of Deadworld books and they are GREAT. Way better than I was expecting. How much is missing from the collection?
#13
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
01 February, 2023, 10:47:26 AM
I just picked up the Fall of Deadworld collection and thought something seemed off as we were too quickly and too familiar with some of the characters.

Turns out I'd not read Book 3 of the collection Dark Justice.

As I'm on a delayed sub I've just got Blunt through the letterbox. Not heard anything about this but I love Boo Cook. Anyone have any views?
#14
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
21 December, 2022, 11:23:00 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 21 December, 2022, 02:58:48 PM
Quote from: Bad Andy on 20 December, 2022, 10:18:50 PMBOY WAS I WRONG.

Is that the story where it turns out [spoiler]Johnny Alpha was 'alive' in a cave all along, and Gronk has to shoot him? That really pissed me off. Awful plotting.[/spoiler]

That's the story afterwards.

Actually the story before, Monster, isn't totally terrible apart from a massive out of nowhere coincidence meeting in the penultimate chapter kind of undermining the otherwise half thoughtful storyline.
#15
News / Re: The Great Dante Readthrough Podcast
20 December, 2022, 10:21:58 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 20 December, 2022, 11:01:03 AM
Also, the vodka bit always reminds me of a wedding I went to in Poland where when someone drank vodka (and that was pretty much the only drink) everyone had to. The wedding was amazing, but I was very, very sick.

I had the same experience too. Apparently. I have no memory. And couldn't drink again for NINE MONTHS.