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If you need to pad out a Harlem Heroes volume adding something Second City Blues as another example of 2000ad sport seems a better idea than the reboot stuff. Nice contrast in eras too.

An extra 71 pages would be perfect to fill that volume so yeah that'd work.

Feel like there's almost certainly going to be at least one volume of 70s era stuff in there.  Harlem Heroes does feel like the obvious call but the page counts are an awkward fit for the Hachette Volumes:

Harlem Heroes - 112 (too short to stand alone)
Inferno - 183 (perfect for a solo volume)
Harlem Heroes (Fleisher reboot) - 186 (also perfect for a solo volume but as I understand it not highly regarded).

The other one I could see happening is Shako as the bear seems to be popular with Tharg at the minute.  It'd need pairing with something though as it's only 86 pages (including the annual story).

A Ken Niemand Dredd book would be an excellent addition - I wonder if there's enough Niemand Dredd to fill one out?
Going by Barney there's ~100 pages of strip but that's doesn't include some of the more recent series so I reckon it might be plausible by the time we get to volume 112.

And while we're on potential Dredd volumes a collection of the recent Wagner Dredds would be superb too. Harvey, Machine Law, Gautemala is ~130 pages so room for a couple of other stories too.

That last volume of Slaine really is a bit naff isn't it. It's basically a extended episode of Jeremy Kyle where [spoiler]Slaine's mum get's slut shamed for putting it about and we discover his "dad" wasn't just a pathetic drunk but was actually an abuser who beat his son and intentionaly manipulated events to kill his wife for her indiscretions. Eventually a paternity test is delivered via some druid magic that Slaine just happened to have acquired back in the day but which has never been mentioned before now.[/spoiler]. There's also a bunch of shouting and some brawling none of which really adds anything to the story beyond some great art. I can't help but feel that 80s Pat could have told this tale in 4-5 episodes rather than spread across 2 books where it just starts to feel repetative.

A sad end - here's hoping the forthcoming series in the prog won't suffer the same drawn out fate.

Dark Judges - dominion & torture garden

Dominion has already been revealed as one of the first extension (issue 94 if they stick to the ordering announced).

I still want a collection of all Smith's assorted one and done stories - Firekind, Slaughterbowl, etc.

Firekind is getting collected in HB by Hachette as part of the Ultimate Collection - preorder is available on Forbidden Planet.

I also found an app for the JD collection recently; I rather wish there was one for this now as well.

Think I spoke to the guy who made that a while back; it's iOS only isn't it?
I briefly chatted to him about attempting to do an Android version but never got anywhere with actually coding anything. One of those I'd love to do it but I also already spend 40 hours a week writing code so it can be hard to find the enthusiasm for personal projects on the side.

111 did always seem like an odd (pun intended) number to end on given they ship these in pairs. Let the speculation begin on the content of the other 29 books I guess.

Hopefully another volume of Stickleback will be in there collecting Number of the Beast, The Thru'penny Opera and the story currently running in the prog. A 2nd volume of Fall Of Deadworld wouldn't go amiss either.

The defund the police argument is, to me, largely irrelevant in the context of the direction I'd like to see society take. Policing, in my view, requires a more comprehensive and integral rethink.

I believe that's largely the argument being made by those suggesting we defund the police.  Less police and more support for people with mental illnesses, more support to help people leave abusive relationships, better education and support for young people so they don't turn to crime in the first place e.t.c.

The underlying idea is that by supporting the $s on supporting the community there will be less crime to police.  Basically the plot of the current Dredd in the prog (it'll be interesting to see where they go with that).

So far just the Deadlock spin off series and the final episode that appeared in prog 2000 have not been reprinted.

The Prog 2000 story was Tubular Hells wasn't it?
That was in the 4th volume of the Ultimate Collection and it's also in the 3rd phone book.

The Deadlock spinoff from Progs 1212 to 1222 also made the 4th Ultimate Collection volume and according to Barney also saw a reprint in the Megazine. Unless there's a different Deadlock spinoff?

I'm not sure that article really makes a convincing case against defunding the police. I mean it's obvious that when there's a massive demonstration in progress police resources will be stretched.  Hell back in my free party days we'd often take advantage of things like local football derby matches to have a big blow out because we knew the police would be busy elsewhere. The second anecdote strikes me as spurious at best, it's hardly surprising that "a friend of mine felt suspicious that all was not well at their home and called the police to see if they could do a routine check" is a low priority. Also do you really want to live in a society where the police are going to come and snoop around your neighbourhood because someone was feeling a bit paranoid?

The point it does make slightly better is that policy by slogan is a bit shite - but that's hardly confined to the "woke" side of the political aisle, "Get Brexit Done" springs instantly to mind.

As opinion pieces go it  doesn't really do a convincing job of arguing that defunding the police is a bad thing. It doesn't even really tackle the central arguments of that campaign. It just provides 2 anecdotes the point of which seems to be "we need more police not less" (an argument I'd surprised to see you supporting Sharky). The central point of defunding the police is we need more support for communities not more mob-handed police armed with military grade gear.

Books 8-10
Shape Of Things To Come
Bride Of The Warlock
Hammer Of The Warlocks

Yeah, as a lover of body horror, one of the things I'm taking away from this thread is that I need more John Smith comics in my life.

That vox review really does make it sound like she's doing a bit of a Dave Sim and making her story subordinate to being a vehicle to express her political ideas and hatred for specific groups of people. It'll be interesting to see how that works out for her, it didn't go to well for Dave.

In my job as a teacher I support all my students, and my classroom (I'm proud to say) is inclusive. I correctly pronoun, I flag support, I shut down any sort of hate-speech that crops up (although it has very rarely cropped up), I don't push my politics on them and I try to demonstrate how debate and research can answer better where a fixed mindset can't.

Reading this made me think; some people would argue that creating that inclusive, safe-space is a political act. Teaching kids it's ok to be gay, or trans, or bi, to wear whatever you want and live your life however you want is, for them, a deeply political thing. Their view seems to be that this is indoctrinating children with liberal/feminist/gay/marxist ideology. A view that was enforced as law under in the UK under section 28 up until fairly recently so I guess we shouldn't be all that surprising that it's still got a lot of supporters. I'd hoped we'd moved past this but it seems many will fight for their right to ignorance.

I think anything can be questioned. If we don't question things, how can we a) understand or b) improve them?

Whilst I absolutely agree with the sentiment I think we have to take some care when the thing being questioned is someone elses right to live their life in the way they choose. If they're not hurting anyone else with their choices then they shouldn't have to justify those choices to a baying mob. It's also worth remembering that it's not on them to continually explain themselves or their culture, it's on us to educate ourselves. Questioning can be used as a means to disenfranchise communities or to bully them into submission at which point it's no longer a positive thing.