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#286
Those pages look wonderful. As much as I adore my Complete Nemesis Trades, it would be nice to have these collected in as well, together with the Nemesis Poster Prog (oddly absent from Complete Nemesis 3). 

Rebellion really should be publishing as much O'Neill greatness as possible!
#287
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills & Trades!
20 September, 2011, 10:14:17 AM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 16 September, 2011, 07:41:23 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 13 September, 2011, 03:36:02 PM
The second Shakara book would also be very welcome at some point, chaps.

It's scheduled for either May or June 2012.

Huzzah!!!
#288
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills & Trades!
23 August, 2011, 02:30:27 PM
Although my previous comment might have seemed to suggest otherwise, I'm fairly happy with the case files release schedule.  I'd still lap up a RF4 (there's so much variety in these that I think they're great fun even if the quality is a bit hit and miss) and would happily buy 3 case files a year after that.  Any more than 3 a year would very probably be spoiling us. 

It's just the next few volumes that I'd like to see Rebellion shove out the door quickly.  After the brilliance of the first 14 volumes (well 2-14 anyway, I've yet to pick up No. 1) and the still great quality of 15-17, I'm just eager to get through the rough years as quickly as possible.  If 2012 is going to get us past Inferno, but leave us with Crusade in 2013 I'm not sure I can cope! Wilderlands is not enough!

Oh and definitely a +1 for a Rogue Vol. 3.  Would that complete everything (including Cinnebar and Ringer).
#289
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills & Trades!
23 August, 2011, 11:03:37 AM
Quote from: James Stacey on 23 August, 2011, 10:16:28 AM
has it been 2 casefiles + 1 restricted files or 1+1 recently. Either way I expect unless there is a RF4 on the way then a casefile will fill its gap, speeding it up a bit. (did that even make sense)

Won't RF4 be the last?  We're up to the early '90s by RF3, and the special editions tend to dry up quite a bit after that. Mega-Specials, Sci-Fi Specials and Yearbooks stopped around 95-96, didn't they? Maybe there's enough for a RF5 though, when you add in all the poster progs.
#290
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills & Trades!
23 August, 2011, 09:57:14 AM
As fast as the case files are ticking along, they really do need to get them moving a bit more quickly over the next few volumes.  As far as I can see the colour volumes cover two years over three case files (12 - 14 covered 2010-2011,2011-2012 and 2012; 15-17 covered 2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014) so it'll need volumes 18-21 to get us through the vast majority of the Millar/Morrison era (2015 - 2017).

If these take an age to come out (we're currently trundling along at around 2 case files a year, aren't we), then it just might start testing the patience of the collectors out there.  Do you want to sit through two years of case files featuring the likes of Inferno and Crusade before coming back to the Pit?

Or perhaps I'm just being grumpy and greedy!

#291
Not the picture that's in my head, but I think (unless there's anyone else going to give me evidence to the contrary) that my brain has concocted an amalgamation of that Best Of cover, the Meg cover for Howler and the cover of Prog 605 (by Steve Yowell, with Zenith spiralling into a vortex).

I'll keep up the search and post if I find anything.

Ta for the help.
#292
I'm struggling to locate a picture of Slaine that, if I can't find soon, I'll be convinced exists solely in my imagination.

I think it's by McMahon, but during his 2D phase (a la Dredd: The Howler) and shows Slaine holding an axe and falling into some kind of hole or vortex.  It's in colour, but with a mainly white background and was a cover image, I think.

God, there's not a hope in hell, I know, but can anyone help?
#293
General / Re: Your first Prog - which & why?
04 August, 2011, 12:27:36 PM
Prog 626 and the startling Slaine: Horned God cover.  I'd never seen comic art like it.

That was the first bought (and the start of the collection), but I was already pretty sucked in by that point thanks to some of the 400s and 500s. I really remember Kevin O'Neill's cover with the mutant Dredd (still one of the best short Dredd stories), the Bad Company cover from 501 and almost took the plunge into collecting after seeing Bisley's art on the ABC Warrior: Black Hole.
#294
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills & Trades!
28 July, 2011, 03:48:07 PM
Quote from: Robo-K33F on 30 January, 2011, 07:02:20 PM

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Surely it's more a clever way to synchronise with Flesh: Texas (in the way the Feral/Gronk stories did with The Life and Death), without treading on current or imminent GNs (the way Raptaur did)?  At least I assume Shamana isn't going to be in the new GN?  Maybe it is?   :eh:

It won't be in the GN.

Amazon's page count for Flesh: Dino Files now lists it as 272 pages.  Doesn't that suggest it'll include Flesh Bks 1 and 2, Shamana and the 1 part Claw Carver Story (i.e. everything but Chronocide and any forthcoming Flesh: Texas GN) ?  Have Amazon got it wrong (again)?
#295
General / Re: Brit-Cit
24 June, 2011, 12:05:54 PM
Ta much! Will look forward to Case Files 10 once I get there (having a brief Dredd gap to get through Leviathan, Bad Company and Lord of Misrule).

Always thought there was a lot of mileage in looking at Brit-Cit, but none of the existing characters have ever really done it for me.  I'd love a good look at the British judiciary in a 'bobbies on the beat' style.
#296
General / Brit-Cit
24 June, 2011, 10:22:16 AM
While trawling through the Case Files I've been wondering if/when the introduction of Brit-Cit will occur.  I've gone through 2-8 and I don't think there's been anything yet (unless I've missed it).

So, as a question for the hive-mind, can I ask what we the readers know about Brit-Cit, and from where.  I know there's Armitage, Steel and the shoddy Mark Millar tea drinker from Crusade, but what else?
#297
General / Re: who did this art
21 June, 2011, 10:25:41 AM
That's just a fantastic piece of work! 

I know it's not a popular opinion, but I've always loved Simon Harrison's work in 2000ad. Feral's fight with Johnny and Middenface in Milton Keynes and the first part of Revere, where he takes out a group of troops single-handed, are some of my favourite pages of the period. On the evidence of a star scan of Joe Pineapples and a single Future Shock, he could also do a great robot. 

I'd never thought of putting him on Slaine though. He'd no doubt have done a fantastic warp spasm!
#298
General / Re: Forthcoming Thrills & Trades!
16 June, 2011, 11:32:00 AM
Quote from: radiator on 01 June, 2011, 12:04:37 PM

2000ad Graphic Novels and Books - UK (provisional list - subject to change):

Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty - Mega-City Justice - June 2011
ABC Warriors: The Volgan War Book 4 - June 2011
Nikolai Dante: Hero of the Revolution - July 2011
Judge Dredd: The Restricted Files 03 - July 2011
Missionary Man: Bad Moon Rising - August 2011
Slaine the Wanderer - August 2011
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 18 - September 2011
Flesh: The Dino Files - September 2011
Cradlegrave - October 2011
Defoe: Queen of the Zombies - October 2011
The Complete Mazeworld - November 2011
The Complete Black Hawk - November 2011
Insurrection - December 2011
Judge Anderson: The Psi Files 02 - Jan 2012


So any word on what stories we can expect to find in Psi Files 2.  It should be Shamballa then pretty much onto the meg stuff (Reasons to be Cheerful, Childhood's End, etc), shouldn't it? Any idea if specials will be included, or is this progs/megs only?

For the Case Files, if 18 sees us up to Mechanismo, then how can we expect future volumes to pan out? We've got Wilderlands, Inferno and the rest of the Millar/Morrison period to go but I can't remember the order these come in for the life of me.  So, are we looking at 19 Wilderlands, 20 Inferno/Crusade/etc and 21 The Pit?  I'm just hoping there aren't too many volumes to go before I get to a whole bunch of Dredd I've never read before.
#299
General / Re: Americans stealing our talent!
01 June, 2011, 11:00:25 AM
It really is a sad thing that so many talented artists and writers, quite rightly, head off to the American publications to earn substantially more dosh. Great for them, no doubt, but sucks for me as I've never had any desire to read the kind of comic that's created for the American market. Superheroes (with the exception of Zenith) have always just bored me rigid.

Of course this means I've missed out on pages and pages of Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil, Brian Bolland and so many others (I think it's O'Neil that hurts the most).

Still, if O'Neil hadn't left Nemesis, we'd never have got Talbot and then wouldn't have had Hinklenton.

Also, be thankful of the talent 2000AD's kept: Ezquerra, Mills, Wagner, Grant, Flint and loads more.
#300
Quote from: Greg M. on 07 May, 2011, 10:34:25 AM
Quote from: credo on 06 May, 2011, 01:47:34 PM
I actually like the first Fevert and Lobe story. It's a fun read and I appreciate the Sonic Youth titles in the 'Next Prog' bit. Not a patch on Killing Time of course, but it was still one of the better parts of the trade.

Greetings and welcome. I bloody love 'Fervent and Lobe: The Issigri Variations'. And, if I am honest, almost everything John Smith's ever written, including Revere (head-spinningly good when read in one sitting) and Slaughterbowl. I would also really love a complete collection of all of John's standalone series (and also one for Pete Milligan, with Shadows, Tribal Memories, The Dead and so on), but in the meantime I've had to make do with the Extreme Editions.

A Pete Milligan one would definitely be good too.  Reread The Dead just recently.  Not as good as I remember, but still a very interesting piece of work.