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The latest 2000 AD book just plopped through the letterbox, and, oh my, what a gorgeous coverâ??one of the very best in the entire trade line. Good to see both Diggle and Williams get intro pages to their respective 'collections', too. Fab!

What's in it?

Lenny Zero, Low Life, some covers and a Jock sketchbook.

Prog 524 (May '87) featured a back-cover pinup by Fabry of the characters Megrim and Robyn, who appeared briefly in Slaine the King.  I seem to recall the plan was that the next Slaine series would be appearing in color, and that Fabry would be on art chores.  In the end, Slaine only made a couple of brief appearances between then and the Bisley-painted Horned God series in 1989.

But look what the guys at Bear Alley have turned up... a comic strip called Scatha which appeared in The Mail on Sunday in the spring of 1987.  Apparently only seven episodes of Scatha ever appeared, but don't those characters look awfully familiar?

Link: Culgorm and Odor?

jock had posted that elsewhere...

What no Pandora?

Makes lovely pc wallpaper so it does.

"jock had posted that elsewhere..."

So it's a collection featuring Lenny Zero and what appears to be Macy Gray...?

And for the cover, see below. Note that it's a wraparound cover, so the left-hand chunk of the art's on the back cover.

Lenny Zero should be back!!! and I love Jock's artwork!!!

Makes lovely pc wallpaper so it does

Yep. It's been on my desktop at work for a few weeks now.

And for the cover, see below. Note that it's a wraparound cover, so the left-hand chunk of the art's on the back cover.

Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa. So the back cover is white? So the Spine is white?!


OUTRAGE!!!

"So the Spine is white?!"

Well, some of it is (with black text and a chunk of Jock's image, over which are the credits, in white). It's lovely.

that is a great cover. It was our wallpaper here until we got a new homestay student who's in love with the new Robin Hood - bah

yours looking at that new gimpy Robin Hood every time he turns on the fricking computer

It's my wallpaper too.

Gorgeous stuff.

Looks great on the shelf: really breaks up the flat black of all the Dredd books. I was planning on buying this until I discovered how little Lenny Zero there actually is. Only about four episodes and around a quarter of the book.

"I was planning on buying this until"

Until? Reconsider! I wasn't a huge fan of Low Life, but it works much better in long hits, and this really is one of the best Dreddworld books Rebellion's put out, IMO.

Have to agree with indigoprime, Cosh. It's an inspired Dredd world book. Lowlife and Lenny Zero truly compliment each other, though I agree it's a damn shame there's not more Zero.

Nixon's not a bad character but William's has yet to bless her with the charisma that Dirty Frank has in truck loads. She's gritty, yeah, but Frank's filthy and filthy's more fun. Still I haven't written her off yet. The first Low Life story shows her potential.

Reconsider! I wasn't a huge fan of Low Life, but it works much better in long hits, and this really is one of the best Dreddworld books Rebellion's put out, IMO.

The point being that I alredy have all of the Low Life stories but, had the book been half and half, I wouldn't have minded buying them again.

I was planning on buying this until I discovered how little Lenny Zero there actually is. Only about four episodes and around a quarter of the book.

I suspect they could easily have crammed all the Zero stuff in the one book, but then they'd have a second, later book which has nothing to go in it but Low Life and would render the 'Mega-City Undercover' umbrella title meaningless. They obviously need to keep a little bit of Zero back for each book.

All of Lenny Zero is in MC Undercover. It would have been way to short just to do an LZ hardback. I think the two stories compliment each other quite well.
Glad that people are enjoying the book.

J

"All of Lenny Zero is in MC Undercover."

That's what I thought. I think people forget how little Lenno Zero actually exists.

I had a flick through this the other day, and there's actually more Lenny Zero than I thought. I thought there was just the one off and a 3 parter.

(Furthering the "Jeez, U.S. distribution stinks" shared memory)

Adventurer: Did your shop receive this book?  Mine only got the America collection this week.  :-(

I've not been there yet, I might make it before work thou, I'll let you know.

(still never got Storming Heaven, Cabs Inc 2, or Kano)

Got mine this week hipster d. Never recieved Storming Heaven, Cabs 2, kano, or Timekiller. Kind of glad about Kano, heard it was sub-par thrills.

I knew that's all there was of Zero. Just meant I wished Diggle had written more. So far as the momentum of the story goes, it could have lasted two volumes and not outstayed its welcome. Oh well.

Annnnnnd neither America nor Undercover showed up. God Damn.

They should get Pat Mills to write some episodes of Zero without asking Diggle's permission. He wouldn't suit the character, but the results would be interesting and he'd probably appreciate the irony. Probably

just finished.. loved it all except the dirty frank goes rock and roll one.the evil babies was much funnier.

Mega City Undercover and America both showed up this week, along with all the 2000AD based products. Thank god it was just held up a week (as does sometimes happen with some Diamond orders)

Oh good... I'm going to Athens tomorrow, and I hope my copy's in!

"(still never got Storming Heaven, Cabs Inc 2, or Kano)"

I've got a Kano going in the classifieds here, if that's any help.

That's okay. I'm not itching that hard to get it. I'm just a completest and will want it someday.

Its Cabs and Storming Heaven that piss me off that never arrived. As far as I can tell neither ever got shipped to America anywhere.

I went ahead and got those two from amazon.co.uk - just got fed up waiting, I suppose.

I want to do a big order direct from Rebellion*. But it all hinges on wither they sell the current tradedress version of Judge Dredd/Aliens: Incubus and Durham Red Vol.2.

For some reason I recall hearing that the 2000AD Shop only carried the HC original version of Incubus and the new current printing of Durham Red. And that Amazon.UK carried the exact opposite.

I should just call Rebellion and ask... but long distance call costs suck.


*specifically at this point I'm missing...

Judge Dredd/Aliens: Incubus
Durham Red: The Vermin Stars**
The Complete DR and Quinch
Caballistics Inc: Creepshow
Storming Heaven: The Frasier Irving Collection
Bad Company: Kano

With those I'll have all the Rebellion SCs.

**this one bugs me the most, they solicited the reprint of Volume 1. And solicited Vol.3 when it was new. But when Vol.2 got a reprint, they never bothered to solicit it through Diamond, so there's no way to get it except ordering overseas.

BAFFLING.

"long distance call costs suck"

SkypeOut costs about 2p/min for me to the US. I suspect costs in the US won't be any more than that to the UK.

Son of a...  my shop did not get MCU in.  They did get America, a week before yours, Adventurer, but no MCU.  ARG HATE DIAMOND HATE

Still waiting on Amazon to deliver :(

Link: L&A

nice one bart!

Cheers. It only took 18 months to do ;)

Drew it for Deathmatch board comp in Nov 06, inked in Feb(?), coloured it this month.

Amazon finally came through.

This is great stuff- all off it.

What I wouldn't give to read Zero's Seven some day.