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[*not so subtle hint*]

Volume 4 is the last one, according to tharg.

It'd have to be, it goes up to 2134.  Which is good, as it means more Case Files.  Hopefully Dredd the movie will intrigue enough people that it's worth putting out four volumes a year *not so subtle hint* - but I guess it's more likely Rebellion will start reprinting the early phonebooks first.

Ahem. The AMAZING Garry Brown posted this on Deviantart today. Gawgus. Althought I have to ask - does the brief for American artists ALWAYS read: "Dredd, lawman of the future - MUST HAVE STUBBLE" or is it just some strange yank assumption that an action hero must also be partially bearded?

Dredd works 23-hour shifts.  He obviously pays attention to it because he thinks a Judge should be clean shaven, but I'm always surprised that he's not stubbly at any point when he's out on patrol.

In Slaine, the quote 'He didn't think it too many'.
Was this linked to a hymn i used to sing in junior school. I cant remember the title but i think it was about Samson, a couple of lines went "with the jaw bone of an ass he slew a thousand men, and the next day he did it all again" (i think)...

Nope.  It's straight out of Celtic legends, where the hero engaged on a slaying spree will kill X people and never think it too many. 

My personal favourite Celtic death count belongs to a guy who called for his harp in a battle.  It promptly flew to his hand, killing seven men as it came. 

Another request for reprints of Slaine volumes 2 and 3 here.  I don't know how many people have asked now, but I do not think it too many.

Is there really no more news on forthcoming books?

The books are quite... thin, aren't they?

No.  The first volume released is one of the shortest in the series (having only six 22-page issues), but it still has more story pages than the recent Insurrection TPB.  The Dark Phoenix Saga has nine issues, making it longer than Mazeworld. 

Honestly, these books are pretty good value even at full price.  They're full colour hardbacks on good paper with additional content, sold at the same price as a regular TPB or less. 

(Essentials are a separate argument.  Last I saw one, they were black and white phonebooks.  Have they changed?)

Why does everyone in this thread seem to have forgotten that the GIs were created to fight on a world with a poisonous atmosphere and corrosive oceans?  You don't need an excuse to make his skin blue.

That, and with a ginger mohican. None of that blond hair retcon bollocks.

Ginger?  For some reason I've always thought GIs had pure white hair.

I did a bad thing today. I skipped from volume 9 to volume 14 so I could have Necropolis. Please tell me I'm not the only person who did this?

What was the point?  Everything that explains Necropolis is in the volumes you skipped.

Weren't time based weapons used by both sides of the human/mutant war in Portrait of a Mutant?

They were invented by Kreelman's scientists during the war and later a few were captured by the Mutant Army.  The point, though, is that after the war only Alpha uses them - and nobody uses the T-guns.

But time travel is a small enough part of Dredd continuity so it doesn't bother me too much - it's more of a problem (if you see it as such) in Strontium Dog as it's a much bigger part of that series.

Justice Department statute 17385.2 requires me to point out that Strontium Dog and Judge Dredd are set in the same timeline.  It is perfectly consistent for Mega-City 1 to have a huge, gigantic time machine and 70 years later, for Johnny Alpha to have time bombs in his pocket.  Technology progresses.

On which note: isn't it a bit odd that Johnny Alpha is the only S/D agent to use temporal weapons, and that nobody else seems to use a Westinghouse variable-cartridge blaster?  You'd think someone would - they're both massively useful.

To be fair, there really isn't a huge amount of worthwhile material left to reprint - aside from Dredd Case Files and stuff thats still running like Day of Chaos and the ongoing Strontium Dog saga.

In which case, Rebellion need to get the thumb out and start printing the Case Files more often - especially with the movie coming up next year.  They've just slowed from a six-month schedule to an eight-month schedule.  It's not like it'd interfere with reprinting current stories - they could put out a volume every three months for the next decade and still end up ten years behind. 

Forget the blue skin, what about the eyes? we already have enough actors faffing on about there faces being shown take the Dredd helmet debacle for instance, will any actor work with white eyes?

Halle Berry in X-Men.

Case Files 23 out in early 2014

*sigh*

It also has Judge Planet in it.

One of Stevie's favouritest Dredds ever.

Sold.

You're mad.  Judge Planet must be one of the worst Dredd strips ever.  Milligan's script is stupid - not to mention absolutely non-canon - and wiping your arse on Shaky Kane's horrible pop-art could only improve it.

On the other foot, just got my copy of the book today and it is on the whole pretty good.  Rebellion just need to accelerate publication of the Case Files, because the Restricted Files are now ahead of them.