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29 days after it leaves Earth, Justice 4 leaves in hot pursuit.
Receiving a mayday message sent by the Mayflower on its 33rd day out, it takes the Justice 4 twelve more days to catch up with the Mayflower.

Not sure where you got them sending out a distress call after 29 days - they had the baseball game 32 days out and reached 1/4 light speed on day 33 ish - so lets say Justice 4 leaves then and takes 12 days  to reach the Mayflower.

While on Earth, Anderson was told that the Professor had left Earth 29 days previously. I'm assuming that they didn't hang around after finding this out and left in pursuit on the same day.
While in transit the occupants of Justice 4 received a mayday from the colony ship, which was sent on the day that it reached maximum velocity, I'm assuming - based on past stories I wouldn't expect it would take four Dark Judges long to plough their way through 4,008 civilians without judicial protection - the beginning of another pseudo-maths question!

So, am I the only one who can see the beginning of a maths exam question here?
The Mayflower leaves Earth.  On the 33rd day it has reached maximum cruising speed, almost a quarter of the speed of light.
29 days after it leaves Earth, Justice 4 leaves in hot pursuit.
Receiving a mayday message sent by the Mayflower on its 33rd day out, it takes the Justice 4 twelve more days to catch up with the Mayflower.
What was the average speed of Justice 4 and how far from Earth were the two ships when the Judges docked with the colony ship?

(yes, yes I know we'd need to know about the acceleration rates of both ships to actually answer the question)

Dark Justice is enjoyable, but...

He didn't/doesn't know that there aren't still survivors on the ship. And he probably wants to get some answers, if he can, to how/why Death returned, in case it's something that impacts on the Big Meg (via the Sisters, for instance).

Also - prior to Chaos Day he wanted to send in ground troops to make sure of the kill, rather than nuke from orbit (and if others had heeded his advice, 450,000,000 citizens would still be alive, possibly).

[Orlok]

Orlok is undeniably well-written, but there's zero emotional response to what's happening. This week is a good case in point. Having known her for a whole two panels, the Red Queen is betrayed (off-panel) by a character we only met last week and has only been named posthumously; but he was killed (off-panel) by the other character we only met last week. It's hard to know how to feel about any of that, and Orlok himself is such a blank-slate-cypher I'm not particularly rooting for him. I am loving the Euro-Cit atmosphere though.

Along with the prologue to The Cop over in the Megazine, I'd hoped we'd be seeing a bit more of Euro-Cit by now, but so far Orlok has mostly been standing around inside and the Meg has flash forwarded to the present, in the Big Meg. Here's hoping both strips get out and about in Europe soon!

Amazing cover by Greg with some fantastic greens going on. You have to love the 'Death pants' thing going on.

The only quibble, which I think I'm going to need to work through in therapy eventually, is the dicking about with the damn logo for the second week running.

We were told that the head-mast font was changed to allow space for the artwork - but now it's being moved down anyway. Coupled with the fact that it reminds me of the mid 90's crap logo &  the FAN logo has been shrunk, it just spoils the artwok...

OCD rant over...

Si

But the strapline would have covered the Death pants if it hadn't been put above the logo! 

There is a fairly up to date list of them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd_Megazine#Supplements

Even more up-to-date now 

Now with Christmas/New Years truly out of the way, I've had time to properly have a look at Volume One.

Do we know for sure where the three 'misc strips' where originally printed?

And why are a few of the 1986 strips in portrait format instead of landscape format?  I can't imagine how they would have fit on the newspaper pages at the time.

There was a bit of cross-over where there was a full-colour self-contained story on the Saturday and the continuing black and white single-line strip continuing on weekdays.  Not sure what year it switched to a more straightforward six-days a week continuing story though.

Only one nightclub open in Ipswich?  British Ipswich?  There used to be a few nightclubs there (not very good ones, I'll grant you, but there were multiple clubs)...

And as I previously listed them in chronological order, here they are again with points allocated:

three points - 1900 - Greg Staple's rainy Dredd is a foregone conclusion, isn't it?

two points - 1889 - Chris Weston's Sensitive!  With word balloon!

one point - 1869 - Alex Ronald's lovely face leaps out of the cover

"In Shadow Show #2 Neil Gaiman gives his love letter to Eric Bradbury buy....I'm not sure, as I haven't had the chance to read it yet. "

I suspect you mean Ray Bradbury - not that there's owt wrong with Eric!

We've got until 21 October 2015 to get:
- 3d advertising (without wearing cumbersome glasses)
- self-adjusting, self-drying jackets
- self-tying trainers
- the ubiquitous hoverboards
- flying cars
- retro diners where they play 1980s music all the time and you don't have to explain who Max Headroom was to the young 'uns.

1869 - Alex Ronald's lovely face leaps out of the cover

1889 - Chris Weston's Sensitive!  With word balloon!

1900 - Greg Staple's rainy Dredd is a foregone conclusion, isn't it?

Hope you all had a good first day of 2015, back to work in a few hours :-/

I got the ear pierced when I was a teenager and the last time I was interested in flash cars I was approximately ten years old.

I bought a bit of Star Wars Lego when it first came out - nowadays my lego comes in the form of presents :-)