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I read all of Strontium Dog over the course of this last year and I flipping loved The Kreeler Conspiracy('s narrative framing device). Re-writing *all* Strontium Dog stories as histories and dramatisations, using research and accounts from unreliable or down-right malicious witnesses and historians, with notes and interjections from it's curator is absolutely inspired and I was very sad when it was quietly dropped after that.

I couldn't care less about continuity, really, and this was an extremely elegant way of dealing with the issue.

Ah! They don't have paperbacks! That's taken a decision out of my hands then.

Slightly off topic, but I've just got the last of the Volgan War hardcovers that I needed, and I'm thinking abut the future of my library: I believe the three "return" books have hardcovers, but I've never actually seen one. Does anyone have photos of them they could share if they have them?

My Assumptions:
-They are the same size as the Mek-Files/Volgan War hardcovers (pro)
-They have identical contents to the Return paperbacks (con)

A nice design might swing it for them.

No. I hope it turns up somewhere in the Mega Collection, I don't want to buy a Day of Chaos: Fourth Faction paperback just for that one story.

(I think we can all agree that [...] Calhab [is] bad)

Nah, we can't, I thought it was bad *in places*, but it was just as often great, or at least ambitious, or at the very least interesting.

I'm new to Dredd. I only started with case files volume 15 months ago, and maybe that colours my perceptions, but the "bad" volumes full of weird, malformed, truncated, ugly, poorly considered, mutant curios that should by rights never have been published let alone reprinted? LOVE 'EM.

Do I prefer a huge slab of really good comics? Of course, but I genuinely especially look forward to the volumes of weird stuff, especially versus stuff already reprinted in the case files or in their own books.

Maybe it's bad business (but I have no access to sales number and most of you seem to still be here,) but if it is, it's a mistake I'm glad they made.

Yes. But then I've never actually read any Slaine so that probably explains that.

I do generally prefer Mills and Skinner to any of the roughly contemporaneous solo Mills stuff, tho.

Reading the parts of Finn that made it into Meg floppies I did think that it was a comic that I'd probably enjoy a lot more than the consensus, it plays with a lot of my Pet Themes.

Obviously the spirit of the 40th has taken a few of us...

Aside from the John Smith and Peter Milligan books, every single one of these has been bought and read in the last 14 months.

(I'm not a billionaire, I sold an equivalent amount of X-Men books to fund this endeavour)


Dredd Shelf #1


Dredd Shelf #2


Dredd Shelf #3 + Zenith and my Pat Mills books


Strontium Dog, Durham Red, Rogue Trooper, Hewligan's Haircut, Lobster Random + Extreme Editions of Revere, Firekind, Slaughterbowl, and The Dead/Tyranny Rex


John Smith, Peter Milligan, Alan Moore, a bunch of meg floppies + miscelaneous others.


EDIT: Oh, and there's that Rian Hughes book with Dare and Really and Truly in it somewhere...

Looks like the 2000AD shop still has it for cover price https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/BI1384

Book 3 has some amazing exras at the back if you do find a copy.

Harrison's essay is certainly... entertaining
https://twitter.com/James_Baker/status/835843197377052673

I got the first two in November, set up an Ebay alert for the Empty Suns. Stupidly let one buy-it-now for below cover price pass in early December, and then had to wait until late January for the next one.

And yeah, I couldn't find a single one in any other online retailer. Set an alert and wait, patiently.

EDIT: And they're very definitely a Trilogy. Although Book 2 ends on a great note that could easily have been a (downer) ending if they never came back, so it worked really well to get to that point and have to wait a few months for the conclusion

Mega City Justice was originally planned to be out on September 27th, and the 13th September slot is currently empty, so it's possible they've teased September's books instead of April's Missionary Man and Tour of Duty books by mistake?

Yeah. According to Barney, the City of The Dead volume has 238 story pages, and the remaining Armitage stories come to 208 pages. Add the Hershey and steel story along with the Steel solo, which are 30 pages total, and we might end up with 2 exactly evenly sized books containing the whole thing. If Barney is correct!

Which I guess for context means that unless you're an absolute completist, then you can skip the first two, the third and fourth ones are about 50/50, and most of Volume five is not in the mega collection.

The Psi-Files are an easier reading experience with the stories printed in (mostly) the right order though, instead of jumping about in the middle there.

[Psi-Files Volume 1:Feature Strips:]

The stories in the 5 Psi-Files Volumes that aren't in the 5 Mega-Collection Anderson Volumes are:

Psi-Files Volume 1:
Feature Strips:
Four Dark Judges (This is of course in Mega Collection Volume 6: Judge Death Lives!)

Bonus Strip:
The Haunting

Psi-Files Volume  2:
Feature Strips:
Blythe Spirit

Bonus Strips:
Golem
A Soldier's Tale

Psi-Files Volume 3:
Feature Strips:
Something Wicked
Wonderwall
Crusade
Danse Macabre
Witch
The Great Debate
Lawless

Bonus Strips:
Dear Diary
Colin Wilson Block
Confessions of a She-Devil
Exorcise Duty

Psi-Files Volume 4:
Feature Strips:
Horror Story
Semper Vi

Bonus Strips:
The Most Dangerous Game
Baby Talk
George

Psi-Files Volume 5:
Feature Strips:
Big Robots
Wiierd
Biophyle
The House of Vyle
The Trip
Stone Voices

Bonus Strips:
What If...? Cassandra Anderson Hadn't Become A Judge
Horror Comes To Velma Dinkley

Hello!

I only started reading Dredd last March and since then I've read A LOT of Dredd.

I read Case Files 1-11 in order, then jumped to Day of Chaos, then read everything else in a completely random order so I've been having a tough time making it all make sense in my head, I've got no sense of scale or context, what was happening in 2000AD, the Megazine, in what order and for how long....

So because I'm a massive nerd and my partner was away I spent the last three days with Barney and made this spreadsheet and thought I'd share it incase it'd be useful or interesting to anyone else.

Caveats:

It's only the stories in the books I have on my shelf (Complete runs (to date) of  the Case/Psi/Restricted Files and The Mega Collection), a bunch of Rebellion trades and a few dozen Megazine floppies.

it's based entirely on publication dates, rather than actual reading order

The colour coding might be a bit idiosyncratic.

It's probably full of errors, and there are definitely some... fudges to stop it breaking the format...

(I don't seem to be able to attach it to this thread, so I've had to upload it to mediafire, hope this doesn't break any rules)

Enjoy: http://www.mediafire.com/file/n8f71578i870jv6/Dredd+Chronology.xlsx