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Next issue - #350 - is exactly what you're after. 

You're a gent, sir.  An absolute gent. 

Can anyone remember where this Rogue Trooper text story was?  Don't recall that at all.

Ah, I'd forgotten about "Blood Cadets".  Personally I think the radiation thing is far less interesting than a personality based explanation, because it absolves Rico of responsibility.  Also if an extreme of good and bad is something inherent in the Fargo genes (as Origins suggests with Eustace and Ephram) than the idea that Dredd contains the potential to go down the same path is really intruiging.

[spoiler]I rather like the idea in the Mike's book that Rico has a flexible perception of the law that in his opinion is beyond Joe's simple application of a rule book.  You could argue that there's a slight analogy between this and Dredd's slightly more liberal approach to reform in recent years [/spoiler]

Just read and enjoyed this. 

It also got me thinking.  Rico is surely the most underused character in Dredd's canon.  Off the top of my head I think he's only featured properly in "The Return of Rico" and "Origins".  But when you think about it, he's potentially a massively interesting figure.  He and Joe are in essence the same person, and yet went such different ways.  Also, and this is something Mike touches on in the book, seeing as he was better than Dredd at the Academy, part of his tragedy is it should have been him that went onto be the talismanic figure that Joe becomes.  (arguably that's something that is later explored through Kraken in Necropolis, I suppose)

Mike takes an interesting approach to his character - one that's more rewarding than simply just treating him as a straightforward bad apple, and which suggest there's loads of potential to be explored there, both in his time on the streets and on Titan.  Worth reading and I'd happily see more either in book form or the prog/meg.

Due out in November, I believe. One volume containing those 2 plus a previously unreleased novella.

Ta.

Did I imagine talk of the City Fathers and Cold Light of Day being published in physical form?  And if not, did it happen yet?

Finally found it in a newsagent in Crouch End.  Couldn't find it in any of the big WH Smiths in Central London, even though they had the prog and the meg.  Weird.

Loved it.  Real (and obviously very deliberate) old school, fun feel to most of the strips, Robo Hunter especially. 

And I particularly liked the fact the cover was glossy.  Please, please can we have glossy covers on the Prog and Meg Tharg?  Obviously it makes it more expensive to produce, but it makes such a difference...

I hope it's about a future cop with the power to act as judge, jury and even executioner.


That could work.

I only wanted the prog so, if anyone wants any of the freebies that were being given away at Forbidden Planet (and are happy to pay the postage) then just let me know

They are:

Guardians of the Galaxy
Ipso Facto
Futures End
Scam Crosswords
Rise of the Magi
Armor Hunters
V Wars

Its definitely worth re-reading.  I've been reading it with my 7year old son as his school has been doing some bits on the anniversary of WW1, and its every bit as good as I remember.  If anything Colquhoun's art looks even better with time.  That man was a genius.

A really nice starter prog, and I rather liked the touch of the back cover being a Thargian seal from one of the mid 80s annuals.  Took me right back.

One thing I really loved though was the fact the cover was glossy.  This is pretty much the only change I'd make to the regular prog (especially seeing as the postman always manages to crease my subs prog putting it through the letterbox, except on weeks when its a glossy cover relaunch prog).  It just looks and feels much better.  Wonder how much difference it would make to the cover price to do it.

Starting to reverse into what appears to be the only free parking space in the entire carpark, and then discovering it actually has a Smart car or Fiat 500 in it that you couldn't see.

No Prog here yet. Anyone else with a sub still missing theirs?

Yep.

So long as the cover features a group shot of 2000AD characters relaxing on a beach and/or having an ice cream from a Mr Whippy then everything else is just details.