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That would explain why Big Finish don't offer the two audio dramas you mentioned as downloads.

I'm still interested in obtaining all three in CD format (I need them for research purposes).

It may well be that the Wikipedia contributors drew from the source the MCA authors referenced, explaining the similarities?

Amazon informed me that Volume 2 of the MCAs has been delayed until the end of February (makes sense, since Volume 1 was a month late).

[NEW CELLS]

I'm actually writing a story set in the time of transition between the 'old cops' and the Judges. It's called NEW CELLS and partly turns on terrorist movements within the USW (United States Of The West--remember that old map?) who are cloning their best operatives. Some of the leading Judges take a keen interest because they've been thinking along the same lines.... 

I'm firstly developing the idea as the premise of an online role-playing adventure, then repurposing it (pretty much a complete rebuild) as a novella for a future PDF in my PLAY DREDD DOSSIERS series.

[DEATH TRAPWANTED DREDD OR ALIVEDREDDLINE]

I'm looking for:
DEATH TRAP
WANTED DREDD OR ALIVE
DREDDLINE

I'm not particularly bothered about the jewel cases, only the discs, but will happily accept the cases if you have no further use for them.

I'll pay £12.00 per disc (including 1st Class postage within the UK) via Paypal only. Uk transactions only. Thank you!

There are as many rounds in a Lawgiver (or any fictional weapon's) magazine as suits the story, basically. If Dredd needs to wipe out 300 rampaging mutants using Lawgiver and bike cannon, he doesn't run out until the job's done (reloading off-panel).

[Ah, what a blow!]

Ah, what a blow!

I was readying my debit card to buy (in my mind's eye) a highly-detailed, 'functional' replica of the MK1 Lawgiver (complete with LEDs, SFX, removable magazines with six types of bullet and a motorised 'through-barrel gunscope'. No 'self-destruct' for Health & Safety reasons).

Nice, high-resolution photo of the movie version, though 

I'd pay for high-quality scans on disc, divided into series, not cheap-jack scans pulled off the bit torrents (particularly where the older, 'bog paper' 2000ADs are concerned). Make them available as both PDF and .cbr formats (although I'd prefer the latter) and then we're talking.

If I was to pick a fault with the internal layout, after reading the book in detail, it's the body text font. It's too 'busy' for my eyes (rugged rather than soothing). The more complex a font/graphic, the more work the brain has to undertake to process it (measured of course in a very short space of time, but over the course of the book, I had to put it aside several times to rub my eyes, or read something else).

I suffer from chronic fatigue, so whether it's just my weary brain, I don't know....

I think the very first J. Death story: Judge Death--was written solely by Wagner (aka John Howard).

The character certainly has mileage left in him. Offhand, I can imagine half a dozen scenarios as yet unexplored by the comics, posing J. Death with some intriguing new challenges (and yet which also stay true to his basic character--no watering down of his penchant for uberviolence towards all that live).

[THEN AGAIN]

To be tiresomely pedantic:

Technically, a RPG sourcebook contains game statistics ('mechanics') and methods by which the source materiels can be adapted to RPG adventures. The MCA contains none of that; considering no knowledge of RPGs is necessary to enoy the MCAs, they can't reasonably be called 'game books'.

Mongoose are aiming for the larger potential readership by stripping out the RPG stats (and then offering the stats in separate RPG books, which equals first-time business from comic book fans and double business from RPGers).

THEN AGAIN: My PLAY DREDD PDFs don't contain RPG stats (I hate them), but some of them are intended for JDRPGers. 

I think their main market is the USA, hence the dollar being the predominant currency.

[JUDGE DREDD PRESENTS]

Yes. They could fall under the JUDGE DREDD PRESENTS banner, something like that?

My pleasure, James.

I've completed 240 pages so far; the A-Z component of the book should be finished in the summer. It's a truly massive undertaking, and the wait will be worth it. I plan up update every January with all the latest locales to have appeared in Dreddworld media over the past 12 months (or 6 months in the case of the 2011/2133 update).

Each entry contains synopses of events happening in or around each location, and the stories from which they originated.

I may have to give Special Thanks to James S(tacey?) for the idea in my Streets of Mega-City One gazetteer; in one decisive swoop, he's solved one of the project's bugbears.

Oh yes, the Return of the Taxidermist story was hugely entertaining. Exquisite Ian Gibson artwork.

I still cherish I Was A Teenage Tax Inspector, but is it ever so slightly likely to see reprint?