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Well it would be if they hadn't left the first one out (and the Kenny Who? sequel).

America II isn't a crossover. They're only leaving those out because of the shared copyright, and there's a collection of all of those.

I also have the America collection, so it's not that I'm missing out. It's just that given how important the America stories are in the Judge Dredd series, it seems like a baffling decision to leave them out of a series which purports to be a complete series.

It doesnt say it is complete - just that it is in order.

It's not really though is it, and anyway that has been the policy in the past - no america or any of the crossover stories like aliens, judgment in gotham etc.

Buy the America book. The Mega Collection one is great.

Its in the america book - leave it out!

When the horse appeared I couldn't help but think of the Hedgehog in the fog

I agree with Dark Jimbo about the monsters' dialogue in Dredd, but apart from that they're pretty threatening and I'm wondering how they can possibly be beaten.

Someone will find a way.

Are you all going to the VIP party?

Yeah - I think these slow burner Wagner stories work better in the context of the case files - having said that I am sure they are a blast for new readers.

You have to get both!

The rest of Finn


and Timehouse!

A reboot that looks excellent!

Got around to watching Sons of Anarchy - had put it off for ages as I know that the third season is going to do my head in (bad Irish accents) so slowly working our way up to that. The accents on the couple of Irish characters in season 1 didn't annoy me at all - season 2 and we've got some dodgy accents creeping in (one of them from a character from the first season too....so it's regressing)

Fingers crossed I don't throw something at the tele in about 11 episodes time.

There are some great bits in that series

That hand/gun looks so awkward - more like he's holding a microphone.

Holding a microphone and scratching turntable with the other hand you say, I don't think it looks anything like that!

Nicely put, Skullmo. It really is a fabulously complex work.

Maybe one day I'll see the same kind of genius in page after page of excruciatingly re-worded pentateuch and Woody Allen parody, but I'm not there yet.

I skipped that book - it was just too much after pushing through reads

I take that to mean it ultimately doesn't read as a grim polemic against women. There's more going on, and I can enjoy the sweep of it, rather than hand-wringing over perceived (perhaps-real-enough) misogyny.

Mmm-hmmm.  The misogyny is definitely real, Dave really does use Cerebus to put forward his view that the shallowness of women and their material and emotional demands drag men down and away from the true path of creativity and spiritual enlightenment that is their sole preserve.

And of course the wonderful thing of using Cerebus to voice his thoughts is that Cerebus is an unreliable source of information, he is so twisted up inside by his upbringing and his past that he cannot understand what is driving him, something that [spoiler]Dave points out to him [/spoiler]and which is later manifested in his multiple consciences. The fact that Cerebus is also a [spoiler]hermaphrodite[/spoiler], and Bear points out to him that [spoiler]he actually acts 'like a woman'[/spoiler], further confuses these messages. I felt part of it was him just trying to find and asset his masculinity in a female dominated society, which was in conflict to the land in which Cerebus was born and raised.

Never did it occur to me to be offended at the 'misogyny'... what colourful characters - including parodies - say and do in a largely fun story isn't really a treatise on anything. It's entertainment.

Well I love Cerebus, one of my all-time favourite works and a big part of my life at the time, but from 150 on its explicit purpose is to show how women existing as anything other than decoration will destroy all art, culture and grossly offend God.  Dave spends a whole book excoriating Hemingway, apparently mainly because he concludes that Ernest liked his missus to stick things up his bum bum on occasion, which makes him basically a woman himself and thus incapable of producing any work of value. So separating the evangelical misogyny (largely a product of Dave's worsening schizophrenia, I suspect) from the entertainment isn't a matter of just avoiding the tiny type.

Curiously by the time I got to this book I had stopped reading anyting Dave wrote as Dave*, so I avoided the extensive notes.  Read as part of the story I took this as an affront to Cerebus' fragile concept of masculinity. I also thoughtt he character of Mary was very sympathetic. I think that Dave's work is more ambiguious than maybe he even intended.


*Because it was annoying.

Please don't let me mislead you - Guys is chock-full of misogyny, and yes, Rick's Story is (probably) worse (and I don't like that one at all). However, with Guys it's at least CLEVER misogyny. The men of the tavern are the victims of a fascinatingly cruel matriarchy, despite superficially being given all they supposedly want (food, shelter, free drink, no last orders, endless time to chat and play games) so it works for me on the level of speculative fiction, even if the underlying polemic is vile..

Yeah skip it if you are strugging with trying to rationalise it morally, you wont enjoy it.