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James Ellroy perhaps. Black Dahlia or LA Confidential. Or the undisputed hardcore filth champion that is White Jazz.

[Judge Dredd: City Limits]

Judge Dredd: City Limits
Hardcover, 324 pages, IDW Publishing, 9th September 2014

Anyone know what this is?  The hardcover listing (and price - £37.99) suggest it's a another themed volume of proper/UK Dredd reprints.

Says now on Amazon that it's a "collection of the first 12 issues of IDW's ongoing series, plus all of the back-up stories.". Looks like it collects the robot war and Cursed Earth story lines.

This wasn't the best Megazine I'v read. Most exciting Dredd story felt like the announcement of Judge Dredd: Dead zone by Wagner and Flint. Rad to the bone didn't really do it for me.

And sadly Anderson looks like it'll end next month. While the story hasn't hold up quite as much as I'v hoped, I still like it. Especially the art. Can't wait to see how it ends next month!

Shouldn't 348 be on the ipad app by now? Is it just me or is anyone else's late?

I'v sadly also encountered this. Looked like a near perfect thrill power Wednesday with Wonder Woman 31, New 52: Future's end #3, 2000AD and the MEG. But sadly there was no MEG... And I want my monthly dose of Anderson now 

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It's arrived now

Yeah, just d/led it. Thanks !

In short. Great prog. Cover and all. It, New 52: Future's end and Wonder Woman #31 made this Wednesday full of thrill power!

Dredd: Not Wagner's greatest, but still really solid. Dredd is the bomb at it's most hardcore, but also when filled with some sadness: Which in a sense this story really did the trick. Looking forward to see where the character goes from here!

Indigo Prime: The art is amazement, but I don't get what it's about. Prolly something I need to read from beginning to the end of later on.

Slaine: While I don't understand much of the story, I love the art and the little I do understand. Slaine looking for the skinny woman who turned into a mermaid and on the way he decapitates a big troll of some sorts (whom I'v seen the johnson of in the last panel of the last issue = which is brilliant.).

Colony:  Got some good The thing vibes from this. While one or two panels was a bit hard on the logic of -my- thinking I thought the monsters where good. Especially the last one they'r helping getting out. Thought that panel had some punch in it.

Outler: This is definitely growing on me. I even thought it was rather great this prog. Will re-read from beginning to end when finished!

Shouldn't 348 be on the ipad app by now? Is it just me or is anyone else's late?

I'v sadly also encountered this. Looked like a near perfect thrill power Wednesday with Wonder Woman 31, New 52: Future's end #3, 2000AD and the MEG. But sadly there was no MEG... And I want my monthly dose of Anderson now 

I for one don't want to be drawn on that. It'd drive me batty. I'm sure it'd all read fine, but knowing I could get  it all?

I've found this copy of volume two which even though it ships from the US is yours for £25?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/1781160759/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

Many thanks for finding it. Sadly it says: " We're sorry. This item can't be shipped to your selected destination. You may either change the shipping address or delete the item from your order by changing its quantity to 0 and clicking the update button below", when I try to order it.

I think the thing is that I'm seated in Sweden. Figures I'll have to wait till amazon also wreaks our book market. Will also try to make a push at a book store in a nearby town.

I'v just ordered both volume 3-4 of 4th World and also O.M.A.C. So I think I'll manage, since I'm one of them minimum is the message types.

But surely I wouldn't have minded all four of 4th world, but I'm sure I'll come across the book. But if not, then I'll live... I'll probably also need room for the Doom Patrol Omnibus, JD DOC Fallout, DMZ Dlx bk 2 and LoEG Century (I-II-III collected as HC) this summer. So much for keeping things at a minmum 

While I'm not a fan of Marvel stuff, is Devil Dinosaur any good (looks pretty insane). And how about Silver star? Anyone read those?

Your pretty safe with Devil Dinosaur.

Silver Star has a mixed reputation but I loved it. Its a bit like a swansong to all the ideas he'd pulled together from cosmic consciousness he mainlined - of course like all his best work he didn't get to finish it. This being the only frustration with all of his greatest works. It was all so mindblowingly good humanity wasn't ready for it and we couldn't and can't get the whole picture.

Okay! But still, if I where to begin with 3-4 of 4th world. It'd work? A bit short and in media res perhaps, but could the "how it began" and then end angle work? As said, vol 2 is very hard to come by (especially at a reasonable price)

I'v skimmed trough some of it actually, and from the looks of it 4th world and OMAC looks like the best of the bunch.

Would have loved reading Kirbys 2001. From what I'v read about it, it looks MEGA. Only problem is that I'd like it to be in book form and not single issues. A bit of a fetish.

Kamandi also looks great (and quite insane, in a very good way), but I'd like if the omnibuses where TPBs instead of HCs. Makes for a better fit I think. And while the second omnibus is available at a reasonable price, the first one goes for a 100 at amazon.co.uk

And as for 4th world omnibus 2, it's at least 40 for it.

But if I where to buy vol 3 and 4 for starters, they work quite well on their own don't/shouldn't they? At least if read for the Mr Miracle and New Gods? Detailing the start of the war and then the end of it (Wedding bells and Orion saving his mother.)

While I'm not a fan of Marvel stuff, is Devil Dinosaur any good (looks pretty insane). And how about Silver star? Anyone read those?

Been thinking about buying some Jack Kirby lately. OMAC feels like a must buy (with some ideas being worthy 2000ad) and also the fourth world omnibuses.

But with 4h world vol 1 looking a bit bit too funky (too much Jimmy Olsen) and vol 2 impossible to find at a decent price I'm thinking of just buying vol. 3 (that details what started the war and the pact) and vol 4 (that ends it all)

Think that's a good idea? 

Also, any other stuff by the king that's recommended? Devil Dinosaur perhaps?

Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Rizzo, Patricia Mulvihill and Dave "Devilpig" Johnson's 100Bullets - Brother Lono



In short: A modern day western/noir about a man who makes one of the most dangerous places in Mexico (therefor the world) looking rough. That man/MONSTER is Lono. He shows up in a Catholic mission after starting to believe that his way of doing (mostly killing) things have started to have consequences, and that God has something to do with it. So Lono tries to better himself by caging the monstrous voice inside with the mystery of Christ. And to his help he has the mission's Padre Manny, whom seems to believe Lono to be the Devil himself.

And I must say straight away that I really like this book. There are things in it that really hits hard where it needs to, the characters are outstanding and the pay off of the story almost feels as big as the ending itself. And that ending... It's not for the faint of heart.

But it isn't without some problems. The flow of story isn't perfect at times (when compared to the near perfect first issue) but luckily picks up immediately afterwards each time (of the few times) it happens. The same goes with the art, that are some of the best I'v seen from Risso but also got a panel or two that looks a little sloppy in comparison.

And for those wondering. While having read 100Bullets before reading Brother Lono gives an edge here and there, it's actually not needed at all. The book gives the reader enough of an idea that Lono's nature is pure evil which he tries to put down with nurture of good, what he hopes to be God. The little 100Bullets gives away about Lono's past is also present in Brother Lono.

So I totally recommend this. While very very violent, it serves the story. One that works as good in the 100Bullets universe as it does on it's own!

A strong 4 out of 5.

I'll borrow this from ZenArcade

Cover is a good one. Good use of colour.
Dredd: Like how it puts MC1 shootings into perspective. Hopefully another slow burn from Wagner.
Slaine: A bit light on story (perhaps because I haven't read Slaine before), but I love the art.
Jägir: Quite liked this one. Will read it from beginning to end soon.

Outlier and Sinister Dexter didn't do much for me. Not in anyway bad, but a bit easy to skip.

In short, another great prog to grace the week with.

Closet could perhaps be a good fit, with it's Dredd-fetish 

... and the new MC1 Confidential talk host actually dared to speak out against the Judges. Even if not much, still a bit.

Wait... but... he didn't. That was sort of my point. It was the whole point of the story, really.

...MC1 Confidential, like all programmes in the Big Meg, is just another tool of the Judges; that last rather obvious pointing of the finger at the Judges for Blixen's murder is not an act of giddy defiance - it's Justice Department talking to the viewers through the programme, sending a very clear message - 'Defy us and this is what will happen. Nowhere is safe from our reach.'

The programme's a tool of the state - it only exists to give the citizens an illusion of rebellion. The new host said exactly what the Judges wanted him to say.

That's a good point, and one very true to how things "work" today. For example the American president not having any trouble telling the public that a leak will be put behind bars for a long time.

Dredd - Really liked this one. While it didn't have the collapse feel post DoC, it showed what happens when things come back to normal. And while the whistle blower got killed, the story itself felt quite optimistic. Not everyone involved got killed, the project is said to be banned and MC1 Confedential started to talk out against the judges. While no revolution, there where some steps.

I almost feel as though we were reading a different story! I thought it was a deliciously dark ending where almost nobody came out of it well, including the Judges. Everyone who stood up to Justice Department is either dead or in prison, some of them indefinately, some of whom didn't even do anything wrong! And you have to remember that MC1 Confidential, like all programmes in the Big Meg, is just another tool of the Judges; that last rather obvious pointing of the finger at the Judges for Blixen's murder is not an act of giddy defiance - it's Justice Deparment, talking to the viewers through the programme, sending a very clear message - 'Defy us and this is what will happen. Nowhere is safe from our reach.'

I agree. It's sinister as hell. This is subtle storytelling, over the long term, that's a speciality of Wagner, Dredd and 2000AD.

Of course it was dark (Which Dredd always is at it's best), but still. Some of those "involved" actually survived, Dredd didn't agree with the the "thing" and the new MC1 Confidential talk host actually dared to speak out against the Judges. Even if not much, still a bit. But yeah, I probably meant "a tiny, little bit of optimistic", not "quite". And seriously, things more or less went better in Dredd than in our reality