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This week I bought the Prog and meg from the WH Smiths in Manchester Piccadilly station on my way home from a rather disappointing work meeting... No age restriction warning this time...

Incidentally I don't have a problem at all with my 9 year old son reading a comic that contains swearing; he hears that stuff everywhere he goes, every day of his life and he is well aware that he shouldn't use those words at least not until he is an adult and he's careful not to use them around adults.

I don't have a problem with violence either, that is something hard to avoid in any media and often in daily life. He fully understands that the comic is a thing of fantasy and those situations are not real.

The one thing that does make me keep the Prog away from him is when it includes strong nudity and sexual images. Those are things he doesn't need to be learning about at 9 years old (he's still at the age where he cringes when people kiss in films etc.). However I'm all to aware that it won't be long until that changes too...

Today I purchased the Prog from WH Smiths in Huntingdon, using the self service till, as I do almost every week. However the routine was slightly different today as when I scanned the barcode a message popped up saying approval was needed...apparently the Prog is age restricted and you need to be over 18 to buy it! Never had this happen before and I assume it was some database quirk...but I just wondered if anyone else had encountered this?

Mine arrived today and they are indeed lovely... Make it so easy to pick up and flick through 6 months of the prog at a time. Now to work backwards year by year until I have my collection bound. I might make myself a nice detailed contents page for each volume printed on folded A3 using one of the spare cords

I have bought both of these...but when it comes to reading I'm a bit of a dinosaur and struggle with digital...i really hope these get collected into a nice physical book

I was just wondering the exact same thing...I'm hoping that it'll crop up over here too.

Did anyone else here (and in the UK) request a replacement Total War but not get one? First time since subscribing that I've been unhappy with the service. (Previous replacements have arrived in a week; this time, it's been three weeks and nothing.)

HHHmmmmm I got an extra set...although one set had the wrong name on...which I didn't notice until after I had opened the box...very odd; I'm now wondering if somehow they managed to send your set to me.

I'd love to read this series in full...it was way before my time with 200AD. It never really seems to get the love that other contempoary strips do.

One of the interesting developments in the post-bag world has been the impromptu recycling of boxes in Lidl - rather than shell out for a 'bag for life' if you cock up and forget yours you can just grab a used cardboard box from the pile a the end of the shelves, or even (as I have done) deploy the contents of a half-full one onto the appropriate shelves, and use that. Then at the other end you either have a handy cardboard box, or into the recycling bin it goes, but with one additional use wrung out of it.  If this could be be extended to packing produce in supermarkets, I think we really would be getting somewhere.

That used to be standard practice 40 years ago. I remember as a little 'un going to the co-op with my gran - she used to let me climb into the box-area to hunt for exactly the right sized box - great fun, like a ball-pool! (and then when we got back to hers, I would stick all her divi stamps in to the books)

Hahaha I was just about to say the same thing...I used to wait in the box area while my nan collected her shopping...lots of fun was had making forts and spaceships 

I've been hoarding carrier bags for the last year and a half and have enough to keep me in bin liners for the next couple of years...but once they have run out I guess this'll force me to consider buying 'proper' bin liners 

Well my replacements for the damaged issues arrived today. Just had a flick through Total War and the print quality is much better than the first one that I received.Every page is readable, although one page still suffers from fuzzy double exposed text and a few other the text is quite thick...nothing that will stop me enjoying this one though

Hope they've got to the bottom of the problem and that future volumes won't be hit by this though...

The next two volumes will be interesting as we hit the first point where I think I'll have read every story in both volumes before, so far I've been lucky and at least one volume each month has had a large chunk that was new to me.

On Facebook:

Hey guys, It doesn't look like there is a problem with the source material so we are looking into whether or not something has gone wrong in the printing process. It has not affected the whole run though, so if you haven't provided us with your address and the issues affected via PM, do so and we will send out replacements! Thanks!

I wonder if this is why the my replacement issues have not shown up on my account yet or been delivered...

b) When Wagner is returning to Dredd?

And there's this...

Oooohhh I look forwards to that...and a 10p price increase too...

Yeah can't fault their response through Facebook; I had confirmation that replacement books were being sent out within 24 hours of messaging them. I sent them pictures of the damage with my initial message, just to make sure that they could see the damage.

They haven't asked for the damaged books to be returned. They did ask for me to return a book the one time that they sent an incorrect one by mistake, but in that case they gave me a freepost address to send it to.

Glad to hear that the print quality issue isn't across the board and that was probably just a further bit of bad luck

Issues 18 and 19 just arrived...gutted heavily bashed in the post and mashed corners of the books. This is the first time that I've felt I need to ask for replacements Also, unless I just got dodgy books, the quality of the printing (particularly on  the title pages, credits and recap pages) has taken a bit of a nose dive...misaligned plates, fuzzy text, dull reds, white specks showing through the black...really hope I just got a couple of iffy issues and the replacements will be at the usual standard.

Those look good, what size of binder is it A4 90mm?

At £5-6 each I'd be very interested in these. I've looked before but it's always been a bit too pricey for me...