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I'd guess at Slaine: The Horned God, which was the first of the pilot issues. A good one to kick off with.

I suppose so, but surely most of the target audience owns it already?

Well, as a lapsed reader (I stopped at the original Prog 2000) who was brought back in by the JDMC I'm very pleased to be starting with Horned God, and in fact have not read any of the next few volumes to come at all.

News from Facebook

There will be no duplication of issues that appeared in Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection. Of course, 2000 AD: The Ultimate Collection will include several Dredd tales, but there will be no overlap with the stories already published in the Mega Collection.

https://www.facebook.com/judgedreddcollection/posts/1920662961524836?comment_id=1920665544857911&reply_comment_id=1920677711523361&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D

I'm suprised people aren't talking more about the content of this book - which I haven't read. I'm curious to know if it's worth buying, or if it mostly retells stories that Mills has told before on his blog or on the Future Shock documentary. It's always worth lsitening to what Pat Mills has to say about 2000AD, but he does like to flog the same horses a lot of times...

My friend Dan has read the kindle edition and described it as "250 pages of Pat swearing and plugging his new novel [Serial Killer]"

So annoyed but not surprised in the slightest.
Right, quick decision is to bail on Dredd. Not what I wanted but more keen on reading the wider 2000AD collection.

I loved Insurrection having never read it before. I think I've said it so many time but Colin MacNeil has done so much amazing work for 2000ad. Hope Strange & Darke keep him busy or is it Defoe forever?

couldn't agree with you more Robert. Just finished the book last night and was blown away. I love both his styles too so the shift at the end didn't bother me.
I liked Dafoe, but prefer him on Dredd.

With only 11 of the original 80 left to be announced on the Facebook page, I think there is only one book we don't know:
71- Tour Of Duty 1, 72- Independent Operators, 74- City Of The Damned, 75- Weird Science, 78- Stars of PSI Div, 79- Chopper.
Plus I believe we will get a Hark & Burr book mirroring Brit Cit Noir from Rebellion, one more Armitage, & Famous Monsters featuring John Hicklington. The gaps are vol 27 following Mean Machine, which will defo have Angel Gang content, and vol 70 which is clearly in the 'Mad City' anthology segment so could be anything.
I think the days of questions being answered with 'yes that's coming in volume x' on the Facebook page are over though.

Wow thanks to Gordon & Frank for their posts, much appreciated.

it has to be, with the Quitely stuff having to go first, uninterrupted (sorry Garry Marshall!), that's 66pages. Maybe fitting The Promised Land's 90pages with any of the others was a trouble, except so much of Missionary Man is short stores.

I wonder what print subscribers will get during the extra ten issues. After all, they're paying an extra quid an issue, right?

The FB page have confirmed premium subbers will revert to regular price and there will not be further prints.

Just got my books today, I think Smith pleads his case for the Missionary Man stories in this volume well enough. Insurrection is new to me & I've been excited to read this since the beginning of the collection

Or, a much simpler reading list for those less mental:

Vol 1: Salvation at the Last Chance Saloon – A Town Called Intolerance
Vol 2: Legend of the Unholy Drinker
Vol 1: Bad Moon Rising
Vol 2 Season of the Witch – Sanctuary
Vol 3: Judge Dredd: True Grit
Vol 2: The Undertaker Cometh – END
Vol 3: Prologue – Apocrypha
Vol 1: The Promised Land
Vol 3: Mark of the Beast – END
Vol 1: Place of the Dead – END

Didn't Marshal Law originally appear via Epic as well?

Sure it did. Light & Darkness War, too I think.
Plus Sienkewicz's Stray Toasters and a few things by the wonderful Ted McKeever.
A terrific imprint.

So I at least have some of my answer via backmatter in the Titan Comics HC edition of Light & Darkness War - Kennedy & Veitch came together at the introduction of Steven Bisette, and Veitch had been courted by Archie Goodwin.

Alright, sematics aside, it didn't end up a Berger Book like Sandman, Doom Patrol, Swamp Thing. All being made by UK writers poached by DC. Maybe the Creator Owned angle was stronger at Epic at the time.

For fuck's sake. That's not 'semantics'. The publisher you mention didn't EXIST until three years after the book was published.

Sorry, you are of course right. And maybe that's the rub too- no vertigo means no good terms for creator owned books at DC. But Sandman specifically was published with Gaiman's ownership prior to the name Vertigo being used, though it was based on an existing DC character.

All I'm trying to find out is why Mills, Kennedy, McMahon, Wagner & Grant chose Epic for their books. Were they courted or were they trying to break America? Or was it because of the problems with Creator's Rights at 2000AD at the time:

Again, no offence meant.

Ok, me and my mates are reading this book right now and I was wondering how it came about, especially at Epic. So many 2000AD artists and writers ended up at Vertigo at the time but this one went 'across the street'. I had a fuzzy memory of either Mick or Wagner talking about this on the Thrillcast but have struggled to find anything. Does anyone have an answer for me?
Cheers!

Because Last American was published in 1990 and Vertigo didn't exist until 1993?

Alright, sematics aside, it didn't end up a Berger Book like Sandman, Doom Patrol, Swamp Thing. All being made by UK writers poached by DC. Maybe the Creator Owned angle was stronger at Epic at the time.

Ok, me and my mates are reading this book right now and I was wondering how it came about, especially at Epic. So many 2000AD artists and writers ended up at Vertigo at the time but this one went 'across the street'. I had a fuzzy memory of either Mick or Wagner talking about this on the Thrillcast but have struggled to find anything. Does anyone have an answer for me?
Cheers!