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Ha - still feeling salty about that. Is Thistlebone / The Out the best subscriber double bill yet? Can't wait to get stuck into them.

Did they ever do a corrected reprint of Snow/Tiger? I believe there was a problem with blurry pages and a missing page? Could be misremembering which volume it was though

Thirteen was blurry, with the wrong art. I was sent a replacement copy but it was exactly the same. I haven't read Snow/Tiger yet - will be annoyed if it has the same issues!

The completest in me feels your pain. I'm also looking forward to things ending. I've got no complaint with the quality of this most recent extension (for the most part), the problem is that I already have a lot of the newest stuff in trades which kills some of the enthusiasm. At least my brother benefits from the hand me downs!

I don't see how including Lawless works, unless they package it with a reprint of the Mega Collection volume. Nice reward for subscribers who've been with it this long.

Not the most comprehensive Bix Barton collection - just two stories, already reprinted (ages ago!) in the Extreme Editions. I'll take them in hardback, though. Always had a soft spot for Bix, but I shouldn't think it's aged well (unlike yours truly).

Got my replacement Thirteen today. All issues are still present, which is what I was expecting. I was really looking forward to this one and Hachette have totally shit the bed with it.

And I could live with that, but printing this:
 
 instead of this:
 
 is a bit harder to give a pass to.

Has anyone complained to Hachette? Perhaps I'll hold fire on that book in hopes of a reprint.

They just said they'd send me a replacement, though I don't imagine it will be any different.

Same here, with the pixelation. But not only that, one of the pages appears to have entirely the wrong art on it, repeating a spread from a couple of pages previous.

The Day of Chaos storyline is collected in the Judge Dredd Mega Collection series which Hachette no longer sells, leaving eBay as probably your only option.

As far as I can make out, Rebellion's volume of The Fourth Faction includes Hot Night in 95, which is not in Hachette's version. Hachette's Fourth Faction does make space for The Assassination List, which is in the Rebellion trade of Endgame. Hachette's Endgame includes Wastelands, which is in Rebellion's Fallout, and Hachette's Aftermath contains Asleep, Suicide Watch and Feral which are not in any of the Rebellion trades, whereas Rebellion's Fallout contains The Pits and Power Struggle, which Hachette doesn't collect in its DoC trio.

For the most complete experience it looks like you should get the Rebellion volumes, plus Aftermath from Hachette, but that will include a lot of duplication between the two third volumes. Alternatively, if you can get them all, go for the three Hachette volumes plus Fast Food (Vol 71 for Hot Night in 95) and Psi-Judge Anderson: Dead End (Vol 89 for The Pits) also from the Mega Collection. That will get you almost everything collected in the six Rebellion and Hachette books, short of Power Struggle.

Clear as day, right?!

If it was me, I'd just go for the Rebellion books.

The second extension was equal parts hit and miss, for me. Some good stuff from Smith, Edginton and Abnett but the rest of the books felt like curios and deep dives (and some were just outright questionable choices). Nothing as essential the first extension. I'm not seeing much in this final (?) set to get too excited about. The spine art doesn't give a lot away and frankly, with a few notable exceptions, if a strip is from before 2010 and hasn't been included in the first 140 books, does it really deserve a place? I'd be very happy to get some more recent stories, although I've bought quite a few softcovers since the collection started and there's a strong risk of double-dipping.

If this is some of the best the Prog had to offer in that era then I can see why people stopped reading.

The 900s were a dark time, and I checked out not very long afterwards (just as the quality of the strips was turning a corner, it turns out). I've often wondered if my disdain was coloured by being a somewhat pretentious 20 year old with a massive Vertigo habit, but then I read some of this and 20 year old me, despite being so wrong about so many things, feels vindicated.

Received 137 & 138 this week. Don't know who decided to run the ends of Strontium Dogs and Finn back to back in the UC but it's hardly the most inspiring pairing, and the intros and extras are fairly apologetic and sound glad to see the backs of both of them. Less of this in the extension, please.

Royal Mail giving them a right sledgehammering didn't raise my levels of enthusiasm either.

There comes a point when you have got to stop or else the content can't justify the "ultimate" in the title.

Ultimately (ha!) you're limited by the pace of production. Most of the quality "legacy" strips have been included, and a fair few modern strips don't have enough uncollected material to justify a Hachette volume. How long does it take for a single strip to produce 200-250 pages? You can't keep laying the tracks in front of the train for ever.

And Armoured Gideon makes the cut!