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If they've reached the stage of reprinting Finn then I can't see any justification for continuing past 140 - seems that will definitely be the end, unless they can do 5-10 volumes collecting stuff that's run in the Prog/Megazine since the UC started.

Hello - if anyone can sort me out so that I can reply to threads in the News section, that would be loverly.

Got a bit excited/concerned for my bookcases when I saw the collection had increased to 170 issues on Facebook this morning, only to realise it was 2000AD accidentally posting about the Marvel collection. Looks like the post has been removed now.

FYI there's a short John Smith retrospective at The Comics Journal today, prompted by the Revere digital release. http://www.tcj.com/from-revere-to-eternity-the-works-of-john-smith/

Just been into the office to pick up Savage and Jaegir. Really looking forward to both. I've only read the first two paperback collections of Savage before, so keen to see where it goes.

I've continued having all my books sent to the office, even though I've been working at home for 12 months. Didn't trust them to change it properly!

I'd sort of hoped Hachette might use the extension to reset relationships with subscribers, so that we'd get the books first, but I guess not. Glad to hear it's a good read though - looking forward to it!

That's some quality letters based stalking right there!

(he didn't know I was watering his plants)

Not long now. Luther Davies next and we wished we watched the show as  there are probably some puns to be had. <looks at Wikipedia> Luther Elbas his way onto the page with a Ruth(Wilson)less  attack on correct numbering that will make many readers (Mark) Cross. His structure is poor as he starts with offering a double but ends up with a three-bagger; each more positive than the last - it'll never catch on.

Luther is from e-mailland also but we know he lives, or used to live, in Chipping Norton possibly alongside Jeremy Clarkson. In that vein his letter is like a rocket ship driven by a maniac - on steroids!

Lither still lives in Chipping Norton (though some distance from Clarkson)!  Pre-COVID we had regular gaming nights, and I'd water his plants when he went on holiday. Had no idea he was a missive launcher. It's a squaxx, squaxx, squaxx, squaxx world. 

Oh dear, those links are a mess. I think they've mixed up volume and issue numbers. So Brink is Issue 88, but Read Seas II will be Volume 88 on the shelf.

I only cherry pick, ordering through my comic shop so yesterday when I popped in to get my post lockdown comics there were two waiting for me (Flesh and Firekind) and one was shrinkwrapped with the reprint of 'Taking Liberites' both me and the shop owner were a bit confused but shrugged as there was on extra cost. Getting home I openned it and a note feel out explaining that a fre replacement was being given to folks in volume 81 to replace a spine error.

Bit cheeky of me to get one given I never got the erroneous one!

Haha - lucky you, to get a free book! Savage is a good one, too. Hachette's margins on these books must be enormous if they can keep replacing them like this.

Lobster Random seems a little strange, like the cover isn't big enough for the contents. It reprints all 240 pages (total according to barney).

I see what you mean. The spine isn't quite wide enough for the contents. Nice to have a book that feels like it's bursting at the seams!

War Machine, Leviathan, Brass Sun, and Revere - nice. And is that a bit of Devlin Waugh in the spine preview? Lovely. But Finn? Mean Arena? Strontium Dogs? Tastes like barrel scrapings to me.

A few people on Facebook saying the same.

I'm with you! These were always an auto-skip in Annuals and Sci-Fi Specials, etc. Features were fine, but prose stories just didn't belong.