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My copies of ABC Warriors and Rogue Trooper turned up today - very nice they are too, the ABC Warriors book includes the Ro-Busters prologue and the colour centre spreads, and it's the third time I've received a Rogue Trooper book as part of a prize I won on the Internet (I won a copy of the Rogue Trooper vol 2 phonebook off of Molch-R during a Twitch broadcast about Dredd vs Death at the end of 2015, then won a copy of Rogue Trooper vol 1 off of the Rogue Trooper Redux twitter feed last year).

However, it does mean that I've missed the Dante and Robohunter books.  Anyone know who I need to get in touch with to sort it out...?

The reprints are in colour? They're not in my copy...

Weird!

Subs box is here - silver bookends included.

Hmmm, I haven't had the Robohunter and Nicolai Dante books arrive yet...

That would be Tharg's Future Shocks: Ten, written and drawn by David Pugh, 2000 AD prog 480.

Weetabix is indeed big blocks of dry wheat.  If you put cold milk and sugar on them, it tastes like sugary milk.  For some reason, whenever I went to visit my grandparents I'd be presented with a plate of three Weetabix with butter spread on them (admittedly, it was usually margarine, and on at least one occasion, lard) even though I never actually ate them...

At the risk of scrambling Fox's brains even more, it's worth noting that the whole of the Apocalypse War, including Block Mania, probably lasts under a week of Dredd-verse time (it might be as short as four days...)

I used to work in Reading and I know it well enough to say that all those directions in Mean Arena are accurate (especially the one about the shortcut through Woolworth's to get from Broad Street to Friar Street) and the Maiwand Lion being referred to by its Local Name of 'The Forbury Lion' indicates that whoever 'A. Ridgway' is he's a Reading native - although admittedly almost all the landmarks mentioned are long gone (Butts Shopping Centre, Forbury Park Bandstand, King's Road Office Tower, Woolworth's...)

They are - Massimo Belardinelli, Massimo's daughter Valentina (she turns up quite a lot, keep your eyes open!), Alan Grant, I assume that's Lettering Droid Steve Potter, Massimo's wife (who quite often also appears alongside his other cameos) and John Wagner.

The other FS that springs to mind is one of Alan Moore's (I think) involving students at a lecture talking about life being wiped out.  In the denouement it turns out that the students are dinosaurs.  Not sure which prog though.

I remember that one.  It was actually two lectures - one about a theoretical nuclear war and one about the death of the dinosaurs.  Both lecturers use the same lines about the effects (nuclear winter, end of the world) and at the end its revealed that the nuclear war lecture is by dinosaurs who laugh at been replaced by "stupid mammals" and the other is set in the now and the students laugh at been replaced by insects.

Sadly no idea of the name or Prog, and nothing on either Barney or Touched by the Hand of Tharg ring any bells.

That's Tharg's Future Shocks - Class of '65 from prog 382, written by Alan Hebden and drawn by Jesus Redondo.

Matt Tallon gets revenge

I think that we're definitely supposed to be rooting for Tallon as a hero, rather than him turning out to be an out-and-out baddy - however, it's worth noting that Tom Tully gets replaced by an 'A. Ridgeway' in a couple of progs time. Nobody knows who that is, but I strongly suspect that it's 'Tom Tully under extremely close supervision so that this sports strip doesn't get the comic pulled' following the astonishingly gruesome death of the doctor character.  It was, after all, a Tom Tully sports strip (football tale 'Look out for Lefty!') that was directly responsible for the demise of Action, not to mention Inferno nearly killing the prog in 1978.

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"Stay tuned at the end of Episode 75 for important news for all listeners!"

Noooooooooo!!!!

This sc fi special was my first introduction to the galaxy's greatest! Btw is that Tom Frame in the
photo strip (second box?). Can't wait to here your opinions on ace trucking. Keep up the good work!

I don't know, but I think one of the guys waiting in panel three is art bodger Robin Smith, and I've always had the impression that the Alien Registrar was played by Richard 'Burt' Burton, as he looks a bit like Ezquerra's version of him.

Ah, R. E. Wright is a stock IPC pseudonym when something's been extensively rewritten and the original author wants his name taken off it (rewrite, see!)

In this case, this one is rather historical because the original author of Southern Comfort was a young fellow by the name of Alan Moore writing his very first full length script submission.  No one seems sure exactly how much Alan Moore material is left in it, though...

Wasn't his name Morphy? I thought Morph was a nickname; like Guthrie being called 'Guth'.

Other way round - it's Morph on his badge, other characters address his as Morphy.

I'd argue that Alan Grant shorts like 'Politics', (maybe) 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' and 'John Cassavetes is Dead' are also parts of that story.

Hey, speaking of maybe, maybe we should include the Maybe stories...

You're missing inferno/purgatory and Helter Skelter too, though many folk round here aren't keen on either. I like 'em, though, some fine Carlos art on both.

Inferno has Psi-Judge Janus in it and she rewrote her time-line at the end of her Faustus storyline (or everything she did was just a daydream she was having in a break room or something), thus making it entirely possible that she erased Inferno from history in the process (or it was all a dream or something).