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Personally I wouldn't bother yet.

I don't have 4K, but from what I've read you need a pretty large screen to even see the difference.

As an acquistition format, great - but as a delivery format I'm dubious whether it will catch on, unless the price drops to the same as HD.

People seem to say HDR makes a bigger difference, but again I think it will take a bit of settling down.

IDS has resigned.

After their adventures in Nemesis' world they seem to inexplicably go back to Mars as it was thousands of years before the Termight Empire without any time travel involved.

Lobob Baggins has already put it much simpler, but - they've gone back in time the minute they enter the time tunnels at the start of Black Hole. These underground tubes safely funnel away the excess or 'overflow' time created as a by-product by Emperor Zalinn's Black Hole Bypass - as Nemesis puts it 'Here are the entrances to Earth's past and future, in a temporal No Man's Land no Termite dare enter.'  They make it possible to traverse time as though it's a physical place; hence the scene where the Warriors talk about making a detour through real-time in an attempt to throw the Eternals off their scent. This is also how Thoth and Satanus are able to rampage back throughout Torque's ancestry.

I'm pretty sure DarkJimbo's done one of his handymental infographics for this...

Huh. D'you know, I don't actually think I have!

I don't think it's ever stated that the Return to Mars happens after Hellbringer, (Is there ever a mention of a Terran empire after that?)

When Happy Sharpnel rose from the grave he put out a distress call that the Warriors got during the party on Lo-Braseel at the end of Hellbringer. They hop straight in a ship and head back to Mars, when the Medusa War starts and Morrigun dies.

Right, gotcha.

300 made its budget back in the opening weekend for North America. So there's that.

I don't think it's ever stated that the Return to Mars happens after Hellbringer, (Is there ever a mention of a Terran empire after that?)

So it's possible they could have gone back further again?

The standalone Deadlock series is the oddity - After Hellbringer did he travel forward again post book X via time travel and then back again, or did he take the long way around and those adventures actually take place after the return to Mars?

Or it's just hand wavy Khaos transporting his personality to a duplicated body.

As is mentioned in the other thread, that means there are at least 2 sets of ABC Warriors knocking about in the Return to Mars era anyway.

Time worms.

Shoehorn Slaine in there!

Turns out we're all a Guy Adams creation.

Best wishes Taryn!

I am outraged it's fictional fiction rather than real fiction...

It's all fictional.

Oh, that's rubbish Banners.

The Meg's first dabbling with a fortnightly cycle happened during its second volume. The first 20 issues (vol 1) were monthly.

Cheers, I thought that was the case at some point.

I certainly understand while people haven't liked Dredd, but as others have said it was a great change from the bleak post DoC Dredd, and a bit of a return to the oddball episodes of Dredd in the 80s - Musical numbers and all.

The Order is the only thing that hasn't grabbed me - and I can't put my finger on why that is.

The megazine started out as a fortnightly didn't it?

Nope, monthly. Crisis did, though.

Inasmuch as comic buying is about habit-forming (when titles are successful), getting people to pick up something fortnightly sounds like an uphill struggle. Technically the term is used in the US but they're more likely to use biweekly. So, it's an odd one, best avoided.

I could have sworn it was fortnightly at one point...

Obviously the answer is to have a 64 page weekly

Are there any downsides to this?

I'm a firm believer that one of the key requirements of a newsstand/high street title is metronomic frequency: you have to establish buying as a habit, especially with an anthology. The regularity works in the title's favour... don't like it this week? No worries, there'll be another issue along in a week (or a month) that you'll probably like better!

Fortnightly is an odd frequency. I find it very hard to remember things I'm supposed to do fortnightly, where monthly or weekly frequencies seem far easier. Once you miss an issue, it becomes easy to miss another issue, then another...

(This is what happened to me during 2000AD's real 'dark days'... I slogged through the Burton/MacKenzie years until the distribution changes meant that the comic vanished from all my local newsagents. When picking up the prog became a trip into London, instead of getting it on a Saturday morning with a packet of fags and a pint of milk... well, it just wasn't good enough to justify the effort, and once you miss one issue...)

Cheers

Jim

Fair enough!