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#1
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
29 January, 2024, 07:52:27 PM
Armoured Gideon! Chuffin' 'ell, how long have we been waiting for that to appear?!

141 - Slaine: Dragontamer & Black Siddha
142 -
143 - Harlem Heroes volume 1
144 - Harlem Heroes volume 2
145 - Dredd: End of Days
146 -
147 - Armoured Gideon
148 -
149 - Age of the Wolf
150 - Counterfeit Girl
151 - Survival Geeks
152 - Flesh Midnight Cowboy
153 - Return to Armageddon
154 - Mean Team
155 - 13 & Carver Hale
156 - Snow/Tiger
157 - Kingdom & Shako
158 - Damnation Station
159 - Proteus Vex
160 - Harry Twenty & Dead Men Walking
161 - Al's Baby
162 - Mazeworld
163 - Zenith volume I
164 - Zenith volume 2
165 - Buttonman I
166 - Buttonman II
167 - Luke Kirby
168 - Dan Dare volume 1
169 - Dan Dare volume 2
170 -
171 - Durham Red
172 -
173 - Atavar
174 - Scarlet Traces 1
175 - Scarlet Traces 2
176 - Scarlet Traces 3
177 - Kingmaker
178 - Dredd: Machine Law
179 - Dredd & Anderson
180 -
181 -
182 -
183 -
184 -
185 -
186 -
187 -
188 -
189 -
190 -
191 -
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193 -
194 -
195 -
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199 -
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Only 6 more books now to complete the second extension. Also confirmed: Lawless and The Order.
#2
News / Re: Sad News about John M Burns
17 January, 2024, 11:23:46 AM
Quote from: Richard on 17 January, 2024, 12:22:25 AMI've just re-read Angel Zero for the first time, because John Burns did the art, and found it to be much, much better than I had remembered. I think it suffered at the time from being mostly published in four-page instalments, which made it difficult to get into each week, and hard to keep track of the story; but in one sitting it's gold.

Yeah, a bit of a forgotten thrill now but Angel Zero was brilliant.
#3
Games / Re: Gamebooks
07 January, 2024, 12:48:44 PM
#4
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
21 December, 2023, 09:08:57 PM
Quote from: castle4 on 21 December, 2023, 06:48:56 PMStrange, I've just gone to have a look at the covers on Hatchette and it only goes up to 165, so assume it's been taken down, or I'm looking at a cached copy.

It's here under Graphic Novels: Coming Soon.

https://hachettepartworks.com/en-en/graphic-novel/
#5
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
21 December, 2023, 02:25:06 PM
141 - Slaine: Dragontamer & Black Siddha
142 -
143 - Harlem Heroes volume 1
144 - Harlem Heroes volume 2
145 - Dredd: End of Days
146 -
147 -
148 -
149 - Age of the Wolf
150 - Counterfeit Girl
151 - Survival Geeks
152 - Flesh Midnight Cowboy
153 - Return to Armageddon
154 - Mean Team
155 - 13 & Carver Hale
156 - Snow/Tiger
157 - Kingdom & Shako
158 - Damnation Station
159 - Proteus Vex
160 - Harry Twenty & Dead Men Walking
161 - Al's Baby
162 - Mazeworld
163 - Zenith volume I
164 - Zenith volume 2
165 - Buttonman I
166 - Buttonman II
167 -
168 - Dan Dare volume 1
169 - Dan Dare volume 2
170 -
171 -
172 -
173 - Atavar
174 - Scarlet Traces 1
175 - Scarlet Traces 2
176 - Scarlet Traces 3
177 - Kingmaker
178 - Dredd: Machine Law
179 - Dredd & Anderson
180 -
181 -
182 -
183 -
184 -
185 -
186 -
187 -
188 -
189 -
190 -
191 -
192 -
193 -
194 -
195 -
196 -
197 -
198 -
199 -
200 -

So we've now got 29 gaps, and only about 4 books to fill them with! Armoured Gideon, Lawless, Durham Red, and The Order (though is there enough Lawless now for two volumes...?)
#6
Games / Re: Gamebooks
19 December, 2023, 12:53:30 PM
Quote from: Barrington Boots on 18 December, 2023, 12:06:25 PMHowl of the Werewolf is £100 on ebay at the moment! I asked Jon Green about a reprint in person earlier this year and he sid there's a reluctance to reprint anything that wasn't authored by Steve or Ian, but hopefully that will change at some point. I've also heard it is amazing.

When I suddenly decided to get back into gamebooks about six years ago, there were quite a few copies on ebay. I picked up all the Wizard editions of the newer books I'd missed - HotW was slightly more than the others, but I think I got it for approximately £30 (and maybe not even that much!). Seemed a lot at the time, but in retrospect I'm so glad I pulled the trigger! That's less than I had to part with for Moonrunner, only a few years ago. Crazy how the prices have skyrocketed.
#7
Games / Re: Gamebooks
07 December, 2023, 02:36:48 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 06 December, 2023, 02:58:43 PMSorcery, you say?

Switch, you say?

Why choose when you can have both, I say.

Sorcery - the Switch version

Loyal readers (both of them!) of my Sorcery adventures thus far will know I was indeed playing the fancy-pants new electronic version...

Shamutanti Hills
Kharé part I
Kharé part II
Seven Serpents part I
Seven Serpents part II
Seven Serpents part III

Highly recommended to all and sundry (the games, not my playthroughs)!
#8
Games / Re: Gamebooks
04 December, 2023, 03:27:38 PM
Quote from: Richard on 10 November, 2023, 06:10:13 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 17 August, 2023, 02:45:16 PM
Quote from: Richard on 17 August, 2023, 02:13:22 AMJimbo, did you ever finish Sorcery 4?

No, I never did!

Sadly, around the same time I fell off the gamebook wagon I went and bought a Nintendo Switch, sealing my own doom. My unfinished quest for the Crown of Kings nags away at me, though. Must make some time to complete it before the year is out...
*coughs voluntarily*...


I know, I know...!

But after the Switch I went and made sproglet #2 (with some admitted help from my partner), who has proven equally distracting.
#9
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
04 December, 2023, 02:45:53 PM
Quote from: moly on 29 November, 2023, 01:36:09 PMNick Percival has posted that Dark Judges: Deliverance & Death Metal Planet will be released in the collection
Quote from: don wiskerando on 30 November, 2023, 08:00:55 AMDeath Metal Planet shouldn't even have been released in the Megazine.

:lol:

#10
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
21 November, 2023, 12:13:32 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 21 November, 2023, 11:17:35 AM13 gaps left then, with at least four that can be filled (Armoured Gideon, Lawless, Kingmaker, and Durham Red) to give us only 11. If Dan Dare makes the cut (we still don't know) I suspect it'll need 2 volumes, so that's a mere 9 unknowns left!

Just read that back, and my maths is poor!  :lol: In my defence, I have a two-month old baby!

9 gaps, 7 if you include two Dare volumes. Only 5 with Stainless Steel Rat and the Dark Judges!
#11
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
21 November, 2023, 11:17:35 AM
Quote from: OrnateColt on 12 November, 2023, 07:33:30 PMAccording to Ian Edginton there will be three volumes of Scarlet Traces in this collection.

As that's from the horses' mouth, as it were, it seems safe to take it on trust.

141 - Slaine: Dragontamer & Black Siddha
142 -
143 - Harlem Heroes volume 1
144 - Harlem Heroes volume 2
145 - Dredd: End of Days
146 -
147 -
148 -
149 - Age of the Wolf
150 - Counterfeit Girl
151 - Survival Geeks
152 - Flesh Midnight Cowboy
153 - Return to Armageddon
154 - Mean Team
155 - 13 & Carver Hale
156 - Snow/Tiger
157 - Kingdom (and Shako)
158 - Damnation Station
159 - Proteus Vex
160 -
161 - Al's Baby
162 - Mazeworld
163 - Zenith volume I
164 - Zenith volume 2
165 - Buttonman I
166 - Buttonman II
167 -
168 -
169 -
170 -
171 -
172 -
173 - Atavar
174 - Scarlet Traces 1
175 - Scarlet Traces 2
176 - Scarlet Traces 3
177 -
178 - Dredd: Machine Law
179 - Dredd & Anderson
180 -

13 gaps left then, with at least four that can be filled (Armoured Gideon, Lawless, Kingmaker, and Durham Red) to give us only 11. If Dan Dare makes the cut (we still don't know) I suspect it'll need 2 volumes, so that's a mere 9 unknowns left!

There's still a lot of good Dredd to collect - you could have several Niemand volumes, for starters. What else? Thistlebone? Feral and Foe? The Out? (Whisper it - Skip Tracer?) I'd personally love a book of 3rillers.
#12
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
03 October, 2023, 12:24:24 PM
Quote from: Hackenbush on 03 October, 2023, 07:19:25 AMPat Mills "Dancing Ostridge edition" coming soon featuring:

The last two books of Savage
Flesh the legend of Shamana
Satanus Unchained
Blood of Satanus II and III
Defoe - The Divisor
The Joe Pineapples & Rojaws story ...

And just what have you got against Dinosity?!

In all seriousness, it'd be lovely to have the last of Savage and Defoe collected.
#13
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
07 September, 2023, 01:38:28 PM
Quote from: leethomson on 06 September, 2023, 02:18:01 PM
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 05 September, 2023, 01:54:20 PMHas 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.

No, the fact that everyone here says the same is true of their copy is not hopeful.
#14
General / Re: How do you like your Sinister Dexter?
05 September, 2023, 03:09:07 PM
Once a favourite strip, I completely went off it at some point during the Moses War. All the really interesting developments were soon wound back ('Dex is dead! No he isn't. But he's paraplegic! No he isn't. But he's lost his ballistic skills! No he hasn't') in silly soap-opera fashion; I soon got bored of Anthony Williams' samey, plasticky art; and the storyline dragged on and on interminably (over ten years!!)

I'm re-reading it all in the Hachette collections (currently nearing the end of Book 6 of 7) and I've totally reappraised this era. It holds together really well, and very few of the former annoyances still annoy me. Anthony Williams' art is much better than I remember it being and the storyline is really engaging when you can remember all the players and their various motivations.* It's definietly worth revisiting.



*One small bugbear - the original appearance of John Croak is not reprinted, which seems a mistep. Not only does it tie into the end of the Offlode min-arc, but all the portentous 'Croak's back from the dead!' doesn't really land as well when we haven't met him before.
#15
Announcements / Re: 2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection
05 September, 2023, 01:54:20 PM
Quote from: Don Wiskerando on 04 September, 2023, 08:12:48 PM
Quote from: leethomson on 04 September, 2023, 08:12:48 PM
Quote from: Michael Knight on 04 September, 2023, 06:51:20 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 04 September, 2023, 04:21:40 PM
Quote from: Anthony Garnon on 04 September, 2023, 02:27:13 PMThe first 10 pages of Thirteen's artwork are heavily pixelated in my copy, although the text is clear. Is it the same for everybody?
It's not just yours, mine is the same
I too was just going to ask about 13 story art being pixelated. I don't remember this in original run?
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.
I hadn't even noticed until your post, but yes my copy is the same.

Well, that's annoying. From the quick straw poll here, it seems safe to assume it's the whole print run affected, rather than a few stray misprints (which makes sense - it'll be a problem with the original print files). Has anyone complained to Hachette? Perhaps I'll hold fire on that book in hopes of a reprint.