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If you mean my Amazon list, then that's because they made the list feature defunct a few years ago and I can no longer edit the list to add new books. After 'Return to Earth' comes 'Return to Mars' and then 'Return to Ro-Busters', out in July, brings us up to date.

Reading nemesis vol.3 and it says at the end of book 8 to carry on with abc book 3. Not sure. But I think that might be black hole which I've already read according to jimbos list.

Yeah, that's a legacy of the original prog publication - Black Hole took a little break mid-run, hence 'book 2' and 'book 3.' These days you're only ever going to read it in collected form so the break's ignored and it's simply a single book.

Nemesis 8 ended in prog 566, as did the first part of Black Hole - it was back seven progs later, billed as 'book 3.'

[it limits the stories creators can tell and readers can read]

There's no reason 2000ad shouldn't still be all-ages, except that it limits the stories creators can tell and readers can read...

Have you not just spent the rest of your post proving that it doesn't need to...?

Carlos Ezquerra drawing Durham Red in a way that made me feel funny, Colin MacNeil depicting the cream of the world's surfers being turned into just that - a cream, or Mutt in Al's Baby emerging from a latrine pit covered in human excrement - I knew my mum wouldn't approve if she knew what her tab at the newsagents was bringing into the house.

2000AD was never more adult than when it was aimed at children, and never felt so childish as when it tries too hard to be grown-up.

Opinions are clearly divided on Inferno. I don't have good memories of it, but am kind of looking forward to reading it again, for Carlos' art if nothing else.

So, and in the light of recent stories  what are the best Dredd tales not written by Wagner, Grant or Mills?

Almost everything by Ewing, an awful lot of Rob Williams' stuff and a good half of Ennis, for a start.

Sculpted for me. Rooted hair would make it seem to much like a doll for me. Although I suppose they are almost the same thing.

I don't even like real clothes on a figure for that very reason. Rooted hair definitely crosses the figure/doll divide.

[and the Scoleri Brothers]

I assume you meant to type:

Vigo and his painting and the Scoleri Brothers are good. Everything else is dull.

I agree with Greg - it's flabby and listless as it is, without making it even longer!

For me, the best thing to come out of CotD was John Smith's Darkside all those years later.

My first encounter with all classic Dredd has been via the Case Files, and... well, I can see why Wagner and Grant wrapped up CotD early. I don't know what the effect would have been if I'd read it when I was 10 years old, but it was the one Mega-epic that just didn't fire my imagination in any way. It was a little bit of a trudge, quite honestly. It rambles along in a fairly picaresque fashion (which has always been a pet hate o' mine) and no clear sense of it's going anywhere, narratively speaking, beyond 'we have to get to the mutant.' And then suddenly they do, and it's all over. No comedy, no supporting characters, few long-term reprocussions, and the art's all over the place.*

The banter between Anderson and Dredd is fantastic - best it's ever been - and Dillon turns in some of his best Dredd work. That's really all I like about it, though.

*By which I mean there are too many artists, and their styles don't mesh together very well.

...its being replaced by Black Shuck next week so fingers crossed there.

Oh, please be joking. Just as I was about to end my prog hiatus as well...

[Tainted]

Thanks to Tainted I've been wondering about Deadworld's statue to the last person to receive judgement. Was that in Judge Death Lives?

I was going to ponder on whether that might be Fairfax, but it suddenly occurred to me: I reckon it was the statue maker himself. I can't imagine the Dark Judges knocking up their own statue, but I can imagine them keeping an artist alive and forcing them to build a commemoration of their (and a world's) demise. Then killing him in its shadow after the unveiling (witnessed by the creator and the four remaining Dark Judges). A little like how pyramid architects would be walled into their creations with their pharaohs.

Don't know if you realised but the statue had an appearance (sort of) in Dreams of Deadworld - this cover was not actually a group shot of all four Dark Judges, as it's actually Fear, Fire and Mortis stood in front of Death's statue!

That is surely one of the best covers to ever grace the prog - I was astounded that it wasn't included in Case files 5!

Where does fink angel book fit in

Well, the two early stories about Fink are already included in the Case Files (4 and 6). The two later stories about his son Ratfink will turn up around... well, God knows, something like volume 46 most likely! So you won't see those for a while.

I get the strong impression that Ratfink's due a return to the prog very soon, hence the release of this TPB.

My last 'proper' console was a Playstation (first generation) - that's how long ago it was.

I've had almost every incarnation of Gameboy or DS since then, though. I don't really game at home - always feels like I ought to be doing something more productive. But if I'm stuck on a train, or bus, or doctor's waiting room, or having lunch in town... well, why the hell not?

Love the portability, and genuinely prefer the kind of game you tend to get on the 3DS - much more of the arcadey, pick-up-and-play variety that I've always loved. The big consoles seem to take themselves so damn seriously nowadays - they don't seem to make video games so much as playable movies. I want a game to look like a game, dammit - bold visuals, bright colours, stylised characters.

Yep, Mills in the trtleneck talking to Dave Gibbons in the blue t-shirt.

Hmm, not sure about that Ro-Busters cover. The colouring's a bit full-on and the image doesn't make any sense unless you've read the relevant story (to say nothing of being a big ol' spoiler.)

Really interested to know if the page count's accurate. The remaining strip stuff, plus every remaining Starlord/2K cover, and including the 3-page 'inside story' from prog 144, just for something else to bump the numbers up with - still only comes to 143 pages...!