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Bloody hell, that is quite tricky...

Halo Jones - she was just a girl who wanted to get out.

Zeep, before the accident:

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Yeah, I've been using it for yonks. I've got a pretty big collection of ROMs, so if you're ever looking for something I could maybe help - though, I'd only send you games if you own the original machines...

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Heh - I read that as "Are NWA going to be bringing out their 'Greatest Hit' album..." :-D

Jamie, I'm just chuffed to be seeing this kind of stuff being given a decent treatment, so if a RT reprint is missing a couple of one-off stories from a 20-year old annual, I'm not going to be too upset!

Well, the two that come to mind are:

Pray for War
Alan Moore/Brett Ewins
2000AD Annual 1983

The First of the Few
Alan Moore/Jesus Redondo
2000AD Annual 1984

They're 6 pages and 5 pages respectively, and they're the best of the RT one-offs published outside the weekly.

Heh :-D

Nice one, Jamie. It's definitely the end of an era for Rogue - the GFD stories after that were OK, but the strip started its long decline when Rogue finally caught up with the Traitor General.

If you don't mind me asking, is there any chance of reprints from the annuals? There were some great little one-offs from Alan Moore that would be fun to see included.

The original series is still the best, Mr C. You've got a treat in store!

"NB: Slaine will NOT be a complete reprint project - just the early years (up to the end of THE HORNED GOD, basically)."

I know this'll piss some people off, but that's good news. That means collections of the very best of Slaine, taking it up to the point when the character should have been laid to rest.

I'd love to see a similar approach taken with Rogue, so reprints would conclude either at the end of the Traitor General arc or at the end of GFD's run on the character, with an honourable exception for The War Machine.

Pretty sure it was McCarthy, though I seem to remember the Mess section looking a little like Brett Ewins. Will check later...

"Give the gift of... THE MESS!!"

Heh..

"Happy Christmas? Not now you've been turned into a SCREAMING POOL OF MOLTEN METAL!"

Paul -

The TPB releases start in September, with the Dredd Files (all but one of the DC/Dredd crossovers) and Sin/Dex: Gunshark Vacation, then October is Red Razors & Devlin Waugh: Swimming in Blood. Not sure on the schedule for November/December, but I know that the first Nikolai Dante collection, Judgement Day & Robohunter: Verdus are planned for this window. I'm sure Jamie can confirm what's lined up.

"BAD COMPANY: GOODBYE, KROOL WORLD

The first 20 episode story in one book?

--- BC/BCII/BCIII/Simply"

Holy shit! So, that's the Bad Company, The Bewilderness, The Krool Heart & Simply all in one great big 245-page collection? :-D

"DEVLIN WAUGH: RED TIDE

Now this is curious. I'd have thought this would have been "Book 3" and the Sirius Rising story, which I hugely prefer, "Book 2."

---SR et al are in this one, too. The title fits better with the 1st collection."

Weeee! That'll be Chasing Herod, Reign of Frogs, Sirius Rising and Red Tide, then? Another doorstep of a TPB - oh, and any chance of including Jock's original pages? It'd make a nice selling point...

"Ehhh, this one I'll only get if it's complete and no episodes were skipped. The first 20-22 episodes, perhaps?"

Well, as Jamie says, this is going to be a more complete version of the current Titan collection. That collects 13 of the first episodes, but it misses out "Poison", a 2-part episode. If they throw in "Fear of the Machine", "The Dreamweavers" and "The Buzzard", that'd bring the book to a nice conclusion & give you a chunky 23-episode volume of about 120 pages.

"Now this is curious. I'd have thought this would have been "Book 3" and the Sirius Rising story, which I hugely prefer"

Well, I'd imagine it's because Red Tide picks up the storyline from "Swimming in Blood". Sirius Rising is great, but it's completely disconnected from the stories already published. I'd hope it gets a reprint at some point, though...