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Well done Colin. That dedication to Dave is lovely.

A very surprising winner but one that I do love.

I got a bit lost with this early on. Mostly because I actually can't remember a lot of the shorter stories and didn't have access to them. Last weekend I almost broke by back carting the box with all SD Agency Files back from Scotland along with a new copy of the Starlord Years. A belated reread coming up in the next few weeks.

Nice words Colin and a fun distraction. Best panel next?
'Cos I hate you' vs 'Who's gonna mess with us?' for the final?

"Oh my heartses!"

Gis thae chips.

"Yer breeks is mince, pal!"

Ah. There's supposed to be a picture on that last post but it's not showing up. Here's the gist:

Only a DS man could carry a Gun. Each weapon was coded to the operative's hand pattern, set to detonate on any other human contact.

Logan reached in and closed his have around the big pearl-handled revolver, drawing it free of it's snug velvet nest.
He checked it; full load, six charges: tangler, needler, ripper, nitro, bald vapor and homer.

Don't remember ever seeing this mentioned before. From the novel Logan's Run. A pretty fair approximation of the Lawgiver. Includes a better explanation for why there's six kinds of ammo and even a shout-out to the Father of Justice himself.

This thread inspired me to buy Citadel of Chaos this afternoon. They didn't have any of the others.

The blurb for first trade mentions USA Today and you can read it online here.

I know the pages were used for online promotion, which is why I said it hadn't seen print anywhere else... so, technically at least, it's not a reprint.

Fair enough. I assumed it was printed in the newspaper as well as the website. I guess I was wrong.

There was a seven page prologue that ran as a teaser in the Megazine, but none of the two full series did (as far as I know).

I should add: these pages weren't commissioned for/by Rebellion, but I don't think they saw print anywhere else. PJ and/or Gordon might be able to shed more light.

The blurb for first trade mentions USA Today and you can read it online here.

I'm firmly in team NO REPRINTS EXCEPT METALZOIC, for most of the same reasons as AlexFunt.

Oh, is this the first round?

01. Superbean.
02. Bones of Eden.
03. Spector.

Jesus Jayzus! That's terrrifying but really glad to hear you're in one piece.

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I suppose it depends whether it's in their interest to inform us.

surely fomenting reader/collector excitement would be in a publisher's interests? *especially* in the comics world (the addiction to previews and other basically trade rags for example)?

More chat and speculation generated by not telling you everything.

Reckon there's a whole qualifying group in "stories where it turns out the lead is actually an existing character."

What about [spoiler]The Vort[/spoiler]?

[one of the stories - 'Shoot To Kill' - I can find no record of. In the book it is listed as being in Prog 2122, but I am pretty sure that issue features a different tale and I can find no mention of 'Shoot To Kill' in Barney's listing of all the Grey Area stories]

I have just received my copy of 'Grey Area' volume 2 and the first things to say are that it looks good, is quite a large volume and contains everything thus far in print. Looking forward to reading this! One minor query I have is that one of the stories - 'Shoot To Kill' - I can find no record of. In the book it is listed as being in Prog 2122, but I am pretty sure that issue features a different tale and I can find no mention of 'Shoot To Kill' in Barney's listing of all the Grey Area stories. Does anyone know where this mysterious 5-pager first originated??

Looks like it's a mistake on Barney. The story from Prog 2118 is missing and the titles of the next four are all moved forward a week. Will try to fix it a bit later.

[there are 12 extra thrills on your list than mine]

You are good people I, Cosh (Pete) - I'll worry about the fact there are 12 extra thrills on your list than mine - which is exactly why I'm doing this - I see Ack-Ack Macaque already - and use this to add / cross check what I've got...

Stuff like the Batman and Predator crossovers are listed separately. Interested to see what the others are: post them up and we can argue about it.

Oh, the evergreen "One-Off" category might be one. Covers stuff which wasn't printed under a recognisable banner like "Future Shocks" and the like.

Here's Barney's list of Thrills with a count of appearances in Prog, Meg and Specials with a field for which "world" they're part of. I'm pretty loose with that last part: anything tangentially related to Dredd (Pussyfoot 5, I'm looking at you) is classed as Dreddworld but I'm not really interested in the idea that all Pat's strips are one huge continuity.

Barney - Thrill List (gSheets)

Titles for some Meg Dredd thrills probably aren't exactly right (the Janus conundrum) as Barney uses the same code for the character as the strip in some cases.

I've excluded anything which was only reprint and anything that was only in the Action Special. There's a potential issue that the bumper year end Progs 2000 - 2016 are classed as Specials in Barney and I couldn't be arsed to try splitting out those versus actual specials (which are all also included.)

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Its basically Lassie, if Lassie was a warlord rodent with an army of sweller dwelling manchompers.

Never heard of this but it sounds utterly bonkers. Weirdly, I did know that the Jacko song was about a rat but I guess I thought it was one of his pets.