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[A.B.C. Warriors: Solo Missions]

A.B.C. Warriors: Solo Missions
Pat Mills, Alan Moore, Steve Dillon, Henry Flint, Kev Walker
96 pages, 13th February 2014

Cover now up on Amazon UK:

It's disgusting, that's what it is!

My copy of Zenith arrived today too, but what should I find when I open it up?  The book, nestled snugly in protective bubble wrap, is also covered in thick spongy white pellets.

That's right - that sneery supercilious Betelguesian, the one whose diet consists soley of polystyrene cups, has covered it in Tharg poo.

Talk about disdain for your customers!

I'm in Sydney - but although I'm certainly interested in mine, I was hoping you might be able to give a blanket reply for all the board, e.g. all UK mainland & European orders despatched, Rest of World despatching through this week.

The warehouse droids are extraordinarily busy at the moment, so if you get no response drop a line to press@rebellion.co.uk and I'll see what I can do.

Hi Molch-R,

Are you able to say if all copies of the Zenith hardback have been shipped, or if some are still in the process of being despatched?

Alternatively Dandontdare, just send me the 125 quid and I'll make sure you get a tiny Lawgiver in a great big Planet Replicas box, no worries!

It comes with the Reaction Anderson figure.  Buy it here!

http://shop.2000adonline.com/products/judge_anderson_action_figure

Holy Mother of Grud!  According to that label around that man's neck, he's... the creator!

(And a bit of a dark horse too, apparently).

Cheers guys!  I wonder if that's what PR used to do up the Lawgiver box.

Since we're talking Lawgivers - or is it just me? - one related thought.  I've always thought the reason why Judges shout out "Hi-Ex!", "Armour-piercing!" and so on is that rather than being a voice control thing it's actually an OH&S type obligation, a bit like shouting "Fire in the hole!".  It may be a general warning or perhaps just aimed at Judges.  After all, if you're about to let off a heat seeker you don't want the fellow Judge on your right to move into position two steps ahead of you.  For the usual bureaucratic reasons it could extend to unsheathing your "BOOT KNIFE!", firing the Cyclops laser and whatever else.  And, because you never know who might be in the area, coupled with rigid indoctrination of the practice, it means Judges have a tendency to yell the warnings out even if they seem to be by themselves. 

One last thought.  The Lawgiver box uses the proper Dredd logo and replicates the font for the 'Lawgiver Mk 1' tag.  The Lawgiver schematic in the 1981 Annual also uses Ol' Stoney Font, and it's interesting to compare the differences and similarities between the two.

It's clear that no one has even officially come up with a full character set, but has anyone ever attempted to do an unofficial version of Ol' Stoney Font?






I think I prefer the version used in the Annual (e.g. the W), but for how long was 'Lawgiver' spelled with a hyphen?

Those shelves are a nuisance.  The little metal supports holding them up have a cylinder at the end that slots into a groove in the underside of the shelf.  You can't flip the shelf over to allow the book-weight to press the curve back down again because there's nowhere for the cylinder to sit.  I could get some standard pegs to use and put up with the holes being on display for a bit, I suppose.

I find it's a problem with most of these cheap kind of bookcases.  You see them advertised in the Ikea or Officeworks catalogue, with a picture showing the shelves untroubled by a whole six books and a flower vase.  It's a bookshelf!  Design it to hold some books!

If that's how you see it Joe, then each to their own.

[Sauchie]

Hi Sauchie, love all your posts.  I had a mate who was a mad-keen '23' spotter.  He wasn't on about the Illuminati or anything, he just enjoyed the way it's one of those default numbers people use all the time, e.g. 23 Railway Cuttings.

What I was trying to do with the last post was give everyone a clear idea of how big this sucker is by comparing it to stuff we've all got, like the Case Files and progs.  I could have used a ruler of course, but that wouldn't have been any fun!  I didn't manage to find anything 2000AD-ish of the same height, so ran with the B formats.  They're a bit too tall but demonstrate the length perfectly.

Like the Minty/Planet Replica uniforms this prop demonstrates that the designs in the comic don't actually look too silly when realised.  It's a great looking gun and not the prissy pea-shooter thing we sometimes saw in the prog.

I'm not sure about The Wasp Factory reference, but if you've discovered someone has been secretly pumping you full of gender-altering chemicals then let me assure you I have an alibi and those fingerprints were planted by the real culprit in an attempt to throw suspicion elsewhere.

Okay, enough fooling around!  The Lawgiver Mk1 is superb and has virtually sold me on a helmet.

Just so you Squaxx can imagine how big it is really:

It's as long as the first 18 Case Files.  (Please ignore the bendy shelf; guests shouldn't be so rude as to comment on such things.)


It's practically the same width as an old-school prog, margin to margin.



(Good to see that our former PM was actively involved in writing for Tharg!


In fact, dimension-wise it makes me think that it's obviously been designed by someone who loves the B format editions!



Rating - 3/6.  No, hang on a minute, that's the ammo selector.  I meant 10/10.  Definitely an iconic piece, and (too my mind) much more symbolic of Dredd than the Mk II which has a more generic SF look to it.  It's a weighty sucker as well.  I wonder what it would feel like walking around with this in your boot holster!

Alert!  Alert!  Lawgivers have been issued to Judges in Oz!

Actually, it's a bit smaller than I thought it would be....