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I'll stick with the regular I think.  Not a surprise to see a, er, Black Hole version but at least it's being made visible now and not as an unexpected hoop-jumping exercise.  Hopefully these'll sell well and the line will continue - sounds like various characters are just waiting in the wings...

No, still going... Last volume (Earth War) starts later this month.

[Prophet: Earth war.]

Prophet: Earth war.  Starting later this month.  So much fantastic mental goodness cannot be ignored.  Wahoo!




The collected edition of Volume 4 is out at the start of February

1st: 1878 - Simon Coleby, Jaegir
2nd: 1882 - Simon Davis, Slaine (Did we really only get one wraparound cover this year?)
3rd: 1888 - INJ Culbard, Brass Sun

Good old Ming, back plugging the line...  You're a veritable saint, you know that?  I hope 3A give you a freebie, you've earned it!

Heh, I'll be happy if 3A just manage to keep the line going.

Sales update: 09:00 Hong Kong time on January 14th (HK is GMT +8h, so 09:00 equates to 01:00 GMT*)

Death will be kept up on Bambaland as long as possible; 24h+ is typical for licenced figures.

As for retailer option (info from gregory at 3A): "I would contact your friendly neighborhood 3A Stockist or comic book store that orders through Diamond and give them a heads up that you want to pre-order Death from them and be on the look out for the PO info in the coming weeks.  If they don't receive the info, they should contact their 3A rep or CS to receive that information for wholesale accounts."


* I think.

Time for a refresher for anyone wanting to pick up Judge Death from Bambaland* (3A's online sales site) on the 14th**...

The Date:
January 14th (no time set as yet)

The Place:
http://www.bambalandstore.com/

The Price:
$60 including shipping (current 3AA members get a 15% discount on this)

Anyone wanting this through Bambaland just needs to make sure they are registered with an account at Bambaland (follow the link above and scroll to the bottom) and that they have a PayPal account for payment.  If anyone's not sure of how to proceed to just has a general question just speak up and someone here will help you out (not necessarily me!).


Just a reminder of what this is all about:




* Availability from retailers has been mentioned but not details have emerged; if you can go with the Bambaland option on the 14th then I'd do so in case the retail version doesn't appear in this dimension.

** We currently have no idea how long JD will be in the online store but I'm hopeful that it will be for at least a few days or maybe a week (longer is possible).  Again, if you can, get in early in order to avoid disappointment.

So I'm back in the Family Home and I've dug out my old lego boxes.  I apologise if I'm stepping on Ming's toes here, hoping he's a bit more merciful than his namesake, but here's my Mostly Monochrome Mongrol:

I love it!  The more 2000AD Lego I see here (or anywhere) the happier I''ll be! 

In the meantime, wishing you all a Merry, pie-filled Christmas.

I actually mentioned that in my preview but couldn't think of a suitable unspoiler way.

"letter page includes some cool homebuilds of 2000ad characters" was best I came up with but if Ming read the preview I didn't think even that wasn't vague enough.

I did get far too excited and forced my son to look at the pretty lego pics...

Hah, that was definitely vague enough!  I sent the letter some months back so didn't really expect it to see print.  It's extremely gratifying that Tharg, in his infinite wisdom, was just waiting for the opportunity to get a decent number of pics on the page.  Florix Grabundae, Green Bonce!

Splundig Ho Ho!  Prog 2015 

Obviously not my first post but that's the first one that shows up.  I guess we lost some threads and posts at some point; my first posts predated that by a few months I think.

Go back even one page and you've got posts from March 2004. That's what I had to do with mine - look at the whole of the last few pages and try to find the post with the earliest date.

Ah!  Having looked, there are posts from March 2004 but none of them appear to be a first post... Anyway, assume it was hilarious and informative at the same time, whatever it was.

Yaaawwwn!  Snum frum.

Eh? Where did this long white beard come from?

Rip van Mingle

Obviously not my first post but that's the first one that shows up.  I guess we lost some threads and posts at some point; my first posts predated that by a few months I think.

Looks incredible - for me, the most eagerly awaited movie in a long, long time (more so even that Dredd).  That trailer has so much in it my head's still spinning...

Happily, Chris Weston was up for round two; Don Uggie Apelino goes ape.

[The Detectorists]

Just finished The Detectorists...

I knew you'd like this.  I loved it to bits - apparently M. Crook is a real-life detectorist and used his own kit during filming, which he had to turn off to prevent him getting distracted and eager to dig about all the time.  Anyway, for me, that one of the best comedies for quite some time; nicely understated and the lack of a bloody laughter track was very welcome.  Looking forward to more!