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I also thought 'Third World War' when reading the dialogue, but by the end of the episode I was intrigued to read more, so that has to be a good thing.

I loved the Dredd art.  At first glance I thought, 'This art won't suit a serious story', and midway through where the kids are playing with the lawgivers I wondered if it was just a comedy story - but then... it wasn't.

Stickleback I need to re-read, because I didn't follow what was going on too well - I need time to take in all the amazing art and make sense of it all and I rushed my prog today :/

Savage, I always find Savage is better to read all in one go once it has finished.  As an opener it had me interested enough to want to know what happens next.

All in all, after the really outstanding quality of recent progs, the new stories have a lot to live up to and it's too early to tell.

No prog here either.  I shouldn't reaad the threads about progs i do not have.  I know I shouldn't.

So - wait - Dredd and Kingdom are on thier final parts?

I was in the Asda today doing my daily beer shopping, and I saw that they have started selling 2000AD.  

They had about 20 copies in, too.  I have never seen the prog in there before - maybe I just haven't looked, but I am sure this is new.

Another top notch prog.  The revelation in Dredd marred slightly by last week's Nerve Centre giving the outcome away, but still pretty major.  Beeny is shaping up to be a great character.

Regarding the Damage Report... the font is so small I can't actually read it, even with my glasses on.  Doesn't Tharg realise that doggering old gets read the prog?  I always feel I'm missing out...

"That sounds like a pretty good idea for a story, actually. Deluded "criminal genius" typs tries to manipulate the Dark Judges for his own ends and learns the answer the hard way. Or has this already been done?"
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Didn't The Joker try to do this in Die Laughing?  My memory is kind of vague on that one, though.

I'm not sure that high quality digital copies would be practical for sale by download, though - it would add up to too much disc space if someone wanted to collect everything digitally - and at $2.99 an issue there is also the slight problem of the cost of building up a digital collection by downloading individual issues - it's great for buying a download each week to keep the collection going, but I'm just not convinced that the archive will sell in the current format.

Now, if they were to sell dvd's of whole story arcs, or even of prog collections, in super duper quality, that would be more practical - or downloads of story arcs done in a Case Files style even, then that might work (but could that affect sales of TPB's?)  

I just can't see that having everything available that they have the rights to would be affordable or practical if they were to be made available as individual issues for download at $2.99 each - it's cheap for an ongoing title, but it adds up when there is such a huge archive.

Every prog has been pirated though, so digital versions of all the progs exist and are out there.

Surely if Rebellion got hold of those files they could make the majority of them available legally to download?  Bands have done similar things by making bootlegs legally available so Rebellion could do the same thing with those stories they have the rights to.

And I have just re-read the wwhole thing (well, the 8 parts since prog 2008) and it does read better in one sitting.  I take it back - Shakara is also really good this week and it doesn't feel as if there is an episode missing, and I should read everything properly before I comment in future - I was just confused because I hadn't taken it all in until I went back and read it all together :>

I completely missed all of that.  I should reread it all in one go.  As I said, it bemused me :/

not election - mutie vote.  

Another great prog, but I agree that Shakara was especially weak.  I enjoyed the 'enough about the peace and love crap - what about the fighting?' line, but the rest just bemused me - and the ending wasn't an ending and nor was it a cliffhanger - it just felt like an, 'ok, we're bored of this now, let's stop.'

Dredd and Kingdom were superb.  Alpha was solid fun and Stickleback was as mental and well drawn as ever.  The election outcome in Dredd seems to have been given away by Tharg in the Nerve Centre, though, which I found a bit annoying.

The prog is just getting better and better.

Dredd was superb.  I didn't expect a a new PJ Maybe (JP) to be involved - how does he know who Ambrose really is, as it seems obvious he does - and PJ running blindly to exact violent revenge when it's obviously a trap - is JP even more cunning than PJ, or is PJ just highly insulted that someone new is stealing his glory?

Shakara and Stickleback were both loads of fun.  

Kingdom I love.  My theory about the shed is that the meat is Them - the ticks are rendering Them into meat, and that's how Them came into being - an alien race or similar that humans have farmed for meat through the genetically engineered ticks - this would explain why there are lots of Them trying to get past the fences.

Strontium Dog is classic stuff and hugely enjoyable.  Yes, it's simply told and nothing new, but it's Johnny and Wulf doing Johnny and Wulf stuff - (complete with Wulf in a sexy outfit with holes in the elbows, knees and crutch to keep all the people who think Johnny and Wulf have a thing going happy)... and it's written by Wagner and drawn by Ezquerra.  What's not to like?

It's really rare that I enjoy all 5 strips in any edition of 2000AD, but I have been doing for quite a while now and feel that this is the best the comic has ever been.

Hmm.  Well, I admit to having copied and pasted the dredd and dreddworld related stories part of your site into an excell document, and have updated it as your Dredd list ends at Tribal (or did last time I looked, which was last week) so that I could use it as a base to have my own reading order list and also so that I could highlight those stories I have never seen such as the ones in the Dan Dare annuals, with the intention of being a completist geek and getting them off ebay or something.  I have even changed the fonts and everything - I spent many exhaustive hours on tweaking and messing with the list (though haven't been through it with every prog and special sat beside me to check the accuracy, I admit)...

but...

I'd never post it and claim it as  my own work.  FFS, I even added a crdit to Touched By The Hand of Tharg when I gave a copy of it to a mate.  I refer to Touched by the Hand of Tharg a lot - whenever I want to reread a story and I know I have to make an attic trip to get the prog boxes I check out that site to see what issues I need to haul down, so if that was all my work and someone copied and pasted it here as thier own work I think I'd probably react in the same way as HipsterDad.

If Callahan had at the very least said he had updated the list, found some errors and fixed them, and then asked if anyone had contact details for the person who'd actually originally written the list so he could at least seek permission to post it, then I'm sure that would have been fine.

Also, I am happy with most biscuits.

Best. Prog. Ever.

The Kinda Dead Man, 2000 AD prog 816 (1/2/93). Story by Garth Ennis, art by Anthony Williams.