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I wouldn't be surprised to see everything we see on Amazon thrown out - in fact, I seem to recall the initial Newsarama story indicating that was the case for both us and for Humanoids.  Certainly Rebellion planned those July releases, but in conjunction with DC, who had final approval on what was released, in a format that best suited DC's needs.  (Hence the likely shifting of, say, Bec & Kawl and Lobster Random into the hardback line.)

That's my prediction, anyway, but I stand ready to be proven wrong.

--Grant

Well, three points that I'm considering...

1. Ideally, the Anderson: Psi Division series will continue.  Perhaps that could substitute for a Dredd book every quarter or so (as well as Armitage).

2. Do we know for certain that Rebellion intends to continue the current 3 books a month volume?  One of the main complaints about both these and the Humanoids line has been the "flooding of the market" issue, that it just wouldn't support three a month.  I would not be at all surprised to see it dropped down to two: one Dreddworld and one other.  (Disappointed, but unsurprised.)

3. We don't know when the trades will be restarting after the end of June suspension.  It's very, very unlikely we'll have any in July (possibly a Rebellion hardback), but is even August likely, considering the situation?  ("After that, Rebellion will revise its publishing plans and return to the North American market with a new distribution partner as soon as possible.")

Perhaps the list of nine titles Tharg issued in the "Rumour Control" headline are the tentative October-November-December releases?

--Grant

The fear I have is that if one of every month's releases will be a Judge Dredd book, then lots of potential trades are going to be "unlikely" as it will take so long to get to them.

--Grant

Will you guys be distributing Hookjaw and the rest of the Spitfire line in the US via Diamond, or do American readers need to Paypal you instead?

--Grant

I've got $40 on account at my LCS waiting for a backordered James Bond and Iron Legion, and the next Doctor Who coming, and once the "first wave" of the 2000 AD books ends with Indigo Prime, I'll have two months to catch up with Bond, Modesty and Dan Dare... can't wait!

--Grant

Trout.

Ren Fests, Celtic folk music, spelling "fairy" with an e and "vampire" with a y.  The St. Louis Cardinals.  That's about it.

--Grant

Day of the Droids is on the ship list for April 27.

--Grant

Baldino's, a small chain in Georgia and the Carolinas, does a wonderful "Sicilian" sub with ham, salami, pepperoni, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, banana peppers, jalapenos and oil and vinegar.  Mmmmmmm, i have one every other week or so.

--Grant

I don't suppose "James Stevens" is reading this forum currently?  Heaven knows we wouldn't want his crusading, muckraking eyes to see that Secure Login page.

--Grant

The Adventurer wrote: "I really hope Rebellion sticks with the larger paperback style DC trades in the future, they're much nicer then a 52 page hardcover. That's an insane format in my book, not even worth it."

Oh, I think it's completely ridiculous.  It's apparently popular with the French, though.  They've been printing their Asterix and Tintin volumes, and their Bilals and Moebiuses, in that fashion for decades.

I can see buying a "skinny" for a single-run serial.  Reprinting Hewligan's Haircut or Necronauts or Rain Dogs in that format makes sense, but I'd still like the page count bumped up as much as possible with extra features, sketchbooks, unused drawings and so on.  The Necronauts book does this very well.  But in the case of Shakara, certainly not.  The completist in me might shell out for a Rainbow Spine paperback of the entire run (I understand it's intended as a three-book series...?), but I'm not about to pay $45-50 for three separate skinny hardcovers.

Same thing with Bec & Kawl, or Lobster Random.  The whole run to date would fit in a Rainbow Spine book, so I won't support a skinny hardcover of just 8 episodes.  No way.

--Grant

Link: http://www.2000ad.org/thrillpower/rebellion.html" target="_blank">Touched by the Hand of Tharg

Good grief!!  I must have been reading this pretty late at night when I went through it all in one go, as I did not notice this at all...!

--Grant

I certainly agree with how well Slaine is crafted, and how nicely it builds.  I simply cannot stand fantasy fiction, so I was very leery of Slaine when I first saw it (Time Killer in the progs), but this earliest stuff is just so well done it totally eclipses any reluctance I had to the story.

I'm still waiting on a replacement copy to be shipped from Diamond - mine had printing errors - but I certainly spent a good while marvelling at Sky Chariots before returning it.

--Grant

That was The No-Go Job, art by Harrison, progs 580-587.

--Grant

In other words, don't pack your Megazine reprints of Journey into Hell too far away before you sit down to read this one, huh?

Eeesh.  That is annoying.  Surely the printers could get around that problem on double-page spreads by adding a slightly larger margin on the spine-side of each affected page.  It can't be that difficult.

--Grant