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(I also recall HH2 being responsible for possibly the worst piece of dialogue in 2000 AD—something about a 'quintuple XXX-rated movie' or some such.)

"Hey! What the hell happened to our quintuple X-rated movie?!"  Bliss.  You just want to gently sock Michael Fleisher on the arm and go "Ooooh!  You're edgy!"

Oh!  Sorry, I must have misunderstood Keef Monkey's comment in the 1714 review thread.  He said that he'd wished Slaine had finished along with the other strips, so I figured it was finishing in P2011.  (I really have OCD about page and episode counts.  I'm not as detailed as Buttonman and his letters, but if anybody wants to know what the series with the 37th most episodes is, I'm yer man.)

(It's a two-way tie between Meltdown Man and Armitage with 50 each.)

Pat really writes for the trade, doesn't he?  Each installment in The Books of Invasion was 48 pages for a 96-page book.  If Slaine the Wanderer follows this template, then, like Radiator says, it will have the four 24-pg stories The Smuggler, The Gong Beater, The Exorcist and The Mercenary (assuming that The Mercenary wraps up with a 12-page episode in Prog 2011).

That there's a pretty darn good-looking picture.

So over at the Bookshelf, I find that I don't have very many nice things to say about the Dredd Case Files as we get pretty comfortable in the Garth Ennis era, but there are still a highlight or two, and Rebellion did their usual excellent job with reproduction and presentation.  Check it out by clicking the image and spread the word!

Sorry these are late again...

2000 AD PACK #21 FEB 2011
By Various. Artist Various. Cover by Na.

(W/A) Various Globally renowned as one of the most important and influential comics of the past thirty years, 2000 AD is the UK's cult SF anthology title featuring some of the best writers and artists in the business! An escaped perp is out for revenge and the body count is rising in Judge Dredd: 'Served Cold'; Gene the Hackman and Clara Bow are at the mercy of a master in Kingdom: 'His Master's Voice'; Cinnibar Brenneka's plans for bringing the universe to heel are revealed in Shakara: 'Avenger'; Ampney Crucis discovers what lurks in the heart of the airship the Graf Orlok in Ampney Crucis Investigates: 'The List of Ten'; and all-out civil war rages in Hell in Necrophim: 'Civil Warlord.'

(NOTE: 2000 AD pack includes issues #1719-1722.)

JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #307
By Various. Artist Various. Cover by NA.

(W/A) Various More action and adventure in the future-shocked world of Judge Dredd! The rebels are counting the cost of Mega-City One's latest attack in future-war drama Insurrection; secrets are revealed about what lurks in the East-Meg radlands in Samizdat Squad: Black Flowers; deals are made in the multi-dimensional Numbercruncher; plus there's more head-crunching law enforcement from Judge Dredd, and all the usual interviews and reviews. Plus in the bagged graphic novel this month: Robo-Hunter: The Furzt Case by Alan Grant and Ian Gibson!

JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES TP VOL 17
By Various. Artist Various. Cover by NA.

(W/A) Various Mega-City One: the future metropolis bursting with life and every crime imaginable. Keeping order are the Judges, a stern police force acting as judge, jury, and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd. He is the law and these are his stories!

(note: $32.99 US!  And just when I thought they were getting these prices under control, too!)

   
LENNY ZERO & PERPS OF MEGA CITY ONE TP
By Various. Artist Various. Cover by NA.

(W) Andy Diggle (A) Jock, Steve Dillon It takes a special kind of criminal to survive the mean streets of Mega-City One. Meet Lenny Zero, an ex-undercover Judge who's always one step ahead of the game, playing mobsters and the mob alike. Slick Dickens, master criminal and style trendsetter is always ahead of the pack. In the Big Meg's Barrio Blocks, they call Carlito Agarra the 'Bato Loco.' Carlito is just trying to make a few dishonest creds, but that's not so easy when both the mob and the Judges are always on your back!


That's all this month, but it looks like Titan has resolicited Dan Dare Bk 13: Trip to Trouble, if anybody's interested!

I'm rereading "Stim!" currently.  That really is some terrific Robo-Hunter, that story.  Especially when Hoagy tries not to blow his cover about being interested in drugs.  I guess the floppy will have the first three stories?  I'll be sure to send Tharg a thank you note for it.

Scrotnig, as GFD might say!

Glad to meet you!

Welcome to the board!

Several of you have mentioned seeing ads for prog 1 on TV.  I'm curious about that... I've seen the ad on YouTube, but where did it run?  What were you watching when you saw the ad?  Was it during some afternoon kids' shows on ITV?  The Tomorrow People was still on in February '77, wasn't it?  Were there 2000 AD commercials on during that?

How about that third and final volume of The VCs?  That's long overdue.

is there a place to download the earlier podcasts please ?

in america we are still awaiting prog 1700, so everything is a big tease

The prog pack with # 1700-1704 shipped on Nov 10, I'm afraid.

But don't feel bad; my shop didn't receive whichever pack it was that had # 1685 in it.

Drop Steve a line; he might let you know more details, but didn't want everything getting out, especially via my Reprint This! site.

Short version is that he fulfilled preorders with printers' proofs but wasn't able to put it or the other book, that Something Patrol, on general release after all, and the third and fourth books in the proposed line were axed early on.  Hence the (hopefully temporary) closure of his Bear Alley Books and its attendant website.  (Bear Alley itself is still up and wonderful, but the books blog was closed.)   

Well, there are two Red Seas books.  There was the hardback 60-odd page one that reprinted the first story, and the Rainbow Spine paperback 150-odd page one that did the first three stories.