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A Holiday in Hell is (it's even got Tharg in it), Southern Comfort isn't.  I get the impression it had been hanging around in a drawer for quite a while before it saw print, too.

Southern Comfort was disowned by Moore quite early on in his career. It was originally meant to be a silent piece, but the editor felt it needed dialogue & re-wrote the script.

If you haven't already seen a copy, it's worth tracking down the 2 Titan reprints of Alan Moore's shorts. For both books, Moore provides an introduction where he discusses each story individually.

This book of Flesh is more likely to be reprinted as the first in a series of glossy Mills/Langley hard-covers. The recap will be for those who buy the GNs as well as the Prog reader.

Savage will likely be re-printed in Vol 4 of the pb range (if the series hasn't stalled) so doesn't need to be as 'newbie' friendly.

I'd not been overly-excited by the preview press for this. Pages by Bolland etc, 1 off stories of favourites - been done before. It seems like every major anniversary we get a Tharg nostalgia strip usually focussing in the newsprint period. I was looking forward to it, mind, just not in a big way.

Well, I was wrong. Loved it all. I think my favourite moment was the reveal of Nemesis with Torque's Crown Jewels. What could have been a tired re-tread of the series was instead a strip with some really nasty ideas - true thrill-power. Loved the end of Sinister Dexter. Someone mentioned earlier that it felt like a sci-fi special. For me it was more like the Dredd annuals of the early 80s where they strived to get the top drawer talent in. Dredd in particular felt like it should have been bound in between those hard covers.

And I loved the next Prog image. Here's to the next 1000 progs - I should still be alive for Prog 3000!

Also does anyone know if the All-Star Future Shock collection from 2014 is a rebranded version of the Best of Tharg's Future Shocks from 2008 for the American market?

No, it's a different selection.

Looking forward to volume 2 now (will the series be complete once volume 2 is out, does anyone know, or will there be a volume 3?)

I haven't done the maths but I don't believe we will be even half-waythrough the strips by the end of Volume 2.

The top one if from the Star Lord Summer Special, the bottom one is from the 1982 2000AD Annual.

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Skizz – book II, which I really enjoyed, was reprinted ages ago by Hamlyn. It's surely overdue to reprinted in a collection with the much-beloved original. Book III has some good ideas in it, mixed in with some dreck. But it's not so bad it'd devalue a complete collection?

The Titan reprint of SKizz was missing 3 pages - p 1&2 from ep 12 (& the text box of the first panel of p3 has been amended - originally it continued from the end of P2) and P1 of ep 22 (Cornelius' speech balloon was also changed as he was responding to Van Owen's comment on the missing page). When the strip was reprinted in the 'Best of 2000AD, the 2 missing pages from ep 12 were re-instated, but the text box was still the edited one. When Rebellion reprinted the strip as a GN, it was still missing the page from ep 22 & the text box/speech balloon changes were still the edited version. Be nice to see the originals re-instated for a hypothetical re-release.

Does anyone know which issues of Rock Power contained the original HMD strips? It seems to have started in the 1st issue, and Barney indicates that it published 8 of the strips. However, 1 of those is the Christmas ep which mentions a delay in the art work - maybe it skipped an issue?

I've got a list of all MCPD references I'll post when I'm back at my PC. There's quite a few pre-Cursed Earth, though sometimes they're only referenced on a video camera LABEL. It's easy to retcon that Cal got rid of them when he took power.

Whitey has a scientist engineer a snow storm to aid his first escape from Devil's Island back in the early progs.

I'd contact Rebellion earlier. If it's not arrived by Monday's post & there isn't a thread about missing Progs on here, contact Rebellion.

Its in Extreme Edition 6 and 9 (M.A.C.H. 1) that is which makes the price of 25 quid just as bonkers since you can still get them in the 2000ad Shop for 2.99 each!

But sadly incomplete. A nice phone book along with the MACH Zero stories would be nice.

The Making of Nemesis article in BEM is a puzzler. In the Tharg's Head Revisited strip in Prog 500, O'Neill references the episode and says how it was censored by editorial. I don't see any evidence of that here...

We already have Stookie, and rejuve and that Daily Star Dredd story where they work out how to get the same effect as Stookie from the Rad Cockroach! 

I understand why it would never happen, but I would *love* to see the Dredd-aging matter solved with a reference to a tiny piece of continuity from decades ago!