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[The Amstor Computer]

Pretty sure it was McCarthy, though I seem to remember the Mess section looking a little like Brett Ewins. Will check later...

[Leigh S]

The complete Slaine and Stront reprints are such an obvious over sight by all concerned in past reprint deals - About time they saw the light of day.

Jamie - the Warriors Dawn story is only the sixth episode of Slaine - any idea how the stories will be split or roughly how many episodes are going to be collected per book?

[JamieB]

NB: Slaine will NOT be a complete reprint project - just the early years (up to the end of THE HORNED GOD, basically).

Warrior's Dawn should collect the following:-

The Time Monster
The Beast in the Broch
Warrior's Dawn
The Beltain Giant
Bride of Crom
The Creeping Death
The Bull Dance
Heroes' Blood
The Shoggey Beast
Sky Chariots

J-Bo-1

[The Amstor Computer]

"NB: Slaine will NOT be a complete reprint project - just the early years (up to the end of THE HORNED GOD, basically)."

I know this'll piss some people off, but that's good news. That means collections of the very best of Slaine, taking it up to the point when the character should have been laid to rest.

I'd love to see a similar approach taken with Rogue, so reprints would conclude either at the end of the Traitor General arc or at the end of GFD's run on the character, with an honourable exception for The War Machine.

[Mr C]

So that's just the good stuff then? Great!
ooking forward to ABC Warriors. I've read Black Hole, Kronicles, Hellbringer and the current lot, but I've never actually read the original.

[The Amstor Computer]

The original series is still the best, Mr C. You've got a treat in store!

[JamieB]

"at the end of the Traitor General arc "

DINGDINGDINGDING

J-Bo-1

[The Amstor Computer]

Heh :-D

Nice one, Jamie. It's definitely the end of an era for Rogue - the GFD stories after that were OK, but the strip started its long decline when Rogue finally caught up with the Traitor General.

If you don't mind me asking, is there any chance of reprints from the annuals? There were some great little one-offs from Alan Moore that would be fun to see included.

[JamieB]

Possibly, but these things tend to depend on (a) whether I've heard of 'em ever, (b) if there's any film available - because page-scanning's really a last resort, and (c) if I can then make a page count work around it.

J-Bo-1

[The Amstor Computer]

Well, the two that come to mind are:

Pray for War
Alan Moore/Brett Ewins
2000AD Annual 1983

The First of the Few
Alan Moore/Jesus Redondo
2000AD Annual 1984

They're 6 pages and 5 pages respectively, and they're the best of the RT one-offs published outside the weekly.

[JamieB]

I'll have a butcher's for the films, but no promises. Maybe in Book 2...

J-Bo-1

[Art]

Pray for War is interetsing, but it's not really proper rogue trooper, more of a historical oddity.

[The Amstor Computer]

Jamie, I'm just chuffed to be seeing this kind of stuff being given a decent treatment, so if a RT reprint is missing a couple of one-off stories from a 20-year old annual, I'm not going to be too upset!

[[YT-2]]

Have you got your pass to get past the big mekanoid I've got stationed by the Thrill Archive door?

[Yt-2]

[Bolt-01]

Well, after reading all this I was gasp ing and cooing so much the wife thought I was on the Pron!

Can't wait for these books to start!

Is the last Bellardinelli story being run in the Slaine reprint: the one with the Knucker first appearing?

Bolt-01