Stront TPB Review

Dan Kelly · 15 April, 2005, 04:53:42 PM

Just a quick review, as I grabbed this from FP last night.

Absoultely great. Some stuff in here I've never read (Galaxy Killers for one). Pretty good reproduction on the artwork - a couple of places where it does go astray, but hey!

Has the first four stories from Johnny and Co. The Galaxy Killers, Journey into Hell, Death's Head and
The Schicklegruber Grab.

Only complaint I have is that the new splash pages credit all four tales to John Wagner, yet the credit boxes are for Alan Grant (and AA Grant) and Alan is given a back page bio... Can't remember the cover credits tho'

Dan

Grant Goggans · 15 April, 2005, 07:40:46 PM

I'm looking forward to seeing the cover for this! I get my copies of this and 13 in a week...

--Grant

paulvonscott · 15 April, 2005, 08:59:26 PM

I think I'll pick mine up tomorrow with the Slaine one if they are in.

IndigoPrime · 15 April, 2005, 09:45:44 PM

FP London has a big pile of Slaine and Strontium Dog, and an unfeasibly large number of Skizz books. Oh, and a single copy of Red Tide...

Noisybast · 15 April, 2005, 11:32:01 PM

I have one complaint. On the double page spreads, half the artwork & dialogue is lost in the spine of the book. You have to practically break the spine to be able to read some parts. Anybody else get this, or is it just my copy?

Dan Kelly · 15 April, 2005, 11:33:21 PM

No, it's the same on mine.

Didn't think to mention it as it's a pretty common problem in my experience. Would be nice no to have it tho'.

Dan

Grant Goggans · 15 April, 2005, 11:46:42 PM

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

Byron Virgo · 15 April, 2005, 11:55:42 PM

No, book printing is very different from the world of periodicals. This is a common problem with reprints like these, and is one of the reasons you never see double page spreads in original book publications.

Carlsborg Expert · 16 April, 2005, 01:49:57 AM

Stronty Cover!

Stronty Cov.!

Cliffy · 16 April, 2005, 02:26:15 AM

Given the little I know about printing, changing the position of an image on a page is a huge headache. The alternative in newly-created material is to draw the pages with a blank strip down the side, but with reprints you'd have to squish the image.

--Cliffy

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Bolt-01 · 16 April, 2005, 02:08:11 PM

That is a niiice cover. Glad to see an original piece on one of these.

Bolt-01

paulvonscott · 16 April, 2005, 09:11:51 PM

Looks lovely in the flesh! Picked mine up topday and re-read the galaxy killers. The first story has some slightly ropey repro (scanned from progs I suspect as per the meg reprint), but it's worth getting all the same.

Cover looks great as well.

Can't wait to pick up Stront, Rogue and Slaine Book 2 and Robohunter book 3 when they were out.