Final Solution and Judge Death in the wild

[ukdane]

I don't like pale spines :-p

Re: Shamablla, I don't recall what was collected in the first Anderson book, but aren't there a number of stories missing between the last one in that collection, and Shamaballa?

Some of my favourite Anderson stories, are Traid, Leviathan's Farwell (a key story rarely reprinted), and Helios (as well as Hour of the Wolf).

That's made me think. Once Block Mania /Apocaypse War have been collected, shouldn't there be a post war- Orlok collection?
How many pages would it run to?

[IndigoPrime]

Mm. I don't really understand the logic of jumping to Shamballa, missing a ton of b+w stories (including Helios) and great one-offs like The Random Man, but there you go. It's doubly strange when you consider how tight Anderson continuity was at the time, referencing past things that we'll now not get to see in reprint.

[radiator]

Anderson Case Files please!!!

[Dark Jimbo]

I've been hoping since the DC split that Rebellion would continue the Anderson series.

Now I don't think I'll bother. It's an odd choice to skip so much when most of the other lines have been so comprehensive and completist. I can see the appeal of Grant/Ranson books, definately, but why does it have to be at the expense of everything else? Why ignore so much other good black and white-era stuff?

I hope they rethink the Shamballa book a little and it doesn't end up as a 'Carlos Ezquerra collection' type missed oppurtunity.

[lborl]

See, this is exactly why Rebellion should never close this forum. I just checked my bank balance on the way home, opened another stack of parcels of graphic novels I've bought online like an addict, same as I do every time payday comes and then thought "right, it's time to be a bit sensible for the rest of the month, you've got more than a dozen new books to get through now and a load of DVDs so you need to be kind to your overdraft. Only buy food and necessary stuff from now".

Then I saw this thread, and couldn't bear to wait any longer for another Strontium Dog book, so I bought it on my credit card. If I die of malnutrition I am going to blame it on here.

[radiator]

'Now I don't think I'll bother. It's an odd choice to skip so much when most of the other lines have been so comprehensive and completist.'

To be fair, we don't actually know what will be in the Anderson book - I doubt its even been finalised yet.

I may have imagined it, but didn't someone post recently saying that 'Leviathan's Farewell' would be included?

[Dark Jimbo]

Yeah, I'm aware these things are rarely far from finalised and are always subject to change - I mean, they really seem to have listened to fans and acted accordingly on Final Solution - but everything seems to point to it being a series of just the Grant/Ranson stuff.

Which, in many way, would be a shame. I'm happy to be told differently, though.

[IndigoPrime]

"Anderson Case Files please!!!"

Heh. I mentioned that to Jon a loooong time ago and was told that it wasn't going to happen. Then again, I also hassled him for ages about a chunky ACE Trucking volume and a reboot of Red Seas (not that I'm saying these are my ideas, obv., because I suspect Jon was considering them anyway), and they happened, so you never know.

Personally, I'd like to see Shamballa bumped from the schedule and replaced by a book collecting everything in-between first, including the stuff like The Random Man, which hasn't made trades before.

[dweezil2]

I am looking forward to seeing Ranson's work in glossy lovliness though.
Does Jon still frequent this board? If so perhaps he'd like to list any extras this trade may contain.

[Gavin_Leahy_Block]

very happy to see Ransons Anderson all together as i missed some of his early story in the Megazine.

[ukdane]

I'm going to email Jon a link to this thread, to bring it to his intention, incase he misses the Andersn comments.

[Mardroid]

Yellow colour of Dredd's knee and elbow pads I see! Like the last Dredd figure (or rather the last Dredd figure was like this.)

Great image though.

[ukdane]

I had just planned out a 7 book series, with page counts and everything, but as are such with long posts, it disappeared into the ether. :-(
The basic run down was Book 1 as is.
Book 2 collecting the last of the B/W Andersons, and everything up to Shamballa, including all the annual and specials stories, up to 1992, (Helios, Triad, Leviathans Farwell)
Book 3 collected Shamaballa, Engrams I & II and the Anderson Meg stories up to but NOT including Childhood's End.
Book 4 collected Chldhood's End, and everything up to Postcard to Myself from Megazine
Book 5 collected Something Wicked, Satan, and The Protest
Book 6 collected the "Steve Sampson" 2000ad years
Book 7 collected the remaining "Ranson Years" R*evolution, and the meg stories from Half-Life to Lucid (Bumper collection).
I guess an 8th book would contain Big Robots and Wiired.

Providing it doesn't buckle continuity, a few of the early stories could be chopped and changed, so that the books were more artist specific.
(Ranson, Sampson, Roach)

Anyhow- glad it's not my job ;-)

[dweezil2]

Nice work ukdane! I see from the current Prog they've gone with a Ransom image for the cover of the trade paperback, which certainly makes more sense than the Ashley Wood(as lovely as it is)one.
It's a shame there won't be an Anderson case file series, but I'm still looking forward to this long overdue release-I seem to remember banging on about an Anderson collection for a long, long time.

[ukdane]

dweezil2: I think you missed my point. The above list was just a suggestion. Not what Jon has planned (unless?).