2000 AD - The Ultimate Collection

[don wiskerando]

If there was more Rogue Trooper universe, I'd much rather more Jaegir.  If there isn't enough for one book, pair it with the 86ers as I haven't heard much good about the very later stories.

Maybe add in Mayflies (30 pages) to finish off Simon Coleby's Rogue stuff.

[Jade Falcon]

Maybe add in Mayflies (30 pages) to finish off Simon Coleby's Rogue stuff.

I'm not familiar with that one.  I did like the later Rogue that was in the original book Realpolitik for instance

[IndigoPrime]

Mayflies ran in Regened. I imagine it can't have been that popular with the target audience, given how sporadic it was. (I liked it enough, but I can see how tying properties into long-running series is always a gamble.)

[Dark Jimbo]

New books!

181 -
182 -
183 -
184 - The Out
185 -
186 -
187 -
188 -
189 -
190 -
191 - Thistlebone
192 -
193 -
194 -
195 -
196 -
197 -
198 - New Harlem Heroes volume 1
199 - New Harlem Heroes volume 2
200 -

Also confirmed: Fr1day, The Order, and Strontium Dog: The Starlord Years.

[IndigoPrime]

I'd buy The Out and Thistlebone for sure if I didn't already own the Rebellion hardcovers. 11 quid each for those is a bargain. I assume The Out must be everything so far, at 232 pages. (The existing collection is 144.) I'll wait rather than double dip though.

Harlem Heroes... I'll give a wide berth. (Maybe I'll think better of it in a re-read, but this feels a bit like the equivalent of one of those volumes in the Dredd collection that you'd read through, only to get to the back matter where all the creators were slagging everything off.)

For people still subscribing, 181/182 is going to be a seriously concentrated dose of thrill power though!

[The Monarch]

wait where did they announce these? the website still just lists dan dare

[IndigoPrime]

https://hachettepartworks.com/en-en/graphic-novel/

[The Monarch]

thank you

[Swerty]

Thistlebone 200 pages would that just be 1 & 2?

[IndigoPrime]

1+2 page count is 144, which would include some additional bits and bobs. So either it's all three series to date, the book somehow includes something else that's uncredited on the temp cover, or there's a boat-load of extras.

[Max Headroom]

I would guess that 'Thistlebone' would feature the three arcs we have had so far; as according to Funt Solo's extremely helpful A to Z that would encompass 180 pages of story which would fit just about right. (Personally, I will still be waiting for Rebellion's own volume 3 to complement my two lovely hardcovers).

[Jade Falcon]

From what I've heard of the later Harlem Heroes this is reaching into the truly desperate to release anything stage.  Especially when there are better things that could be done.

[Swerty]

1+2 page count is 144, which would include some additional bits and bobs. So either it's all three series to date, the book somehow includes something else that's uncredited on the temp cover, or there's a boat-load of extras.

The only artists/writer in the product information are the Thistlebone ones so that's going to be a bargain if all 3 series are in it

[Barrington Boots]

Harlem Heroes II is terrible and thats from someone who views the strip with a bit of nostalgic affection as I ripped some of it off for a Shadowrun RPG campaign.
Only worth reading it for the art and even that sees a drastic drop off in quality. By the time the deeply unlikeable 'heroes' are being chased by an extremely boring unkillable generic villain, any notion of aeroball or interesting plot has long departed and any sane reader should have given up likewise. Stunned that it's made it into this collection. I assume this means a Bix Barton book is just around the corner.

[davidbishop]

That means there is still hope for a barrel-scraping Worst of Dark Bish-Op collection!

B.L.A.I.R. 1!
Space Girls!
Repo-Mex!
Soul Sisters!
The Straitjacket Fits!

Alas, all the other Bish-Op strips have already been reprinted...