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Post by Pinwig on Jan 30, 2015 22:54:47 GMT
You might well be right. All this week I keep picking the book up just because it's so nicely presented. It's just nice to flick through. It feels weighty and well made. I hope subscription copies are well padded. Would make it pointless if they turn up every month with dinged corners. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 31, 2015 9:12:03 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 31, 2015 11:18:00 GMT
Very naughty indeed. Don't agree with them doing that. If they were going to do hardback versions they should have done those in the first place. If I was collecting the case files I'd be annoyed by that.
But... 10 years since the first case files book came out? wow.
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Jan 31, 2015 17:37:30 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 31, 2015 17:37:30 GMT
I can't see any reason for complaint when it took 10 years for a hardcover to turn up. Had it been 6 months then yes.
Keeping up with 2000ad weekly at the moment. I'm enjoying the line up other than Ulysses Sweet which has most definitely worn out its welcome by now. That needs to go away. Quickly.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 31, 2015 17:49:26 GMT
The HC has the colour pages the paperback doesn't. The real moans may come with a v2 if it has the missing Cursed Earth episodes. Hints have apparently been dropped recently....
Personally I'd prefer of they concentrated on getting the newer material out there. Case Files 25 was solicited at the same time (24 should be out in the next fortnight) they could easily sell more than 2 volumes per year.
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Jan 31, 2015 18:02:02 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 31, 2015 18:02:02 GMT
Perhaps the market isn't there for more than 2 volumes a year and I can see CF sales being dented by the Hachette HC sales.
But ech re the CF New HC I can't see any complaint in: "I bought this book little suspecting that a new edition might come out 10 years later!"
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 31, 2015 18:11:04 GMT
Interesting. I wondered if they'd revisit trying to reprint those four parts in the new part work series. Took me a long time to get those four progs in good nick without paying the earth for them but that fuss is almost four decades old now. Ancient history.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 7, 2015 12:28:30 GMT
It may be too early to ask this, but to those who already subbed to the Dredd partwork - how are the books being sent? are they well protected? Even though the card back for Mechanismo is considerably larger than the book itself, I had to go through about four copies in Smiths this morning before I got to a book that didn't have dinged corners. I fear the prospect of building a collection of bashed and dented books.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 8, 2015 12:42:30 GMT
Case Files 24 packing at Amazon :-)
Rather excited about this one, even though I have most of the content elsewhere. There's only 6 of the Prog stories I'm missing from 964-969, everything else having been reprinted in Hamlyn's Blind Justice or various editions of The Pit. I don't have any of the Megazine stories either and it's at this point that the Megazine goes monthly with issue 3.14 so it'll mean more progs and thus more time covered per volume. That coupled with reaching The Pit feels something of a milestone.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 8, 2015 17:50:00 GMT
The subs are sent in a cardboard box. I got my first book America in a cardboard box, I will get Book 2 and 3 together. Subscribers get them once a month, and they are boxed. It's the same they have done with the Marvel collections.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 8, 2015 17:56:12 GMT
Okay, that's cool. I think I have to do this. I have absolutely no justification for that other than that it looks nice, but sometimes that's enough...
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Feb 10, 2015 19:13:33 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 10, 2015 19:13:33 GMT
Picked up vol 2 (Mechanismo). Lovely stuff and nice to have the main story again which I remember fondly from ye olde album format. I can see myself picking up more volumes. No incentive to subscribe though as not any cheaper over the long run. Also I hate Chopper and can skip over that volume!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 10, 2015 20:06:36 GMT
I've got the bits of this in case files but was tempted to have it all in one place
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 10, 2015 22:30:33 GMT
Got this and Apocalypse War today.
Some quality bedtime reading!
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 11, 2015 9:08:34 GMT
Blimey, looks like Rebellion has had enough of the Clickwheel site and hiked their prices (£1.49->£2.38 for progs, £2.49->3.99 for Megs). Back to the 2000ad store for my progs.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 11, 2015 9:11:40 GMT
Think clickwheel is on the outs.
Never really got any substantial traction, aside from Tooth.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 11, 2015 9:14:55 GMT
Like em for cheap progs, and their checkout process was so much easier than 2000ad store. Ah well :-(
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Feb 11, 2015 12:04:03 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 11, 2015 12:04:03 GMT
Andu has been taunting Ralph with his new shiny shiny Judge Dredd badge. He is a Bad Man.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 11, 2015 13:50:26 GMT
I AM THE LAW!
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 11, 2015 22:27:53 GMT
I've got the one Termight Replicas did, which was bought off the back of the frustration of losing and not being able to find the one that came with prog 300. However that Termight one is so big and so heavy it is better suited to being a display piece to go on the wall. You'd never successfully pin it to any kind of clothing.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 14, 2015 17:10:28 GMT
So Case Files 24:
The Pit and Cal Files aside, which make up a large portion of the volume, what's left is a mixture of odd and in some cases very rough bits and pieces. Really not sure what that Hammerstein tale is doing in the volume: Dredd isn't in it and it seems like it's set in the Stalone Movie Dredd universe rather that the regular Dredd one. Makes a further mockery out of leaving America out earlier in the run!
I'd have formatted this volume a little differently too: because hlaf the Pit is in this volume and half the next I'd have printed the pre Pit prog stories first, then the meg stories and then the Pit prog stories.
Hmmm. Maybe not the best case file..... which raises the question which is?
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Feb 14, 2015 17:32:25 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 14, 2015 17:32:25 GMT
Whichever one has The Apocalypse War!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 14, 2015 17:38:32 GMT
Five. Complete Apocalypse War, Block Mania plus the Hotdog Run and The Dark Judges.
Tempting
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 14, 2015 19:26:02 GMT
Whichever one has The Graveyard Shift is a close second.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 14, 2015 20:33:00 GMT
v7. Also contains Cry of the Werewolf, Requiem for a Heavyweight and several other well known tales. Probably my nomination.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 14, 2015 20:40:03 GMT
Requiem for a Heavyweight is a classic. One of my favourite Dredd tales, and one of the first I read. I read that and the 2nd Dark Judges story in Best of 2000ad.
Not a bad start.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 14, 2015 21:19:31 GMT
Complete Case Files 7 contents: Cry of the Werewolf (322-328)
The Weather Man (329-330)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (331-334)
The Graveyard Shift (335-341)
The Suspect (342)
Rumble in the Jungle (343-345)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Ringo (346-349)
Pieromania (350)
The Highwayman (353)
Are You Tired of Being Mugged? (354)
Bob's Law (355)
Citizen Snork (356-358)
The Haunting of Sector House 9 (359-363)
High Society (364)
The House On Runner's Walk (365)
Portrait of a Politician (366-368)
The Switch (369)
Superbowl (370-371)
Bingo (372)
The Making of a Judge (373)
The Wreckers (374-375) 351 & 352 are a reprint of Mutie the Pig from progs 34 & 35 |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 14, 2015 21:21:33 GMT
Complete Case File 5 contents The Problem With Sonny Bono (208)
The Mega-Rackets: Crime File: The Body Sharks (209-223)
The Mega-Rackets: Crime File: The Perp Runners (209-223)
The Mega-Rackets: Crime File: The Umpty Baggers (209-223)
The Mega-Rackets: Crime File: The Blitz Agencies (209-223)
The Mega-Rackets: Crime File: The Psycos! (209-223)
The Mega-Rackets: Crime File: The Numbers Racket (209-223)
The Mega-Rackets: Crime File: The Stookie Glanders (209-223)
The Mega-Rackets: Crime File : Mob Wars (209-223)
Judge Death Lives (224-228)
Diary of a Mad Citizen (229-230)
Assault on I-Block 4 (231-232)
The Hotdog Run (233-235)
Block Mania (236-244)
The Apocalypse War (245-270) 268 is a reprint of You Bet Your Life from prog 25 |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 14, 2015 21:48:34 GMT
7 wins.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 16, 2015 8:23:31 GMT
5 wins.
-Ralph
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