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Post by Pinwig on Feb 27, 2015 21:37:46 GMT
First subscription parcels from the Dredd collection have arrived for me. Not convinced by the packaging, those corners aren't well protected. I foresee many dings. Don't understand why they aren't using Amazon style sleeves with the extended edges. However I was quite surprised to find the coffee cup gift is proper porcelain. I was expecting plastic. That might actually be genuinely useful. Coffee is a thing for me.
Think this weekend I might just re-live the apocalypse war.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 4, 2015 16:10:34 GMT
38 years ago today the first Judge Dredd story was published!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 5, 2015 18:29:55 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 6, 2015 18:36:16 GMT
as you know I like to try to play "guess the case file contents" Amazon don't have the precise contents for 25 up but they have enough to make a guess: www.amazon.co.uk/Judge-Dredd-Casefiles-John-Wagner/dp/1781083312The crucial bits in that list are the names Henry Flint and John Smith. Flint's first Dredd work is The Pack in Progs 1014-1016. We know the new volume starts from 984 so it must contain all of
The Pit: True Grot (984- )
The Pit: Unjudicial Liasons
The Pit: Last Rites
The Pit: Declaration of War
The Pit: Bongo War ( -999)
Dead Reckoning (1000-1006)
Return To The Hottie House (1007)
Awayday (1008)
Death of a Legend (1009)
My Brilliant Career (1010)
Question of Sport (1011)
The Rise and Fall of Chair Man Dilbert (1012-1013)
The Pack (1014-1016)
John Smith's last work for Dredd was Mondo Simp, Meg 3.15-3.16 which closed CF 24. His next work is either Darkside (prog 1017-1028) or Fetish(Megs 3.26-3.30) Since Fetish starts when Darkside is over half done I'm inclined to say Darkside is in CF25 and the Megs probably go up to 3.25 :-) |
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2000 AD
Mar 6, 2015 20:57:38 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 6, 2015 20:57:38 GMT
Picked up the Hachette Dredd Origins HC. I can stop now.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 6, 2015 21:48:14 GMT
You can't. These books are just lovely. They need you to own them.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 6, 2015 23:23:08 GMT
Indeed, Shamballa is next. Good Ranson work...
BUY IT...
Andy
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2000 AD
Mar 7, 2015 22:04:31 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2015 22:04:31 GMT
I will stop there.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 7, 2015 22:19:37 GMT
No, you will pause there. I will allow the passing up of Devlin Waugh but there is other goodness to come.
I shall keep you appraised.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 8, 2015 19:37:38 GMT
Re-read Origins last night, still damned good.
Carlos Ezquerra is absolutely fantastic. I would still love it if IDW got him to do a Transformers cover or issue at least once.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 8, 2015 19:48:27 GMT
Hsve you read the Star Wars Mara Jade series he did with, I think, Wagner?
Origins is top top stuff. One of my favourite Dredds
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 8, 2015 19:51:11 GMT
No, I haven't.
I shall pick it up.
Think it is one of the best Dredd epics as well.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 8, 2015 20:26:14 GMT
All three of the modern big epics, Origins, Tour of Duty and Day of Chaos really work and hit the button for me.
By contrast Dead Reckoning has tailed off badly into rehashing the same old Dark Judges stuff. Need to read the last part still (this week) but tbh the only thing that's hooked me is what's happened to PJ and I don't think we get an answer! The early episodes teased it out like it was going somewhere!
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 8, 2015 20:39:44 GMT
I've just finished a re-read of the Apocalypse War. I really love the way that Wagner's minimalist dialogue from those days presents Dredd as stoic and cold, but still takes a relatively simple narrative and turns it into a rollicking good 34 part story. It's so economical, yet you always know exactly what's going on. It's a story that is so stark you can only imagine it ever being a product of the cold war era.
And Ezquerra's landscapes are just sublime, especially the way they come crashing down. Even in black and white you can see influences of the popular style of the time - the kind of mass and scale that Chris Foss and John Harris show in their work. I was just comparing that to Origins. Ezquerra is one of the all time greats, but I don't think he's ever quite got his head round digital colouring. I can't believe Origins started in Prog 1500. It still feels like last year's mega-epic, but I suppose we've had the whole Total War canon since then.
Nice Greg Staples wraparound cover on this week's prog. Now Dark Justice is finished I'm looking forward to reading it.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 8, 2015 20:41:28 GMT
Oh and now I want Strontium Dog done in books like these new hardbacks please.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 8, 2015 21:15:31 GMT
Total War is 1408-1419
Origins is 1500 - 1535
Tour of Duty is (on/off) from 1542 but really on 1650-1693
Day of Chaos kicks off 1740 and runs till 1789
Trifecta 1803 - 1812
1921 is due out this week
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 8, 2015 21:20:43 GMT
Yeah, sorry, I meant Day of Chaos. That seemed to go on forever.
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2000 AD
Mar 8, 2015 21:28:28 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 8, 2015 21:28:28 GMT
Oh and now I want Strontium Dog done in books like these new hardbacks please. As do I. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 8, 2015 21:28:31 GMT
Longest Dredd epic. Unless you lump all the Tour of Duty stuff together....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 16, 2015 15:38:29 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 16, 2015 23:29:37 GMT
Nice. Happy with that, but still no Ro-Busters!
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2000 AD
Mar 17, 2015 10:57:53 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 17, 2015 10:57:53 GMT
Nice. Happy with that, but still no Ro-Busters! Think we will see Ro-Busters in the summer. Though I am pleased to see Strontium Dog back. Andy |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 17, 2015 12:46:25 GMT
Phil wants some more Jaegir!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 1, 2015 11:35:43 GMT
1824 is a good prog :-)
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Apr 1, 2015 11:56:10 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 1, 2015 11:56:10 GMT
Managed to wean myself off the Hachette HC's on account of newsagents in Edinburger having dropped it. The first 2 volumes seemed to be everywhere. 3 and 4 I only saw in one RS McColl and they did not get 5 in. Perhaps it is for the best! My wallet and shelves will be lighter!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 1, 2015 12:08:27 GMT
I am looking forward to my usual jump point catch up this weekend. I've got the Christmas prog up to last week to look forward to. Hachette books 5 & 6 arrived the other day too, with a set of tin drinks coasters. Mechanismo and Mandroid go next to each other numerically, so now there are two bits of Dirty Frank on the spine line!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 1, 2015 22:20:19 GMT
Today's prog is indeed a belter.
Always grand to see Carlos on Strontium Dog. Intrigued about Enceladus.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 3, 2015 19:11:24 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 3, 2015 22:12:25 GMT
Interested to see how it progresses, all the references to Dredd's impending mortality, do you think they would let Wagner finally kill off Joe and have Rico step in to the shoes properly?
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 3, 2015 22:27:22 GMT
I can't see them killing Dredd
I'm convinced the solution to Dredd ageing is a brain transfer/psychic transfer into a new cloned body.
Something along those lines.
Now Anderson.... that's a more interesting problem.
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