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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 5, 2015 17:00:53 GMT
Yes, I saw some speculation as to where it fitted in when it started. Been enjoying it too.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 5, 2015 17:01:36 GMT
Case Files 25 out today. Come on eBay give me a cheap buy!
Anyone out there who doesn't own a copy of The Pit?
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 5, 2015 17:44:17 GMT
I've got the original comics, and I daresay it'll be part of the Hachette series at some point.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 5, 2015 17:49:08 GMT
and because the secret of comedy is timing, I've just found the long missing files for my copy of Darkside, the story where the City of the Dammed Zombie Dredd gets brought back to life, on the very day the case file containing the story is released!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 5, 2015 17:50:42 GMT
I've got the original comics, and I daresay it'll be part of the Hachette series at some point. I'm trying to find someone who hasn't: now CCF25 is out I now have it in both Case Files and Hamlyn large format trade so my Rebellion trade is redundent! |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 5, 2015 17:57:27 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 5, 2015 18:09:11 GMT
All backed up with links to the FB page so you can assume they're legit!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 5, 2015 22:17:08 GMT
That was a welcome appearance at the end of today's Dredd.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2015 12:40:49 GMT
Case Files 26 pre order up www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781084319/anepisadaykee-21After a pack of vicious Dune Sharks attack Mega-City One, Judge Dredd sets out into the Cursed Earth with a group of cadets, intent on finding where the alien fish fiends have come from, so he can wipe them out once and for all! The Hunting Party, which was obvious was going to take up most of the book so at least up to 1049, which is what I predicted the end of the book would be. Meanwhile in another classic adventure from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine, Dredd teams up with the celebrity freelance exorcist, Devlin Waugh, to battle Kigishu the evil sorcerer on the plains of Pan-Africa... Fetish, Progs 3.26-3.30. I reckoned this volume would be Megs 3.19-3.30 so we've got at least that, which also includes the second America tale. Nice to see though. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2015 20:37:10 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2015 21:20:59 GMT
Interestingly this volume is listed as 1th Jan, earlier than usual. Have Rebellion seen sense and decided to up the release rate on these? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 7, 2015 13:19:14 GMT
The migration from clickwheel seems to have occurred relatively successfully. However I'm struggling to see how I get to my Meg purchases prior to 2012!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 9, 2015 19:10:55 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 10, 2015 12:31:52 GMT
Hurrah! Case Files 25 in hand :-)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 10, 2015 21:10:15 GMT
And very good it is too!
About a third of the book is taken up by the second half of The Pit: you don't need me to tell you how good that is.
There's then 7 episodes of Dead Reckoning, which does something interesting with the Dark Judges. Waaaay better than the recent Dark Justice.
There's 5 episodes of "done in ones", all of which are higher than usual quality. Especial highlights are another Moronian Hottie House siege, which always makes me giggle, and Dredd arranging a more dignified death for a long running member of the supporting cast destined for the needle. The 2 part rise of Chairman Dilbert is amusing, which is the followed by the 3 part The Pack, a prelude to the Hunting Party which will take up most of CF26. The final 12 Prog issues are Darkside, a "Dredd's Zombie gets resurrected" story which I'd also read before. Just 4 Meg stories and they're all good.
Even though I killed it quickly, having read the Pit over the weekend and Darkisde relatively recently, I still felt it was the best quality CF for a long long time.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 10, 2015 21:37:21 GMT
Caught up on last week's 2000ad. Who is Dirty Frank? I presume he is a character who appeared when I was away.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 10, 2015 21:49:31 GMT
Caught up on last week's 2000ad. Who is Dirty Frank? I presume he is a character who appeared when I was away. -Ralph Dirty Frank appeared in Low Life, a series about the Wally Squad. Well worth tracking down. Andy |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 10, 2015 22:09:43 GMT
Latest Dredd Mega Collections
Issue 19 – Judge Dredd: Total War (Vol 03)
This volume sees the Judges held to ransom by terrorist group Total War, as they reveal that nuclear devices are hidden around the city – unless Justice Department relinquishes control, they will be detonated one by one, killing millions. Dredd faces a race against time in this widescreen epic from writers John Wagner and Gordon Rennie, and artists Colin MacNeil, Henry Flint, Jason Brashill, Carl Critchlow, Anthony Williams and D’Israeli! Plus, read an enlightening Q&A with the legendary Henry Flint.
Issue 20 – The Simping Detective (Vol 21)
Undercover Judge Jack Point trawls the seedier streets of Sector 13 and what better way to blend in with Mega-City’s bizarre populace than dressed as a clown? Simon Spurrier and Frazer Irving’s future-noir series takes private detective tropes and runs them through the Big Meg blender as Jack deals with untrustworthy dames, deadly aliens and tortuous metaphors. Plus Galen DeMarco’s P.I. stories from writer Robbie Morrison and artists Laurence Campbell, Dylan Teague and Steve Yeowell all feature in this fantastic volume.
Issue 21 – The Dead Man (Vol 04)
Young Yassa Povey finds ‘the Dead Man’ out in the Cursed Earth – terribly burned, barely clinging to life, he can remember nothing of what happened to him. Determined to find out the truth, he heads into the dark heart of the wasteland with Yassa in tow – what he finds will have shocking consequences… Written by John Wagner and illustrated by John Ridgway, this volume also includes an interview with the artist.
Issue 22 – Judge Dredd: Target Judge Dredd (Vol 30)
There are plenty of villains out there with an eye for taking down the great lawman – but have they got what it takes? Written by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Garth Ennis, this volume features Dredd’s encounters with merchants of death like Stan Lee aka ‘Deathfist’ and lethal hitman Jonni Kiss amongst others, and includes the art of Barry Kitson, John Burns, Greg Staples, Nick Percival, Jim Baikie and others.
Issue 23 – Devlin Waugh: Chasing Herod (Vol 15)
Vatican-sanctioned supernatural investigator and vampire Devlin Waugh faces one of his biggest cases to date in the epic ‘Chasing Herod’ storyline, and also puts him up against one of his most unstoppable foes. Written by John Smith and illustrated by Steve Yeowell, this volume also includes the flashback story ‘Innocence & Experience’ featuring the art of Peter Doherty, as we grab a glimpse of Devlin’s schooldays!
THE DEAD MAN!!! Get in!
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 10, 2015 22:41:12 GMT
Dirty Frank wants to be Ralph's friend en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Frank_(comics)His most recent was the Trifecta storyline but, as Andy said, he started off in Low Life where he served with Aimee Nixon. Nixon got sent to Titan, led the breakout in the Titan storyline and was seemingly killed at the end of the first half of Encelydus. However she's returned somehow and has killed McTighe and injured Gerhardt. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 20, 2015 11:59:56 GMT
Superb line from Frank this week: Dredd: Chief Judge
Frank: Dirty Frank has gained unexpected promotion! made me laugh |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 20, 2015 12:41:33 GMT
It's a great story. I liked the D'Israeli cameo last week and the end of this week's was terrifically bleak.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 20, 2015 19:03:35 GMT
I'm just not feeling the current weekly Dredd story at all. Perhaps it is because I wasn't there for most of the Nixon storyline so it feels to me like I have wondered in on the last act and I'm not 'getting it'.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 20, 2015 19:44:12 GMT
Did you read Titan (start of 2014) and Enceladus - New Life earlier this year? That's all you really need to know.
Frank's summed it up nicely: she's ex Wally squad who went bent. He caught her and she turned grass in exchange for being cubed rather than being sent to Titan. Following Chaos day she was shipped off to Titan anyway where she led the revolt (Titan, the story) and the failed escape to Enceladus (Enceladus - New Life) where she was presumed killed in Mega City One's nuclear strike and "whatever" happened to her with this alien life form.
She's an interesting case: she's the only judge we've really seen go bent in front of us as the center of the Low Life strip switched from her to Dirty Frank.
It should be noted that former Chief Judge Sinfield was on Enceladus and was spirited away by the Sovs just before the nuclear attack on it..... He's not been seen since.
But I'm not 100% sure this is Rob Williams best work. Yes it's great to see Dirty Frank again but there's something not quite right here. Henry Flint is also not quite putting his best into it: He's drawing Maitland (the accounts judge with the flame thrower in her bedroom) the wrong ethnicity to start with which is VERY odd as he drew most of her previous appearances and drew her black in Cold Deck/Trifecta. In fact she looks more like Bachmann (ex head of special ops) so I'm wondering if he's got the two confused.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 20, 2015 20:00:30 GMT
I read New Life. I only started reading regularly again from Dec 2014 so missed Titan. I can follow what is going on easily enough. I think I'm just not feeling the impact of it as I haven't followed the storyline of Nixon previously and I think without that it isn't connecting with me.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 20, 2015 20:03:05 GMT
I have read all the Nixon stuff and it isn't quite connecting with me either!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 26, 2015 14:36:33 GMT
Hands up who knows what was going on at the end of this week's Dredd?
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 26, 2015 15:31:28 GMT
That was Saturday. It's Wednesday. I can't remember what I had for breakfast, let alone what was going on at the weekend.
I'm doing a Megazine catch-up at the moment. Thank heavens American Reaper is done with. Andrew Currie needs to draw more Anderson. In fact he needs to draw more in general.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 26, 2015 18:07:06 GMT
Oh yes, that. Well, he had just collapsed. Hallucination? Dream? Psychic projection thingie?
Quite a striking image though, the last panel. I would hope all will become apparent in future instalments.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 1, 2015 20:59:56 GMT
Case Files 25 out today. Come on eBay give me a cheap buy! Anyone out there who doesn't own a copy of The Pit? Case Files 25 obtained from the library today! Support your local libraries, folks! -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 9, 2015 8:17:33 GMT
Hands up who knows what was going on at the end of this week's Dredd? So where did the horse come from? Did it just happen to be wandering by? |
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