Judge Dredd The Mega Collection

Bistoman

Here Is one for Old 2000AD and Dredd Fans.

http://www.judgedreddcollection.com/
And if You are not already a Fan it should be a good Jump on point.

The First issue is AMERICA, In My humble opinion the best Dredd story
( Even If He features very little in it) But well worth spending the €4.00 for the hardback edition.

Judge Dredd The Mega Collection

MarkHall

Interesting. But I'm committed to the case files.
So I'll probably stick with them.
Thou 4 euro isn't a lot to pick up a solid Dredd story.

Bistoman

MarkHall wrote: »

Interesting. But I'm committed to the case files.
So I'll probably stick with them.
Thou 4 euro isn't a lot to pick up a solid Dredd story.

Just Picked up Issue 1 this morning, Forbidden Planet And Easons had not even heard of it, But the News stall Outside Easons had it, At only €3.05 !!! Now that not to be overlooked .

ebbsy

Got it myself, for €3 it is a bargain, will not buy them all but may pick up a few.

MarkHall

Bistoman wrote: »

Just Picked up Issue 1 this morning, Forbidden Planet And Easons had not even heard of it, But the News stall Outside Easons had it, At only €3.05 !!! Now that not to be overlooked .

Really cause Easons had a huge stand of it on Wednesday when I passed through. It was between information and the sweet counter.
At least 20 copies at a glance.

Bistoman

MarkHall wrote: »

Really cause Easons had a huge stand of it on Wednesday when I passed through. It was between information and the sweet counter.
At least 20 copies at a glance.

They must have arrived late,
When I asked at the Information desk in Easons at
about 10.00 Am, The girl checked the System and it had no mention of it ( The Judge Dredd Megazine showed up but nothing else) Then She asked one of the Cashiers who said they ware not doing it.
Now I accept that the System may not have been updated that morning, The the Employees may not have been informed, But,as a customer,I had no other option but to believe that Easons ware not selling it. ( Short of asking every one working in the shop until I got a different answer)
And when I asked FP, About 15 mins later, The response was the same, They had not heard of it.

ebbsy

Bistoman wrote: »

They must have arrived late,
When I asked at the Information desk in Easons at
about 10.00 Am, The girl checked the System and it had no mention of it ( The Judge Dredd Megazine showed up but nothing else) Then She asked one of the Cashiers who said they ware not doing it.
Now I accept that the System may not have been updated that morning, The the Employees may not have been informed, But,as a customer,I had no other option but to believe that Easons ware not selling it. ( Short of asking every one working in the shop until I got a different answer)
And when I asked FP, About 15 mins later, The response was the same, They had not heard of it.

I got it in Easons at 8.30 am on Thurs.

Mal-Adjusted

I picked it up today, pretty good. I only have two of the Case-files so it's no hastle to start here.

ripperman

Didn't even know about this collection until I saw it in Easons today so picked up a copy. Looking forward to opening it up. May just pick up the ones I like. Can't commit to another collection like this!

ebbsy

Bistoman wrote: »

Just Picked up Issue 1 this morning, Forbidden Planet And Easons had not even heard of it, But the News stall Outside Easons had it, At only €3.05 !!! Now that not to be overlooked .

Mind you, I went into Forbidden Planet at Xmas and the gut didn't know what "Day of Chaos" was.......

CastorTroy

Picked mine up today. €3.15 is a bargain. Have only really started Dredd properly with IDW comics after seeing both movies and being kinda familiar with him somehow.

Guessing next one will be about a tenner since it's £6.99

Bistoman

CastorTroy wrote: »

Picked mine up today. €3.15 is a bargain. Have only really started Dredd properly with IDW comics after seeing both movies and being kinda familiar with him somehow.

Guessing next one will be about a tenner since it's £6.99

That what I would expect, I think the website says the regular editions will be €15.99.

CastorTroy

Meant to say, I like how the poster comes with it.

MarkHall

so much Bang for your buck here. The entire America trilogy as well as 3 other stories. I should have been asleep at 1.

Lemming

Picked it up last week for £1.99. Even at the full price of £9.99, it's still great value I think. Book cover feels good and looks great, and there's a lot of story packed into it.

My only critiscm - and it's nothing to do with the material itself - is the subscription handling & website. Website does not have a bona-fide digital certificate (which for an e-commerce site is school-boy-error 101 stuff) so no confidence in using it to pass my details, and the company handling the subscriptions have an appalling reputation. The email I received back enquiring about any other means of subscription other htan via the website & that company were not ... how shall I put it .... encouraging. I'd go so far as to say chimpanzee pressed "auto-reply #1" to send the response. So, it's off to WH Smiths every fortnight for me. Not the end of the world, more an inconvenient annoyance.

Mr.Buzz

Looks amazing, relatively cheap and from what I understand - it's high quality. Can't wait to get my hands on this!

MarkHall

Well worth seeking out book 1 for the First 3 stories in it.

BlaasForRafa

Lemming wrote: »

My only critiscm - and it's nothing to do with the material itself - is the subscription handling & website. Website does not have a bona-fide digital certificate (which for an e-commerce site is school-boy-error 101 stuff) so no confidence in using it to pass my details, and the company handling the subscriptions have an appalling reputation. The email I received back enquiring about any other means of subscription other htan via the website & that company were not ... how shall I put it .... encouraging. I'd go so far as to say chimpanzee pressed "auto-reply #1" to send the response. So, it's off to WH Smiths every fortnight for me. Not the end of the world, more an inconvenient annoyance.

Yeah, I believe there's a third party company that does the subscriptions for Hachette and they've got an awful reputation.

But as you imply there's alternatives to that. I've been getting the Marvel "Earths Mightiest Heroes" set from my local independant newsagent. Even though he doesn't actually stock the book he orders it for me and I've never had a problem with it, not every retailer is as conscientious though.

He got the Judge Dredd Mega Collection issue 1 in for me and it is excellent. I hadn't read book two of America before so it was great to get the whole thing in one volume plus Cadet and a few other short stories. The binding on the Hachette books is excellent so it'll look good on the shelf and last forever too.

ripperman

Anyone see issue 2 on the shelves yet? Should be today or tomorrow right?

Bistoman

ripperman wrote: »

Anyone see issue 2 on the shelves yet? Should be today or tomorrow right?

Issue 2 On some shelves this morning. Should be in all shops now.
€10.68 in Easons and €9.70 on the stall outside. Anyone see the prices in FP or Sub City?

Once again packed full of story's, Mainly the Mechanismo story with a little extra at the end.

Next Issue is the Awesome Apocalypse War, Looking forward to that one

ripperman

Bistoman wrote: »

Issue 2 On some shelves this morning. Should be in all shops now.
€10.68 in Easons and €9.70 on the stall outside. Anyone see the prices in FP or Sub City?

Once again packed full of story's, Mainly the Mechanismo story with a little extra at the end.

Next Issue is the Awesome Apocalypse War, Looking forward to that one

Cool, cheers. Must pop in soon to get a copy.

CastorTroy

Never understand the price differences in shops for UK publications. It's not like it'd be £6.99 in Slough and £7.50 in London

Morag

CastorTroy wrote: »

Never understand the price differences in shops for UK publications. It's not like it'd be £6.99 in Slough and £7.50 in London

Imposed Vat is the difference, was put in place at the founding of the state to discourage the reading of Uk Papers.

mayordenis

CastorTroy wrote: »

Never understand the price differences in shops for UK publications. It's not like it'd be £6.99 in Slough and £7.50 in London

Also exchange rates, treated differently by different companies

BlaasForRafa

CastorTroy wrote: »

Never understand the price differences in shops for UK publications. It's not like it'd be £6.99 in Slough and £7.50 in London

It's annoying that this is being charged the magazine rate of VAT at 23% rather than the book rate of 0%. These are clearly books but as they are being issued as part of a partwork they attract the higher rate.

Issue 2 is out btw and is a belter!

CastorTroy

I was referring to the regional differences in Ireland. So a UK publication would cost less in Donegal than it would in Dublin for some reason. It's like they do the conversion, add VAT then add location tax.

Anyway, different discussion for a different forum, I'm sure

MarkHall

mayordenis wrote: »

Also exchange rates, treated differently by different companies

It's around 10.60 in the newsagents I've seen it in. And again. Totally worth the asking price for what's with in. Now to see what it jumps to Next issue.

Lemming

Picked up issue #2 (well, technically it's book #24) on Saturday just gone for £6.99.

ebbsy

The one thing I like about this series is that they just don't include the main story, they also include smaller stories that are connected. For example Vol 3 includes Blockmania.

Lemming

ebbsy wrote: »

The one thing I like about this series is that they just don't include the main story, they also include smaller stories that are connected. For example Vol 3 includes Blockmania.

Is Issue three out yet?

TheDoc

I've been trying to get into this sort of reading lately and a friend said I'd probably enjoy Dredd since I enjoyed the film immensely.

He's been sending me links to "Case Files" on Amazon and have one on the way. Are these the same thing, or different stories?

Mal-Adjusted

The "complete case files" are a chronological collection of the Judge Dredd stories from the 2000AD comic. I have the first 3 of them...so far they're all black & white but i flicked through later ones which are coloured. Each volume is essentially one year worth of the comic with multiple stories in them.

The stories from the "Mega Collection" Will be in the case files, but there's no telling in which volume.

Bistoman

Lemming wrote: »

Is Issue three out yet?

On the shelves from Yesterday. Quite a good read, It includes the full run in to The Apocalypse War, Block mania.

I remember buying the trades years ago, You could only get it in two parts and I think it was £11 at he time. So great value getting the whole story for €15 or so.

One thing I like about this collection is, Even though the original story was in black and white, This collection gives full color reproductions of the original covers.
Sadly the final cover is by the great Brett Ewins who passed away on Monday.

ebbsy

Lemming wrote: »

Is Issue three out yet?

Was out yesterday. Wednesday every fortnight it seems.

Bistoman

TheDoc wrote: »

I've been trying to get into this sort of reading lately and a friend said I'd probably enjoy Dredd since I enjoyed the film immensely.

He's been sending me links to "Case Files" on Amazon and have one on the way. Are these the same thing, or different stories?

They are essentially the Same thing, But the case files published in order as they ware in 2000AD and the Megazine. This means that "Some" of the story's are not very good, just fillers used between the big story arcs. A lot of great one off's as well.
This Collection brings together Full story's , For example, Issue 1 of The Mega Collection tells the story of America, This was told over about 20 years so You have to get quit a few Case files to get it all. This collection handly groups them all together in one Volume.

MarkHall

It is. Should be in your stores as of yesterday.

Lemming

Picked it up today from WH Smiths. And I see issue #4 shall be "Origins".

BlaasForRafa

And issue 5 is Judge Anderson: Shamballa and issue 6 is Mandroid, both quality stories.

Lemming

Picked up issue 4 (Origins) this afternoon. Not had a chance to read yet since I'm in work, but jsut wanted to let anyone interested know that it has landed on the shelves.

ripperman

Anyone see issue 6 about today? Havn't seen it on the shelves anywhere?

Bistoman

ripperman wrote: »

Anyone see issue 6 about today? Havn't seen it on the shelves anywhere?

It seems to hit the shelves after lunchtime in Dublin. Try one of the bigger news stalls, The one outside Easons on O'Connell street seems to be the best spot.

ripperman

Bistoman wrote: »

It seems to hit the shelves after lunchtime in Dublin. Try one of the bigger news stalls, The one outside Easons on O'Connell street seems to be the best spot.

Cool. I'll take another look tomorrow. Cheers.

Lemming

Hmmm, confused; was issue 5 (Shambala) released? Because I went down to WH Smiths (equivalent of Easons in Ireland) to pick up my order and got issue #6 (Mandroid).

Bistoman

Lemming wrote: »

Hmmm, confused; was issue 5 (Shambala) released? Because I went down to WH Smiths (equivalent of Easons in Ireland) to pick up my order and got issue #6 (Mandroid).

It was released, It has been on the shelves over here for the last few weeks.
I would suggest checking out Forbidden Planet or a similar establishment for it now. Newsagents aren't great at holding back issues.

Lemming

Useless mongs; I've got a standing order with deposit paid for! Time to go read them the riot act tomorrow ...

MarkHall

Lemming wrote: »

Hmmm, confused; was issue 5 (Shambala) released? Because I went down to WH Smiths (equivalent of Easons in Ireland) to pick up my order and got issue #6 (Mandroid).

The Big Bang had 3 copies on their shelf on Thursday! May be worth a shout if you want to get the book.

Lemming

MarkHall wrote: »

The Big Bang had 3 copies on their shelf on Thursday! May be worth a shout if you want to get the book.

Thanks for that; will give them a buzz and see about having it posted over to the UK. Went back down to WH Smiths today and whislt I can empathise that the guys in the shop have been stuck between a rock & a hard place due to other factors at play, that hardly helps resolve the situation.

MarkHall

They do a great Mail order service. So shouldn't be an problem.

https://www.facebook.com/TheBigBangIE?fref=ts

Lemming

Got a copy picked up from them yesterday! The joys of having family within walking distance

Lemming

For anyone who hasn't picked it up yet, issue 7 is available; "The heavy mob".

Bistoman

Seeing as the last issue had no "Card" with it. The next issue is "The Cursed Earth" It should be on the shelves tomorrow.