- 1/52: Fast Times And Excellent Adventures by James King
- 2/52: Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman
- 3/52: You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried by Susannah Gora
- 4/52: Irregular Army by Matt Kennard
- 5/52: Operation Ajax by Mike de Seve and Daniel Burwen
- 6/52: Judgment On Gotham by John Wagner, Alan Grant and Simon Bisley
- 7/52: The Jungle Is Neutral by F Spencer Chapman
- 8/52: The Films Of Danny Dyer by Jonathan Sothcott and James Mullinger
• 9/52:
Judge Dredd Vs The Fatties by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Ron Smith, Carlos Ezquerra, Cam Kennedy & Tom Frame - Tip-top collection of some of the finest non-epic stories from the golden age of
2000AD, with Ol’ Stoney Face taking a dim view of post-Apocalypse War obesity. One of Titan’s short (five edition) 1980s series of rough-and-ready black and white paperback Dredd reprints (the others covering the Dark Judges, Otto Sump, ‘Monkey Business’ and Chopper - worth nabbing if you see them on Amazon, they normally go for around a fiver.
• 10/52:
Judge Dredd Vs Otto Sump by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Ron Smith & Tom Frame - Another Titan reprint, this time covering most of the tales about Mega City One’s most loveable fugly. Some simply stupendous Ron Smith draughtsmanship, and very funny to boot.
• 11/52:
The Judge Child Quest by John Howard (John Wagner & Alan Grant), Brian Bolland, Mike McMahon, Ron Smith & Tom Frame - The third Dredd epic (after the Cursed Earth and the Cal-featuring The Day The Law Died), and the first outing of the Wagner/Grant scripting team. The first issue of
2000AD I ever read featured the very last episode of this story - absolutely amazing work from Ron Smith, with memorable appearances from the Angel Gang, and Judge Hershey, and the Grunwalder! It’s the story of Dredd’s relentless pursuit of a mutant boy who may just be Mega City One’s saviour… Thoroughly episodic, but with plenty of enjoyable moments along the way. Unfortunately the edition I was reading (Fleetway Quality) was something of a botch job when it comes to the colouring. Oh well, still a good story. My 5yo and 9yo both loved it.
• 12/52:
Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, The GAL And Spanish Democracy by Paddy Woodworth - Powerful account of the (second) ‘Dirty War’ waged by the Spanish state against Basque separatist group ETA in the years following the death of Franco, and the absolute refusal to acknowledge its part in creating, tasking and protecting the GAL murder squads of the (then-ruling) PSOE. Iberophile Irish journalist Woodworth never hides his opposition to ETA, which lends his forensic analysis of the GAL scandal (Spanish Labour Party apparatchiks conspiring with Guardia Civil, NCP cops, CESID military intelligence and assorted right wing thugs, a sprinkling of professional mercenaries and various gangsters from across Europe to send assassination squads into France after Basque émigrés) extra power. Be warned - more than half the book concerns court cases, and no, there’s no happy ending. For more on GAL and ETA I started a
thread on the subject a while back.
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