was "an awesome romp" and "a fabulous idea, and here it's executed with great aplomb," although the reviewer felt it was pitched at a younger audience that usual. Another reviewer felt that while the artist "is pretty good at this sort of art, but I hate it" and reiterated concerns about the lack of sophistication but did acknowledge that "there are bags of fun ideas here." The first story, "Field Trip", ran in Judge Dredd Megazine starting in issue #279. Cradlegrave Cradlegrave is a body horror comic story which ran in 2000 AD #1633-1644, written by John Smith, with art by Edmund Bagwell. It is set in the Ravenglade Estate (nicknamed "Cradlegrave"), somewhere in Lancashire. It follows the story of teenage Shane Holt, who has recently been released from Thorn Hill young offenders institution. The story was collected into a trade paperback, with a foreword by Ramsey Campbell (). In his foreword Campbell describes the story as one "as simultaneously hideous and desolate as anything in David Cronenberg". Cursed Earth Koburn Cursed Earth Koburn is a character who has appeared in an eponymous series in Judge Dredd Megazine, written by Gordon Rennie, with art by Carlos Ezquerra. It is about a judge who has taken the Long Walk into the Cursed Earth. D Dinosty Dinosty was the first series Pat Mills and Clint Langley had collaborated on (Langley's first job at 2000 AD had been a Future Shock with Mills) and they would go on to work together on Mills' long-running stories ABC Warriors and Sláine. The story itself was originally supposed to appear in the spin-off comic Earthside 8, but this title was never published. However, this was not the end of the problems as the move to 2000 AD happened when Mills felt his relationship with the editors was breaking down and he came to believe that "Dinosty suffered from covert and non-verbalised editorial opposition, or maybe just disinterest." The story would eventually run in 1994, in issues #873 - 882. G Glimmer Rats Glimmer Rats is a military science fiction story which appeared in 2000 AD, written by Gordon Rennie, with art by Mark Harrison. It was collected into a sixty-page hardcover (). Rennie has described the inspiration for the story as "Sven Hassel novels and a certain oblique pretentiousness." The Grudge-Father The Grudge-Father was a "lurid" 1994 story written by Mark Millar, with Jim McCarthy providing