Judge Dredd

[diet_orange]

Have been infatuated with this series since my teens, mainly because of the sheer brutality and black humor

Dredd takes place in a future world where a nuclear holocaust happened and most of the USA is crammed into these overpopulated nightmare dwellings called "Mega-Cities". The only people capable of taking on the herculean task of keeping the city safe are "Judges" who're judge, jury, and execution all wrapped into one. They don't hesitate to kill and will dole out a severe sentence in the "iso-cubes" if you so much as look at them cross. The initial premise was "Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry in the semi-distant future" and for a while that's what it stuck with. But as it went on it got more and more wild and chaotic and became something very unique in comics; a book with no hero and no positive outlook

Obviously the series garnered a lot of praise and attention, later spinning off into two movies; 1995 with Sylvester Stallone and 2012 with Karl Urban (tbh, I kind of like them both for different reasons) and two games; one inspired by the Stallone movie for the SNES and Genesis and one more faithful to the comics called Dredd vs Death for sixth gen consoles and PC

The series is still going with the help of publisher and game developer Rebellion within the pages of the weekly comic 2000AD and the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine

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There's also a baker's dozen of audio dramas regarding Dredd. My favorite, which was one of the earliest, is "The Day The Law Died" based on the comics serial of the same name

 

[ciro64]

I read a small amount of comics and also saw the 2012 movie. I liked them. I should read more. My dad likes it a lot.

 

[NotReallyHere]

It's fair to say my wife and I are total DreddHeads

I was always a big fan of Judge Anderson, and looked forward to the installments of Anderson: Psi Division in each issue of 2000AD. Some fantastic stories there, by fantastic artists. Arthur Ranson was my favorite - a former illustrator turned comic artist. His work had an uncanny, realistic look, usually punctuated by the use of watercolors.

The wife is a fan of the Dark Judges, especially Fear and Fire. She made a custom, hand-painted Judge Fire figure with her favorite look - charred-black body, with green flames. She's also been working on a Judge Fear cosplay for years... though she's not much of a conventioneer, and doesn't have any friends to go along with her to the local Cons. She mostly just wears it around the house - beartraps and all

 

[Bonkers225]

I still have the Batman crossover comic. The art in that one was excellent.

 

[Cuestionador]

I own many Dredd comics in physical form, some in spanish (mainly the first twelve issues of MC Ediciones, who includes the second batch of Quality Comics Reprints) and some in english, like the first Casefiles and a book called Judge Dredd the Mega History: The Untold Story. My favourite Dredd artists is Ron Smith, a true artist and a king of the slapstick/humor genre.

It's fair to say my wife and I are total DreddHeads

I was always a big fan of Judge Anderson, and looked forward to the installments of Anderson: Psi Division in each issue of 2000AD. Some fantastic stories there, by fantastic artists. Arthur Ranson was my favorite - a former illustrator turned comic artist. His work had an uncanny, realistic look, usually punctuated by the use of watercolors.

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The wife is a fan of the Dark Judges, especially Fear and Fire. She made a custom, hand-painted Judge Fire figure with her favorite look - charred-black body, with green flames. She's also been working on a Judge Fear cosplay for years... though she's not much of a conventioneer, and doesn't have any friends to go along with her to the local Cons. She mostly just wears it around the house - beartraps and all

I wrote an article about Mazeworld some years ago for a comic book site, Alan Grant is one of my favourite writers of all time! Recently i was reading The Last American, his last collaboration with John Wagner, a delight.

 

[Deleted member 797290]

I don't know this comic, is he good?

 

[diet_orange]

I don't know this comic, is he good?

Dredd is the farthest away from what you could possibly get in terms of a do-gooder and his fellow Judges aren't much better

 

[Deleted member 797290]

Dredd is the farthest away from what you could possibly get in terms of a do-gooder and his fellow Judges aren't much better

That doesn't sound so good.

 

[diet_orange]

That doesn't sound so good.

A lot of what was in 2000AD at the time (and still is) (as well as Action, the comic that preceded 2000AD) was to give readers (most of which were young boys) a taste of what they couldn't see in the cinema like Rollerball, Dirty Harry, Jaws or aping concepts from those movies and making them their own. It was also very much anti-establishment through science fiction and fantasy

With Dredd, you're kind of in it for the black humor and brutality. It's certainly not to everyone's taste, and understandably so, but I like it

 

[Deleted member 797290]

A lot of what was in 2000AD at the time (and still is) (as well as Action, the comic that preceded 2000AD) was to give readers (most of which were young boys) a taste of what they couldn't see in the cinema like Rollerball, Dirty Harry, Jaws or aping concepts from those movies and making them their own. It was also very much anti-establishment through science fiction and fantasy

With Dredd, you're kind of in it for the black humor and brutality. It's certainly not to everyone's taste, and understandably so, but I like it

Ok, I think I'll take a look at it.