These are tales of the future, where only a couple megalopoles survive after a planetary nuclear war the landscape in between is forsaken, like imagine living on the San Jose beltway stretching to Los Angeles or New York to Atlanta in a massive sprawl with nowhere else habitable in the local solar system. We are bound to live with Judge Dredd at least until 2099, when we start driving hover cars and he comes online with Programme 1 live. Thus exposed to the first installment of “The Rich Cabaret” by writer robot Al Ewing, I wanted more.Ĭruising through Judge Dredd samples from earlier decades, I quickly learned the dribs and drabs of story parts do not readily cohere unless you happened to have a reliable weekly supply flown in to your barracks on Neptune or Uranus, where the gang laid around in skivvies after work thumbing 2000 AD stories of rogue soldiers, talking animals, and Judge Dredd in black and white on grainy newsprint, until color superseded by about 1990 and “full colour” on bright paper became a new standard.įortunately, some geek concerned with continuity had the good sense to collect all the Judge Dredd stories in THE COMPLETE CASE FILES in thirty-seven softbound volumes so far by 2022, with some seven hundred issues to go. I dropped in by chance on 2000 AD Programme 1791 from July 2012, and found Judge Dredd on the first page in fresh, stark colors by Eva de la Cruz on album-sized semi-gloss paper that made the glamourous cartoonish art by Andrew Currie sizzle. Stumbling onto Judge Dredd recently made me want to go back and relive at least the 1980s for my weekly fix. Judge Dredd features were hot off the press during my whole adult life, and I had no idea.

In younger years I was wary of police and would never have warmed up to a strip hero like super-cop JUDGE DREDD then dominating headlines in the UK and Commonwealth countries and planets beyond since 1977 in a newsprint weekly 2000 AD, the numbers now reaching in the thousands each bursting with art.

Artist: Brian Bolland, Ian Gibson, Andrew Currie et al.

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