Judge Dredd: The Complete "Apocalypse War" Including "Block Mania" (Judge Dredd S.)

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Judge Dredd: The Complete "Apocalypse War" Including "Block Mania" (Judge Dredd S.)

Judge Dredd: The Complete "Apocalypse War" Including "Block Mania" (Judge Dredd S.)

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In 1983, Judge Dredd made his American debut with his own series from publisher Eagle Comics, titled Judge Dredd. [21] It consisted of stories reprinted from the British comic, but since 2012 IDW Publishing has published a variety of Judge Dredd titles featuring original stories. Since 1990, Dredd has also had his own title in Britain, the Judge Dredd Megazine. With Wagner concentrating his energies on that, the Dredd strip in 2000 AD was left to younger writers, including Garth Ennis, Mark Millar, Grant Morrison and John Smith. Their stories were less popular with fans, and sales fell. [22] Wagner returned to writing the character full-time for 2000 AD in 1994. As the settlers leave, one of the Judges tells them that once they get past a certain point, they'll be considered dead until otherwise proven, and no one will come looking for them. The Cursed Earth (progs 61–85). Dredd, accompanied by punk biker Spikes Harvey Rotten (and later the alien Tweak), leads a small group of Judges on an epic journey across the Cursed Earth, transporting vaccine for the deadly 2T-FRU-T virus that is devastating Mega-City Two. This multi-part epic is often referred to as 'the first Dredd epic' and was inspired by Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley. Terror and Total War (progs 1392–1399 and 1408–1419). A pair of stories wherein the fanatical organisation 'Total War' smuggles 12 nuclear devices into the city and threatens to detonate them all unless the Judges leave. A standard thriller plot made more significant through explorations of Judge Dredd's extended family, including Vienna and another Dredd clone named Nimrod. As mentioned above, the cloned dinosaurs that inhabit the Cursed Earth aren't just incredibly dangerous predators, they're outright addicted to human flesh, and some of them follow the caravan through the hellscape, pausing only to eat the settlers who die on the journey and buried by the road. Their craving for human meat have effectively turned an already apex predator into a Super-Persistent Predator.

On 17 July 2012, Tin Man Games released a Judge Dredd-themed digital role-playing gamebook titled Judge Dredd: Countdown Sector 106, available for the iOS operating system. [130] [131] Board games [ edit ] AD books – Judge Dredd – Heavy Metal Dredd". 2000adonline.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.It's noted that Dennis introduced two rival militant atheists to the Donut to destroy the Nandies' faith in their goddess, Korax, seemingly for no reason other than to bring about the complete destruction of the Nandies and the Overlords both. The Screaming Blue Messiahs recorded a song entitled "Mega-City One" on their final album Totally Religious. [143] Mean Machine Angel is a psychopath from the Cursed Earth around Texas. He had a cybernetic arm and head, and preferred to kill people by head-butting them to death. Generally used as comic relief.

Reliance Entertainment produced Dredd, which was released in September 2012. It was positively received by critics with Rotten Tomatoes' rating of 80%. [99] It was directed by Pete Travis and written by Alex Garland. Michael S. Murphey was co-producer with Travis. [100] Karl Urban was cast as Judge Dredd and Olivia Thirlby portrayed Judge Anderson. [101] [102] Dredd's costume was radically redesigned for the film, adding armor plates and reducing the size and prominence of the shoulder insignia. Lambie, Ryan (17 March 2016). "The Judge Dredd Arcade Game That Never Was". Archived from the original on 9 January 2017 . Retrieved 20 August 2016. In November 2017, Osprey Games announced their development of a new graphic adventure card game, entitled Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth. The game is designed and based on The Lost Expedition, a game from designer Peer Sylvester. [135] In the game, one to five players "[lead] a team of judges against dinosaurs, mutants, and the Cursed Earth itself". [136] It was released on 21 February 2019. [137] Collectible card game [ edit ] Dunt, Ian (3 October 2018). "Fascist Spain meets British punk: the subversive genius of Judge Dredd". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 July 2019.

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Smith, Matthew; Carroll, Michael; Ewing, Al (28 October 2014). Judge Dredd Year One: Omnibus. Abaddon. ISBN 978-1781082744. In 2129 ( 2000 AD #1535), Dredd is present when his clone-father Eustace Fargo is revived from cryogenic suspension, only to die later the same day. Before Fargo dies, he calls for Dredd to be at his side and admits his conclusion that the Judge system was a mistake that killed the American Dream, that it was meant to fix things but not last forever. Since Joe and Rico Dredd are his blood, Eustace hopes they will fix his mistakes, implying they should replace the Judge System with something else (he was unaware Rico Dredd had gone renegade and later died by Joe's hand). After Eustace Fargo dies, Dredd decides not to share the man's final words. Luna-1 (multiple stories; progs 42–59) Dredd is assigned to act for six months as Judge Marshall of Luna-1, a colony on Earth's moon governed by judges from all three Mega-Cities. This story introduced Luna-1 and Judges from East-Meg One and Texas City. IDW and Dark Horse Comics published a four issue miniseries, Predator vs. Judge Dredd vs. Aliens, beginning in July 2016 and ending in June 2017. Swierczynski, Duane (7 November 2013). "Judge Dredd #3 – Dredd's Comportment Chapter 3: The Birth of the Law – Douglas Wolk". Duane Swierczynski.

It was eventually discovered that the cause of the civil strife was a psychotropic agent in the city's water supply which increased people's aggression and tribal instincts simultaneously. The dissipated old roué Max Normal, who only drank shampagne and therefore remained completely aggression-free, was a vital part of this discovery. The water had been contaminated by Orlok, a spy from the Sov city of East-Meg One. Orlok compounded his offence by killing Judge Giant, Snr., a popular character whom many readers felt deserved a better death. The other thing this approach brings is a focus on comics as items of literature rather than drawings - which, to be fair, is the analysis going on in a lot of other places too. Artists are credited throughout, but there's not much consideration of Judge Dredd art as art, of the comic as a comic. How often was the art in this political strip itself political? How does the strip's nature as described in the book manifest in the ink lines themselves? Did any of the art–or any of the artists–ever work against the writing and its politics? Did 2000 AD's existence as notionally a young person's comic impede the things that are now discussed here as grand subversions? The book is suitably withering about Sir James Anderton, "God's Copper", former chief constable of Greater Manchester whose relationships to policing and to reality were once big news. But if you wanted to see a comic go after him properly then you had to venture off-piste to Deadline, where Shaky Kane drew him imprinted on the Shroud of Turin. Judge Fear's powers are this taken literally. The Face of Fear is able to actually scare people to death. He also shows the ability to detect people's inner fears without even using his face and project a terrifying aura that drives people insane. The Cursed Earth, which was the first introduction of the cloned dinosaurs, also had the debut of Satanus, a massive T-Rex created shortly before the Apocalypse War, who became infamous for all the humans he killed even in captivity. He survived the nuclear holocaust and would become one of the most feared predators to roam the Cursed Earth, which is saying something, and facing him was so horrific that he's one of the characters Dredd has a nightmare about right before the end of the story. What's worse is that the comic heavily implies that It Can Think, and that Satanus is not only partially sentient, but even remembers his original pre-clone life in distant prehistory (which reveals that he was the son of Old One-Eye, the main antagonist from the earlier 2000 AD series Flesh). A list of all Judge Dredd stories to appear in 2000 AD from March 1977 to September 2023 (#2 to #2350) is available at WikiCommons. [27]

As well as novels starring Judge Dredd, there are other novels and novellas in the franchise about other characters. For a list of books about Anderson, see Judge Anderson#Novels.

Every Empire Falls (progs 1973–1990 and Megazine 371–374). An attempted coup in Mega-City One by the chief judge of Texas City, Pamela Oswin. Dredd is seemingly killed, but this is a deception to hide the fact that he has actually been kidnapped. America ( Megazine 1.01–1.07). Dredd's philosophy is explored when democracy activists resort to terrorism. This story introduces the tragic characters America Jara and Bennett Beeny, as well as the terrorist group Total War. On that point, Dredd, well known as a Knight Templar, is one of the more upstanding judges. Many other judges fall under Rabid Cop combined with Hanging Judge, many of these cases also being Dirty Judges. Thrower, Matt (21 January 2019). "Play Matt: Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Review". There Will Be Games . Retrieved 19 February 2019.



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