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Judge Dredd America Storytime 2017-03-03 01:46:39 Post No. 90375540
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A bunch of people are talking about America? Let's read about her.
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>>90375540
This was the first real Dredd story I've ever read, been a fan ever since. But this story is not about him.
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>>90375613
I also think that a bunch of anon's might like to read something good. I love the hate but right now I want something good.
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>>90375710
Love the fucking art int this.
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>>90375904
>90375904
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>>90376138
is anyone out reading?
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>>90376173
I'm reading anon
I'm loving it
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>>90376386
I want this image on my wall.
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>>90377725
The end hope you enjoyed /co/
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Murder judge best judge
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>>90375540
Why do people like this series? It's so dismal.
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>>90375936
This fucking page. Such a good fucking page.
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>>90378039
>dismal
Dredd takes on many tones, it's a fucking funny comic when it wants to be
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>>90378039
>dismal
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>>90378039
Because every now and then there needs to be a story in Dredd that shows the judges as the unapologectic bastards that they are, because otherwise it risks taking their side too much. Without stories like these, the idea that the judges really are the best thing to ever happen to mankind would take root, and then one of the major underlying conflicts of the strip, which is survival vs a life worth living, would completely evaporate.
It's why pages like this: >>90375974
are absolutely essential. Because while the judges may (sometimes) protect the citizenry from threats that a due process would most likely not be able to handle, it's a major point of Dredd's universe that this flimsy sense of security comes at a tremendously high cost, robbing mankind of its soul for the price of keeping its body safe.
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>>90376173
keep going
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>>90378039
Because I like to remember how bad things could be. One of the reasons I like Judge Dredd is that it never strays from the hard questions of it's universe. While there are heroic moments it never forgets that it is a fascist state and while it could be justified, it show you how corrupt a place like that can be.
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>>90375540
A much better version of America, probably the same person too since Judge Dredd is a alternate universe visited by the punisher.
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>>90378871
A Dredd book must have an even ratio of baby punching and saving.
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>>90375613
Rad.
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>>90378452
But it also leads to one of the few downsides of the strip: that the Judges never collectively face any major repercussion for their bullshit.
Even Necropolis had Dredd walk away of his own free will as opposed to having the super corrupt Chief Justice Silver (who was behind the sabotaging of the Democracy March) strip Dredd of his badge and run him out of town in disgrace, as far as Dredd being made the public scapegoat for that incident, once it was made public knowledge.
Sure they kill Judges off in spade, but 9 out of 10 times those were faceless expendables. And fuck, Silver NEVER faced any consequences for his corruption, nor did that fat bald bitch who was blackmailing people for the evilulz.
It would work if they constantly played up the notion that Judges were not the all knowing, all seeing dictatorship they were. That the Judges and their control over everything was super fragile, dependent ENTIRELY on the people and that at ANY moment they could kill the Judges off (literally and figuratively, in terms of abolishing their organization). It would make shit like the Titan prison for Judges more of a huge thing in terms of the Judges cracking down on bad guy Judges who bully the average person, so that the public don't turn against them. And it would make shit like Apocalypse War and other huge body count style storylines have more gravity if the Judges had to stop those crisises because if they can't, the public would get rid of them and replace them with someone who can.
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>>90379803
Edgar did face consequences for her corruption, by getting exiled to the Cursed Earth in all but name and stripped of all power, but I definitely see your point. And honestly, John Wagner probably sees it too, since the entire Day of Chaos epic was based around a crisis that the judges completley failed to prevent and the general public losing all faith in them as a result.
The thing about the judges/citizens relation is that, as shown in Twilight's Last Gleaming and other stories, most citizens are (by 100% design of the judges) so stupid and indoctrinated that they literally cannot even imagine something other than the judges. Which is in itself an incredibly damning statement on politics in general: when hegemony and cultural domination grows so strong that most people can't think of things being different than "the way things have always been", then absolute power becomes much more attainable.
But as the judges' promise of eternal safety falls apart, and it has fallen apart really hard recently, so we see citizens growing disillusioned with them. The big failing of the strip, in my eyes, is that it hasn't produced yet any big figure or movement for those disenfranchised citizens to rally around. Back in the Democracy days we had that, but with that gone there's no longer a group of genuinely well-meaning, non-violent, ordinary smart people who present an alternative to the judges' rule. And so therefore, with no alternative, their power remains uncontested.
It's probably a small comfort, but I do enjoy the way Dredd himself has grown to see the system as terribly flawed thanks to the dying words of Fargo and such, and is trying in his own way to either improve things, or to groom people who will be able to improve things in places he couldn't (or wouldn't) reach.
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>>90379803
Blame Garth Ennis for that.
Wagner walked away from the strip in 1992 and had Garth Ennis as his hand picked successor. Going so far as to giving Garth control over how the entire Democracy storyline ended.
Garth, being a bully boy fascist lover, opted to have the entire movement crushed and the Judges kept in power via a referendum vote that had a super low turnout and then had Judge Dredd mercilessly bullied the leadership of the Democracy movement into kissing his ass and declare that the Judges would rule forever and a day more due to the will of the people.
Wagner did his best to walk that shit back, best he could when he took back control over the strip. He had McGruder and one other judge go down in disgrace and did a stealth retcon where he suddenly had the return of a democratically elected mayor and Mega City One citizens suddenly having more freedom/rights over how the city was run.
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>>90380365
Honestly, I think Ennis left himself a decent out with the turnout thing. It was made very explicit that the average citizen had no idea what he was voting for, and since that lack of education and interest can be traced directly to the judges' "bread and circus" politics, it's still not a clean win for them on the grounds of said cits having been kept too stupid to really make a proper decision. Having her surrender to Dredd definitely was a step too far though, and most likely just a desire to get this whole lingering plotline over with and go back to goofy shooty wacky adventures, which most certainly was a step back.
The more personal freedoms element was actually a small but key part of Chief Judge Volt's reign, which then carried over into Hershey's once she took over.
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>>90376242
How's Mega City 2 compared to Mega City 1 anyway?
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>>90380544
Up until IDW's Mega-City Two miniseries, they were shown to be pretty much the same, save the MC-2 judges spoke with a stereotypical beach bum accent.
IDW's MC-2 is a brightly-colored media-obssessed juggernaut of a town where everyone either watches TV or stars in it, judges included, and popularity is life.
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>>90376419
>Wanting to hang up a dead judge
That's some time in the cubes.
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>>90379803
>the public would get rid of them and replace them with someone who can.
Replace them with what, exactly?
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>>90379990
Is Blondel Dupree still around?
As for major figures for the Anti-Judge/pro-Democracy folks to rally around, I always thought Hershey or Anderson would be perfect in that role.
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>>90380975
Nope. The whole democracy movement morphed into Total War, and despite having a few decent members here and there, they're mostly just out and out terrorists.
And after the end of Total War and Mega-City Confidential, it's been made abundantly clear that for all her relative liberalism, Hershey has no love for democracy.
Also, fuck, I really want to stick around but I have a doc's appointment tonight... Thanks again to OP for the storytime!
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>>90381056
I want Chief Judge Hershey to kick my ass
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>>90381056
What happened in Total War and Mega City Confidential?
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>a comic about a terrorist and a cuck who turns transexual
This is actually just as gay as the OTHER America comic. At least this is supposed to be a tragedy.
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That America Chavez comic drew my creativity off.
It was so unfocused, with no structure. Just words and concepts the author had a strange hang up into. Nothing made sense if you weren't in their lingo, almost like a cult.
This comic restored my desire to consume media. To read comics. I thank you anon, for making me believe again.
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bump and fuck Ennis
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>>90376683
This is my favorite page of all Judge Dredd
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>>90383691
Can anyone give me a rundown on the Ennis stories? I'm curious because I'm not sure how long he was on the strip and I do want to know how bad he handled it.
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Thanks OP. Been meaning to read this and it was beautiful.
Also weird coincidence America here and in Marvel kinda look the same.
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>>90375674
Grud I love the view of the city in this page
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>>90384025
It wasnt just ennis, a lot of the 90s Dredd writers destroywd it.
Ennis and morrison ran 2000ad into the ground, megazine was the only good thing happening in the 90s and that was thanks to stuff like psi anderson.
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>>90375741
>Love the fucking art int this.
I think the fact that this was one of Colin's first paying jobs actually helps with the art. You can tell he is just so excited to be drawing Dredd. He's trying different techniques and just putting his heart and soul into it. A more experienced artist probably would have held back a bit more. Done the maths and concluded that the amount he was being paid couldn't justify the amount of time the went into these pages
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>>90376784
>You're all heart.
Yep, that's Judge Dredd. Not throwing shumcks into cubes if he doesn't have to.
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>>90376993
Is she going to off him? I could see that happening.
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>>90377633
Ohhhhhhh fucking KEK!
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>>90385015
I think if things had played out differently then yes, she would have eventually been forced to kill him
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>>90377762
Now that could do a poster.
Great read.
>>90380882
One of their own (who'd do a considerably worse job, but it would be them dealing the cards now so it'd be OK).
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>>90382803
Except Beeny isn't a strong confidant trans woman he's a pathetic creep so obsessed with his ex he won't let go even after she dies and wrecks his whole life in the process
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>>90380624
Not much into Dredd, but wasn't there a TEX-MEG city too, with judges sporting the cowboy fashion?
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>>90385157
The citizens once elected a orangutan for mayor. I think your faith in decomcracy my be miss placed
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>>90385127
I wouldn't like that.
I liked the original ending enough.
>>90385227
Let's look at Reds taking control in Russia that one time. An oppressive government was changed for an even more oppressive one, but it had the politically branded (or whatever) people in charge now, so it was preferable for them.
Not much changing for the common man, innit.
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>>90385227
On the other hand, Dave was the best Mayor Mega City One ever had (with the possible exception of the mass-murderer).
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>>90377762
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM
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Thanks OP!
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I love this story, but the ending always makes me feel weird. It's an extra touch of creepy, fetishizing obsessivness that leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.
And I get that was the point, but, accepting that America had to die, because this is a tragedy, having her corpse desacrated like that just feels excessive and uncalled.
But that's just me. It's a great story.
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>>90385227
Don`t you dare badmouthing based Dave, you fuck!
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>>90385259
I think the comparison with Soviet Russia is a good one. It's easy for us looking form the outside to see how self-serving and repressive the regime is but for the inside it's not so clear cut. From the point of view of the average cit "freedom" looks a lot like anarchy. Most importantly there's no clear path to something better or even acceptance that things can be better
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>>90385550
The sequel cranks up the creep factor to a whole new level
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>>90385840
...there's a sequel?
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>>90385581
Fuck you. Mayor Grubb is best mayor
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>>90385871
Two sequels even. Which lead directly to my favourite non-Dredd Judge.
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>>90385910
well now Im curious. What happens?
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>>90385871
Yeah, the singer comedian has his brain implanted in America due to the fact that she was brain dead and her body was starting fail.
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>>90385943
...wait so this was multiple things posted in the thread? I thought that was all one solid piece
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>>90385918
America's body was pregnant.
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>>90385883
What block are you from, you incessant fuck?! Me and my CityDef buddies will come and whoop your bitch ass!
BLOCK WAR NOW
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>>90385967OH NO MY FETISH
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>>90385998
Oh yeah? Well Rowdy Yates block will be ready for ya. Ya spug faced munce drokker!
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>>90386120
Ronald McDonald block is coming for your skinny ass! Just you wait and by Grud you will be eaten by our combat-fatties.
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>>90385965
No that's just volume one. The follow up stories have a noticeably different art style and generally are a bit weaker
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>>90386120
>>90385998
>>90385883
>>90385581
Hey, cut it out!
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>>90386120
It`s Judge Anon! We can take him if we attack him together!
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>>90386169
Aw, he started it Judge
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>>90386196
Not when I shift into Maximum Storytime!
Gonna co-opt OP's thread a little to post a few more stories from the Democracy storyline, for the sake of context and because I love it to bits.
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>>90386249
So first up is Letter from a Democrat. Famously, the original draft of this story was a comedy about radical nudist terrorists taking over a TV station, but the powers that be at the time nixed it. So Alan Grant suggested that they changed it to radical democrats, and the rest is history.
Blood-splattered, freedom-smashing, soul-crushing history.
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>>90386261
Art on this one is by John Higgins, better known for doing the colors on Watchmen and Killing Joke, and a terribly underrated artist on his own.
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>>90385967
No it was artificial conception.
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>>90386261
Love this story.
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>>90386196
You crazy man I'll take a gang of heavily armed fatties but I ain't messing with no judge
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what a cuck
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>>90386299
So this was in prog 460. It'd be 70 progs more, a year and a half, 'till the plotline was picked up again. But when it did, it went hard.
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By the same creative team of Wagner, Grant and Higgins, this is "Revolution". One of my all time favorite Dredd stories.
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>>90386422
Oh hai Hershey.
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>>90386429
This page is one of the big reasons why I love this story, just because it's so chilling. Dredd is not a man of half-measures. He's not content with just striking at the symptoms, he goes to the root and cuts it out. And that same thoroughness and dedication that seems badass and praiseworthy when travelling to Deadworld to kick the Dark Judges' ass, or crawling through fire to get at the Mutant, becomes horrifying when he directs it at complete innocents whose only crime is peaceful protest.
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>>90386169
Is this the same artist that drew that oneBoba Fettstory, "Bar Kodda's Bounty" (or whatever the title was)?
Because his art was pretty unique and it reminds me of it.
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>>90386517
Nah, that was Cam Kennedy, of Oz and Kenny Who? fame. Though that mini was written by John Wagner.
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>>90386544
And here's the other thing that's so terrible about this story: the methods the judges use are not sci-fi. They're not using their psychics to arrest people on mind crimes or using robots to tempt them into crime or whatever. Their methods are exactly the same as any "benevolent" dictatorship. Exhaustion, isolation, alienation, character assassination, using the letter of the law to disgrace public figures. Nothing that the judges do in this story is fantastical, and everything has been done before and is still done today by governments both elected and not.
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>>90386566
Well... there's only one way this was gonna go.
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>>90386575
Love this fucking page, by the way. It's even stronger in physical.
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>>90386342
First time reading this story, and it's pretty hard to isit through, I have to be honest. But in a good way.
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>>90386544
>Nah
Too bad.
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>>90386544
Jesus Christ Dredd, this is horrible. I love it
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>>90386566
But what about MUH PSYCHIC CANNONS that induce fear? Those are fucking awesome.
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>>90386627
>"Any action we take to stamp out pernicious ideas like democracy is justified -- for the good of the people."
Not quite as catchy as "Gaze into the fist of Dredd!", I guess.
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>>90386637
So shortly after this story there was the big Oz epic, which also saw the end of the Wagner/Grant writing duo. But it didn't mean the end of the Democracy storyline, which resurfaced later on.
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>>90386637
This is the same woman Dredd freed from confiment in the lead up to Necropolis, right?
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>>90386637
Whole pro-Democracy movement gazed into it and blinked. Fist of Dredd is not something to joke about, it`s deadly.
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>>90386657
Yup. We're getting there.
>>90386662
It's all fine and dandy when it's punching interdimensional alien superfiends or deranged cyborg hillbillies. Not so much when it's crushing an innocent man's face.
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>>90386721
And now, we're closing this off with probably one of the roughest Dredd one-offs ever.
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>>90379803
silver got torched alive as he begged for his life
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>>90386800
And that's just the start of his problems. If you'd like to know how this went down, check out The Dead Man and Complete Case Files volume 14, which has all of the Necropolis storyline.
>>90386798
And that was just the start of HIS problems!
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>>90386629
There are a bunch of great Dredd stories by Cam though. The one with the giant samurai is a personal favourite
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>>90386151
But they give us Judge Beeny, who I would say is one of the few Truly Good Judges (and a great avenue for political stuff which Hershey is now too important or successful for).
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>>90386894
Funny story: Wagner completely agrees with you. In the preface to the latest America collection, he admits he doesn't like Fading of the Light an awful lot but that he's really happy it lead to the creation of Beeny, who has grown into one of his favorite characters.
I have to take the cat to the vet, but I'll see about storytiming it when I'm back. It's definitely not as strong as the original in any way, but it's worth a read at least.
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>>90386683
>L-AAUGH!
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>>90380975
i wish, she's had a single mention i think since Twighlights last Gleaming.
>>90382170
in total war a terrorist group funded by a rich dude launched several nukes into MC-1, i think it also was the story that made vienna a solid recurring character.
Mega-City Confidential is basically the Snoopers Charter gone extreme. Both are well worth a read.
>>90384025
Ennis is a lot better then most give him credit for, it was Millar and Morrison(Suprisingly) who wrote the worst stuff.
While Ennis still wrote some bad stories we still got a few great ones like Babes in Arms and Emerald Isle. Did quite a nice bit of world building too. Main problem is he never really wrote Dredd to great.
>>90385224
texas city yeah
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>>90386621
>Play dead till it's over.
Well that's nice.
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>>90386894
I don't like alot of the writing here because Dredd to me has always come across as Lawful Lawful. He doesn't write the Law, he enforces it.
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>>90386942
Ennis diagnosed the problems of his own run really well: he was and still is a huge fanboy, particularly of early 80s Dredd, and that's all fine and dandy if you're doing goofy side stories in the Megazine or one-offs in between Wagner's epics. But when you're given control of the strip, and at a time when Dredd himself is going through really heavy changes, it's kinda like taking the most dyed in the wool Batman '66 fan and telling him to continue Year One or DKR. In a vacuum, Dredd's Ennis is innocuous. There are parts where Dredd is portrayed as too much of an awesome badass but there's also great world-building, some surprise returns, and overall fun stories. But when you put it in the context of the hot potato Wagner had left him with, there's the inevitable feeling of it being a very strong step back.
That said, you're totally right in that both Millar and Morrison were the biggest offenders. At least Ennis gave a shit.
>>90386977
One of the very subtle but extremely important traits that Dredd has is that he serves the law, but on a deeper level he exists to defend the city and its people. And he's more than willing to bend and even break the law if his own personal judgment says that it's necessary to protect his citizens. Sometimes this means gunning down a deranged robo-judge, and sometimes this means, well... You've seen it.
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Anyway, time for episode II of Stealing OP's Spotlight. Let's delve into the sequel to America, published around 5-6 years after the first one, still by Wagner and MacNeil.
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>>90386942
Ennis is actually one of the harshest critics of his own work on Dredd. He feels that as a Dredd fan he was too close to the charecter to do him justice. The writing equivalent of never meet your heroes. Personally I think he's being a bit hard on himself
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>>90387180
Already we can see one of the biggest problems with this story, which also plagues The Pit: late 90s digital coloring.
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>>90387207
That said, Robert is a hero. An absolute hero.
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>>90387162
>Batman '66 fan and telling him to continue Year One or DKR.
thats pretty much what batman year 2 or whatever the first story with the reaper was called.
>>90387175
Never knew that, i agree he's being to hard on himself there.
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>>90387251
Jovis Grud, man...
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>>90387263
YES IT IS SICK YOU CRAZY FUCK
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>>90387291
Ok, so this story is post Necropolis and Twilight's Last Gleaming. The Democratic movement was squashed by a referendum where citizens were asked to choose between the rule of judges and a return to democracy. The election, while fair and untarnished, was still soiled by, well... you can read it all right here. But it gave Dredd and the judges renewed vigor and basically nailed the coffin for Democracy.
Or so they thought...
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>>90387310
>"Call it sick..."
DON'T MIND IF I FUCKING DO
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>>90385883
Wrong. P.J. Maybe was best mayor. Even Dredd admitted that.
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>>90387349
Oh yeah does Maybe have an incurable disease named after him? No he does not. Check mate JANET
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>>90387425
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>>90387162
What was bad about Morrison and Millar's stories? They simply sucked?
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>>90387447
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>>90387407
Was Grubb a deranged serial-killer who ALSO managed to be an effective and successful mayor? Nope, didn't think so. Turning into a mushroom ain't nothing to be proud of.
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>>90387468
Not the time, Dredd...
>>90387456
Morrison just straight-up wrote Dredd as the most bidimensional "badass" movie hero ever, and Millar just wrote terrible jokes and hackneyed storylines, like that time Dredd traveled to Egypt and straight-up fought mummies. Which would've been fine in like 1981, but in the 90s it was just plain stupid. Their big major epic, Inferno, is a mess of lousy characterization and stupid plots all around whose only saving grace is some seriously gorgeous Ezquerra painted art. It's bad stuff all around, really.
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>>90387525
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>>90387456
They not only sucked, they were a fucking affront to readers' intelligence. Millar and Morrison effectively wanted to take over 2000AD and turn it into their private project. Writers and artists that had put up with a ton of shit over the years simply because they were were working for 2000AD walked away during the Millar and Morrison era because they were such insufferable cunts. Compared to them even David Bishop had some good points, and he was the cunt that went ahead with the 'Women just don't get it' ad campaign, despite his claims to the contrary now.
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>>90387542
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>>90387468
Joke's on them, it a BLOKE!
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>>90387556
>>90387546
Honestly, given the incredibly shaky ground 2000AD was in the late 90s, I feel tempted to give Bishop the benefit of the doubt about that ad campaign. At the time it must've felt like "Ok we can do this and stay in the publisher's good graces and maybe survive a year longer, or we can stand our ground and die on this hill today." That said, it'd be great to get some other sources on it.
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>>90387583
>Using painted art to cover a digitally-colored story
Now you're just rubbing it in.
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>>90375540
Americur.
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>>90387542
Given what Dredd got up to in Revolution this is quite hypocritical.
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>>90387627
I could note that this is Dredd after taking the Long Walk and already on his way to becoming a more liberal, open-minded dude, but really, he's not above being a massive cunt. It's part of his charm, really.
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>>90387686
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>>90386825
This does hit me hard as a reader, but I like that it also hits Dredd hard. Not sure about where events go in continuiity, but I get the impression that it has a real effect?
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>>90387707
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>>90387583
If I'd heard only his side of it as he tells it these days I'd concur, but he was at a Con openly boasting about his input to that campaign before it came out: 'We're gonna get the 'Lads Mags' market.This is gonna be great, controversy means publicity.'
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>>90387710
Yes. This and the end of Origins are arguably the biggest character development moments for Dredd.
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>>90380882
The Most Holy and Righteous Order of Terminators.
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>>90387739
>>90387733
See, I believe him being about courting controversy with shit like Big Dave and B.L.A.I.R. 1, since the internal direction at the time was to try anything possible to get mainstream attention. But supposedly, the campaign was made with zero input from anyone within 2000AD's editorial, which is the way he has always told it.
Was this at the 40th Anniversary fest? They're uploading all the panels on youtube and I'd love to hear this straight from the Bishop's mouth.
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>>90387668
What's the Long Walk? I watched the 2016 Dredd movie at some point, but I think I must have been drunk because I can't remember a single plot point.
Never read Dredd before FYI, so this thread has been really great combining some history lessons along with the content. If there's a proper order to read Dredd in though let me know, because I really like what you've put out so far.
Thanks for your hard work, Judge Anon!
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>>90387745
BE PURE
BE VIGILANT
BEHAVE
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>>90387788
>>90387777
The Long Walk is... you know what, stick around, I'll post that story once I'm done with this. As for the proper order, start with Complete Case Files Volume 1 and make your way up from there. They collect all of Dredd's stories in chronological order.
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>>90387802
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>>90387777
When a Judge becomes too old or for any other reason is no longer able to effectively do the job they can take the option to take The Long Walk. They leave MC1 fro either the Cursed Earth or the Undercity and spend the rest of their days btinging the Law to the lawless.
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>>90387846
Speaking of Long Walks...
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>>90387877
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>>90387775
Nah this was in the bar at a con right before that campaign aired. I was there with a mate who knew Dave Pugh, the artist for Anderson. Pugh was shaking his head and muttering 'arsehole' As soon as the campaign aired to universal disdain Bishop changed his tune to the one jhe's maintained ever since. 'I had nothing to do with it, it was a long time ago and I wasn't even there and I was just following orders'.
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>>90387885
And now, the end of America.
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>>90387447
>>90387505
>Dredd just lets someone get raped
I thought he was all about the law.
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>>90387902
>>90387893
Ahh, gotcha.
>Pugh was shaking his head and muttering 'arsehole'
From what I've read, that was pretty much the reaction from every single creator at the time.
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>>90387175
I don't know man, I like that he thinks like that. Is probably what keeps him making constantly good comics (like The Boys, The Preacher, and Punisher MAX).
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>>90387942
>>90387929
Nah, keep reading. It's not Dredd, I jes fucked up.
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>>90387739Che wacho, me podes recomedar algunos comics de Dredd? Me encanto America pero no se por donde agarrarlo ahora
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>>90387961
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>>90387739
I really like that. The kid is still dead, but he's very much an unsung hero of Mega City One. Of course if he'd lived he might have made Dredd think and probably discard the thought, but that letter from a child whom the Justice Department failed absolutely, that's gonna hit even Old Stony Face where it hurts.
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>>90387482
Like being a mass murderer is a big achievement in this city. My gran has a bigger body count than that guy
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>>90387981
>>90387980Arranca por el Complete Case Files Volumen 1. Ojito que es de los 70s así que es medio rarito y loco, mucho más que America. Si te gusta, fenomeno, dale para adelante. Si no, trata de saltearte hasta el volumen 4 o 5, que tienen Judge Child Quest y Apocalypse War y son el principio de la etapa clasica de Dredd. Y sí queres algo más moderno, así más cercano a America, busca The Pit.
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>>90388013
>>90387996
'xactly. It hits him because he failed utterly at the sole reason for the judges' existence, which is protecting its citizens. If they can't even do that, if they crush people's lives and destroy their dreams and lock them up and then they can't even keep them fucking alive, then what goddamn good are they?
>>90388009
O rly? Tell Judge Pal more about this "gran" of yours, citizen.
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>>90387777
Don't think the Walk is even mentioned, it's a bit of Justice Department culture that's just not relevant to the movie.
But google up Judge Minty (?) and watch the hell out of that.
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>>90388042
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>>90387788
CREDO
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>>90388053
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>>90388013Gracias viejo, ahi veo que onda
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>>90388065
Well... Drokk.
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Anyway, let's take a short trip back to the past for the anon asking about the Long Walk.
>>90388072De nada, macho. ¡Disfrutá! Y avisame si necesitas cualquier cosa.
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>>90388106
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>>90388082
>a judge without a leg
Shouldnt he be put out of his misery ?
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>>90387802
So should I abandon thread now and go start on that?
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>>90388142
Sure, if you want to. I'm not planning on doing anything else after this.
>>90388136
There's a reason why he's in the academy. Judges who suffer injuries like that usually take teaching positions there.
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>>90388136
Really it makes sense they'd have a judge like that teach, since otherwise you have an able-bodied judge wasting time teaching when there's LAW to enforce.
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>>90388166
And that's The Long Walk. Judge Minty would never reappear in the comics, but he was the subject of a fantastic short fanfilm. If you got half an hour to spare, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aavS_XUITXU
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>>90387162
>And he's more than willing to bend and even break the law if his own personal judgment says that it's necessary to protect his citizens.
That's why Bury my Knee at Wounded Heart is one of my all time favorites. You see Dredd is ashamed of having to follow the law and punish honest citizens that put in their time in The Big Meg.
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>>90388045
The fan film on Youtube, I assume?
I'll check it out in a sec! Thanks for the rec.
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>>90388442
Yeah, though you might call it semi-pro. Some people involved are involved with 2000AD as well.
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>>90388520
I'm pretty hyped for the Strontium Dog film from the same team
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>>90388082
So where does one go from here? Is there any followup on Judge Beeny?
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>>90389027
Yes! There's a third series called Cadet that shows Beeny in her teens working a case with Dredd. After that she got her full eagle and became a recurring side judge, appearing in Tour of Duty, Day of Chaos and a bunch of current stories. She's actually had a pretty meteoric rise.
>>90388810
My dick is so hard for that.
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>>90386928
Hope your cat's alright Judge. Thanks for the storytime day.
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Hey the OP here, did not expect to the thread to still be here also thanks to Judge Anon for the extra material, makes me glad I decided to storytime it. I wanted to do the whole collection but really only had time for part one.
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>>90375540
OP thanks! That was an awesome read!
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Is the Democracy arch on the Complete Case Files? Been itching to read it complete including the election story where they have re-elected... the Judges.
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