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Dredd Reckoning blog by Douglas Wolk

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Quote from: MercZ on 14 December, 2012, 04:51:29 PM
I noticed this news in the 2000 AD twitter feed:

http://comicbuzz.com/2012/12/dredd-3d-star-karl-urban-and-director-alex-garland-amongst-those-honoured-with-special-2000-ad-award/
* Comics journalist and blogger Douglas Wolk for his work bringing the greatness of 2000 AD to Earthlets in America

Congrats to Douglas Wolk!

Yes indeed, well deserved. Doug's blog is a real treat, his guests always provide an intelligent new perspective on stuff that I thought I knew everything about.

Next year, Doug and Grant Goggans will be pitched in a gladiatorial fight to the death armed only with space spinners and Stallonesque codpieces, for the title of Tharg's US Champion.

Jim_Campbell

Quote from: Big Barry PengeBack on 27 November, 2012, 11:41:12 PM
While we're here, I have a question about Judgement Day.  Other than the 60 million Necropolis burial pits, where did all these articulated partly-rotted corpses come from?

Belatedly, I've just recalled a conversation I had with Peter while he was working on Judgement Day, where he had the fascinating thought: how small do the bits of zombie need to be before they stop working?

Given that MC-1 grinds down the corpses of its dead and uses the resulting products everywhere, I thought that idea had the potential to be rather more interesting story than the one we got...!

Cheers

Jim
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douglaswolk

This week, Jamaal Thomas of Funnybook Babylon discusses Tour of Duty: The Backlash with me!

http://dreddreviews.blogspot.com/2012/12/tour-of-duty-backlash.html

Points of reference include Dredd's POV via omniscient narration, Mean Machine's Yosemite Sam act, shifting sympathies around Dan Francisco, one-eyed mutants named Scott, and who might count as Dredd 2.0.

douglaswolk


For the final weekly Dredd Reckoning review, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste author Carl Wilson joins me to discuss Tour of Duty: Mega-City Justice. The conversation touches on Slavoj Zizek, Cylons, Patricia Highsmith, a "long endgame," Wacom tablets, Don Draper, etc.

http://dreddreviews.blogspot.com/2013/01/tour-of-duty-mega-city-justice.html

Frank

Quote from: douglaswolk on 28 January, 2013, 07:28:10 AM

For the final weekly Dredd Reckoning review, Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste author Carl Wilson joins me to discuss Tour of Duty: Mega-City Justice. The conversation touches on Slavoj Zizek, Cylons, Patricia Highsmith, a "long endgame," Wacom tablets, Don Draper, etc.

http://dreddreviews.blogspot.com/2013/01/tour-of-duty-mega-city-justice.html

Gold, as always, wolk. This blog's been the best thing to happen to Dredd in the last few years (including the film) and I'm very sorry to see it end. Your summation of Dredd's seemingly reforming impulses with regard to mutant rights is one of the best analyses of the character and the strip I can remember reading anywhere:

"For all that he's effectively a liberal reformer here, he's still taking baby steps in the context of a totalitarian political system to which he subscribes wholeheartedly; it's just that he'd like to see everyone equally subject to that system's oppression"

Let's hope I'm not reading too much into the wording of your declaration that this is the last weekly post on Dredd Reckoning.

JOE SOAP


radiator

Just want to add my appreciation for this fantastic blog - sad to see it reach a conclusion of sorts. Thanks to Douglas and all his guest commentators for their time and effort, which has brightened up my Monday mornings for the last year or two.

davidblack

And now for a spot of shameless self promotion.

Douglas Wolk has written guest review for 'The Oxygen Board' on Dredd Alert:
http://dreddalert.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/judge-dredd-oxygen-board.html

Arkady

In light of the tragic fact that Douglas Wolk is unlikely to pick up this blog again due to his Dredd writing commitments, can anyone point me in the direction of a similar blog that covers the later Dredd material? Alternatively is there anyone with the appropriate talent who we can lobby to do a successor blog?

sheridan

Quote from: Arkady on 18 March, 2016, 05:34:35 PM
In light of the tragic fact that Douglas Wolk is unlikely to pick up this blog again due to his Dredd writing commitments, can anyone point me in the direction of a similar blog that covers the later Dredd material? Alternatively is there anyone with the appropriate talent who we can lobby to do a successor blog?
Is he writing a new story then?  The most recent one I know of was the City of Courts mini for IDW a couple of years ago.

COMMANDO FORCES

I've not seen anything about him writing anything. Once he'd done his 5 parter, his blog stopped as well.