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Title: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: The Monarch on 28 June, 2008, 05:19:04 PM
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080627- ... Dredd.html (http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080627-WWCDynamiteDredd.html)

I am torn as to whether this is a good thing or bad thing.....
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: johnnystress on 28 June, 2008, 05:21:12 PM
interesting

i hope it's a success this time
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: ukdane on 28 June, 2008, 05:34:26 PM
I thought Ennis said (in numerous interviews) that he would never write Dredd again, as only Wagner could do it properly.
There's something odd about Ennis being a consultant to Wagner.
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Post by: JamesC on 28 June, 2008, 05:45:47 PM
I expect Ennis is just there to put his name to it really. I'm sure that Dynamite know that having a big name like Ennis attatched will help sales.
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Post by: Gavin_Leahy_Block on 28 June, 2008, 05:56:09 PM
Depends how they do it though. Might be grate or just fall apart again.
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Post by: IndigoPrime on 28 June, 2008, 06:03:34 PM
QuoteI told him that I had wanted to publish Judge Dredd in the United States for a while and had not had any luck in reaching the right person at Rebellion
Yeah. It is really hard getting in touch with people at Rebellion. Last time I emailed Matt about getting information for an interview I recently did with a 2000 AD artist for a news-stand publication, he took nearly a few whole hours to respond. I can therefore fully understand if this guy was finding it tricky. And it's not like Rebellion makes things easy anyway. You'd think they'd put the company phone number on the contacts page (//http://rebellion.co.uk/contact.html), right?

Alternatively: GNH!
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: ukdane on 28 June, 2008, 06:43:43 PM
Quote from: "Gavin_Leahy"Depends how they do it though. Might be grate or just fall apart again.

I think you're probably right, it probably will grate. The chances of it being great however,  well, let's just wait and see.


Indigo: That's what I thought too.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Gavin_Leahy_Block on 28 June, 2008, 07:59:03 PM
Apologies for all misspellings
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Leigh S on 28 June, 2008, 09:25:00 PM
Hmm - very interesting - am i having deja vu about this?  Wasnt something similar mooted a while ago, then went quiet?

As others have said over on that link, I'd resent the need for Garth ennis to tell Wagner how to write Dredd, but froma  marketing point of view, get his name in there, let Wagner write them....

hold on.... this had better not mean less Stront you creeps! :)

ahem, sorry, back on topic.... making Dredd work for the yanks...?  Now this presupposes the Eagle stuff didnt do well, and iirc it did very well, despite some shoddy production and random story order.  Surely the Dredd that failed was the film, and the DC Dredd and the later Quality comics repackaging of non wagner material?  Maybe Dredd hasnt taken off there cos of how theyve seen it rather than what theyve seen?

Anyway, mabe they should do young(er) Dredd - set is in the 2080s/2090s? no continuity to worry abut, and the UK fans would lap it up?
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: The Adventurer on 28 June, 2008, 09:38:51 PM
Quote from: "Leigh Shepherd"Anyway, mabe they should do young(er) Dredd - set is in the 2080s/2090s? no continuity to worry abut, and the UK fans would lap it up?

Here's the fundimental problem with this (and really this project in general). There's really only two ways to do this 1)You do a full reboot of the character (which based on the Alex Ross Cover design, they aren't going that far off the beaten path at least in character design) which means old fans won't care because its not really Judge Dredd. Unless they go full scale "Ultimate Judge Dredd" which honestly, if they were going to do that, Dredd and his world needs a signifigant redesign to make that remotely interesting, and not just a rehash of old stories.

Or 2)A non-canonal/young Dredd series, which Also doesn't work because in such a series nothing consequential can possibly happen.

Because there's no way Rebellion is let this take any of the current serious Dredd stories away from 2000AD/The Megazine. To to mention the obvious continuity of those won't work with a new US audience.

It smells of weak licensing deal to keep Dredd's name around in America.

The whole project feels like its going to flop after maybe 12 issues. And it'll be DC/Rebellion all over again.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Leigh S on 28 June, 2008, 10:39:31 PM
Quote from: "The Adventurer"
Quote from: "Leigh Shepherd"Anyway, mabe they should do young(er) Dredd - set is in the 2080s/2090s? no continuity to worry abut, and the UK fans would lap it up?

Here's the fundimental problem with this (and really this project in general). There's really only two ways to do this 1)You do a full reboot of the character (which based on the Alex Ross Cover design, they aren't going that far off the beaten path at least in character design) which means old fans won't care because its not really Judge Dredd. Unless they go full scale "Ultimate Judge Dredd" which honestly, if they were going to do that, Dredd and his world needs a signifigant redesign to make that remotely interesting, and not just a rehash of old stories.

Or 2)A non-canonal/young Dredd series, which Also doesn't work because in such a series nothing consequential can possibly happen.

Because there's no way Rebellion is let this take any of the current serious Dredd stories away from 2000AD/The Megazine. To to mention the obvious continuity of those won't work with a new US audience.

It smells of weak licensing deal to keep Dredd's name around in America.

The whole project feels like its going to flop after maybe 12 issues. And it'll be DC/Rebellion all over again.

It's certainly a problem in terms of two continuities... unless of course the stuff will just filter into the Meg as reprint?  So your reprint is actually the lead if you will - that sounds stupid, or is it so crazy it might work to keep the Meg topped up with new pages. To be honest, that'd work for me if it meant more money for the meg overall.  

Ignoring that mental bit of speculation, I think a untold tales of younger Dredd avoids the continuity issues of modern "Dredd" - you can say it suffers from the "he cant die" syndrome, but hey, so does current Stront, and I think thats working pretty darn well.  It would have the advantage over stront that these are tales set in a period we've seen nothing (or little) of.  Would the UK fans really prefer 3 Wagner Dredd threads (prog/meg/Dynamite)  or see something a bit different in that third slot?   Granted its not an ideal solution, but I dont think theres a simple way of doing it without putting limitations on what you can do or risking a reboot.

DC Dredd flopped because it was awful and missed the point of the strip and character completely - I think this has the best chance of any attempt to sell Dredd to the US.  Sure, it might crash and burn, but comparing it to the DC "effort" is comparing apples to turnips

If Im not mistaken, that Ross covers a thing he did for an Anthrax poster - not related to this... or maybe it was related to this when it as mooted years ago, as I seem to have a false memory of!
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: COMMANDO FORCES on 29 June, 2008, 03:29:05 AM
Quote from: "Leigh Shepherd"
Quote from: "The Adventurer"
Quote from: "Leigh Shepherd"If Im not mistaken, that Ross covers a thing he did for an Anthrax poster
You are not mistaken, it is the Anthrax stuff.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: The Adventurer on 29 June, 2008, 08:18:40 AM
Quote from: "Leigh Shepherd"Ignoring that mental bit of speculation, I think a untold tales of younger Dredd avoids the continuity issues of modern "Dredd" - you can say it suffers from the "he cant die" syndrome, but hey, so does current Stront, and I think thats working pretty darn well.  It would have the advantage over stront that these are tales set in a period we've seen nothing (or little) of.  Would the UK fans really prefer 3 Wagner Dredd threads (prog/meg/Dynamite)  or see something a bit different in that third slot?   Granted its not an ideal solution, but I dont think theres a simple way of doing it without putting limitations on what you can do or risking a reboot.

Its not so much that "Dredd can't die" its more about "You can't blow up Mega-City-One!" or use the name villains, like Death, Mean, PJ Maybe, ETC... Granted the latter's not the biggest deal ever, and can be worked around by introducing new threats. But I doubt Dynamite wants to ignore the big name iconic characters.


Essentially, I'm seeing this having the same problems Dynamite's Battlestar Galactica* comic series have. Nothing that happens in those books is Canon, and therefor automatically irrelevant. Not to mention they don't bother to push any legitimately interesting ideas, for fear of stepping on the toes of the show. So you end up with a lukewarm pile of MEH based on one of the best show's ever.

*and to a lesser extent IDW's Doctor Who series.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: nameuser on 29 June, 2008, 11:07:13 AM
I don't think American comic readers get Dredd or like him enough to make a new comic profitable. Had the Stallone Dredd film been a success it would have made Dredd a household name in the US but it wasn't to be. A successful Dredd film would have led to more comic books.

The two DC Dredd titles didn't sell enough so it will be hard for Dynamite Entertainment to succeed. The irony is hiring Garth Ennis as writer may be the best chance for success. Ennis never managed to capture Wagner's Dredd - he's even admitted it himself saying his material was too much like a fan writing Dredd - but his popularity in America would get people interested in a Dredd comic. Would British fans like an Ennis Dredd comic book? Doubtful. Would an Ennis Dredd comic shift units? Possible. Hmm... bit of conundrum.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: JamesC on 29 June, 2008, 11:20:52 AM
Perhaps it could be done as a kind of 'Legends of the Dark Knight' equivalent.
Each story arc could be from a different time period. You could have completly new stories and maybe some retellings of classic stories perhaps from a slightly different viewpoint.
For example Judge Death could be told exclusively from Judge Death's own perspective or the first PJ Maybe story could be told as a straight detective mystery without the Columbo style beginning showing us who the killer is.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: nameuser on 29 June, 2008, 11:29:38 AM
As previously mentioned, the comic could go the young Dredd route. Dredd as a new Judge on the streets. We've had a few flashback stories - but not a continuous run of early Dredd. I doubt John Wagner would want to write about early Dredd in 2000AD or the JD Meg. An American title could be the right home for it. It's possible Ennis would be interested in Dredd's early years. He doesn't have to stick to existing Wagner continuity.
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Post by: Robin Low on 29 June, 2008, 02:31:19 PM
Quote from: "The Adventurer"Or 2)A non-canonal/young Dredd series, which Also doesn't work because in such a series nothing consequential can possibly happen.

Actually, I don't think that's necessarily true.  Dredd's been on the street 20 years by the time we first see him, and I think that gives plenty of room for stories that show just how he acquired his reputation.

It could start with his assessment with Morphy and move from there. After Origins, we have more solid background to build the early setting on. We can see Rico's fall in full detail, and how it affects Dredd.

Clearly, it would need some work to make it fit with continuity (when was the bubble covering the city before Cal had the wall built put in place, and so on), but I think it could be made into something appealing to the American market and adding depth to the official 2000AD series, without annoying long-time UK fans.

Regards

Robin
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: JamesC on 29 June, 2008, 03:03:59 PM
The trouble with making it an exclusively young Dredd title is that you can't have Death or any of the Dark Judges, Anderson, The Angels, Chopper or any of the other supporting characters that lapsed fans may want to see.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Leigh S on 29 June, 2008, 03:35:56 PM
Quote from: "JamesC"The trouble with making it an exclusively young Dredd title is that you can't have Death or any of the Dark Judges, Anderson, The Angels, Chopper or any of the other supporting characters that lapsed fans may want to see.

True enough, but what ahve those characters contributed to the dreddiverse in recent times?  To be honest, I think Dredds best when we see new things, and just about all you list are either already dead or past their sell by - just bringing them back because they were great in a story in 1981 doesnt seem to me the most creative thing you could do.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Robin Low on 29 June, 2008, 05:22:07 PM
Quote from: "JamesC"The trouble with making it an exclusively young Dredd title is that you can't have Death or any of the Dark Judges, Anderson, The Angels, Chopper or any of the other supporting characters that lapsed fans may want to see.

I think if you're trying to sell to a primarily American market (which is the apparent aim here), it's best starting with something that doesn't have a whole heap of existing background. The advantage of a Young Dredd is that you avoid the baggage, but can still tell stories that are of interest to us old fogies.

Regards

Robin
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Post by: Max Thrillpower on 29 June, 2008, 06:44:00 PM
I seriously hope that this project works.

Speaking as your local representative from the Americas, well perhaps not so local as all that, America has a hard time understanding Dredd, not me of course though as I have been a fan for years of 2000 AD Weekly.

He doesn't fly, lift automobiles, shoot lasers from parts of his anatomy and he is most definitely not an Avenger, Wolverine or a Wolverine clone.  He never takes his hat off.  He hasn't large breasts, skimpy outfits and shapely curves.  His side-arm is not larger than he is.  This makes it hard for most typical Yanks to look past the cover and get interested.

I enjoy 2000 AD and its properties because they are diverse in art, story, and characters as well as the staff that produce them.  I am old enough to appreciate serialized entertainment but this is not so for most of the collective "us" in the USA.

Something happens and something changes in a serialized entertainment.  Hollywood would call this a Bad Thing TM.  American entertainment is geared towards syndication and perpetual "re-runs" so characters growing, changing, entering, leaving can be quite disturbing to most.  Wars, long walks in the desert looking for children, nuclear terrorism, not something that happens in our entertainment.  Bend continuity all you want but it MUST snap back to normal before the last commercial break or by the end of the miniseries.

Even in our comics our continuity is "ret-conned", reset and generally fooled with multiple times a year to make things "fresh" and "new" and to bring in new consumers who haven't been around since Prog 1 or 100 or whenever and might feel cheated that something happened before they became a fan and they don't know about it or cannot purchase it because it is out of print.  Not departing from a status quo so much as making a new status quo and following it up with an international marketing program to let people know that there might possibly be some changes in our continuity.

Often it is change in a backwards sense and not progress in a story.  Or perhaps it is to make a clone of an established character that does happen to have large breasts, skimpy outfits and shapely curves and a side arm larger than the person who wields it.

I used to scoff when I heard that English plays had to be re-written to be performed in the US.  I don't anymore.  American entertainment producers want the money for their books and movies and merchandise NOW and wouldn't think about running one title with virtually intact continuity for more than 30 years.  They think with a balance sheet mentality of the immediate bottom line and not one of building a perpetually growing customer base.

I just hope that it converts well, and is marketable and popular without polluting the Dreddiness of Dredd.

Max Thrillpower
Foreign Correspondent
The Americas
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Grant Goggans on 29 June, 2008, 06:49:19 PM
Thumbs up to the Adventurer in reminding people who are going "Wow!  It'll be great to see Dredd again!" that there was nothing stopping them from reading him all this time... man, people drive me nuts.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: TordelBack on 29 June, 2008, 08:25:56 PM
Sorry to even be contemplating this, but Ultimate Dredd (v. 2.0) seems to be the only workable route to take if you wanted to avoid alienating one group or the other.  Might even be fun - Ultimate Spiderman was (is).  

Ennis understands the perilous tightrope act that is Dredd better than almost anyone, if only because he's cocked it up so often.  It's worth noting that his last, and one of his best Dredd outings would sit quite comfortably in an Ultimate Dredd publication - Monkey on my Back could be the start of an interesting retelling of the Goodman and Cal saga.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: JOE SOAP on 30 June, 2008, 01:40:58 AM
The unfortunate upshot of this may be Wagner writing less for Twoth and the Meg, his attention drawn elsewhere, something that doesn't fill me with warm stuff.
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Post by: Ignatzmonster on 30 June, 2008, 06:15:47 AM
It would help if the various companies quit trying to make Dredd 'accessible.' F**K off! Quit trying to pre-chew our food!

Prolonged exposure to John Wagner's Dredd leads to love of Dredd. Nothing more, nothing less. Mess with that formula and you will fail.
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Post by: Leigh S on 30 June, 2008, 11:00:28 AM
Quote from: "garageman"The unfortunate upshot of this may be Wagner writing less for Twoth and the Meg, his attention drawn elsewhere, something that doesn't fill me with warm stuff.

Yeah.. that would be my fear too - that it means even less Strontium dog than were getting at the moment - as I say, one way this might work without unduly increasing Wagners Dredd output would be for the Meg to reprint the US stuff rather than have him writing the lead strip?
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Post by: CraveNoir on 30 June, 2008, 11:02:18 AM
Also reported on comicbookresources
//http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16995

QuoteAs the new "Judge Dredd" series will be only the first title in a proposed Dynamite/Rebellion pact, Barrucci did explain that reprint materials of classic Dredd stories by Wagner, Ennis and others will be a large part of the rollout plan with reprints being a backup feature in the new monthly being a possibility. "We have decided to look at all possibilities before making a decision.

"There will be as many trades as we can handle. Our output is going to be slow and meticulous at first. It's a focused rollout so we can create the market. We want to create the market for Judge Dredd that hasn't been there since the '80s."

As far as other Rebellion properties that he wants to see under the Dynamite banner, Barrucci says that there are a number of properties he'd like to work with, including Dredd's twisted mirror image. "Judge Death is ripe for a really dark mini series. He's the 'Killing Joke' character of the Judge Dredd universe."

Will this turn into yet another opportunity to publish Ennis' back catalogue, and ignore the good stuff?  :(
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Post by: IndigoPrime on 30 June, 2008, 11:08:23 AM
Of course, what would make more sense would be for them to issue their own monthly and push the existing trade collections, but hey-ho. This sounds like it'll end up in the same scrappy rip-off mess IDW's ended up in with Transformers.
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Post by: TordelBack on 30 June, 2008, 12:15:39 PM
QuoteJudge Death is ripe for a really dark mini series

Wow!  Why has no-one thought of that before, it'd be great!  You could get someone like Frazer Irving to do the art and make it seriously dark with Death killing kiddies and putting Anderson in  a coma and what not... then you could send him off to Vegas on Billy Connolly's motorbike!  Wicked!

Sorry.

I do support the idea of (yet again) 'breaking' America (anything that gives Rebellion and 2000AD a strong future gets my vote), but I would be concerned that it might have a bearing on the way Wagner is currently writing Dredd, with that pain in all the diodes down his left side, his family worries, unpopularity in the force, and painfully apparent mortality that means so much to us 30-year men, but so little to a 'new' audience.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: IndigoPrime on 30 June, 2008, 12:23:00 PM
Quote from: "TordelBack"Wow!  Why has no-one thought of that before, it'd be great!  You could get someone like Frazer Irving to do the art and make it seriously dark with Death killing kiddies and putting Anderson in  a coma and what not... then you could send him off to Vegas on Billy Connolly's motorbike!  Wicked!
Mm. I can't figure out if these guys are being wilfully ignorant or astonishingly arrogant. Either way, it's pretty annoying, and has coloured my perception of these releases already. Next they'll be suggesting the great idea of packaging up Judge Dredd reprints in phone-book volumes, just like Marvel does.
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 30 June, 2008, 01:39:28 PM
Dredd is Dredd you either get it or you don't so the most honest and less conflicting option is to repackage the weekly Dredd as a monthly, somewhat like the old Eagle versions, but up to date with the weekly strips. One of the great things, still, about Dredd is that he's still in his own universe and not a reboot.

Of course if they are going to do it, it will be a reboot of sorts. Ennis, I'm still unsure about. Monkey on my back is highly enjoyable but it isn't character defining like Wagner every time he writes the most basic Dredds. That's what worries me.
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Post by: nameuser on 30 June, 2008, 01:52:35 PM
In an ideal world a new Dredd movie would be better than a new American Dredd comic - if not a Dredd movie then a CGI tv show. Comics have a small readership compared to the audience for film and tv. I predict Garth Ennis will alienate a lot of Dredd fans and the idea Ennis will be Wagner's consultant is kinda insulting. Wagner's been writing Dredd for over three decades, Ennis wrote Dredd for what? - less than two. Something like that. Bit rich having Ennis as Dredd consultant!

Maybe Ennis will tell Wagner to add a few more "drokks" into the dialogue.  :P
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Post by: Rio De Fideldo on 30 June, 2008, 01:55:29 PM
Ideally the only change I'd like to see with these monthlies would be the story telling discipline ie instead of pacing the strip based on the assumption it will be seven pages long it will be written with twenty-two pages in mind.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: nameuser on 30 June, 2008, 02:03:15 PM
QuoteIdeally the only change I'd like to see with these monthlies would be the story telling discipline ie instead of pacing the strip based on the assumption it will be seven pages long it will be written with twenty-two pages in mind.

This has already happened, Richard.

The first DC Legends of the Law story was by Wagner and Grant. It was your typical Dredd story stretched to fit the extended page format. It was quite funny. It featured a homicidal singing organlegger:

http://www.escapecomics.com/acatalog/Ju ... e_Law.html (http://www.escapecomics.com/acatalog/Judge_Dredd_-_Legends_of_the_Law.html)
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Post by: Rio De Fideldo on 30 June, 2008, 03:07:33 PM
Yeah I read that and it featured a young Cassie Anderson iirc.

Not a fan of this series particularly as they were just normal Dredd stories stretched. I suppose what I expect to see is more ongoing subplots in a monthly strip, with a villain/issue of the month and a steady reveal of a big bad every twelve issues or so. This seems to be the norm with the American comic model.
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Post by: JOE SOAP on 30 June, 2008, 06:48:55 PM
Quote from: "Richard Field"Yeah I read that and it featured a young Cassie Anderson iirc.

Not a fan of this series particularly as they were just normal Dredd stories stretched.

which is what most Marvel and DC comics are. We get more in 4 installments of Dredd than most get in their monthlies.
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Post by: TordelBack on 30 June, 2008, 07:14:28 PM
Too true!  Can you imagine the first four episodes of the current Edgar story under one US cover?  That's at least 3 issues of Fables right there, and that's one of the good ones.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: DavidXBrunt on 01 July, 2008, 09:33:59 AM
It's John Wagner. It's Dredd. And you're questioning whether that will work or not.

How does that all ad up.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: The Adventurer on 01 July, 2008, 11:10:39 AM
Quote from: "DavidXBrunt"It's John Wagner. It's Dredd. And you're questioning whether that will work or not.

How does that all ad up.

Because we're talking an american comic company that doesn't really know how to do good licensed comics, even though that's their bread and butter. This is going to have so many editorial fingers in the proverbial pie...
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: IndigoPrime on 01 July, 2008, 11:15:24 AM
Plus, frankly, the last Wagner-penned US Dredd really wasn't that good.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Buddy on 01 July, 2008, 11:31:58 AM
QuoteDynamite's plans to involve Ennis (who's written many classic Dredd stories in the past)

Err... can someone remind me of Ennis' classic Dredd stories.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: nameuser on 01 July, 2008, 04:37:31 PM
The one with the perp that spitted. That was dead good that was.  :mrgreen:

I think his best one was the story set about Justice 1 or whatever the spaceship is called. It was a murder mystery. Art by Peter Doherty. That was pretty good. And he did write the story where Dredd killed Chief Judge Silver. Can't remember if it was any good but it was a key moment in Dredd history. Silver was a zombie and Dredd killed him. Dredd's killed a few Chief Judges in his time. Must be his tight boots annoying him.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Slippery PD on 01 July, 2008, 05:59:57 PM
Quote from: "Uncle Umpty"
QuoteDynamite's plans to involve Ennis (who's written many classic Dredd stories in the past)

Err... can someone remind me of Ennis' classic Dredd stories.

In fairness to Ennis, with the exception of Rennie, no one else has managed to get Dredd apart from Wagner.  Id say that its worth giving Ennis a go, his stories are slowly becoming better and lets be honest he's no Mark Millar  :lol:
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Robo-K33F on 02 July, 2008, 08:50:25 AM
Hello everyone.  The Dynamite announcement to publish Dredd in the US was made prematurely.  We are still only in the process of negotiating a deal with them and no firm decisions have been made on who will be writing/illustrating anything.  Garth put Dynamite in touch with us, and that is the extent of his involvement thus far.

If and when any deal is done, we will post details up on the news section.

Robo-K33F
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: TordelBack on 02 July, 2008, 08:58:04 AM
Good man that robo-Keef.  Spoken with the voice of Brian Glover if I'm not mistaken.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Richmond Clements on 02 July, 2008, 09:21:33 AM
QuoteGood man that robo-Keef. Spoken with the voice of Brian Glover if I'm not mistaken.

Arf!

I get the refrence!
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Proudhuff on 02 July, 2008, 11:51:52 AM
Who says it will be old Stoney Pus anyway?
If your think about it there are other Dredd's out there already : we've yet to find out where the other clones are. Off the top of my bonce...last head count 8 clones and 3 found. No great continuity probs and he could meet old Stoney ever so often for a team up.

It does seem a good idea to have new stories in the US which are reprinted in the Meg, that way we get more Dredd in the Meg, the Meg gets its cheap filler and Mr Wagner gets his much wanted exposure in the US, happy campers all round!
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: TordelBack on 02 July, 2008, 06:58:46 PM
QuoteIt does seem a good idea to have new stories in the US which are reprinted in the Meg, that way we get more Dredd in the Meg, the Meg gets its cheap filler and Mr Wagner gets his much wanted exposure in the US, happy campers all round!

Hmmm, very well put Proudhuff.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 02 July, 2008, 08:12:12 PM
i think it should be a story where Dredd comes into our world and he has to kill some gangsters and he meets Snoop Dogg for some inside information and Snoop calls him "Jizzle Drizzle"
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: JOE SOAP on 02 July, 2008, 11:58:29 PM
Quote from: "Proudhuff"Who says it will be old Stoney Pus anyway?
If your think about it there are other Dredd's out there already : we've yet to find out where the other clones are. Off the top of my bonce...last head count 8 clones and 3 found. No great continuity probs and he could meet old Stoney ever so often for a team up.


How do you sell that to a new audience? The not really Dredd but we'll brand it as Judge Dredd anyway. It would only work for an already clued in fan base.
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 12 July, 2008, 12:47:05 PM
Well it might not be to everyone's liking but if your an aspiring Dredd artist (particularly if your American ) you might get a shot at this. Pencillers,inkers,digital painters take heart !  :)
Title: Re: Dredd in america....err again
Post by: JOE SOAP on 12 July, 2008, 01:50:31 PM
well the art on the DC versions was atrocious so the idea of it happening again doesn't fill me with hope.