Okay, I did enjoy this collection. I'm not 100% sure if I've read Rapteur, but it seems vaguely familiar. Both stories in that arc were nice. Art was suitably moody and the story was pretty good.
Skar, a really good story, lovely moody art, but the story was one that could have done with being a little longer.
The Alien Way. This I believe was one of Dredd's earlier stories. Of course the presence of Griffin as Chief Judge shows that. A fun little story, if a bit of a throwaway one.
Howler. Oh dear, where do I start. The story is.....okay. The art however, in my opinion is horrendous. Honestly I feel the artist was on a cocktail of some very mind altering drugs and I just hated the art. I do in general like more realistic representations of character, liking artists like Bolland, Don Lawrences Trigan Empire, even Bellardinelli who is a little more stylised. This though just seemed like chaos.
Prey. If there is one fault I could find with this story, its that again it's one that seems a little short. The nurse having an instance crush on Dredd I thought was going to be something that might be pursued (and would therefore have got her in trouble of course). This story is really something nice and is set in an era I haven't read much of. Top marks here
Alien Wedding. This story had one little fault for me and thats the artists representation of Dredd's facial features, but overall another fun and slightly silly story. I liked this.
Alien Towns Burning. A pretty bog standard strip in terms of how original the story is, but good nonetheless. I'm not 100% sure if I've seen this one before, but overall decent.
To sum it up, this was a really nice collection with the exception of Howler which, sorry, is one I'm just not keen on at all. Perhaps if there had been a different artist I might have felt differently. I might be the sole dissenting voice on that.
