As a follow-up to this ancient forum thread (http://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=23128.0), a long scavenge of Japanese sites and vendors turned-up an elusive copy of the Shonen Jump AutumnSpecial – it features a promotional comic tie-in to the release of the 1995 Judge Dredd film.
(https://i.imgur.com/tPi4mZZ.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/VLEyeln.jpg)
It's unbelievable I know, but I can't read Japanese, so on a very superficial reading of panels, the 45 page story by Hitoshi Matsumoto & Mitsuyoshi Takasu looks like another re-imagining of the Rico yarn but in this version 'Rico' – I presume it's still Joe & Rico – seems to be a good 'un who gets cut down in the line of duty and 'Joe' must avenge him – both Judges are identified by the initials JD printed on their helmet badges.
The beloved hue and texture of bog-paper remains in the scanned and untouched pages bleow. For the unManga'd of us, read the panels from top right to left working downwards – the first 11 are sequential.
(https://i.imgur.com/QSCHe6l.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/TpO7G6c.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Ze2qSlK.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/zo0vlF4.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/AfMbQsK.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/k5CD0VU.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/OSMVP65.jpg)
Tackling a perp in a hostage situation JD puts the infamous Double-Whammy to better use by properly blowing both arms off at once –
(https://i.imgur.com/C9QNMn1.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/v7MZafa.jpg)
Looks like Judge Minty and Judge Giant make cameos – bottom left panel – meanwhile Joe & Rico change into their civvies and go for sushi.
(https://i.imgur.com/biyIIKD.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/4rveiYC.jpg)
JD apparently has a teaching job – training cadets in elementary school? Fuck knows.
(https://i.imgur.com/S3rqKKT.jpg)
Hall of Justice and Chief Judge Tom of Finland –
(https://i.imgur.com/qXx1tNB.jpg)
There's another 30 or so pages of this curio.
(https://i.imgur.com/MOVJhA9.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/cDzmYRh.jpg)
You've outdone yourself this time, Soap-sama. We do have Japanese speakers on the forum somewhere, and surely Hawkmumbler must have picked up *something* from all that ... stuff... he watches.
That's amazing. Top work, sir.
Wow, you got it! What a find!
What the fu...
Domo arigatou, Squaxx, but I only found it.
On another earth there's a Super Sentai Dredd with a warbling theme tune just like Supaidaman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me-wMZeKck4).
Correction: the artist and writer are more likely Matsumoto Taiyō & Mitsuyoshi Kenji, not Hitoshi Matsumoto & Mitsuyoshi Takasu...I think.
Superb!
Interesting. Makes me wonder if an original Manga-style strip set in Hondo-City could ever be viable for the Megazine.
Quotesurely Hawkmumbler must have picked up *something* from all that ... stuff... he watches.
He and Pro Bear probably have a fair idea how to say they've come to take a look at your plumbing, but a lot of the dialogue is drowned out by wah-wah guitar.
Given how they've redesigned almost every element of the uniform, it's interesting that the eagle still looks pish. 40 years, dozens of artists, and only McMahon can make it look any good.
Was this produced during the brief period when Pat Sharp was cast as Dredd?
What an amazing find and great piece of work.
Quote from: Frank on 02 October, 2017, 09:11:17 PM
Given how they've redesigned almost every element of the uniform, it's interesting that the eagle still looks pish.
The jelly-mould has long been a symbol of fascism.
One to tick off the list of things I never thought I'd see :o
Sterling find!
I've never seen anything like it, but I'm impressed all the way. Manga Dredd would be a new direction for Joe and Co though I doubt Rebellion is working on anything like this at the moment. Maybe Manga Dredd could arrest Roy of the Rovers on some drunken Footballer binge drinking spree!
Thank Grud there's not a Hentai Pirates of the Black Atlantic... Arrrr.
Is there any attempt underway to get an actual print copy in someone's hands to archiving? Because whoa damn, that's a big question mark solved.
I don't know how possible it could be, but 45 pages? That'd fit in a Megazine Floppy no problem! (a special, back to front, right to left issue). Its in Shonen Jump, if Rebellion has any friends at VIZ media, they might know who to talk to to get original elements.
Haha, amazing.
I remember Tharg once saying on the letters page(?) maybe 20+ years ago that there was a Manga version of Dredd in which he was a teacher, and I could never tell if that was a joke or not.
No problem Senior Tordels, the basic story appears to be that Fargo has called Joe back to Mega-City 1 to pilot the giant cyborg clone of Vienna so GET IN THE GODDAMN ROBOT DRED-oh, thats Evangelion. My bad.
Joking aside i'm absolutely flawed that possibly the most elusive THING in entire 2000AD canon has at last been found, after a few too many nights scouring Ebay.jp i'm only frustrated that Joe Bloody Soep's got it before me!
Just joking fellah, you did Gruds work!
I remember looking at SJ covers on Comicvine half a year ago, around the right time frame, for clues to the issue in question. Of course it was in a seasonal special, and of course the cover appears to have been on ComicVine since December 2016, with Dredd's mug right there! (https://comicvine.gamespot.com/weekly-shonen-jump-seasonal-special-199504/4000-569226/)
Quote from: The Adventurer on 02 October, 2017, 11:43:30 PM
I remember looking at SJ covers on Comicvine half a year ago, around the right time frame, for clues to the issue in question. Of course it was in a seasonal special, and of course the cover appears to have been on ComicVine since December 2016, with Dredd's mug right there! (https://comicvine.gamespot.com/weekly-shonen-jump-seasonal-special-199504/4000-569226/)
It never seemed to turn up on Mandarake (https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/), ebay or anywhere else that was easily searchable, even with all accurate details, but I eventually found the cover in this July 2016 tweet (https://twitter.com/kan_ei_sen/status/750721103199211521?lang=en) – which I assume is the original source image
comicvine eventually ended up taking – and possibly the only findable image of it, I believe, on the web at the time.
Knowing the cover and the full Japanese text of the issue's title I filtered variations of them through google images looking for any references and also online Japanese vendors. This took a long time to come up with the exact issue – possibly due to low print runs as the seasonal specials ended the next year, or them getting binned as disposable comics. Eventually I found one copy in a shop but had to buy it through proxy buyer.
You done god's work Joe. *bow*
Well done.
Amazing stuff!
It's like a Dredd/Power Rangers mash-up!!
With my limited skills in Japanese, I can only glean the bare bones of this, but here's what I sussed -
The year is 2099, the place is Mega City Tokyo.
There's an evil organisation called 'Chaos' terrorizing the city.
Dredd's first name is Takeru.
The Judges appear to be either volunteers or a kind of super-hero team, because Dredd's day job is indeed primary school teacher.
The younger Judge is called Daniel and has just joined the Judges.
I'll see if I can get a better translation later.
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 02 October, 2017, 07:40:56 PM
The beloved hue and texture of bog-paper remains
Make sure to remind your loved ones that an eco-friendly bog paper coffin is your preferred burial choice.
Discussed on this old MANGA DREDD (http://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=23128.0) thread where this was posted by M.I.K.:
QuoteNecropostifying 'cos I just found this in the March '96 issue of Anime FX magazine...
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/MalcolmKirk/MangaDredd.jpg)
(Photobucket image working for now.)
I wonder if Jonathan Clements did give his lowdown.
Necrabump, aany chance of getting the rest of this scanned and archived? Because it's really cool!
As featured in Hibernia's Fantastic Adventure 🙂
Quote from: Taryn Tailz on 02 October, 2017, 09:06:56 PM
Interesting. Makes me wonder if an original Manga-style strip set in Hondo-City could ever be viable for the Megazine.
The first
Shimura story, with art by Frank Quitely, was a bit Manga-like.