Sorry for the lateness, but as many of you should know, today is Day of Dredd, where 2000AD and Rebellion are celebrating the release of Judge Dredd: The Small House with multiple signings across the UK & America of various comic book writers & artists who have worked on Dredd, both past and present, such as Colin MacNeil, Patrick Goddard, TC Eglington, Ian Edginton, Dan Abnett, Andy Diggle, PJ Holden, Anthony Williams, INJ Culbard & many others.
There's also the #DayofDredd hashtag on Twitter for people who want to share their favourite memories of Judge Dredd, as well as displays of the Judge himself in either your local library and comic book shop.
Before you tell me what your favourite Dredd stories/character(s)/moments/whatever, I'll kick-start it off by telling you perps what my favourite Dredd stories, character and moment are.
Favourite StoriesBrilliantGreat / Good- Birthday Boy
- House of Pain
- Monkey On My Back
- Choose Your Own X-Mas
- What the Hitler Saw
- Great Expectations
- Midnite's Children
Honourable Mentions- Tribal!
- Meet The Umbersons
- Beat the Devil
- Terror Rising
- Road Stop
Favourite CharacterJudge America Beeny because she's:
- An idealistic Judge who has steadily and rapidly risen through the ranks,
- Is respected by other Judge's (including senior ones such as Ol' Stoney Face himself),
- Is on the Council of Five
- Has stood by her principle & idea's throughout her life and may even be Chief Judge someday
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This is must be shared. Drawn by Jock
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Bury My Knee at Wounded Heart.
Regards,
Robin
As I've said before, for me it has to be "Alone in a Crowd". A masterclass in the art of the condensed but multi-layered one-and-done. Some of Dillon's best artwork (and my grail piece par excellence). A story that highlights the fear, paranoia and claustrophobia of the sprawling morass that is MC1. Ironically it is also an exploration of themes that is currently being echoed in the latest Dredd strip: comparing and contrasting the Judges and the criminals of MC1. It would be interesting to do a comparison of the two stories some time once the current run has ended, thinking about how the creative teams approached the ideas.
Tale of the Dead Man -- just brilliant, for so many reasons.
I forgot to say my favourite character -- Kraken.
hmm - just because it was the first one that came to mind - Satan's Island.
A classic little procedural thriller from Wagner & Walker. Loved it to bits.
Character - another shout for Beeny - a character that has really benefitted from 'less is more'
Here is mine
Favorite Story: Mandroid (Prog 1453-1464) by Wagner and Walker
Favorite Mega-Epic: The Apocalypse War (Prog 245–267 and 269–270) by Wagner/Grant and Ezquerra
Favorite Short: Old Pal's Act (Christmas Prog 2000) by Wagner and Cam Kennedy
Most memorable story: The Wreckers (Prog 374-375) by Wagner/Grant and Dillion. This was my first ever Dredd I read
Character: Must be PJ Maybe, villain extraordinaire
Favorite Moment:
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for the epics I love Necropolis I think it's Ezquerra's best work, but favourite five pager is still Death of a Legend. favorite spin off is probably the Low Life when D'Israeli took over. Favourite Dredd writer for me is Rob Williams. Favourite artist is a tie between King Carlos & Henry Flint but if you put a lawgiver to my head it'd be the King.
City of the Damned, FOREVER.
The Midnight Surfer
The Graveyard Shift
Blockmania / The Apocalypse War
Judge Death Lives
Necropolis
Pirates of the Black Atlantic
Cry of the Werewolf
Flatin' Alabammy Blimps, ya'all!
Quote from: seanharry on 09 September, 2019, 01:56:18 AM
The Midnight Surfer
The Graveyard Shift
Blockmania / The Apocalypse War
Judge Death Lives
Necropolis
Pirates of the Black Atlantic
Cry of the Werewolf
Yes to all of these. Also Atlantis, The Black Plague and Father Earth. All great stories, but the art on these by Brendan McCarthy and Ron Smith is just brilliant.
Favourite character who isn't Dredd? McGruder (post-long walk) or Giant (Jr). Actually, add to those favourite stories pretty much any tale where Dredd is evaluating cadets (Giant, Dekker, Kraken, Rico, Hotdog Run). That's also easily the best sequence from Judgement Day (was that Dredd?).
Agreed on:
Favourite Story: Mandroid (Prog 1453-1464) by Wagner and Walker
Favourite Mega-Epic: The Apocalypse War (Prog 245–267 and 269–270) by Wagner/Grant and Ezquerra
Favourite Short: Old Pal's Act (Christmas Prog 2000) by Wagner and Cam Kennedy
Most memorable story: The Wreckers (Prog 374-375) by Wagner/Grant and Dillion. Sector 23 forever!
Character: Old Stony Pus
Favourite moment: Judge Souster: For Justice, For Feedom, Foe Megacity One!!
A Dredd story that ran in the Meg from 1.01 to 1.07 was America. The second page is some of the most powerful stuff ever publish:
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Blyton fly-by's gone...
Writer: Wagner
Artist: Bolland
Epic: Judge Child
One off: Xmas comes early to Des O'Connor Block
Chief Judge: Hershey
Non Dredd Judge: Hershey
Recurring villain: PJ Maybe
Short lived villain: Junior Angel
Writer who's not Wagner: Rob Williams
Current artist: Henry Flint
Under rated artist: Ben Willsher
A bit late to the party, but here's my two-groats' worth:
Epic: Day of Chaos
Short: The Stupid Gun
Villain: PJ Maybe
Moment: Revelation of the Sov involvement in Pirates of the Black Atlantic
Honorable Mention: Howler
Small ones:
Sunday Night Fever. MC1 at its most MC1.
Full Mental Jacket. Worthy of early Scorcese.
All the Democracy ones leading up to the vote.
Big ones:
The Dead Man / Necropolis.
The Apocalypse War.
Non Wagner ones:
The Choose Your Own Adventure one by Al Ewing.
The Americans by Al Ewing.
There'll be millions more that I've forgotten, of course.
Also: Favourite MC1 artist: Cam Kennedy.
Favourite Dredd artist: Jock. Pity he didn't stick around long.
Obviously Carlos will always be the king, though, posthumously or not. Combining the small, grubby backstreets of the city with sweeping, dizzying cityscapes and making Dredd look absolutely at home there: he's sorely missed.
Anyway, favourite bad guy: Orlok. No weird mutations, no supernatural powers, no incredible intellect; just a hard, mean bastard doing his job. Like somebody else who's quite prominent in the strip.
Favourite good guy: Chopper. Young, cool, upbeat, rebellious and easygoing: the anti-Dredd. I still wish he'd died when he was supposed to and remained a cool kid forever.
Agreed on Carlos as fav artist, his sequential storytelling is the best of the best. Wagner is my fav writer, call me crazy. Necropolis is my favorite, including Tale of the Deadman, just such a big cinematic epic with cool little details and moments. Style wise the early 90s look and vibe is just way too cool.
Favorite recurring characters, Walter the Wobot is really funny, he's great. PJ Maybe too.
Here's to Judge Dredd!
Another non-Wagner Dredd I loved was Gordon Rennie's first Planet Gary story. Gordon absolutely nailed the terse but more human older Dredd that Wagner had been working on for years.