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[Bleeding Cool]

Thought it would be good to collect all the reviews and reaction posts from Comic-Con in one place for ease of reading.  Here's all the ones I've seen so far:

• Bleeding Cool: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/07/12/i-went-to-see-dredd-last-night-and-i-want-to-tell-you-about-it/
• ComicBook.com: http://comicbook.com/blog/2012/07/12/dredd-the-comicbook-com-review/
• Deadline: http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/comic-con-dredd-plays-to-cheering-fans-but-will-it-play-to-the-mainstream/
• Empire (first reaction): http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=34550
• IGN: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/07/12/dredd-review
• Io9: http://io9.com/5925364/dredd-is-a-brutal-action-flick-with-both-a-high-body-count-and-a-brain
• Total Film: http://www.totalfilm.com/news/dredd-first-reaction
• Very Aware: http://veryaware.com/2012/07/sdcc-2012-review-dredd/

Any more?

Guess I might as well introduce myself too, though I'll probably be mostly lurking.  (As I always claim right before I start rambling on at epic length.)  I'm a relatively new convert to 2000AD, but I've spent most of the last year madly reading all the Dredd collections I've been able to lay my hands on, and I'm now trying to catch up to the current progs on digital.

Outside of 2000AD I mostly just read Marvel at the moment, since I came late to comics and my grand plan to broaden my reading by sampling a bit of everything got hijacked when I picked up my first Dredd and everything else got shunted off the bottom of the priority list.  I write fiction, so I have vague aspirations of trying my hand at a Future Shock script someday, but right now I'm still in the, "Must attempt to read everything ever published!" stage of preparation.  (Which is always a conveniently good excuse for buying comics.  It's research!)

In order not to be entirely predictable in stating my opinions, I'll say that my second favourite thrill of those I've read so far is Nikolai Dante, and my second favourite character in the Dreddverse is DeMarco.  Though I also have a major soft spot for Vienna and the whole of Dredd's awkward little family of clones.