Well, looks like the Judge Dredd Megazine is early this month. At least it feels that way with the line up this week. Dredd, Department K, Chimpsy ... definitely a Dreddworld heavy prog. Feral and Foe / Mechistopheles make for an interesting contrast but again the similarities are obvious with those two.
Weston's script and art on Dredd serves up a cracking one-and-done that brings down the house on ol' Rowdy Yates. Nice nod back to a seminal moment in Dredd's history too ... "No Dredd - I'm with Rowdy Yates!"
Department-K looks like its serving up an answer to the question of where it might be going with the idea. Plenty of standard MC-1 insanity with the staring contest backdrop to the setup. Cornwall delivers visuals with his usual panache and this looks like it may well live up to the early potential.
Chimpsky's Law: The Talented Mr Chimpsky looks like it may well be taking some of the concerns about the character seriously. Turning his attention to off-world problems deals with the problem of running up against Dredd time and again which, as has been observed before, is only likely to end one way. Niemand Holden serve up a quality opener that reminds readers of the character, serves up the 'historical' context and sets the scene for the tale.
Mechistopheles shares similar traits to Dep-K and Chimpsky, plenty of scene setting and recapping. Boo Cook's artwork suits the strip perfectly. For those struggling to remember the previous series (guilty as charged) this month's meg floppy covers that for you. Personally the last outing didn't overly enthral but maybe this one will change that.
... and rounded out with Feral and Foe, the one where everyone is swapped back ... Bit of a talking heads episode with the usual flippancy thrown in for good measure. For all that this is midway through the tale, as with much of the prog this week there is quite a bit of setting up the next act. TBH I've lost the thread a little on this. Feel like I need to go back and re-read the tale so far so in some respects it's just as well that this treads water the way it does.
All this, a letters page and Tharg pays his respects to Bolt too.
