The latest version of Brit-Cit

[Dudley]

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Did anyone else think it was a bit of an anaemic version of Brit-Cit in the latest Dredd strip?  Usually the artist has a bit of fun with the buildings, there's a bit of old London peeping out from between the huge city blocks, etc etc.  This could have been MC-1, were it not for the snow.

Or is it just me?

[Smiley]

Didn't help that the Brit-Cit Judges had that X on the visor either.

[Oddboy]

I'm more with Smiley on this one - I didn't notice the buildings, but I did notice the helmets...

[paulvonscott]

I was more worried about the apartments in the white cliffs of dover.

1.  The Cliffs were transported to Mega City, although, you could of course argue that would leave a fresh set of lciffs behind.

2.  Buildings in chalk.  Yes.  Very safe.

Conclusion, it's a synthetic cliff.

[longmanshort]

Have always had a beef with Brit-Cit uniforms looking too much like MC1 ones, and Brit-Cit looking a bit too MC1 anyway. I always preferred a design that Chris Weston did for the Judge Dredd: Legends of the Law series but, sadly, it never saw print (though I have the original page ;P) Which had a much more British flavour to them and weren't an MC1 judge uniform with a lion instead. And the bikes - why would they be like Chopper-style Lawmasters? Surely they'd be something more akin to a Norton bike? I still think there's much more mileage in Brit-Cit than has so far been done, just a shame the recent 'set-in-Brit-Cit-but-could-be-anywhere' Armitage has been so poor visually ...

Anyway, /rant off ...

[paulvonscott]

Erm, do modern day policeman ride Norton bikes?

I suspect not.

I liked how the brit uniforms were the same basic thing, but a bit brit.

[Dudley]

You could argue that that reflects the realities of a country (Britain) virtually colonised by America already.

[House of Usher]

It was definitely the helmets that looked wrong to me.

[longmanshort]

Erm, do modern day policeman ride Norton bikes? I suspect not.

No, but neither do American police drive big chopper-style bikes like Dredd does ...

I only mentioned Norton as an example of a more British-style motorcycle, but you could as easily have Triumph or some such ...

[Wils]

Although they *were* an improvement on the John Ridgway Brit-Cit Judges in the last Armitage story, who looked like they'd all been dunked in blue paint.

"Judge Smith - Yves Klein Division. You're under arrest, pal."

[Proudhuff]

Blue paint? Woad surely!



Shirley Sumistake

[Max Kon]

I didn't notice anything, maybe because I havn't read to many brit-cit stories. I did like the hover bikes though.