Necropolis Vs Judgement Day

[JayzusB.Christ]

Necropolis, easy. It took years to build it up. it meant something to the world of Dredd and still makes itself felt now and again. It was a bleeding excellent weaving together of plot threads, then it threw out a few more.
Judgement Day was pretty shite. Bad characterisation of Dredd and Alpha. Fist-fights instead of character developments. Dropped ungracefully into continuity like a dead body at a dinner party. And I didn't like the 'look at us, we're cool' last frame, or the bit about 'Beyond duty' etc. Didn't make no sense.
Oh, and I also didn't like the way Ennis' Dredd followed up Necropolis - 'I've been a judge for thirty years. The law is never wrong. You know that'. Nice one Garth, you seem to have missed the whole point of Dredd's long walk and return to Mega-City 1.
But I did like 'Monkey on my Back'.
That's me rant over, thanks.

[Dudley]

I'm wondering whether, if the current Dredd writers did a fair few skillful apres-Judgement Day follow-ups, my appreciation of it might increase?

The idea that in MC-1 they keep going on about some war that happened 20 years ago but never mention the sodding zombies that killed 3 billion people really makes me wonder about their sense of priorities

[Oddboy]

Well the zombies didn't kill many people actually in MC1, most of the deaths were in other cities.
Apoc War & Necropolis had a bigger impact on Mega-City One itself.

[Woolly]

Well, we did get one post Judgement Day strip at least. The one about the zombie in the saloon in the cursed earth.

It was a bit crap.

[paulvonscott]

Was he drinking guinness?

[Oddboy]

Whiskey, IIRC. It was a Missionary Man story.