I prefer the lanterned jawed Dredd!!!!

ThryllSeekyr · 31 August, 2006, 07:00:09 AM

Haveing just picked up few of the JD case files books a few days back and now that I'm just about half through book number one. ( I just finished the story about a guy selling illegal comics.)

I'm not used to the Carlos Esquerra drawn Dredd. He looks sort of twerpish if no one minds me saying so.

Some of these early stories are very simple ( The first few stories), some of them ridiculaously so. But despite these small misgivings I like this type of nostalga.

Only now The Mike McMahon Judge Dredd are creeping into the story and Judge is starting to look like the way I used to seeing him drawn as. Seeing as I started reading 2000AD only after the first 500 or 600 progs before theses case files were published.

It 's like watching a face mutate as well as mature.

What is also stranger is that Carlos Esquerra now draws Dredd differently with more pronounced lantern jaw. (That I notice in the 'Tarrantula' story from thone of the latest Extreme editions.)

I think my favorite Dredd artist so far would be Emberton and Bolland. There are few other artists that draw Dredd in a similer manner and the way that I prefer to see him.

I'll just dig their names out later.

Floyd-the-k · 31 August, 2006, 07:09:15 AM

I like Ezquerra very much, but my first thought on ever seeing Dredd was how weedy the Judges looked by comparison with all the Marvel superheroes. So I see what you mean.

I miss the Siku Dredd

Jared Katooie · 31 August, 2006, 07:51:03 AM

Surely noone can defend Siku after reading Meatmonger?

Dredd's chin was a turnip!

Anyway, No-one draws a chin like Ezquerra. He is the man.

Carlsborg Expert · 31 August, 2006, 01:11:11 PM

Judge Dr3dd was in active duty so long his chin is obviously reduxed after every mission. Two thousand changed
- the anti hero strategy.
- changed artist line ups for the first time .

They didn't create the anti hero but they did recreate it as something of a phenomen.

In Dredd, there is high anxiety, that warps out into a control. Through Dredd, dread changed and through yet more dread, Dredd changed too.

JOE SOAP · 31 August, 2006, 02:26:44 PM

In Dredd, there is high anxiety, that warps out into a control. Through Dredd, dread changed and through yet more dread, Dredd changed too.

What?

Carlsborg Expert · 31 August, 2006, 02:31:30 PM

Um, the story.

ThryllSeekyr · 31 August, 2006, 02:54:17 PM

Floyde, when you say you like Esquerra's Dredd. Which one do you mean?

Looking through the Dredd pictures he as drawn on this site I would say that he has now drawn him in atleast three different ways.

First there's his small boy Dredd.

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ThryllSeekyr · 31 August, 2006, 02:59:49 PM

Then there's his small mouth ( I think this has become a trademark of Equerra's pictures these days.) with the more customary large chin.

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Floyd-the-k · 31 August, 2006, 03:44:34 PM

Thryllseeker, I prefer the second of those pictures, although in general Ezquerra can do no wrong.

Jared, I don't defend Meatmonger which was a mess all over and in which Dredd had a silly pointy chin. But everything else Siku did was, for mine, cool

ThryllSeekyr · 31 August, 2006, 03:45:58 PM

WARNING THGIS POST MAY CONATIN SPOILERS, IF YOU AHVEN"T READ ANY OF THE JUDGE DREDD CASE FILES.

Some other things that are odd about Dredd, though his appaerance suits him even if it makes him appear not quite human looking, and this is the way I have gotten used to him.

It's alittle ironic that this may be a slight mutation where mutants are outlawed in Mega-City One.

Another strange thing I noticed through reading
the Cases files is the way some of the small stories may be connected through other popular sci-fi of the time.

For instance. the first story 'Judge Whitey' and another story that may be third or fourth in line with a giant mechanical Ape called Krong. The bad guys were hiding out on one of the top floors of the Empire State building. ( Which had been abandoned.) See the connection here.
(King Kong.) Almmost like one story compliments another story that pops up later on.

Then there were the 'Robot Wars'. It had often been made clear throughout the story of Dredd's almost robotic like devotion to upholding the law no matter the personal sacrifice. He only collasped after seven days of no food or sleep and was up again to take the fight back to it's source.

Here the Robot leader offers to make him a Robot/Cyborg, but only so he can prolong Dredd's agony and torment him forever. There's even a picture of the Robotic replica of Dredd sans helmet with the a cavity in the metal skull to house Dredd's fleshy brain.

Yet, in the story preceeding the Robot Wars saga, Dredd is forced to remove his helmet and this gets censored. The crooks are alittle horrified at what they see revealed.

This has me wondering if the early Judge Dredd was a sophisticated robot like there were so many other robots in Meg-City One.

Perhaps somewhere down the track of 2000AD, the creators decided to scrap this idea and make Dredd a more flesh and blood Lawman.

ThryllSeekyr · 31 August, 2006, 04:07:16 PM

Could somebaody show me a Siku drawn Dredd. I would like to see a example of his work.

Here's picture of Dredd that I think the artist went alittle overboard with.

Cliff Robertson's Dredd.