Do we know what Dredd looks like?

[Bad Andy]

I have long been mesmerized by the sketch that Bisley made for Judgement on Gotham.

Totally non-canon, totally unauthorised, and totally rejected by management but a great look. Almost Bruce Wayne-ish.

I am too much of a noob to upload images, but it's on page 150 of Thrill Power Overload if someone else can do the honours.

Joe's never really been a fan of facial hair

[JayzusB.Christ]

I have long been mesmerized by the sketch that Bisley made for Judgement on Gotham.

Totally non-canon, totally unauthorised, and totally rejected by management but a great look. Almost Bruce Wayne-ish.

I am too much of a noob to upload images, but it's on page 150 of Thrill Power Overload if someone else can do the honours.

It's a funny one, that.  Kind of works but he looks a bit too much like, well, Bruce Wayne, as you say, for me.  I'd see Dredd more shaven-headed and grizzled than the debonair semi-Devlin-Waugh type here.  I'd imagine Bisley, buoyed on by nobody asking him to take all the willies and tits out of Sláine, had decided he could do what he wanted.  But I'm glad they stopped him breaking this particular taboo.

EDIT - I also think that while Karl Urban's scowly jaw was perfect for the job in the film, the rest of film Dredd's face somehow doesn't look like the rest Karl Urban's face in my mind.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Thread should have been locked at this point. That is the definitive Dredd chin.

[JayzusB.Christ]

I have long been mesmerized by the sketch that Bisley made for Judgement on Gotham.

Totally non-canon, totally unauthorised, and totally rejected by management but a great look. Almost Bruce Wayne-ish.

I am too much of a noob to upload images, but it's on page 150 of Thrill Power Overload if someone else can do the honours.

It's a funny one, that.  Kind of works but he looks a bit too much like, well, Bruce Wayne, as you say, for me.  I'd see Dredd more shaven-headed and grizzled than the debonair semi-Devlin-Waugh type here.  I'd imagine Bisley, buoyed on by nobody asking him to take all the willies and tits out of Sláine, had decided he could do what he wanted.  But I'm glad they stopped him breaking this particular taboo.

EDIT - I also think that while Karl Urban's scowly jaw was perfect for the job in the film, the rest of film Dredd's face somehow doesn't look like the rest Karl Urban's face in my mind. I'll always love him for not taking off the helmet.

[GoGilesGo]

Thread should have been locked at this point. That is the definitive Dredd chin.

First time I've seen that panel and it's a beaut but it does follow a common Carlos trope, as evidenced with Stainless Steel Rat, Major Eazy and Cursed Earth Koburn - make all leading men look like James Coburn.

Admittedly here it's a youthful JC before he went prematurely grey, maybe back when he was doing TV westerns in the late 50s.

[Funt Solo]

Aye, aye, cap'n:

Having looked at the image for too long, I'm curious about the "Ladies Whale Shop".

[Leigh S]

How has this got to page 2 without an imge of Ron Smith's definitive "first ever appearance before we even knew it" of Fargo in Dredd Angel?


http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2012/08/01/f-is-for-fargo-and-fargo-clones/

[Dark Jimbo]

How has this got to page 2 without an imge of Ron Smith's definitive "first ever appearance before we even knew it" of Fargo in Dredd Angel?


http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2012/08/01/f-is-for-fargo-and-fargo-clones/

[Funt Solo]

Looks a bit like John Wagner.

[Dark Jimbo]

Also worth mentioing that these pictures of Dolman don't count, as by the time we first saw him without a helmet, he'd already had a face change.

[Dark Jimbo]

More to the point, how has this thread got to page 2 without Simon Fraser drawing Joe and Rico at the Academy...?

[Bad Andy]

First time I've seen that panel and it's a beaut but it does follow a common Carlos trope, as evidenced with Stainless Steel Rat, Major Eazy and Cursed Earth Koburn - make all leading men look like James Coburn.

Admittedly here it's a youthful JC before he went prematurely grey, maybe back when he was doing TV westerns in the late 50s.

This is just one panel of course. He's helmet-less more than he wears the damn thing in this comic. So more if people want more.

[Dandontdare]

Apparently he keeps spare eyeballs, so have we seen them?

[Funt Solo]

Also worth mentioing that these pictures of Dolman don't count, as by the time we first saw him without a helmet, he'd already had a face change.

Part of Dredd lore I'm weak on - when did Dolman have a face change?

[TordelBack]

In his original appearance, Brothers of the Blood. When he quits the Academy and heads off to be a Space Cadet the Dept makes him alter his appearance to save future confusion (?). Not bothered by Rico or any of the dozen others, though.