Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two #2 “Beach Blanket Justice”

[Bat King]

Issue 3 is out tomorrow, here's a preview for you. Fairly spoiler light except for the seven pages of action.

The story is progressing and we get to see another sector and a peep at the immigration control of Mega-City Two.

I'm sure Senior Street Judge Burdis will be along later with a detailed synopsis and opinions. For now - the preview.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Looks like I'm gonna be busy tomorrow reading everything. Best I set the alarm an hour early, who needs sleep

[Bat King]

Complete Cam Kennedy 2 is out tomorrow...

[Frank]

A friendly mod or admin might want to amend the title of this thread, which should read "#3". Cheers for the preview, Bat King; the skywriting message "I'm sorry geof darr...." is priceless.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

One thing I gotta point out, this is a 'review' section on the forum, just like for the Prog and Meg. Surely if we want a 'preview' section, then start one for all of IDW's stuff and post there, otherwise we will end up with two threads about the same thing, one coming out a day earlier than it should, same way as the Prog and Meg, Thank You!

[blackmocco]

Just picked it up and read it before starting work for the day. Well, no big surprises - this is about as satisfying and fulfilling as it could be. Easily belongs in the prog or Meg. I guess the artwork's not for everyone but surely after almost 40 years of seeing Dredd get chopped and changed around by various styles/updates/interpretations I can't imagine why anyone would be getting bent out of shape about this. I love it. The attention to detail and the sense of scale is a beauty to behold. There's a double-spread right at the start that's pretty breathtaking.

I'll avoid the spoilers and keep it vague: Dredd's on beach patrol, there's a recurring threat from some of the local sea-life as well as a grimly hilarious take on immigration control all the while moving Dredd that little bit closer to completing his off-campus assignment. As I'm actually living in pre-MC2 right now, the satire here is delicious but the thing I'm really enjoying about the series so far is it's pretty dense. It takes a while to read through and absorb it. A lot of concepts being thrown at you every issue and they're not all being spoonfed. The freeway-bots are fantastic.

Anyway, love it. Hope Wolk and Farinas'll be up for doing more like this.

[BPP]

One thing I gotta point out, this is a 'review' section on the forum, just like for the Prog and Meg. Surely if we want a 'preview' section, then start one for all of IDW's stuff and post there, otherwise we will end up with two threads about the same thing, one coming out a day earlier than it should, same way as the Prog and Meg, Thank You!

Hold on, a mod will be around to give you a roasting for daring to suggest this.

[Bat King]

Its a fair point - I usually put Previews of IDW in the 'Books & Comics' area... which is a better place. Not sure why I put this one in this area...

In that way I am treating all IDW comics as not 2000AD as they aren't. While as a 'review' on 2000AD related IP it does sort of fit here when it is a 'review'.

[Andy_Lee]

I'm really enjoying the Ulises Farinas art. My Comixology bill is going to suffer

[Steve Green]

I'd really like to see these given an oversize treatment, the US format comic doesn't really do it justice.

[Dash Decent]

One thing I gotta point out, this is a 'review' section on the forum, just like for the Prog and Meg. Surely if we want a 'preview' section, then start one for all of IDW's stuff and post there, otherwise we will end up with two threads about the same thing, one coming out a day earlier than it should, same way as the Prog and Meg, Thank You!

I'd rather see all the discussion about a title in one place.  So we start a thread about an upcoming title, then when it comes out people post their reviews on the end.

[Toni Scandella]

I am loving the art on this, but the writing I am finding a bit hard to follow at times - had to keep going back and re-reading things before I could figure out what was going on half the time.  Might just be me and my attention span. :/ Some great ideas, an engaging enough story and fantastic art, though.