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Title: Brit-Cit
Post by: credo on 24 June, 2011, 10:22:16 AM
While trawling through the Case Files I've been wondering if/when the introduction of Brit-Cit will occur.  I've gone through 2-8 and I don't think there's been anything yet (unless I've missed it).

So, as a question for the hive-mind, can I ask what we the readers know about Brit-Cit, and from where.  I know there's Armitage, Steel and the shoddy Mark Millar tea drinker from Crusade, but what else?
Title: Re: Brit-Cit
Post by: Greg M. on 24 June, 2011, 10:31:15 AM
Could be wrong, but I think the first time we see Brit-Cit judges is in 'Atlantis', the sub-aquatic colony co-managed with MC-1. Brilliant Brendan McCarthy art.
Title: Re: Brit-Cit
Post by: TordelBack on 24 June, 2011, 11:01:03 AM
Quote from: Greg M. on 24 June, 2011, 10:31:15 AM
Could be wrong, but I think the first time we see Brit-Cit judges is in 'Atlantis', the sub-aquatic colony co-managed with MC-1. Brilliant Brendan McCarthy art.

That's the one - late 480's, so probably Casefiles 10?  Although I do have the vaguest recollection of seeing an earlier far more pedestrian version of the Judge uniform (Union Jack respirator) - possibly in something associated with the JD RPG, which would have been out a year-or-so earlier than 'Atlantis'.  That suggests that some reference to Brit-Cit may have existed previously, even if the McCarthy masterpiece was the first proper appearance.
Title: Re: Brit-Cit
Post by: Greg M. on 24 June, 2011, 12:04:05 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 24 June, 2011, 11:01:03 AM
That's the one - late 480's, so probably Casefiles 10? 

Confirmed... progs 485-488, reprinted in Casefiles 10. That's some memory, TB! I think the first time Dredd himself actually arrives in Brit-Cit itself is as late as 'Doomsday' (although by this point, it has appeared in the Megazine in 'Armitage' quite frequently.) And at a guess... I think the first actual British person we ever meet might be one of the competitors in the Luna-Olympics (I think it's the guy who ends up face-planting from a great height and getting killed.)
Title: Re: Brit-Cit
Post by: credo on 24 June, 2011, 12:05:54 PM
Ta much! Will look forward to Case Files 10 once I get there (having a brief Dredd gap to get through Leviathan, Bad Company and Lord of Misrule).

Always thought there was a lot of mileage in looking at Brit-Cit, but none of the existing characters have ever really done it for me.  I'd love a good look at the British judiciary in a 'bobbies on the beat' style.
Title: Re: Brit-Cit
Post by: vzzbux on 24 June, 2011, 06:17:30 PM
Didn't Ron Smith draw a few in some of the Daily Star strips?





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Title: Re: Brit-Cit
Post by: nicklarr on 24 June, 2011, 08:03:42 PM
Do you mean this one? If I'm not mistaken this is the first time the Brit-Cit judges are shown, before Atlantis

(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Judge_Aberg/DSC_0023.jpg)
Title: Re: Brit-Cit
Post by: TordelBack on 24 June, 2011, 08:28:09 PM
The very one!  Well done Nicklarr!
Title: Re: Brit-Cit
Post by: vzzbux on 24 June, 2011, 11:47:40 PM
thats theone thankyou.



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