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Only read Dredd so far, and I'm absolutely loving it!

Rob Williams has (for me) really nailed writing Dredd since the whole 'Titan/Enceladus/gettin'-a-bit-cold-innit' stuff. For him to follow up 'A Better World' with Dredd facing off Mega-Shako (Shaknado?) is inspired!

And just how good is RM Guera shaping up to be a Dredd artist! Brilliant brushwork, and a perfect understanding of the man under the uniform. As important a new Dredd artist as Dan Cornwell. Keep feeding them scripts Tharg!

Finally Giulia Brusco's colours. Perfect to a degree that I'm not really smart enough to explain. I just really like them, they compliment the linework perfectly.

(Annie Parkhouse should get a mention too, now I think about it. I always find it a bit weird that the best lettering always goes completely unnoticed. As it should, I guess!)

Brilliant as all those alternative covers are, I think Tharg made the right choice.
Aquila on horseback just looks all the more powerful and intriguing.

Either way, it's John McCrea. Absolute win regardless!

I'd like to take a moment to be the kind of ars*hole who points out that 'Hoover' is a brand name, and therefore the correct term for a vacuum cleaner's internal dust collection sac should be a 'Vacuum-bag'.

Ps: I unapologetically love Frank Miller's Dredd cover. Utterly agree with it not being used, but surely it could have been a Star-Scan or something? I mean, it's Frank f*cking Miller!

I thought it still looked Dredd enough, although the teeny tiny eagle looks a bit weird next to the gigantic armour on the other shoulder. Bit unbalanced.

Yep. That's my main gripe with it too. But then, original design and all that. Maybe all the big eagles were being fixed/polished? 

I thought the same.  I like that artists are given so much freedom to adapt Dredd's look - remember Frazer Irving's spherical helmets? - but I'm not pushed about this version.

 It might grow on me, though, and it's way better than Tom Carney's Stallone helmet and straggly beard, mind you. Or Frank Miller's thankfully sole attempt at Dredd.

It's times like these I ask myself - is it still Dredd though?

And yes. It is still Dredd.
I'm not a massive fan of the depiction of the uniform, but it's definitely still Dredd in there.

'It's a pass.'

And the little puzzle at the end provided a lovely note of uncertainty - why choose the subpar Moon over the patently more capable Hale? Stay tuned!

She proved herself to be a good Judge when Dredd questioned her about her injuries. And Maitland was a good Judge.

As for Hale, I imagine Dredd saw too much of himself there. No need for two Dredd's on this mission I guess!

Weird retirement home vibes.

I was born to be old 

Sad to hear you're going, Robin. I do understand - I don't love the prog nearly as much as I used to, and skip far more stories these days, but I don't think that's the prog's fault*.  More a combination of my getting older and the absolute avalanche of alternative entertainment sources available these days.  Anyway I'm glad you're sticking around the board - you'll always be a Squaxx and, if you're anything like me, you'll read your back progs over and over again forever.

*Certain things do irritate me, though, such as the refusal to let Anderson age - if you want a sexy young judge, Tharg, there are plenty of freshly graduated cadets out there.  There are also certain things that can't be avoided, like the lack of any real plot development in MC1 without John Wagner at the helm, the loss of classic characters like Nemesis and Dante, and the flogging to death of others like Sláine and SinDex.  This is all just my own opinion, of course, and SinDex has picked up a bit with this new Azimuth thing so i haven't quite given up on it just yet.  There's still the likes of Thistlebone, though, and I really enjoyed the recent Maitland Dredd epic even if it did divide opinion.

Sorry to see you go Robin.

I'm pretty much in the same boat. I stopped the Meg a while ago, only buy the special edition ones now.
Even the lure of Colin MacNeil doing a recent Dredd wasn't enough to get me to buy it.

As for the Mighty Tooth, again it's pretty much just Dredd that keeps me engaged these days, along with Sin/Dex.

I blame the Ultimate Collection - I stayed in for most of the original 80 volumes, only to find that I wasn't interested in *actually reading* about 90% of it. That's when I started looking at these classic thrills as nothing more than wasted shelf space.
Ended up cancelling the subscription, and giving almost my entire comics and Hachette collection to charity (I kept Dante. I'm not insane!)
It was liberating, but also the point where I think I stopped caring quite as much.*

Thoroughly agree with the Anderson thing. Either go all-in with her ageing, or replace her with some 'kewl young chick'.
Just make a bloody decision either way!


*That said, I've just purchased 10 classic progs on Ebay, because I've never read Metalzoic. The love is clearly still there.

Well hello old thread. Just got a million notifications and remembered this existed! 
Well I might as well post my latest image. 'It's not meant to be historically accurate' she said hastily in case any archaeologists are blowing a gasket.

I'm getting Belardinelli Slaine vibes from this. Lovely work

Y'know.. Death and Mortis have a bit of a 'Who the Hell's gonna mess with us?!' stance about them...
Great piece of work

Now that's just disturbingly good!
Brilliant piece, thoroughly worthy of an A3 print

I also did not like the fact that we now get a 20-page story in every edition (and if you do not like it then 50% of the prog was a lost cause). I understand the idea was to get a collection done as quickly as possible (maybe it was already decided by then that the regen might be done and dusted). I liked it more when we had more stories thus a bigger change of something to your liking. I still believe scheduling is the bigger problem waiting for months between editions was a problem.

I thought the idea of one longer strip per issue was a great one, considering there were only four issues a year. A good four-parter to keep readers coming back every 3 months, as well as a couple of shorter done-in-one tales to back it up.

Unfortunately Lowborn High wasn't the strip to make that format work, which is a shame.

Maitland means much more to this Squaxx than Cal ever did 

As for Dredd not supporting her as much as we'd have liked, he considered her 'a good Judge' and would probably be happy to leave her to deal with stuff. Even with a price on her head, I doubt he'd worry too much. Occupational hazard for a Judge.

I Reckon Hernandez has covered his back pretty well too. The mech-box-thing coming to life and causing chaos will probably be blamed for Domo getting free. And as for who pulled the trigger... I've a feeling Domo will be blamed and placed at the scene, but it wasn't him.


It has depressed me though, and not just because we've lost Maitland, but because it's so very on the nose for the state of the current world.
I remember being optimistic for the future back in the 90's. There's none of that now.
It's becoming very clear that things will probably never get better, and Mega-City One is clearly no different.


(Shark) Bah.

Mate.

I'm a bit stunned by this, and eternally grateful! What a wonderful piece of work!
A genuinely massive thank you from me for this one x

And that there Giant is awesome too 

'Drew' being the operative word here.
Not f*cking 'typed'.