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Was inferno any good?

Started by djm12, 19 May, 2007, 12:44:43 PM

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djm12

I was wondering what the general opinion was of the Inferno Dredd mega-epic - was it any good? Would it be worth a EE?

Any comments?

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Dave

dweezil2

Well I enjoyed it, but I seem to be in the minority.
I'd prefer a GN of it, to be honest.
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                        Yes it was far better than Harlem Heroes by a long shot not to mention the art.    I would love an EE.    I am waiting for one.  It will come round sometime.      Its just a process of elimination.
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IndigoPrime

My 2p:

:: the general opinion was of the Inferno Dredd mega-epic

I think 'missed opportunity' sums it up for me. The concept was a good one, but the execution was dire. It was also a shame to see the Titan 'faces' reduced from Rico's 'mask' to that dinky replacement nose.

:: was it any good?

Nope.

:: Would it be worth a EE?

Only if someone thought it would sell on the basis of the creators' names, although I doubt it'd do the cause of Dredd any good whatsoever.

satchmo

Agreed, but like many lame Dredd stories from the time it has great art, even though it feels wrong it looks right :)
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WoD

I din't enjoy it much...wouldn't mind a re-read in EE format though.

Mangamax

The perspective on that chairs all wrong

Keef Monkey

I read the last few episodes when I was a kid and loved it. I must stress that I was a kid so it may not have been as good as I remember, but I'd love to read it again.

Peter Wolf

 

              please ignore what i said earlier about this as for some reason when i read it i never noticed it was Inferno/Dredd.  I only noticed Inferno .  That was what i was saying was good.         I dont know the Inferno/Dredd epic at all.          Apologies.
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Wouldn't mind an EE just for the art of course.
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Any reprint would have to include Purgatory, though. Which is another rubbish story with great art.

TordelBack

Actually, I think Purgatory is okay - I can never figure out how most of those prisoners could ever have been MC Judges (the fat Texan [what, he got fat on Titan?], the hippy etc.), and it's best enjoyed as a max-security prison romp rather  than a Dreddverse story, but it had a psychotic energy and plenty over-the-top violence to go along with some of the Squirrel's best-ever design work (note similarity of helmets to Origins retro-judges).  

Inferno on the other hand, despite being blessed by equally gorgeous art and some passable one-liners, committed the ultimate sin:  it was boring.  Rilly boring.  It managed to be grotesquely repetitive in just a handful of pages, there was literally no plot (Dredd gets sick, Dredd runs away, Dredd comes back, the End), there was no thought given to the established MC-1 setting (what with its laser-defense system and eastern seaboard and west wall) and the supporting characters were sub-Jar-Jar.  Like totally.  

I hated it then, and I hate it still.  I'm glad it never gets even a hint of a mention in Wagner/Rennie Dredds, even where Dredd's and MC-1's history or Titan are being explicitly discussed.