Top 3 single episode Dredds

[GoGilesGo]

Blobs has definitely stayed with me. I can picture the Ron Smith art. Crazed brilliance.

Indeed. Horrible, haunting eyes.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Man, Ron Smith was just brilliant, wasn't he? No one drew ugly or just normal-looking cits like him. The latter always had an oddly 1950s look about them, but somehow looked at home in the mad surroundings of MC1. 

His Daily Star Dredds were some of my favourite Dredds ever, but don't quite belong in this thread.

[Le Fink]

Man, Ron Smith was just brilliant, wasn't he?

Yes. And great storytelling skills. Underrated I think.

[Richard]

His version of Mega-City One is the best!

[PsychoGoatee]

I showed a friend two Dredd stories lately, and they became a fan, read America and Necropolis etc.

The two tales: A Letter to Judge Dredd and Bury My Knee at Wounded Heart, definitely seconding that.

Punks Rule is another classic. I like Vienna. Judge Minty of course, seconded.

John Cassavetes Is Dead is an interesting one. Of course I'm tempted to cheat with a bunch of two episode stories (similar length to a Meg episode), but I'll resist.

[WhizzBang]

Man, Ron Smith was just brilliant, wasn't he?

Yes. And great storytelling skills. Underrated I think.

He was certainly underrated by me. At the time (1980's) I didn't like his work much and was disappointed if it was Ron Smith on Dredd instead of Carlos Ezquerra or Steve Dillon  but returning to the stuff decades later with Rebellion reprints and I now see he was brilliant. Especially good with freaky stuff.

[2000BC]

John Cassavetes Is Dead is an interesting one.

I really like Colin Macneil's art on this.  Is it the first time we've seen Dredd doubting the system?

[JayzusB.Christ]

John Cassavetes Is Dead is an interesting one.

I really like Colin Macneil's art on this.  Is it the first time we've seen Dredd doubting the system?

Think that began a long time before - just before City of the Damned possibly?

[Le Fink]

John Cassavetes Is Dead is an interesting one.

I really like Colin Macneil's art on this.  Is it the first time we've seen Dredd doubting the system?

Think that began a long time before - just before City of the Damned possibly?

Case Files 8:

Question of Judgement (Prog 387)
Error of Judgement (Prog 388)
A Case for Treatment (Prog 389)

[JayzusB.Christ]

That's the ones, thanks. Obviously the doubts came back in spades between Oz and Necropolis, but I'm not sure where the John Cassavetes strip fits into that timeline.

[Richard]

It was in prog 627, in 1989, so a year before Necropolis. I think it was the first doubts story apart from the three in progs 387-9.

[Link Prime]

Any one-off from the TB Grover era is worth a re-read.

'It Pays to be Mental' and 'Love Story' left indelible marks, and the most "recent" one-off to do so was 'Leaving Rowdy' from (oh sweet Jesus) 2002.

Anyway, I just dug up this thread to let ye know that my back-issue order of Meg 461 arrived last weekend, and that the recommendation was solid.
A really great one-off by Carroll & MacNeil.

[Le Fink]

'It Pays to be Mental' and 'Love Story' left indelible marks, and the most "recent" one-off to do so was 'Leaving Rowdy' from (oh sweet Jesus) 2002.

Oh yes I remember the first two. Ian Gibson on both? Or was it someone else on 'It Pays to be Mental'.

[Richard]

Both.

[Funt Solo]

'Mental' listing.
Bella Bagley listing.