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http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=15701
Now THAT feels like the Judge Dredd I know.
Love the teacherbot.
That does look good, and that link takes you to about half a dozen pages, but i managed to resist looking.
This is due to land in a couple of days, isnt it? Time to get ordering.
Quote from: Judge Jack on 18 March, 2013, 06:35:05 PM
This is due to land in a couple of days, isnt it?
This Wednesday!
I have the Ezquerra variant on order from my LCS for pick-up Wednesday evening.
Anticipation is high.
Is judge dredd year one an ongoing series ?
Quote from: moly on 18 March, 2013, 07:15:55 PM
Is judge dredd year one an ongoing series ?
A 4 part mini unfortunately.
This Wednesday? Yes please and thank you very much.
This looks stunning!
Needless to say it's on order!
Great stuff, can't wait! Will be downloading on Wednesday.
While this is just a 4 part mini, I think the head of IDW hinted that providing this one does well it could be the first of many Year One series.
If it does well, and given who the creators are, could future series be brought in-house and published in the Meg?
I believe Matt Smith stated in an interview that he will not write for titles he also edits.
Tharg. Coleby. O'Grady. They're doing it right.
Lovely stuff, this may have to be acquired.
Quote from: Banners on 19 March, 2013, 09:42:27 AM
If it does well, and given who the creators are, could future series be brought in-house and published in the Meg?
There are no plans to do that - this is exclusively an IDW thing.
That's a cracking start to a story! Geek question though: is this 'Year One' for Rebellion's Dredd, IDW's Dredd, both, neither or either? Yes, I know it doesn't matter and as long as it's a great story I don't really care! Just curious what, of anything, it's tying into...
*IF anything :-[
I don't think it has been specified anywhere, but you would think it's Year One of IDW's Dredd.
I'm still a little bit annoyed they didnt use canon continuity for IDW Dredd...kinda makes it feel like the 'Ultimate' Marvel universe (i.e. inconsequential).
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 March, 2013, 01:40:10 PM
I don't think it has been specified anywhere, but you would think it's Year One of IDW's Dredd.
That's what I'm expecting but, theoretically at least, it could be both or either. If it's neither then it doesn't matter (which is fine) but if it's just the IDW Dredd then it leaves a lovely little door open for the equivelent tales to be told in the Meg...
You'd have to assume it's the IDW Dredd. Which is good, because it means these tales can be told without treading on any toes or closing any doors.
As to reprinting in the Meg... I think Rebellion and IDW are dead right to keep these things separate. I might well buy this series, but if I even suspected it was going to run in the Meg at some point I wouldn't touch it. So hardly in IDW's interests.
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 March, 2013, 04:24:30 PM
You'd have to assume it's the IDW Dredd. Which is good, because it means these tales can be told without treading on any toes or closing any doors.
Regarding IDW's Dredd, wasnt something mentioned that they was still undecieded as to whether stuff like, The Apocalypse War, had happened? Or am i mis-remembering?
If thats the case, it does leave it all, potentially, wide open for this run.
In IDW's Apocalypse War, Mega-City One will attack the Sovs.
Continuity is the enemy of fun.
Quote from: radiator on 19 March, 2013, 06:43:32 PM
Continuity is the enemy of fun.
Oddly enough that's the exact opposite of my personal philosophy. Continuity is like cake, and I love a bit of cake.
In terms of IDW's Year One - that's all good and well, a different Dredd universe is fine and dandy. Who knows what it'll morph into as the years go passing by...
I want to see Rico and his fall from office :D
Wasn't there a feature on this a couple months ago, on Comic Book Resources or something like that where Matt Smith himself said it was in 2000ad Dredd continuity?
Nope. Just reread it, and he says the opposite. Good work there!
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 19 March, 2013, 07:30:45 PM
I want to see Rico and his fall from office :D
He's not David Brent.
And a good selection of colours. That will be a tough choice as I don't do the multiple purchase thing.
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 19 March, 2013, 07:21:34 PM
Quote from: radiator on 19 March, 2013, 06:43:32 PM
Continuity is the enemy of fun.
Oddly enough that's the exact opposite of my personal philosophy. Continuity is like cake, and I love a bit of cake.
I'm mostly with
radiator here; it's fun until it stops being fun. The first time I can remember Wagner and Grant try to create the impression that MC1 was the kind of universe you see in US comics, where events in one strip reverberate in another, was a casual line in the Anderson story
Hour of the Wolf, where a punk mentions letting Chopper out to compete in Supersurf. When that paid off around six months later I thought it was real neat.
That kind of thing's a great laugh when it happens, but it's not at all necessary, and when so many different folk are writing Dredd stories now it seems pointless to maintain the pretense that everything's being mapped out with precision and according to a master plan. Wagner advances the continuing story of Dredd as he pleases and he has very little knowledge of or regard for continuity. Everything else is an entertaining diversion which can and probably will be explained away when further stories require it.
Excessive regard for continuity leads to aliens who catch falling villains in nets and place them in suspended animation.
Quote from: sauchie on 20 March, 2013, 07:26:05 AM
Excessive regard for continuity leads to aliens who catch falling villains in nets and place them in suspended animation.
Asssuming I'm not misremembering the strip in question, I'm not sure how it shows an "excessive regard". Quite the opposite, I'd have thought.