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OK we all agree that Wagner is the man to write Dredd. Gordo write a pretty good tale too and Garth Ennis efforts appear to be a matter of taste.
The home-grown artists on JD are pretty much consistently top-notch too.

But are there any writers and artists out there in the big wide world of Comicdom as a whole that we would like to see write or draw Dredd as a one-off ? Just to see what they came up with ?

Personally I'd love to see a Ed Brubaker (Catwoman, Gotham Central) or Greg Rucka (Queen & Country, Elektra) scripted JD.

I'd also like to see French artists Fred Beltran or Oliver Ledroit or even Moebius himself draw Ol' Stony Face.

What say ye ?



 

 

Alan Moore

Yeah I know, fat chance...

John Ostrander and Keith Giffen would be capable of penning a neat Dredd tale or two.

If they were drawn by Tom Mandrake and Kevin Maguire respectively they'd be, well, Zarjaz.

I've been following the progress of Mike Mignola for the best part of a decade and although its's got to the point where he'd probably say to any Dredd project - 'no, can't, got other concerns'  when I saw the way he handled the Judgement on Gotham cover it got me thinking I'd like to see more.

Chances are however the closest we'll get to this is if Kev Walker does another turn with Wagner - the first Sin City cover (prog 1289) caught my eye and drew me back into Dredd's universe after an absence of over six years.
I was more than a little surprised when I realised it wasn' t by Mignola.

I remember Kevin's work on the original Rogue Trooper in the eighties, from then to now there's been a dramatic shift in axis stylistically speaking. In no way am I being critical of Kevin, every artist borrows from another's visual language along the way - more power to him. I look forward to a collection of the Sin City episodes in one volume having missed four of them.

As for Mike handling a Dredd strip.. could be up for a long wait - unless it's a Dredd/Hellboy cross-over then in which case I'd probably avoid it, you can only stretch the boundaries of credibility for a cash sale so far.

lets make garth ennis a geust writer.
and
NOT INVITE HIM>

i like that idea.totally.

You know, to the best f my memory, ALAN DAVIS has never done a proper Dredd. I remember a cover with batman, but that was it.

It strikes me as a shame that possibly the finest working UK born artist (IMHO) hasn't had a stab at the man.

rotts

>You know, to the best f my memory, ALAN DAVIS has never done a proper Dredd. I remember a cover with batman, but that was it.

He did the cover and also did the Dredd story inside. It was a tester for a Dredd/Batman project that eventually evolved into Judgement on Gotham.

Judge Dredd
Bat Mugger.
Prog 585
Script: John Wagner
Artist: Alan Davis

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

Link: Alan Davis

Marbles,
following on from the Gotham Central message, I gotta agree 100% with your writer choice. Ed and Greg are THE top comiccrime writers in the US at the moment. I'd love to see something along the lines of the type of fiction they write.
Another option could be Brian Michael Bendis. But Tharg better proof rea his script pretty well to iron out all the spelling mist... I mean typos!

As far as artists go, how about 100 Bullets artist Eduardo Risso?

PROG 585
time he came back and did a few more then.
we are spoilt with great dredd artists currenlty arnt we.can not be easy to get a shot at him with such true artists working with tooth.

Joe Sacco

I'd love to see Bruce Timm (Batman Animated) do Dredd. Or Matt Wagner. Or Marc Hempel.

Link: paddybrown.co.uk

I'm probably gonna get slated for this but I'd really like Frank Miller to do a Dredd, but he's gotta make an effort. More Dark Knight than DK2.

Someone mentioned Keith Geffin (Giffin??) I'd go for that big time as writer or artist (or both).

Bruce Timm is another name that would be great.

John Rotima Jr, Alex Ross, Joe Quesada... I'll think of more later

Guest writer: James Robinson. (JSA, among other things)

Guest artists: John Cassady, who's already provided a fantastic Titan cover showing the Dark Judges.

Also Kelley Jones and Kevin Nowlan, who I like.

- Trout

Id love to see a Jack Kirby Dredd (sadly that aint gonna happen) written by Stan Lee in a 1960's style.

>>Id love to see a Jack Kirby Dredd (sadly that aint gonna happen) written by Stan Lee in a 1960's style.

Would a Shaky Kane Dredd written by scojo in an almost equally dated 1970s style be an acceptable substitute for you?

LOL. Ha, ha... heres no answer to that...

ooooh... you're mean.

I reckon Warren Ellis could write a kick-ass Dredd.

Link: andydiggle.com

I think in one of his many,many emails he mentioned it as something he'd love to do but didn't think he'd ever be able to get it right.

 The whole Transmet team on a Dredd Special would be lovely.

Andy.. I just got a press release from Dark Horse and in it you're credited as a co-artist not co-writer of Dredd/Aliens.

Just thought you should know.

Writer...Yeah, probably Ellis but I have a feeling it'd be a cross on transmet and the democracy now stuff years ago.

As fer art, D'Israeli's in tooth's good books these days, why not have him do a Dredd one shot?

Finnigan Sinister

>I'm probably gonna get slated for this but I'd really like Frank Miller to do a Dredd, but he's gotta make an effort. More Dark Knight than DK2.

If he ever did I hope he's put more effort into it than the cover that he did and was thankfully returned to him.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

Link: Class Of 79

i'm sure i remember d'israeli doing something in the Meg a long while back... wasn't it 'Juve's 'n The Hood'?

anyway, even if it wasn't him, it was pretty good...

Well, you know, the chin is of fairly normal proportions.

Juves n the Hood was by Ed Perryman(?) His stuff really suited Dredd - and that story is another modern classic - great stuff.  IIRC Ed Perryman(?) was maybe a pseudonym?  Shame we never saw more of his work

Yeah, definitely Ed Perryman - nice stuff, too. I seem to remember him filling in on Rogute Trooper during the Steve White period as well. Might be nice to see more from him.

I'd also *love* to see D'Israeli's take on Dredd. He's a marvellous artist.

Link: paddybrown.co.uk

Given that he wrote Give Me Liberty and, ahem, Robocopout 2, Frank Miller might not be as bad a suggestion as some might think. And Howard Chaykin c. Amerikan Flagg! would be interesting.

I'm gonna say Bendis or Rucka but I'd be interested to see what Christopher Priest could do. It would certainly be unique. Just in case anyone doesn't know, Priest writes one of the best American comics going at the moment - Black Panther.

As for the art I'm not sure cos being new to Dredd I'm enjoying Henry Flint's art too much to see a change anytime soon.

Brian Azzarello + Eduardo Risso.

Or Jeff Smith.

yes please, d'sraeli on dredd! i've been waiting for over a decade to see this...

i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible

Re: Miller's Dredd cover

Y'know, apart from the beard I have no problem with this as a stylised image of Dredd. Anyway, it's Frank Miller - what do you expect?

Nigel

Miller's just way too big for his boots these days. His Daredevil/Elektra run was what turned me on to American comics in the first place. But he hasn't done anything decent since 'That Yellow Bastard' era 'Sin City'. I can well imagine his long awaited 'Jesus Christ' GN story will turn out to be his autobiography ...

Another barmy idea from the left-field - Pat Mills to pen a few more Dredds ??

>Y'know, apart from the beard I have no problem with this as a stylised image of Dredd. Anyway, it's Frank Miller - what do you expect?

Some effort for the money he was being paid.

It was supposed to be for the 10th Anniversary special, Diggle had written Lenny Zero and waived his fee so that they could afford Miller and the resulting cover art was quite crap. It also meant that we ended up with a Siku cover 8-)

Suppose the best thing to come out of it was Lenny Zero.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

"Howard Chaykin couldnt write Judge Dredd if he had Mega City one stuck up his arse" Is that the quote from a certain longtime Dredd when he heard about Chaykins Dredd screenplay? Something like that I recall

++Anyway, it's Frank Miller - what do you expect?++

Legs?

mat

That?s a hell of a lot of real estate for one man to accommodate..

Re: Chaykin?s screenplay, if such a thing should exist I?d be interested in giving it the once over-
Could it be any worst than the muddled excuse for a work of fiction the viewing public were subjected to that was Judge Dredd the movie?

Alexandro Jodorowsky,
worked with Moebius and writer of The Incal, Metabarons and director of The Holy Mountain

and Enki Bilal, a supremo artist

I'd like to see them work together on- not necessarily Dredd it self- but something related to Dredd's universe.

You can catch some of  their work at

http://www.humanoids-publishing.com/home.php

I'd be interested to see what Christopher Priest could do.

Well, two years later I can tell you he'd do very badly indeed. I stumbled across a page on his site the other day. He wrote issues 16 and 17 for the DC Dredd. They're awful.

You can find the script for the #16 story on the page linked below, along with his thoughts on the matter.

Link: Christopher J Priest on Dredd

Jesus H Shite.  Sorry, I mean Christopher J Priest is shite (at writing Dredd).

what a yank tosser

I seem to remember pushing forward Guy Davis's rather beautiful art. WAKE UP NERVE CENTRE!!!!
Dollar is now nearly 2/1.
Rufus

Keep Wagner and get Bolland back...PLEASE!!!

Even a one-off would make me weep with joy

Wow! What a necro-post!

Almost a different board back then.

Bolt-01