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1. city of the damned

1. city of the damned

1. wilderlands
2. chief judge's man
3. mechanismo

yeah, except for the apocalypse war - and mirroring sci fi tv shows of the time - early 'epics' were thoroughly enjoyable as isolated chapters but often curiously unsatisfying when read as a whole, being for the most part collections of 26 short stories linked by a simple thematic undercurrent (eg find a missing boy, cross a stretch of irradiated land).
then, this century, wagner started crafting genuine epics, again mirroring tv tastes, as a huge cast of protagonists played out any number of superior soap approaches, plots and subplots layered and developed over years, complex characters coming and going and CHANGING, epic storylines properly bleeding into each other, actual sophisticated development.
as wagner gradually stepped back, and a slew of new writers came in and developed their own epics and shorter stories, things have become a little frustrating again - the strip often reads as a series of spin off shows, seemingly (but not actually) outside official wagner continuity, each writer's stories and arcs apparently having little to do with every other writer's take. the inevitable consequence of this is a loss of that development, consequence and consistency. The answer would probably be to have an annual writers' room summit of the dredd writers (marvel and dc style) to loosely plot out a year's storylines.

1. chief judge's man
2. city of the damned
3. mechanismo

1. mandroid 2
2. chief judge's man
3. city of the damned

excited!

pocket casts as well, please!

1. luna city
2. chief judge's man
3. hunting party

1. luna city
2. the chief judge's man
3. city of the damned

mick

ron

feb 15th, now, from a little after 22.30 (you'll be able to listen back on the bbc sounds app). best show of its kind i've heard, and a good hour or more so far. plenty of 2000ad alumni on there too. recommended.

carlos

cam

d'israeli