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Hi Everyone!

Wow - you guys are EXCELLENT!  Thanks so much for the advice.    

I'm going to go for the case files as my main reading and then fill up as much as I can from the early stuff with Eagle Comic Reprints and any other coloured collected editions.  Many thanks to Tony Angelino, Colin YNWA, SIP and MaryandDavid for this idea.  I had no idea that these Eagle Comic reprints even existed.


Does anyone know if the case files will continue right up to the current 2000AD and Megazine stories eventually?  Also, have they got a new name now - Restricted Casefiles?

Everyone has had great recommendations already - I also suggest the Complete Case Files as the best way to read Dredd as you get the epics as well as many of the fantastic one offs in-between.

If you want more recent stuff, here is a list of  what I hear are some of the best Dredd stories in recent years that are collected in color:

•   Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash
•   Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: Mega-City Justice
•   Judge Dredd: Trifecta
•   Judge Dredd: Dark Justice
•   Judge Dredd: Dead Zone
•   Judge Dredd: Titan
•   Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls

Thanks Rogue Judge!  Do you know if these stories will be collected in the case files too or would I need to get them seperately?

Even though I'm not autistic, I can readily understand what JoFox2108 is referring to in trying to follow the black and white art. It's doable, but sometimes the amount of detail put in by the artist on linework makes it slower reading at-a-glance than if the art were colorized. You really shouldn't need to spend more than a second or three looking at it, it should just flow without the reader being conscious of it at all -- it varies greatly from one artist to the next, of course, and I think some artists might have a less 'realistic' and looser style which might contribute to that (or perhaps it might be me just not being that familiar with a particular artist's style). I recognize what he's saying because I had just recently read a few 2000 AD stories (can't recall which artist now) where that was more of an issue than it ought to have been. I think it might also have something to do with art reduction to fit into a collected edition format. It's less of a problem with most of the older stories, because they seem less "dense", artistically -- the graphic storytelling style just seems more direct and immediately apparent, and the panels on average are less "cluttered".

Its a shame you don't get on with black and white strips as they will keep cropping up and you'll miss a lot of good stuff, but if your autism prevents that there's not much to be done except as suggested getting the Eagle reprints (avoid the 'Quality' ones).

Yeah, I know what you mean.  In the 2000AD 40th Anniversay Special I struggled with Ro-Busters - pure black and white art and very dense, but I could read this one with some effort.  Henry Flint's Zombo artwork was quite difficult too although the greyscale screentones really helped for me there.

I do keep trying with this stuff, because it pops up everywhere.  For instance, I just got 'The Kreeler Consipracy' - Strontium Dog.  Online it looked coloured but it has a coloured story first then black and white then coloured again.  Fortunately Esquerra's line work on the black and white one looks pretty readable.  He's got stronger lines picking out characters and isn't too heavy with the textures on these particular stories.  Sometimes when he goes overboard on the textures and doesn't strengthen the lines which define seperate objects I do find his style hard to read, which is a shame because he's a terrific artist!   Anyway, thanks guys!

Hi,

I just wondered if some of you more experienced 2000AD fans could help me? 

I've been really getting into Dredd comics since 2012 when I saw the Karl Urban, Dredd, (which totally blew me away - the last film I loved as much as this was Star Wars when I was seven!)  Anyway, I have a mild form of autism and because of this I find reading black and white strips quite hard unless they use greyscale shading as well.  I just can't seem to 'read' the pictures without a lot of work - I frequently can't see what the picture is of - I've been told this is just the way my brain processes details.

So I've been trying to read as much historical Dredd as I can in colour.

I've got: 

• Apocalypse War in the IDW reprint edition which was coloured,
• All 3 Days of Chaos collected editions
• Origins
• Mechismo Mega Collection Edition,
• America Mega Collection Edition and
• Oz Mega Collection Edition - which was mostly black and white - so difficult.

I'm just not sure how to go about getting the rest?

My feeling is that I could either:

   (a) get the case files from 12 which goes colour half way through (as I understand it) or
   (b) buy up all the graphic novel editions which are coloured from the 2000AD shop 'Graphic Novels / More Dredd' section and then try to put them in order but I might miss the shorter stories which are not part of a longer narrative.

Then I could add any originally black and white stories coloured at IDW to the collection when they get printed?


So what would you guys do?
Thanks,
Jo