Dredd is great. I don’t think it’s too verbose. Squint and you could be reading a classic Wagner/Bolland strip here. Hope is creepy and grim, with interesting storytelling devices, although I suspect it’ll read better collected. Brink continues to be a very different angle on the greater universe, which I hope manages to continue the careful balance between new surprises and maintaining a sense of mystery.
Dexter is more interesting than recent Sin/Dex to me. Him falling for Sinister’s ex is cliché city (he could still have cared for her as one of a dwindling team who have each other’s backs – men and women in media don’t always have to want to fuck), but the rest of this strip works well and the reveal was suitably icky. Which leaves Fiends, which I’ve enjoyed immensely. Sure, it’s moved a long way from its originals, but… good? I don’t care about its origins if it’s a great strip.
So that’s a 5/5 Prog for me, with a rough sort order of Dredd > Fiends > Brink | Dexter > Hope, but it’s all good.