Dredd's debut was pushed back while a replacement story was created, and Dredd was mostly shown killing in self defence thereafter.įortunately that original story was later reprinted in Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 and it's well worth checking out. Mega-City One, built on the former New York City, is presented as a sprawling metropolis of. Unfortunately, 2000AD's target audience at the time was young children and this was considered inappropriate by the publisher. Judge Dredd Opening moments, while highly reminiscent of 'Blade Runner,' are nonetheless impressive. The image of the protagonist coldly executing people in such a way was a hell of a way to open this new comic and really showed what a bastard Dredd was right from the get go. This is brought into stark relief when, after foiling a robbery, Dredd commands the surrendered criminals to get down on their knees, whereupon he sentences them to death and shoots them in the back of the head. We're told that the Judges of this world have complete authority to sentence criminals how they like, they are judge, jury and executioner. It opened with a bang too, quickly establishing the cruel authoritarian world Dredd lived in. A story was written and drawn by series creators John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra all ready to go.

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