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Feb 16, 2022 · While Judge Dredd fights these Dark Judges, who want to end all life, Dredd is the ‘good guy’, as it were narratively speaking. He’s, afterall, fighting to prevent genocide and the apocalypse. Stopping supervillain plots to destroy the world is a classic hero story.
I read once that Dredd is intended to be the unyielding justice that you want to see happen in the real world. Using that standard, I think he's a good guy in a really bad world.
Nov 19, 2020 · It doesn’t need to. From the very beginning, Karl Urban’s Dredd actually introduces the setting of Mega City One rather than himself. In this way, we get to learn more about who Dredd is and...
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- America. Widely well regarded by both fans and creators alike, America, from writer John Wagner and artist Colin MacNeil, is both the definitive Dredd story, and also one of its most experimental.
- The Cursed Earth. The second ever expanded Dredd story from writers Pat Mills, John Wagner, and Jack Adrian and artists Mike McMahon and Brian Bolland, The Cursed Earth is a quintessential piece of Dredd world building.
- The Dark Judges. Seen across numerous Dredd stories, Necropolis included, the Dark Judges, and specifically their leader Judge Death, are the quintessential Dredd villains, and also some the best in comics without reservation.
- The Day the Law Died. The Day the Law Died is a legendarily sardonic political farce that mirrors the rule of Rome’s Caligula with Mega-City One’s own pointedly, hilariously tyrannical Judge Cal.
- Dredd Becomes Judge, Jury, and Executioner
- Karl Urban Made Dredd
- Dredd Abides
Some people don’t know this, but Judge Dredd’s history is quite lengthy. He made his comic book debut on the pages of 2000 AD in 1977. John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra created the character in the vein of a tough-as-nails Dirty Harry style cop taken to the next level. It’s safe to say they achieved their goal. Dredd lives in a post-apocalyptic futur...
The first film adaptation of the character in the 1990s was, without question, a dud. It missed the point of the character and the story, leaving many elements of the dystopian future behind. But 2012’s Dredd certainly figured out how to make it work. A big reason for the superiority of Dredd is the lead actor, Karl Urban. To explain why that is, i...
While it’s Urban that makes this movie great, there is more to it than that. The producers did a superb job of depicting the violence and hopelessness of Mega-City One. That setting is key to making this story work. Additionally, a movie like this needs a superb villain, and Lena Headey absolutely delivered as Madeline “Ma-Ma” Madrigal. The star wa...
Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of the British weekly anthology comic 2000 AD (1977). He is the magazine's longest-running character, and in 1990 he got his own title, the Judge Dredd Megazine. He also appears in a number of film and ...
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The deal with Dredd doling out the death penalty in the 2012 movie isn't too far out of character as the important thing with Dredd is the absolute power of the police state over all.
