Chopper: Wandering Spirit

Judge Dredd

by David Baillie, Al Ewing, Rob Williams

SURFING THE DREAMTIME!

The Oz Radback, 2140 AD. Legendary Mega-City skysurfer Marlon Shakespeare has retired to Oz, where he has been living a trouble-free life. But when he goes in pursuit of the mutants that kidnapped his friend Wally during a radstorm, the ageing skysurfer gets far more trouble than he bargained for!

This book collects the latest adventure of Mega-City One’s greatest skysurfer as well as several Judge Dredd stories also featuring the vibrant psychedelic art of Brendan McCarthy.

Genres: Comics

96 pages, Paperback

First published June 11, 2019

Reviews

[Juho Pohjalainen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chopper must be pushing sixty by now. He's looking pretty good for his age.

[Alex Sarll]

The art is by Brendan McCarthy, so obviously it's gorgeous, though opinions may vary on how far working on the last Mad Max gives a British artist leeway to lean quite this heavily on Aboriginal visuals. The story has that issue to, while also seeing Chopper navel-gaze his way through a reprise of his history far more than he does the cool sky-surfing.shit that made us care about that history in the first place. And then, for all its reaching after epic status, it turns out also to be a sequel to, of all things, the Dredd Doctor Who pastiche that Al Ewing wrote and McCarthy drew. Which is included in the back of this, and remains vastly more entertaining than the headline act, not least for the density of amusingly deployed references (I particularly enjoyed "the moment has been prepared for"). Filling out what nonetheless remains a pretty slim collection, a zombie story that's basically just set-up for a not great pun, and a reasonably entertaining encounter between Dredd and entitled rich kids.

[Timo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much dreamy stuff and art. Did not care about that that much.