Judge Dredd: Nobody Apes The Law

Judge Dredd

by Arthur Wyatt, Alan Grant, Mick McMahon (Illustrator)

This swinging anthology of ape-related stories explore what happens when criminals try to monkey around with the law in Mega-City One! Spawned from apes who were genetically altered after the Atomic Wars, a sizeable population of simian citizens now live in Mega-City One. Many have turned to crime, including Don Uggie Apelino and his ape gang. Harry Heston, on the other hand, has taken it upon himself to enforce the law, having drawn inspiration from the Big Meg's most notorious lawman, Judge Dredd!

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published August 23, 2018

Reviews

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 4 out of 5]

Judge Dredd meets The Planet of the Apes and Kong Island in an action-packed hilarious volume collecting some monkey themed tales.
Old stories with the Ape Gang mobsters aged not much well at all, but the last more recent storyline was a real blast and Harry Heston, the gorilla who decided to become a Judge the night when his parents were killed (in an unforgetable Batman-parody origin tale) is now one of my most favourite one characters in the Dredd-Verse (he never shows his face like dear old chin-face Joe Dredd and his nemesis brother Serpico is a sort of ape version of Rico Dredd).
Sadly my knowledge of Judge Dredd modern comics was not enough to understand the twist in the ending and internet helped not much at all.
Oh well. I'll just have to read more of them, I guess.

[Jorge Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this.

[Damian Herde · Rating 3 out of 5]

The older opening stories are terrible, while the closing stories are actually really good. I nearly DNF, but glad I pushed through.