2000 AD Regened Volume 1

2000 AD Regened

by Matt Smith, Alex de Campi, Chris Weston

2000 AD Regened is a collection of comics written for younger readers. Featuring all-ages re-imaginings of legacy 2000 AD characters - including break-out fan favourite Cadet Dredd, a teenage Judge Dredd in training. 

2000 AD Regened is a collection of comics written for younger readers. Featuring all-ages re-imaginings of the all-time great legacy 2000 AD characters

Join Cadet Dredd in three astonishing caper! Discover how Johnny Alpha became a teenage bounty-hunter Strontium Dog! Alien delinquents DR and Quinch hijack Free Comic Book Day! All this and more new takes on old favourites! 

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2021

About the author

Librarian Note: There are more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Matt Smith worked for publisher Pan Macmillan as a desk editor before becoming Assistant Editor on 2000 AD, Britain's award-winning weekly SF anthology title - a comic he had read religiously for the previous fifteen years. He has been editor of the galaxy's greatest comic since 2002, and lives in Oxford.

Reviews

[Alex Sarll]

Something bittersweet when comics originally aimed at kids need to run all-ages spin-offs. Although in practical terms this will probably work better as collections than its previous, slightly baffling appearance as quarterly interruptions of regular 2000AD programming.

[Peter Looles · Rating 3 out of 5]

2000 A. D. REGENENED is a Judge Dredd issue that contains 5 small stories about different kinds of judges and characters. The reason why I bought this issue is because the first story is drawn by Ilias Kyriazis. This first story is called "Cadet Dredd: School Trip". In this story the school for becoming a Judge Dredd takes a school trip at a museum. There something goes wrong and all hell breaks loose (metaphorically). The stories weren't that interesting, they had good, fun action and they were enjoyable but there was no depth. The artwork at some of the stories was mediocre and by far the best drawn story was the first (the one drawn by Kyriazis).
5/10

[Darryl Sloan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This graphic novel is the first time I've sampled recent "2000 AD" (big fan of the 1980s material). I was disappointed to see that it's now concerned with ticking the racial diversity box. That's not a racist statement. I'm fine with black heroes. It's just painful to see a new woke taboo enforced: there must never EVER be a scene with only white people! Sad to see this virtue signalling in a comic whose origins were so punk.

That gripe aside, what about the stories? They range from very good to mediocre. My favourite was the "Strontium Dog" origin story, which had a great twist at the end.

I am sufficiently motivated to read more of "2000 AD Regened". It took me ages to figure out what "regened" meant: it's re-gened, as in genes.

[Kris · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was very surprised by how well this works. They do not in anyway dumb down the strips but try to make them PG and more relatable for children without losing the essence. My favourite is probably Finder & Keeper, a teen Ghostbuster tale.
I really want to read more of these.

[Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recent Reads: 2000AD Regened. An anthology of stories from Free Comic Book Day and other special issues of the SF comic. Highlights are stories of Cadet Dredd, a young Johnny Alpha, and the return of space delinquents DR and Quinch. A quick light read.

[Andy Horton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for work (school library). Does a good enough job, with high quality art throughout, and some of the stories are really effective, though I do wonder what young readers these days make of Dredd and the other iconic characters here.