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Essential Judge Dredd: Judgement Day
The Essential Judge Dredd series is the perfect introduction to the Lawman of the Future - in Judgement Day Sabbat the Necromagus resurrects every corpse in the whole world as a zombie horde and Judge Dredd teams up with Strontium Dog to stop the walking dead!
The essential Judge Dredd graphic novel series – this is the ultimate introduction to the Lawman of the Future!
It is Judgement Day! Sabbat the Necromagus has resurrected every corpse in the whole world to serve as his zombie horde. All over the globe the Judges are facing unimaginable odds, but then the unthinkable happens and time-travelling Strontium Dog, Johnny Alpha, arrives to lend Dredd a hand. It is the team-up of the century as Dredd and Alpha fight back against the walking dead!
Essential Judge Judgement Day is a fast-paced and action-packed epic scripted by Garth Ennis ( Preacher , The Boys ), with art from Carlos Ezquerra ( Strontium Dog ), and Dean Ormston ( Black Hammer ).
The essential Judge Dredd graphic novel series – this is the ultimate introduction to the Lawman of the Future!
It is Judgement Day! Sabbat the Necromagus has resurrected every corpse in the whole world to serve as his zombie horde. All over the globe the Judges are facing unimaginable odds, but then the unthinkable happens and time-travelling Strontium Dog, Johnny Alpha, arrives to lend Dredd a hand. It is the team-up of the century as Dredd and Alpha fight back against the walking dead!
Essential Judge Judgement Day is a fast-paced and action-packed epic scripted by Garth Ennis ( Preacher , The Boys ), with art from Carlos Ezquerra ( Strontium Dog ), and Dean Ormston ( Black Hammer ).
160 pages, Paperback
Published April 25, 2023
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Garth Ennis
2,612 books3,157 followersEnnis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar.
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
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March 2, 2023
After introducing readers to the world of Judge Dredd with such indisputable classics as America, The Apocalypse War and Origins, the Essential Judge Dredd collection gets into muddier waters with this - the complete Judgement Day. In a nutshell: Judge Dredd versus zombies.
This ambitious crossover not only spanned two books upon its release in 1992 (2000AD, Dredd's regular home, and its spin-off title, Judge Dredd Megazine), but also brought in creator John Wagner's other signature character - bounty hunter Johnny Alpha, from the Strontium Dog series. With the Earth under attack from a multidimensional necromancer named Sabbat, Dredd and Alpha are forced to put aside their differences in order to save the world. Once again, it's Judge Dredd versus zombies, and the action more than lives up to that promise.
You can read Joel's full review at Horror DNA by clicking here.
This ambitious crossover not only spanned two books upon its release in 1992 (2000AD, Dredd's regular home, and its spin-off title, Judge Dredd Megazine), but also brought in creator John Wagner's other signature character - bounty hunter Johnny Alpha, from the Strontium Dog series. With the Earth under attack from a multidimensional necromancer named Sabbat, Dredd and Alpha are forced to put aside their differences in order to save the world. Once again, it's Judge Dredd versus zombies, and the action more than lives up to that promise.
You can read Joel's full review at Horror DNA by clicking here.
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June 10, 2023Not actually essential, unlike the previous five collections in the series.
This Dredd vs zombies collection is fine but if you are collecting these volumes to read some of the best Judge Dredd has the offer this volume is in fact inessential.
This Dredd vs zombies collection is fine but if you are collecting these volumes to read some of the best Judge Dredd has the offer this volume is in fact inessential.
November 21, 2024
A generic zombie apocalypse story but in the Judge Dredd universe.
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