Judge Dredd: Wilderlands

by John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra (Illustrator), Trevor Hairsine (Illustrator)

Classic Dredd story published for the first time in one volume * Epic adventure sees the Judge en route to a Titan penal colony to get the Mechanismo robo-judge programme shut down. * Written by Judge Dredd co-crator John Wagner * Illustrated by some of the top Dredd artists, including Carlos Ezquerra (co-creator of Dredd with John Wagner), MarkHarrison and Peter Doherty

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction

216 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2001

About the author

John Wagner is a comics writer who was born in Pennsylvania in 1949 and moved to Scotland as a boy. Alongside Pat Mills, Wagner was responsible for revitalising British boys' comics in the 1970s, and has continued to be a leading light in British comics ever since. He is best known for his work on 2000 AD, for which he created Judge Dredd. He is noted for his taut, violent thrillers and his black humour. Among his pseudonyms are The best known are John Howard, T.B. Grover, Mike Stott, Keef Ripley, Rick Clark and Brian Skuter. (Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Chris Browning · Rating 3 out of 5]

In which the decline of Chief Judge MacGruder reaches an apex, with a slightly creaky follow up to Mechanismo not entirely convincing as the main driver of the plot. It feels like Wagner wants to clear the decks and set up a new regime in charge of Mega City One and fancies another go at a road trip through a menacing landscape to achieve that: albeit this one is far more threatening and murderous than usual. The main problems are 1. The famously confusing decision to run the story in parallel in the prog and the Megazine which leads to 2. some truly terrible art. I mean bits of this are staggeringly bad, with only Ezquerra convincing with his deliciously bad taste designs for the alien world. The coda is far more convincing and evidence yet again of Wagner’s genius at setting up a long game story in the closing moments of another

[Kristýna Obrdlíková]

Tolik patosu, hrdinských hlášek a testosteronové epiky snad ani není možné. Čirý komiks staré školy. :-)

[Timo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as other same scale megaepics of Dredd. Esquerra provides again nice art but then he spoils it a bit with his new toy of computer coloring.
A bit patchy thing, this.

[Robert Postill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not in the class of other Dredd like Necropolis.