Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 33

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files + The Restricted Files+ The Daily Dredds

by John Wagner, Gordon Rennie, Robbie Morrison

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Mega-City One – a nightmarish enclosure located along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. Only the Judges – powerful law enforcers supporting the despotic Justice Department – can stop total anarchy running rife on the crime-ridden streets. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the law and these are his stories...
Judge Dredd’s single-minded pursuit of law comes into conflict with the more clandestine forces of the Hall of Justice, including an assassin under orders of the Chief Judge!

Collects:

- A Day in the Death of Joe Meg (Prog #1223)
- The Big Lie (Prog #1224)
- Cold Comfort (Prog #1225)
- Something Over My Shoulder is Drooling... (Prog #1226)
- The Bad Juve (Prog #1227)
- The Moby (Prog #1228)
- Gun Runner (Prog #1229)
- Sex Beast! (Prog #1230)
- Rampots (Prog #1231)
- Star Drekk: A Space Fantasy (Prog #1232)
- Sino Town (Prog #1233)
- Bodies of Evidence (Prog #1234-#1236)
- Relentless (Prog #1237-#1239)
- The Runner (Prog #1240)
- Alien Wedding (Prog #1241)
- Hellbent (Prog #1242)
- Kicking the Habit (Prog #1243)
- Chief Judge's Man (Prog #1244-#1247)
- The Sons of Katie Didd (Prog #1248-#1249)
- Word of the Law (Meg #3.74)
- Foot Patrol (Meg #3.75)
- Lawcon (Meg #3.76-#3.79) (July 2001)

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Crime

272 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 2019

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

[Juho Pohjalainen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Judge Dredd is at its finest as satire. As parody it doesn't really work, with just one note to go for: Dredd meets the cast of some other fantasy/sci-fi story, arrests them all.

There's some good stories here anyway, though, and at least one regretful death.

[Chris Browning · Rating 3 out of 5]

A weirdly transitional volume, with Dredd as a strip trying various ways towards developing itself: black comedy; gritty noirs; more black comedy; some outright daftness. There sadly isn’t quite enough focus for the stories here and the latter Dredd as taciturn and not quite comfortable with the law system isn’t quite ready yet. But it’s a lot of fun and The Chief Judge’s Man is a sign of what’s to come. The art is variable (Siku is a particularly egregious return to the messy nineties), but mostly strong but there’s a definite lack of the biggest hitters who have made the Big Meg a more effective location for the stories. But again, there are signs of some effective future artists and it’s lovely to see Ian Gibson and Cam Kennedy again

[Dan Blackley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is part of the Complete Cases of Judge Dredd. This one is great! It has a few longer stories, but most of them are one shots. I especially enjoyed the parody of Star Trek. The art work is fantastic and is in color. Some of the earlier cases are in black and white.

Finding Judge Dredd is difficult since they are not making much of the comics for some reason. This was a nice book that had some great stories about Mega city one.

[Alexander Ballantyne · Rating 3 out of 5]

With any series lasting 33 installments (and counting), there's going to be a couple of duff volumes. This is one of them, with a couple of clangers inside, the quality is brought up a bit by the a couple of the multipart stories.

[Olly Colluphid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slightly down from 32 but mostly good stories. Some poor editorial decisions though: cadet judge Hitler in the smoking story really a bad call.

[Simon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not Dredd's finest hour, this volume. It's been in a real dip of quality lately. But, that's 2000AD for you eh.

[Timo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a perfect edition, but still damn good and exciting.