Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty - Mega-City Justice

Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty #2

by John Wagner, Al Ewing, Carl Critchlow (Illustrator)

Having sidelined Dredd into managing the Cursed Earth mutant camps, the manipulative Judge Sinfield's plan to take over Mega-City One starts to unfold. With the newly appointed Chief Judge Dan Francisco being too ill to carry out his duties, Sinefield's rise to power seems to go without a hitch; that is until he unknowingly clashes with the wrong man - notorious serial killer PJ Maybe. With his life in danger, Sinefield can only turn to one man for help - Judge Dredd! Mega-City One's toughest lawman returns to his streets determined to bring Sinfield down and a killer to justice!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2011

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

[Matthew Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

A surprisingly difficult read at times. Judge Dredd's insistence on righting on injustice creates a chain reaction of horrible side-effects that lead to his disgrace and exile, while his city and Justice Department labour under the rule of a conspiracy of morally ambiguous Judges.

The mob violence, the simple and petty bigotries lampooned in the "anti-mutant" aspects of this story clearly mirror similar re-world spasms of hatred and one is struck by the nature of the conclusion - that some hate is too big to just brush away.

[Mhorg · Rating 5 out of 5]

The conclusion to your of duty...

Completes one of the greatest Dredd stories ever. Again, Dredd is not a simple man, in fact, over the years he has grown more complex as this story will tell. Mutants, the big meg, an evil and brilliant serial killer, the wrong chief judge. Read this. If you're already a Dredd fan, you'll like it more. If new, you'll be sucked right in.

[Lord Humungus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Certainly one of the more thought-provoking and introspective Judge Dredd collections, dealing with anti-mutant sentiments and the fallout of new legislation regarding mutants in MC1.

Lots of good story from John Wagner, more speech bubbles than I'd seen in a long time in any Dredd series. My favorite contributing artist had to be Colin MacNeil; I really liked his clean style and the way he painted the judges.

[Juho Pohjalainen · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's a great deal for me to enjoy here. Good small stories in a new environment, growth of characters and development of setting, politics and obstruction, Rico and Dredd snarking at one another while fighting some really unlucky mutants, and PJ Maybe. Really didn't make it feel believable how Sinfield could survive all those attempts on his life, though.

[Timo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really good Judge Dredd saga, a long one also, but did not feel like that because of all the goodness. Well crafted story with so much nicely veiled commentary of current events. Sadly, nothing seem to have changed in 10+ years. Nobody ever learns nowt.
Great art too, especially the Ezquerra bits.

[Boulder Boulderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Middle of a longer series, which I've read to be fair, but slightly.confusing. Would be better for a longer, more.expensive, book with the context. That said, it holds together well and it's Dredd so always worth reading.

[Dan Blackley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another good read of Judge Dredd stories.