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Judge Dredd: Goodnight Kiss : Featuring the Marshal and Enter : Jonni Kiss
Everyone's gunning for Dredd in this new colour Judge Dredd collection, featuring stories written by Garth Ennis (Preacher). Dredd takes on the Brotherhood of Marshals, a ruthless secret society born in the heart of the radioactive wasteland known as the Cursed Earth. They won't stop until all Judges are dead, Dredd included. But for him, they've something special in mind. And if that wasn't enough, Judge killer Jonni Kiss is on the loose, and Dredd's badge is on his wish-list. Outnumbered, outgunned... is this the day the Law dies?
96 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2003
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About the author
Garth Ennis
2,626 books3,173 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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April 22, 2019
Garth Ennis at his best, awesome artworks and one of the best Judge Dredd's storylines ever mixing the futuristic dystopian setting of the comic with Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of Spaghetti Western films, John Milius' Conan the Barbarian and much more.
A solid grim tale of justice, determination and vengeance with Jonni Kiss as an unforgettable badass villain and the mutant Marshalls as a tragic warped reflection of Dredd's himself.
The delirious dream parade of enemies and
Such a shame this comic book masterpiece is not as well known as deserved.
Excelsior!
July 13, 2020
One of those massively wide Titan graphic novels from the early 00's (even has adverts for "Farscape" magazine in the back) proves to be an effective showcase for some classically OTT post-Bisley painted work.
Garth Ennis' connected Marshall/Jonni Kiss stories were originally printed around '92 through '95 in 2000 AD and whereas the storyline itself is fairly linear and unremarkable (Dredd is hunted by both a hitman and a tribe of law-obsessed mutants and shockingly they get their comeuppance) the artwork is frequently astounding. The best work here is likely that of the legendary Sean Phillips on "The Marshall" - his painted stuff from this period is extraordinary rich and atmospheric. Staples only gets Jonni Kiss's intro and 7 pages is really not enough with his detailed and engrossing style. The main story is taken up by Percival, whose muddy and inconsistent style I've never been super fond of, but who is definitely more readable in his pre-digital era.
Wrapped in a newly-commissioned and beautiful-if-inaccurate cover by concept art maverick Jock it's hard to dislike Goodnight Kiss for its plot failings when the painted artwork has never looked nicer splashed over these massive pages. Not an essential book certainly, and definitely not the place to start for anyone new to Dredd, but a nice one to own.
Garth Ennis' connected Marshall/Jonni Kiss stories were originally printed around '92 through '95 in 2000 AD and whereas the storyline itself is fairly linear and unremarkable (Dredd is hunted by both a hitman and a tribe of law-obsessed mutants and shockingly they get their comeuppance) the artwork is frequently astounding. The best work here is likely that of the legendary Sean Phillips on "The Marshall" - his painted stuff from this period is extraordinary rich and atmospheric. Staples only gets Jonni Kiss's intro and 7 pages is really not enough with his detailed and engrossing style. The main story is taken up by Percival, whose muddy and inconsistent style I've never been super fond of, but who is definitely more readable in his pre-digital era.
Wrapped in a newly-commissioned and beautiful-if-inaccurate cover by concept art maverick Jock it's hard to dislike Goodnight Kiss for its plot failings when the painted artwork has never looked nicer splashed over these massive pages. Not an essential book certainly, and definitely not the place to start for anyone new to Dredd, but a nice one to own.
July 22, 2009
The longer Ennis wrote Judge Dredd, the better his stories got, more fluent.
And the last series in this collection (Goodnight Kiss) featured truly amazing art from Nick Persival. Really fantastic stuff.
Timo
And the last series in this collection (Goodnight Kiss) featured truly amazing art from Nick Persival. Really fantastic stuff.
Timo
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