Judge Dredd: The Daily Dredds Vol. 1

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

by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Ron Smith (Artist)

On 29th August 1981, the Daily Star newspaper ran the first ever Saturday Judge Dredd comic strip. It was an instant hit amongst the five million Daily Star readers, and was a critical success as well, winning Comics Adventure Strip Cartoon of the Year from the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain. All of these glorious Saturday stories are collected here, along with the first two weekday strips from 1986, highlighting some of the greatest work from artist Ron Smith and writers John Wagner and Alan Grant.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

352 pages, Hardcover

First published November 6, 2014

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 5 out of 5]

Being that I tend to like the comedic/satirical aspects of Judge Dredd more than its serious stories, the ones collected in this book rank among the best. You can't get much of a story in a single half-page, after all.

(Well, there were a few longer ones later on, but still.)

[Timo · Rating 5 out of 5]

So much better than I expected this to be. So much fun. So much stupid fun.

[Rachel Redhead · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book, when I was a kid I wasn't allowed to read 2000AD but my parents used to get the Star, and I always enjoyed reading the Judge Dredd strips in it. Later on I started buying 2000AD with my pocket money and I get to read about some of the other characters the magazine produced like Rogue Trooper, Halo Jones and Strontium Dog, but Dredd's always been my fave character, it's just getting worrying that a comic that was an exagerated view of US policing, gun crime and extremist politics is becoming a reality

[Mhorg · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a long time Dredd fan since he made his first appearance in this side of the pond, I've enjoyed reading the adventures of Mega City Ones toughest lawman. I own all the complete Case files and when I heard that Dredd had appeared in a newspaper! Well, I had to get them! While these are a bit more humorous, Dredd is still Dredd! I was surprised to see a reference to the apocalypse war. A fun, worthy addition to the Dredd universe.

[Kenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Over the top, awesome-sauce.