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Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored
En el año 2100, la futurista Mega-City Dos, en la costa oeste de Norte América, ha sido infectada por un virus mortal que vuelve locos y extremadamente violentos a los ciudadanos antes de acabar con sus vidas. Asignado con la tarea de transportar la vacuna de costa a costa, el Juez Dredd deberá recorrer cientos de kilómetros radiactivos a través de la baldía Medio América, ese territorio conocido como "La Tierra Maldita". Del éxito de su misión y de la de su particular expedición depende la vida de millones de ciudadanos. Este volumen presenta, por primera vez en España, la saga más ilustre del Juez Dredd de forma completa, incluyendo los "capítulos prohibidos", imposibles de publicar durante décadas por problemas legales como consecuencia de las parodias de personajes como Ronald McDonald, Burger King o el Gigante Verde. Descubre aquí, sin censura y a gran tamaño, esta aventura épica firmada por autores como Pat Mills (Nemesis the Warlock), John Wagner (Perro de Estroncio), Mike McMahon (ABC Warriors) o Brian Bolland (Camelot 3000).
"Un periplo por los Estados Unidos de América a través de su geografía y, retorciendo la deslumbrante imaginería de esa nación, también de los aspectos más oscuros de su historia y sociedad. Sí, parece que a los autores británicos de cómics se les da bien hacer eso, ya sea con el terror gótico y pantanoso, o con la ciencia ficción postapocalíptica". Sergio Aguirre (Sala de Peligro)
"Tras décadas ocultas, las páginas malditas de Cursed Earth llegan por primera vez a España en esta edición integral que constituye la más pura esencia de Dredd: una sátira salvaje llena de acción electrizante, mezcla de géneros y humor negro adelantada a su tiempo, tremendamente influyente y de completa vigencia." Barsen Sánchez (Campamento Krypton)
"Un periplo por los Estados Unidos de América a través de su geografía y, retorciendo la deslumbrante imaginería de esa nación, también de los aspectos más oscuros de su historia y sociedad. Sí, parece que a los autores británicos de cómics se les da bien hacer eso, ya sea con el terror gótico y pantanoso, o con la ciencia ficción postapocalíptica". Sergio Aguirre (Sala de Peligro)
"Tras décadas ocultas, las páginas malditas de Cursed Earth llegan por primera vez a España en esta edición integral que constituye la más pura esencia de Dredd: una sátira salvaje llena de acción electrizante, mezcla de géneros y humor negro adelantada a su tiempo, tremendamente influyente y de completa vigencia." Barsen Sánchez (Campamento Krypton)
208 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1978
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Pat Mills
848 books229 followersPat Mills, born in 1949 and nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since.
His comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism. He is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge Dredd.
His comics are notable for their violence and anti-authoritarianism. He is best known for creating 2000 AD and playing a major part in the development of Judge Dredd.
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May 7, 2021
Alcune parti della prima lunga saga del Giudice Dredd non sono invecchiate benissimo dal 1978 ad oggi.
La trama è a dir poco ridotta all'osso: JD e la sua squadra devono portare un vaccino a Mega-City Due attraversando la post-apocalittica Terra Maledetta ed affrontando tutto quello che passava per la testa di Pat Mills, geniaccio co-creatore di Dredd e fondatore della rivista inglese di fumetti 2000 AD: mutanti, robot vampiri, tirannosauri frutto dell'ingegneria genetica, Giudici Malavitosi, soldati robotici guerrafondai e... icone di colossi del consumismo come McDonald, Burger King, KFC e molti altri, con il risultato di venire citati in tribunale e non poter ristampare i capitoli incriminati per anni.
Tutto si può dire di Mills, Wagner, e degli altri ragazzacci figli della cultura punk che scrivevano le storie di Dredd e compagnia bella, ma di certo non mancava loro il coraggio di realizzare una parodia contro simili colossi e rischiare di chiudere a neanche un anno dalla fondazione della rivista.
I disegni classici di Bolland e McMahon sono invece invecchiati molto meglio, una delizia per chi legge, e l'epico finale insieme alle due tristi storie di Tweak e Spike Harvey Rotten hanno alzato il voto finale da 4 stelle a 5.
Una perla finalmente ristampata nella sua interezza, se siete fan del Giudice Dredd dovete leggerla assolutamente... altrimenti consideratevi pure condannati a farvi 10 anni nei Cubi!
September 30, 2017
Meh. I've never understood the fascination with Judge Dredd. I will give due credit for the basic concept behind the comic, but the actual work itself is of dubious quality to me. The art is wretched, the plot basic, the dialogue pedestrian and that's only a few of my dislikes.
Judge Dredd must travel from Mega City to Mega City. To do this he must travel through the nuclear wasteland known as "The Cursed Earth" (the land outside the protected Mega-Cities). What follows is a badly drawn adventure of Judge Dredd in a huge land-tank thing and a former criminal on a Judge rocket-bike travel this crazy land fighting cannibals, mutants, criminal gangs, monsters, etc. Basically an excuse to make a bunch of issues with the Judge fighting different enemies whilst screaming "I am the law!". That's really about it. The most interesting idea, in a humorous way, was the Burger Lords, who take their inspiration from popular burger places.
But seriously? I've never understood why people like this is much as they do. It's not for me. It might be for you...because it is obviously for someone. Otherwise no one would publish this series.
Judge Dredd must travel from Mega City to Mega City. To do this he must travel through the nuclear wasteland known as "The Cursed Earth" (the land outside the protected Mega-Cities). What follows is a badly drawn adventure of Judge Dredd in a huge land-tank thing and a former criminal on a Judge rocket-bike travel this crazy land fighting cannibals, mutants, criminal gangs, monsters, etc. Basically an excuse to make a bunch of issues with the Judge fighting different enemies whilst screaming "I am the law!". That's really about it. The most interesting idea, in a humorous way, was the Burger Lords, who take their inspiration from popular burger places.
But seriously? I've never understood why people like this is much as they do. It's not for me. It might be for you...because it is obviously for someone. Otherwise no one would publish this series.
December 31, 2024
Las primeras 150 páginas de este tebeo son todo lo que se le puede pedir a una aventura de serie B plagada de recreaciones de elementos de la cultura popular. La enfermedad desconocida; la necesidad de transportar una vacuna a través de un páramo radiactivo; enfrentamientos con todo tipo de mutantes, androides, vampiros, dinosaurios; diálogos lacónicos llenos de mala hostia e ingenio; una visión política y social comprometida... Un material con el cual Pat Mills da lo mejor de sí, al igual que unos jóvenes Mike McMahon y Brian Bolland, que colaboran en un apartado gráfico arrollador. Alternan feísmo punk expresionista con la fuerza de una ilustración rotunda e icónica, cada uno dibujando los episodios ideales para sus características contrapuestas.
Las últimas 50, el suflé se viene un poco abajo y La Tierra Maldita pide la hora. Los creadores muestran las debilidades de una publicación semanal que se iba haciendo a salto de mata, con un desenlace que trasciende la palabra precipitado/fugaz. Pero si no hubiera sido así no habría sido una historia de 2000AD de sus comienzos.
La edición de Dolmen recupera el formato grande del tomo de las historias del Juez Muerte, con 100 páginas de extras (cubiertas, páginas de otras historias) sin las cuales podía haber vivido y que encarecen el tomo hasta el límite de cuestionar si es recomendable. Afortunadamente, el precio no hace olvidar que si hay una historia del Juez Dredd que hay que leer es esta.
Las últimas 50, el suflé se viene un poco abajo y La Tierra Maldita pide la hora. Los creadores muestran las debilidades de una publicación semanal que se iba haciendo a salto de mata, con un desenlace que trasciende la palabra precipitado/fugaz. Pero si no hubiera sido así no habría sido una historia de 2000AD de sus comienzos.
La edición de Dolmen recupera el formato grande del tomo de las historias del Juez Muerte, con 100 páginas de extras (cubiertas, páginas de otras historias) sin las cuales podía haber vivido y que encarecen el tomo hasta el límite de cuestionar si es recomendable. Afortunadamente, el precio no hace olvidar que si hay una historia del Juez Dredd que hay que leer es esta.
December 2, 2021
Ah, taj engleski humor i sarkazam! Pa ovo je prosto savršeno, i posle više od 40 godina stoji kao oštar poput noža komentar na Ameriku tog (i ovog) doba... ipak mi je najzanimljivija činjenica da scenarista Pet Mils opisuje radnju Parka iz doba Jure više od deset godina pre nego što je Majk Krajton napisao taj roman... ne znam da li su autori Sudije Dreda kasnije tužili Krajtona ili ne, ali sličnosti su preeeevelike.
January 30, 2022
Synopsis
Megacity two is afflicted by a deadly plague left over from the Germ Wars, 2T-(FRU)T colloquially referred to as the ‘Tooty Fruity!’ which turns those it infects into human flesh craving cannibalistic maniacs. As of the start of the story, over 70% of mega city two has been infected and was under the control of the roving cannibal warbands. All outside contact has been lost, no help can arrive due to the loss of the spaceport, and what remained of the city’s uninfected beleaguered citizens and defenders have cordoned themselves off, busy defending against hordes upon hordes of the infected.
An attempt by Megacity one to deliver the crucial vaccine by air, which can turn the tide against the virus was lost, due to attacks by the cannibalistic infected. So, Dredd is assigned the mission of delivering the vaccine to the Megacity two, by traveling over the thousand mile stretch of radioactive toxic stretch of land separating the two megacities, referred to as ‘The Cursed Earth’. Aiding him in this mission are two fellow Judges, a former smuggling Biker spike who knows the lay of the land, and a bunch of guard automatons protecting the vaccine stored in a cooling unit assigned to a formidable battle tank named the Land raider. The team commence their long, arduous and danger-filled journey across the cursed earth, on the way encountering all manner of people, mutants, and other abominations of the radioactive world, who call the wasteland their home. And many of their interactions are less than cordial. The book collects as a form of anthology, with mostly villains of the week, and stories of the week format, where Dredd & co. meet more and more fantastical adventures and overcome them by the skin of their teeth.
________________________
Thoughts
The story is a welcome callback to those old Golden and silver age comics, with the story/villain of the week Narrative. Set against the backdrop of the larger quest, of the team delivering the vaccine for the tootty-fruity virus to Mega-city two, this premise gives the writers ample opportunities to explore an anthology of short stories about the bizarre inhabitants of cursed earth.
Bar a couple of extended tales, most of the plots are wrapped up in one or two chapters, with Dredd losing and gaining companions during his arduous quest. When it is possible, the writers try and infuse some underlying themes such as the evils of slavery, dangers of playing god with science, humanity devolving into dangerous cult, civilization collapsing, corporate greed, and the recurring theme of humanity being a largely deplorable species. With only a few exceptions, such as the protagonist Dredd, exemplifying the best of us.
There is this unabashed embracing of the weird, zany and out of this world in the writing. Which makes sense when you consider this was written all the way back in 1978. Unlike today’s writers, comic book artists at the time had much more creative liberties that they could take. They didn’t bog you down in the mechanics and rules of this world. They found something interesting and went with it.
2000 AD’s Judge Dredd takes place in the distant future, where humanity, after several apocalyptic catastrophes, are inhabiting an irradiated wasteland. With few corrupted bastions of civilizations in the form of the Megacities, ruled by the iron fists of the Judges. Majority of the planet is uninhabitable, and the corruption and radiation in these places have altered humans in gruesome ways.
Radiation, pollution and dark science is the triumvirate used by the writers as their wish-bag, to make up any and all bizarre monstrosities and justify it with either of the three. Be is dinosaurs once again roaming earth thanks to overzealous researchers exploiting genetic engineering (a whole decade before ‘Jurassic Park’ was published. Or humans exposed to radiation gaining psychic and mutant abilities. Or mad scientists using ‘science’ to create everything from blood sucking vampiric automatons, to anthropomorphized corporate mascot Frankenstein monsters. You never are given an explanation of why, but just have to get on with the program and enjoy the ride.
___________________________
Sweet, Furry, adorable and hard breaking Tweak:
Without question, one of the major breakout characters in the Cursed earth storyline, other than Dredd himself, is the affectionate marsupial-like alien ‘Tweak’. A caring leader of his people, tweak, is forced to hide his intelligence and let himself be captured, along with his family, so that humans don’t discover their underground civilization and bring war and destruction upon them, coveting their precious resources.
Treated as a dumb livestock, taken to earth as a slave, experimented on, and bearing the loss of his wife and children, Tweak nonetheless is a noble creature, recognizing a kindred spirit in Dredd, assisting him in his mission across the cursed earth, and by the end becoming one of few existences who could be considered as a friend to the stoic Judge.
In one of his final words in the series, Tweak heavy hearted and tired tells Dredd ‘I want to go home’, a few words which pull at your heartstrings. And reminiscent to the last words of Starro, the villain the latest 2021 suicide squad movie. Fortunately, unlike Starro, Tweak is able to return to his home planet, thanks to assistance from the honorable Judge Dredd. His losses and trials might be everlasting, but at least the noble leader of his people is given a chance to heal and gain peace and freedom.
________________________
His name is Judge Joseph Dredd:
Speaking of Dredd himself, much like Karl Urban’s brilliant portrayal in the 2012 cult classic, Dredd is able to express much emotion, despite having half his face permanently hidden due to his helmet.
Dredd is not just a gung-ho 90s action hero, who saves the day by just pumping his enemies full of lead and spitting out cool one-liners. Well, he does that, but Dredd as a character is also one with great character. Dredd is a judge who absolutely believes in the tenets of the Justice system as prescribed to the Judges. And as such is unflinching when it comes to dispense Justice to those who ask for it. Be it the citizens of Mega city one, the scattered misguided denizens of the cursed earth, a wronged alien forced to slavery and injustice, or non-human freakish Frankenstein constructs who were brought to live owing to the whims of a madman. Dredd offers help to anyone who asks him of it.
In this sense, his helmet, which he doesn’t take off, doesn’t symbolize the blind uncaring justice that cannot be bothered by the plight of the suffering. Rather, it is the indifferent yet just avatar of Justice and vengeance, which treats everyone the same, punishes the wicked while protecting the weak.
Despite his stoicism and adherence to rules, Dredd is also a character who is capable of immense compassion and empathy. He is able to connect and sympathize with the plight of wronged humans and even the alien tweak, offering his sincere apologies for his treatment at the hands of humanity. He cannot stand evil and injustice, and is unflinching when it comes to standing up against it.
With the amount of terrible deeds which humanity is shown to perform, not only in this story, but in the series in general, one might think that the writers have a very nihilistic view of people. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Despite its capacity for great evil, and despite being a species in decline, humanity in 2000 A.D are represented not by the legion of inferiors, but by Dredd, who is sole beacon of justice and righteousness in this f***ed up world.
Against overwhelming odds, opposition and very human nature itself, Judge Dredd stands alone as a bulwark or a higher ideal which we are meant to emulate. Which is shown up until the climax of the story, when Dredd, alone, tired, thirsty, unprotected and injured walks the final stretch, Death crawling across the cursed earth, carrying the valuable cargo of life saving vaccines, and still keeping his mission on the forefront. Nothing but steel will, and his belief in the office of his Judgeship allow him to walk the threshold of Megacity two, to his destination, and having completed his mission, fall unconscious.
Even on recovery, after waking up, the first thing he does is ensure the safety of his companion Tweak, to ensure he is well, and to arrange for the noble alien to be taken back to his home planet, as gratitude for their fellowship. Judge, through his morals and actions, shows those around him, and us as readers how to be better human beings, and an ideal to be emulated.
__________________________________
Final Thoughts
If despite all this you still are having doubts as to whether or not to take up ‘Cursed earth’, I urge you to do it, if only to experience the psychedelic, eye popping art work, which is like a crescendo of colors and emotions.
This is not the subdued, stylized, minimalist art style of the current comic landscape. It belonged to a time, when artists and illustrators held nothing back, and threw everything at the metaphorical wall. The sheer amount of things drafted on every cover page of every story is just mind boggling. They seemed to have a quota of one color spread every issue, and damn it if they didn’t make it worth the wait.
In conclusion, if you want to read a balls to the walls, post apocalyptic adventure, do not missed the collected works on ‘Judge Dredd: the Cursed Earth’
Megacity two is afflicted by a deadly plague left over from the Germ Wars, 2T-(FRU)T colloquially referred to as the ‘Tooty Fruity!’ which turns those it infects into human flesh craving cannibalistic maniacs. As of the start of the story, over 70% of mega city two has been infected and was under the control of the roving cannibal warbands. All outside contact has been lost, no help can arrive due to the loss of the spaceport, and what remained of the city’s uninfected beleaguered citizens and defenders have cordoned themselves off, busy defending against hordes upon hordes of the infected.
An attempt by Megacity one to deliver the crucial vaccine by air, which can turn the tide against the virus was lost, due to attacks by the cannibalistic infected. So, Dredd is assigned the mission of delivering the vaccine to the Megacity two, by traveling over the thousand mile stretch of radioactive toxic stretch of land separating the two megacities, referred to as ‘The Cursed Earth’. Aiding him in this mission are two fellow Judges, a former smuggling Biker spike who knows the lay of the land, and a bunch of guard automatons protecting the vaccine stored in a cooling unit assigned to a formidable battle tank named the Land raider. The team commence their long, arduous and danger-filled journey across the cursed earth, on the way encountering all manner of people, mutants, and other abominations of the radioactive world, who call the wasteland their home. And many of their interactions are less than cordial. The book collects as a form of anthology, with mostly villains of the week, and stories of the week format, where Dredd & co. meet more and more fantastical adventures and overcome them by the skin of their teeth.
________________________
Thoughts
The story is a welcome callback to those old Golden and silver age comics, with the story/villain of the week Narrative. Set against the backdrop of the larger quest, of the team delivering the vaccine for the tootty-fruity virus to Mega-city two, this premise gives the writers ample opportunities to explore an anthology of short stories about the bizarre inhabitants of cursed earth.
Bar a couple of extended tales, most of the plots are wrapped up in one or two chapters, with Dredd losing and gaining companions during his arduous quest. When it is possible, the writers try and infuse some underlying themes such as the evils of slavery, dangers of playing god with science, humanity devolving into dangerous cult, civilization collapsing, corporate greed, and the recurring theme of humanity being a largely deplorable species. With only a few exceptions, such as the protagonist Dredd, exemplifying the best of us.
There is this unabashed embracing of the weird, zany and out of this world in the writing. Which makes sense when you consider this was written all the way back in 1978. Unlike today’s writers, comic book artists at the time had much more creative liberties that they could take. They didn’t bog you down in the mechanics and rules of this world. They found something interesting and went with it.
2000 AD’s Judge Dredd takes place in the distant future, where humanity, after several apocalyptic catastrophes, are inhabiting an irradiated wasteland. With few corrupted bastions of civilizations in the form of the Megacities, ruled by the iron fists of the Judges. Majority of the planet is uninhabitable, and the corruption and radiation in these places have altered humans in gruesome ways.
Radiation, pollution and dark science is the triumvirate used by the writers as their wish-bag, to make up any and all bizarre monstrosities and justify it with either of the three. Be is dinosaurs once again roaming earth thanks to overzealous researchers exploiting genetic engineering (a whole decade before ‘Jurassic Park’ was published. Or humans exposed to radiation gaining psychic and mutant abilities. Or mad scientists using ‘science’ to create everything from blood sucking vampiric automatons, to anthropomorphized corporate mascot Frankenstein monsters. You never are given an explanation of why, but just have to get on with the program and enjoy the ride.
___________________________
Sweet, Furry, adorable and hard breaking Tweak:
Without question, one of the major breakout characters in the Cursed earth storyline, other than Dredd himself, is the affectionate marsupial-like alien ‘Tweak’. A caring leader of his people, tweak, is forced to hide his intelligence and let himself be captured, along with his family, so that humans don’t discover their underground civilization and bring war and destruction upon them, coveting their precious resources.
Treated as a dumb livestock, taken to earth as a slave, experimented on, and bearing the loss of his wife and children, Tweak nonetheless is a noble creature, recognizing a kindred spirit in Dredd, assisting him in his mission across the cursed earth, and by the end becoming one of few existences who could be considered as a friend to the stoic Judge.
In one of his final words in the series, Tweak heavy hearted and tired tells Dredd ‘I want to go home’, a few words which pull at your heartstrings. And reminiscent to the last words of Starro, the villain the latest 2021 suicide squad movie. Fortunately, unlike Starro, Tweak is able to return to his home planet, thanks to assistance from the honorable Judge Dredd. His losses and trials might be everlasting, but at least the noble leader of his people is given a chance to heal and gain peace and freedom.
________________________
His name is Judge Joseph Dredd:
Speaking of Dredd himself, much like Karl Urban’s brilliant portrayal in the 2012 cult classic, Dredd is able to express much emotion, despite having half his face permanently hidden due to his helmet.
Dredd is not just a gung-ho 90s action hero, who saves the day by just pumping his enemies full of lead and spitting out cool one-liners. Well, he does that, but Dredd as a character is also one with great character. Dredd is a judge who absolutely believes in the tenets of the Justice system as prescribed to the Judges. And as such is unflinching when it comes to dispense Justice to those who ask for it. Be it the citizens of Mega city one, the scattered misguided denizens of the cursed earth, a wronged alien forced to slavery and injustice, or non-human freakish Frankenstein constructs who were brought to live owing to the whims of a madman. Dredd offers help to anyone who asks him of it.
In this sense, his helmet, which he doesn’t take off, doesn’t symbolize the blind uncaring justice that cannot be bothered by the plight of the suffering. Rather, it is the indifferent yet just avatar of Justice and vengeance, which treats everyone the same, punishes the wicked while protecting the weak.
Despite his stoicism and adherence to rules, Dredd is also a character who is capable of immense compassion and empathy. He is able to connect and sympathize with the plight of wronged humans and even the alien tweak, offering his sincere apologies for his treatment at the hands of humanity. He cannot stand evil and injustice, and is unflinching when it comes to standing up against it.
With the amount of terrible deeds which humanity is shown to perform, not only in this story, but in the series in general, one might think that the writers have a very nihilistic view of people. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Despite its capacity for great evil, and despite being a species in decline, humanity in 2000 A.D are represented not by the legion of inferiors, but by Dredd, who is sole beacon of justice and righteousness in this f***ed up world.
Against overwhelming odds, opposition and very human nature itself, Judge Dredd stands alone as a bulwark or a higher ideal which we are meant to emulate. Which is shown up until the climax of the story, when Dredd, alone, tired, thirsty, unprotected and injured walks the final stretch, Death crawling across the cursed earth, carrying the valuable cargo of life saving vaccines, and still keeping his mission on the forefront. Nothing but steel will, and his belief in the office of his Judgeship allow him to walk the threshold of Megacity two, to his destination, and having completed his mission, fall unconscious.
Even on recovery, after waking up, the first thing he does is ensure the safety of his companion Tweak, to ensure he is well, and to arrange for the noble alien to be taken back to his home planet, as gratitude for their fellowship. Judge, through his morals and actions, shows those around him, and us as readers how to be better human beings, and an ideal to be emulated.
__________________________________
Final Thoughts
If despite all this you still are having doubts as to whether or not to take up ‘Cursed earth’, I urge you to do it, if only to experience the psychedelic, eye popping art work, which is like a crescendo of colors and emotions.
This is not the subdued, stylized, minimalist art style of the current comic landscape. It belonged to a time, when artists and illustrators held nothing back, and threw everything at the metaphorical wall. The sheer amount of things drafted on every cover page of every story is just mind boggling. They seemed to have a quota of one color spread every issue, and damn it if they didn’t make it worth the wait.
In conclusion, if you want to read a balls to the walls, post apocalyptic adventure, do not missed the collected works on ‘Judge Dredd: the Cursed Earth’
June 5, 2021
It was an all right comic in its first year or so, but it's this story that finally sets Judge Dredd apart. We get to see more of the world, hear its grim history, even develop Dredd as a character. Action's good and the earth's weird and deadly. No complaints.
January 23, 2022
"The Cursed Earth" arc is where Judge Dredd must travel across the former United States with a former criminal, some fellow Judges, a huge tank, and a bunch of vaccine that needs to be delivered to Mega City 2. Mega City 2, which compromises the West Coast, is suffering a zombie plague. It isn't called a zombie plague, George Romero being a bit from his heyday, but it makes everyone into mindless cannibals so we might as well call a shovel a shovel.
The majority of these stories are essentially horror stories about the Judges encountering something weird in the Cursed Earth like a town that executes prisoners with giant rats, a town that executes prisoners with a Tyrannosaurus Rex cloned from a theme park (decades before Jurassic Park), and a gang of slavers who torture aliens. There's some good stories among these somewhat sideshow like tales like when Judge Dredd deals with America's last President that has been confused with being a vampire and cleaning up Las Vegas of corruption.
There's some previously missing stories in this volume that were lost via rights issues due to the parodies of things like McDonalds and KFC. These are not particularly interesting stories and much isn't lost. However, we do get a surprisingly interesting set of relationships for Dredd like his association with an ex-biker and convict as well as an alien mouse that is a lot smarter than us humans. It's mostly a bunch of action set-pieces but the art and grotesque vision of 21st century America deserve applause. It dramatically expanded the Judge Dredd world.
The majority of these stories are essentially horror stories about the Judges encountering something weird in the Cursed Earth like a town that executes prisoners with giant rats, a town that executes prisoners with a Tyrannosaurus Rex cloned from a theme park (decades before Jurassic Park), and a gang of slavers who torture aliens. There's some good stories among these somewhat sideshow like tales like when Judge Dredd deals with America's last President that has been confused with being a vampire and cleaning up Las Vegas of corruption.
There's some previously missing stories in this volume that were lost via rights issues due to the parodies of things like McDonalds and KFC. These are not particularly interesting stories and much isn't lost. However, we do get a surprisingly interesting set of relationships for Dredd like his association with an ex-biker and convict as well as an alien mouse that is a lot smarter than us humans. It's mostly a bunch of action set-pieces but the art and grotesque vision of 21st century America deserve applause. It dramatically expanded the Judge Dredd world.
August 29, 2018
The Cursed Earth might be one of the most notorious Judge Dredd storylines, not because of its brilliant storyline, but because it had the potential to sink the small publication 2000 AD only just a year or so into its publishing life.
The story isn't much--Dredd needs to take a vaccine from one coast of America to the other--but the execution is nothing short of spectacular. Indeed, spectacle is the word to describe these episodes. Mills, Wagner, McMahon, and Bolland all work to take the piss out of everything they can think of, from fast food chains to prominent figures in American politics, adding in a subculture of punk rock and violence. The result is aggressively subversive, even if the subversiveness of the comic is sometimes simply for the sake of being on the edge of acceptability.
The result is straight fun, just unadulterated enjoyment at the expense of the sacred. It is everything one could hope of a comics storyline from an independent comics team working in the late 1970s. The end product isn't a story that needs to make much sense--it's the kind of visual experience that grew from a punk rock subculture, replete with visuals that explore the very spirit of subversion in comics.
It's just glorious.
The story isn't much--Dredd needs to take a vaccine from one coast of America to the other--but the execution is nothing short of spectacular. Indeed, spectacle is the word to describe these episodes. Mills, Wagner, McMahon, and Bolland all work to take the piss out of everything they can think of, from fast food chains to prominent figures in American politics, adding in a subculture of punk rock and violence. The result is aggressively subversive, even if the subversiveness of the comic is sometimes simply for the sake of being on the edge of acceptability.
The result is straight fun, just unadulterated enjoyment at the expense of the sacred. It is everything one could hope of a comics storyline from an independent comics team working in the late 1970s. The end product isn't a story that needs to make much sense--it's the kind of visual experience that grew from a punk rock subculture, replete with visuals that explore the very spirit of subversion in comics.
It's just glorious.
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October 16, 2017Finally, the episodes which couldn't be reprinted for three decades can be read! They weren't really worth the wait. 'Burger Wars' makes passable points about corporate behaviour in the absence of strong governmental oversight, but the Jolly Green Giant story is self-confessedly a bog-standard mad scientist yarn with grocery mascots for set dressing. Nowadays, everyone concerned would have the sense to change the names and designs a little, so that Donald McRonald and the Hamburger Monarch were at loggerheads and the Cheery Jade Titan menaced Dredd, and the story wouldn't really feel any different.
April 29, 2020
It was alright with very good artwork. I can imagine this being done in episodes via a newspaper or a comic strip. One would have read on a daily basis or even weekly perhaps to appreciate it most. The reason I say this is because as a book it seems to be clipped together and the overall story is episodic. Therefore it lacks a streamline flow. I know a lot of fans will not like me saying this, but I have read Judge Dredd stories that flow better as novels or graphic novels. I can't fault the artwork and the idea of Judge Dredd crossing the Cursed Earth. It just feels like a load of comic strips clipped together as I moved from one part to another.
August 15, 2020
‘The Cursed Earth Saga’ is an early Judge Dredd epic and is presented here in mostly full. The missing bits are from 2000AD progs 71-72 and 77-78 and they are summarized in text but omitted for ‘copyright’ reasons. Those wits at 2000AD messed with multi-national fast-food corporations which are long on lawsuits and short on humour. The missing parts by no means ruin the saga.
Plague has struck Mega City 2 on the west coast of America and they need a vaccine. Unfortunately, the usual access to Mega City 2 from Dredd’s Mega-City 1 is by plane but crazy plague victims have taken over the airports. A square-jawed hero is needed to transport the vaccine by land across the Cursed Earth, the radioactive wasteland that was once middle America. Dredd is actually quite narrow jawed in this early incarnation, and much slimmer, but he’s still the man. He is aided by some other Judges, an expert biker and unreformed criminal called Spikes Harvey Rotten and some slightly dim war droids. He is equipped with a killdozer and a land-raider which combine to form a modular fighting unit capable of covering any terrain. ‘Oooh, I get excited just looking at its multi-level kill-power’ says Judge McArthur. ‘Kindly remove your hand from my uniform’ replies Dredd.
So the quest begins. En route Dredd and his team battle through giant rats, crazed mutants, robot vampires operating out of Fort Knox, hillbillies, enslaved aliens, dinosaurs and more. The dinosaur sequence was rather too long for my taste and it is scientifically inaccurate to give memories of a life 65 million years ago to a dinosaur that was cloned from some cells found in a fossil. But dinosaurs were all the rage back then and I don’t suppose the kiddies noticed. All the aforementioned horrors are standards of pulp fiction and B-movies but they are done with panache here.
Apart from a couple of episodes credited to T.B. Grover, a pen name for John Wagner, most of the writing is by Pat Mills, and he did a bang-up job. Likewise, while a few episodes are drawn by Brian Bolland, most of the art is from the pencil, pen or brush of Mike McMahon. Bolland’s work has a smooth, tidy finish that looks good but personally I slightly prefer McMahon’s rougher images in this context, and he seems to put more stuff into each panel. It is all in glorious black and white. Some people don’t watch monochrome movies and there is one nutcase reviewer on Amazon who gives everything in black and white a one-star rating and sends it back. Happily, most people don’t confuse colour with quality. Unhappily, this digest-sized format doesn’t allow a better appreciation of the illustrations, which are not large. On the plus side, you get a good chunk of reading for a mere £6.99. That’s the price of two pints of beer in an English country pub. Save your liver and read Dredd instead!
Plague has struck Mega City 2 on the west coast of America and they need a vaccine. Unfortunately, the usual access to Mega City 2 from Dredd’s Mega-City 1 is by plane but crazy plague victims have taken over the airports. A square-jawed hero is needed to transport the vaccine by land across the Cursed Earth, the radioactive wasteland that was once middle America. Dredd is actually quite narrow jawed in this early incarnation, and much slimmer, but he’s still the man. He is aided by some other Judges, an expert biker and unreformed criminal called Spikes Harvey Rotten and some slightly dim war droids. He is equipped with a killdozer and a land-raider which combine to form a modular fighting unit capable of covering any terrain. ‘Oooh, I get excited just looking at its multi-level kill-power’ says Judge McArthur. ‘Kindly remove your hand from my uniform’ replies Dredd.
So the quest begins. En route Dredd and his team battle through giant rats, crazed mutants, robot vampires operating out of Fort Knox, hillbillies, enslaved aliens, dinosaurs and more. The dinosaur sequence was rather too long for my taste and it is scientifically inaccurate to give memories of a life 65 million years ago to a dinosaur that was cloned from some cells found in a fossil. But dinosaurs were all the rage back then and I don’t suppose the kiddies noticed. All the aforementioned horrors are standards of pulp fiction and B-movies but they are done with panache here.
Apart from a couple of episodes credited to T.B. Grover, a pen name for John Wagner, most of the writing is by Pat Mills, and he did a bang-up job. Likewise, while a few episodes are drawn by Brian Bolland, most of the art is from the pencil, pen or brush of Mike McMahon. Bolland’s work has a smooth, tidy finish that looks good but personally I slightly prefer McMahon’s rougher images in this context, and he seems to put more stuff into each panel. It is all in glorious black and white. Some people don’t watch monochrome movies and there is one nutcase reviewer on Amazon who gives everything in black and white a one-star rating and sends it back. Happily, most people don’t confuse colour with quality. Unhappily, this digest-sized format doesn’t allow a better appreciation of the illustrations, which are not large. On the plus side, you get a good chunk of reading for a mere £6.99. That’s the price of two pints of beer in an English country pub. Save your liver and read Dredd instead!
June 28, 2019
Judge Dredd and 2000 AD were a big part of my childhood, and "The Cursed Earth" was always the best story from those early days of the character and the magazine. It's great to finally see the complete saga restored, including the episodes that had been suppressed for years due to tiresome meddling by global corporations - see the relevant Wikipedia article for tawdry details.
Moreover, I'm convinced that Mike (aka Mick) McMahon remains the greatest visual interpreter of Judge Dredd, and "The Cursed Earth" was really his moment to shine, given the chaotic and over-the-top (see: Satanus the tyrannosaur) nature of the storyline. Brian Bolland is of course one of Dredd's great interpreters as well, but McMahon's unhinged style really fits the material perfectly, and the episodes where Dredd goes head-to-head with the Burger King and Ronald McDonald are a visual tour-de-force.
Moreover, I'm convinced that Mike (aka Mick) McMahon remains the greatest visual interpreter of Judge Dredd, and "The Cursed Earth" was really his moment to shine, given the chaotic and over-the-top (see: Satanus the tyrannosaur) nature of the storyline. Brian Bolland is of course one of Dredd's great interpreters as well, but McMahon's unhinged style really fits the material perfectly, and the episodes where Dredd goes head-to-head with the Burger King and Ronald McDonald are a visual tour-de-force.
May 18, 2020
This is from the rough and ready early days of 2000AD when everything was a bit more scrappy and much less polished than today's comic, but also there's a boisterous energy on every page rather than the slightly retired-punk-turned-bank-manager tone of the modern incarnation. The storytelling is similarly scrappy and features a more heroic and noble Dredd than the one with which we are more familiar.
All of which may come across as criticism but it's not because despite the unpolished nature, or perhaps because of it, there's a great deal of enthusiasm and energy and the book is great fun.
Oh, and for what it's worth, the restored Burger King and McDonald's content is only a couple of chapters and the whole thing is so picaresque and scattered that you wouldn't miss those chapters if they were gone, which, of course, they were for years.
All of which may come across as criticism but it's not because despite the unpolished nature, or perhaps because of it, there's a great deal of enthusiasm and energy and the book is great fun.
Oh, and for what it's worth, the restored Burger King and McDonald's content is only a couple of chapters and the whole thing is so picaresque and scattered that you wouldn't miss those chapters if they were gone, which, of course, they were for years.
May 19, 2022
Judge Dredd must make his way across the nuclear wasteland of America to deliver a much needed vaccine to Mega City Two. Along the way he meets a feuding couple of burger chains and a mad scientist who literally land Dredd in serious legal trouble.
Mills' 'The Cursed Earth' storyline is famous for the legal action launched by McDonald's, Burger King and Green Giant which had (until this edition) successfully forced 2000 AD to issue a retraction and undertake not to reprint the offending material again. A change in copyright law has allowed the offending episodes to be reinserted into the storyline.
Mills' 'The Cursed Earth' storyline is famous for the legal action launched by McDonald's, Burger King and Green Giant which had (until this edition) successfully forced 2000 AD to issue a retraction and undertake not to reprint the offending material again. A change in copyright law has allowed the offending episodes to be reinserted into the storyline.
February 9, 2018
This was #91 on the top 100 graphic novels of all time list.
A pretty good satire. At first, I didn't know it was meant to be a parody, but when I got the memo, it turned out not too bad.
The Burger Lords are clearly the highpoint of the whole book, although a fake Colonel Sanders and the mascots of food products was pretty darn good.
Some sad moments sprinkled throughout, but also damn happy ones too. Dredd is a bad dude, with a good heart and nothing stops him from being "THE LAW"
A solid entry on the list, I recommend for anyone in the mood for satiric apocalyptic fun.
A pretty good satire. At first, I didn't know it was meant to be a parody, but when I got the memo, it turned out not too bad.
The Burger Lords are clearly the highpoint of the whole book, although a fake Colonel Sanders and the mascots of food products was pretty darn good.
Some sad moments sprinkled throughout, but also damn happy ones too. Dredd is a bad dude, with a good heart and nothing stops him from being "THE LAW"
A solid entry on the list, I recommend for anyone in the mood for satiric apocalyptic fun.
January 18, 2015
Great blast from the past!
Oh man, this early Dredd collection was tons of fun. I used to read lots of 2000A.D. comics in the eighties, so I was happy when IDW recently rebooted Dredd. However, the new stuff can't hold up to the insanity of the original. This collection contains one the best story arcs featuring wild situations, frantic action, kooky characters and great chaotic art that gives everything a punk sensibility. They really don't make them like this anymore.
Oh man, this early Dredd collection was tons of fun. I used to read lots of 2000A.D. comics in the eighties, so I was happy when IDW recently rebooted Dredd. However, the new stuff can't hold up to the insanity of the original. This collection contains one the best story arcs featuring wild situations, frantic action, kooky characters and great chaotic art that gives everything a punk sensibility. They really don't make them like this anymore.
February 14, 2014
This, kind of a Wagner take on Damnation Alley is the single best 'Prog' in Dredd history. When Mega City 2 is hit by a deadly virus, Dredd and a criminal must cross the radiation wastes of the US to bring them the anti-serum. Brilliant in every way. This is the one Dredd story every fan should read.
January 28, 2017
Ultra Storytelling.
January 19, 2019
Very gritty but well done. Great concept. I think that Judge Dredd is so Lawful that Good doesn't ever come up. I liked the commentary about the fast food industry and branding due to advertising.
May 25, 2019
Nostalgia
Not read this in a long time, the full story adds so much more to the edited version. I’m glad I took the plunge and brought this
Not read this in a long time, the full story adds so much more to the edited version. I’m glad I took the plunge and brought this
January 4, 2023
Not including the Judge Dredd-Batman comics, this is my first proper look into Dredd and it's more or less what I was expecting. I really love the concept of the comic, it's balls to the wall crazy and full of pulpy goodness, but there's something that keeps me from loving it.
I think the main problem is two-fold: the art is really intricate and small and as its black and white, it's quite difficult to make out what is happening in most of the pages. The roughness and sketch-like look does not help either and for most of the pages, I had to really concentrate to make out what was happening there. There are few spreads where another artist provides the artwork and it hits perfectly: its still black and white and rough, but it's completely readable. If it had been drawn all the way in that style, I think I might've liked it much more. The other gripe that I had was the shortness of chapter. Each chapter lasts only what feels like two pages and while it only emphasize the pulpiness, "RETURN NEXT WEEK TO FIND OUT IF JUDGE DREDD CAN SURVIVE THE VAMPIRE-ROBOTS", it feels a tad bit too stop and start for me to fully immerse myself in its world.
Other than that, I really appreciate the pulpy badassery of it all. Judge Dredd crosses the CURSED EARTH where he confronts rats that fly on asteroids, dinosaurs, mutants with telepathic powers, the remnant of Las Vegas where everything is turned into gamble, the last president of the earth and undead robots that crawl out of the earth. In other format, this would've been perfect and I kind of hope for this to be turned into a game one day, in the likeness of Fallout. The imagination in display is excellent if completely insane.
I think the main problem is two-fold: the art is really intricate and small and as its black and white, it's quite difficult to make out what is happening in most of the pages. The roughness and sketch-like look does not help either and for most of the pages, I had to really concentrate to make out what was happening there. There are few spreads where another artist provides the artwork and it hits perfectly: its still black and white and rough, but it's completely readable. If it had been drawn all the way in that style, I think I might've liked it much more. The other gripe that I had was the shortness of chapter. Each chapter lasts only what feels like two pages and while it only emphasize the pulpiness, "RETURN NEXT WEEK TO FIND OUT IF JUDGE DREDD CAN SURVIVE THE VAMPIRE-ROBOTS", it feels a tad bit too stop and start for me to fully immerse myself in its world.
Other than that, I really appreciate the pulpy badassery of it all. Judge Dredd crosses the CURSED EARTH where he confronts rats that fly on asteroids, dinosaurs, mutants with telepathic powers, the remnant of Las Vegas where everything is turned into gamble, the last president of the earth and undead robots that crawl out of the earth. In other format, this would've been perfect and I kind of hope for this to be turned into a game one day, in the likeness of Fallout. The imagination in display is excellent if completely insane.
July 4, 2020
This collection of stories serves as one of the first extended story arcs in the Judge Dredd canon and it does a remarkable job of balancing the short stories about the zany world outside the walls of Mega-City One while also telling the larger story of Dredd's rescue mission.
I really enjoyed this version of Judge Dredd. He has a certain moral compass/level of empathy that is largely missing from the more modern iterations of Dredd. This empathy is shown most notably through the story of Tweak and the slave drivers who had forced him and his family into servitude. Tweak goes down as one of my favorite characters in all of Judge Dredd.
Definitely a collection of stories I will return to!
I really enjoyed this version of Judge Dredd. He has a certain moral compass/level of empathy that is largely missing from the more modern iterations of Dredd. This empathy is shown most notably through the story of Tweak and the slave drivers who had forced him and his family into servitude. Tweak goes down as one of my favorite characters in all of Judge Dredd.
Definitely a collection of stories I will return to!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 15, 2025
I loved Judge Dredd as a kid, I got my subscription every week at the Newsagents to 2000AD and Dredd was the cover star and the main draw every time. The era I followed though was much later, probably late 80's into the 90's and the stories were more in depth and the drawings in colour and significantly more stylised. This book of the 'Cursed Earth' saga in comparison from 1978, is absolute dirge. It reads exactly like what it is, weekly serials mashed together. The drawings are honestly horrible and the decision to publish this in a small format book makes the text hard to read and the black and white drawings look even worse. The stories themselves are paper thin, just Dredd moving from one adversary to another. Other than the nostalgia hit, this was honestly not worth the effort.
July 6, 2018
The Cursed Earth is an amazing invention in the formative years of the Judge Dredd strip, before the hardness of the eponymous character was laid down. It is full of strangeness and promise, something brought on in spades in the first/second mega epic in series canon.
Without the character being pinned down, Dredd feels like a generic stoic hero character in this storyline. More exasperating is the excessive tweeness of certain moments that ruin any sense of suspense.
For me, what makes the Cursed Earth storyline so interesting is the concept itself and what comes immediately after - “The Day The Law Died”.
Without the character being pinned down, Dredd feels like a generic stoic hero character in this storyline. More exasperating is the excessive tweeness of certain moments that ruin any sense of suspense.
For me, what makes the Cursed Earth storyline so interesting is the concept itself and what comes immediately after - “The Day The Law Died”.
November 7, 2024
Very forgettable.
I believe most other reviewers are looking at this as a product of its time, that set some important groundwork, which is fair, but looking at it with modern lenses, its Goodreads score (4 stars) seems unwarranted, and I can't recommend it.
The serialized nature of these early issues of Dredd keeps the story from developing any depth, following mostly a "monster of the week/fortnight" format. The art is often very hard to read, being a very busy black & white style. In this early tale of Dredd, he ends up feeling like a generic, stoic action hero, with plain secondaries tagging along, while the dialogue feels stilted and at times, preachy.
I believe most other reviewers are looking at this as a product of its time, that set some important groundwork, which is fair, but looking at it with modern lenses, its Goodreads score (4 stars) seems unwarranted, and I can't recommend it.
The serialized nature of these early issues of Dredd keeps the story from developing any depth, following mostly a "monster of the week/fortnight" format. The art is often very hard to read, being a very busy black & white style. In this early tale of Dredd, he ends up feeling like a generic, stoic action hero, with plain secondaries tagging along, while the dialogue feels stilted and at times, preachy.
July 23, 2018
Some life saving drugs need to be transported across a desolate wasteland.
I really liked this story when I was young, but I found revisiting it disappointing.
I really liked this story when I was young, but I found revisiting it disappointing.
December 17, 2018
Fun and crazy. None of the movies really captured the book's satirical bent.
March 23, 2025
No me esperaba el sentido del humor tan genial que tiene esta aventura.
June 1, 2025
Mills, McMahon, Bolland and Wagner excel in one of the earliest mega-epics. Lacks the copyright-baiting episodes but don’t let that put you off. Barking, prophetic and highly recommended.
September 4, 2024
I was starting my comic book collection at the time this originally came out but I never collected Judge Dredd. I suspect if I had tried my parents might have frowned at ten year old me picking this up and they'd be right. This dystopic SF offering is geared to the somewhat older reader. And outside of some funny parodies, it's honestly not very good. It makes zero sense and Dredd himself is boring with a flat character arc of zero growth (and no, I don't think that's asking too much of a comic book character)
Let me set the stage, it opens up with Dredd being brought up to speed by scientists, his superiors and a man who landed his strat-brat airplane (space capable?) in Mega City Two. Basically L.A. and NYC have become monster cities taking up either coast. The rest of the country fell victim to the atomic wars and have a lot of mutants and other forgotten people trying to survive (while the Mega Cities seem to care little). A plague has broken out in Mega City Two and plague ridden men have taken over the airports so Dredd has to DRIVE all across the 'cursed earth' America to bring the vaccination to save the city.
I'm already mentally checking out and we're only about five pages in. I'm expected to believe that they can't set a plane down anywhere outside the city? Can't taxi it on a flat desert floor? Later we learn (and if we were already fans probably knew) that we're capable of mining operations on distant planets and obviously we're not setting down on an airstrip. And somehow we can't set a vehicle capable of flight down somewhere outside Mega City two? No, we have to drive for days through mutant country. That's just lazy writing. Even ten year old me wouldn't have been impressed. Tell me they are capable of shooting down planes or something. Geez.
So Dredd goes and liberates Spikes harvey Rotten (no doubt inspired by The Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten) a criminal because he's the best biker alive. That's the only reason we're given. Why this is needed isn't clear because there's also the Kill Dozer and other judges following Dredd with the vaccine. I wish they had left them at home and so does the writers because how many times did Dredd get caught and NO other judge comes to help, like the writers forgot they were there.
This is called Uncensored not because of sex or gore (in fact women barely exist in this thing to the point I was wondering where all the mutant humans came from because where are the women?) No it took some parodies a bit far and they are probably the more entertaining of things, watching the cults of Burger King and McDonald's killing each other over who is better. We get to see Dredd fight the Michelin Man to save the Alka Seltzer Kid. About the best story line might be the 'vampire' one in Kentucky.
Dredd exists to utter nonsense like 'by strom' and 'drok' and spout about how the law is all important and he is the law. As a character he's as deep as a rain drop and that's pushing it. I see very little reason to invest in this guy. The art isn't much better. I can't even call this misogynistic as really, women aren't in it. The only women with any importance was in one story as scientists in Barbarella outfits for some reason ffs.
I'm not even sure why I finished this. Maybe I was hoping to see Dredd break into Coca-Cola's It's the Real thing song or see the Kool-Aid pitcher come busting in.
Let me set the stage, it opens up with Dredd being brought up to speed by scientists, his superiors and a man who landed his strat-brat airplane (space capable?) in Mega City Two. Basically L.A. and NYC have become monster cities taking up either coast. The rest of the country fell victim to the atomic wars and have a lot of mutants and other forgotten people trying to survive (while the Mega Cities seem to care little). A plague has broken out in Mega City Two and plague ridden men have taken over the airports so Dredd has to DRIVE all across the 'cursed earth' America to bring the vaccination to save the city.
I'm already mentally checking out and we're only about five pages in. I'm expected to believe that they can't set a plane down anywhere outside the city? Can't taxi it on a flat desert floor? Later we learn (and if we were already fans probably knew) that we're capable of mining operations on distant planets and obviously we're not setting down on an airstrip. And somehow we can't set a vehicle capable of flight down somewhere outside Mega City two? No, we have to drive for days through mutant country. That's just lazy writing. Even ten year old me wouldn't have been impressed. Tell me they are capable of shooting down planes or something. Geez.
So Dredd goes and liberates Spikes harvey Rotten (no doubt inspired by The Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten) a criminal because he's the best biker alive. That's the only reason we're given. Why this is needed isn't clear because there's also the Kill Dozer and other judges following Dredd with the vaccine. I wish they had left them at home and so does the writers because how many times did Dredd get caught and NO other judge comes to help, like the writers forgot they were there.
This is called Uncensored not because of sex or gore (in fact women barely exist in this thing to the point I was wondering where all the mutant humans came from because where are the women?) No it took some parodies a bit far and they are probably the more entertaining of things, watching the cults of Burger King and McDonald's killing each other over who is better. We get to see Dredd fight the Michelin Man to save the Alka Seltzer Kid. About the best story line might be the 'vampire' one in Kentucky.
Dredd exists to utter nonsense like 'by strom' and 'drok' and spout about how the law is all important and he is the law. As a character he's as deep as a rain drop and that's pushing it. I see very little reason to invest in this guy. The art isn't much better. I can't even call this misogynistic as really, women aren't in it. The only women with any importance was in one story as scientists in Barbarella outfits for some reason ffs.
I'm not even sure why I finished this. Maybe I was hoping to see Dredd break into Coca-Cola's It's the Real thing song or see the Kool-Aid pitcher come busting in.
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