Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 31

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

by Cam Kennedy, Alan Grant, Siku (Illustrator)

RETURN OF THE HAG! The galaxy's number one bounty hunter, Trapper Hag, has escaped his Iso-Cube prison with only one thing on his the death of Judge Dredd! Meanwhile, the miniature robotic garden guardians, the Banzai Battallion help Dredd foil a kidnapping and Hogwash college's greatest pupil Harry Snotter makes the mistake of visiting Mega-City One.

Collects:

- The Revenge of Trapper Hag (Prog #1165-#1166)
- Volt Face (Prog #1167)
- A Night with Judge Death (Prog #1168)
- Incident at Rowdy Yates (Prog #1169)
- Porter's 'Porter (Prog #1170)
- Dumskulls (Prog #1171)
- Harry Snotter Boy Whizzer (Prog #1172)
- Art for Art's Sake (Prog #1173)
- Shakespeare at War (Prog #1174)
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Lawgivers (Prog #1175)
- Doledrums (Prog #1176)
- Suspicious Minds (Prog #1177)
- The Cal Legacy (Progs #1178-#1179)
- Pumpkin Eater (Progs #1180-#1182)
- No Man's Land (Progs #1183-#1185)
- I, Jovis (Meg #3.60)
- Short Circuit (Meg #3.61)
- Lobsang Rampage (Meg #3.61)
- Fight! (Meg #3.62)
- J. D. Megson: A Near-Death Experience (Meg #3.63)
- Dead Ringer (Megs #3.64-#3.69)

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Crime, Science Fiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 19, 2018

Reviews

[Βασίλης Δ. Πεσλής · Rating 3 out of 5]

Λίγο πιο βαρετό από προηγούμενα, αλλά συμβαίνει μετά την ολοκλήρωση ενός μεγάλου story arc.

[Chris Browning · Rating 4 out of 5]

The biggest problem for me here is that I’m not at all au fait with Doomsday as a Dredd epic, so reading some of the stories that happen in its aftermath out of context is a bit odd. What’s also strange is that it’s a whole volume dominated by Grant and Wagner, albeit writing separately. It’s fascinating for showing us how big the gulf in the collaborators styles had become: Grant is going for light hearted silliness or heavy satire, and misses the target repeatedly. They’re not offensively bad but can be incredibly muddled and don’t really seem to understand how the decade had changed the way the character was heading. His Wagner story for Prog 2000 is genuinely lovely though

Wagner’s on good form though. Lots of short, punchy stories with a few returning characters and a bit of world building with Hershey getting the Chief Judge role and a surprising focus on the Judges playing propaganda with trying to turn Volt into a noble figure and not a suicide victim. There’s some nice tidying up of loose ends with Walter and Mrs Gunderson too. It ends with a decidedly eccentric mini epic, which seems to be Wagner revisiting some of the wilder stories from the past such as Umpty and Stookie farms. It also, unfortunately, does contain some surprisingly heavy handed jokes about sexuality which feels very out of keeping for Wagner’s writing on the whole. The art is very variable, but at best is brilliant with some nice old favourites returning for brief stories

[Alexander Ballantyne · Rating 2 out of 5]

Out of a series of (at the moment) 31 books, you're going to get one that falls flat. This is that one. Lacking in the charm and wit that marks Dredd usually, this collection treads water, waiting for the next big event in the Dredd timeline.

[Doctor Action · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid entry. Tickled me for the most part.

[Russel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun group of mostly self contained stories that expand the world of Judge Dredd and it's supporting characters.

[Timo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best Dredds ever, but still some really good ones in this collection of shorter stories. Some really good art like bits from the pen of Cam Kennedy and Henry Flint.

[Simon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another oddly flat volume. It's weird, there's some really amazing Dredd around this era, but also some pretty crummy Dredd.