Judge Dredd: The Art Of Kenny Who?

by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Gordon Rennie

Judge Dredd is the comic world's most famous lawman. He is judge, jury and executioner in a far future world gone to hell. This anthology of stories from 2000 AD brings together some of the strips written by comic book supremo's John Wagner, Alan Grant and Gordon Rennie, and features the art of Cam Kennedy.

Collects:

- The Art of Kenny Who? (Progs 477-479)
- Beyond Our Kenny (Megs 1.01-1.03)
- Who? Dares Wins (Megs 228-229)
- SABs 3 (Progs 1200-1202)
- Bad Mother (2000AD Prog 2001)
- Bodies of Evidence (Progs 1234-1236)
- Alien Wedding (Prog 1241)
- The Student Prince (2000AD Prog 2002)
- It's Deja Vu All Over Again (Progs 1282-1283)
- Block Court (Prog 1284)
- Finger of Suspicion (Prog 1387)
- Big Deal At Drekk City (Progs 1400-1404)
- The Bazooka (Megs 4.01-4.03)
- Blackout (Megs 238-239)

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 5, 2006

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

[Jo Bennie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I simply have not laughed this much at a comic in ages. Judge Dredd is Mega-City One's infamous police officer, the 2000 AD parody of American policing culture, a man who is judge, jury and executioner (frequently) in a futuristic police state city, the man who's famous tagline is 'I am the Law!'. Kenny Who comes to Mega-City One from the Caledonian Hab Zone to make his fortune as an artist for Big 1 Comics. An innocent abroad in the predatory city he quickly brings himself to the attention of Dredd, getting himself bitten by a rouge human and ending up in jail after threatening the Senior Editor of Big 1 Comics and smashing the robots who it turns out are actually drawing the comics. It's a merciless parody of the big American comics publishers, of stereotypes of Scots and just brilliantly illustrated by Kennedy. And that's just one of the stories in this collection, pages of artwork that are so far from the standard grid plan.