Judge Dredd : Heavy Metal Dredd

2000 AD: Judge Dredd

by John Wagner, Alan Grant

O universo de Mega-City Um sempre foi marcado por extremos, mas estas narrativas sanguinolentas de loucura e devassidão na megalópole futurista vão muito além. Uma coleção irreverente de histórias hilárias, repletas de sátiras, apresentando perps incomuns como Mort Rifkind, os beijogramas mutantes letais e macacos assassinos controlados por vovós moralmente ultrajadas! Escrito, entre outros, por John Wagner (A History of Violence) e Alan Grant (Strontium Dog), e com a arte agressivamente estonteante e totalmente em cores de Simon Bisley (Sláine) e John Hickleston (Nemesis The Warlock), este volume vai te pegar como um soco no estômago!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction

64 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1993

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

[Matthew Marcus · Rating 2 out of 5]

I would consider 2000AD a "punk comic" but on the strength of this volume it's probably best that it steer clear of stories about music - I can cope with Spikes Harvey Rotten being Dredd's punk sidekick in early issues, and the tendency of Dredd strips to burst into spontaneous song-and-dance numbers throughout its history has always been a joy, but stories actually *about* music, as collected here, tend to be at best throwaway and at worst actively cringeworthy. The "metal" Dredd strips especially seem to be an excuse for Wagner & Grant to phone in a few terrible puns awash with gore, though in fairness the freedom of any of the usual taste-and-common-decency-based limitations allowed creative teams like Smith/Hicklenton to turn in some memorably nightmarish pages.

In a rare turnaround of expectations Garth Ennis's contribution to this volume are not the actual low point (I'll call that "The Great Arsoli", a strip about a magician whose act is literally pulled out of his ass) - the two outings for the "Muzak Killer" Marty Zpok may have dated badly in its references, but I've got to admit the satire hits its mark. There was a time when I thought the music I listened to was proper art and wished something dangerously close to death on the purveyors of trashy chart music; and the scene where Zpok stamps on one of his acolytes' music collection screaming "It's got to be old! It can't be any good unless it's old!" is a brilliant takedown of the many, many people who've fallen into the trap of thinking that the stuff from the years they happened to fall in love with music is unimpeachable, and everything afterwards meaningless noise.

[Digi M · Rating 3 out of 5]

About a 3 1/2. Great drawings, stories are quite basic. Reminded me of Lobo a lot. Never have read judge dread before, seems like this collection is not like the normal tales.

[Index Purga · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tomo de Judge Dredd de la Colección 200 AD, A Mandarine Graphic Novel.
Según la descripción, incluye:
· A Mega-City Primer (Meg 1.14)
· Rock On, Tommy Who?! (Meg 1.16)
· Chicken Run (Meg 1.17)
· The Legend of Johnny Biker (Meg 1.19)
· Ironfist (Meg 2.61)
· Night Before Christmas (Meg 2.62)
· The Great Arsoli (Meg 3.15)
· Bimba (Meg 3.17)

[Layla Madrox · Rating 4 out of 5]

Historias hiperviolentas y de humor negrísimo y rojísimo como la sangre.

[Mhorg · Rating 1 out of 5]

As a Dredd fan since the late 70s, I can say honestly, these were the worst Dredd stories I've ever read. It's not easy saying this, but while I realize not every story can be great, these would have to climb up to be bad. Very disappointed.

[Dony Grayman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Edición inglesa.
Colección 200 AD, A Mandarine Graphic Novel.

[Damian Herde · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was maybe good in small doses, punctuating larger stories, but as a solid block, it’s dreadful.
Even skipping the violence, which isn’t that unusual in 2000AD stories, most of the stories are puerile, so ridiculous as to be pointless, and many are built conceptually around a lame pun based on some reference to a band that was big in the pre-90s.
Some of the art is visually stunning, while the rest is either looking like doodling in the back cover of a 12-year-old’s school book or so indecipherable that staring at it still doesn’t help it make sense.

[Andrew Alvis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pure class. Packed with awesome and mad art in equal measure by Bisley & Hicklenton and graciously layed with trademark Wagner wit and Grant goodness.

So glad I delved back into this despite no longer owning a copy of (this copy I read was provided by my local library), I really need to read more 2000AD 😁😈

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

These short Dredd strips are way waaaaaaaaaay over the top. I remembered some of the strips here from their original run in Rock Power magazine back in the early 90s ( the epilogue filled in the magazine title that my memory couldn't quite recall).
Lots of rock and metal references for those of a certain age.

[Al No · Rating 3 out of 5]

As someone who prefers Hicklenton to Bisley (largely downhill after The Horned God Book 1) this volume isn’t as good as I’d hoped it would be. Having said that, The Weatherman’s still a masterpiece.

[Israel Perez · Rating 1 out of 5]

Para mi pésimo comic, es un comic con varias historias cortas con mucho gore y poco trama, hay varios tipos de expresar historias en cómics pero este no es mi tipo de cómics la ilustración es pésima, este encabezará en mi lista de las peores lecturas de este año.

[Leila Anani · Rating 3 out of 5]

All the stories in this anthology have the theme of heavy meal/pop music and it's a mixed bag, some works of satirical genius whilst other stories are just plain silly.

The highlight for me has to be Muzak Killer a satire on the old 80's/90's Stock Aikin and Waterman pop - a thinly veiled Jason Donavan is murdered by a true music fan. All the references here are spot on - Genius!

Other gems include: Too much monkey business - looking at manufactured pop groups like the Monkees and the Beatles. The ballad of Toad McFarlane is trippy fun and Iron Maiden fans are going to love Ironfist - perfectly set off by Simon Bisley's distinctive art. In terms of art I also have to mention John Hicklenton's freaky Kiss of Death which is worthy of something from Clive Barker.

While this volume is far from Dredd at his finest hour, it is tremendous fun - Blood, Guts, buxom groupies exploding on pretty much every page. So turn your stereo to the max, sit back and enjoy. Being both a huge Judge Dredd and heavy metal fan I really enjoyed this one.

[Jennie Rigg · Rating 4 out of 5]

This brought back loads of memories of what I consider classic era Dredd because it's the Dredd I read as a teenager. Wagner & Grant's writing is sublime, stuffed with little in-jokes almost every frame (Milton Subotsky made me LOL) for example, and the Simon Bisley episodes are... well. They're Simon Bisley. My favourite ever 2000ad artist. Tommy Who and Iron Fist are both gloriously Bisley.

The only reason this doesn't get five stars is that about half the episodes are drawn by John Hicklenton, and while his art isn't BAD per se - his page layouts are great, and his walk-on characters are lots of fun - I hate the way he draws Dredd. The helmet is all wrong. The badge is all wrong. And he makes him pot-bellied. Wrong wrong wrong.

I'm sure he must have his fans among the 2000ad glitterati, but I'm definitely not one of them.

[Flavio · Rating 2 out of 5]

Talvez o mais fraco e dispensável de todos os volumes encadernados protagonizados por Dredd e disponíveis no Brasil.

Uma seleção de histórias curtas, ora muito bem ilustradas por Simon Bisley, ora apenas com uma arte regular de outros artistas...

As histórias em si pouco tem de destaque. Toda a sátira do universo ficcional, todo o possível drama... Tudo que torna Dredd interessante é ignorado em favor do pastiche, do escracho, do exagero.

São as histórias que eu esperaria ler se conhecesse o personagem apenas por memes e citações negativas como “exemplo de fascismo”, mas não as histórias que eu gostaria de ler já tendo conferido o quão criativo os autores podem ser abordado esse futuro distópico de Mega-City Um

[Nicolas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comme le dit la première histoire (une chanson façon comédie musicale des années 50), le Judge Dredd est un authentique héros de rock'n'roll. Enquêteur, juge et bourreau, il écume méga-city pour lutter contre le crime sous toutes ses formes.

Et effectivement, le crime dans Mega-City prend des formes assez ... curieuses que je ne détaillerai pas ici (je vous en laisse le plaisir délicat - comme avec le grand Arsoli).

Bon, l'humour n'est pas forcément fin, mais je trouve à cette société où le pouvoir policier devient clairement fasciste certains accents de vérité contemporaine qui font froid dans le dos, et ajoutent beaucoup d'intérêt à la lecture.

[Martin Nisbet · Rating 3 out of 5]

This anthology is loosely based around the theme of music. It starts with some particularly juvenile one offs which are only saved by Bisley's art. Following that is a number of strips which are more about the recurrence of the artist John Hicklenton than music. Rounding all this off is 6 progs worth of the Muzak killer, a tired entry from Garth Ennis' time of writing Dredd which aims for satire but falls rather short - a lot of the references used only work if you're old enough to remember the start of the 90s and lived in the UK; it's not a story that has aged well.

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[Timo · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was a good idea by the people behind Rock Power to get Wagner and Grant to write Dredd and to get Bisley to do the art.
Sadly, the stories were pointless but Bisley was very good. Which again proves my point. Not only good art make a good comic.

[Johnny Andrews · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really fun collection of Dredd and MC-1 stories made for some music magazine. The humour is spot on and the tales themselves are a lot of fun especially for music fans. I mean if you are looking for hard hitting or deep stuff look away these are more for laughs really and it works.

[Periklis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection is a perfect display of, artist, John Hiccleton's(RIP) enormous talent.

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

In a strip like 2000AD which is already a bit over the top, one might question how much further they could dial it up. The answer is this volume.

Bloody stupid, but great fun nonetheless.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Historias cortísimas o chistes que se hacen un cachito largos. En resumen, un tomo con historias pavotas con excelentes dibujos de la bestia Bisley.