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Judge Dredd: Death Aid
Judge Dredd: He is the law In the vast, over populated sprawl of the future metropolis Mega-City One, the Judges are all that stand between order and chaos. Their unswerving dedication to upholding the law is epitomised by stone-jawed Judge Dredd as he dispenses instant and brutal justice. From Garth Ennis, the award -winning creator of Preacher, comes a second collection of Judge Dredd stories with his own, unique flavour of dark, dark humour and blistering action. With art from Carlos Ezquerra and an all-new cover by Bryan Hitch (JLA, Authority), this is the best of British. In this collection the dead won't lie down in Mega-City One, and there's a sudden glut of killings...but all in a good cause
80 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2003
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About the author
Garth Ennis
2,624 books3,169 followersEnnis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar.
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.
Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.
Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.
While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.
Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.
In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.
Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.
In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.
In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis
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December 14, 2022
When I was about eight I drew a pirates’ map, one of those ones where your parents coat it with vinegar and heat it up a bit in the oven so it looks all old and wrinkly. I even added a bit of red ink from a leaky pen to make it look like blood. Only problem was is that I wrote next to the blood “the treasure has been hidden in…. AAAARGH! I have been killed!” which I thought made the leaking pen ink and map look even cooler. However my dad pointed out once it was done that 1. nobody who was being killed would actually write AAAARGH! because they were in the process of dying and 2. that imminent death would preclude the need for me to write “I have been killed!”
Annoyingly this was a good point. I may have been eight, but it was a good point
Anyway. My point is that reading this is like reading that map but somehow from the perspective of a grown adult who makes comics for a living. I think in essence the difference between the other terrible comedy nihilist working in comics, Mark Millar, and Ennis is that Ennis is on some level a good plotter who is constantly undermined by his inability to write well. He’s a frankly terrible writer whose grasp of the Dredd world is shaky at best, but even when it’s a passable idea he just overplays his hand and the whole thing ends up a leaden mess. But there are definitely moments in all three stories here where you could see these being developed into better stories by better writers, and Ezquerra is always great even if the story he’s illustrating is genuinely a stinker
Annoyingly this was a good point. I may have been eight, but it was a good point
Anyway. My point is that reading this is like reading that map but somehow from the perspective of a grown adult who makes comics for a living. I think in essence the difference between the other terrible comedy nihilist working in comics, Mark Millar, and Ennis is that Ennis is on some level a good plotter who is constantly undermined by his inability to write well. He’s a frankly terrible writer whose grasp of the Dredd world is shaky at best, but even when it’s a passable idea he just overplays his hand and the whole thing ends up a leaden mess. But there are definitely moments in all three stories here where you could see these being developed into better stories by better writers, and Ezquerra is always great even if the story he’s illustrating is genuinely a stinker
August 14, 2025
no-nonsense dredd.
January 15, 2009
Garth Ennis was so young and so fresh writer when he got this stint to write the flagship tittle of 2000AD.
To my opinnion he handled the chores well. There are no quirkiness he came to known later in his career, but he handled quite well this editorially driven stint.
Three diffent stories are in this and the third one, only 6 pages long, is so grim it is not even true.
Art by maeastro Esquerra and no surprise there, very beautiful to look at.
Timo
To my opinnion he handled the chores well. There are no quirkiness he came to known later in his career, but he handled quite well this editorially driven stint.
Three diffent stories are in this and the third one, only 6 pages long, is so grim it is not even true.
Art by maeastro Esquerra and no surprise there, very beautiful to look at.
Timo
December 10, 2010
surprisingly, my first ever Judge Dredd story! I'll certainly read more though. Nice apocalyptic feel.
December 30, 2014
Judge Dredd is never all that strong for storyline, but it is entertaining. The art is the funnest thing about this volume to me-very different, very 80's, very interesting and unique.
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