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John Wagner,,,Steve Dillon | 400 pages | 15 Mar 2016 | 2000 AD | 9781781084274 | English | United States AD Shop : Judge Dredd: Case Files 11

The Judge Dredd material reprinted in this collection was originally published in AD between summer and earlyshortly after the comic had celebrated its tenth anniversary, but it had hit a sticky patch. Old fashioned future sports stories sat uneasily alongside uninspired material from new creators, and of all the introduced material only really caught the imagination. As the standout feature, Dredd occupied the prized centrespread, meaning his strips always began in colour. It was better colour than AD had previously seen, but transforming those pages to black and white here results in mud on Volume 11 pages. And of necessity a lot of new artists were receiving the chance to draw Dredd, and the results are far from pleasing in some cases. For more Volume 11 see the review of the individual album, but despite some good ideas and fine moment it sprawls, and appears to be two different stories mashed together. Furthermore nine different artists over 26 chapters is never a good idea, even if they do include Brendan McCarthy. Dredd has always encompassed a broad artistic church, but some consistency would be nice. Volume 11 presents a neat problem and twist, and is compact. He appears Volume 11 a tale of murderous robotic bugs, and while the tone of the ending suggests Wagner and Grant had plans for his re- appearance, it was a long way off. Over a year in fact, and can be found in Complete Case Files Alternative editions:. Volume No. Release date: UPC: Contains adult content? Does this pass the Bechdel test? Positive minority portrayal? Categories: AdventureScience-Fiction. Related merchandise Judge Dredd blue logo t-shirt. Alan Grant. . Various artists. Review by Frank Plowright The Judge Dredd material reprinted in this collection was originally published in AD between summer and earlyshortly after the comic had celebrated its tenth anniversary, but it had hit a sticky patch. Like this? Try these. Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Manhattan Projects 1. The Manhattan Projects 2. The Manhattan Projects 3. The Manhattan Projects 4. BARNEY -- reprint zone

These are the Dredd stories that were running during the period when my older brother was collecting AD. I read them when he was finished with them, and I remember reading the Chopper saga all of eight years old and being bowled over. It didn't have quite the same intense emotional impact on me as Bad Company, but I think it holds up better on a reread; for all its virtues, Bad Company looks overwrought and heavy-handed in retrospect. But Chopper sitting on the beach and letting the baby turtles go free There was a tone of Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files defiance to Chopper's story, which was unusual for AD. As with the democracy stories, there's a sense that this is a battle worth fighting, but a battle that cannot be won. But Chopper fights anyway, because in his heart he's a free man, and he doesn't have it in him to give in to authority. I remember the "family man" gambit to this day every time there's footage of riots or demonstrations on TV The Oz droid in the glasses wearing a purple jacket is Brendan McCarthy. IIRC, Oz was designed as an epic to take into account of the new format featuring the first two pages of each story being in painted colour, and the extra time that would have to be taken to produce this. Unfortunately, even this attempt to avoid the dreaded deadline doom failed, and the art seemed to be passed to whichever artist seemed available at the time, much to the stories detriment, in my opinion. I remember being stunned by those Dredd democracy stories. Very powerful stories and the vibrant painted work by John Higgins for the centerspreads was far and away the best use of colour we'd seen in AD at that point. It's a pity they've only been reproduced in black and white although they still look pretty good. The Judda storyline was suggested by ideas factory Brendan McCarthy, who had spent time Volume 11 around Australia while he was living and working there as a concept designer for animated film and television projects. He had accumulated a lot of visual reference material which he thought could be put to good use and suggested his lost tribe of judges idea to Wagner and Grant, who were apparently open to working from ideas suggested by artists, since they were always struggling for novel storylines and felt artists produced better work when they had some creative investment in the material and were drawing things which interested them. As far as I know, the hurried production of the strip did not involve a works outing to Sidney as described in the Steve Dillon? A Dillon self portrait? An elephant in the room: some enterprising person or group of fans decided, at some point, that they could do the Complete Case Files books better. For a lot of the earlier volumes, that's a minor improvement. For some, it's an actively bad idea--at least one bootleg I've seen gets a lot of its color pages from badly chopped-up and reformatted American reprints. But inAD 's production values were ramped up a bit, and as of a few episodes before Case Files 11 begins, the opening spread of the Judge Dredd feature was suddenly in painted color. The half-tone versions of the color Volume 11 in the printed Case Files 11 is decent--although it still gets muddy in a few places, like the beginning of "Return of Death Fist"--but it's distinctly not the way these stories were intended to look. And the bootleg files also include other Dredd-related pages from the original publications, the most interesting of which this time is this one, which was printed in the issue before Volume 11 started:. There are a lot of in-jokes going on here, most of which I don't get and bet I'm not supposed to get, but the implication is that seven members of the AD staff had gone to Australia to research "Oz. The bent-over droid at far right is "Burt," a. In any event, it seems as if Dredd stories had been Volume 11 in advance of "Oz," which was the first "epic"-length Dredd story that had been attempted since "City of the Damned" a few years earlier. The 22 episodes 11 storylines that precede it in this volume are drawn by ten different artists--only Liam McCormack-Sharp gets two stories, and they appear consecutively. And Tharg's stern note that the droids have one week to get "Oz" in order hints at how hurriedly it must have been put together: when the first three episodes of a part story are all drawn by different artists and nine different artists in all contributethere's clearly some frantic catching up going on. Jim Baikie seems to have been the speed demon of the lot--not only did he draw the final two episodes, he drew the three that followed them in the next volume. Remember that theory I had a few weeks ago about how the long serials usually address some aspect of the relationship between Dredd and the city? This one deals with either of them only during the Judda sequences; it's basically a Chopper story. Dredd is entirely absent for long stretches of it, which was awfully Volume 11 so's the thematic two-page splash that opens the first episode. The Judda business turns up out of nowhere in the seventh episode and when Chopper returns two weeks later, he picks up right where the sixth episode left off ; the Judda and Chopper only appear in the same installment a few times, and the two plots' resolutions have almost nothing to do with each other. Also, the Judda sequences are something of a distraction: Chopper's story is Volume 11 compelling that mysterious violent weirdos shouting slogans, interspersed Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files chunks of exposition, get tiresome quickly. On the other hand, Brendan McCarthy's artwork here is a much better fit than it had been in Case Files you can see him Volume 11 to give the series a consistent look. Unfortunately, it's a look that all the other artists ignore; when Will Simpson takes over for the conclusion of the Judda business, the visual energy goes way down all of a sudden. It's interesting to imagine what "Oz," or in fact this era of Dredd, could have been like with a more consistent visual approach. There are very few artists who can handle a 6-topage weekly strip, but it's just possible that Brendan and Jim McCarthy and Brett Ewins might have been able to tackle it together, at least for a while. The latter two were mostly off drawing "Bad Company" during this era, though. I reread "Oz" after not having seen it in a long time, but a few months after rereading "Song of the Surfer"--which we'll be getting to in a few weeks. The "dangerous sports" aspect of this story goes over the top; there's a tragic thrill in the idea of a sport whose championship not everyone may survive, Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files a sport whose championship routinely slaughters most of its competitors doesn't seem like it could attract a lot of top athletes, you know? Wagner addresses that a bit in "Song of the Surfer," but it passes Volume 11 comment here. So the pleasures of "Oz" are less about its overall arc than its individual moments. I particularly love the sequence Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files the turtle gets another chance at life, which lasts all of five panels, but there are lots of other well-turned Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Chopper going down in the storm, hearing everyone calling his name again; the "Space World" sequence, which gives Barry Volume 11 an opportunity to draw a very different sort of sci-fi image; McCarthy's image of Wipeout crouching on his board; the color spread being reserved for the final two pages of part Whoops, that's another one that's not so effective in the printed book. Wagner has said that "Oz" was less a factor than their miniseries "The Last American" a few years later; Grant claims that Wagner divided up their collaborative gigs at the end ofwhich would've been right after "Oz. Grant's recollection is that "John wanted Chopper to win, but Dredd to let him go free because he respected him," and says he never read the final episode. In fact, Wagner's ending is a smart solution to the dispute, and doesn't resemble Grant's description. It's not as if the partnership was producing inferior work although it probably helped that they don't seem to have been quite as overworked in this period Volume 11 they'd also gotten back to thinking about Dredd as a long game, setting plot threads that could reach into the future. The Judda routine set up the long-running "bloodlines" sequence, but the most durable invention here is an unlikely one: "Bug," the one-off that introduces PJ Maybe, who's still appearing regularly in the series almost 25 years later. Its other curious aspect: "Karen Berger Block," which appears in the first panel--Berger was arguably the most forward-thinking editor at DC Comics at that point. The democratic coalition's intentions are a lot more specific than Occupy Wall Street's, but it's kind of unnerving that Wagner and Grant assume the people's right to assemble is something even the Judges wouldn't dare to mess with, when that currently seems to be Volume 11 but the case. No one who is a wage slave which is the overwhelming majority of Volume 11 population can afford to have an arrest record, even a misdemeanor, in this age of short job tenures and rising use of background checks. Paddy Brown October 3, at AM. Anonymous October 3, at AM. Carey October 5, at PM. Tam October 9, at PM. Jock Savage February 16, at AM. Douglas Wolk February 17, at PM. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 11 by John Wagner

This volume reprints Oz, as well as a few other short stories including an early Democracy storyline. Oz isn't my favourite Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files the long Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files and the long, long race section is a bit tedious by the end. This edition has some problems. It's a thick volume, so quite a lot gets lost in the gutter, making some dialogue unreadable. At this stage AD was printing Dredd with the first two pages in colour, but these have been printed in Volume 11 here. Quite a lot of detail gets lost in the process. Subsequent volumes switch to full-colour printing on better quality paper. Here at Walmart. Your email address will never be sold or distributed to a third party for any reason. Sorry, but we can't respond to individual comments. If you need immediate assistance, please contact Customer Care. Your feedback helps us make Walmart shopping better for millions of customers. Recent searches Clear All. Enter Location. Update location. Learn more. Report incorrect product information. John Wagner. Walmart Book Format. Select Option. Current selection is: Paperback. Free 2-day delivery. Pickup not available. Add to list. Add to registry. Keeping order are the Judges, a stern police force acting as judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd. He is the law and these are his stories. About This Item. Volume 11 aim to show you accurate product information. Manufacturers, suppliers and others provide what you see here, and we have not verified it. See our disclaimer. The ongoing case files of the ultimate law man: Judge Dredd Mega-City One: the future metropolis bustling with life and every crime imaginable. Specifications Series Title Judge Dredd. Write a review See all reviews Write a review. Average Rating: 4. February 3, See more. Written by a librarything. Ask a question Ask a question If you would like to share feedback with us about pricing, delivery or other customer service issues, please contact customer service directly. Your question required. Additional details. Send me an email when my question is answered. Please enter a valid email address. Volume 11 agree to the Terms and Conditions. Cancel Submit. Pricing policy About our prices. We're committed to providing low prices every day, on everything. So if you find a current lower price from an online retailer on an identical, in-stock product, tell us and we'll match it. See more details at Online Price Match. Related Pages :. Email address. Mobile apps. Walmart Services. Get to Know Us. Customer Service. In The Spotlight. Shop Our Brands. All Rights Reserved. To ensure we are able to help you as best we can, please include your Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files number:. Thank you for signing up! How Volume 11 your experience with this page? Thank you. Thank you!