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FREEJUDGE DREDD: THE COMPLETE CASE FILES #05 EBOOK John Wagner,Alan Grant,Brian Bolland | 236 pages | 19 Jun 2012 | 2000 AD | 9781781080283 | English | United States Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05 by John Wagner Go to this link and sign up to get your free copy. There are four Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05, high quality story threads, plus a small handful of fillers that sit in the gaps between them. It starts with The Crime Filesa series of episodes based around various futuristic organised crimes, from body sharking to hitmen agencies. This rolls straight into Judge Death Lives. They start wars amongst themselves, dragging Mega City One into chaos. All the stories are classics. Where previous epics like The Cursed Earth and The Judge Child consisted of self-contained stories that new readers could jump in on, The Apocalypse War is a vastly superior story. It relies on cliff-hangers and plot twists, maintaining a chaotic momentum from the start. If you want to sample some classic Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05 Dredd this is a good place to start, skipping past the wobbly first volume. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Free to download: pages of epic Judge Dredd! If you think Batman's Cataclysm arc owed anything to the Apocalypse War, wait til you see how much Nightfall took from Necropolis. After you wrote about the lackluster "Judge Child" story, I was beginning to think I wouldn't buy any more of the Complete Case Files, but this? This I want to read. Thanks for the review. For me, the most shocking and memorable moment of the apocalypse war was when the judges 'helped' the citizens suffering radiation poisoning. Back in those days nuclear war seemed pretty likely. Amazing to think that stuff was being aimed at thirteen year old boys! What makes you think they'd be interested? As per the Sov plan they are still more interested in killing their neighbour than taking any notice as to what is happening beyond their collective front doors. Click here and Check me out i am getting naked here. WOLK: Ah, here we go--the volume where "Judge Dredd" really started to Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05 up to its potential halfway through, anyway. Also the volume where our action hero commits genocide. Looking at this volume as a whole, the structure of ''era Dredd becomes a lot clearer: John Wagner and Alan Grant had a couple of big stories in mind, they wanted them to be drawn by a single artist, and they had to get them done way in advance so that there'd be time to get them drawn. But Bolland was very slow, and they had to Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05 him some time; hence the series of "Mega Rackets" two- parters. I just made that up. And then Carlos Ezquerra's return to Dredd for a part story had to be given some serious lead time, so we got the "Block Mania" sequence that looks like it's going to hit its peak and subside, and instead keeps building until it tears open into "The Apocalypse War. Note also that he stops drawing Dredd covers for this sequence after Ezquerra seems now like the classic early Dredd artist alongside Bolland and maybe McMahon, and he created the look of the character, but his only published Dredd stories before "The Apocalypse War" were way back in Progs 5 and Ezquerra totally nails this story, though--cranking up the tension and the scale of its frantically escalating acts of violence from episode to episode, pulling off crazy storytelling tricks without breaking stride. The no-filled-in-black-areas trick he adopts for the flashbacks is blunt, simple and effective. He doesn't do Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05, the way Bolland and Steve Dillon and a few of the other artists here do; his lines look like they're cut into the paper with a knife dripping mud. Grant and Wagner start twisting their own knife as soon as this story starts, too. British boys' comics had a tradition of the brave warriors defending their land against the Hun or its Russian equivalentbut every venal thing the Sov-Blok does turns out to be something Dredd's perfectly Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05 of doing too. That's signaled from the very first episode, where the one-eyed Russian general sneers "The people? What have they got to do with it? More broadly, I love the way "The Apocalypse War" operates within the overall run of the series: the end of the war is presented as "well, that's over, we don't have to worry about that again, let's start rebuilding. Anyway: almost words and I haven't even gotten to "gaze into the fist of Dredd" yet. Take the mic, Tucker! STONE: I've been fascinated by what I'd heard about the mega arcs of Dredd before, but I went into reading this the first time with no real idea how they were set up or played out, and so had no idea that the conclusion of Block Mania was going to initiate the beginnings of The Apocalypse War. I have to wonder--is this what the Batman editors were trying to achieve years ago when Cataclysm gave way to No Man's Land? It's always seemed to me that No Man's Land was an attempt to incorporate post-apocalyptic survival and a Mega City One style immediate brand of justice, but to see how Wagner and Grant and if I'm understanding the history of this stuff correctly, the omnipresent editorial scythe of Pat Mills expertly managed to deliver a conclusion that drastically changes tone and plot direction while still seeming totally organic to the story they've been telling doesn't it seem like our Russian spy's plan places a lot of faith in the natural tendency of Meg City's citizenry to behave like selfish nihilists? Isn't that faith completely justified? Let me back up for a second though, because while Apocalypse may be what sucked me in the most, I would like to single out a couple of things, the first being Colin Wilson's work on Diary of a Mad Citizen outside of the core Dredd guys, Wilson is a great go-to for the perfect Dredd jaw, and the look on that robot secretary's face in the final panel is priceless and the second is the Hotdog Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05, which is one of my favorite iterations of the Dredd-schools-the-newbies story that seems to come up so often. I don't know how much of the recent Dredd stuff you've read, but the Cursed Earth portions that I've checked out in the recent UK collections published under the Tour of Duty banner have been absurdly entertaining, and a real testament to how Dredd's absolutism works when he's Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05 the immediate back-up forces he can call upon in Mega City One. And that comes up later, in that story where everybody gets infected by fatal mushrooms. It's what Wagner seems to be playing with in the current Tour of Duty stuff--Dredd doesn't care that he has cancer, but he is bothered that his holy justice does such Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05 disservice to his distant, mutated cousins. It's a level of emotional complexity that I think Wagner has grafted onto the character in recent years, but there is a retroactive precedent to be argued for in these early stories: here's Dredd at the heart of his successes, the apex of his brand of justice. He does always survive these fights, he does make the right, horrible calls when he has to, and that's because he hasn't become an old man yet. When you compare the moment where he puts millions to death here or when he exterminates traitors in a shallow grave to the moment where he puts billions to death in Judgment Day, there's a genuine sense that you're watching a different person's behavior--he did what he had to do in Apocalypse War, and he was proud to do it not because it involved killing people or being right or even winning, but because doing what one has to do whatever the circumstances dictate that being is what Judge Dredd is born, trained and ready to do. Nowadays, there is a sense of burden to his choices--the burden of being alive, of knowing that no one else could bear up underneath it all. I've gotten a bit off track here, haven't I? Talk to me Douglas: am I still in the stadium? Should I Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #05 different avenues of employment? Would your Dredd and my Dredd get along? I've read a bunch not all of Tour of Dutyand I really like it. But I suspect there's always a backhandedness to any time Wagner and Grant show us Dredd as a hero who triumphs because of his absolutism--the big picture of Tour of Duty is that it's about Dredd getting assigned to oversee a forced relocation camp for genetic inferiors.