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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Judge Dredd by John Wagner. Carlos Ezquerra Illustrator. Peter Harris. Kelvin Gosnell. Massimo Belardinelli Illustrator. Ron Turner Illustrator. Ian Gibson IIllustrator. Brian Bolland Illustrator. Malcolm Shaw. Charles Herring. Gerry Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01. Pat Mills Goodreads Author. Robert Flynn. Mike McMahon Illustrator Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01. Bill Ward Illustrator. John Cooper Illustrator. For almost thirty years, one man has dominated the British comic scene. He is judge, jury and executioner, a merciless far-future lawman delivering justice with an iron fist on the mean streets of Mega-City One. He is Judge Dredd! Now you can re-discover the roots of this legendary character in this vast and Thrill-packed series of graphic novels collecting together all of For almost thirty years, one man has dominated the British comic scene. Now you can re-discover the roots of this legendary character in this vast and Thrill-packed series of graphic novels collecting together all of Dredd's adventures in chronological order, complete and uncut! Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 7. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Judge Dreddplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Dredd is a law enforcement officer in the futuristic North American Mega-City 1, empowered to pass death sentences or jail terms on the job. Robots perform most traditionally human tasks, providing the million people living in Mega-City 1 with an abundance of wealth and leisure time. And what better way to enjoy all that wealth an "Judge Dredd" is the most popular title of the British science fiction anthology ADand this first volume collects the title's earliest stories from And what better way to enjoy all that wealth and leisure time than to commit crimes, right? Well, it certainly is a scenario that provides fictional justification for the police-state methods personified by Judge Dredd. After all, the reader is not likely to feel sorry for a bunch of bored "degenerates" who go on crime sprees just to keep themselves entertained. The notion that widespread wealth spells disaster is a bit silly, though unless you happen to be a member of the Tea Partyand the fictional world of Judge Dredd generally feels rather half-baked at this early stage. The characters are underdeveloped, the stories predictable, and the humor often does not work. Still, there is potential here, and the highly polished Brian Bolland artwork that starts to appear towards the book's end is a real treat. Here's hoping things will start to fall into place soon! Mar 11, Sr3yas rated it it was ok Shelves: comics-undatedcomics. Welcome to Mega-City One: A highly populated city with staggering crime rates. To ensure peace and uphold the law of Mega-City One, the justice department uses judges: An officer of the law who acts as police, judge, jury and executioner if necessary. Who is the toughest and smartest of them all? Judge Dredd The collection contains some brilliant stories a lot of terrible ones. A gun that shoots six types of bullets? Face changing machines? A Fingerprint triggered g 2. A Fingerprint triggered gun? Perfectly planned Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 attack using dream machines? So awesome! A Robot that reprograms third law of robotics by talking to other robots? Robots leaking oil when crying? So dumb. So the law must strike back! And spectacular criminal names! Scroodge, a special Christmas villain. Yep, the writers were not Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 subtle. But the first adventures of Dredd featured in this book lacks substance at places that matters and most of the stories are bogged down by lackluster thrills. Was this supposed to be ironic?! Like a lot of people, I only know Judge Dredd from the Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 of movies and the times he teamed up with Batman. In my quest to fill in some gaps in my comics knowledge, I picked this up. This is a collection of page shorts, some linked, featuring Judge Dredd, lawman of the post-apocalyptic future. He patrols Mega City-1, a sprawling metropolis that encompasses half of North America from what I gather. This volume collects Judge Dredd's earliest appearances. Dredd fights street crime, quells a robot uprising, and goes to the moon and back again. The writing is nothing spectacular in and of itself. World building takes a back seat to dark humor and violence. The stories remind me of EC crime or war comics more than anything else, what with the short length and punchiness. The art ranges from crude to spectacular. Brian Bolland is on the spectacular end of things. It's no wonder he was tapped to do The Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 Joke a few years after this. I might take a crack at some newer Dredd once I knock out a few other things. It was never a "drop everything to read" kind of book, though. Jan 23, Mark rated it really liked it Shelves: comicssci-fi. While some of the early stories suffer from format issues as it tries to find its feet the incident, Dredd says no-one is above the law, sorts the baddi A fantastic idea from AD, the Complete Case Files reprint every Dredd story that appeared in the comic. The artwork is consistently good Dredd was my first exposure to Brian Bollandthe black humour, which would have been lost on 8-year-old me, works more often than not and some of the one-liners are smart and the things that rankle the writers - war, crime, poverty - come through without being preachy. My highlights of the book include Call-Me-Kenneth and the war of the robots, the brainblooms issue 18! Great fun, well written and superbly illustrated, well presented and Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 iconic, I very highly recommend this. Jul 28, Eric Couchman rated it it was ok. These case files are amazing value for money. You a get a years worth of Dredd stories printed on a pretty good paper. Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 by John Wagner

Where do you find pitch-black comedy in America? I find it overtly serious. Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 not my cup of tea. It surely marks the turn, but damn, since then, the jokes started to slowly fade away from Dredd. The question a lot of people have when they're looking at a series with as many volumes as Judge Dredd is "where do I start? In the case of this series, I'd argue that that's Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 big mistake, unless you happen to be a bright, angry ten- year-old British boy in For the record, when people ask me where to start with Dredd, I usually say America --the Rebellion edition, with "Fading of the Light" and "Cadet" appended. Unfortunately, America seems to have gone out of Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 recently, and although there are storylines I like as much or more--"Tour of Duty," in particular--they're not particularly useful as on-ramps. It's strange to see now just how weak the first couple of Judge Dredd stories are, how quickly the series got off the ground in some ways, and how long it took to get interesting in other ways. By the end of this collection, it's definitely getting therebut it's not quite there yet. The story that was originally intended to introduce Dredd "Bank Raid," written by Pat Mills and Wagner and drawn by Carlos Ezquerra appears at the back of the volume, and it's a mess: Dredd bursts through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man on the first page, and spends the rest of the story being little more than a violent badass who's got a special gun and a big bike. The full-page cityscape on the fifth and final Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 isn't quite as impressive as it should be; there's no real sense of what would eventually make this an interesting feature. What's surprising is that the first story that did see print--Peter Harris and Mike McMahon's "Judge Whitey," which originally appeared in AD Prog 2 Dredd missed the first issue, one of very few in which he hasn't appeared -- is almost as weak. It's got a hint of the satire that would soon creep into the series, but a very cheap hint: the ultimate prison for judge-killers is I seem to remember that gag getting revisited much later in a cleverer way, in "Crossing Ken Dodd," but we'll get there eventually. It's got a Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 more worldbuilding, though--the image of the Empire State Building seen from above on the first page is a nice touch, and we get more of a sense of the Judges as an organization. Still, its five pages are obviously grafted together from a handful of sources: the Devil's Island ending, I think I once read, was tacked on from another story that had been prepared, and the image of Dredd on the first page was pasted in from "Bank Raid," just to get him visible as soon as possible. The first eight published Dredd stories feature five different writers and a lot of very rushed artwork--the panel where we see the Statue of Judgement towering over the Statue of Liberty should be a great moment, but Mike McMahon totally half-asses it. There aren't many suggestions that Dredd could be for anyone other than the aforementioned ten-year-olds; the stories pretty much all end with pronouncements about The Law. I ordered the Walk-Eezee to be put in reverse! Something that must never happen to the law! It happens in his very first panel, in fact--Wagner's best trick with Dredd is the way he constantly plays with where our sympathies are. Now get into those flames! Eventually, the story starts explicitly framing the robot uprising as a slave revolt--and, of course, our hero is on the side of their masters. There are moments that Wagner obviously cracked up giggling when he thought up and had to include--the idea that robots might be named after the slogans on their packaging "Call-Me-Kenneth"and the Heavy Metal Kid, whose name might be a joke about William S. Burroughs' Nova Expressor might be a riff on this hard rock band. What's missing, still, is visuals that are up to the challenge of the stories. When Ian Gibson turns up halfway through "Robot Wars," the series finally starts to get the visual flair it needs. I like Carlos Ezquerra and Mike McMahon's later episodes a lot, but in this volume they were still far from hitting their groove. Still, after "Robot Wars," the energy of this volume dips considerably, as a handful of writers take turns on Dredd; Wagner's still the funniest of them, but he oversells his jokes. It's Pat Mills, surprisingly, who turns up for the series' most concentrated burst of world-building so far: "The Return of Rico," which sets up a gigantic chunk of its later direction in six pages. In general, I'm weirdly divided about Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 A. I find the tone of a lot of his stories off-putting--not really in a "failure of craft" way, but in a "this person's idea of fun is very different from mine" way. His Dredd, in particular, almost always seems "off" to me. Wagner's Dredd would never, ever say "he--he ain't heavy--he's my brother! That's fantastic. A few episodes after that, Wagner takes over for the rest of the volume. He's definitely still finding his voice and calibrating his jokes--calling an eccentric, rich recluse "Hugh Howards" falls flat, but the page before that, we get "My boy! What are they doing to my boy? The most obvious one is that the series moves to the moon for a few months--I have no idea if that was somebody's idea of how to make it feel more "science fiction-y" or what, but between the Luna-1 sequence, in which Dredd shifts his base of operations to a city on the moon, and the forthcoming Cursed Earth sequence, we barely see Mega-City One for close to nine months. Luna-1 always seemed like a sort of desperation move for the series to me; it may just have been that "Judge Dredd" was starting Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 seem a bit like Will Eisner's "The Spirit," and that series had introduced its "let's go to the moon! Adding the Texas City judges and their accents to the mix basically made "Judge Dredd" a space Western. I gather, also, that there was some stuff going on behind the scenes--the fact that there's an entire episode "Land Race" built Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 a sinister corporation called IPC forcing people to sign things suggests a bit of rancor. The other big change, which actually happens a week before the Luna-Cit sequence begins, is the arrival of Brian Bolland. With the exception of a few arresting images Mike McMahon's first drawing of the ape gangsters comes to mindalmost all the artwork in "Judge Dredd" up to that point had been somewhere between pretty good and mediocre. Bolland, though, was doing much more impressive work than anyone on the strip had done before him, Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 it seems to have made everyone else step their game up. It's amazing how often he manages to sneak that one in. Did Dredd continuity ever return to the idea of wars Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 fought by five-person teams? It's a cute idea, but not exactly tenable; certainly, by the time of "The Apocalypse War," it was scrapped. Also in the department of untenable ideas: Walter the Wobot, the pathetic comedy-relief servant character with a speech impediment, Dobby the House-Elf avant la lettre. He was kind of funny the first time he showed up, but as a regular character he just doesn't work, especially since he requires Dredd to be kind of a softie to him on a regular basis. Dredd's got a little bit of a sentimental side, but later stories--especially the "Mutants" sequence--wisely play that as a genuine weakness, rather than something that makes him more "well-rounded. Walter also shows up in "Return to Mega-City" itself, which is an anomalous episode: it begins with a splash panel that jumps ahead to the hook of the story, in the mode of '60s DC comics. Finally, a note on one particular Luna-Cit episode, "The Oxygen Board": not only is it the best-looking of the early Bolland-drawn Dredd stories, it's the first Dredd story I ever read. It's also oddly Spirit -like in some ways--Dredd doesn't even show up until page four, and doesn't play any role in its climax. Evidently, it was a pretty great on-ramp for a bright, angry eleven-year-old American boy in Milos July 24, at AM. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Dredd Reckoning: The Complete Case Files 01

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Judge Dredd by John Wagner. Alan Grant. Steve Moore. Carlos Ezquerra Illustrator. Mike McMahon Illustrator. Kevin O'Neill Illustrator. Ian Gibson Illustrator. Brian Bolland Illustrator. Collects together forgetten and rare gens from the Thrill-power archives. Readers can experience Dredd strips that haven't been reprinted in over 30 years. This collection Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 classic strips in a must-read for any comic fan! Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Mega-City One United States. Other Editions 1. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Judge Dreddplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Aug 15, Eamonn Murphy rated it liked it. This nice book, much of it in colour, collects Judge Dredd stories from various AD Summer Specials and Annuals between and Being culled from Specials and Annuals it features no long, continuing stories, only short one-offs. There are three scriptwriters: John Wagner, Alan Grant and Steve Moore, though a few individual stories are credited to unknown. It's mostly Wagner, which is no bad thing. Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 are ten artists listed on the cover, the Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 competent AD members and one Joh This nice book, much of it in colour, collects Judge Dredd stories from various AD Summer Specials and Annuals between Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 All the art is pretty good, though in a few of the early stories the Dredd one seems a bit small-bodied and big-headed so he looks like Billy the Cat, of Beano fame. Given thirty-four stories to choose from the Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 thing to do is pick out the highlights. The opening third of the book is pretty unremarkable but not unpleasant. Dredd goes out into the Cursed Earth with a warrant for the arrest of Rhode Island Red, a chicken-headed mutant. This enjoyable tale was greatly enhanced by lively art from Mike McMahon. There is a recurring strain of black humour in the life of Dredd. Norman objects even though he will get an artificial heart as a replacement. He turns to crime. This sort of thing is good fun. Even so, it contains some good yarns, some excellent art and is probably worth the pennies you can now buy it for online. May 15, Rachel Redhead rated it liked it. More of a mixed bag than the regular case files, this is a collection of stories from various specials over several years, so the variance in quality is more apparent, but that shouldn't go against it too much as there's some good gems in the book to enjoy. Nov 11, Derek Moreland rated it it was amazing. I deeply enjoyed the return of Walter and Maria in this collection, for example. After the disappointments of volumes 8 and 9 of the case files, this was a great return to form. Nov 14, Bryn Young-roberts rated it really liked it. Finally we get to see Dredd in colour! Mostly from annuals and specials, this volume takes stories from a range of sources that span about Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 years, and it's great to see just how far the look of the character has come in that time. His first ever colour outing is in the Dan Dare annual, in which he seems to be sporting some green kneepads. The story is typical Dredd of the era and unremarkable save for the fact it is in colour. Much more bizarre is his second colour outing, which appeared i Finally we get to see Dredd in colour! Much more bizarre is his second colour outing, which appeared in the following year's Dan Dare annual in which all of the other popular AD characters hold a surprise Christmas party for him! The premise alone is rather embarrassing and isn't helped by the story which really isn't much beyond the premise. Thankfully, crossovers of this kind are rare. While Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 entire book may be a collection of odd curiosities the truth is that it is still a lot of fun and a wonderful panorama of Dredd's early years. Jan 23, Keith rated it really liked it. These books collect the Dredd stories that were printed in specials and annuals, and the first few stories really aren't up to the quality of Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 main strip. It swings from okay to terrible for a few installments, then finds its feet very well with some really enjoyable vintage Dredd throughout the latter half. For that chunk, even when the stories aren't particularly exciting the artwork should see you through, there's some really gorgeous Ezquerra stuff in here. Jun 17, Shawn Birss rated it did not like it. This is my second Dredd book, after gaining an interest in the character from the recent ? This book is mostly just terrible, with the occasional bright spot in the art. But when it's bad, it's really bad. Panels are even out of order sometimes. I found the general tone and wit at its best to be somewhat comparable to Mad magazine. Skip it. I hope to discover that this strip improves. The story has a lot of potential, as evidenced in the film. Dec 04, Timo rated it it was ok Shelves: comics. Don't get me wrong, but I do really love Judge Dredd and his world, but these Solid art. Sep 12, Richard rated it did not like it. There's a reason why these stories haven't been reprinted in over 30 years. They are scraping the barrel. Stick to the case files. Feb 25, Raymond Hall rated it liked it. I enjoyed this Judge Dredd book of stories that were printed in Magazines and newspapers,I found some were better than others but overall very good. Julian rated it it was amazing Nov 22, Jason rated it liked it Oct 27, Karl Hickey rated it liked it Jan 08, Tero Kaukonen rated it liked Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 Oct 04, Chris Kilbride rated it really liked it Aug 14, Jon Start rated it it was amazing Nov 19, Victor rated it really liked it Mar 08, Dan Van rated it liked it Dec 20,