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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 us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Al Ewing. Rufus Dayglo Illustrator. Patrick Goddard Illustrator Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash. Colin MacNeil Illustrator. Nick Dyer Illustrator. Kevin Walker Illustrator. Simon Fraser Illustrator. Carl Critchlow Illustrator. Mega-City One: the future metropolis bustling with life and every crime imaginable. 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! His victory could mean big changes to the lives of all mutants currently residing in the Big Meg. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty 1. Other Editions 1. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Judge Dredd - Tour of Dutyplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Judge Dredd - Tour of Duty. Lists with Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Apr 05, Lono rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. Follow up to "Origins" that was as good as I had heard. Stories in Dredd's more recent collections are trending towards more complex storylines and a more flushed out Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash in Mega-City One. The supporting cast continues to grow and improve. Dredd is evolving as a character and his perspective is changing regarding the "Law" and the Judges place in his society as he gets older. This is the natural way as most of us change our opinions as we age. Really helps to make Dredd more believable and h Follow up to "Origins" Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash was as good as I had heard. Really helps to make Dredd more believable and human to me. Still appreciate Dredd's by the numbers, no nonsense early days, but as I get older these changes make Joe easier to relate to. The plight of the mutants in this story is Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash symbolic of some of our society's current ongoing political issues and gives this tale a contemporary quality. Wagner just keeps getting better and the art is consistently good throughout. Starting the next volume tonight. Mar 17, Bodicainking rated it it was amazing. The first part of the two book "Tour of Duty" storyline is a masterful work. It requires a reasonable knowledge of Judge Dredd history but weaves it all together so beautifully that the prep-reading required is more than worth it. Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash spoiling, some magic moments stand out: Serial killer PJ Maybe on the hunt for his own copy-cat; stories leaping from one-note jokes about bad amdrams to severely grim holocaust-evoking horror; the brief return of Judges Edgar and Roffman of the Gestapo-like PSU The first part of the two book "Tour of Duty" storyline is a masterful work. Without spoiling, some magic moments stand out: Serial killer PJ Maybe on the hunt for his own copy-cat; stories leaping from one-note jokes about bad amdrams to severely grim holocaust-evoking horror; the brief return of Judges Edgar and Roffman of the Gestapo-like PSU; Judge Dredd using his respected position to push through a massive change to the law and dealing in his stoic, procedural way, with all the negative consequences. It's such a beautifully woven series of stories that it is difficult to go into more detail without ruining some of the brilliance. Finally, I wanted to point out Judge Pirie, an aged Judge who does public relations work, with one half of his face missing; when he sees the chance to get in on a hot case he goes straight forward and leaps from a hovering vehicle on to another crying "Stop in the name of the law! Nov 08, Juho Pohjalainen rated it it was amazing. It's hard to tell, but Dredd has come a long way in the forty years Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash had him around. He's still an authoritarian, fascist hard-ass, but he's grown as a character and learned that maybe some things aren't as bad as he once thought. In the Democracy arc he first grew to doubt the Judge system and Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash if it were the answer at all, here in Tour of Duty he's trying to make Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash better for the mutants, and in the current at the time of writing arc he's even coming around with robots! Of those t It's hard to tell, but Dredd has come a long way in the forty years we've had him around. Of those three character-growing arcs, I think I like Tour of Duty the best. The Democracy arc got Necropolis in the middle, just another doomsday scenario in a city that already has too many of them. And the Machine Law story for its part feels a little soft and not quite as exciting. But this here is some of the best Dredd. One of the best arcs ever. This it is what makes Dredd great. He's not one dimensional. He's grown as the strip has. In this Dredd is troubled by the big megs anti mutant laws. Jump on here for one of the best Dredd stories ever. Feb 05, Lord Humungus rated it really liked it. Great artwork all around; only one story suffered from substandard art. And some really great writing on Wagner's part for all the Mutie laws stuff. The writing and topics are much more mature than I've read in Dredd material in a long time. Top notch. Boring Boring. Using the mutants as a metaphor for racism and and immigration criticism is heavy handed and uncreative. There's even parts with holocaust outfits and Klan robes. Eventually, I skipped the mutant story lines altogether. Which Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash scant storyline s to read. Judge Dredd only really works, as a character, in certain kinds of stories. Among them: crime and war. I can't recommend this book. You get plenty of pages for the money, but this story is boring and I rolled my eyes at the Boring Boring. You get plenty of pages for the money, but this story is boring and I rolled my eyes at the heavy handed, uncreative political commentary. Mar 11, T. Great sci fi action. This is great sci find action wrapped around a tense political all thriller, full of twists and intrigue. Great artwork, that really pops on a backlit screen. Jun 26, PJ Ebbrell rated it really liked it. Excellent value from one of the UK comic icons. Dredd endures because of his adpatabiity and relevance to society today. Jan 12, Timo rated it it was amazing Shelves: comics. Good grief this was a really good one as it goes with Judge Dredds. Great art, great story with long lasting tremors in the Dredd universe. Dredd Reckoning: Tour of Duty: The Backlash

His victory could affect the lives of all mutants currently Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash in the future metropolis John Wagner has been scripting for AD for more years than he cares to remember. Outside of AD his credits include Star Wars, Lobo, The Punisher and the critically acclaimed A History of Violence Al Ewing's work for AD has seen him hailed as a major voice in the field, bringing fresh characters, a keen sense of comedy and a startling inventiveness to the UK comics scene. Rufus Dayglo started his career as an animation slave-bot, but was saved by Tharg and rebuilt as an art-droid. He now works for various publishers in the UK and US. Dreams can come true Patrick Goddard is has worked extensively for the Galaxy's Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash Comic. Walker has recently finished an acclaimed run on DC's L. He also enjoys creating large abstract paintings. He says it's art therapy! He has also illustrated Future Shocks and Tales From the Black Museum, and his art has appeared extensively in small-press publications. Simon Fraser is best known to AD fans as the co-creator of Russian rogue Nikolai Dante, whose adventures have been a staple of the comic since his debut in Convert currency. Add to Basket. Condition: Very Good. Seller Inventory U More information about this seller Contact this seller. Condition: Good. Item is in good condition. Some moderate creases and wear. This item may Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash come with CDs or additional parts including access codes for textbooks. Photos are stock pictures and not of the actual item. Seller Inventory DS John Wagner Et Al. Publisher: Rebellion ad This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. View all copies of this ISBN edition:. About the Author : John Wagner has been scripting for AD for more years than he cares to remember. Customers who bought this item also bought. Stock Image. Used Softcover Quantity Available: 1. MusicMagpie Stockport, United Kingdom. Seller Rating:. Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty. Published by AD Graphic Novels Used Paperback Quantity Available: 1. Mutants | Judge Dredd Wiki | Fandom

Dave Dredd Alert: A daily dose of Dredd-verse comics. It was a darn good book and the follow up is even stronger. Do you know if there are any plans for collecting later stories? As far as I can tell Tour of Duty Backlash is the most recent material collected. Dave: I've only got a couple of books left! But there's your very promising new blog to look forward to You're very kind. Reprints Judge Dredd stories Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash AD Progs,Prog,and As we careen toward the end of this blog and hit the really good stuff from the past few yearswe're going to have a few more special guests; this week I'm delighted to be joined by Jamaal Thomas, one of the geniuses behind Funnybook Babylon. He also Twitters here and Tumblrs here. He was kind enough to send over his own bio: "Lifelong reader. Loved comics as a child, fell out of love as a teenager. Started reading again Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash my twenties. It's amazing to see how much the franchise has changed in the years since I read Dredd on a regular basis in the mids. When I first started reading Dredd Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash, the tensile permanence of the status quo in Mega-City One made me slightly uncomfortable. The books were filled with military attacks, massacres and riots, but the essential features of Mega-City One Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash the massive city blocks, brutal justice and absurdly long prison sentences - seemed eternal. Even as my discomfort waned, the impression stuck with me over the years. DOUGLAS: One of the things that's interesting to me about this series, actually, is that the status quo isn't so permanent: every blow the city suffers is one from which it takes a long time to recover; characters age; things slowly Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash. But I think that the Dredd most American readers have encountered is one where everything's pretty much the same: the Grant-Wagner period's stories have been reprinted over and over, but the later material like this has been pretty hard to come by in the States. This is a long-game volume Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash sure--"The Edgar Case," in particular, is the final piece of a subplot that had been simmering for more than ten years, with dying Judge Edgar taking her friends and herself down just to get one last knife-twist in on Dredd. The still-unreprinted sequence "The Cal Legacy" is part of the setup there JAMAAL: Even though I knew that time was continuing to pass in this world, there was still a small piece of me that was surprised to read a Dredd story that shows us a MC1 in decline, and an aging Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash grappling with his legacy and struggling to define himself in a changing world. I'm so used to reading adventure comics that take place in an eternal present that Goddard's depiction of a slowly aging Dredd was slightly jarring. This particular story was, as I understand, planned to appear in the 30th anniversary issue of AD it was pushed back a bit because of the delays in "Origins"and the point is that when Dredd first appeared he'd already been on the force for 20 years--so he's now been on the streets for fifty years. Goddard actually strikes me as the most "American-style" of the significant British Dredd artists; I can imagine his artwork in an issue of, say, Amazing Spider-Man much more easily than Nick Dyer's or Rufus Dayglo's, for instance. But yes, the tormented Dredd is a relatively recent phenomenon. When Wagner and Alan Grant tried it with the "A Case for Treatment" sequence in the early '80s, it didn't quite work--it seemed to run in opposition to some of what readers understood about the character. This time, it's right on the money, especially since "Fifty-Year Man" ran immediately after "Origins. Dredd's just had everything he knows about the world upended, and he's shaken--but he's not willing to let on. Maybe the most effective "no, seriously, time has passed" gesture in that story is Mean Machine's cameo appearance: one of Dredd's classic adversaries, now old and decrepit and harmless. In any other series, Dredd would be right that Mean's putting on an act and planning to go right back to his Yosemite Sam act the moment he gets out. In this one, that's it--Mean's been shuffled off for good, it appears. In some sense, was Wagner showing us who Mean Machine always was - an unstable disabled man with a malfunctioning implant? I couldn't help but wonder if Mean's "rehabilitation" can be attributed to his advanced age or the repair of his implant and removal of his claw arm. I'm sure that it's some mix of both, but it changes our view of Mean Machine. Wagner also presents a far more complicated Dredd than the one who lives in my memory. He seems to recognize the human impact of his actions and is even questioning his legacy. At the same time, Wagner doesn't let the reader forget that Dredd's motives aren't entirely pure. He only recognized the humanity of the mutants when he found out that some of his relatives were mutants too - it offsets some of the sympathy the reader develops for Dredd, but makes him seem more fully human. He's slowly evolving. Early on, we see Dredd behave sympathetically toward the parents of a mutant baby. He gets involved in the world of Mega-City One politics. Wagner shows us a Dredd chafing against his external and internal Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash he does a particularly brilliant job of this in "The Edgar Case". But he can only go so far. Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash he's a tactical genius, his strategy frequently comes up short - not only does he underestimate the potential backlash to mutant law reform, he seriously misreads sentiment within the judicial forces. The street violence and petty corruption are just distractions, and even when Dredd is aware of that, he is unable to avoid them. Wagner does a great job of subtly forcing Dredd out of his comfort zone. The stakes aren't just different, they feel elevated. Dredd may be a hyper-competent judge, but he's still a naif in the world of politics. Dredd's never really been written as a fully sympathetic character, and I particularly like the sympathy switcheroo Wagner pulls off here: he pretty much spells it out that discrimination against the mutants is totally wrong, then gets Dredd to do the right thing for the wrong reasons, and sets it up so that "doing the right thing" is incredibly problematic and not easy to defend and brings down Hershey, too. Same thing with Dan Francisco: he's a cheesy glory-hound, and the familiar action-comics formula has gigantic neon signs saying "this guy is actually a corrupt, incompetent bastard" with arrows pointing at him. But Francisco turns out to be a reasonably competent cop himself, with a talent for playing to the cameras; he's an ideologue, but he genuinely has the convictions he claims. And yes, of course Dredd can't see the forest for the trees; in a lot of ways, neither can the Judges as a group. This volume makes it even clearer that they can deal with immediate threats of violence, but not with systemic corruption. Even the bit about the crime boss who had his larynx replaced with a robotic voice to evade lie detectors--which I think had also shown up in "Mandroid" a few years earlier-- suggests that they can't do much about certain major crime problems they know exist. I even suspected that he would be the antagonist for this arc. I wonder if Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash meant to see Francisco as an updated version of Dredd as iconic street judge for an era in which public perception and media savvy have become more important. I may be reading too much into this book, but it felt Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash lot like a passion-play of post-Civil War America. There was something eerily familiar about the way that citizens define themselves against the "other," and their willingness to use terrorist tactics to enforce a tyranny of the majority against a discrete and insular minority. The end of the book is a sad reminder that domestic terror is an effective way to subvert official policy. I think Wagner did a great job of balancing commentary relevant to our current state of affairs with universal political themes. I don't know anything about Wagner's personal politics, but I'm also struck by the ambivalence of the political messages in this volume. The mutant story can be read as a critique of the violence that surrounds the expansion of political rights or as a cautionary tale about an overbearing government imposing change from above before the people were ready. The camp sequences evoked our tradition of detaining suspect groups and deception around the detentionbut Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash suggested that they just needed better regulation and oversight. I wonder if this reflects Wagner's political philosophy or if he's aiming for political ambiguity to keep things timeless. While Wagner tells his big political story, the individual episodes and arcs constantly shift in genre and tone, which complemented the style of the individual artists. Colin MacNeil's clean style and clear storytelling aligns perfectly with the frontier justice meets the Silver Age style of the mutant-camp sections of the book as well as the more modern feel of "The Life and Crimes of PJ Maybe. When Wagner switches to a more noirish style, Goddard is there to meet him in the darkness. And, of course, Kev Walker captures the dark humor of Dredd in his unique fashion. When the backlash finally hits, Carl Critchlow's loose style leads us through the chaos. DOUGLAS: The stories reprinted here are from another one of Wagner's periods of stepping his game up--in this case, integrating the satirical and dramatic and violent sides of the series more tightly than ever. The funniest piece in the book is probably Ewing and Fraser's X-Men parody "Mutopia"--can't have a book about human-mutant relations without having a one-eyed mutant named Scott, a manipulative professor, and so on. But there's something amusing or at least grimly amusing in almost every story here: the subtle mock-documentary format Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash "Mutieblock," the "Tree Ham" "suitable for vegetarians"Quilp good-naturedly agreeing to kill his co-workers, Dredd automatically giving his niece's friend the third degree I expected the grim humor, but was pleasantly surprised by the lighter, funnier stuff in this volume. It's a great contrast to the darker elements of the book. I was also pretty impressed by Wagner's balance of episodic and long-form storytelling. I imagine that it must be difficult to satisfy monthly readers especially when the story is part of an ongoing anthology while telling an epic narrative. I've got to say, this volume is surprisingly dense I feel like I'm barely scratching the surface of this - there are all the parallels between Dredd, Francisco and Beeny, the mystery of PJ Maybe I suspected that he was going to play a greater role in the story and the surveillance motif that runs through the story. But the rest of what you mention has a lot to do with the fact that this is really the first of a two-volume story: "Tour of Duty" proper, the sequence that ran in ADis collected in Tour of Duty: Mega-City Justice which this blog will be getting to in a few weeksand this one is Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash pretty much the immediate set-up for it. In particular, yeah, the PJ Maybe business doesn't pay off in this volume; that happens much more in the next. And Beeny's history and significance aren't really clear unless you've read "Fading of the Light" and "Cadet," but she's an absolutely terrific character, and I've been glad to see Wagner continuing to use her. I've got to read the second volume of the story and "The Gingerberad Man". Yeah, Wagner's depiction of Beeny was a real highlight of this volume. It's fascinating to see how other judges solve mysteries, particularly less experienced ones. That may also explain why Maybe-Ambrose wasn't killing more people and seemed like a reasonably competent mayor. I know, I know, he killed his biographer and planned on killing a young killer inspired by his legacy, but I was surprised that he wasn't secretly massacring dozens of people. Some quick final thoughts:. Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash should see the price of "justice" in Mega City One. I imagine that this reads very differently in serial format. Is there a Dredd 2. Francisco, though, seems like another kind of character altogether; as we can see from the way Dredd treats the media in "Fifty-Year Man" and "Mutieblock," neither of them really has any patience for the way the other does things. I actually didn't read any of this volume as it was being serialized with the exception of "The Spirit of Christmas". I read AD weekly--or as often as I could find copies, which rarely showed up weekly at whatever American comic book store I was frequenting at the time--from Prog or so smack in the middle of "The Apocalypse War" until around Progat which point I moved across the country and the weekly issues' spotty availability became non-availability. I think the only issues I was able to pick up over the next few years were actually the ones almost immediately after this volume:with Gordon Rennie and Paul J. And then when Wagner was announced as writing a long Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash that started withright around the time I started this blog, I got Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash on board, and have been following it ever since. Boy was that ever a good idea. A Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The backlash bibliographical note: This volume collects 42 episodes from about a two-year span. Thanks again to Jamaal!