JUDGE DREDD: V. 14: THE COMPLETE CASE FILES PDF, EPUB, EBOOK John Wagner,Alan Grant | 272 pages | 30 Nov 2009 | Rebellion | 9781906735296 | English | Oxford, United Kingdom Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files from Rebellion Show More Show Less. Add to Cart. Any Condition Any Condition. See all 6 - All listings for this product. No ratings or reviews yet No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer , Hardcover 4. Legend of Korra Ser. Brand New! You may also like. That's the meat of the story as it would ordinarily be described--but immediately after the Dark Judges show up and we get that weird image of Kraken turning away from them and pumping his right, Lawgiver-less fist at us , Wagner elides over the effects of what they've been up to as hearsay. We don't even get a representative scene of the conflict, as we did with the "Dan Tanna Junction" sequence in "The Apocalypse War. After that opening scene, we finally get back to Dredd for the first time in four months , in a Cursed Earth setting that Wagner and Ezquerra are once again playing as a fairly straight Wild West scenario, then to McGruder--the redesign with the goatee is pretty brilliant--and the Benedict Arnold Citi-Def group. How many British readers would even know who Benedict Arnold was? But once it's been established that Dredd and McGruder have teamed up, the story of them getting back to the city isn't where the action is, so after the scene-shift provided by the Dark Judges' morning newscast Wagner can't resist parodying the tone of public service announcements, not that anyone would want him to resist it , we move on to the lengthy sequence with the cadets. Led, of course, by young Giant, who's got some father issues of his own. The cadets give us another image of the city without Dredd-as-the-Law, and another image of children without parent figures; they also give Wagner an opportunity to show us a bunch of high-energy scenes while two of the story's protagonists are in a rowboat and two others are comatose. The plot mechanics require that McGruder and Dredd meet up with Anderson and compare notes--but, of course, the setup of the story makes it very difficult for them to get to the same place, and the mobile judges are in a trip-through-the-underworld situation rather than one that permits much suspense or action. When they finally hit the Big Smelly, the full-page splash panel Ezquerra draws feels like a sigh of exhaustion rather than a revelation. And, again, a big scene that would've taken a while to show is elided over: Anderson wakes up, and there's Dredd, who's met up with the cadets and somehow convinced them that he's not under the Dark Judges' influence, despite the way he looks now. The third act is a short one, just the final seven chapters: Dredd and his little crew retake Control and jeez, Giant's pretty cold-blooded about killing Judges , they get rid of the Sisters by killing Kit, they reinstate McGruder, they dispense with the Dark Judges, and at last we get that jaw-dropping confrontation between Dredd and Kraken, who once again faces death without flinching. So how do you end a story like "Necropolis"? With a joke, as Judge Dredd almost always does. I never understood the final panel until I looked it up. Remember, "The Apocalypse War" missed a week, and shifted to black-and-white only, near its end. And just before "Necropolis" ended, the Megazine launched, with Wagner and Ezquerra's "Al's Baby" in its first batch of issues. I'm guessing that at least some of "Al's Baby" had been drawn earlier as I understand, it had been prepared for Toxic! Still, that is one hell of a lot of work for a single artist. So it's not entirely surprising that Ezquerra only drew a handful of covers over the course of "Necropolis," although one of them is among his best that terrifying shot of Kraken preparing to "execute" himself. Ezquerra has all but disappeared from AD 's covers over the second half of its run to date: believe it or not, he's only drawn six Dredd covers for the weekly since the end of "Necropolis," plus a couple more for the Megazine. Maybe it's that his sensibility isn't quite in line with what post comic book covers are supposed to look like, but that's a shame: he's got more raw power than nearly any other contemporary cartoonist I can think of. A few "Necropolis"-era Dredd covers are other artists' attempts to work with the material Ezquerra was drawing on the inside the best by far is Steve Yeowell's Judge Death from Prog Since the Megazine material reprinted in this volume didn't have credits on the story pages themselves and the book isn't much help , I've turned to BARNEY to see who was responsible, and it turns out this era was the Alan Grant show. So's the presence of the spunky psychic Judge who shows up to push the plot of "Raptaur" forward at appropriate moments. When I encountered this story in here, I briefly wondered why Judge Karyn was occupying the role usually reserved for Anderson, and then realized that it's because "Raptaur" began in mid, between the first and second halves of "Engram," i. The second half of "Engram" ran just in time for her to get out and appear in "Judgment on Gotham" a few weeks later. Karyn seems to have only appeared in one subsequent Grant-written story "Raptaur Returns," naturally , but she had her own, never-reprinted series in the Meg in , and Gordon Rennie wrote a few stories involving her in the mids. It's also worth noting that the artwork on Dredd stories in this era of the Megazine sometimes went way further out than in the weekly the peak of that impulse, perhaps, being Mike McMahon's triple-fortissimo "Howler" a few years later. Come to think of it, Carnage didn't appear in Spider-Man until a year later. But the thing that drives this story is a creature that can take you to pieces before you even register its presence, so keeping the viewer's perspective blurred or misdirected isn't a bad idea. Sam Kieth's lunatic, blobby colored-marker? It's also a very odd story, with its direct reference to Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman and its non-sequitur "do you get it? Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 14 by John Wagner 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 Dredd's adventures in chronological order, complete and uncut! Collects the Judge Dredd storylines from AD progs I bought this on amazon for bloody nothing. Delighted I was. Then I got into it somewhat. Firstly, these are all Judge Dredd's tales, this being the first of a million volumes. It's from the 70's, is in black and white and sometimes is a bit dated, which is to be expected. I got this to get more into Dredd but I think I should have gone with later volumes, something to do with Judge Death or something. By all accounts I hear volume 2 is the Shit, so I won't wait around for it, it's on order. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Tweet Clean. Cancel Update. What size image should we insert? This will not affect the original upload Small Medium How do you want the image positioned around text? Dredd's first stories take place in the year , years after its publication date in His regular stories are generally set years after their real-world publication date unless otherwise stated as a flashback or prequel story. The setting of Judge Dredd is a dystopian future Earth damaged by a series of international conflicts; much of the planet has become radioactive wasteland, and so populations have aggregated in enormous conurbations known as 'mega-cities'. Within Mega-City One, extensive automation including intelligent robots has rendered the majority of the population unemployed. Mega-City One's population lives in gigantic towers known as City Blocks , each holding some 50, people. Eastwood would later play the lead in Dirty Harry — one of the thematic influences by which Judge Dredd was inspired. A number of stories feature rivalries between different blocks, [30] on many occasions breaking into full-scale gun battles between them [31] such as in the story " Block Mania ". The Judges' powers reflect the difficulty of maintaining order. Mega-City One extends from Boston to Charlotte ; but extended into Florida before the Apocalypse War laid waste to the southern sectors. Following Chaos Day in , the city was reduced to 50 million. However, immigration quickly increased the population to 72 million by There are four other major population centres in Dredd's Northern America: the first is Texas City, including several of the southern former United States and based on Wild West manners.