FREE JUDGE DREDD: THE COMPLETE CASE FILES 01 PDF John Wagner | 320 pages | 15 Jun 2010 | Rebellion | 9781906735876 | English | Oxford, United Kingdom List of Judge Dredd stories in Case Files | ADopedia | Fandom 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.