This 400-page collection includes classic Judge Dredd stories such as The Mega-Rackets, Judge Death Lives!, Diary of a Mad Citizen, The Hotdog Run, and the all-time great mega-epic Block Mania and The Apocalypse War! Good news such as the free comics AHOY Comics have announced, as have Image Comics, but now we’re hearing that the good script and art droids in servitude to Tharg have been busy uploading 400 pages of classic Judge Dredd comic strips for your reading pleasure. But, we’re here to also deliver good news too. Consequently, as former editor Alan McKenzie explains, “every year that goes by Dredd gets a year older – unlike Spider-Man, who has been a university student for the past twenty-five years!”. Therefore Dredd is over seventy years old, with over fifty years of active service (2079–2136), and for some time characters in the comic have been mentioning that Dredd is not as young and fit as formerly.It’s going to be a busy day, methinks, with all the cancellations, closures and what not. The first Dredd story, published in 1977, was set in 2099, whilst stories published in 2015 are set in 2137. So it isn’t necessary for readers to see Dredd’s face, and I don’t want you to”. Time passes in the Judge Dredd strip in real time, so as a year passes in life, a year passes in the comic. This began as an unofficial guideline, but soon became a rule. As John Wagner explained: “It sums up the facelessness of justice − justice has no soul. He is a “ street judge“, empowered to summarily arrest, convict, sentence, and execute criminals. Dredd’s entire face is never shown in the strip. Joseph Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in the dystopian future city of Mega-City One. He is that magazine’s longest-running character. He was created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra, and first appeared in the second issue of 2000 AD (1977), a weekly science-fiction anthology. Judge Dredd is a fictional character who appears in British comic books published by Rebellion Developments, as well as in a number of movie and video game adaptations.
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