Really good art with fun quick stories. I was not expecting this. Just a blast!

terribleI'll take the 2000 A.D. Dredd over this trash any day of the week. Terrible stories and writing with far too much comedy.

This is volume 1 of a series of Judge Dredd stories by IDW. The main story is about the prelude to The Big Fail, where robots and automation is apparently starting to fail around Mega City One.In between are related stories about a rogue Psi Judge, and a sub-plot around rich people being cloned and then being kidnapped and held for ransom. One of the kidnapped people would be Judge Tarjay, who would play a different role in a later volume in the series.

Judge Dredd, Vol. 1 is a great take on Dredd that takes Dredd into a cloning investigation that takes bizarre but cool twists! :D The story overs ground left right and centre to introduce people not in the know but at the same time really holds the pace at epic levels! :D The book has brief interludes with seemingly disconnected stories that start to tie in as the book progresses! :D This of course adds to the tone of the universe giving us introductions and insights in other characters than Dre...

An absolutely middling attempt at capturing the zany unpredictability of the British 2000 A.D. Dredd strips, with only a fraction of the wit and none of the satirical clarity. Disjointed, unsatisfying, and banal, but with some modest charms; reminds me of the 1996 Stallone movie.Why are American writers so terrible at capturing the spirit of Judge Dredd?

Damn this was lit. Love how in the Dredd universe his presence is always felt. The scenery is the best.

Oh dear me no.Dredd for the US market is not Dredd as we know it.

Good! So shortly after the DREDD movie, IDW launched a Judge Dredd series, and its pretty good! First off the artwork is great, its cartoony style, but i think it suits judge dredd well! The Story for this first volume was pretty good too! Overall a nice voume to read for a judge dredd fan!

Not the real thingIt’s okay, I suppose, but this is at best a weak imitation of Judge Dredd. The darkness isn’t there, and judges behave like an6 other comic book characters. Dredd pops round to another judge’s ‘place’ for coffee (!). Judge Anderson is very, very blonde. It just doesn’t gel.Do yourself a favour - get out there and start reading the Complete Dredd Case Files (32 volumes and counting).

This was fun a time. I wasn't expecting some some of the humour here but no complaints here.

A fun romp through Mega-City One that manages to pay decent homage to the 2000 AD series that I used to read back in the 1980s. Judge Dredd is featured as well as Judge Anderson from PSI division.The graphic novel features the first four issues of the series by IDW. The story by Duane Swierczynski is okay and has continuity over the 4 issues, but the book does end with a cliffhanger of sorts. The art by Daniel and Gulacy is garish and violent, which is perfect for the tone of the series. Judge D...

Would have been great if the main story didn't just peter out. Hopefully it gets picked up in future volumes.

The American take on Judge Dredd. The art in these comics are almost cell shaded in their look but are perfect for the Job at hand. The images are stark and highly impactive and are of a very high quality. This was a lovely book to look at.The stories are well written and interesting, there are twists and turns. Because this was written of a slightly more adult market they are more bloody and visceral which again actually suits the subject matter very well. PSI judge anderson is utilised a lot i...

Do fascists know that we are making fun of them?It's an important question. Books like this - satirical, campy, and ridiculous - always pose a potential threat of being taken unironically by their intended victims. Or, for that matter, vehicles such as the Judge Dredd stories may mask the actual fascism of writers who don't get the joke. For an example, see how Robocop was taken over and written by Frank Miller after the first film. We didn't figure him out for decades. This is good satire. It i...

Grud on a greenie! It’s old stoney-face, Judge Joe Dredd! Mr Happy! Good ol’ JD! Yup, Dredd is back, well, kind of - here in the U of K he’s never gone far but in the US of Ay? He’s not nearly the fixture he is to literally dozens of readers in Blighty. So IDW decided to relaunch the character in the US with the DC/Marvel approach of trade paperbacks of which this is the first. Duane Swierczynski is the writer of all the strips here - and before I go any further, I’m not going to type his unpron...

Wow, just great stories that all connect together into one canvas. Different styles and art in each one of them, but I liked all with maybe one exception.

This book has all the potential of a good Judge Dredd run. It takes place in a Mega-City One that is crime-ridden and decaying, uses sci-fi as social commentary and is not afraid to present Dredd as a merciless and tough lawman working for a police state. The stories here are interconnected in a loose way but they all make statements on peoples dependency on tech, beauty, and our quest for empty and immediate gratification. I give a hearty thumbs up to the writer for both his insight and the qua...

A solid but quick restart to Judge Dredd for American audiences. I like that Duane S. keeps to smaller stories while still threading a larger story through the background of bots misbehaving even though they aren't supposed to be capable of it. The art is decent.

Overview: The comic book series follows the events of the well-known 2012 film directed by Pete Travis and written by Alex Garland, which was based on the comic book by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. The chaotic environment depicted in the film has worsened in the twenty-first century, and crime is still widespread in Mega-City One, which is home to more than 400 million inhabitants, robots, criminals, and lunatics.Dredd fights on the sole line of defense between anarchy and chaos in this v

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Remember that Dredd movie everyone went crazy over in like 2010? I didn't love it. I know. You're in shock now. The internet loves it. The people love it. How dare I? HOW DARE I!?!?!? But really, I found the whole thing just okay. Sure, some of the action scenes were intense and really cool but the plot? Or lack of plot I should say. Anyway, it was just okay. So I figured I'd try the comic, see if it fared better. I know it's a long running series but