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Judge Dredd: The Blessed Earth Vol. 1 is mystery hopscotch.
I’ve been reading Dredd for most of my life and this series of books illustrates just how good the original strips were. There are some strong, imaginative ideas here but the clarity of storytelling and art is terrible. It is messy and confusing. I regret buying so many of the US books as they have generally been poor. Sticking with the UK work.
On the one hand, yay for trying to do something new with Dredd?But on the other hand, this sucked.
Unlike most of the Judge Dredd stories, this one doesn't focus on crime and punishment. Instead, it's a really weird police procedural that just didn't work well for me. It's too disconnected from the mainstream Judge Dredd stories, and too much of it doesn't make sense.Still, there are good bits, including the art, and some readers will find it enjoyable.
This series is set 5 years after the events in Mega City Zero. Millions of people back from the green and the Judges struggle to reinstate order in a world with citizens that have lived without the judges and want to keep it that way. Lots of creepy story elements and robots .
~~~Here is a review of an unfinished story, because graphic novels are often published in two skinny trades instead of just one, for some reason.Satire like this can be hard to parse. It can get so incredibly on the nose sometimes, that I'm not sure if this is like Starship Troopers, the film by the director of Robocop, a hard sendup of fascist propaganda, or if it is like Starship Troopers, the book on which the film was based, which is straight faced fascist propaganda.It's also such a trip to...
Hints of the old hardline Dredd humour (“Dredd is the wall,”) within this interesting set up of judges trying to recivilise the US after an atomic war. There is much consideration of robots and their rights here, although Dredd (and therefore the writers, it seems) do not want to accept this as an idea. Where this falls down is in its narrative - the panels sort of blur into each other - not visually - but in story terms, so it is not always easy to tell quite what is going on. I wondered if it
Staff foreverVery different style of art for Dredd, and a great story. Dress seems a character that has survived the purge of comic heroes, and remains the character he always was, though with just enough growth through his experiences to keep it all fresh
an interesting side story in the Judge Dredd universe. I don’t mind how different the IDW stuff is, it’s definitely a change from the standard continuity.
