![]() ![]() A legacy character from a vast array of the most recognizable creators in comics, (including Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, Mark Millar, John Wagner, Dan Abnett, and Pat Mills), Dredd is a vessel for stories with overwhelmingly sardonic takes on law, justice, and the often wholesale inability of politics to synthesize the two. As time progresses in both Mega-City One (literally-the series started in 2079 and as of now takes place in 2143) and the real world, so, too, does Dredd. A reflection of our own struggles with law and justice, living and dying.īut that idea essentially lacks nuance, dismissing the flexibility of Dredd as a figure and the function of his stories. Indeed, many purists and diehard fans will tell you that Dredd functions best when he is unflinching and morally reprehensible. ![]() A “Street Judge”-officer, judge, jury, and executioner in the monolithically dystopic Mega-City One-Dredd is, by all outward appearances, a one-dimensional satire of fascism in his original conception by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. Since his debut in 1977’s 2000 AD #2 over forty years ago, the grim, fit, and unapologetic Judge Dredd has become both one of comics’ most emblematic figures, but also one of its most enigmatic.
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