Interesting addition to the "lawyers in Dredd's world" debate - Dredd says perp would have had a jury trial, but he "chooses" to judge him himself. Wonder if this is unique to the lawws governing the townships?
The townships only, I'm afraid, because the deputies
aren't Judges, and thus not empowered to dispense hot cups of steaming summary justice.
This month was make-or-break time for my Meg buying habit... and it made the grade (which means something else has to go - Star Wars Legacy and The Walking Dead, your time is up).
Cover: Look, this is the biggest problem the Meg has right now - if I hadn't decided I was giving it one last chance I would not have picked the ulgy mess up. The actual image is fine, but the cluttered design is a dog's dinner, and with the bag that's all a prospective customer gets to see. I'm not a designer, but something needs to be done to showcase both the contents and the GN: this month it's a
GARTH ENNIS story that
hardly anyone has ever read - should be leaping out at the casual fan, not hidden upside down in a bin bag. "Hey, did you see they're giving away a Garth Ennis book with that Judge Dredd thing?". "No".
Dredd: Just brilliant. Al effortlessly juggles the subtleties of Dredd's current world to deliver a fine companion piece to his two brilliant Christmas episodes. Fun and poignant, with great new characters (Hibbet needs his own series) and realistic future-crime developments, superbly atmospheric art. This was worth the cover price on its own, and I'd have kicked myself if I'd missed it. Already as good as the best of Rennie's Dredds, and ahead of all the rest of the WagnAlts, IMHO. In a week where I'd just read one of Wagner's best Dredd episodes in The Talented Mayor Ambrose, this more than held its own.
Tempest: This is still great fun, but I fear it's suffering the curse of the Megazine that claimed Devlin and Fiends before it: the slow death of short episodes stretched over months.
Lost Cases: Okay Alan, I had my doubts, but you win: the concept works. I had never thought of these as being showcases for such exuberant enthusiastic art, but they plainly are, and I'm now looking forward to more. This was a pretty good story too.
Tank Girl: Good to see it back. I look at these light cheery pages and I wonder how they cause such offense - throwaway fun is still fun.
Articles: Still digesting, early days.
GN: Monster: I found it boring then, I find it boring now. Pugh's art has some great moments, but generally suffers from the Simon Harrison problem that muties and norms are all-but indistinguishable. Garth's story makes a decent fist of continuing the story post-Final Solution, but this isn't exactly the most digestible of his many Norn Iron analogies and digressions.
