

Later, he was portrayed by Karl Urban in the 2012 adaptation Dredd.

Judge Dredd made his live-action debut in 1995 in Judge Dredd, portrayed by Sylvester Stallone.

In 2011, IGN ranked Judge Dredd 35th among the top 100 comic book heroes of all time. Over the years, Judge Dredd has been hailed as one of the best satires of American and British culture with an uncanny ability to predict upcoming trends and events such as mass surveillance, the rise of populist leaders, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In Great Britain, the character of Dredd and his name are sometimes invoked in discussions of police states, authoritarianism, and the rule of law. He is a " street judge", empowered to summarily arrest, convict, sentence, and execute criminals. Judge Dredd is a law enforcement and judicial officer in the dystopian future city of Mega-City One, which covers most of the east coast of North America. He also appears in a number of film and video game adaptations. He is the magazine's longest-running character. He first appeared in the second issue of 2000 AD (1977), which is a British weekly anthology comic. Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. Bionic eyes grant 20/20 night vision and reduced blinking rate.These were subject to a lawsuit for copyright infringement by McDonalds, Burger King, and Green Giant due to satirical elements directly referring to their properties the out-of-court settlement included an agreement never to reprint these stories. This second volume features the very first Dredd epic The Cursed Earth, written by comic legends Pat Mills (SlГЎine) and John Wagner (A History of Violence) and featuring the art of Mike McMahon (ABC Warriors) and Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke).Ĭollects the Judge Dredd strips from 2000 AD, progs 61-115.ĭespite the "Complete" name and the cover listing, this collection does not include the Dredd strip from progs 71-72 (Burger Wars) and 77-78 (Giants aren't Gentlemen, Soul Food). Tags: Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files Case Files Rebellionįar future lawman Judge Dredd has been a mainstay of the British comics scene for almost thirty years and now you can follow his earliest cases in this vast collection of graphic novels.
