![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome to Mega-City One: A highly populated city with staggering crime rates. Here's hoping things will start to fall into place soon! Still, there is potential here, and the highly polished Brian Bolland artwork that starts to appear towards the book's end is a real treat. The characters are underdeveloped, the stories predictable, and the humor often does not work. ![]() The notion that widespread wealth spells disaster is a bit silly, though (unless you happen to be a member of the Tea Party), and the fictional world of Judge Dredd generally feels rather half-baked at this early stage. After all, the reader is not likely to feel sorry for a bunch of bored "degenerates" who go on crime sprees just to keep themselves entertained. Well, it certainly is a scenario that provides fictional justification for the police-state methods personified by Judge Dredd. And what better way to enjoy all that wealth and leisure time than to commit crimes, right? Robots perform most traditionally human tasks, providing the 800 million people living in Mega-City 1 with an abundance of wealth and leisure time. Dredd is a law enforcement officer in the futuristic North American Mega-City 1, empowered to pass death sentences or jail terms on the job. "Judge Dredd" is the most popular title of the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD, and this first volume collects the title's earliest stories from 1977-78. ![]()
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