Am I the only idiot who thinks this storyline sucked? Outside of a number of outstanding panels Jara's motivations (and thus the entire conceit of the story's premise) make no sense. In universe Dredd and the Judge system re-organized under his watch are unironically heroes of the highest caliber having fought relentlessly to depose multiple psychopathic dictators. Dredd particularly was always depicted in the stories that would have happened during Jara's life-time as having a genuine concern for protecting the rights and privileges of citizens against crime, and not just petty crime or thought crime but genuine violent super-villain level criminals.I know it's trying to do the whole "how it looks from the other side" subversion but the other side of Dredd isn't democracy and freedom it's Call-Me-Kenneth, Judge Cal and Mad-Dog Kazan. And then there's that really bizarre ending that feels like it's trying really, really hard to say something deep about the human condition but doesn't actually have anything to say and comes off as grotesque and pointless. This storyline gets praised to high-heaven as one of the best but, I don't think it is. I think by taking itself as seriously as it does it compels the reader into having to take Judge Dredd seriously and a serious evaluation of Dredd separated from the pop-culture and mild political satire renders the pro-Democracy terrorists objectively wrong about their attitudes toward a Judge system that they should know in-universe from direct lived experience is the greatest bulwark for protecting their rights that they've ever had. Judge Cal literally enslaved the people of Mega-City One and it was Dredd and his judges who restored liberty. They would remember that.
>>150406227It's not that good.
>>150406227How would one go about starting Dredd?
>>150407768Complete Case Files 01.If you want to skip to where it gets going, read The Cursed Earth (in Complete Case Files 02) and go from there.If you want skip to where it gets good, read The Day the Law Died (also in Complete Case Files 02).
>>150406227Do you remeber Dredd Cofidential where it was revealed the Judges violate their own law in pursuit of Justice that only ends up benefitting them?Don't be Ennis, be Wagner. Judge Dredd is a man whose job it is to protect the state and people but he's not a hero.
>>150407837Thanks. Been reading more comics lately and always wanted to check out Dredd.
>>150406227Yes, you are alone in this. It’s the only reason the comic still has a presence and it elevated the story as a whole.
>>150406227>Am I the only idiot who thinks this storyline sucked? Outside of a number of outstanding panels Jara's motivations (and thus the entire conceit of the story's premise) make no sense. Yea you're an idiot. Why would she know or give a shit about what the Judge system supposedly improved on when she wasn't born and has lived in a hell system with zero say all her life? You're blending meta knowledge and ignoring from her perspective the judges are tyrants who just occasionally put down another tyrant.Her view and actions would be closer to neo nazis who think Hitler is the highlight of the world and blame everything else to make up for their short comings.
>>150407768Read America, if you like that you will like Judge Dredd.
>>150406227Dredd personally is probably the only institution in the world of Megacity-One that works. He enforces the laws but practices mercy, and protects the people for no reward despite often unimaginable suffering and a nonexistent personal life.Before "America", Dredd was the one who insisted that the Judges hold elections and he was right that the people would recognize the necessity of the judges.
>>150407768Judge Dredd Case File #1. Dredd is really easy to follow for the most part since it was published one one magazine by the same writer for a very long time, so you can mostly just read the Case Files.
>>150406227Chief Judge Cal isn't "The other side of the Judges" because it was the Judges who put him in power in the first place.
>>150408675I like that one where Dredd isn’t a judge anymore and is kinda nice.
>>150408670The books through the decades have shown that to not be completely true. The aussie government seems to produce citizens that are less hostile to their judges and happier. Space colonies and aliens tend to be claimer. Also the matiland experiments was leading to smarter, happier citizens that committed less crime. Dredd himself recognized the citizens should have a choice but also that they were too stupid and apathetic to really think on better alternatives. Caged animal all their life is going to be hesitant or even outright resistant being let out.
>>150408823That is the recent story with Dredd from another universe, right? It was sweet, but like all stories where the heroes retire, it forgets about outside threats which Meg-One has to deal with like space necromancers, aliens, mutants, other Mega-Cities, or even robot uprisings.Batman and Dredd can never win on a large, strategic scale as long as they are published because their stories depend on their world providing a steady series of challenges to them.
>>150409614No, the one I’m referring to is super early on and Dredd hands in his badge for the first time.
>>150408670>pageBad faith arguments.
>>150409614That was a good one. I like the alternate Dredds. Hoping for an infinite crisis style super event with multiple Dredd saving the multiverse.
>>150410409They once teamed up to stop an Elon Musk expie.
>>150410856I would like to see the 3 sets of Dark Judges do something together.
>>150410890The real one would probably kill the other two.
>>150410856Comic Dredd also teamed up with Stallone Dredd in a recent Meg issue, where they fought Stallone's characters from other films
>>150411851That was a goodie. He has also killed a bunch of dwarves and at least one was Stallone.
>>150406227>he doesn't know about the dem march>he doesn't know about Ricohow do you hold up Cal, the CHIEF JUDGE, as an example of the enemies of the judges? he was the enemy of Judge Dredd, everybody else went along with it
>>150410856Poop.
>>150412214TBF, most of the judges who supported Cal were brainwashed while in their sleep, but I could see why civilians wouldn't buy that.
Dedd thredd.
>>150407887Yeah, there are plenty of better stories about Judge corruption or overreach.
