It probably went that way after I stopped reading it but it's not the Dredd I know from the original series, sorry to sound hipster, but,
I was there from the start as a kid in the '70s, literally from prog one onwards before it was even called 2000ad, I had the free flying thingy n metallic sparkly stickers they gave away on the first few releases n everything.
Then in some sort of classic enactment of every story ever that starts with the above, my Mum decided to throw them all out one time when I wasn't about to object.
She did the same with my Star Wars figures, my original Alien figure with snapping jaw action, and all my original ZX81 games, all at different times. I was afraid to leave the house after a while!
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 8:56,
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From day one he was Dirty Harry in the future
I can't think of a time when he wasn't shooting holes in people
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HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:00,
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Well of course he was, he was a hard man with a gun who shot bad people
But they didn't smear the screen with blood and have giblets flying thru the air, the point of reading it wasn't for the gore wank and macho chest thumping, it was for the story, cool shit and pleasing boy hood morals, the good guy always won and all that.
This looks like its going to be half the story and twice the gore, nice and easy money off the 300 style crowd, I wonder if they'll throw in some confusingly homo erotic chest out male bonding scenes too, they all seem to have them?
'I feel the need, the need for speed!' ;)
Ah fuckit I'll most likely still watch it, might still enoy it, beyond all the 3D slo mo testosterone flying about there might still be some humour and depth to it...
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:19,
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Like most SF
the star is the universe, not the characters. Dredd is not interesting in himself, but we got to see glimpses of the Mega-City and snippets of its history etc. That was the real hook I think.
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Good point, in himself he really wasn't that interesting, the world he policed and all the mad shit within it was he real hook,
Seeing it that way explains why it must be fucking hard to bring it to the big screen as in the orginal strip he really isn't the main focus of most of the stories, all the robots, flying cars, belly wheels, Boing and block wars were.
He was almost a robot.
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:35,
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Total agreement
stupid voice, stupid gurn and the ultra-explicit gore is not in the spirit.
JD was black humour almost totally lacking in gore, people fell down, that was it.
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simbosan is too tired, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 10:33,
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Careful!
This means you're not a real man, like me, not like all the other really hard guys who read comics, play video games and own a Bat'Leth! ;)
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 11:09,
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I started with the Space Spinner prog no. 1.
I remember getting in vividly.
Don't when it wasn't violent.
He had a gun and shot bad guys with comical "budda budda" effects :)
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Here's Dredd in his Daily Star days.
www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/images/Dredd-secur-o-pod-heist.jpg
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:04,
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Who the hell is saying it wasn't violent
Stop saying I'm saying it wasn't violent.
It was cowboys and indians/spaghetti western style the bad guy gets his dues type violent, bang bang you're dead the good guy always wins, not Braindead look at the giblets and prove you're a real man and not puke fuck the story type violent, THAT'S what I'm saying.
This isn't.
*Or at least from that clip don't look it anyways.
*mind you since when can you judge a film from what they cut into the trailer to get bums on seats?
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:27,
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Dredd wasn't in the first issue was he?
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:39,
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I can't remember what it was called before it was 2000ad neither
I know I could google but anyone remember? Something very clunky and futuristicy is all I can recall, something like Star Lords Zoom! Or something, LOL!
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:52,
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I don't think it was called anything
as there wasn't a precursor to 2000AD, it just came out as a brand new comic when I was about 11 or 12 - fuck me I'm old :(
If I remember correctly Dan Dare was in it from the beginning and he was resurrected from The Eagle.
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 10:00,
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Oh? I thought it was StarLord then merged with some other comic and became 2000ad?
I may be remembering it wrong, it was a damn long time ago now, mind you, it wouldn't be the first time I've seen 'facts' about stuff I grew up with seem entirely wrong to me, and I'm never sure if I'm remembering it wrong, or its another case of a modern 'truth' about the past being slightly twisted by time and Chinese Whispers before anyone wrote it down on the Internet, I've seen a few before, mainly chronology issues or Roddenberry style fan ret con being accepted as fact now.
Meh, doesn't really matter I guess.
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 10:13,
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Not sure if this helps
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd#Publication_history
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 10:21,
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Ye it does!
Confirms Dredd first appeared in issue 2 and that Starlord was merged into 2000AD a year after 2000AD was first published.
Thank you :)
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 10:48,
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