Judge Dredd: Mega-Blog One

The Judge Dredd Mega-Collection is a odd collection of optional reading. It probably is where Grant and Wagner through story ideas that couldn’t sustain a whole prog. Each story is only a page long, usually being about 10-12 panels. These short stories were not published in 2000AD, instead they were published in the Daily Star a British newspaper. This volume featured all the stories published from the start in 1981 and runs through 1985. While this volume was published in 1990, as far as I can tell it is still to this day the only comprehensive reprint of the daily star strips. They all follow a similar format, having a short establishing plot, some action and a one-liner/punchline at the end. The short format of these stories leaves little to no time to breath. As each adventure gets straight to the point. Interestingly there are a few multipart stories in here running up to four installments in length (Which while rare is interesting because it brings the story up to the

Contains 2000 AD Progs 376-423         Now a full 3 case files after the apocalypse war I started to want more epic stories. The last two volumes (And years in publishing) were primarily focused with showing the aftermath of the Apocalypse War and while the wars shadow will always hang in Judge Dredd akin to September 11 th here in the States, the volume begins moving on. This Volume we get three extended Dredd semi-epics this time around, none of which are related to the apocalypse war.            Moving on from the apocalypse war as it kicks off a semi-epic story “Dredd Angel”. Leads into “The Hell Trekkers’ and concludes with “City of the dammed” while some may be better than others all three are great stories. The first two of these stories call back to the complete case files 04 the Judge child but I enjoyed them more than the Judge child. The cursed earth is always bonkers          The first of these two and the longest clocking in at 29 progs “The He

2000 AD Annual 1984 and 2000 AD Progs 416-427, 468-478, 520-531, 607-609, 612-622, 635-647, 657-659, 669-670, 712-717,758-763, + Judge Corey, 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1989) Judge Anderson: The psi files volume 01 is a tough volume to place in the timeline. Just look at the above progs included to see why. Some Anderson stories were released nearly 100 progs apart from each other. I personally would have preferred they be included in the Dredd complete case files in their appropriate positions, but this works as well. The main point of interest about Anderson stories is because her comics were not regulars in 2000 her stories are longer than the average Judge Tale (they clock in at 5-15 progs long)          Unfortunately, this case file is so incomplete that that they didn’t even title it the complete case files. Anderson's Shamballa isn’t included along with a series of other Dredd Annual stories are missing. With that said it is forgivable that Shamballa is missin