Comic Review: Dredd: Final Judgement
Unknown to me, there has been another movie tie-in comic called Dredd: Final Judgement, as well as a Judge Anderson set. As soon as I realized this, I purchased and downloaded a copy and dived right in.
To start us off, this comic is 96 pages long and is set in the 2012 Dredd movie franchise; here is the commercial fluff:
Author: Arthur Wyatt and Alex De Campi
Illustrator: Henry Flint and Paul Davidson
THE CRIME IS LIFE
Mega-City One – a seething metropolis built on the ruins of the old world, walled off from the irradiated wasteland of what used to be America. With eight hundred million people living within, only the harsh regime of the Judges can safeguard the lives of the citizens and keep the city from descending into chaos.
The toughest is Judge Dredd, a veteran who has survived and judged every lawbreaker that Mega-City One could throw at him. But this time, Dredd goes up against an enemy unlike anything else he has encountered before. What can the law do against Death?
Review
The story begins in the Northern Sectors of Mega-City 1, and there is an unusual rise in suicides, with perps talking about the coming of death and the world burning. But before Judge Dredd can investigate, he is called away to a Tek lab where a team of Tek Judges has disappeared into an alternate dimension. Sidney D'eath leads this group, and it would seem they have awoken something coming back as the Dark Judges. It is up to Judge Dredd to solve how to stop them and save Mega-City 1 from mass extinction.
Now, I'm not going to lie; I enjoyed the tale for what it was: full of action, complete with beautiful artwork. But it failed to capture the original Dark Judges for me, and though they looked scary, they didn't give me the chills like the originals. They knew what the fans wanted and tried to shove a square through a circle to achieve it. I have to give it a solid C+, but I don't feel Karl Urban Dredd is a supernatural world like the comics.
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