The iconic character Judge Dredd finally received the graphic novel platform he deserved in the Case Files editions. Since 1977, one man has dominated the British comic scene. He is judge, jury and executioner; a merciless far-future lawman delivering justice with an iron fist on the mean streets of Mega-City One. He is Judge Dredd! US readers can discover the roots of this legendary character in this vast a thrill-packed series of graphic novels, which collect together all of Dredd's adventures in chronological order.
Case Files 43 continues with Judge Dredd uncovering the House of Pain and thwarting a new threat from Orlok, and the reveal of the Judges' rise to power in John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's Origins.
The streets don't come much meaner than those found in Mega-City One. Only the Judges - empowered to dispense law and order - keep the city from falling into total anarchy. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the law and these are his stories. In this 24th volume of the bestselling Case Files series, Dredd is faced with one of his hardest challenges yet - dispensing justice in the 'Big Meg's' worst sector known as 'The Pit'! Also, the ultimate lawman faces a legendary war robot, when Judge Dredd squares off against the ABC Warrior Hammerstein! Backlist Opportunities: - Judge Dredd Case Files 21 - 9781781081754 - Judge Dredd Case Files 22 - 9781781082270 - Judge Dredd Case Files 23 - 9781781082522
Featuring some of the rarest tales from the mean streets of Mega-City One, Judge Dredd dispenses justice to all those perps, muties, monsters and fatties who break the law during the holidays.
When Judge Dredd returns from the Cursed Earth, he's convicted of murder So begins an epic slice of Judge Dredd history, available now in paperback Judge Cal, seizes control of Mega-City One and imposes a murderous dictatorship upon its citizens. Only Dredd, aided by a handful of wounded and retired Judges, can stop the madness -- and save Mega-City One from its darkest hour yet classic Dredd artist Mike McMahon (Slaine, A.B.C. Warriors), this gorgeous new paperback is a worthy addition to any Judge Dredd or 2000 AD collection
The second volume of the Essential Judge Dredd line features the greatest epic storyline in Judge Dredd history. Widely considered a comics classic, The Apocalypse War is reprinted alone in its entirety for the first time in its original format for over a decade. "The greatest moment in comics history" - Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys) The essential Judge Dredd graphic novel series – the ultimate introduction to the Lawman of the Future! When the citizens of Mega-City One’s massive city blocks declare war on each other, Judge Dredd realises it is merely a prologue to an all-out nuclear attack by East Meg One! As warheads rain down, Dredd leads a brave guerrilla resistance against the Sov forces, building to an earth-shattering decision that shakes his world to the core! This second wide-screen blockbuster volume in the Essential Judge Dredd graphic novel series presents The Apocalypse War, the mother of all ‘epic’ Dredd storylines, which forever fixed the character in readers' minds and ensured Carlos Ezquerra's title as the definitive Dredd artist in comics’ hall of fame. "The Apocalypse War gets at what makes Dredd such a joy to read." - Comics Alliance "Seared into the memory of everyone who read it" - The Guardian "Transitioned the character's brutality from just a source of tongue-in-cheek excitement into something of a disturbing clarity" - The Comics Journal
When the newly promoted Judge Kraken, under the influence of the mysterious and evil Sisters of Death (from the 'Deadworld' dimension which was the original home of Judge Death and the other Dark Judges), kidnaps Psi-Judge Agee, all hell breaks loose in Mega-City One! The sisters use Agee's powerful psi abilities to free the Dark Judges from dimensional limbo (where they were exiled by Judge Anderson). Now its up to Dredd, Anderson, and all the other Judges in Mega-City One to stop these extraordinarily powerful beings - before they can completely lay waste to the city, and go on to kill all the inhabitants of Dredd's future Earth!
Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem’s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City—American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson’s fiction, Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf’s videos, and Samuel Delany’s classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to “real-ize” that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.
Featuring full-color images from the best moments in graphic novel history, this comprehensive reference explores everything from dragons, cow races, and monstrous rats to insider secrets from Casanova himself. Includes top ten must-reads for every popular genre.
Reviews and analyses of over 5000 titles from the 1930s to date. ... Every comic of note from the past fifty years is included in this comprehensive guide to American comics. From the underground to children's comics, autobiography to fantasy.
