Best Dredd

Every time this gets bumped I get excited that they've finally got funding for a sequel.

ditto

Almost Human is your best bet for Dredd methadone there :)

Ex Machina is getting dece reviews

love the look of DREDD: trying to pin down exactly what it is -- the reconstructed 80s low-res cheapie grunginess, the weirdly gorgeous colour palette within the grunginess, the way the interiors all look like sets and the petty claustrophobia of that, anderson's frodo-esque telepathy sequences, the way the judge's computers look as 80s ppl imagined computers of the future wd look if they had no budget (and not much imagination), the general anti-CGIness (i imagine a ton of CGI went into this)

(it's not an exact reconstruction of ay particular look but the ways it is and isn't are well, er, judged)

I pretty much leave Dredd on anytime it's on IFC. I mean, I do other stuff, like post incredibly valuable revives like this while it's on.

So if they make the TV show that's being bandied around right now is it going to be weird? I mean, the law and order fascism of the Dredd world kind of works in this situation where it's essentially two cops up against a gigantic building full of people that want them dead so you're more or less rooting for them; on a TV show that's probably not going to be a plot they can recycle endlessly.

I've never read the comics, btw, so I don't really have a sense of how that played out there.

The movie is only representative of a tiny portion of the comic's scope. If I were the showrunner on a Dredd TV series I'd do it as a kind of anthology with Dredd only an incidental character in a lot of the stories. The world is much more interesting than the character, purposefully so.

Guess I've got to check out some comics, then.

you should! 40 years of dredd stories have created a massive, intricate world that could supply a tv show with a huge amount of cool content

chap otm basically, although i think dredd is actually a really interesting character in his own right - he's aged in real-time over the entire run, and john wagner and others have handled his development in all kinds of interesting and unexpected ways

Yeah you're right, but the complexities of later years relies for their power on having built him up as an intractable facist for so many years, and is not something that could be pulled off effecively in the first season of a TV show, for example.

Sorry that was a very gramatically knotty sentence.

I realise I've not actually read any new Dredd since the late 90s.

yeah, that's true - still, they could dip in and out of dredd's origins (and judge fargo's story and the origins of mega city one) and add some neat shading to his character without waiting like 20 seasons for karl urban (or whoever) to get old first

I've just been re-reading the cursed earth saga, hopefully the tv show will make time for people getting their heads bitten off by dinosaurs and stuff in amongst the character development

wait is it still an ongoing comic??

On several levels (Dredd's Megazine, stories in 2000AD, IDW's recent series of miniseries).

It's hard to determine what the most recently updated or canonical Dredd thread is!

In any case, I finally read The Small House, the recently collected arc from last year. A few scenes didn't really land for me, and the twists are a little too on the nose, but I enjoyed it and am thinking about following more in real time instead of via collections.

I make this claim every couple years, forget, and then go back to buying trade paperbacks, though