Best Dredd

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