W is for Wally Squad [MINOR SPOILERS]

Note the first: this post contains minor spoilers regarding a current 2000AD storyline. Note the second: back in August, I attempted to write a personal A-Z of the comic strip Judge Dredd during the run up to the release of the new Dredd 3D film. I got fairly far in but due to work pressures… Continue reading W is for Wally Squad [MINOR SPOILERS]

U is for Urban, Karl [Dredd 3D preview – no spoilers]

Credit: John Spelling. U is a pretty tough letter to write about, unless I want to spend an evening writing about U-fronts, which in Dredd’s world are inexplicably the equivalent of Y-fronts. In the late mid-80s, this “futuristic” underwear featured in a number of stories, something which you would almost certainly never see in a… Continue reading U is for Urban, Karl [Dredd 3D preview – no spoilers]

R is for Robot Wars

I’ve already written several times about pivotal moments in the development of the Judge Dredd series; points which proved decisive in the survival of the strip and its development. Robot Wars (progs 10-17, 1977, with a prologue in prog 9) is the first of these pivotal moments. It is easy to forget given how it… Continue reading R is for Robot Wars