Hmm.
I think the Dark Judges could use some tweaking. I don't like how they need to find new costumes each time they take a new body; if I was writing this new comic, I would make it so that possessing a properly-treated corpse automatically transforms it into the form of the Dark Judge possessing it.
One thing that has to stay is the aversion of Comic-Book Time. That is one of the aspects that sets Judge Dredd apart from Marvel and DC, and it means that when he has to deal with age, it's something that emerges organically from the narrative rather than, as is the case with things like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (which I haven't read by the way), a radical departure from the established situation that has to shout "Hey, look! The character's old!" and make up a whole lot of new backstory that occurred during the period they were subject to flow through time.
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So, Tharg is making another attempt to break into America.
A while ago, it was announced that IDW would be publishing an American Judge Dredd comic around the time that Dredd appears in cinemas. You might be aware that this is the same tactic they tried back in 1995, with DC.
Anyway, three days ago, IDW announced the creative team. Duane Swierczynski is doing the writing; I've never heard if him, but Wikipedia tells me
he's primarily a crime writer who has done bits and pieces of comic work in recent years. It's apparently a joint decision by IDW and Rebellion to give the title to a team that has not done Judge Dredd before; this gave me pause, but Swiercynski has apparently been a fan since the 80s, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
Nelson Daniel has now page on either the English or Spanish Wikipedias. Google turns up a bunch of pages in Spanish; his own page
shows some absolutely gorgeous watercolour-inspired pictures, which actually makes me a little excited for this series.
Dredd is being released on September 7th; Rebellion has said that while this means they'll miss summer blockbuster season, that was a deliberate move, as opening any earlier would mean going up against Marvel Avengers Assemble, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Dark Knight Rises. A September release allows them to ride the coat tails of Batman and possibly get a few bums on seats just before the new school term starts.
As it happens, I was on Amazon recently, and came across this item
, a hardcover collection of all the Batman/Judge Dredd crossovers. Unfortunately, it's not going to be released until November. This seems a bit odd; if they had released it in August, Rebellion could exploit the buzz left by The Dark Knight Rises to attract interest in Judge Dredd, while DC could use whatever excitement Dredd managed to drum up to shift units and make some profit of the tail end of The Dark Knight.
Ah, well. I'm no businessperson, so I'm sure there's a good reason for the delay, but still.
Oh, and on an incredibly tangential note, this
might be worth a look. I've read it, and the best way to describe it is not so much a comic as a multi-drug hallucinogenic trip converted to dead tree form. Seriously, it's unlikely this was made without the aid of at least a couple of consciousness-altering substances.
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