Product Description

Mega-City One: the future metropolis bustling with life and every crime imaginable. Keeping order are the Judges, a stern police force acting as judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd - he is the law and these are his stories. Volume 14 in this exciting, bestselling series collects together more classic Dredd from the pages of 2000 AD, including the mega-epic Necropolis.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4833 in Books
• Published on: 2009-11-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

Necropolisssssss
Dredd has completely lost faith in Justice Department, so retires & takes the Long Walk into the Cursed Earth. But once he's out of the way, nothing can stop Judge Death from taking over Mega City One. Turning it into a city of the dead, he & his companions gain psychic control over the remaining Judges & go about slaughtering its 400 million citizens - mostly by hand, one at a time. When Dredd hears about this, he simply has to go back & teams up with some incredibly unlikely allies along the way. But despite their help, can even he turn the tide against such overwhelming odds?

(incidentally, this may sound like a spoiler but we are told virtually all of this in the first 3 pages & on the back cover)

Volume 14 contains all 37 of the 2000AD 'progs' which cover the Countdown To Necropolis & the main Necropolis storyline in its entirety. As ever, the Dark Judges' dialogue looks as though Wagner has nodded off at his keyboard & has accidentally held down his 's' key but even so, Necropolis is satisfying on a number of levels - there's insight into Dredd's character & the extent of his iconic status to the people & his fellow Judges. There's inevitably a plentiful helping of action, a dark storyline & some simply stunning Ezquerra painted art. The last few volumes have shown that most artists didn't cope particularly well when the strip first moved to full colour but Ezquerra has gone from strength to strength, using oils & other painting techniques for some of the incredibly rendered flash pages. Will Simpson & Jeff Anderson do an okay job on the opening chapters but about 80% of this volume is Ezquerra at his best.

With Wagner & Ezquerra both on top form, Necropolis is one of my all-time favourite epic Dredd storylines.

Brilliant Dredd.
I had stopped reading 2000ad by the time this classic epic 'necropolis' was printed but had heard rumours of the pretender Kracken. I was blown away by the story line and a welcome return for Carlos. My only issue is I wanted more of the four dark judges.

Classic SciFi
Having read this stuff when I was a kid, i have bought this for my son and he thinks it is fabulous. When I read it again, one can see how groundbreaking it was at the time