Dredd is not a superhero or a hero. He's a judge jury and executioner of a dystopian future police state. He not even a anti hero. He is a villain of order. He just takes his job very seriously. You can have a commited and dedicated villain who beileves in what he does. Dredd writing can be serious, comedic and satirical as the faceless side of the law. He is not a man he is a symbol of the faceless law. The word Law has no intrinsic moral or ethical good attached to it. Laws can be both unjust and unfair, but the law is the law and that's part of the joke.
Villains a bit too absolute to describe him. Dredd also would embody selfless sacrifice in that sense as on multiple occasions he risks and sacrifices himself to save the city. Even if it is to uphold a flawed system it’s never for his personal gain.
@@urchinblues7928 Well it's always about the outside looking in, the audience. Not the inside looking out, Dredd the character. That Judge system by our standards would be criminally oppressive. No Jury of Peers. Dredd has executed disarmed & detained people on the spot. Dredd is a conscientious zealot. So he can still be villian from our perspective. Who takes his oppressive job seriously to the letter of the law.
@@urchinblues7928 Dredd is a literal product of the Judges system. The Judges system is in itself a warning. So Dredd is the warning. I understand his motivation, but I also don't have to empathize with the embodiment of a warning. What I find fascinating about Dredd is the structure of warning he represents and inacts. The thing is people assign morality to words that are neutrol like law and duty. Dredd is duty bound to his legal system which is a warning to the reader.
@@PrivateCitizen84 there’s a human factor to some of his stories that struggle with the very things your drawing attention to where John Wagner shows that as much of a binary machine as he might want to be Dredd is still a man and prone to doubting the system that made him despite himself, these are rare moments but they are there and every once in a while the human in him wins out and he does something truly decent. I don’t think he’s a hero but I think there’s more to his personality than a cautionary tale
Judge Dredd isn't a bad guy. In some of his earliest stories he shows a strong moral code. He is against slavery, extortion, and isn't scared to hold his higher-ups accountable. He lives by his code of justice, which is harsh, but he is not evil in his beliefs or actions. He would never kill someone who is unarmed and always gives his enemies the chance to give up peacefully.
The story Trinity in Prog Number 2262 perfectly illustrates Dredd's strive for goodness. It is a crossover story with the movie adaptations of Dredd, and he lashes out at Karl Urban's Dredd for his unfair and evil approach to justice, claiming that a Judge is responsible for the wellbeing of ordinary cits.
Found you from Ya Boi Zack as well. I love Dredd. I think the Democracy story where the Judges go up for vote is a great telling of how Dredd is what Mega City One needs, good or bad. "When you're getting mugged do you want to rely on me or your elected official?"
Gave up comics a long time ago, just got older/life happens, but you have a great gift in the way you talk about them, we can see your passion and you make me remember how awesome getting lost in comics were. Cheers young man ✌
There are people who say he's the Bad Guy? Do they not know what the setting the world is? this is a world where lawlessness and violence are off the charts, where things are so bad in the world that everyone has had to move into giant super cities just to survive. In a state like that, you're going to get people who are needed to be savage and ruthless on a level that isn't seen often. Because the world is that brutal. Yeah, Dredd isn't the hero, he's the necessary force against a chaotic world.
yaboy zack brought me here. and I love your videos more and more with each one. I loved dread before but this was fantastic. Makes me want togo re read some old dread.
@northoftoofar3772 I've watch A couple when he use to bash DC, and Marvel for their woke crap, but lately, I've been watching Jon Del Arroz, and talks about how Zack now simps for DC, and Marvel thinking that 'he could change them if they just hire him.'
Recent two year window read to give 2000 AD a go and comic stories in general a good go. 2000 AD comics was a mixed bag for me. Didn't take to Halo Jones, Rogue Trooper, Dante, Warlock, Slaine, Sinster Dex, Strontium Dog, Robo hunter. So I focused on trades and collections. Comic wise I would like Tyranny Rex, ABC warrors, Cannon Fodder and maybe Durham Red in a trade. Now for trades/hardbacks Bad Company, Kingdom, Ampney Crucis, Cabalistics Inc, Counterfeit Girl, Defoe, Grey Zone/Area, Jaegir, Skizz, Stone Island, Storming Heaven, Rose O'rion, Tales of Telugath, Zombo, Planet of Damned, Death Planet. Return to Armageddon, Zenith and anything Mega City One or cursed earth landed. Leatherjack, Aslyum & Benddatti Vendetta was fine. Aquila, Cradlegrave, Ichabod Azrael, Savage Rise of the Lions, Summer Magic: Luke Kirby, Slaine, Necronauts did not land.
I haven't read 2000 AD since I was in middle school, I've been hesitant to pick it up again since everything pop culturally coming from the UK has gotten incredibly woke as of late, but I might just give it a try. Also pay Comics Matter no mind, the guys gone off his rocker.
As a 54 year old American man, you give me hope. 15 was a shock, but good on ya, Dredd is better than most of American comics. Great vid. Carlos Judge Dredd is my Dredd. I'm a loyal subscriber, Dredd is the shit.
I loved Brian Bolland and Simon Bisley illustrations for Judge Dredd. Ranting For Vengeance, Do you know the Dracula comic by Fernando Fernandez? It´s awesome.
From a guy who's played a healthy number of superheroes and villains during his career and been a Dredd fan for far longer than you've been alive: THANK YOU for this superlative shoutout to one of the greatest and most badass characters in the history of comics.
Excellent video, young man! This is the most sincere and based analysis of Judge Dredd I have ever seen and I am over three times your age. Bravo! By the way, I just subscribed! You can thank Ya Boi Zack for this.
I think as kids we 'got' the sarcasm and started to understand the irony on the way growing up into teenagers. Pat Mills got really bleak with Nemesis the Warlock and Third World War. But by then I was a very grumpy goth and loved it.
I've always wanted to read some Judge Dredd especially after the Dredd movie but didn't really know where to start. I'll give your recommendations a try. Speaking of badass, I don't know if you read or watch manga/anime but there is one character that kicks ass and takes no prisoners and that character is Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star). Your vids are awesome and quite insightful. Keep it up.
@@rosswilson8917 thanks man! I’ve seen Kenshiro and he’s literally one of the only anime/manga characters i think is badass. I haven’t watched or read that much of FOTNS but i have to check it out!
@@RantingForVengeance Check out Blade of the Immortal. It's a masterpiece though kind of sick in later volumes. There is one volume I could not reread. The art in it is spectacular, some of the best in the history of comics, especially in some later volumes.
Slices of the trades or Mega City Collection even the 2000 AD Ultimate Collection probably easy route to start. Also depends what you are after? Serious, whacky, cutting satire? Harsh "Insurrection" with hands off "Lawless" are two sides of the law which do link up story wise and are not Dredd stories. I have fun with a lot of non Dredd stories. Dredd is pretty much a constant rock and a open book who changes very little. It's all the other stuff around Dredd that is unpredictable that adds the variety of spice.
Bro, your 15? Seriously? I thought you were at least 20. You're very articulate and well thought out for someone your age. Heck, even more so than many people in their 20s. We will watch your career with great interest.
You wanna pick up judge dredd case files 5. It collects 3 of the best dredd stories and a few more. Judge Death lives, block mania and the apocalypse war. Thanks for the comment!
Watch this space this guy will be a titan in the comic scene well done lad love from the uk i will be advising everyone i know to check you out .....amazing
Comics matter with ya boi Zack is a sad shell of himself. He blocks people in the comments who disagree with him and he spends all day getting mad at people who criticize Disney and will just have the opposite take.
the eagle was inspired by the eagle in the former coin in Spain (Peseta) at least somebody told me, Dredd is a very good character. I only read a recopilation of 2000 ad celebrating the first 10 years. I do not want to rain on your parade, but Alan Moore began his tour in the 2000 ad magazine. Keep doing your great job young man and greetings from Venezuela
@RantingForVengeance Alan Moore is something strange, at least to me. His bright works like top ten is amazing and his Swamp thing is a perfect blend of horror and ecology. But I don't agree with him in many topics, sadly he is the kind of artist that would agree with regimen like the one in my country and his reason is...fight against fascism. Thanks for your reply and again, keep doing your nice job
When people said Dread is a fascist, i always told them to read the story where Dread find out another Judge has been geting confessions from criminals using torture. Tell me if a fascist will ever react that way.
I found you a couple days after you put out your Green Lantern/Green Arrow video because I just happened to want to watch someone do a video talking about how shit it is and yours came up because you had just put it out and I was too busy to leave a comment at the time and when I came back a couple weeks later to give you one you had already grown a lot and then a day or two later our boi Zack gave you a shoutout and now you're past 1250 subscribers. Congratulations on your meteoric rise to internet fame. May you enrage many Absolute Batman and Alan Moore fanboys in your journey.
I was wondering if you would do a video on the Big Megs hardest working Judge! Which movie do you prefer? The 90s one or the 2012 movie? Bear in mind you will be judged on your answer!
@@upintheairstudio 🤣 Personally i think the 90s movie better understood Dredd’s world and stallone is perfect. 2012 Dredd is still cool but a bit overrated (there’s way too many comic inaccuracies). In a perfect world, we have stallone as dredd but without taking off the helmet and no goofy humour. Great comment, Citizen.
Man y'all boomers are tripping, demolition man was a better dredd than the actual stallone movie and the 2012 was a masterpiece of bleak, gritty, futuristic action.
And may I suggest to you, young man, the many volumes of pulp novels and comics following the vigilante justice of 'The Shadow', the Puritan fight against the demonic hoard chronicled in 'Solomon Kane', and the ever-expanding original works of the European comic-book industry?
Great comment! I love the shadow but I’ve only read the living shadow, the red blot and I’m about to start the voodoo master. I wanna do a video on Solomon Kane. His pulps are insanely good. Still haven’t gotten around to the European stuff. Thanks dude!
In my opinion, which you can seriously take with a grain of salt, the best and probably most heroic Dredd story is 'Judgement Day.' It had the best Dredd art by the late great Carlos Ezquerra and the best Dredd story by Garth Ennis. Dredd was probably his most heroic and he worked with judges from all over his world and a character from another serious written and illustrated by Dredd's creators. Feel free to describe the story and what I'm talking about in the comments.
The problem with Dredd it's a quintenssial british idea of a future America. Americans don't see it as quintenssial American. Americans also wouldn't use the term quintenssial American. That is a very british thing to do. So Dredd is very much local to our pond. Couple of movies, one game no cartoons or shows even in Britain.
Hi @RantingForVengeance, I find that modern comics make their men look effeminate and women more masculine in design. For example in gideon falls and a lot currently mainstream dc and marvel comics. What do you think?
@@JackSann Mike Grell green arrow is similar to frank miller, The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are gritty as hell and not goofy like you’d think, personally I don’t like spawn that much but it’s basically frank miller worship (he even writes an issue), black suit spiderman stories like kravens last hunt and the death of jean dewolffe can be similar in tone to daredevil, definitely check out wolverine by frank miller and claremont if you haven’t already, it’s amazing.
@@JackSann I don’t really have one for that because sin city’s so unique. Some dredd is over the top but I can’t think of anything off the top of my head. Thanks for the comment!
I would like to see a brutal but grounded first person shooter of judge dredd with some detective elements the best director for this project will be Hugo Martin in the Doom team and using a upgraded version of the frost engine the same engine to use for Deus ex mankind🎉🎉🎉
I agree the 2000 ad comics are some of the best drawn and well written comics. I never pass up a chance to pick em up and I love the og newspaper format if I can find em but it doesn’t change the the fact that they are old. Yes new American comics suck but you can’t go look at these cool British comics form the 80s. See how awesome they are. There was plenty of great stuff in the 80s but like I said 2000ad is definitely at the top.
The great thing about European and British comics.... there's so much genre, some with political agendas and some without. And in those with political agendas, there's a lot of representation from ALL political views. If you don't like one you can always search for another that suits your tastes. There's no drama and no bullshit like those from the American shores. You don't like commie comics there are plenty non-commie stuff. Europe, despite it's many left leaning culture and government, in my opinion ironically has the healthier and more sane comic industry. Yes, it's way smaller than the giants of the American comic indusry, but it have better quality.
I love Judge Dredd and always have done. I used to collect 2000ad every week, it was £1.25 If I remember correctly. I love ghe Stallone film, I love the Carl Urban film and I have a Funko Pop of Judge Joseph Dredd. I really want a film with Judge Death and the dark judges
I entirely agree with you Judge Dredd is very much a hero. If Wagner, Mills and Grant want me to think Dredd is an evil fascist (a word that they constantly use even though I guarantee they don't know what it actually means) then they did a terrible job of it. I'm currently subscribed to the weekly 2000 AD progs and the Judge Dredd Megazine but over the past month I've been unsure whether or not I'm going to renew my subscription when it expires because a lot of the new 2000 AD writers are just left wing political commentators that use comic books to push their sociopolitical agenda and don't even come close to making Dredd (or the other characters badass) even by accident.
Great video. Your doing amazing. You pointed out a jey point, old 2000ad read easier than old American comics, which are a slog. You will do amazing, but please avoid culture war subjects everyone is bored. Go for fresh takes, like slagging Allan Moore.
I'm surprised Ybz gave you a shout-out he's been acting kind of strange lately, I thought he would be triggered by you but I'll Give him this, he was nice To help you out.
That's what they sjw said about him in the begining and they was proved wrong. YBZ logic train is not hard to follow. Content creators don't get audience captured on negativity for bucks. Do the basics when reviewing stuff (like seeing it). and why are W40K guys so interested in reviewing and talking about little girly properties when Alpha stuff is around to review and talk about? He thinks some of them should just come out already.
Been loving your videos and your overall thoughts on comics ! I would love if you did a video on sandman or animal man and all of the woke shit in that book. Keep it up man
I got into 2000AD recently because I love 40k and Arbites are basically Judges. Dredd and Anderson are now my favourite comicbook characters. I don't see Dredd as a hero or villain. He IS the Law and law is sometimes flawed. He is for sure a hero in Apocalypse War or Necropolis but in stories like America that deal with people wanting to come back to democracy... not so much (even for a conservative like me). I feel like the satire and deconstraction (he was always a villain type shit) angles are more prevelent in newer Dredd stories but at the same time his stories were always satirical. They were a product of their time and the zeitgeist in UK was very much Punk and anti establishment at that time I think (sorry Im from eastern Europe, I might be wrong). But Dredd is always bad ass and just fun to read. Judge Anderson is a stellar example of a great female character that is not a shitty girlbos and Arthur Ranson's art on her stories is just damn amazing. I would love to get some recommendations for Dredd stories that are more street level, just good old Joe blasting away creeps or hunting down a serial killer. I've been reading Essential Judge Dredd series and so far after 5 volumes it seems more focused on big epic stories like Necropolis or Apocalypse War. The beggining of Origins was awesome with rain soaked streets of MC1 and old, tired Dredd looking for a group of Muties.
@@DzikiWaclaw the pit and mandroid i think are good street level stuff. Maybe inferno. Around prog 291 dredd hunts down a femme fatale serial killer, that’s probably in the case files 6 or 7. Anderson is the perfect example of a good female heroine. Thanks for the comment dude! 🤘🏻
Well to add some nuance all the writers were making fun of the dread universe I think they had a quote that said yeah the loss sucks but it’s better than the lawless society and people say he’s of anti hero
Dredd is not a superhero or a hero. He's a judge jury and executioner of a dystopian future police state. He not even a anti hero. He is a villain of order. He just takes his job very seriously. You can have a commited and dedicated villain who beileves in what he does. Dredd writing can be serious, comedic and satirical as the faceless side of the law. He is not a man he is a symbol of the faceless law. The word Law has no intrinsic moral or ethical good attached to it. Laws can be both unjust and unfair, but the law is the law and that's part of the joke.
Villains a bit too absolute to describe him. Dredd also would embody selfless sacrifice in that sense as on multiple occasions he risks and sacrifices himself to save the city. Even if it is to uphold a flawed system it’s never for his personal gain.
@@urchinblues7928 Well it's always about the outside looking in, the audience. Not the inside looking out, Dredd the character. That Judge system by our standards would be criminally oppressive. No Jury of Peers. Dredd has executed disarmed & detained people on the spot. Dredd is a conscientious zealot. So he can still be villian from our perspective. Who takes his oppressive job seriously to the letter of the law.
@ isn’t the point of having a protagonist to empathize with his perspective even if we don’t agree with it he still operates as the audience surrogate
@@urchinblues7928 Dredd is a literal product of the Judges system. The Judges system is in itself a warning. So Dredd is the warning. I understand his motivation, but I also don't have to empathize with the embodiment of a warning. What I find fascinating about Dredd is the structure of warning he represents and inacts. The thing is people assign morality to words that are neutrol like law and duty. Dredd is duty bound to his legal system which is a warning to the reader.
@@PrivateCitizen84 there’s a human factor to some of his stories that struggle with the very things your drawing attention to where John Wagner shows that as much of a binary machine as he might want to be Dredd is still a man and prone to doubting the system that made him despite himself, these are rare moments but they are there and every once in a while the human in him wins out and he does something truly decent. I don’t think he’s a hero but I think there’s more to his personality than a cautionary tale
Judge Dredd isn't a bad guy. In some of his earliest stories he shows a strong moral code. He is against slavery, extortion, and isn't scared to hold his higher-ups accountable. He lives by his code of justice, which is harsh, but he is not evil in his beliefs or actions. He would never kill someone who is unarmed and always gives his enemies the chance to give up peacefully.
The story Trinity in Prog Number 2262 perfectly illustrates Dredd's strive for goodness. It is a crossover story with the movie adaptations of Dredd, and he lashes out at Karl Urban's Dredd for his unfair and evil approach to justice, claiming that a Judge is responsible for the wellbeing of ordinary cits.
This is 100% the truth. Dredd is never evil. He doesn’t kill everyone he sees. Thanks for the comment bro!
Found you from Ya Boi Zack as well. I love Dredd. I think the Democracy story where the Judges go up for vote is a great telling of how Dredd is what Mega City One needs, good or bad.
"When you're getting mugged do you want to rely on me or your elected official?"
Cheers man!
really appreciate the passion in your vids. The drive is authentic and this is what art should be about.
@@szymonsobczak2307 I appreciate it!
Comics Matter brought me here. I’m loving this channel. The art on those Dredd books looks fantastic. I will have to pick up some collections.
@@Vicshade Thanks bro!
Gave up comics a long time ago, just got older/life happens, but you have a great gift in the way you talk about them, we can see your passion and you make me remember how awesome getting lost in comics were. Cheers young man ✌
There are people who say he's the Bad Guy? Do they not know what the setting the world is?
this is a world where lawlessness and violence are off the charts, where things are so bad in the world that everyone has had to move into giant super cities just to survive.
In a state like that, you're going to get people who are needed to be savage and ruthless on a level that isn't seen often. Because the world is that brutal.
Yeah, Dredd isn't the hero, he's the necessary force against a chaotic world.
This is probably Hitler was saying about the gestapo back in the day
yaboy zack brought me here. and I love your videos more and more with each one. I loved dread before but this was fantastic. Makes me want togo re read some old dread.
Your Boy Zack is A simp for DC, and Marvel.
@@ianmoone1412 I appreciate it!
@northoftoofar3772 I've watch A couple when he use to bash DC, and Marvel for their woke crap, but lately, I've been watching Jon Del Arroz, and talks about how Zack now simps for DC, and Marvel thinking that 'he could change them if they just hire him.'
Ya Boi Zack sent me.
i'm 900+issues into 2000AD and love every issue.
edit - congrats on the 1k subs.
@@KardboardKenny I appreciate it dude!
Recent two year window read to give 2000 AD a go and comic stories in general a good go.
2000 AD comics was a mixed bag for me. Didn't take to Halo Jones, Rogue Trooper, Dante, Warlock, Slaine, Sinster Dex, Strontium Dog, Robo hunter. So I focused on trades and collections. Comic wise I would like Tyranny Rex, ABC warrors, Cannon Fodder and maybe Durham Red in a trade.
Now for trades/hardbacks Bad Company, Kingdom, Ampney Crucis, Cabalistics Inc, Counterfeit Girl, Defoe, Grey Zone/Area, Jaegir, Skizz, Stone Island, Storming Heaven, Rose O'rion, Tales of Telugath, Zombo, Planet of Damned, Death Planet. Return to Armageddon, Zenith and anything Mega City One or cursed earth landed.
Leatherjack, Aslyum & Benddatti Vendetta was fine.
Aquila, Cradlegrave, Ichabod Azrael, Savage Rise of the Lions, Summer Magic: Luke Kirby, Slaine, Necronauts did not land.
I haven't read 2000 AD since I was in middle school, I've been hesitant to pick it up again since everything pop culturally coming from the UK has gotten incredibly woke as of late, but I might just give it a try. Also pay Comics Matter no mind, the guys gone off his rocker.
As a 54 year old American man, you give me hope. 15 was a shock, but good on ya, Dredd is better than most of American comics. Great vid. Carlos Judge Dredd is my Dredd. I'm a loyal subscriber, Dredd is the shit.
This is awesome dude. Thanks for the support!
Greetings 🙏 from Raleigh, North Carolina 🙏 😊
Stallone had the perfect chin and overall look(not to mention demeanor too) for Dredd, always loved that about that movie, despite all it's problems
I’m with you on that one bro.
Love your channel bruv ❤
You sold me on dread. I’ve experienced the character through various media over the years but never thought to read the comic.
@@Worldfire_Interactive Thanks dude!
I always wanted to read the Judge Dredd books.
Enjoy the rabbit hole ha ha ha.
Judge Dredd is an amazingly complex yet very simple character. He's simple in his motivationa yet complex in how he deals with outcomes.
Dredd is a hero, a hard hero in a crazy deadly world, he might not be the hero people want but the alternative is bleak.
Judge dredd is so fucking cool anthrax wrote a song based on him “I AM THE LAW”
Dredd is racially ambigous buddy, these comice were woke as fuck
I loved Brian Bolland and Simon Bisley illustrations for Judge Dredd.
Ranting For Vengeance, Do you know the Dracula comic by Fernando Fernandez? It´s awesome.
@@ericdodds4990 no I haven’t seen it, I’ll check it out. Thanks bro!
I love you Man, this is the best positive introduction to Judge Dredd ever exist, 🔥
Totally agree this is the same when people say the punisher is an antie hero when all he does is kill murders and rapist
You're getting clowned by the whole industry, kid. Keep this up and you'll become a lolcow in no time.
Bro can you do an retrospective on 2000ad????? and I don't mean 3 minutes, like an hour retro.
@@mgs2014 I’d love to!
Ya Boy Zak got me here too and I’ve watched all your videos. Keep up the good work.
@@LaF0rge_ Thanks bro!
Pat mills also gave us Marshal Law, which is a great superhero satire without being a comedy.
@@Gigantic1000 I’ve seen a bit of that. It looks like if the boys wasn’t ghey and was instead badass. Thanks!
@@RantingForVengeance 😂😂😂😂😂😂
From a guy who's played a healthy number of superheroes and villains during his career and been a Dredd fan for far longer than you've been alive: THANK YOU for this superlative shoutout to one of the greatest and most badass characters in the history of comics.
@@paullazenby6812 it’s AWESOME to see support from someone who has actually worked in the industry! THANK YOU for the comment, I appreciate it bro!
Missed a prime opportunity to use "I Am The Law" by Anthrax as the outro song. Great vid though!
Dredd is one of My Favs.
Excellent video, young man! This is the most sincere and based analysis of Judge Dredd I have ever seen and I am over three times your age. Bravo! By the way, I just subscribed! You can thank Ya Boi Zack for this.
@@likonatera7452 I appreciate it a lot bro! Thanks for the subscribe! 🤘🏻
I think as kids we 'got' the sarcasm and started to understand the irony on the way growing up into teenagers. Pat Mills got really bleak with Nemesis the Warlock and Third World War. But by then I was a very grumpy goth and loved it.
Another great take. My new time killer is to scroll through the comments and laugh at the nerds you trigger.
🤣 thanks man!
I've always wanted to read some Judge Dredd especially after the Dredd movie but didn't really know where to start. I'll give your recommendations a try. Speaking of badass, I don't know if you read or watch manga/anime but there is one character that kicks ass and takes no prisoners and that character is Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star). Your vids are awesome and quite insightful. Keep it up.
@@rosswilson8917 thanks man! I’ve seen Kenshiro and he’s literally one of the only anime/manga characters i think is badass. I haven’t watched or read that much of FOTNS but i have to check it out!
@@RantingForVengeance Check out Blade of the Immortal. It's a masterpiece though kind of sick in later volumes. There is one volume I could not reread. The art in it is spectacular, some of the best in the history of comics, especially in some later volumes.
Slices of the trades or Mega City Collection even the 2000 AD Ultimate Collection probably easy route to start. Also depends what you are after? Serious, whacky, cutting satire?
Harsh "Insurrection" with hands off "Lawless" are two sides of the law which do link up story wise and are not Dredd stories. I have fun with a lot of non Dredd stories. Dredd is pretty much a constant rock and a open book who changes very little. It's all the other stuff around Dredd that is unpredictable that adds the variety of spice.
Bro, your 15? Seriously? I thought you were at least 20. You're very articulate and well thought out for someone your age. Heck, even more so than many people in their 20s. We will watch your career with great interest.
@@thetommyshades5347 great comment bro, this means a lot to me! 🤘🏻
Hey, I'm a member of your father's mma channel. Red pill mma. Now I understand the background😂
Great video, as always.
Thanks again!
Wow, that was excellent! Subbed!
Greetings from Brazil. You have yes on you from here too, so keep the good work.
Thanks a lot!
Please make more Dredd videos this was great
Now i want to read this.. Do they have a TP version of the war ?
You wanna pick up judge dredd case files 5. It collects 3 of the best dredd stories and a few more. Judge Death lives, block mania and the apocalypse war. Thanks for the comment!
This is the freshest channel on comics. Pure rock n' roll. Probably more proto-rock. 15 or 30? I don't care. He's killing it.
@@nilbogllort 🤣 Thanks a lot!
Love seeing young ones have passion for comics.
Looks like I need to dive deeper into this character. Good video.
@@markalbert8135 thanks a lot!
Now I understand why I like the Frank's Miller Batman phrase "I love being the goddamn Batman"🧐
Watch this space this guy will be a titan in the comic scene well done lad love from the uk i will be advising everyone i know to check you out .....amazing
This means a lot bro!
@RantingForVengeance I'm just amazed your so young.....godspeed my friend keep doing what your doing
Comics matter with ya boi Zack is a sad shell of himself. He blocks people in the comments who disagree with him and he spends all day getting mad at people who criticize Disney and will just have the opposite take.
Zack is a hack.
the eagle was inspired by the eagle in the former coin in Spain (Peseta) at least somebody told me, Dredd is a very good character. I only read a recopilation of 2000 ad celebrating the first 10 years. I do not want to rain on your parade, but Alan Moore began his tour in the 2000 ad magazine. Keep doing your great job young man and greetings from Venezuela
Thanks man! I knew about moore working at 2000ad he couldn’t write good comics then either 🤣
@RantingForVengeance Alan Moore is something strange, at least to me. His bright works like top ten is amazing and his Swamp thing is a perfect blend of horror and ecology. But I don't agree with him in many topics, sadly he is the kind of artist that would agree with regimen like the one in my country and his reason is...fight against fascism.
Thanks for your reply and again, keep doing your nice job
So thankful for Zack recommending you. Keep on doing what you do man, no compromises!
Thanks bro!
Good video citizen.
🤣 Glad you liked it, Joe
Agreed and I like the music at the end of your video. Have you heard the Anthrax song "I am the law"? Very cool. ~Eric
@@epb7284 not an anthrax guy myself but the song is pretty cool. Thanks!
When people said Dread is a fascist, i always told them to read the story where Dread find out another Judge has been geting confessions from criminals using torture.
Tell me if a fascist will ever react that way.
@@DrLynch2009 that sounds awesome dude, what’s the story called if you can remember ?
@@RantingForVengeance "Judge Under Arrest" I believe
I found you a couple days after you put out your Green Lantern/Green Arrow video because I just happened to want to watch someone do a video talking about how shit it is and yours came up because you had just put it out and I was too busy to leave a comment at the time and when I came back a couple weeks later to give you one you had already grown a lot and then a day or two later our boi Zack gave you a shoutout and now you're past 1250 subscribers. Congratulations on your meteoric rise to internet fame. May you enrage many Absolute Batman and Alan Moore fanboys in your journey.
@@JimMorrisonsBathtub dude thanks! This means a lot and I appreciate the constant support! 🤘🏻
I was wondering if you would do a video on the Big Megs hardest working Judge! Which movie do you prefer? The 90s one or the 2012 movie? Bear in mind you will be judged on your answer!
@@upintheairstudio 🤣 Personally i think the 90s movie better understood Dredd’s world and stallone is perfect. 2012 Dredd is still cool but a bit overrated (there’s way too many comic inaccuracies). In a perfect world, we have stallone as dredd but without taking off the helmet and no goofy humour. Great comment, Citizen.
@@RantingForVengeance I like both, but the second is more like a satire of 80s movies. The Raid movies are much cooler than Dredd 2012 and John Wick.
Man y'all boomers are tripping, demolition man was a better dredd than the actual stallone movie and the 2012 was a masterpiece of bleak, gritty, futuristic action.
@@RantingForVengeanceI see what you're saying but I still prefer the 2012 Dredd. One month in the cubes!
@@IbnRushd-mv3fp Love Demolition Man but thats more of 1984 if it was an action movie.
And may I suggest to you, young man, the many volumes of pulp novels and comics following the vigilante justice of 'The Shadow', the Puritan fight against the demonic hoard chronicled in 'Solomon Kane', and the ever-expanding original works of the European comic-book industry?
Great comment! I love the shadow but I’ve only read the living shadow, the red blot and I’m about to start the voodoo master. I wanna do a video on Solomon Kane. His pulps are insanely good. Still haven’t gotten around to the European stuff. Thanks dude!
😅😅😅😅😅 Dredd is metal and a real hero.
Alright you've convinced me to get into Judge Dredd
@@stevendelavega9957 glad i did! Thanks for the comment dude! 🤘🏻
Spot on, fella. From one who was there.
@@MatthewSigh thanks bro!
In my opinion, which you can seriously take with a grain of salt, the best and probably most heroic Dredd story is 'Judgement Day.' It had the best Dredd art by the late great Carlos Ezquerra and the best Dredd story by Garth Ennis. Dredd was probably his most heroic and he worked with judges from all over his world and a character from another serious written and illustrated by Dredd's creators. Feel free to describe the story and what I'm talking about in the comments.
@@MCB86 is that the one with Johnny Alpha, it looks awesome! Thanks for the comment.
Yes it was. I wish I never lent the TBP to my friend before going off to college.
my favorite genre of fiction is "leftist writer tries to make fascism look bad but accidentally makes it look awesome"
That’s mine too 🤣
Nat doc for the win
@@Mardanzo like Rorschach
Please make a video about spider-man i love your videos
I’ve heard of Judge Dredd before, I didn’t know he was a comic book character until now. That’s very cool
The problem with Dredd it's a quintenssial british idea of a future America. Americans don't see it as quintenssial American. Americans also wouldn't use the term quintenssial American. That is a very british thing to do. So Dredd is very much local to our pond. Couple of movies, one game no cartoons or shows even in Britain.
I've read some of the reprints. Dredd kicks ass.
Hi @RantingForVengeance, I find that modern comics make their men look effeminate and women more masculine in design. For example in gideon falls and a lot currently mainstream dc and marvel comics. What do you think?
Yeah they do this all the time, It’s something I absolutely hate. Thanks for the comment!
Can you recommend me some good and dark comics from the 80s to 2000s? I like frank miller comics
@@JackSann Mike Grell green arrow is similar to frank miller, The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are gritty as hell and not goofy like you’d think, personally I don’t like spawn that much but it’s basically frank miller worship (he even writes an issue), black suit spiderman stories like kravens last hunt and the death of jean dewolffe can be similar in tone to daredevil, definitely check out wolverine by frank miller and claremont if you haven’t already, it’s amazing.
@@RantingForVengeanceand something in the over the top tone of sin city not necessarily noir?
@@JackSann I don’t really have one for that because sin city’s so unique. Some dredd is over the top but I can’t think of anything off the top of my head. Thanks for the comment!
Man I'm 57 + I total hear where you are coming from
Seriously you’re 15?! I never feel anymore prouder for someone very young that not only understands the traditional of comic books and read them!
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@@mattdague700 Thanks a lot bro!
Judge Dredd is really great I really enjoyed the Bolan run.
Just spent over $500 on Judge Dredd comics, I hope your right and that there that good.
@@jimmyjohnson2263 🤣
Good job! Keep it up.
Thanks!
I love the film 🎥 Dredd😊😅❤❤
I would like to see a brutal but grounded first person shooter of judge dredd with some detective elements the best director for this project will be Hugo Martin in the Doom team and using a upgraded version of the frost engine the same engine to use for Deus ex mankind🎉🎉🎉
You should look up the old Doom 2099 comics from the 90s. In a world where all the heroes are dead, it takea a villain to fix a broken world.
@@thehumancomet they look cool, thanks for the comment!
I agree the 2000 ad comics are some of the best drawn and well written comics. I never pass up a chance to pick em up and I love the og newspaper format if I can find em but it doesn’t change the the fact that they are old. Yes new American comics suck but you can’t go look at these cool British comics form the 80s. See how awesome they are. There was plenty of great stuff in the 80s but like I said 2000ad is definitely at the top.
Irish ppl look 25 until yhey are 35 ( i work as a bouncer in Ireland. Im talking from experience)
I have an idea for an odd crossover called Evil Dredd where judge Dredd faces up against deadites
Please do more shoutouts to these forms of content.
Holy crap! Can’t believe you’re so young! You’re very intelligent and well spoken for your age, man! Keep it up!!
@@erasenegatedelete means a lot dude, thanks!
The great thing about European and British comics.... there's so much genre, some with political agendas and some without. And in those with political agendas, there's a lot of representation from ALL political views. If you don't like one you can always search for another that suits your tastes. There's no drama and no bullshit like those from the American shores. You don't like commie comics there are plenty non-commie stuff. Europe, despite it's many left leaning culture and government, in my opinion ironically has the healthier and more sane comic industry. Yes, it's way smaller than the giants of the American comic indusry, but it have better quality.
Subbed!
Thanks!
I couldn't imagine you being 15, good video man
Thanks!
Dredd is the law.
Had me at Alan Moore sucks
I love Judge Dredd and always have done. I used to collect 2000ad every week, it was £1.25 If I remember correctly. I love ghe Stallone film, I love the Carl Urban film and I have a Funko Pop of Judge Joseph Dredd. I really want a film with Judge Death and the dark judges
@@BlackestEyes709 we need a movie with judge death! Thanks for the comment.
@@RantingForVengeance No worries mate. Yes we do! Not even a end credit tease of death as mist or something
I entirely agree with you Judge Dredd is very much a hero. If Wagner, Mills and Grant want me to think Dredd is an evil fascist (a word that they constantly use even though I guarantee they don't know what it actually means) then they did a terrible job of it. I'm currently subscribed to the weekly 2000 AD progs and the Judge Dredd Megazine but over the past month I've been unsure whether or not I'm going to renew my subscription when it expires because a lot of the new 2000 AD writers are just left wing political commentators that use comic books to push their sociopolitical agenda and don't even come close to making Dredd (or the other characters badass) even by accident.
Fuck YBZ, but I'm glad he gave you a shout-out!
Great video. Your doing amazing. You pointed out a jey point, old 2000ad read easier than old American comics, which are a slog. You will do amazing, but please avoid culture war subjects everyone is bored. Go for fresh takes, like slagging Allan Moore.
Thanks man!
Fucking Awesome Content!!!
@@jasonchislett3282 I appreciate it dude!
Have you read judge dredd America the least wokest book you’ll ever read 😎
Older Judge Dredd kicks ass, however modern Dredd mostly blows ass.
I'm surprised Ybz gave you
a shout-out he's been acting
kind of strange lately, I thought
he would be triggered by you
but I'll Give him this, he was nice
To help you out.
That's what they sjw said about him in the begining and they was proved wrong. YBZ logic train is not hard to follow.
Content creators don't get audience captured on negativity for bucks.
Do the basics when reviewing stuff (like seeing it).
and why are W40K guys so interested in reviewing and talking about little girly properties when Alpha stuff is around to review and talk about?
He thinks some of them should just come out already.
Have you read Rook: Exodus?
No but i just looked it up and it looks pretty badass. Thanks for the comment I’ll check this out!
ur amazing!
Been loving your videos and your overall thoughts on comics ! I would love if you did a video on sandman or animal man and all of the woke shit in that book. Keep it up man
@@yoyoboy2003 I plan to destroy animal man in one of my next videos, thanks for the comment!
@@RantingForVengeance They Morrison sucks.
I got into 2000AD recently because I love 40k and Arbites are basically Judges. Dredd and Anderson are now my favourite comicbook characters. I don't see Dredd as a hero or villain. He IS the Law and law is sometimes flawed. He is for sure a hero in Apocalypse War or Necropolis but in stories like America that deal with people wanting to come back to democracy... not so much (even for a conservative like me). I feel like the satire and deconstraction (he was always a villain type shit) angles are more prevelent in newer Dredd stories but at the same time his stories were always satirical. They were a product of their time and the zeitgeist in UK was very much Punk and anti establishment at that time I think (sorry Im from eastern Europe, I might be wrong). But Dredd is always bad ass and just fun to read. Judge Anderson is a stellar example of a great female character that is not a shitty girlbos and Arthur Ranson's art on her stories is just damn amazing.
I would love to get some recommendations for Dredd stories that are more street level, just good old Joe blasting away creeps or hunting down a serial killer. I've been reading Essential Judge Dredd series and so far after 5 volumes it seems more focused on big epic stories like Necropolis or Apocalypse War. The beggining of Origins was awesome with rain soaked streets of MC1 and old, tired Dredd looking for a group of Muties.
@@DzikiWaclaw the pit and mandroid i think are good street level stuff. Maybe inferno. Around prog 291 dredd hunts down a femme fatale serial killer, that’s probably in the case files 6 or 7. Anderson is the perfect example of a good female heroine. Thanks for the comment dude! 🤘🏻
Warms my heart when the youth applaud vaporized commies. Been reading Dredd for a long time myself. Thoughts on Stronium Dog?
Strontium Dog is absolutely awesome no matter what people say about the allegory. Thanks for the comment dude! 🤘🏻
It's good to see the baton being passed down to the younger generations.
@@mattdestroyer77 Great comment! 🤘🏻
I very much enjoyed that. I very much agree
303 by Garth ennis… I want to know what you think
@@AntiDecepticonCampaign I haven’t actually heard of it but by looking it up it seems to be somewhat political. Is it good or garbage?
Well to add some nuance all the writers were making fun of the dread universe I think they had a quote that said yeah the loss sucks but it’s better than the lawless society and people say he’s of anti hero