Judge Dredd: The Complete America [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by John Wagner (Author), Colin MacNeill (Author)

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Product Description
From the phenomenal British classic sci-fi comic series, 2000 AD, comes this classic, chilling look at the impact of the Judges, via the life of Mega-City One citizen America Jara. In Mega-City One the Judges are the law-acting as judge, jury, and often executioner. Finally back in print, this collection now includes the never-before-reprinted return to America’s story!

America Jara and Bennett Beeny grow up as best friends, living a fairly trouble-free life in a dangerous city...bar the odd encounter with a Judge. Time draws them apart, and when they are brought back together, Beeny is a successful singer... and America has become involved with a terrorist organisation — with the Judges in its sights — and is headed for a deadly encounter with Dredd, toughest Judge of all!

About the Author
John Wagner is the award winning British writer (and co-creator) of Judge Dredd and has written the Star Wars series Dark Empire I & II and Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire. With James O'Barr he wrote The Crow: Dead Time. He is also writer of The Last American. Colin MacNeil has illustrated Avengers and Warhammer as well as 2000 AD.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books (UK); illustrated edition edition (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840236159
• ISBN-13: 978-1840236156
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,639,020 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Perfect Dredd Story, June 11, 2006

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America is the ultimate Dredd tale. The true heart and soul of Dredd and his world is contained in this story. Dredd is never portrayed as brilliantly as he's shown here, and that's odd considering that this is one of the only times that the action is seen from a different perspective than that with which we're usually presented. Dredd's monologue at the beginning of the story shows Dredd's (and the Justic Department's) uncompromising position better than anything ever written about Dredd. It shows the fascism of Dredd's world, and Dredd embraces it without question while knowing full well the inherent flaws and inhumanity of it. Then, with unflinching honesty, the tale shows how brutally Mega City justice is brought to bear when the system is threatened.

The story is forceful not merely because it gives perspective on Dredd's world, but also because of what it says about our own reality - 'America' is a warning to us all to beware the systems of power that we allow to hold sway over our lives. As Dredd says: "Justice has a price. The price is freedom." Those words were written over 15 years ago, but they are perhaps more relevant today, as more and more freedoms are being sacrificed in the name of security. So Dredd's world comes closer to us, and that is a chilling thought.