tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321253799411057654.post7208209510048942335..comments2023-10-12T07:15:02.375-07:00Comments on Dredd Reckoning: OriginsDouglas Wolkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10691167073493285913noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321253799411057654.post-45025322426898974442019-04-07T16:18:06.266-07:002019-04-07T16:18:06.266-07:00Great read, thanks. So many great Dredd artists li...Great read, thanks. So many great Dredd artists listed but I feel compelled to mention Cam Kennedy, who really belongs in the top tier of the old school beside Carlos, Ron Smith, Mcmahon and Bolland. Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03119327916002797352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321253799411057654.post-89826017643613583772017-05-06T18:42:21.169-07:002017-05-06T18:42:21.169-07:00This was a great read. Both the story and the anal...This was a great read. Both the story and the analysis. Just some observations:<br /><br />Does anyone else think that the way Solomon is drawn in certain makes him look a lot like Christopher Lee?<br /><br />Goodman also looks a bit like Jurgen Prochnow from the 1995 movie. This was my instant reaction when seeing the panel when he's introduced.<br /><br />Lastly, was the line "I knew you'd say that" a callback to that infamous 1995 movie?Silicon Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13869888934303237587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321253799411057654.post-41809302016834083682015-01-06T20:13:38.438-08:002015-01-06T20:13:38.438-08:00I know, super late, but I love Ezquerra, early McM...I know, super late, but I love Ezquerra, early McMahon and, believe it or not, Ron Smith, whose work was so 60's sci-fi (he was, in fact, an old guy at the time) that the punkish Dredd looked doubly weird under his pen.<br /><br />I loved "Origins" due to the parallels with America's own, continuing descent into madness - regardless of party. To be honest, for some of us, darker hued and / or poorer citizens, the Judge System has been a reality for some time.<br /><br />There's been talk of retiring Dredd at some point (likely when Mill and Wagner can no longer go on), I'd imagine Fargo's seed of doubt will have some consequences down the road.<br /><br />An aside - I loved the early Judge uniforms - straight outta 60's / 70's sci-fi cinema; part Fahrenheit 451, part Death Race 2000 - all art-house!MarsHottentothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525249407715735478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321253799411057654.post-63948566735158842612012-12-19T10:26:28.002-08:002012-12-19T10:26:28.002-08:00>it's true that (Carlos Ezquerra's) wor...>it's true that (Carlos Ezquerra's) work is really coarse-looking at times, but that grit is a lot of the fun of it for me. In a lot of ways, his work reminds me of Steve Ditko's; neither of them can get very near "pretty," but they do "grotesque," both people and spaces, really well<<br /><br />That's a great summation of the appeal of Ezquerra's work. I can see why the many pushes to launch the character in the US have lead with the beautiful Bolland strips, since so many of the best artists to work on the character (McMahon, Ezquerra, McCarthy) have a spikiness and grit to their work that's probably more in sympathy with the character and the stories, but which might be off-putting to new readers. <br /><br />My first encounter with Ezquerra's work was on the Strontium Dog stories The Ragnarok Job/Rage. I began by thinking they were great stories mired by ugly art, but by the time I'd finished reading them I couldn't imagine anyone else drawing the characters or telling that story so well. <br /><br />The ugliness and brutality of Ezquerra's art perfectly serves the nature of most Dredd stories, and you make an interesting point regarding both his background in Westerns/War stories and Wagner's seamless co-opting of so many disparate genres. I'm not really a great reader of sci-fi, and I'm not sure I'd describe much of Dredd as belonging to that genre. Ezquerra's art depicts the character and his world in a no-nonsense manner which brings out the many different genres incorporated into Wagner's writing, reinforcing the flimsy sci-fi underpinnings of MC1 with real weight and solidity.Jock Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12650909385018296433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321253799411057654.post-51242310345018562282012-12-17T13:16:20.780-08:002012-12-17T13:16:20.780-08:00Fargo's line about how it was never meant to b...Fargo's line about how it was never meant to be forever sends a shiver up my spine everytime I read it. It completely knocks Dredd's core beliefs sideways. No longer is he the living purified embodiment of Fargo's "divine" mission to bring justice to all - no matter the cost. I trust that John Wagner is playing a really long game and now a smaller Mega City 1 will be reconstituted as a democracy with Rico, Beeny, Dolman et al as it's new guardians working inside a reformed Justice Department. Ianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17502213791452047798noreply@blogger.com