"At Desolation's Doorstep"
Outside the gargantuan perimeter wall of Mega City One, Judge Dredd looks out into the vast stretches of the desolate landscape known as the "Cursed Earth." Armed with his Lawgiver handgun and sheathed in his Radcloak, Dredd prepares himself for the bandits and mutants that scour the sun-bleached wastes that lie beyond the relative safety of the megacities. The path to saving what little remains of civilization is wrought with terrors beyond the comprehension of many, but Dredd's fealty to his life as a Street Judge reaffirms his aspiration to "bring the Law to the lawless."
In a world where most comic book characters are owned by massive film and television corporations, I always find it both surprising and endearing that the continuing publication of the science-fiction comic magazine "2000 A.D." - including "Judge Dredd" and "Rogue Trooper" - are owned by a video game developer, that being Rebellion Developments. The same company that made the "Sniper Elite" series and several "Alien versus Predator" video games have since turned out to be a primary driver for the enduring legacy of the fantastical, surreal, grim, comedic, and engaging stories told in the "Judge Dredd" comics. If nothing else, Rebellion gets all the street credit in the world from me since they were able to get the "Judge Dredd" story with the McDonald's vs. Burger King gang war out of copyright limbo and available for everyone to read.
"At Desolation's Doorstep"
Outside the gargantuan perimeter wall of Mega City One, Judge Dredd looks out into the vast stretches of the desolate landscape known as the "Cursed Earth." Armed with his Lawgiver handgun and sheathed in his Radcloak, Dredd prepares himself for the bandits and mutants that scour the sun-bleached wastes that lie beyond the relative safety of the megacities. The path to saving what little remains of civilization is wrought with terrors beyond the comprehension of many, but Dredd's fealty to his life as a Street Judge reaffirms his aspiration to "bring the Law to the lawless."
In a world where most comic book characters are owned by massive film and television corporations, I always find it both surprising and endearing that the continuing publication of the science-fiction comic magazine "2000 A.D." - including "Judge Dredd" and "Rogue Trooper" - are owned by a video game developer, that being Rebellion Developments. The same company that made the "Sniper Elite" series and several "Alien versus Predator" video games have since turned out to be a primary driver for the enduring legacy of the fantastical, surreal, grim, comedic, and engaging stories told in the "Judge Dredd" comics. If nothing else, Rebellion gets all the street credit in the world from me since they were able to get the "Judge Dredd" story with the McDonald's vs. Burger King gang war out of copyright limbo and available for everyone to read.