![]() ![]() ![]() From darkly whacky weekly tales of action and derring-do to an existentially bleak tale of loss, grief and struggle tailor made for the graphic novel collected format. Dredd goes from anti-hero to straight-up oppressive antagonist here and the tonal whiplash going from The Day the Law Died to this is wild and shows not only the leaps and bounds that the great John Wagner had made in a decade, but how the medium itself had changed immeasurably over the 1980's. Focusing on tragic childhood friends, Bennett Beeny and America Jara, it shows the fascistic Mega-City One from a citizen's eye view and introduces the pro-democracy terror group "Total War" into the canon. ![]() One of the most exalted stories in Dredd's long run, America ran in the new Judge Dredd Megazine back in 1991 and marked a cinematic sea-change in the way the character and his world had been portrayed before that point. ![]()
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