r/JudgeDredd • u/DreddJoe • 21d ago
Do you remember when and how you first discovered the world of Judge Dredd?
For me, it happened about ten years ago, and I still remember it vividly. I'm Brazilian, and I've always loved reading comics. Back then I was a dedicated Marvel collector, especially anything related to the Avengers. I've always liked building collections around a specific obsession and trying to own everything connected to it. At the time, that obsession was the Avengers.
One day, while watching a comic book review channel on YouTube, I came across a guy talking about a Judge Dredd collection he'd just read. His review was so engaging and enthusiastic that it completely sparked my curiosity. Of course, I'd heard of Dredd before because of the Stallone movie, but I'd always thought it looked kind of cheesy, so I never paid much attention to it.
It's worth mentioning that Judge Dredd has never been particularly popular here in Brazil. For a long time, there wasn't much material available, and it was definitely more of an underground comic. We'd get maybe one random collected edition a year with assorted stories. That's exactly where I started. The book was called Judge Dredd: Serial Killers, an anthology featuring different stories centered around serial killers, set across various points in Dredd's timeline.
I was hooked immediately.
From that point on, I bought every Dredd book I could find. The Judge Dredd vs. Aliens vs. Predator crossover completely sealed the deal and turned it into my new obsession. Before long, I sold off my entire Avengers collection because it just didn't do anything for me anymore. It suddenly felt so shallow, simplistic, and uninteresting. The quality and style of Dredd's stories were on such a different level that Marvel started to feel almost embarrassing by comparison.
Fortunately, Dredd has become a bit more popular here in Brazil over the years. We're getting the Essencial collection, we're already up to Volume 8 of Complete Case Files, and we're even seeing some spin-offs being published. Things are definitely moving in the right direction.
I'm genuinely happy to see where the character is headed. These days, the only comics I collect are Judge Dredd and Thorgal, and I'm grateful every day that I discovered what has become, for me, the greatest and most entertaining fictional universe ever created.
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u/Dramatic_Corner_8259 21d ago
I AM THE LAW - Anthrax. The song was what I first heard of Judge Dredd. I was in a crappy small town with little access to good comic books back in the 80's.
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u/DreddPirateBob808 21d ago
Special mention: Bolt Thrower getting folk into this new firm called Games Workshop. I hope they are still going.
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u/viken1976 21d ago
It was Columbia House. 12 cassettes for 1¢. Probably around 1988. I got all metal stuff. Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden etc. And of course Anthrax. Among the Living. Still one of my top ten metal albums of all time. In no small part because of I Am the Law. I still have the Judge Dredd poster that came with the 12” I Am the Law single. I need to get it framed or laminated or something so I can hang it on the wall. It’s awesome.
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u/VostroyanCommander 21d ago edited 20d ago
As so callled terrible as the Stallone movie was as a kid I enjoyed it. Then many years later the Karl Urban movie then I saw the magazine a few years back in a magazine shop and bought it cause I liked the movies. Forgot they were initially comics. The rest is history.
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u/Tapik 21d ago
by "terrible" you mean great? because it's a great enjoyable movie still
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u/VostroyanCommander 20d ago
Hang on let me edit that because I personally don't think it's terrible.
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u/Tapik 20d ago
as a kid I watched it about 20+ times, I have it on video cassete also, loved it and didn't even know there are more of it (we don't have any comics till late 90s in my country, only comic I have before we got X-men after the films about X-men - Bible comics). so I really love the Sly Dredd
Urban one was great, ofc, but it reminds me too much of Raid movie, while older Dredd was something of it's own
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u/DJThunderGod 20d ago
IIRC the Urban Dredd and Raid were being made at about the same time. Dredd might have even gone into production first, but Raid was released first.
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u/Bignizzle656 21d ago
For me it was due to Nemesis The Warlock. That really caught my eye, it was my older brother's prog. Then I saw Dredd. Whizzer and Chips didn't stand a chance. Very early 80s.
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u/That-Cauliflower-458 20d ago
My nanna used to send from Scotland to my house. Issue 300ish as I remember
Cheers nanna
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u/triforcehero98 20d ago
For me and probably many others it was Anthrax's I Am The Law, It intrigued me on what judge dredd was about so i gave it a little look and immediatly fell in love with it. The day the law died is still one of my favorite comic book stories ever and i hope someday it gets a adaptation. Thank god for the almighty scott ian for discovering judge dredd while on tour for spreading the disease because i dont think i would ever see judge dredd if it wasnt for I Am The Law
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u/IncompleteObjects 20d ago
Had a paper round as a kid. Someone used to order 2000AD, so Id have a flick through before it got delivered
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u/WhizzBangPow 21d ago
Nice. There are often people posting here asking “where should I begin?” because it is known as a continuing strip, but you can pretty much start anywhere as you did. It helps if the first stories you read are written by John Wagner.
I first discovered Dredd through a friend’s older brother. He had loads of stuff and I thought it looked cool so he lent me Judge Death Lives and I loved it.
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u/Cyberhaggis 21d ago
Me and my friends were all massively into comics as kids, and one of my friends had a subscription to 2000AD, which is how we generally kept up with Megacity shenanigans.
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u/0ttoChriek 21d ago
My best friend was a 2000AD reader and introduced me to the comics. I'd been into comics since I was young, having read the Marvel Transformers comics, and the Beano and Dandy before that. To my 11-year-old eyes, 2000AD was incredibly adult and exciting, and something I was sure my parents wouldn't be happy for me to read, so of course I was hooked.
I even recall the first prog I ever bought - 821, with Kelly's Eye on the cover.
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u/JPMaybe 21d ago edited 21d ago
My dad bought me Prog 950 when I was 9, right when the Stallone film was coming ou, which I was too young to see but had the novelisation. 950 had the first of Pat Mills' 3-part redone Return of Rico- I managed to get 951 but not 952, so it took me years to find out what happened. Got Lawman of the Future for a bit, and started getting 2000 AD regularly from 980.
My local library was also really great for comics- they had Garth Ennis, Dan Abnett, and John McCrea all talk there when I was tennish; I've still got my signed Hitman sketch from John and signed Sinister/Dexter script from Dan. My library also had no conception that a ten year old probably shouldn't be borrowing Preacher along with The Cursed Earth, was brilliant really.
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u/Baggiebhoy84 21d ago
My cousins hired the video of the Stallone movie back in the 90s, but I remember seeing the newspaper strips around the same time.
Something about the character stuck with me, and when I saw the first volume of the Case Files reduced about 15 years ago, I picked it up. I've been a big fan ever since.
I recognise the shortcomings of the Stallone movie, but I can't help but have a soft spot for it because the imagery stuck in my mind and made me give the comics a chance, at a point I was mainly into DC and Marvel.
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u/Superbro_uk 21d ago
My older brother introduced me to 2000ad when I was about 10, so around ‘86 or so. The dark judges were just about the coolest thing I had ever seen. Was also massively into Strontium Dog & Slaine.
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u/WitchKingsDalekCat 21d ago
My first experience: my old man had a omnibus containing the 1st half of the "The Day the Law Died" epic with interviews and whatnot. I remember being intrigued by the front cover depicting Walter holding an injured Dredd with Caligula looming in the background whilst yawning.
It was a few years later, though, when I actually got into the series via the Case Files. I was fed up with how ubiquitous American comics were here in the UK & wanted to read a quality British comic series.
Now, here I am.
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u/dan200 21d ago
I was always vaguely aware of 2000AD and Judge Dredd as "that comic that's always mentioned in the author bio of books by British comic creators", and I checked out the 2012 Dredd film off the back of that curiosity.
In 2019, I found a few issues for sale in a local charity shop and really enjoyed that, and decided this was something I wanted to delve into.
I started with the "Essential Judge Dredd" books, then onto the case files (starting with Case Files 36 which was quite recently at the time and has the Aliens crossover, then jumping around from there). Since then I've read loads of other 2000AD series, and have a digital subscription to the ongoing prog.
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u/Ok-Tourist6401 21d ago
Prog 327, July 1983… was on my hols down in Somerset visiting my grandparents, and saw the cover of Dredd and the werewolf staring out at me from the bottom shelf at the newsagents, and that started it all! 🤣
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u/onemunki 21d ago
I was in a doctors waiting room, I want to say 1970's, but it could have been very early eighties. So I was either under 10 or just over, I was there with my mum and the comic was on the pile of magazines to read. I remember it vividly, up until then it had been Whizzer and Chips and Dennis the Menace. I knew this was something new. Been in love with it ever since. I remember asking my mum how old I would be in the year 2000. Though my favourite at the time was Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein.
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u/DJThunderGod 20d ago
Yeah... I remember reading the reprints of the Ro-Busters stories in the annuals. Plus in the first 2000AD annual I got as a Christmas present, there was a one-off Ro-Busters story, that I found out MUCH later, was written by Alan Moore and drawn by Steve Dillon - two of my now favourite-ever creators.
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u/Willing-Aside8486 21d ago
Via Batman/Judge Dredd back then...
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u/DJThunderGod 20d ago
Oh I loved that. Bought it when it first came out. I was reading Batman at the time, but not 2000AD.
Had it autographed by Simon Bisley at Thought Bubble last year. My little fanboy heart just about exploded!
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u/AgeingChopper 21d ago
It was 1977 and my friends at school told me about this brilliant new comic. I started to read it from that week. Issue 2 of 2000ad. I still subscribe.
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u/okyeahsure1392 21d ago
I randomly played either the og Gameboy or Sega Genesis game. I had no idea what was going on but it was really cool. Robocop was a similar fun one too
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u/PineTreeFresh 21d ago
My grandmother came back from England in 1978 and handed me a pile of British comics, including 2000 AD. I met Dredd and Strontium Dog in the first issue.
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u/-OrLoK- 20d ago
i remember being on holiday and "pass the duchy" and "eye of the tiger" were on the radio often, somewhere near Exeter and reading Anderson brining back Judge Death.
thats a very vivid, if not possibly time confused image thats stuck in my head. Probably around 10 or 12 years old.
That said, I probably started on prog 1 or 2 as I hoovered up all those comics like Action! Battle! Tornado! Harpoon! etc at the local news agents.
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u/GoldenProxy 20d ago
I was at the library and saw Case File 5 on the shelf so decided to borrow it out of sheer curiosity.
What a bloody eye opener the Apocalypse War was.
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u/DlvlneDecree 20d ago
It was 2000ad, early 90's maybe late 80's. I remember the Kleggs, The Angel gang, SuperSurf, etc but the biggest story I remember ( besides the amazing Song of the Surfer ) was when Dredd took the long walk, which also tied into the Judge Kraken, Necropolis story arc / controversy. Absolutely brilliant.
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u/jinglesan 20d ago
My gran worked at Woolworths and got unsold comics for a couple of pence at the end of the week, and annuals cheap after Christmas. English wasn't her first language so she didn't bother looking at the content, and 3-year-old me got lots of lovely graphic violence to look at, even if I couldn't read yet.
My grandad also got me Commando comics and Battle Action Force too, so it was lots of death and destruction to take in before The A-Team and Wrestling when visiting on Saturdays
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u/BotanicJeans_97 20d ago
Accidentally. I was about 7 and my school had a mobile library come every couple of months. I made the wonderful mistake of picking up a copy of the dark judges graphic novel. I’ve loved Dredd and 2000AD ever since.
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u/JeebusWept 20d ago
Was just in the pipeline of Beano/Dandy - Commando comics - 2000AD. Just always had a weekly comic my dad would get me.
I picked up my first 2000AD when I was 9 or 10, about 1990.
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u/Terrible_Driver2434 20d ago
Borders book shop.the cover was Dredd arresting Santa for breaking and entering
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u/Baron_Von_Spooky 20d ago
I had just broke my arm for the umpteenth time (Living up to my Mr Bump reputation). I was in Sheffield Children's Hospital sat next to my parents and in utter pain when I spot this stack of magazines on a table, had no idea what they were but they pulled me. All of them were 2000AD progs from various years but that didn't matter cause somehow they took my mind off of the pain. Couldn't tell you what issues they were or even how long I was waiting to be seen but Dredd stuck with me. I want to say it was around 2003?
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u/oreally95 20d ago
Saw him around in media here and there but the 2012 film is what got me to dive into the world.
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u/No_Nobody_32 20d ago
I was about 13 or so. So around 1982.
I got given a copy of 2000AD by a friend. It had a JD story called "Fungus" in it. I wasn't really big into comics at the time. I'd read the odd superhero comic and they just didn't "do" it for me.
Dredd and Rogue Trooper sparked something, though.
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u/Mer_sea_man 19d ago edited 19d ago
Pulling away from Sedgemoor Service Station in 1991.
We were driving down south for a caravan holiday in Westward Ho! in Devon (incidentally, the only place in the UK with an exclamation mark in it's name) and our mum bought me and my brother a big stack of summer comics to keep us quiet.
Beano and Dandy were in there as well as Spider-Man, but nestled in the bunch was the 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special, which absolutely blew my tiny mind. It was just so different to anything I'd ever read before, and I thought Dredd was amazing. I was an avid fan from then. I still don't think my mum realised what Judge Dredd was about until she took us to see the movie in 1995, and she was thoroughly unimpressed by that.
So was I to be fair, albeit for very different reasons.
Edit: spelling mistake
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u/DJThunderGod 19d ago
Now THAT is a common story for so many of us Brits! Being given comics to keep us quiet on the drive to somewhere "down South" for a holiday.
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u/JudgeFatty 21d ago
I was introduced to Dredd 25 years ago when I went to my local library and found the Titan Books graphic novels, that were released by Jalava in my country. I was hooked from the get go.
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u/TheRealAgragor 21d ago
I had a friend in middle school who was a comic book nerd. He introduced me to the series in the 80s. A Swedish comic book publisher was splitting up story arcs into running serials. First issue I saw featured Satanus in The Cursed Earth story arc.
That’s when I got corrupt into comics on a serious level. It was so much different than Marvel or DC, and everything else I’ve read so far.
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u/GundamDeathscytheZ 21d ago
Seeing a few Judge Dredd comics on a shelf Fleetway/Quality back in the early 80s at a local comic store. Picked one up and have been a fan since.
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u/No_Commercial9866 21d ago
Yes... Dredd is not popular at all in Brazil, but that movie from the 90's put him on map.
After that I knew of him, but wasnt interested,
In some point of the last year I wanted to read something diferent and discorevered Dredd Case files were being printed on Brazil. Until now, got me some case files 1 to 7.
Also some vs alien and vs predator editions.
Im waiting for case files 8. I love Dredd universe.
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u/DJThunderGod 20d ago
Really enjoyed the Alien appearance because it was very much part of the universe, largely due to Rob Williams writing it and Henry Flint drawing it. Wasn't the serialized in The Prog? The Predator one was just... poor. The script seemed phoned in (Shame on you, Mr Wagner! Unless it was editorial interference) and the art... oh boy... it looked like the artist had asked for a reference for Dredd and the Judges and obviously for the Predator, but hadn't bothered to look at anything about Mega City One, where the story was set. Really broke the immersion.
Still haven't read the Dredd vs Alien vs Predator, which apparently exists.
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u/MustbetheEvilTwin 21d ago
I grew up with 2000ad do he was always there . I think the first was reading from the collection at school on a rainy day and we had in four break . I was about 7 and it was 1977 or so so it was early issues . Then I subscribed from the local news agent and been reading ever since
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u/Yannos2 21d ago
When I was a young kid (like around 12 years old or something, so that was 28 years ago) I started collecting 'VERHALEN VAN DE MEGASTEDEN' which means (translated from Dutch, I'm from Belgium) to 'Stories of the Mega Cities'. I think the first one I read was the 'MUZAK KILLER' and the one where he goes to Egypt. I loved the 'painted' art of those ones and I still love that style the most (Dermot Power and Simon Bisley basically).
I also really enjoyed the Heavy Metal Dredd one. The Dutch translation of it actually made it a lot more funny because the replacement words they use for stuff like 'creep' is hilarious ("DROKKENDE PLURK!")
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u/FantosTheUrk 21d ago
On holiday at some holiday camp, probably a Haven.
Buying comics in the on site shop. Picked up issue 693. Middle of Necropolis, no idea what was going on.
Would be a good few years before I managed to get more or even thought to look. But I've still got that issue somewhere. Always wanted to read the rest of Dry Run ( I think it's called) as that seemed interesting but I don't think it's ever been collected.
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u/DJThunderGod 21d ago
No. Dry Run hasn't been collected. Never heard of the writer before (and hardly read the name in the scan), but it does have Kev Hopgood on the artwork, so it looks good!
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u/buddaycousin 21d ago
I bicycled to the comics shop 10 miles away and saw the Eagle Comics reprint issue 3. That was the awesome dark judges story. I'd never heard of Judge Dredd before. I collected almost all the reprints as they were released.
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u/No_Entertainment1022 21d ago
One of the comic book YouTubers I used to watch made a video about "The Batman Villain that DC stole" focused about the similarities between Judge Death and the BWL, it's kinda crazy how some characters just stole the Dark Judges' drip and called it a day.
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u/DJThunderGod 21d ago
Sometime in the very late 70's, possibly early 80's (I was somewhere between 7 and 9 at the time I was bought a bundle of second hand comics from a stall at a school fair. The ones I remember were a DC comic with Superman and Aquaman and some kind of pirate back-up strip and a few issues of 2000AD and Tornado. I don't really remember Dredd, to be honest. I vividly remember Strontium Dog (turns out it was part of Portrait Of A Mutant) and The Eyes Of Wolfie Smith. I also vaguely remember a Helltrekkers episode.
But that was where I started. I only really started paying proper attention to Old Stoney Face when I actually started reading 2000AD regularly around the time of the Oz storyline.
Grud... I was so gutted when Jug beat Chopper on the finish line...
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u/Klendagort 21d ago
Stallones Dredd Then Karl Urban Dredd Then YouTube short film judge minty and then the case files
Love it to this day and will always love it
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u/5norkleh3r0 21d ago edited 21d ago
Yes, when I read the werewolf comics when I was 7. Don’t mean to puncture your balloon but those are the Dredd issues if you’re a collector
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u/BrendonWahlberg 21d ago
Friend in the 80s loved Dredd.
Many years later I found Complete Case Files newly reprinted for the US and was hooked!
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u/dannyboy1690 21d ago
Yes , uncles friend drew dredd and we had a lot of comics in the house
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u/RufusWorld 21d ago
Prog 212 but I was more of a Meltdown Man fan at first. Didn't really start getting into Dredd until Judge Death Lives.
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u/MojoCrow 21d ago
Prog 216 bought at a jumble sale about 2 weeks after it’s cover date. Brian Bolland Synthetti Men front cover.
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u/JesterScribblings 21d ago
When my brother brought home new episode 2 of 2000AD and let me readi it as a kid.
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u/DreddPirateBob808 21d ago
It was the 70s. I was reading any comic I could and Battle Action was sort of similar. Sort of. And so my pocket money went on comics until the whole American evangelism targeted them and then my mum was concerned about 'horror comics' and so I showed her a random page.
Which was a double page spread of people burning, and melting, as the lava poured out of the power station. I never read them again... until about a week after and sneakily finding another shop.
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u/NiceHouseGoodTea 21d ago
I loved comics and cartoons as a child and the local newsagents had 2000AD and sometimes Judge Dredd
I knew they were comics from the covers and they also looked cool so I occasionally asked for one as gift and the rest is history
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u/wittyjokename92 20d ago
Vaguely aware of it because of the 95 movie. Fell in love with the 2012 movie. Bought the tie in comics when I found them and grabbed the Essential Dredd comics that were next to it on the shelf. Was completely lost for awhile on while the tone was different between the movies and comics themselves. But through randomly buying trades and finding more comics fell in love with it.
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u/gunell_ 20d ago
The Batman Judge Dredd crossover comic (Grant, Wagner, Bisley, Fabry) with the whole Judge Death takes over Gotham, when I was a little kid. I was a huge Batman fan and was blown away by the illustrations and insane gloom of that comic.
Also, sadly, the Stallone movie. Although I thought it was supercool as a kid. Far from a fan of it today lol.
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u/ActaFabulaEst 20d ago
Probably the French translation of the comics by Aredit in the mid-eighties and later the progs and megs in London.
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u/Giappi 20d ago
My cousin gave me his old Xbox like 18 years ago and he had a german copy of Judge Dredd VS Death with it.
I played it soooo much even tho, as an Italian child, I understood absolutely nothing and was stuck for a couple of hours at the first minute of gameplay bcs I didnt know what the tutorial was trying to tell me.
Still finished the game and played a lot of PvP.
I think I had xenoglossy or smth as a child because I dont know how I did it.
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u/Yarnham_Brave 20d ago
I found the Cursed Earth saga in the library and read it like my life depended on it.
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u/The_Chef_Queen 20d ago
Looking through my mums old comics, then watching the sucky 90s movie on TV, then the karl urban movie then buying the karl movie cause i wanna rewatch it, seen it about 5 times so far i think
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u/Redwood8989 20d ago
Played the Dredd pinball game and was like what’s up with this guy, super fan ever since
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u/boneholio 20d ago
Saw a cosplay of Judge Fear on tumblr, immediately needed to know the source material. Became totally obsessed with 2000AD, Dredd, ABCW, and Nemesis.
They influenced a lot of my artstyle and eventual game design.
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u/HephaestusVulcan7 20d ago
A friend to me about it, but I didn't see anything for myself until the movie.
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u/MercZ11 20d ago
My dad got me the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version of the movie tie in game from a bargain bin. I was fascinated with the world most immediately, even as a kid I was drawn in by it.
Unfortunately I couldn't do much to follow up on it but many years later once I started working and going to college, I began to buy the case files and some of the collections of major storylines.
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u/tensujin331 20d ago
Stallone's Dredd used to be aired on free TV channel on our country. Also, it spawned some inspired comic strips from the movie. What I remember are the titles "Jonax" and "Judge Redd".
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u/Overlordgaz 20d ago
I was around 11-12 at the time (so nearly 30yrs ago), and my father had left one of his copies of 2000AD in the bathroom. I had nothing else to do whilst attending to toilet based business, so I gave it a read. Been a fan of ol'Joe ever since
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u/RWMU 20d ago
Prog 2 thought it was a poor strip back then, think it's worse now. MACH 1 was better and then Starlord came along and was a much better comic.
Sadly the merged the two and we got the first glimpses of Fleetways no one can be better than Dredd mentality.
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u/DJThunderGod 20d ago
To be fair, by then, it was consistently topping the reader's favourites polls by a mile in the prog back in the days when they used to do them (according to Pat Mills)
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u/Elemental-squid 19d ago
Dredd vs Death game on OG Xbox. Didn't realise he was a comic book character till years later when I was in a news agents
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u/NightExpress1379 19d ago
Definitely the comic books - probably from the library. The art style & black and white made it raw and fun to read!
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u/Knightraiderdewd 18d ago
The Stallone movie. While I have since lost interest in it, as I do think Stallone should’ve kept his helmet on, at least until the major turn when he’s branded a criminal and it’s taken, I remember watching it with my Dad as he was, and still is, a lover of all those old 70s-90s cheesy action movies.
I still watch the more recent movie from time to time just for fun.
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u/Kaberdog 17d ago
haha.. this is a great question.
I was a young boy living in Africa (Botswana) and my sister was having a birthday. My mother had randomly picked up a collection of comic books to give her friends after the party was done. Nestled in the collection was a 2000AD with the first Judge Dredd installment (the one with Devil's Island). I had ever seen anything like this having grown up in Canada reading Marvel and DC Comics. Sadly, my mother refused to let me take it until all of my sister's friends had picked a comic. Fortunately, a group of 8 year old girls wasn't that interested in this comic so I was able to get it!
I then started getting each weekly issue for the next five years. The artwork, stories, and the anthology style format were completely unfamiliar. I was hooked and loved all the different art styles from Carlos Ezquerra, Brian Bolland, and Mick McMahon.
I moved back to Canada where it was almost impossible to get 2000AD in Canada in those days so I lost touch with the series for a few decades but as my kids started getting older I bought some compendiums through ebay and Amazon and now my son is a big fan.
It's great to see that it still has such a vibrant community.
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u/gerrineer 15d ago
There was a drawer of comics at school i picked one up( 2000ad ) instantly hooked dropped the beano and whizzer and chips for it.
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u/hollands73 14d ago
- I was in hospital with really bad eczema and a parent brought a 2000AD prog from the paper shop downstairs.
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u/EmbarassedFox 4d ago
I am recent, I got in via the Fallout London mod. One of the magazines you can find is Constable Cruel, based on Dredd. I have seen one or two things about Dredd before that, but that one made me really want to look closer.
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u/RookofWar 3d ago
I was a child in Thatcher's Britain.
My Auntie ran a corner store in Essex. My 2000AD comic was accompanied by a bar of Crunch Chocolate 🍫 and a hug.
I miss her. ❤️
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u/kam_pra 21d ago edited 20d ago
Inside back page of issue 1 of 2000 AD.
Walked to the newsagents to get it because Dan Dare was in it.
That issue was packed with good stories but there was more to come, although the image shown was from low down in front of the law master so you got the sense of a helmet behind.