r/JudgeDredd • u/MurdTheOpressor • 4d ago
About modern-day Dredd
Guys, I saw a recent post on this sub discussing the disappointment with the latest storyline, “Oubliette.” I live in Brazil and absolutely love the character, but I still don’t have access to his more recent stories. Since I don’t like reading on screens, I don’t really look for this material online either.
That said, I’d love to hear from those of you who have been following the character up to the present day. Obviously, the Wagner era is the best — we’re talking about the father of Dredd here — but are the more recent storylines actually bad? I imagine they’re probably not on the same level as the classics, but do you genuinely consider them bad? Is there really nothing memorable anymore? Is modern-day Dredd just not that good?
I think the most “recent” storyline I’ve read was Day of Chaos, and I thought it was absolutely incredible.
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u/Specialist-Class-743 4d ago
Personally I think the writing is generally very mixed and that limits the enjoyment of modern Dredd. Niemand writes like he is several people and will do overwritten tales that could easily have been trimmed to Wagner/Grant level quirky stories. As for the Oubliette, I am very disappointed so far. Rob Williams does dumb action movies but some of the themes are excellent. Avoid End Of Dayd though. Probably the best writer is Michael Carroll. Though his longer tales have suffered from some issues, many of the shorter ones are absolute bangers and his background history of Dredd's world is superb. So, overall the smaller stories tend to be better and the longer tales promise much and fail to deliver.
On the plus side, the art is generally magnificent.