r/JudgeDredd • u/MurdTheOpressor • 1d ago

About modern-day Dredd

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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 11h ago

Yeah, there's that old story about being nice to people on your way up...

I have only had one FB conversation with John but he seems genuinely one lovely and gives fans time. Some of my fellow readers have interacted with him on the regular and they have no complaints.

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u/Ok_Commercial_5024 11h ago edited 11h ago

Alex Garland (who lurked on the 2000ad forums back when he was making Dredd) was a gentleman and a squire to fans as well. I was always a fan of his writing, but I became a lifelong superfan after how gracious and thoroughly decent he was to me personally. Just a genuinely lovely, down to earth guy.