![]() ![]() It makes for an interesting middle-ground between movie and comic that suits the story well. Wyatt draws more inspiration from the comic, with the Cursed Earth outside the city walls making a very different backdrop than the movie’s claustrophobic tower block. Dredd is on hand to cut through the moral ambiguity of the story as only he knows how – by coming down hard on anyone who breaks the law – which makes for a thrilling journey into the irradiated wasteland outside his city walls.Īrthur Wyatt does well to channel the Dredd of the movie into a new location here, ditching the gritty drug-dealing for a less grounded foe. Years later, the embittered man he grows into is slowly eliminating the mob, literally covering his tracks with his telekinetic ability to whip up a Cursed Earth sandstorm. The first story in this collection is a classic tale of revenge, wrapped around a mutated telekinetic boy who saw his parents unjustly murdered by an angry mob for a perceived slight they didn’t commit. The movie version has continued in the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine, the 2000AD spin-off, with previous stories reprinted in Dredd: Urban Warfare. ![]() It was similar to the original comics that inspired it, but edged towards a darker, grittier tone, largely ditching the humour that the strip’s original creators wrote into their extreme vision of life in the future. ![]() The Dredd movie (the 2012 one, not the 1995 Sylvester Stallone one) set up its own version of the Judge Dredd universe. ![]()
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