1251: Hot Damn!

I am quite proud of this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtDdqKCWcjE

1250: FEATURING JUDGE DREDD (yeah no tag line)

There’s nothing like a relaunch prog and this is a particularly strong one this time!

Four new stories begin with a fifth next prog. But today we shall focus on just one of them. Helter Skelter Garth Ennis first 2000ad story in god knows how long. See our man Garth who nowadays writes very grotty superhero parodies and has in the past wrote about a preacher who cusses and shags a lot and has a best pal vampire has returned to the place where he began.
Well okay he was bribed to return. See the rights to some of his early crisis stuff were available and the boys at rebellion decided to hand them over to him for at least two stories from him. One is Monkey on my back and is covered in a later slog entry and the other is this…mess.























Darien Kenzie is on the run after a experiment in dimensional travel has gone horrifically wrong. She is attacked by both Geeks from old 2000ad strip the V.Cs and then by Judges who have no qualms about killing innocents and have targeted her and only Judge dredd can help her by blowing the judges away and quoting the terminator.

1249: Hells teeth

It’s the big cleanup prog in order for 1250 to unleash its thrill powered contents to the world. A short two part dredd story in which a group of mutants rampage against a group of mega city lawyers (could dredd tell the difference) ends. A short future shock appears and Carver Hale ends never to return aside from a cameo in the birthday prog a few months down the line. A love like blood ends with a cataclysmic battle as imprinted onto the cover.

I am going to talk about tales of telguuth but rather than write about it. You need to hear about it. Its for that reason unlike my other reedits I have kept the video of this one. You need to hear how awful and boring an episode of this series can be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J43YjvJmgGE

1247 Flamin' Hell

After a six week break (likely due to the artist being slow) Carver Hale returns to end his one and only tale. I refer you back to the entry for 1236 for the exact story of this thrill.

Also concluding this issue is the controversial return to mars storyline for the Abc warriors. Thrill power overload tells the story much better but even back then I could tell there was some serious meddling in this story. One minute Mek quake is dying of a computer virus and crashing a ship. Next minute he is hale and healthy with the rest of the warriors…

The story as a whole is a complete and utter car crash and almost killed the warriors as a strip. Luckily they came back stronger than ever…but that’s a tale for another time.

1246: Zero Tolerence

John Wagner begins to play a long game on Dredd this issue as we are in part three of the chief judge’s man. The story goes that there appears to be a clandestine assassin who is used by the chief judge to wipe out some targets that need to be kept shut.

Dredd gets involved in the case and attempts to track down this mysterious killer unaware of his ties to the justice department. A tense story, which really makes you think Hershey, could really be behind all this until the very end…



Next slog

Carver Hale concludes…

Judge Dredd Megazine VOL 4.1

In the summer of 2001 it was clear someone in rebellion was pleased with the end of year progs because the judge Dredd megazine after years of printing any old crap from the files or being stuck with reprints of recent mega epics (necropolis) or stuff which while awesome does not deserve to be in a book called JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE (Preacher) It was clear it was time for a change and thus the Meg undergone its forth such regeneration turning into a mammoth 100 pager.

For your £3:95 you got over 90 pages of comic strip about 50 of which were reprint. Over half of this reprint would come from 2000ads own archives. For this first issue Robusters was dusted off for the first time in years joined by over exposed awesomeness from Dr and Quinch.

The other half at first came from other British books as we say hello to Lazarus Churchyard. I didn’t enjoy it much though it was interesting seeing D’israelis early art which looked nice but nowhere near as good as his current stuff. This British reprint thing took a backseat after Churchyard ended but we’ll come to that in 4.9 as we officially begin the Meg slog.

The remaining 40 pages of strip were all brand new. We got a 15 page Dredd strip featuring the return of the fatties and in particular a training camp for speed eating contests. Lenny Zero returns as he comes face to face with a certain Lawman…who? Well his name is on the front of the magazine.

The final brand new strip was wardog which I believe was supposed to be based on a Rebellion published videogame which never happened as far as I know which is a shame because despite the cornball insane premise it was a neat little strip. What was that cornball premise? Well our hero has a bomb in his head and if he fails to complete a contracted mission before the timer hits zero, he dies. Better than it sounds believe me!

The meg slog will continue in 4.9 the first officially bought by me issue

1245: Illegal alien!

Dan Abnett begins his very long game in this weeks sinister Dexter as Dexter faces off against a crazed alien ambassador who gets high on tomato sauce. This one story sets off a chain of dominoes which still topple to this day. For you see this episode proves the existence of aliens in the hitmens world. This leads into various other stories which leads them into an adventure through space and dimensions. This of course leads us into the ongoing war of the Moses storyline. Which shows up in the prog when Abnett is not busy in America plotting the destinies of Marvels space characters Ohh full circle…



Next prog slog: Another long running story begins as the chief judges man is on the loose.