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Loading... Judge Dredd Year Two Omnibus (edition 2017)by Michael Carroll (Author), Matt Smith (Author), Cavan Scott (Author), Neil Roberts (Cover artist)
Work InformationJudge Dredd Year Two Omnibus by Michael Carroll Books Read in 2024 (1,752) No current Talk conversations about this book.  Michael.Rimmer | May 12, 2024 |  no reviews | add a review
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Science Fiction.
HTML: Rookie year's over Mega-City One, 2081. Judge Joe Dredd's been on the beat for a year. He's made tough calls, tackled hardbitten perps, and seen the consequences of his choices come back to bite him. But he's not done learning yet. Dredd's second year on the sked will see him back out in the Cursed Earth, where right and wrong are questions that go beyond the easy answers of the Law; he'll tackle an apparent serial killerâ??or more than one?â??targeting journalists; and he'll take his first real beat down, leaving him bent and broken with only his badge and his conviction to protect him... Including stories by Matt Smith, Michael Carroll and Cavan Scott, Judge Dredd: Year Two puts the city's greatest lawman to the test No library descriptions found. |
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The first story by Michael Carroll is basically a Western with Dredd as sheriff in a border town run by a corrupt business family, with high explosive weapons, mutants and radioactive twisters.
The second story by Matt Smith sees Dredd battered and bloodied, running a gauntlet of violent perps in a locked-down Mega-Block, not dissimilar to the excellent Karl Urban Dredd movie.
The last story by Cavan Scott is a detective mystery, featuring a female Trump-alike trillionaire politician and Deadliner, a serial killer targeting journalists. Dredd is assisted by a Psi-Judge, who wasn't Anderson but could just as well have been. Sadly, this story was marred by a section of egregious fatphobia 😕 I know the Fattie subculture is canon from the comics, but it can be used sensitivity or abusively, and unfortunately Scott went with the latter, which is a shame.
All the Dredd characteristics are here, but as an inexperienced newbie on the Mega-City One skeds, Joe is not infallible and he has some learning to do. Overall, a fun romp with a bit more going on than steel-chinned police brutality. (