I liked the early ones, but for the past fifteen years it's been nothing but a pale imitation of itself. I really don't think there's as much life in the comic as they try to squeeze out of it.

>Squaxx Dek Thargo

Thanks for that. I got this annual from my nana in 1981 (yes, nana turned me on to 2000AD) and got the comic weekly for about ten years.

Have a look through the old stuff. The compilation hardbacks are a great start.

>>2464 I stopped getting 2000AD about 4 years ago (after reading since the late 80's) so can't comment on any stories since then, but I don't think Dredd ever got stale. I particularly liked it how he got old and mellowed out a bit.

The star of the Dredd comics was always the city itself and that has been continuously reinvented. Each to his own though.

Favourite strip: A Rose for Rosie. 2 of Mega City 1's downtrodden find a piece of paradise only to have it stolen. Dredd appears right at the end, too late, to kill the bad guys, dependable as ever.

It'd be nice to hear which strips other people liked best.

I haven't bought 2000AD since sometime in the mid 90's. Before that though I had about 5 years worth of issues including all the annuals. Then my mum threw them out when we moved apart from the annuals. I was one very distraught 12 year old. Especially as the collection included old comics from the late 70's.

Dredd was a favourite of mine when I was younger, along with Strontium Dog and Rogue Trooper. I have a few complete case files of Dredd stuff and 2 Strontium Dog ones. I always liked Dredd because he is basically the tool of a fascist police state. He's not a dull red white and blue superhero, the comics existed in many shades of grey.

The judge child quest is one of my favourite story arcs. Since it widened up the world of Dredd by taking it off planet and showing all these strange planets.

I've not been into comics long enough to read much Dredd, but I did have some copies of 2000AD in which I found the story "Leviathan". Plot's a shame, setting is lovely. Here, I compiled it for you.
http://www.mediafire.com/?q3yynuznndk

>>2468
I quite enjoyed the story. Though incidentally it also is one of the reasons I gave up with 2000AD. You have a fairly short sotry stretched out over many issues, by only giving it a small amount of space in each one. Whilst the price went up the amount of actual comic went down.

>>2469
That's why I compiled it into one. I went through a lot of downloads to find all the pages.
You can actually buy the solo thing though, I've seen it in hardback.

Ciudad Barranquilla squaxx reporting in!
I first got into Judge Dredd when the movie came out, because my dad, who reads a lot of comics, remembered the character from some old anthologies from the 80s (it's incredible how connected argies and brits are, at least regarding comics). So he took me to the movie, I liked it, and then he unearthed all these old issues with Dredd on the cover. First one had Judge Death's first appearance, which I'm convinced has to be one of the most reprinted Dredd stories ever, and I loved it.
Sad thing is, 2000AD doesn't get here. Your best bet is finding old spanish issues from the 80s, and even those are rare. And buying through the internet is out of the question, since we have an extremely pathetic exchange rate that means we got to pay over three times the cover price, and that's without transportation fees!
So I've downloaded most of my Dredd stuff, but I do try to buy everything I can. For isntance, about three months ago I managed to find an Apocalypse War collection, the old Titan Books one, hidden behind a bunch of LotR merchandise in a local comic shop. Must've been brought back in the 90s where we had a decent exchange rate, so the price was not to steep and I managed to coax the clerk into keeping it like that because, "Come on, when was the last time somebody asked you about this?"
So anyway, I love Dredd and I love the city, but my heart belongs entirely to Hershey. She's just great all around.

>>2473

Sadly, Hershey will never return your love, because she's a Judge and it's not allowed.

Enjoy your 15 years in the cubes, creep

>>2473
That you, Judge Anon?

>>2483
It's not looove per se, it's like a platonic admiration for her strong personality, fierce loyalty to her ideals, belief in a fair deal... She's like all the better (At least from our POV) parts of Dredd rolled into one package. She's an admirable character who doesn't come out as weak-willed, and those are hard to come by.
She'll always be Chief Judge... of my heart.

>>2485
Yeah, I found my way into british /co/. Loving the place so far. Wonderful logos.

>>2487
>She'll always be Chief Judge... of my heart.
I laughed, then i aww'd a little.

This thread needs more Simon Bisley Dredd, i usually prefer the more subtle comic book artists, but I fucken love Bisleys' ballsout muscle and guns style.

http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/search/label/simon%20bisley

Dredd did an amusing interview for FHM in the nineties where he discusses his job ("In extreme cases we're prepared to nuke a city from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.") and Stallone's portrayal of him ("Good chin. Next question."). He kept passing sentences on the interviewer for things like swearing and making references to illegal practices until by the end he hauled him off for eighty years imprisonment. Pity it's not on the internet.

>>2493
Sounds ace, 2000ad had a great presence in the early/mid 90s. I remember being taken to the first Virgin Megastore (I think) in London, they had a 7ft tall Judge Dredd statue on the shop floor that filled me with boyish awe.

Also, does anyone have Grant Morrisons Big Dave? There's a torrent out there which is unseeded.

>>2494
Voila: http://hotfile.com/dl/19008828/d6c9088/Big_Dave_Complete.zip.html I'd never heard of Big Dave before, but it looks great. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dave

>>2494

Ok I fucking laughed my ass off at the thought of some mexican/yank shitting themselves at a guy walking out going U wot mate. No idea why.

>>2496
You diamond! Been wanting to read Big Dave again for years, though nothings worth going through a bin bag filled with a decades worth of comics.
There's a brilliant story arc at the end involving Nelson Mandella, Nazis, zombies, special needs kids and the world cup...

>>2496
More thanks for this, I read a few strips in WH Smiths when I was a skint student, always laughed my arse off.

Wasn't Big Dave the most complained about strip ever? Anyway, thanks, I haven't had the opportunity to read it before.

>>2503
It was loved and loathed in equal measure. It set out to poke fun at 'yob culture' and the red top newspapers, and stir in abit of controversy to boot. Personally I found myself laughing aloud at some of it. One of the greats.

>Not long ago, "weight diversity speakers" advocating "fat acceptance" for the "fat pride" community would have been a gag on the US TV satire The Daily Show. Nowadays, they are a forceful voice in American politics.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/01/lionel-shriver-my-obese-brother

Anyone can to share further instances of Dredd turning out to be prophetic?

>>2505
Not far off.

Go out and buy the 2000AD Christmas special if you've not already. It's worth it for Whatever Happened to the Green Pedestrian Palm? alone, but there's lots of other good stuff in there too.

Zenith, real name Robert MacDowell, was the son of two members of Cloud Nine, a super-team of the 1960s who had been created by the British military but rebelled and became hippies and psychedelic fashion icons. Zenith himself used his somewhat unreliable superhuman abilities not to fight evil but to promote his career as a pop singer. Shallow, spoilt, self-centred and cowardly, he was reluctantly dragged into the struggle against malevolent supernatural entities known as the Lloigor or "Many-Angled Ones".

_{http://www.h33t.com/download.php?id=8a3080726148f8727867d4dc16a306c3fd95200c&f=Zenith%20-%20Complete.torrent}

>Described by Andrew Harrison as "the greatest British comic strip ever created", Charley's War tells the story of an underage British soldier called Charley Bourne. Charley joins the British Army during World War I at the age of 16 (having lied about his age and told the recruiting officers that he was 18; they conveniently overlook the fact that Charley gives his date of birth on his application form as 1900), and is quickly thrust into the Battle of the Somme.

_{http://www.h33t.com/download.php?id=c30cc649999aeb7aeca6924957af386a58d0bb73&f=Battle%20-%20Charley%27s%20War%20%28Complete%29.torrent}

I loved Charlie's war, and although it is fantastic, it really lost a lot of it's edge once he y'know, got sent home from the war.

>>2662
Yeah, I only bothered with the WW1 ones really (of which the vast majority deal with), once Pat Mills left they drove it into the ground. Still, worth getting for Blue's story alone imo.

>>2660 fuck yeah zenith.

he was like a superhero rick.

>>2661
Oh God Charley's War... What a great comic. I love it. I just love it.

>>2466
I started reading 2000AD at just the right time.
One of the first Dredd stories I ever saw was "The Black Plague" Dredd ordered the entire section of the city to be burned down to destroy the mutant spider plague. Anyone that was in there with them? Too bad.

Then next was Judge Death Returns (or something) thats when this image happened. Truly unforgettable. I don't think Dredd really has classic moments like this anymore.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8590231.stm

Requiescat in pace

>>2748 That's because he got old and mellowed out. That's what I loved about the strip. He aged in real time and in a realistic way, even though it ruined the concept.

I can't believe nobody has posted this yet.

https://www.youtube.com/v/9rVFi6qkPHE

>>2769 I would post Hangin' Out with Halo Jones by Transvision Vamp but it's not on youtube.

Such a good series.

I've a great fondness for British comics and the talent and styles involved. It's always nice to see people still reading and celebrating Dredd, Dan Dare and all the others I remember from years go.