On the surface, it can be read as a straightforward science fiction story about a particularly brutal lawman in a future United States, but Dredd, as a property, has always been multilayered. The appeal of Judge Dredd is a surprisingly complicated one to explain, after all.
What if Judge Dredd‘s failure 20 years ago wasn’t Sly Stallone’s fault, but Joe Dredd’s? It’s not only the movies, however attempts at original comic books for the American readership from both DC Entertainment (in the 1990s, to accompany the Stallone movie) and IDW Publishing (currently ongoing, but coming to a close this summer) have met with apathy in the marketplace. audiences that Judge Dredd is something that they’re interested in. It didn’t, of course - but perhaps the problem was larger than the fact that the movie wasn’t very good.Īfter all, by this point, we’ve had a second movie version of the character - 2012’s Dredd, starring Karl Urban as the no-nonsense future cop in a postapocalyptic America - that has similarly failed to convince U.S. Judge Dredd, a Sylvester Stallone vehicle based on 2000AD‘s flagship strip, was to hit movie theaters that summer, finally taking the character from cult appreciation to the mainstream.
For followers of long-running British science fiction comic book 2000AD, 1995 looked as if it was going to be a watershed year.
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