Publisher: Hachette/Rebellion Script: John Wagner Art: Carlos Ezquerra, Kev Walker, Colin MacNeil Release Date: 4th March, 2015 Judge Dredd has never really needed an origin story. Over the previous three decades worth of stories, John Wagner and other Dredd scribes had shown, not told, everything you needed to know about the lawman and his world. Missy elliott the cookbook. Mega-City One was the dystopian future city literally built on top of the old America after the nuclear destruction of World War Three, ruled with an iron fist not by politicians and police, but the Justice Department, while Dredd himself was a clone of Judge Fargo, the original Father Of Justice himself. All of this was illustrated and fleshed out as background to other stories, building up organically over the years. Judge Dredd 2015 CastSure, there was discrepancies over dates and events here and there, but readers knew the history. Only it turns out, we didn’t know the half of it. With Origins, Wagner finally got round to telling the full story, not just of Dredd himself, but of the entire secret history of Mega City One and how it came to be. Needless to say, it’s utterly essential reading. When the Judges get information that Fargo, long thought dead, might still be alive and in the hands of a mutie gang out in the Cursed Earth wasteland, Dredd is despatched to discover the truth. Along the way, we at last get to see what really happened back before 2000 AD began it’s real-time documentation of Dredd’s world. Split between the present day mission and Dredd’s monologue of the time of Fargo, Origins brilliantly tells two stories concurrently, each as fascinating and as unpredictable as the other.
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