How do you think they will end Judge Dredd?
Do they have any plans for a final story?
How do you think they will end Judge Dredd? Do they have any plans for a final story?
How do you think they will end Judge Dredd?
Do they have any plans for a final story?
He'll die and get replaced by a black guy
A black lesbian, you bigot
He already has a sane clone on active duty.
Maybe the coolest character in the history of comics.
John Wagner said before his ideal end for Dredd is that in one prog of 2000AD, they'll just have some thug drop an older, slower Dredd with one lucky shot and that's it. They won't even hint at it or tell anyone till the prog comes out either. He'll just die in the line of duty.
Best way to do it - anything else would just result in an outpouring of clickbait and thinkpieces from boomers who haven't even glanced at an issue of 2000AD since John Major was Prime Minister.
>They won't even hint at it or tell anyone till the prog comes out either
they would probably treat it like they did with Judge Hershey's death last week it would be plastered on the cover but nothing really before that
forgot pic
what did they do to my girl
blech
she gained a Space disease from a person unknown and died from it chasing down a perp in Allayway.
so I knew about the space disease but I meant the ugliness. her original 'yeah we shot the body into the sun' setup was FINE
it was FINE
the artist, Simon Fraser just draws her as a woman in her 60s which she would be since she first appeared in 1980 as a young judge, I can't remember if the strip gave her reason for not having the same Anti-ageing tech as Dredd though.
>haven't kept up with the progs in over a year
>see this
Haha. Oops. Not like it really matters, I was satisfied enough with her original send-off before that turned out to be a cover up for the BIONIC ARRRRRRM stories.
John Wagner supposedly has a script, or at least an idea for it, but it will likely never happen. The way I heard tell was that it wouldn't be a big heroic epic moment, he'd just be a little too slow or a little too late and some little spugger would just get the drop on him. Could happen to anyone. His clone Rico would then have to wrestle with whether to take on the mantle or remain something approaching his own man.
I don't think 2000ad would ever do that even when John Wagner dies, Dredd's the character that keeps that book alive, and unlike Johnny Alpha/Strontium Dog Dredd hasn't had a consistent creative team all the way through its publication
I could kind of see them doing what
says after Wagner dies, effectively putting a walled garden around Wagner-Dredd whilst allowing them to try out slightly different takes that wouldn't fly with current Dredd. Bringing in Rico as his own person would allow them to do the whole legacy character / soft-reboot thing without it feeling like a reboot.
I don't love the idea but equally if they're gonna let certain things slide once Wagner's no longer about to gripe about it, I'd rather that be within the remit of a different character. Also they've made such a big deal of Dredd approaching and cheating death over the years, they have to pay that off at some point.
No media is allowed to end, once the creator dies their family will prostitute the property until so many hands have touched it with so many different ideas that the character will become unrecognizable.
Rebellion/2000AD in the past have ended long-running and well-liked strips when part of the creative team died like Strontium Dog ended when Carlos Ezquerra died, but other than that most strips run their course and end with no continuation, Dredd if anything it is the outlier of all the 2000AD strips with its multiple creative teams and spin-offs strips and magazine.
Yeah, they're quite respectful of creators. The Scarlet Traces guys were independent but actually trusted Rebellion enough to sell them the publisher rights to the strip, which is quite a reverse compared to the IPC days.
they might simply be due to Rebellion making much more money from its Games than it ever could from the comics industry so it doesn't really need to rip off creators to make a quick bit of dosh
Fair, but you could use a similar argument with the Big Two and their megacorp owners and God knows they can be even worse. I guess it helps that Rebellion are big enough to support 2000AD, while being small enough that their eccentric owner (pic related) who wanted to save the comic still has significant influence
both Disney and Discovery, are very Laissez-faire in their management of Marvel and DC respectively, both companies turn enough of a profit but not enough for anyone higher up to care about changing things so many of their bad practices of the big two never changed
Most 2000AD properties already work that way, though, with notable exceptions for stuff like Halo Jones which is a creator thing, or Ezquerra strips like Strontium Dog that nearly no one else touched out of respect. In its first year alone Dredd had like a dozen different artists and since then at least a hundred different writers AND artists, plus spin-offs, the Megazine, etc. Thing is though that that doesn't always go hand in hand with actually ending a series, and Rebellion seems dead set on keeping Dredd Prime Original alive through endless de-aging operations and so on.
he finally settles down with Vienna and stops being such a hard ass