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I'm showing my age (and my Brit-comic geekdom) by even knowing what you're on about!
What I do know, is that when my friends and I played the JD boardgame (Games Workshop, 1982), as soon as it was reported, everyone would drop all other arrest warrants, and hare across MC-1 to stamp it out.
I put it down to the cute, bouncy, Ian Gibson art. It found its way through a crack in our otherwise cold, cynical, teen psyches.
Gland the vermin. Add years to your life, and just make sure you don't spend them in an isocube.
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I'm showing my age (and my Brit-comic geekdom) by even knowing what you're on about!
What I do know, is that when my friends and I played the JD boardgame (Games Workshop, 1982), as soon as it was reported, everyone would drop all other arrest warrants, and hare across MC-1 to stamp it out.
I put it down to the cute, bouncy, Ian Gibson art. It found its way through a crack in our otherwise cold, cynical, teen psyches.
So you'll be in the cue for the new Judge Dredd Movie?
Queue
Whapeffer you cay.
Keep to your glands I'll stick to Umpty's.
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Well, I'll keep a lookout for that.
But I'll be cautiously wary of the finished product.
One thing I never understood about movies made from licenced characters, is why do people bother to pay for a licence, then change or remove elements that made that source material popular in the first place?
Or even hinder the possibility of them and others making further movies?
In the Stallone Dredd film, the whole Judge Council was composed of Chief Judges, only for them all to be blown away in one scene.
Want to make 'Block Mania/Apocalypse War'? Well, you're SOL. We offed Chief Judge Griffin and his successor, McGruder.
Want to make 'Oz'? Or 'Necropolis'? Not with Silver in a bodybag.
'Mechanismo'? Not without McGruder, back from the Cursed Earth, with her new Uncle Sam look.
The first film, had it not been a JD film, could have been a good sci-fi film. But the fact that it was a patchwork of so many existing storylines irritated me. Each one element could have been a film in its own right.
'The Day the Law Died' - Dredd framed for murder and a Justice Dept coup.
'The Cursed Earth' - travel across nuclear wasteland fighting inbred hillbillies to bring medical supplies to the West Coast (mind you this one was a total steal from Damnation Alley, so maybe not, eh?)
'Block Mania' - citizens drugged by foreign power, to create anarchy, and soften city up for invasion.
'Oz/the subsequent Bloodline stories' - the effects of an out-of-control Judge-cloning program.
By mashing them all together, it makes it difficult to create a coherent series, without doing as with Batman, and just saying 'Forget those last films ever happened'. Is that any way to run a franchise?
Apologies for the rant, but as a British-born character, who's managed to keep a single run for over 30 years, without the Marvel/DC retcon BS, I feel rather protective.