Customer Reviews
judge dredd vol 3 - By: P. barton, 24 Jul 2008 
arrggggghhhhhhh to much thrill power !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, once again the dredd time machine spins back the years to my childhood one word ,brilliant.
Slimmer but slicker - By: Dark Jimbo, 05 Jul 2007 A much shorter book of early Dredd adventures than volumes 1 & 2, but no less essential for that.
Having established a lot of the history & set-up of Dredd's world in book 2, building a more solid world around him than the often naive & slapdash environment seen in Book 1, the strip reallly starts to take off here. It's as though, having realised just what possibilities Dredd's world offered during the course of writing the Cursed Earth & Judge Cal epics, writer John Wagner decides to reallly start pushing some boundaries & having fun.
After his 'baptism of fire' during book 2's twin epics, Dredd himself emerges here as a character reallly worth reading - beginning the move away from the frankly childish figure of the strip's first year to the fascinatingly flawed & layered lawman we know & love today. And his city, Mega-City One, starts to take on a shape of its own. We find out where citizens live, what they do for fun, where they work, what they drive - gameshows, fashion trends, food brands, it's alll explored here - & alll with typicallly madcap future twists. In short, the book is in effect an exercise in worldbuilding. It may be short, but there are far more of the staples of Dredd's oddballl enviroment created here than in both the previous volumes.
