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Features the future lawman Judge Dredd's adventures in chronological order. This work includes the stories: "The Cursed Earth" and "The Day The Law Died".
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By Dark Jimbo
Format:Paperback
Whereas the continuity of the first Dredd Case Files collection was very slap-dash, here we start to get a lot of much-needed history and backstory for Dredd's world, establishing why the Judges came about, how their world became like it is, what surrounds the city, etc. In short, Dredd's world finally feels three-dimensional and fully-realised, and is much the better for it.
The bulk of the book is taken up by Dredd's first two epics, and this creates a far more stable line-up of creators (only two writers, for instance) that again give the adventures a more coherent voice and feel. The first tale, Pat Mills' The Cursed Earth, is absolutely manic - mutants, tyrannosuars, vampires, aliens, punk bikers, vengeful robot armies and gambling-obsessed mafia judges all throw themselves at Dredd in a roaring blood and guts epic that never lets up once. By the time you get to the base-under-seige ending, you'll actually be breathless, I guarantee it. John Wagner's The Day the Law Died slows things down (but only a little) and lets a raving maniac take complete power of Mega-city One. The results are too brilliantly mad-cap to go into here, but the wonderful satire and black humour in this tale mean the more unstable line-up of artists doesn't really matter. It's worth it anyway just to see a goldfish become Deputy Chief Judge.
As for the art - Mike McMahon and Brian Bolland are of course the stars, dominating the book as they do, McMahon's sometimes scratchy-looking art still conveying a madcap energy and glee at working on such stories, and Bolland producing some of the most intricate, detailed, well-handled art in comics. An essential purchase, containing classic Dredd tales only possibly bettered by what's to come in Books 4 and 5...
The bulk of the book is taken up by Dredd's first two epics, and this creates a far more stable line-up of creators (only two writers, for instance) that again give the adventures a more coherent voice and feel. The first tale, Pat Mills' The Cursed Earth, is absolutely manic - mutants, tyrannosuars, vampires, aliens, punk bikers, vengeful robot armies and gambling-obsessed mafia judges all throw themselves at Dredd in a roaring blood and guts epic that never lets up once. By the time you get to the base-under-seige ending, you'll actually be breathless, I guarantee it. John Wagner's The Day the Law Died slows things down (but only a little) and lets a raving maniac take complete power of Mega-city One. The results are too brilliantly mad-cap to go into here, but the wonderful satire and black humour in this tale mean the more unstable line-up of artists doesn't really matter. It's worth it anyway just to see a goldfish become Deputy Chief Judge.
As for the art - Mike McMahon and Brian Bolland are of course the stars, dominating the book as they do, McMahon's sometimes scratchy-looking art still conveying a madcap energy and glee at working on such stories, and Bolland producing some of the most intricate, detailed, well-handled art in comics. An essential purchase, containing classic Dredd tales only possibly bettered by what's to come in Books 4 and 5...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By M. Crossman
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Whilst the first volume of The Complete Case Files is made up almost completely of short stories this volume presents us with two Judge Dredd epics, and possibly the best epics ever written about Dredd.
This volume kicks off straight away with "The Cursed Earth". The story takes up nearly half of the book and charts Dredd's mission to go from Mega City 1 (New York) to take a vaccine which is killing all the inhabitants of Mega City 2 (Los Angeles). Superb writing and artwork has made this story a Dredd classic and should not be missed.
Following directly on from "The Cursed Earth" is "The Day The Law Died". This story takes up almost all of the remainder of the book and is on an equal par with "The Cursed Earth" in my opinion.
I deliberately have not gone into too much detail about the stories as I think it's best that you read and discover them for yourself. Suffice to say I think that volume 2 of The Complete Case Files is the best of the lot.
Highly recommended.
This volume kicks off straight away with "The Cursed Earth". The story takes up nearly half of the book and charts Dredd's mission to go from Mega City 1 (New York) to take a vaccine which is killing all the inhabitants of Mega City 2 (Los Angeles). Superb writing and artwork has made this story a Dredd classic and should not be missed.
Following directly on from "The Cursed Earth" is "The Day The Law Died". This story takes up almost all of the remainder of the book and is on an equal par with "The Cursed Earth" in my opinion.
I deliberately have not gone into too much detail about the stories as I think it's best that you read and discover them for yourself. Suffice to say I think that volume 2 of The Complete Case Files is the best of the lot.
Highly recommended.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Rob F
Format:Paperback
As mentioned in other reviews here, by comparison with the artwork of todays beautifully rendered graphic novels this belongs to a different era.
But what an era!
If you are looking purely for the action (good though it is) you are missing half the point. Even today the writing and the satire is fresh and effective. The dark humour is as shocking now as it was then. When Dredd scrawls at the end of one memorable episode that sometimes the human race makes him sick, you know exactly where he is coming from. (in this particular case he has just rescued an alien, whose family has been murdered and taken into slavery).
Its a shame too that the Burger Wars episodes had to be left out due to copyright reasons (here was art sticking it to McDonalds and BK 25 years before Supersize Me).
Read it for reference, read it for history, read to fill in the gaps if you are already a fan or just read it because its brilliant. I don't think you will be disappointed.
But what an era!
If you are looking purely for the action (good though it is) you are missing half the point. Even today the writing and the satire is fresh and effective. The dark humour is as shocking now as it was then. When Dredd scrawls at the end of one memorable episode that sometimes the human race makes him sick, you know exactly where he is coming from. (in this particular case he has just rescued an alien, whose family has been murdered and taken into slavery).
Its a shame too that the Burger Wars episodes had to be left out due to copyright reasons (here was art sticking it to McDonalds and BK 25 years before Supersize Me).
Read it for reference, read it for history, read to fill in the gaps if you are already a fan or just read it because its brilliant. I don't think you will be disappointed.
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Seen the movie? Want more Dredd?
This is a great place to start if you are new to Dredd. Volume 1 is OK, but it doesn't have the brilliant story telling volume 2 has. Read more
Published 1 month ago by 13thDuke
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An enjoyable Read
I really enjoyed the 2 stories in this Volume. Unlike Vol 1, where you have a collection of independent episodes in small clusters of 2-5 issues, in this one you have 2 large epic... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dimitrios
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Judge dredd as i remember him.
Love this reminded me of my childhood liked day the law died more than cursed earth now on 2 case files 3;}
Published 2 months ago by willz
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Vol 2 EPIC
This has got one of the best dredd stories ever told in it an absolutely epic read for any dredd fan. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Leegend
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Complete Case Files V. 2, or Dredd's trial by fire
Whilst Dredd volume 1 was a compilation of mediocre short stories that did not really world build or provide any character development whatsoever, volume 2 is the exact opposite. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Andrew Sztehlo
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Seminal Judge Dredd collection
I'd bought this after purchasing the two digest format books containing the major stories in this volume, 'The Cursed Earth' and 'The Day The Law Died'. Read more
Published 5 months ago by JoeConsumer
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hitting it's stride.
I'm an old fashioned kind of guy. I love comics from the sixties and seventies when the genre was a little less self aware but still full of brilliant and fresh ideas. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Action Figure Theatre
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JUDGE DREDD CASE FILES VOL2
UTTERLY BRILLIANT WHAT A TREAT TO READ THESE MAGNIFICENT STORIES AGAIN, ALMOST TIME TRAVEL WHEN I OPENED PAGE ONE SUPERB STUFF
Published on 11 July 2008 by P. barton
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Two fantastic epics in one book, what more could you ask for
Dredd gets his first big multi-part stories in this book with The Cursed Earth and Judge Cal - The Day The Law Died. Read more
Published on 11 April 2008 by N. Burgess
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JUGE CAL
JUDGE CAL, enough said really.
What happens when you get Mega City 1 controlled my a psychotic madman with an ego the size of cursed Earth and a god complex? Read more
What happens when you get Mega City 1 controlled my a psychotic madman with an ego the size of cursed Earth and a god complex? Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2007 by J. Lyon
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