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A new kind of justice is coming to the mean streets of Mega-City One - The judge forces have been savaged by the bloody zombie war during Judgement Day. When there is a major cubebreak, it's time to call in Mechanismo. Wired for law and built to judge, the robo-enforcer soon becomes an unstoppable force!
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"Typical Dredd! Just a thug in Judge's uniform - I've always said it."
"Not to his face you haven't."
Due to heavy fatalities incurred during Necropolis & Judgment Day, the Judges are seriously short-staffed & stretched to breaking point. Desperate times call for desperate methods, so robot Judges are put into service to make life & death judgements upon the citizens of Mega City One. Predictably, this isn't terribly popular & things don't quite go to plan (do they ever?!). So when one of the mechanoids turns rogue, Dredd finds himself at odds with the Chief Judge, while hunting a state-of-the-art killing machine which has been programmed to behave like him. In order to stop them once & for all, Dredd will have to resort to controversial methods.
Mechanismo is a significant chapter in Dredd's career. It's mostly a fast-paced action story which impacted on the future of Dredd's world & leads into Wilderlands. An interesting twist is that the robots' flaw is a faulty circuit which means they take Dredd's personality to the extreme, resulting in enough arrogance to "rapidly turn into a God complex!" However, while enjoying this story, I was slightly disappointed that the issues raised by this topic were not more thoroughly explored & somehow Dredd & McGruder's interactions weren't quite convincing - perhaps because they took such extreme stances so quickly, without much exploration of what motivated to stick to their guns so passionately. That said, it was still an enjoyable read which I finished in one sitting, just one without quite as much depth as I was expecting.
Incidentally, Ezquerra's name is on the cover but none of his penmanship can be found inside - instead, the art is provided by Colin Macneil, Peter Doherty & Manuel Benet.
"Not to his face you haven't."
Due to heavy fatalities incurred during Necropolis & Judgment Day, the Judges are seriously short-staffed & stretched to breaking point. Desperate times call for desperate methods, so robot Judges are put into service to make life & death judgements upon the citizens of Mega City One. Predictably, this isn't terribly popular & things don't quite go to plan (do they ever?!). So when one of the mechanoids turns rogue, Dredd finds himself at odds with the Chief Judge, while hunting a state-of-the-art killing machine which has been programmed to behave like him. In order to stop them once & for all, Dredd will have to resort to controversial methods.
Mechanismo is a significant chapter in Dredd's career. It's mostly a fast-paced action story which impacted on the future of Dredd's world & leads into Wilderlands. An interesting twist is that the robots' flaw is a faulty circuit which means they take Dredd's personality to the extreme, resulting in enough arrogance to "rapidly turn into a God complex!" However, while enjoying this story, I was slightly disappointed that the issues raised by this topic were not more thoroughly explored & somehow Dredd & McGruder's interactions weren't quite convincing - perhaps because they took such extreme stances so quickly, without much exploration of what motivated to stick to their guns so passionately. That said, it was still an enjoyable read which I finished in one sitting, just one without quite as much depth as I was expecting.
Incidentally, Ezquerra's name is on the cover but none of his penmanship can be found inside - instead, the art is provided by Colin Macneil, Peter Doherty & Manuel Benet.
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Number 5 is alive. Nothing totally special here. The first three Mechanismo are here. The art is fine though not always as quirky as past titles. Mainly it needs more Dredd instead of Number 5's judge-MENTAL rampage. There is a little too much of the same thing going on throughout. This is not me saying the book is bad though; this is me saying the book doesn't quite hit the high standard Wagner usually hits.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Am a big fan of Dredd, but of the books I've read this one has been the weakest. Very predictable. Try Total War/ America/ Origins first.....
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