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Judge Dredd: Casefiles 25: The Complete Case Files 25: Volume 25 (Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files) Paperback – 13 Aug. 2015

by John Wagner (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
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Mega-City One - American city of the future. Only the Judges - empowered to dispense instant justice - can stop total anarchy on the crime-ridden streets. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the law and these are his stories...This 25th volume of the bestselling Case Files series features includes the return of Dredd's greatest nemesis, Judge Death, and his foul cadre of henchmen, the Dark Judges Fire, Mortis and Fear. Also, a legendary judge dies bringing the law to the lawless in the Cursed Earth. Case Files 25 features the unique artwork of Trevor Hairsine (Captain America), Henry Flint (Zombo), Carlos Ezquerra (Strontium Dog) amongst others, written by John Wagner (A History of Violence), John Smith (Indigo Prime) and Robbie Morrison (Nikolai Dante).
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  1. Part of Series
    Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files
  2. Print length
    320 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    REBCA
  5. Publication date
    13 Aug. 2015
  6. Dimensions
    18.7 x 1.5 x 25.9 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    1781083312
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1781083314
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About the Author

John Wagner is the co-creator of Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Ace Trucking Co. and Button Man, amongst many others, for 2000 AD.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ REBCA; 1st edition (13 Aug. 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1781083312
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1781083314
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.7 x 1.5 x 25.9 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 104 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Van Patten
5.0 out of 5 stars ‘It is galling to let such a hardened sinner go free’
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2021
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Continuing the strong trend established in Volume 24, Volume 25 was for me another compelling entry in the series. By this point in the original series run I had stopped reading the stories temporarily so many of them are ‘new’ to me. As per my review of the previous volume, only fair to point out that ‘The Pit’ had been published previously. Rebellion took the decision to put it across two volumes - so much of the first half of the 2000AD part of the volume is taken up with the conclusion of that story. Fortunately although I’m not a massive fan of Alex Ronald’s take on the story, The return of Carlos Ezquerra and Lee Sullivan’s work across the piece are compelling and the story is a bona fide classic - worth the purchase price alone. It is followed by another highly memorable outing ‘Dead Reckoning’ which sees the return of the Dark Judges and A glimpse of the end of ‘Deadworld’. Although Death has been toned down and retains a comic aspect, this reintroduces a sense of jeopardy. The single shot entries are usually reasonable - one stellar example among the relatively indistinguishable is ‘Death of a Legend’ which sees the death of a long standing character. A very poignant piece, well illustrated by Pete Doherty. ‘The Pack’ is another excellent story following on from’ Wilderlands. The 2000AD section concludes with he John Smith piece ‘Darkside’ - an interesting tale drawing heavily in earlier material and showing a sense of continuity. Not 100% sure about Paul Marshall’s art but the story works. One of the strongest collections in a while. The Megazine entries are far fewer here. The Marc Wigmore art is very distinct but does not do it for me. Of the remaining stories, ‘Control’ scripted by Robbie Morrison seemed to get Dredd’s character best. Overall excellent stuff - well written (Wagner in great form) and brilliantly illustrated. Well worth consideration and essential for any Dredd fan!
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Mr. J. James
5.0 out of 5 stars It's Dredd
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2018
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This is another in a long line of Judge Dredd Case Files which if you are a Dredd fan are well worth having
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joao guedes
5.0 out of 5 stars Judge Dredd: Casefiles 25
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2017
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Great book and good seller. Fast shipping and delivery. The book is really great with awesoe stories and drawings. A must buy.
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Mrs Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Dredd book, nuff said
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2019
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Bought as gift, he was pleased!
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south walian
5.0 out of 5 stars good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2016
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Dredd mega city's top lawman rides the streets tackling crime
Various artists various styles of artwork
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@mazon Custom3r
5.0 out of 5 stars Old school old stony face, mostly on a quality up-tick
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2024
If you’re somehow here by accident, this is a reprint album of Judge Dredd episodes from mid-1996 editions of legendary UK anthology comic 2000AD and its sister paper Judge Dredd Megazine. If you’re not here by accident all you probably want to know, is it worth buying? And mostly … yeah.

In 1996 the source comics were still owned by legacy UK magazine publishers and the tension between editors, creatives and owners led to wide fluctuations in quality. These stories mark the beginning of the end of 2000AD’s legendarily dismal showing through the early-90s.

The bulk of the content from 2000AD is from The Pit, an “arc” that that sees future cop Dredd reassigned from his street-cop comfort zone to run the worst precinct in future city-state Mega City One. It borrows the then-revolutionary format of US cop-soaps Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue. For the uninitiated, Dredd stories take up 6 pages of each week’s comic and can be one-shots or episodes of something longer. For 30 weeks The Pit stretched longer plot threads across self-contained stories, with a new set of minor characters and their soap-style secrets, romances and rivalries.

Most of the hit and miss art comes from names that reflect the hard times at Zarjaz Towers. There’s a lot from Carlos Ezquerra, and sadly I’m the minority who doesn’t just love everything he did. The big story plus is the origin of fan-favourite she-Judge Galen DeMarco. The ending, a bad homage to Assault on Precinct 13, is nobody’s best work.

The Pit leads straight into the landmark prog 1000 story Dead Reckoning, in which Dredd chases supernatural nemesis Judge Death in a 6-part visit to his home dimension Deadworld. The rest of the 2000AD content is a decent selection of mostly comedy short stories that showcase the citizens of OG MC-1 at their anarchic best.

The best thing here is one-shot Death of a Legend, with its multiple echoes of The Return of Rico from prog 30, as Joe Dredd goes rogue to give fallen Chief Judge McGruder the short Long Walk she deserved.

2000AD script credits are mainly John Wagner plus 10-part micro-epic Darkside from house oddball John Smith. There’s a mixed bag on art chores. Ezquerra aside, bona fide legend Henry Flint provides 3-parter The Pack, and there’s some good stuff from near-legends Greg Staples and Trevor Hairsine.

From the closing batch of 4 Megazine stories, the “Quite Nice Bar” story written by John Wagner and painted by Jason Brashill is probably the second-best thing in the book, and there are two skippable sign-of-the-times disappointments drawn by Marc Wigmore.

If you’re more “Dredd-curious” than Squaxx, it might help to have some context.

Judge Joe Dredd has appeared every week for over 45 years in 2000AD, and at their best his creatives produce gold standard comics that bigger, rival publishers can only read and weep. Spoiler: His team don’t always show him at his best.

The original idea of Dredd was a heavily armed cop in a parody future. After an “atomic war”, the world’s urban spaces have been smushed into nation-scale “mega-cities”, surrounded by radioactive wastelands where life is cheap and mostly a mash-up of the Wild West, Planet of the Apes and Mad Max 2. Hundreds of millions of absurd, eccentric, alternative-lifestyle civilians are packed into the mile-high-rise buildings of Mega-City One and constantly on the edge of an urban PTSD called “future shock”. All antisocial behaviour is a crime, and the Judges keep order thanks to the right to deliver on-the-spot and absurdly disproportionate sentences up to and including “standard execution”.

2000AD and the Dredd Megazine arrived at the peak of the kids’ comics market in the UK and survived “interesting times” during the market’s decline. At the turn of the millennium the IP moved to a UK house of ideas theoretically more in tune with the comics’ legion of loyal fans, video game company Rebellion.

Thanks to changes of publisher and editorial teams the quality of 2000AD content ebbs and flows, but Dredd rides this out better than most. Case Files volume 25 is from the foothills of his second wind, after the crazy energy in the earliest stories and the notorious Dark Times of the 1990s.
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barryd
5.0 out of 5 stars JD, at his best
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 October 2015
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I have been reading JD for as long as i can remember, and to have them in volume is great.
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Virgilio Francsico Sotillos Conesa
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy bueno
Reviewed in Spain on 30 January 2022
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Juez Dredd a todo color en papel satinado con gran impresión, Rebellion se ha lucido con esta colección.
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Spike11117
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on 28 January 2016
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it's Judge Dredd
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