DREDD 3D: A Gallery of Dredd

Citizen, if you think there's anyway to escape to the law of Judge Dredd, you are fooling yourself.  Dredd is a one man G20 lockdown.

In a stunning  upset in the eternal battle between law and right,
Dredd gets the drop on Captain America

 

Which is more awesome, the Judge, his Lawmaster Bicycle 

or his Codpiece of Justice?

Dredd proves once again that not even illustration is a safe way of viewing him. 
He will sentence you with his 2D bullets because he is the Law.

Not even LEGOLand is immune from his Justice--in what I can only assume
 is a screen capture from the upcoming game, "LEGO: Judge Dredd."

I never thought I'd say this about Judge Dredd, but:
OMG LOOK AT HIS FEETS! LOOK AT THEM!1!!

Judge Dredd + Anthrax has been scientifically proven
by cognitive psychologists AND philosophers to be
more brutal than the human mind can comprehend.

Hey, kids, make your own!

(Just make sure to leave it at home during screenings or face the Judgment of Dredd
--or volunteers, and really do you want to hassle them?)

The World Premiere of Dredd 3D is tonight!

DREDD 3D
Thurs., Sept. 6th, 11:59 PM RYERSON
Sat., Sept. 8th, 12:30 PM CINEPLEX YONGE & DUNDAS 7

Happy Belated Birthday, Jack "King" Kirby!

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This week marks the 95th anniversary of Jack Kirby's birth. Working as an artist, writer, editor and even in film, animation and television from the 1930s through the 1990s, Kirby's impact and influence are inestimable.  He created or co-created countless characters, including Captain America, The X-Men The Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, The Silver Surfer and Galactus, and possibly my favorite, Victor von Doom, as well as his cosmic Fourth World--heroes like Big Barda, Mister Miracle/Scott Free, Orion and villains like the master of Apokolips, Darkseid.

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Make sure to check out David Brothers' tribute to Jack Kirby and how Kirby switched the focus of heroic stories from good vs. evil to "freedom vs. slavery."

Kirby redefined good not as a moral issue, but one of freedom. The freedom to love, laugh, share, create, and more. There's the potential for harm, and many of the New Gods struggle with that potential, but just having that potential is vital. It needs to be there. Being able to choose to do wrong is greater than being forced to do good. Free will is everything. The Life Equation is everything beautiful, warts and all.

And feast your everlovin' eyes on The Kirby Museum's amazing gallery of Kirby's art as well as their YouTube Channel, which includes this 1982 Entertainment Tonight interview with Kirby.  Warning: Liberal use of sound zany effects.

DREDD 3D: Read Comics In Public Day!

Happy Read Comics In Public Day, a day dedicated to reading comics in places where people can see you. Why not double up and promote comics literacy while catch up on Judge Dredd's judicial activism in the dystopian Mega-City One.

(via forbiddenplanet.co.uk)

Dredd first appeared in the often edgy and satirical UK comics anthology, 2000AD in 1977 (issue #2!) and then in Judge Dredd Magazine. Colin Smith describes Dredd better than I ever could:

Dredd is merely concerned that "all are treated equally under the law", and the state which passes and administers the laws he obeys is an uncaring and nakedly fascist one. It's not right and wrong he serves at all, but rather the rules of the tyranny he serves, and he's no more than people's champion than he is the people's ballet dancer.

Dredd's no hero, though he may be regularly be shown acting in a heroic fashion. He's a Blueshirt, and in the end, that's all there is to it.

I highly recommend any of Smith's pieces on Dredd and 2000AD.

(via Fellowship of the Geeks)

Both Dredd and 2000AD have continued into the 21st Century, so pick yourself up a comic or collection, get yourself a beverage and read outside or at a cafe today. Then show up on Midnight Madness' opening night for Dredd 3D.

(via Too Busy Thinking About My Comics)

cover by Lee Garbett via 2000AD Covers Uncovered.

DREDD 3D screening times:

Thurs., Sept. 6, 11:59PM:  RYERSON
Sat., Sept. 8 12"30PM:  CINEPLES ODEON