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The Law Comes To America As Judge Dredd Returns

Ignore the Sylvester Stallone movie from the '90s - Starting next year, America is going to find out what it really means to know Dredd. Announced yesterday at the Wizard World Chicago convention, Dynamite Comics is going to bring the UK's futuristic lawman Judge Dredd back to American comics after more than a decade. More »

7:00 AM on Sun Jun 29 2008
By Graeme McMillan
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Have A Drokking Good Time Who says that you can't geek out on your favorite drinking holidays? 2000AD offers you the latest piece of nerd chic to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this bright green t-shirt featuring not just Judge Dredd, but also his Irish counterpart, Judge Joyce. Who, of course, is drinking a pint of Guinness. Not one to shy away from cultural stereotypes, 2000AD. St. Patrick's Day T-Shirts [2000AD Online]

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Fast Food is Bad for Comics, Says Judge Dredd

Britain's 2000AD is known for cutting its scifi with satire, but occasionally even the Galaxy's Greatest Comic can go too far. Such was the case with four episodes of Judge Dredd in 1978, which set out to prove just how dangerous fast food could be, and ended up demonstrating that it's not a good idea to mess with copyrights of international corporations if you're looking to avoid lawyers writing nasty letters. Who knew that Ronald McDonald could be so disagreeable? More »

4:00 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By grae
1,141 views, 12 comments

Latest by cde: @NefariousNewt: Well, if the court decides the idea the writer is trying to send is satire (Social commentary that doesn't specifically need those characters) instead of parody (Commentary on those specific characters) then they would indeed be found to be more »

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2000AD Comes to the Internet via 1993

Living up to its outdated title, British cult comic 2000AD is heading into 2008 by adopting technology equally un-new: The Adobe PDF. That's what you'll be getting if you sign up to the new downloadable version of the weekly anthology, which is like Japanese weekly comic anthology Shonen Jump except with storylines about Judge Dredd and the mutant Strontium Dog. 2000AD is also where comic book greats Grant Morrison and Alan Moore started back in the. The first PDF of the new book, the year-end Holiday Special, was designed to hook new readers with tons of "pilot episodes," but it could run into trouble. More »

6:40 AM on Fri Jan 4 2008
By grae
708 views, 10 comments

Latest by FrankenPC: Deja freakin vu! I still have a few issues hidden away in a box in my basement. I need to dig those babies out. more »