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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 »