Dredd's allegiance is to the law Kraken's is to playing the part of a Judge. The city without Dredd (or, at least, without the promise of Dredd's return) is lost, almost immediately. "Necropolis" is, effectively, the story of the city without him: Dredd himself appears in it only briefly before its final act, and everything up until then is the consequence of his leaving to be replaced by a version of himself who's technically better but not as attuned to the place and its history. (It's the only such volume we're going to get for a while, too that might happen again around the "Doomsday Scenario" sequence, but we probably won't see that for a few years yet.)īack in the entry on Case Files 8, I was talking about how each of the Dredd epics somehow addresses the relationship between Dredd and the city. ![]() Also, believe it or not, it's the only volume of the Complete Case Files to date whose sole writer is Wagner. This volume-"Necropolis" and its lead-ins-is I think, the strongest so far in our trawl through the Dredd bibliography: smarter, bolder and more consistent than anything that led up to it, even the "Apocalypse War" sequence. ![]() "Necropolis" was the culmination of every major "Judge Dredd" plot line John Wagner had written over the past few years it reads as if it had been intended to actually complete his run (more on that shortly).
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