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Judge Dredd: Year One Kindle & comiXology

by Matt Smith (Author), Simon Coleby (Artist), Greg Staples (Artist) Format: Kindle Edition

4.5 198 ratings

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"The Long Hard Road" begins here! In an all-new adventure from Joe Dredd's early days as a Mega City-One Judge, writer (and Eagle-award-winning 2000 AD Editor) Matt Smith presents a tale where "all the young juves, carry the news," only in this case, the news is delivered with a lethal blow!Collects Judge Dredd: Year One #1-4.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00FH8042E
Publisher ‏ : ‎ IDW (November 20, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 20, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 285924 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 105 pages

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ghostface216

A fine work

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2019

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Judge Dredd is one of the most skilled judges in Megacity 1, he deals with ongoing violent crime daily and is judge, jury and, sometimes, executioner. The year one story is Dredd as he exits the academy and becomes a law man. Nuclear war is ten years behind the city but a new threat to civilization rears its head. Well worth a read.

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2022

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Maintaining law, is a job especially in a different dimension. Dredge is as stubborn as ever forcing the world to do as he says.

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2020

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I loved the story. Really well done. The art to me is just okay. Too many characters looked exactly the same, which isn't good. But overall, excellent.

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Brian and Jennifer Brown

He is the law !

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2019

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Good story and art my first dive in to judge dredd

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Kid Kyoto

Decent but a bit of a waste of the 'Year One' concept

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2014

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In Judge Dredd: Year One, rookie Judge Dredd, fresh out of the Academy of Law faces an outbreak of psychic powers among the youth of Mega City One, which may be the precurser to something worse.

Judge Dredd: Year One is a thrilling adventure story pitting Dredd against a novel new foe. The illustrations are top notch and Matt Smith captures the feel of his world quite well.

The problem is there's nothing really new here. Rookie Judge Dredd is no different from the Dredd we've seen for years, he's even drawn the same, and the story could have happened at any point in his career. There's no exploration of what molded him into Mega City One's greatest judge, little sign of his brother Rico, nothing to mark this as a 'Year One' story other than a few lines about him being a rookie.

And then to make matters worse the story wastes time with a parallel world but never uses it to shed any light on Dredd's character.

It's a find story, but really it's just a run of the mill Dredd story with nothing really memorable.

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Matt Stone

Great Dredd, as always

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2021

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Fantastic art and story. Fast paced, engaging, and the background keeps you drawn in. I've always liked Dredd, but I've rediscovered just how much.

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2018

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Worth reading but don't expect to find your new love here.

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Fielding l.

Comics for the digital age

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2020

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Just awesome ! I love and seriously enjoyed this series! If you are a fan of dress get this you will not be disappointed!

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mr r c tomlin

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on July 29, 2018

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Good

MG

Enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2020

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This was my first exposure to IDWs version of Dredd and I must say I was very satisfied with it. In all honesty I can never remember the complete lore off by heart, so if they did embellish some aspects, I didn't notice. The story fits nicely with the Year One and Year Two novels as well, and you can easily read them side by side. I'd almost go as far to say that I would except the story as cannon, even though its not 2000ad.

My only criticism would be the ending, as it does come across as underdeveloped.

If you like Dredd, give it a go

JMH

Judge Dredd Comics for Kindle

Reviewed in Germany on August 19, 2014

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Die Story ist ganz gut (kommt aber nicht an die Originale von 2000AD ran). Die Auflösung und Lesbarkeit auf dem Tablet (Samsung NotePro 12.2) ist im Prinzip recht gut, aber:
einige Seiten sind im Querformat abgebildet und lassen sich nicht drehen. Da auch ein Vergrössern der Seiten nicht geht kann man diese Seiten nicht lesen und den Text allenfalls erraten. Deswegen nur 2 Sterne.
Dies gilt für alle Comics die ich bisher mit dem Kindle Reader auf dem Tablet gelesen habe.

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A. Thompson

Lil' Dredd

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 25, 2015

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I've read some of the reviews for this piece and while I understand their point, and without trying to out-Dredd a fellow fan, I respectfully disagree.

As the name implies, this story is set within the first year of Joe Dredd being a full-eagle Street Judge; he's only been out of the academy for a year and we pick up our story at the end of his first year.
Some of the critique for this piece is that the Dredd in this story is not dissimilar to the older, more current Dredd that graces the pages of 2000AD/Rebellion.

It's seen that Dredd of Year One and current Dredd are the same; they draw their Lawgiver and shoot perps, the ones that aren't shot are arrested and packed off to the Cubes. What's the difference?

However, I did see a noticeable difference. For the purpose of this review, Year One Dredd shall be referred to as Joe-Joe, and current Dredd shall be simply: Old Dredd.

It becomes arrant very quickly that this story is about psychics. When Joe-Joe realises that the case he's on is rooted in mumbo-jumbo psychic powers he asks to be transferred to another, more normal case. When was the last time you heard Old Dredd ask for a reassignment because he thought he couldn't really deal with a case?

Joe-Joe is very wary of the Psi-Div and anything to do with psyhics in this story, it's pretty much given that Old-Dredd is accepting of Psi-Div and their methods, if not still a bit wary of all Psis.

Joe-Joe is constantly questioned by his peers, they all call him "young" and double guess him. Old Dredd commands instant respect.

While in the current stories Old Dredd is starting to question his place within the Justice System and even how MC-1 treats mutants, Joe-Joe is happy to draw down on kids without hesitation. Joe-Joe is quick to draw and shoot and he makes very dangerous and reckless decisions in our story, something he himself chastises himself for later.

Joe-Joe mentions a few times that, "he's no rookie," maybe to remind himself more than anything.

I personally see Joe-Joe as a brand new, black and white product that is thrown into a world of grey. As I say, I saw a difference in Joe-Joe and Old Dredd, and I liked the contrast.

In reference to story, I thought the story was brilliant. It really hooked me and I wanted to burn through it to get to the end.

The artwork is lovely and the whole story is a treat to read.

My advise is give it a go and make your own mind up.

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Long Live Dredd

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2018

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I really enjoyed reading this comic book. The artwork is beautifully drawn and descriptive. Also a very good storyline. I was totally absored reading it. Looking forward to buy more of this. I always enjoyed Judge Dredd in 2000AD comics and glad I have found them on kindle.