Art by Carl Critchlow from The Searchersīut everything that follows Total War, through the Prog and the Meg sections, whether they’re the single episodes, the two-parters, the three, the four, and the five parters, really does give you a perfect look into what Dredd has always been about, all the politics, all the day-to-day life, all the strangeness, all the wonderful and the hideous moments of life in the Big Meg. It’s a storyline that affects many of the others in the post- Total War storyline where another 4 million citizens are lost in MC-1 and there’s plenty of citizens coming over to the idea that the Judges just aren’t as beneficial to MC-1 as they’d have you believe. So, here in Complete Case Files 40, we have the usual mix of short and long, all led off with John Wagner and Henry Flint‘s excellent Total War storyline, where Wagner revisits the Democracy Now movement in a 12-parter. And it’s these that fill in all the wonderful detail and essential bits to Dredd’s world. In between all the big stories, we have the smaller tales, the one-off strips, the two- and three-parters. No, the joy of Dredd, week in and week out, is how ALL the stories are important. But they only really tell half the story. Sure, there’s Dredd graphic novels showcasing the big stories, the mega-event stories of The Day The Law Died, Apocalypse War, Small House, Trifecta, et al.
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