His name is Dredd! (Special 2012 Movie lead-in) Part 1

Folks, we have a special guest poster in the house today – and he's brought with him his encyclopaedic knowledge of all things Dredd!!
In anticipation of the release (starting 7^th September for the lucky... ducks in Canada, UK and Spain!) of the awesomeness that promises to be Dredd 3D, we've asked our expert comrade to give you the Judge Dredd crash course! Today he brings you his take on the character and his history as well as thoughts on the 90's Stallone movie and the new one coming down the chimney soon.
Enjoy this romp down Mega-City one lanes and be back here soon for Part II of this Dredded (sorry, couldn't help myself!) expose where we bring you some of the best story-lines from the hard-a$$ law-mans career! And now : to the article!!

- Almost-droolin'-in-Anticipation Akshay

Judge Dredd Special Feature

By Stewart Loud

It always shocks me how many people I speak to who've never read any comics featuring 2000AD's premier law man, Joseph Dredd. With that in mind and with the impending release of the new Judge Dredd film, Dredd 3D (September 2012) starring Karl Urban, here's a piece outlining who he is, what his world is like and what makes him one of the greatest and most original comic characters in the world, as well as a few brief reviews of some of my favourite Judge Dredd stories.

COMIC ADDICTS VS BOOK WORMS!!

 EPISODE 3: The Return of the Addicts

ObiwayneK’s journal,

February 8^th, 2012:

Worm carcass in the alley this morning, tire tread on its burnt stomach. These book worms are afraid of me. I have seen their true colors. Their streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood. When the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their failed pseudo intellectualism and baseless arrogance will foam up about their waists and all the book authors, worms and book w****s will look up and shout, “Save us!” and I'll look down and whisper, “No!” (although watching that recently posted watchmen parody makes me want to say “I just farted” ).

They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like Alan Moore or Grant Morrison. Decent men who believed in creating the best possible reading material for the public. Instead they followed the trifling word slingers, who had nothing better than staid old plots documented in dull fonts and they didn’t realize that the trail led over the precipice until it was too late. Don’t tell me that they didn’t have a choice. Now these book worms stand at the brink of destruction by the comic-addicts, staring down at that bloody hell. And in the face of complete decimation all these intellectuals and wannabe smooth talkers can’t think of anything to say.

11. Age no bar: Well this is what we addicts have achieved and it is something the book worms would always dream of having, an ensemble of people with absolutely no age bar. We addicts consist of people of all ages, ranging from 5 to 92. I would be a complete a** if I denied the fact that people in the age group 10-60 read books as well as comics, because they do, but it’s the extremity age groups that add to the gadget list on our bat-belt. It is a scientifically proven fact that children understand and learn better by looking at more pictures and little text.