Talk:Judge Dredd/Archive 2

See also Talk:Judge Dredd/Archive 1

Recent events section
With regard to this reversion and the following section:

Over the years Judge Dredd has been hailed as one of the best pieces of satire in science fiction, with an uncanny trend to predict upcoming events such as rampant mass surveillance, rise of populist leaders, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

I kind of agree with the removal - Dredd's been going on for 40 years, and during that time there are bound to be comparisons to cultural events. This is a bit like the claims that The Simpsons is predicting the future. Some of the claims are dubious - "mass surveillance" is a very broad term, and the PSU didn't rise to significance until long after CCTV was already prevalent in society (spy-in-the-sky cams notwithstanding). Dredd hasn't foreshadowed Covid at all - Covid is a pandemic, and that's about the only thing that hasn't happened in the Dredd universe so far. There have been contagions (Monkey Business at Charles Darwin, Block Mania, Inferno, Day of Chaos, etc,) but these are all restricted to MC1, or even individual city blocks.

Also, the reference makes no mention of the "rise of populist leaders", and makes a single passing comment about it being "an action adventure strip with satirical subtext" - there is nothing to support the claim that Dredd has been "hailed as one of the best pieces of satire in science fiction", a single source does not make it so. Chaheel Riens (talk) 12:33, 9 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Fair points; I've taken it out. Richard75 (talk) 13:39, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Should the Settings section be moved to the character article?
This article is about the franchise, and there's another article about the character. This article goes into a lot of detail about the fictional world, and I suggest it would be a better fit in the other article. I want to move it there, but to avoid edit wars I will wait for a bit and see if anyone objects. Richard75 (talk) 14:20, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Seems pretty non-controversial to me that detailed in-universe plot information should be on the article about the character. I'd expect an article about the franchise to literally be about the franchise - publication history, creators, effect on culture, etc. All the real world bits, basically. H. Carver (talk) 17:55, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * One page about the actual comics publication and another on the fictional world and characters makes good sense, but may alter the name of the Judge Dredd (character) page to indicate it about the fictional Dredd world as a whole?143.159.78.102 (talk) 10:03, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Split?
Huh, what do you know... it appears this article - Judge Dredd - and Judge Dredd (character) were split, unilaterally, in December 2019, with this edit. I only noticed when the short description was changed just now. I wonder why? I mean, if Captain America, Batman and Superman can all have one main article about the character and the "franchise" (whatever that means), then Joe can get by with one article, too. Having looked at the "character" article, we wouldn't be losing anything by re-merging. Would there be any objections to a merge, or should I open a formal proposal. Bastun Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 15:14, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I never understood why that was done, and would support merging them. Richard75 (talk) 15:37, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Now that the image has been deleted from this article, because for non-free use reasons it can only be used on one article, and it's being used on the Character article, there's all the more reason to merge them again. Richard75 (talk) 09:37, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I'll look into the mechanics of this and proceed at the weekend, unless there are objections or someone beats me to it. Bastun Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 09:41, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I've just done it. (I wonder if the Parodies section is just trivia though?) Richard75 (talk) 10:12, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Parodies of a parody? Most of the entries look very trivial. GraemeLeggett (talk) 11:12, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Good job on the merge. And yes, I'd remove most of the "parodies" - "We put a funny name after the word 'Judge' in this one edition, and that's funny!" is mostly just trivial and certainly isn't notable. Bastun Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 11:50, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Dredd age
Dredds age needs a citation. Dredd is obviously drawn as a teenager in the firsr 100 progs.. he graduates from the Academy at 15, and is still a kid when the story starts.. 65, or so, should be Dredd's current age 2600:100F:B053:682A:59F9:421D:B8B4:A938 (talk) 08:03, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * You're mistaken. Dredd is already a senior judge in the first stories. Bastun Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 08:58, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * This is covered by the first paragraph of the "Fictional character biography" section, which has sources. Richard75 (talk) 09:35, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Stories section
I can't help but feel as if the merging of several of the more notable Dredd stories was unnecessary. Apocalypse War and America for example have both been written about quite extensively: If these are not notable enough for separate articles, perhaps theirs a better way to organize them because the list of stories currently is a bit unwieldly.--Amelia-the-comic-geek (talk) 02:40, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Articles about Apocalypse War: Essential Judge Dredd – The Apocalypse War’ Is Still One Of The Best Of The Epic Dredd Tales, 'The Apocalypse War' Remains the Definitive Judge Dredd Mega Epic
 * Articles about America: America Is Even More Relevant 30 Years Later, America is the Essential Judge Dredd Story, America is Receiving The Best Judge Dredd Story Ever Made, Judge Dredd: America as a Critique of Unethical Police Practises, Lost Judge Dredd Scripts to Be Collected in America: Lost & Found, Judge Dredd America, The Complete America, Rebellion Announces America: Lost & Found – The Rediscovered Scripts

Age
I'm confused about the character's age.

The article states "The first Dredd story, published in 1977, was set in 2099, 122 years in the future, and so stories published in 2023 are set 122 years in the future, in 2145 ... Therefore, Dredd was 38 when he first appeared, but is now 84 years old ... How Dredd's aging would be addressed was a source of reader speculation until 2016, when writer Michael Carroll and artist Ben Willsher published the story "Carousel", in which Dredd is ordered to undertake rejuvenation treatment."

However, the article later summarises the story "The Carousel" thus: "In the year 2138, Joe Dredd - now 72 years old - is ordered to undergo another "rejuve treatment" at the Carousel Clinic (the first rejuve treatment happened soon after "Necropolis" due to his injuries in "The Dead Man", in the years 2112 when he was 46)".

Wouldn't he be 77 in 2138, not 72? Year of publication 2016 - first appearance 1977 = 39 years, + age on debut 38 = 77. Similarly, the age for the first rejuve treatment should be 51, not 46 (Year in the story 2112 - year of debut 2099 = 13, + age on debut 38 = 51).

Am I wrong somewhere? --37.157.52.71 (talk) 13:29, 2 February 2023 (UTC)


 * I believe I got this wrong a while back as well: Dredd is a clone, and his first 5 years were either accelerated or negligible as he grew in the tube, or whatever Morton Judd used to incubate him. Chaheel Riens (talk) 14:44, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * That's right, but we should still make the article consistent instead of confusing the readers. Richard75 (talk) 23:39, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * So you're saying he was biologically 5 when he chronolgically 'born'? --37.157.52.71 (talk) 09:41, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. Richard75 (talk) 10:42, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
 * In that case we can just edit the first paragraph to read something like "Dredd was 32 when he first appeared, but is now 79 (though biologically five years older due to being a clone with an artificially-accelerated gestation)." --37.157.52.71 (talk) 14:06, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Missing subject
Judge Dredd has also had several card collections outside of the two card games listed. I am currently in possession of over 100 solely collectable cards mostly focused on the comics publication history. These cards are like other comic card collections at the time with one side featuring art with the other telling about the comic or art featured with "PROG #" letting you know where it goes in the collection.

The series starts with The Cursed Earth storyline and includes others such as Judge Death Lives, The Apocalypse War, and Necropolis. PROG 90 in the series lists 5 other accompanying series and the cards in those collections, however because of the detailed artwork the list is printed over and only the series name being in bold text the individual card names can be hard to read.

Death Dimensions 1: Judge Death, Fire, Fear, and Mortis.

Death Dimensions 2: Judge Death, Fire, Fear, and Mortis.

Although they feature the same art one of the Death Dimentions series are foiled with a white background and golden font down the right side instead of silver font down the left.

Legends Original Artwork Cards: 13 cards listed.

Sleep of the Just: page 1-6. "page" is not capitalized.

Movie Preview Cards: Judge Dredd, ABC War Robot, and Mean Machine.

The Movie Preview Cards are not to be confused with the Movie Card Collection. Despite both using the same photo of Sylvester Stallone's Judge Dredd the 3 preview cards are all partially transparent with the subject being cut out from the movie background, given a clear one, a thin colored transparent boarder and a similar colored name tag at the bottom with a Judge badge in the left corner of the tag. Because these are preview cards they aren't perfect with the name tags having several problems. The Judge badge is hard to make out the finer detail of and the "Judge Dredd" text on it is too dark to contrast with the black line behind it making it hard to read. All three name tags have a color gradient that gets darker at the ends however Dredd's card is the only one with clear to make out text. ABC War Robot and Mean Machine's text does not consistently contrast enough with the gradient to make them easy to read at a glance. I do not know if this is a printing error with my card or because these are preview cards but my Mean Machine's card boarder is colored an obvious red while his name tag appears to be closer to a purple or dark pink.

A portion of these cards and series as well as others can be found at the link below from the trading card database.

https://www.tcdb.com/Person.cfm/pid/122673/col/1/yea/0/Judge-Dredd?sTeam=&sCardNum=&sNote=&sSetName=&sBrand= 50.35.26.241 (talk) 07:49, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

I was wrong
Sorry the misinformation in my first post I was gifted these cards and don't know much about them.

After a search on ebay for the rest of the foil Death Dimensions card series I discovered that the coloring and legibility issues I mentioned about the 3 Movie Preview Cards might actually be problems with my cards only.

Also I don't know if this warrants mentioning but according to this article I found the old manufacturing prosses for foil cards can cause a specific printing error where two foil sheets meet. This might explain the prevalence of that error in the series compared to modern foil cards

https://www.misprintedmtg.com/beginners-guide-to-misprints/#foilerrors 50.35.26.241 (talk) 21:56, 9 March 2024 (UTC)