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COMICS: Duane Swierczynski To Write New JUDGE DREDD Ongoing For IDW Publishing

Confirmed at today's San Diego Comic-Con, writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Nelson Daniel are set to team-up for a brand new Judge Dredd ongoing series this November. Hit the jump for details on the book, as well as the first artwork.

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By Josh Wilding - 7/13/2012
Earlier this year, IDW Publishing revealed plans for a new Judge Dredd series. However, at the San Diego Comic-Con earlier today, they confirmed that it will be released this Novemeber with the creative team of writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Nelson Daniel. As the 2000AD character returns to the big screen this September with Dredd (starring Karl Urban), the series will serve as an introduction of sorts to American comic book readers. "I'd like IDW's Dredd to feel like a transgressive sci-fi black comedy police procedural -- like 'Law & Order,' if, say, Jerry Orbach were a violent inflexible fascist," Swierczynski told Comic Book Resources. "Someone who readers can't help but root for, since he's up against overwhelming odds in a city gone insane."

"The possibilities are exciting as hell, especially when you factor in future tech," he added when talk turned to the storytelling possibilities. "I'm finding inspiration in the lawless Dillinger days of the early 1930s, when emerging technology inspired both cops and bandits to elevate their games. When the bandits started using race cars for getaways, the cops responded with faster pursuit vehicles; shotguns were met with machine guns; organized criminal gangs were met with wiretapping and most-wanted lists. With 'Dredd,' I'm asking myself: what kind of games will cops (that is, judges) and robbers be playing 100 years in the future?" The series will apparently feature untold stories from the early days of his career (surely making it a far more accessible read fr new readers) while it will also include back-up tales which, "tell a self-contained crime story from the POV of various Mega-City One perps and creeps." This new Judge Dredd comic book will not be connected to the film, while it also appears unlikely that it will fit into the continuity of the 2000AD series. Are you looking forward to this accessible series featuring the character? Sound off with your thoughts in the usual place.





Source: Comic Book Resources
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Clif - 7/13/2012, 5:34 PM
i wonder if it will tie in with the film's plot or if it's solely to introduce dredd to a mainstream audience
Growler - 7/13/2012, 5:39 PM
As a Dredd reader for 30+ years this doesn't sit well.

This whole project confuses me - it doesn't sound like it'll have any kind of continuity with the 2000AD stories, so why does the Dredd in the images here not appear as he does in the film?

If this is supposed to try to lead new readers into the movie, the artwork should reflect that.

I would like to be impressed by these stories but I (sadly) doubt that I will be.
SithLord - 7/13/2012, 6:56 PM
awesome Whilce Portacio art right there.
ckal - 7/13/2012, 7:51 PM
Well, the cover is awesome.
Danbojohnj - 7/13/2012, 9:07 PM
They will get it wrong,at least bring Wagner in as Godfather.
jimoakley666 - 7/14/2012, 12:36 AM
What's the point? There's already a perfectly good ongoing Dredd series in the pages of 2000AD and his own mag. They tried this with DC a few years back and the American comic writers just didn't get it. It just came across like the Punisher but with even less humour. It's supposed to be satire.
inky - 7/14/2012, 12:36 AM
this sees bettr than t rubbish DC did a few years back that looked like toned down pc rubbish.
looking forward to the new movie and to see if the new comic works.
jimoakley666 - 7/14/2012, 12:40 AM
@Clif - Dredd has a mainstream audience. All across Britain and around the world. Just because the majority of the fans aren't Americans does not make it non-mainstream.
sameoldthing - 7/14/2012, 12:54 AM
Bring it on..more Dredd is good!
Just make sure the writing & artwork is of a high caliber & people will buy it up.

Comics are the only place we will ever see Judge Death & the other Dark Judges since I doubt they will be in a movie.
5T0N3R - 7/14/2012, 1:51 AM
@ sithlord agreed, that is some classic dredd right there :)
Jollem - 7/14/2012, 4:13 AM
judge dredd vs. judge judy
WesleyGibson - 7/14/2012, 5:31 AM
I have a feeling that Judge Dredd is really going to kick off after Urban's take on the character.
Tomontherun99 - 7/14/2012, 6:17 AM
@jimoakley666 I think it is to bring in a newer audience, I only have the first few Dredd case file collections so when I picked up the Megazine in WHSmith about a month ago I had no idea what was happening. I don't see what the big deal is here, the 2000 AD continuity isn't being replaced by the new IDW 'verse, this will attract new readers and possibly these new readers will move on "real" Dredd eventually.

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