Hope all’s y’all picked up Dredd on Bluray
January 21, 2013
12:00 am
Either way, it seemed preferable to like… Crystal Meth or crack or something like that.
Fun fact, Olivia Thirlby, the girl who played Dredd’s sidekick was actually the female lead in Good Vibes, the show I initially moved to LA to work on. And her character had almost the same haircut.
Wait, it wasn’t addictive? I assumed the problem was people committing crime to get money to buy more.
yeah, they should kill tobacco smokers too, this guy is right
They did. Nicotine, alcohol, weed, cocaine, slo-mo – all illegal in Mega City 1
Slo-mo is super addictive I believe, the crash is so bad that people will want to do anything to get some more. The drug’s effects aren’t all that bad, it’s the after-effects that make it pretty bad. o.o Just because you see a guy who’s killed dozens of people sitting in his apartment giggling at water, doesn’t mean at that point in time he’s innocent ’cause he doesn’t have a gun or knife in his hand. :3
What exactly is your point? Just because a guy’s not innocent doesn’t mean he’s an imminent threat that needs to be shot on sight.
Not real familiar with Dredd, are we?
Essentially yes.
Slo-mo production and distribution increases crime in an area around these operations as users quickly exhaust legal financial assets chasing their next high, then they turn to crime.
As such it was decided attacking slo-mo production and distribution aggressively was a more efficient use of Justice Department time.
It was for similar reasons the Justice Department chose not to make modern back pain treating medicine widely available. By the estimate of experts as much as 25% of all Mega City Ones productive working hours are lost to back pain.
By this same justification for making the treatment available we can safely assume 25% of all potential crime hours are also lost to back pain.
Therefore making these treatments widely available we would be faced with a crime wave the likes of which have never been seen.
This. This is why we can’t have nice things.
This logic here. Yeah, that’s it. Yes.
…I can’t argue with that flawless logic
…Because attacking production and reducing supply, thereby driving prices higher, is going to make people less likely to need to turn to crime for the cash, right?
The laws in the Judge Dredd universe are strange indeed. For example sugar is illegal. Doesn’t help that the laws are being enforced by a character so absolutest in his thinking.
Oddly, I suspect that’s why Anderson took off in the comics as a counterpoint to Dredd.
(I sometimes wonder if Anderson is also a result of John Wagner getting older. I don’t know about the rest of you but, as I get older, I see more grey where things used to be black/white right/wrong.)
I think you are right. It might be that as the mind matures you are more able to see the other side of things. Or it could be the build of life experience. Doesn’t matter why, but I know that morality does seem to me like a vast ocean of grey.
the Batman and Judge Dredd comics were still beast.
Problem with that reasoning is that Dredd has always been heavily conflicted internally about the law.
Old comics were half thought bubbles of Dredd going “Is this the right thing to do?”
Honestly I only have vague memories of the comics, it has been more than a few years since I read them. I remember liking the a lot of the ideas used in the setting, and the style, but not caring for the character of Judge Dredd or the idea of Judges at all. Was always a sucker for the post apocalyptic setting and fiction, found the idea of mega city after an nuclear apocalypse to be endlessly fascinating. Still not sure where the resources for such came from. Was that ever explained?
The city was built before the atomic war as I recall.
That’s actually very accurate. It’s considered an important milestone in a child’s life when they learn to lie, because that involves thinking of someone else’s perspective (in this case, to manipulate it), which is a somewhat advanced mental process. It’s the same reason little kids always seem to stand in everyone’s way when everyone’s watching TV; they’re not mentally capable of considering other people. Applying that to a higher level, it makes sense that it would take maturity in order to understand someone else’s opinions, seeing as that would be more than just considering their perspective, but understanding a large amount of information and how they view it.
Except that Anderson has been around since the early days of the comic and that most of her stories are scripted by Alan Grant. Wagner has gradually shown the development of doubts as well as emotional growth in Dredd himself as he’s aged, which is one of the things I love about Dredd.
I think it was more he was worried that people didn’t get that Dredd was satirical, and were taking the strip at face value, and wishing we had law enforcers like Dredd.
The America storyline was pretty much conceived to show that the Judge system is not meant to be applauded.
Yes, Dredd was conceived as a satire, but he’s not written like that half the time. It’s really obvious that it’s supposed to be funny, even goofy sometimes, in the newspaper comics, but the actual comic books tend to lean on the side of serious. Compounding this problem is the world presented: a dangerously crowded city that really does need the judges. While the Judges are sometimes portrayed as the badguys, they are more often portrayed as a bunch of high powered cops desperately trying to keep order.
Yes, but, well, its the ‘best’ thing for the city, but its far from something people should be admiring or seeing as unqualified goodness. many of the writers grew uncomfortable with the fans who thought it would be awesome to have the Judges in place in the present.
Heh, in the comic, Judge Dredd’s laws were more insane. Even in the original strips, which were pretty tame, you’d face ten years for littering.
He isn’t absolutist in his thinking at all! He just wears really tight boots so he can be absolutist in his actions. The Dredd-verse is every extreme argument from both Left and Right stuffed in a blender then the remains turned up to 12!!!
You’re aware that the Dredd universe has always been satirical of politics and law enforcement, right? That’s kind of the point. Even in the movie.
Except the movie was more action oriented and badass.
I think Dredd only shot people who pulled a gun on him…
Panel three should say “its actual speed.” No apostrophe, please. It’s a possessive pronoun, like his or hers, which also have no apostrophes. Now the world is informed.
I think the real crime is the sound used for the slo-mo scenes was a Justin Beiber song slowed down 800 times.
And it corroded your teeth and gums and I guess mouth in general. Effects of long-term use weren’t really discussed either…
The original Judge Dredd Comics were a European parody of American Action Heroes, in the Sylvester Stalone movie they forgot about the “parody” part. So you’re partially right about it being a commentary, although not necessarily on pot but more on the American attitude that if violence doesn’t solve all your problems then you aren’t using enough of it.
You know, sugar is illegal in Mega City as well.
I suppose Twilight-pires would be very exciting to the addicts in this universe then?
They wouldn’t last a minute before breaking a horribly convoluted law and getting shot for resisting arrest. I am thankful to the Judges for many things, but that tops the list.
I love this comic. I rarely ever comment, but I have to say, I felt exactly the same about the movie. I know people who raved and said it was better than Stallone’s version … but honestly I don’t see how. Silly drug, random storyline …
Awesome comic produced as a result. Wewt!
Did you ever read the original comics?
True, plot seemed too… simple. But still, it was a good movie, although it felt more like a pilot episode of a serie (looong episode, but still, felt more like a serie than a movie)
I also guess people liked this version more, since it stayed closer to the comic, includying Dredd never taking off his helmet.
Personally, I liked the simplified, ‘street level’ plot.
If every movie has the entire world at stake, it get’s cliche.
Drug bust, perps were …uncooperative.
I agree its refreshing to not have the world hang in the balance, not to say Dredd hasn’t saved Mega-City One more than a handful of times.
I don’t have BD player :(
Already got my BD Player~ \(^O^)/ Wahahahah~!!
Damnit, now I can never watch and enjoy the movie.
Well in the comics sugar, tea and coffee are all illegal drugs and both dealers and users have been killed while resisting arrest. So at least Slo-Mo has a trippy effect in addition to being produced and manufactured by ruthless criminals.
Has a reason ever been given as to why those items are illegal? Been itching the back of my mind lately.
Because it’s the law – what else do you need to know?
(but no it hasn’t been reasoned, just a natural extension of a fascist regime dedicated to cutting out the fun stuff in life)
All caffeine and sugars are viewed as addictive stimulants. Comic books are also viewed as addictive, so they’re also illegal.
Sugar and coffee are both chemical stimulants, alter your mood, coffee is addictive, and sugar corrodes teeth. Presumably it’s a satire on nanny state laws. Amusingly (or not), NY seems to on their way to making that satire true with their ban on large sodas and their mayor’s open support for banning pop outright (in the name of fighting obesity).
I have no idea why they don’t like tea.
True teas contain caffeine, just not anywhere near as much as coffee. If they’ve also banned tisanes (herbal “teas”), then… idk, maybe they’re cracking down on yerba mate too.
Tea’s also an illegal stimulant, it contains caffeine and various other chemicals. They have Judgment Department approved Synthi-Caff instead.
Dredd Ending Spoilers: http://youtubedoubler.com/6smC
@Mononymous, It was stated to be highly addictive, yes.
Also, people were causing serious accidents by using it in public places… Like freeways.
Wouldn’t a drug that slows down your perceptions tend to increase your reactions, and thus make high-speed activities like driving, well, safer?
lets play a hypothetical 1vs1 fps game, my monitor has a 1 millisecond refresh rate, your monitor has a 1 second refresh rate (to represent time moving slower for you). would you be able to win if it was a 1st to kill the other 10 times format?
A 1ms refresh rate would actually be worse for you than the slowed-down-by-10x refresh rate on that monitor would be for the other person… Why, you ask? Because it’s about ten times faster than the biological refresh rate of our eyes.
While it’s true that it would be faster than the “refresh rate” of our eyes, it’s false that it would be worse. It wouldn’t mess with your eyes at all. The world around you technically operates at an infinite refresh rate, your eyes simply take in whatever information they can.
Yes… And having a refresh rate faster than your eyes means you take in LESS of what shows on the screen.
Ever played an FPS? Would you rather be playing the game where you only get the information to react once in a second, or as fast as you could process it?
What you are saying would be fine and dandy if your task would be to, say, memorize pictures, but only being able to have the information to react once a second would be crippling
The issue is that while 1000fps is much more information than your eyes need, 1fps is very far below what your eyes can handle. The point is that you get less information from 1fps, and at 1000fps you take in as much information as you can manage and the rest gets discarded anyways.
1fps is still going to be significantly worse for the relay of information to your eyes than 1000fps.
I realized when I was heading out yesterday that I probably used the wrong numbers/example.
same situation:
I have a 1TB processor, you have a 256MB processor,
or I have a high speed internet connection, you have 256 dialup connection.
the point I’m trying to make is that once you start lagging (time moving slower for you subjectively) anything running at a normal 1:1 means there’s really nothing you can do to react properly.
You are so wrong it promoted me to comment for the first time.
The way you create the perception of slowing time is by speeding up the sampling rate. For example, on Mythbusters they use a “high speed camera” to film all the super slow-motion shots.
So in order to perceive time as slowing down you need to be seeing and probably thinking faster. In this case by two orders of magnitude. Assuming you don’t get distracted by all the things that look unusual at that speed your situational awareness should improve significantly.
what the point was, is this, imagine you percieve time normally, 1s = 1s a time dilation of 1:1 NOW… a criminal gets thier hands on a drug that alters perception of time, in this case turning 1 second into ten a 10:1 PERCEIVED time dialation, that criminal could see and react seemingly instantaniously to anything, the framerate is a good example, but honestly a program continues running regardless of a screens refresh rate, so imagine drawing your gun and the guy your drawing against sees it has time to react and aim perfectly before your sights are even on him… its a highly annoying disadvantage. of course he can only move as fast as his body allows.
In David Weber’s Path of the Fury, there was a drug(or rather a series of drugs) used by the spec ops in the story that did more or less exactly that. And it was considered a major combat advantage. So clearly the REAL reason slo-mo is outlawed is because of the advantage it gives to criminals against the Judges.
The problem with that argument is that the time dilation is only perceived. A reaction like drawing a gun may take a second, whereas to the drug user it seems to take ten. You might think great, he has ten seconds to draw his own gun, but it might TAKE him ten seconds to draw his own.
In fact, lets use a knife as our weapon, I can explain it better. The guy on Slo-Mo sees the knife come up for a slash, and assuming he can still control not his limbs at a normal rate but perceive their movement at his slowed down rate, reaches out to block it. He succeeds and sees the second attack start. However, lets say that it has taken four seconds of his slowed down time to see this much going on. The attacker, assuming that he’s got any kind of skill and natural speed, should be able to deliver five or six quick blows in four normal seconds. So that means that while our druggie is only seeing the second attack coming now, he’s already been stabbed three or four times without even knowing it. The guy with the normal perception of time therefore has the advantage, not the guy with altered perception. The only way the drug would provide an advantage is if it slowed down the effect of time itself on the user, not just his perception of it.
So your argument is that because it doesn’t provide enough of an advantage to allow some random punk to beat an expert knife user, it’s actually a disadvantage? Yeah, that makes sense.
Not if you’re busy staring at the sparkles of the sunlight hitting the windshield, no.
Dredd was good. Don’t know why it didn’t do well in theaters.
Because nobody cares about Dredd anymore?
Because the unoriginal asshats in Hollywood prefer to fall back on flash, action and 3D gimickry. They should have put out a buildup graphic novel or DVD animated anthology to build interest. That could have filled in the backstory and exposition up to the theatrical movie. This would have allowed a better class of villain or even Judge Death itself, with a bigger star able to provide v/o work…
Dredd wasn’t a Hollywood movie, it was bordering on being an Indie flick. But then you get unoriginal asshats on the internet who complain about all things Hollywood and all things not Hollywood that don’t have the budget to compare to what big budget Hollywood companies can do.
Hey, don’t diss Karl Urban. He’s a great actor, and after Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, he’s not small time either.
It was a /very/ competitive weekend when it opened at theaters. People who it was marketed for were still checking out Resident Evil. Other people were getting their gritty cop kicks from End of Watch. Tweens and teens were getting their date nite hijinks on with House at the End of the Street and The Possession.
I was a part of the taskforce hired by Lion’s Gate to count attendance at theaters on opening weekend and it just broke my heart that Dredd did so poorly. Not to mention it made the assignment a total bore.
It’s worth remembering that sugar, and I think tabacco are both illegal substances in Mega City-1. They’re kinda famous for harsh laws and tigh restriction of their populace.
Tobacco use was restricted to the smokatoriums. But that was back in the early eighties, they may have banned it entirely since then.
Refined sugar is entirely illegal in Megacity One. That stuff’s addictive.
dont forget caffeine! worst of all substances
The Dredd universe also prohibits such substances as tea, coffee and sugar. Distracting sparkles that affect your perception of time will *definitely* be on the banned list.
That’s the great thing about Megacity One, you can find an excuse to arrest anyone at all if they irritate you enough. In fact, irritating you may even be a punishable offence!
That reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, actually. The Ankh-Morpork City Watch are said to have a wide range of charges to levy against someone they want to arrest, including Loitering Whilst Being The Wrong Shape/Sex/Colour/Species and Being Obstructive When It’s Been A Long Day And I’ve Had Enough.
And the ever popular “Breach of the Being Bloody Stupid Act”. Although that tends to carry its own punishment during the breach, like causing you to commit suicide. For example; Vincent the Invulnerable comitted suicide when he broke the Being Bloody Stupid Act by walking into a rough tavern and announcing he was called “Vincent the Invulnerable”.
Murder is pretty rare in Ankh-Morpork, but there are a huge number of ways to commit suicide.
Aside from being highly addictive and thus increasing crime simply to try and pay for more, what the drug does would probably eventually fry your brain I was led to believe. In order to make it feel like time is going that slow would basically require jacking up how fast your brain processes what your eyes capture, which can’t be good long term can it..?
“I kind of wondered if it was supposed to be commentary on the completely hyperbolic war on pot or something.”
Pot’s way too recent. Meg-1 is a lampoon of late Communist-era British totalitarian policies, as viewed through the lens of punk. Think the opposite of 1984 – it’s a (nearly) post-scarcity society where the population has almost total freedom, but anything they’d actually want to DO (like take a harmless chemical that makes you go “wheee!”) is a death sentence. As is questioning the sentencing. As is asking tricky questions about the rules. Dredd is only the good guy in contrast: most other Judges shoot first and rightly assume that the victim was probably guilty of something or other anyway.
For another dose of this humor, look up the Paranoia RPG, but only if your security clearance is at or above infra-black. Failing to do so is treason, citizen.
I’m pretty sure marijuana was illegal in the UK in 1979 and that the idea of a future society where nearly every enjoyable substance is banned was an intentional parody.
I think the more important point to note is that Dredd doesn’t shoot people for doing slo-mo, he shoots people for being armed robbers and resisting arrest, or being violent drug dealers who skin their rivals alive then dump them off of balconies. For simple possession you’re probably only going to be looking at a couple of years or so in an iso-cube.
As to Dredd being a good guy in contrast to the other Judges, when did that happen? Dredd has always been one of the biggest hardcases the Hall of Justice has seen, his dedication to the rigid application of law is so legendary his nickname among other Judges is “Old Stony Face”. I know he’s gotten a bit more liberal with age, but really, I can’t imagine a situation where a perp would be thankful to be facing Dredd over any other megacity Judge. Dredd’s an antihero. His appeal is how awful he is.
Lastly, citizen, there is no such security clearance as “infra-black”. The lowest clearance level is Infrared. All friends of Computer should know this. Are you a commie? Please wait there, troubleshooters have been dispatched to your location and will deal with you shortly. Have a nice day.
As a dedicated 2000AD reader from prog 2 I can tell you that Dredd effectively lampooned/satirised the Thatcher era as did 200AD generally. Thatcher’s over heavy reliance on the Police, and her strident “rallying” cries regarding Law and Order made her particularly easy and laudable to satirise.
Also caffeine if i remember correctly.
Anyone else noticed the irony in the way Ma-Ma died?
Yeah that’s kind of the point. The world of Judge Dredd is supposed to be super-authoritarian hell-hole, to the point of ridiculousness. I thought this new one was great, but maybe that didn’t come across as clearly as in Stallone’s since his had a more clearly redemptive story ark with an ending that more clearly called into question the validity of that social structure (although I think that’s what the new one was trying to achieve with the whole recognizing Anderson as a special case ark)
The bigger issue with Slo-mo seemed to be the crime surrounding its production and distribution. Ma-Ma’s expansion tactics were ruthless, and the drug trade would just give the clan more means by which to continue.
But you’re right, at first glance the moral’s just DRUGS ARE BAD, MMKAY? Still one of my favorite comic adaptations to date!
Did Dredd actually shoot people just for being users? He shot a lot of dealers who pulled guns on him, but I don’t recall any plain users being killed.
The funny thing about the dreddverse is that most of the punishment for crimes are people in isocubes. Very few are death. It’s only because people fight against the judges that the death count is so high.
That’s the other half of the action-movie parody. The villains will fight to the death over a parking ticket.
Bubble tea will surely be banned in Mega-City 1 as well.
Thanks for the heads-up. Sounds like it’s time for me to hit up RedBox for the Blu-Ray.
I really enjoyed this movie. Like most people, I thought it would be like the mid 90’s version. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised. Sadly, we won’t be seeing another one due to virtually no one else seeing it.
Not that I want to tell you how to do your job or anything, but there needs to be a lot more frown lines on that Dredd. Like, a LOT more.
…
Just saying.
This is just what Dredd does to relax on his days off, so he’s not as frown-y as usual.
Justice takes no breaks, citizen!
Not sure IF he ever said it, but it sounds like something Dredd would say.
Also, if I ended up in that verse, I’d find a Judge and turn myself in for “crimes I have not yet committed, but will if I don’t stop myself”.
Wasting a Judge’s time with false reports is a crime.
More accurately, I’d find the easiest way to get a quick death from the judges that DOESN’T involve drawing a weapon/running into Judge Death.
I am so happy you made a comic about something that I’ve actually seen.
Slo-mo is a fantastic drug for making slow motion sequences worthy of those guys on YouTube. With the soothing ambient music and everything!
Ah, but the enjoyable thing was when you realized, that Dredd wasn’t the protagonist of this movie at all – Anderson was.
Are you not working on Good Vibes anymore? I actually really enjoy that show.
Well, considering the show ended a little over a year ago… no, I don’t believe she is.
Actually, if you want to see what Coelasquid’s been doing professionally lately, she recently posted a short she worked on on tumblr. The writing’s kind of, uh… corny, as she put it, but the animation’s really nice. Good fight scenes.
It got cancelled after the first season, I haven’t worked on it for more than a year.
Sorry to hear that C. Squiddy. I liked that show a lot, but since it was on MTV and not a reality show, it wasn’t going to last past two seasons (just like with Wonder Shozen and The Hard Times of RJ Berger). The only thing worth watching on MTV now is True Life.
That’s very depressing. I just recently found it on Netflix and liked it :(
One thing many forgot abotu Judge Dredd, it’s set after nuclear war and president (who is so bad that it will make Bush look like a honest pacifist) was overthrown and tried to maintain order in what’s left of east coast. It can be either social satire or Grim tale of survival in dark world.
And some times both, being about maintaining order in a society where there’s so much brutality, the judges end up being the nice ones.
Why do we have Comic!Dredd but Movie!Anderson (albeit in blue) here?
I think in MGDMT verse, there’s just one version of every character.
I checked to make sure nobody’d said this already, but there’s a misplaced apostrophe in the bottom left frame. It’s instead of its. /FUN POLICE
Sparkles are unacceptable By Jugde Dredd’s stadards*snicker*
Why is tea & sugar illegal in Mega City One?
Sugar because it’s unhealthy. Tea… I forget why. Probably something to do with the caffeine. It might’ve been repealed at some point.
Because nothing would scare British people more.
Dredd didn’t kill any junkies, apart from one who pulled a gun on him. All the rest were armed dealers or gang members.
Also, like with most pro- and anti-drug stuff, it’s all about where you draw the line on cause and effect, the drug’s effect on people isn’t as important to the law as the criminal enterprises it fuels.
If the film was a Wagner written strip, it’d have ended with the Chief Judge thanking Dredd for securing all of the production facilities for slow-mo…. then they’d be an ad “HEY CITIZENS! Come to the Slow-mo Palace (across the Plaza from the Smokatorium*) and make every minute of your good times last hours! (Justice Dept Approved.)”
* A building you go to to smoke.
You know, my stance on drugs this days is becoming that.
Haha, nice! Oddly enough, the LACK of anything bad given about Slo-Mo is one of the reasons why I enjoy the film – it’s less of a plot hole and more an example of just how controlling Dredd’s system is. If they had said something like it causes people to melt to death after prolonged use (and considering how violent this film was, it wouldn’t have surprised me), it would’ve made it a typical copout about how “drugs are evil”, but no – it’s illegal because the Judges said so. A lot more like the Judge I know than Stallone’s POS.
That’s exactly how people treat stoners!
Pot is an addictive drug, and dangerous.
I knew one man who got evicted because his stash of weed came before his rent.
I have one friend who quite pot cold turkey because he noticed it significantly effecting his memory & reaction time when not high.
Foo Fighters’ David Grohl has talked about why he stopped using pot on the Howard Stern Show, fervently citing how it robed him of ambition and productivity.
This cultural movement to treat pot of harmless & funny is grossly disturbing.
Yeah but what gets me is that you can say the pretty much the same thing about alcohol and it’s legal. In fact when I was going to drivers ed the policeman that served as our instructor said he’d honestly rather have pot legal than alcohol because pot makes guys stupid but alcohol tends to make guys stupid AND violent.
Of course we all know how well banning booze worked so eh people love their mind altering substances I guess, frankly I’ve never seen the appeal of getting drunk/high/etc. but hey as long as you don’t hurt anyone, well aside from yourself in the long run I suppose, I honestly could care less what you do personally.
I think the issue most people have with recognizing the impact of pot use is that since it’s not chemically addictive, it’s not hurting anything. Except it can lead to psychological dependence, since one of the withdrawal symptoms (yes, it has them) is depression. Something a lot of people don’t know either is that it can cause arrhythmia, blood clots, and high blood pressure.
It can cause a lot of problems for people with certain mental illnesses, for example. It can make the symptoms a lot worse. Saw this with a family member.
I think the issue most people have is that pot is not actually more harmful than alcohol, but users get treated like criminals anyway.
No, it’s not. Alcoholism is actually far worse, since it’s a physical AND psychological addiction. That said, the reason pot smokers get treated as criminals is because possession and use in the US is a CRIME. And even in states where it’s been legalized, there’s the issue of federal laws.
I fell in love with Olivia while watching Dredd.
Okay, wow, that was a good movie. I probably wouldn’t have watched it if you hadn’t made these Dredd comics, so thanks.
I’m sorry, but having read the original strips in 2000AD when they came out, and for many years afterwards, I cannot see Dredd as anything other than a programmed clone of a
human being.
IMHO, neither film comes near to showing him as he really should be portrayed. But then,
if they did, neither film would have made any kind of money…
Eli.
I can’t be the only one to think the junkie looks like Phelous without facial hair. In which case, him getting his head blasted into brainy, gory chunks isn’t just appropriate, it’s practically canon.
Okay guys. I have to ask. Is bacon illegal in Mega-City?
Sigh.
“Its”.
Wait, you worked on Good Vibes? o3o I didn’t know that! That show was funny as hell! XD I just wish they had pushed it/given it better timeslots than that crap like Jersey Shore :T
Love it! I thought the movie was great, but there were definitely some things that got glossed over.
Also, not only did I buy Dredd on bluray, I bought a bluray player just so I could buy Dredd on bluray.
I bought a 3D TV just so I could buy Coraline on 3D Blu-ray.
sorry i just wanted to feel included
Well, at least it wasn’t cheese he was eating…
I’m looking at you Blade Runner. (PC game)
You know, this one reminds me a bit of an old Dredd comic where he tries to arrest someone who mutated into a massive fly. When the guy’s wife objects, Dredd says something like, “what do you mean, what for? For turning into a big drokking fly!”
He has to reluctantly concede that that’s not actually a crime.
Cola. What time zone do you live in? Your comic will say it updated on monday yet it’s still tuesday. Or maybe my computers funky.
Crap I meant Sunday
Questioning the update schedule? Heresy! *BLAM*
Read this comic before watching it and assumed it was about the use of slow-motion effects in movies. After watching it and reading it again I find it pretty funny how well it works for both.
Heh. You know, it says something about my personal behavior, that I read panel 1 and didn’t think he was doing anything particularly strange. I didn’t even know he was supposed to be a junkie until he got shot!
Dredd was always meant to be hilariously over-the-top parody, but in some cases I agreed with him.
Like this bit about Bingo.
I know this is way past the point anyone will read the comic’s comments, but wanted to point out that the SloMo probably made that poor junkie’s death all the more excruciating if you think about it.
If he was shot in the back of the head probably not so much, really hard to tell (impossible)without testing that theory. And impossible to ask the victim.
At first I thought he was just an autistic kid.
OMG so many stupid people with stupid comments I face palmed so hard reading 90% of these