
A reflection of our own struggles with law and justice, living and dying.īut that idea essentially lacks nuance, dismissing the flexibility of Dredd as a figure and the function of his stories. Indeed, many purists and diehard fans will tell you that Dredd functions best when he is unflinching and morally reprehensible. A “Street Judge”-officer, judge, jury, and executioner in the monolithically dystopic Mega-City One-Dredd is, by all outward appearances, a one-dimensional satire of fascism in his original conception by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra.

Since his debut in 1977’s 2000 AD #2 over forty years ago, the grim, fit, and unapologetic Judge Dredd has become both one of comics’ most emblematic figures, but also one of its most enigmatic.
