Review: Judge Dredd: Year One

Judge Dredd: Year One by Matt Smith

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Art - 3 Stars
Story - 5 Stars
Overall - 4 Stars

Judge Dredd faces down a rash of youth or Juves spontaneously gaining psionic powers and using them to riot and commit crimes. What's not to like? The art in this book reflects the old 2000 AD art that we are used to seeing with Judge Dredd but is not really up to the highest standards of the comic art today. The story on the other hand is fantastic.

Dredd picks up a case involving a Juve with sudden psionic powers and works with his fellow judges in the Psi Division to investigate. Visiting a home for wayward boys which appears to be the epicenter for the psionic outbreak,

Dredd discovers a rift to a parallel dimension. Taking the direct approach, he leaps through the rift and comes out into a desolate version of MegaCity One where the few remaining Judges and citizens have moved underground to old New York.

Once in the undercity he joins up with a few remaining judges and discovers that the Juves follow something called the four mothers that appears to be a hive mind like being. Dredd leads the judges in an assault on the Mothers and discovers that they are simply a ruse for a trans-dimensional gang of thieves. Dredd and the judges break up the gang and Dredd, with the help of the Psi-Judges in his own dimension, returns to his own reality.




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