JudgeDredd

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: *Island nations ^ This is a really great week for coloring aficionados % Franchises £ Not franchises * ^ % £ 2000 AD #1754 The best British comic book is finally available weekly in the U.S., as of t...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Big guns ^ Big swords % Big chops * ^ ABC WARRIORS: THE BLACK HOLE This is the second collection of stories involving Pat Mills' robot-warrior team--essentially a cross between Metal Men and Sgt...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Small things, looking up ^ Large things, looking down ^ AVENGERS #16 I still don't know if alternating issues in the same storyline drawn by John Romita Jr...

British film magazine Empire has an impressive array of new photographs from the set of Dredd, the forthcoming film based on the irrepressible 2000 A.D. character Judge Dredd created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. The film stars Karl Urban (Star Trek, Priest) in the title role, an ultra-violent lawman based in Mega-City One, a post-apocalyptic metropolis where his word is law...

Movies: Wonder Woman pilot star Adrianne Palicki will star as Lady Jaye in G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes. Industry: Newspaper content -- especially comic strips -- syndicate United Media has closed its doors. Blogs: CA contributor Douglas Wolk is digging into Judge Dredd in chronological order at his new blog, Dredd Reckoning...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * The New Yorker ^ National Geographic @ American Rifleman % Family Circle ¢ AARP Bulletin * ¢ AVENGERS #12 Brian Michael Bendis may have written himself into a corner with this Infinity Gauntlet plot--last issue's all-splash-page format seemed like a punt, and not a particularly successfu

In a shocking display of a comics creator using social networking to engage his audience rather than broadcasting his disdain for them, John Wagner invited fans to query him via Facebook on the progress of Dredd, the new film based on his and Carlos Ezquerra's ultra-violent anti-hero Judge Dredd...

In what we hope is an appropriately unilateral action, 2000AD has taken it upon itself to release the first image of actor Karl Urban in full Judge Dredd regalia, taken during rehearsals for the upcoming film adaptation. Posted innocuously at the publisher's message boards earlier today, the image shows Urban as the Dredd we all hoped he'd be: helmeted, armed, and looking extremely pissed off... R

Hollywood: Lionsgate is making theirs Mega City by picking up the new 3D Judge Dredd movie, Dredd, starring Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby. That's right Liony of them, it is. Gaming: If you were frustrated that the initial release of the mobile Kick-Ass videogame didn't live up to its name, a new update will supposedly change your mind on November 9 with improved graphics and gameplay...

The new Judge Dredd film is off to an auspicious start: "Star Trek's" Karl Urban in the title role, a script by "28 Days Later" and "Sunshine" writer Alex Garland, co-creator John Wagner on board, and $30 million in the bank. IM Global, the sales company that represents "Dredd", has sold the film in foreign markets including Germany, Spain, Australia, Canada