Another slice of Judge action from Mega-City One
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More of the same - if that's what you want, then the rest of this review is redundant.
This volume of the complete case files covers progs 322 (25th June 1983) to 375 (30th June 1984). It's another solid slice of Dredd-related action. There's none of the grand story arcs that we've seen so far in the series, but the writing seems to have settled down to a consistently good quality. The backdrop of Mega-City One had been well established by this stage, and this has allowed the writers to set their stories within the city without having to constantly explain the city.
As far as storylines go, we have werewolves, dinosaurs, angry spirits, PSI division, orangutans, rookie judges, and the usual assortment of perps and weirdos. If you've read volumes 1 to 6, then 7 isn't going to be a great surprise. But if you've got this far then, like me, you're probably wondering how much shelf space you're going to have to create for the rest of the series.
Rebellion seem to be going at a fair old speed through the Complete Case Files series. Of course, a lot of this material has been reprinted before - in some cases, six times already. The quality of the reproduction isn't bad, although I don't like the paper stock they've used. And despite the fact that there's little in the way of additional content - just artist and writer biogs - they could have spent a little more time on it. Steve Dillon is credited twice on the cover as an artist, and in the back they don't explain who Emberton was (Ian Gibson?).
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