ENNIS, GARTH & DILLON, STEVE – JUDGE DREDD – EMERALD ISLE 2001 Titan Books. 2000 AD
Unexpectedly, Judge Dredd is used as a hilarious but highly pertinent piece
of political satire about the IRA. When
an Irish ambassador is assassinated in Mega City One, (America), with an Irish
Spud Gun (Literally designed to kill with potatoes, (Done as chips, roast,
mashed or cooked in other ways) Judge Dredd is sent to Ireland (The Emerald
Isle) to find the killer He travels first by the undersea tunnel from the US to
Ireland, but it becomes a bridge half way there due to the cost of its
production. On the way he sees the mutated singing whales, which literally sing
variations of Danny Boy as the Judge, passes by. Responsible. Once in Ireland,
Judge Joyce helps Dredd. They learn that the Irish object to being treated as
stereotypes by England, who have reduced them to a theme park full of
leprechauns and whimsical yokels, who eat nothing but spuds (in reality they
eat anything but and the Judge Dredd even learns that the potato is extinct, so
that the tourists are having to eat synthesized rice instead (a comment on the
Irish Potato Famine). The terrorists have had enough of all the blarney, and
they aim to reinvent the real Ireland. When the bombings start in earnest,
airports, factories and dockyards explode, but the Guinness Brewery
mysteriously fails to blow up. Joyce has a laid back approach to law
enforcement and he is deeply shocked by Dredd’s approach, until Dredd confronts
the main villain and drops him into a potato making machine. There are some great moments of humor amidst
the excitement, such as when Dredd drives through a park, which consists of a
shrub and a handful of blades of grass, which Dredd’s bike crushes in an
instant. Dredd goes home eager to eat
anything but potato. http://www.2000adonline.com/
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