ENNIS, GARTH & BURNS, JOHN - JUSTICE ONE 2002 TITAN BOOKS
Graphic and very violent Judge Dredd comic strip adventure. Dredd is sent
on what should be a routine space flight to inspect how judges are running
affairs on colonial planets belonging to Mega City One, where he usually
operates. The crew and judges don’t expect anything to go wrong, but they are
barely in hyperspace when one of the judges is murdered. It would be a
disappointing read if things had gone smoothly. With only Judges on board
(including the pilots), Dredd realises that it is an inside job. He immediately takes charge, as the senior
judge on board, ignoring any claims that he himself could be the killer. Around
him, the other judges die. The killers try to rendezvous with pirates, but
Dredd soon takes them out too. Eventually there is only he and the two killers,
the pilots left alive. They just got tired of their duties and hoped to steal
the space ship and set off to find their own world. After an abortive attack by on board robots fails, they flush
Dredd into space. Already wearing
breathing apparatus, he gives them an ultimatum. If they surrender, he won’t
shoot the Plexiglas on the cockpit windows. They tell him that he wouldn’t dare
and try to kill him. Dredd makes good on his threat and the evil judges are
sucked out into space. Dredd calls for help from a freighter bound for Pluto,
and sits in the wreckage, the sole survivor, contemplating how he has brought
justice about again. The story is
lavishly illustrated with some very impressive space hardware and explosions.
The plot is slight but thrilling, and the victory seems somehow empty and
wasteful for the reader, though not necessarily for Judge Dredd. A terrific
piece of simple action adventure story telling. http://www.2000adonline.com/
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