Judge Dredd satire: variations/unused elements
The 2000 ad site hosting the competition artwork only allowed images of 800 pixels wide, and so eventually the painful realization that a lot of the lavish detail within the DREDD Toon would have been rendered almost invisible , and so at the eleventh hour, I decided to scale down the overall concept, just concentrating on a close-up of the Judge.
Originally, the scene was to have featured a cameo by a 'baby' version of the ruthless MEAN MACHINE character, a sadistic villian featured in the third great JUDGE DREDD epic the Judge Child, which ran for six months throughout 1980 in the pages of 2OOO AD.
The Judge Child saga featured the usual high-caliber standard of fantasy artwork by Brian Bolland, Mike McMahon and Ron Smith...the Galaxy -stretching tall tale is episodic, to be sure, but is one of my favorite 2000 A/Dredd tales out of the entire near-40 year run.....indeed, this story is one of my fave rave comics stories----ever.
Plate One: the Notorious Cursed Earth/hillbilly hick outlaw family THE ANGEL GANG, minus Pa and Fink.
[l-r: as babies: Junior/ Link/ Mean Machine.
Plate Two: original concept, that proved too detailed for the 800-pixel-wide limit. It can be seen clear on here, though
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Originally, the scene was to have featured a cameo by a 'baby' version of the ruthless MEAN MACHINE character, a sadistic villian featured in the third great JUDGE DREDD epic the Judge Child, which ran for six months throughout 1980 in the pages of 2OOO AD.
The Judge Child saga featured the usual high-caliber standard of fantasy artwork by Brian Bolland, Mike McMahon and Ron Smith...the Galaxy -stretching tall tale is episodic, to be sure, but is one of my favorite 2000 A/Dredd tales out of the entire near-40 year run.....indeed, this story is one of my fave rave comics stories----ever.
Plate One: the Notorious Cursed Earth/hillbilly hick outlaw family THE ANGEL GANG, minus Pa and Fink.
[l-r: as babies: Junior/ Link/ Mean Machine.
Plate Two: original concept, that proved too detailed for the 800-pixel-wide limit. It can be seen clear on here, though
COPYRIGHT 2015 REBELLION
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