I have read Judge Dredd decades ago. Have wanted to read these case files for sometime. 2000 AD sells them as files. When Comixology was still around it was more convenient that using files and reader. Now that Comixology library is unreadable and I have saved only 15% as backup files it was good time to start this project. There are currently 38 case file books and few more books collecting specials. 39th is coming in couple months. Not sure if I get all of them. I read these as long as I enjoy them. Everything I have read before should be in first ten books.
Judge Dredd is published in 2000 AD’s magazine in few pages chunks. Stories happen in “real time” or close to real time. Meaning Dredd is getting older and world changes as stories go on. This book collects first comics published in magazine. At the beginning they are figuring out how to do this. By the end it start to feel more like comics I remember. If they knew how popular Dredd would become they might have started with younger Dredd.
I wanted to read these books instead of classic story collections because short one issue stories are quite interesting. Longer stories are still told in few page chunks but take many issues. Few page format has benefit and drawbacks. Benefit is they can go crazy because it is just few pages. Drawback it they have to have some sort of conclusion or cliffhanger every few page. It makes binging the stories bit exhausting. Book’s longer stories include robot war and Dredd’s time on moon colony Luna 1. Shorter stories have Dredd’s brother which was used in Sylvester Stallone’s Dredd movie.