This time the setting for the carnage is Mega-City One, which gives the story a different feel to the others as most of their action takes place in Gotham City. It's the epic story that the two characters deserve and features both of their best (worst?) bad guys - The Joker and The Dark Judges - teaming up to create mayhem. The final one, Die Laughing, however is worth the price of the book alone. The story is again saved by some gorgeous artwork, particularly one panel showing a veritable smorgasbord of Batman baddies. The Ultimate Riddle feels like it really wanted to be a crossover with many more franchises for its arena-battle-to-the-death storyline to work, filled as it is with run-of-the-mill monsters, aliens and robots. Vendetta in Gotham is basically a lengthy fight between the two characters with The Ventriloquist as the token bad guy, and Cam Kennedy's artwork is the polar opposite of Bisley's, following a much more traditional DC style. The book itself is an odd size - bigger than standard comics, but smaller than regular graphic novels - so some of the detail is lost, but at least we still get to see all the glorious cover art. The other three stories are written by Wagner and Grant again, and feature more amazing art from the likes of Glenn Fabry, Jim Murray, Val Semeiks, Carl Critchlow and Dermot Power. This graphic novel was the first of four crossovers which 2000AD and DC Comics have published over the years and they are all collected together for the first time in a special hardback edition which is available now. The painting are so detailed, so angular, so muscular, so visceral and certainly a little risqué in places, it certainly helped make up for what was, in all honesty, a bit of a weak story and guaranteed it a space on my bookshelf. Judgement in Gotham was written by Dredd co-creator John Wagner and the great Alan Grant and features Dredd's nemesis Judge Death teaming up first with Mean Angel and then with The Scarecrow to bring his own kind of judgement to Gotham City, and to entertain us with his own special rendition of the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil." The artwork is by Simon Bisley and has to be some of the most amazing illustration ever put into a comic book - I love the panel showing what Death fears the most, and Bisley's rendition of the Batmobile is simply amazing. They should get like a house on fire right? That was the premise behind the 1991 graphic novel crossover which saw Mega-City One's toughest lawman and Gotham City's darkest knight jumping dimensions (with the help of a handy bit of tech from MC1) to battle each other and each other's villains. SQLSTATE: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'ries' doesn't exist (SQL: select `series`.`id`, `series`.`title`, `series`.`slug`, `series`.`aliases`, `series`.`status`, `series`.`released`, `series`.`notes`, `series`.`views`, `series`.`rating`, `series`.`votes`, `series`.`img_url`, `series`.`mtime` from `series` where `slug` = batman-judge-dredd-collection limit 1)Īt Connection -> runQuer圜allback( ) in Connection.php line 607Īt Connection -> run( ) in Connection.php line 326Īt Connection -> select( ) in Builder.php line 1705Īt Builder -> runSelect( ) in Builder.php line 1690Īt Builder -> get( ) in Builder.php line 462Īt Builder -> getModels( ) in Builder.php line 446Īt Builder -> get( ) in BuildsQueries.php line 75Īt Builder -> first( ) in Series.php line 200Īt Series -> get_detail_by_slug( ) in PageController.php line 1066Īt call_user_func_array( ) in Controller.php line 55Īt Controller -> callAction( ) in ControllerDispatcher.php line 44Īt ControllerDispatcher -> dispatch( ) in Route.php line 203Īt Route -> runController( ) in Route.php line 160Īt Route -> run( ) in Router.php line 572Īt Router -> Illuminate\Routing\( ) in Pipeline.php line 102Īt Pipeline -> then( ) in Kernel.php line 151Īt Kernel -> sendRequestThroughRouter( ) in Kernel.php line 116Īt Kernel -> handle( ) in index.One is a billionaire playboy philanthropist by day and a masked crime fighting vigilante by night, the other is a brutal neo-nazi future cop dispensing justice in a totalitarian society.
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