America

[The Cosh]

Is it worth buying this new collection solely for "Fading of the Light", which I've never read?

[JOE SOAP]

***Is it worth buying this new collection solely for "Fading of the Light", which I've never read?***


Most definitely yes, the end is awe inspiring and leads to cadet.

[Wils]

...primitive computer colouring on part 2...

That wouldn't happen to be by Alan "Plastic Wrap" Craddock, would it?

[W. R. Logan]

>Is it worth buying this new collection solely for "Fading of the Light", which I've never read?

FOTL wasnt that well received when it came out but as John says without it we wouldnt have had Cadet and the stories that followed

[Roger Godpleton]

The bit where Bennett goes to collect his award is the most heartbreaking 2thou moment ever.

[IndigoPrime]

"FOTL wasnt that well received when it came out but as John says without it we wouldnt have had Cadet and the stories that followed"

Mm. Also, on rereading it, it's the awful colouring that grates, but the story and inks are fine. While America is a great standalone, the subsequent stories work, as opposed to, say, Chopper, post-Song of the Surfer.

[The Adventurer]

The bit where Bennett goes to collect his award is the most heartbreaking 2thou moment ever.

And Dredd shipping that Judge, who stood by while Beeny got raped, off with the SJS guys was one of the best Dredd moments ever.

[TordelBack]

Is it worth buying this new collection solely for "Fading of the Light", which I've never read?

Yes.  An underrated classic, and utterly bugfuck crazy in places.  Works great sandwiched between America and Cadet.

[Richard T Field]

Havong reread America recently I've got another question.

The interludes of Dredd talking about the law,democracy etc. When are these supposed to be happening.

They seem like the sort of thing the quite hard line Dredd would say yet at the time of America Oct 2113 Dredd is over seeing the referendum and is in fact fighting Grice etc so it goes ahead.

What does everyone else think?

(I know that America began just as Necroppolis was ending in the weekly but its stated in Cadet that America dies in Oct 2113. How long did Necropolis last for anyway in the Dredd timeline?)

[JOE SOAP]

***The interludes of Dredd talking about the law,democracy etc. When are these supposed to be happening. ***

During the story/doesn't really matter, it's just an authoritative voice in the story.


***They seem like the sort of thing the quite hard line Dredd would say yet at the time of America Oct 2113 Dredd is over seeing the referendum and is in fact fighting Grice etc so it goes ahead.***


Doesn't contradict anything Dredd says or does in America, he still believes in the strict application of the law. Dredd always had faith that the citizens would vote in favour of the judges.

Neither story contradicts the other.

[Steve Green]

Personally, I think the Statue of Judgment is on an enormous conveyor belt, which stretches from East to West :)

- Steve

[JayzusB.Christ]

Back to the Liberty Hand - I always took it as read that the Statue of Liberty was still around; it just had the hand knocked off it at some point which was put somewhere else.

[Cthulouis]

But *when* was the hand knocked off???

[The Adventurer]

During the war with Sino. Duh

[TordelBack]

Arf!