I am months behind on my progs, but had to contribute to a good-as-dead thread to praise the Judge Dredd story, Caterpillars.
It’s been a long time since I've seen such a real sense of how grim life in the Big Meg is. Natasha’s state of hopelessness and misery is so eloquently captured and her latest injustices so smartly told, that it is impossible to see a way out of that long, long drop. And then comes that jarring clue in the first panel of the last page. Why the mutie references? Ohhhhh…a beautiful, heart-warming twist.
I have enjoyed all of Michael Carroll’s Dredds so far and with he and Al Ewing both so finely tuned into the character and the city, imagining a future of Dredd without Wagner is now less bleak.
Oh, and not to forget the artwork. Great to see Bryan Talbot back in the prog and lovely work it was. Though I’m not generally a fan of such picture perfect computer colours, Alwyn painted a garish vision of a rotten city that really suited the story.
Well done to all the creators.
