I'm sure Dave Stone is hanging around because he's ever so proud of this Armitage. And so he should be and colour this fan lauding. It's the best Armpitage I've read. Yes- very helped by Patrick Goddard's smooth, blackly comic inks. Steel has never looked so good. I'll admit to having to reread the the first two instalment over a few times, but this month's episode slid everything into place nice and carefully for my fat head. It's a great story.
I may come across as someone complaining there is a lot of needless rehashing of an old begotten tale for the Dredd story but it's not that at all. After all, it let me into an old script that was forgotten or never read by Casa Rothwell.
But I still have this question for Mr Carroll if it's not too rude. I don't think it is because the thought occurred while reading it.
Out of many Dredd villains to choose from; why Sherman?
And to set it apart from a PJ number, there is the obvious fact that in the long run it's Dredd's mistake coming back to thwart him. As Sherman's gone through the Academy. Sparking off the great line " Academy? I wrote the book!" {/paraphrasebot] So, was this why? And it does leave the prominent message that most villains never change and always be wary of bad seeds, for they'll blossom to bad apples no matter what "chances" they get. I guess child criminal mastermind' s come good working for the the Judge is a bit too fantasy for a by the book, gritty and realistic story like Dredd then?
And there were other things not quite right on the old Dredd for the not-quite-Sherlock-Dredd to ignore, such as the shoulder armour and the different shaped visor and the obvious Hellman's on the breakfast bar of the kitchen in the Pat Wagon duplicity. So, I'll agree with The Trout on this one and consider it a moot point on any time-shift anomalies occurring to young two feet in Dredd.
