The Mega City 5000 race and later the killer Elvis car are cool storylines, and surprisingly a lot takes place on the moon with Dredd as the steward of the place. Now in this sixth volume of his collected adventures you’ll meet some of Dredd’s most bizarre adversaries yet!

Andrew Wildman, Travis Charest, Kevin Maguire, Tom Raney, Gary Frank, Paul Pelletier, Roger Cruz, Salvador Larroca, Stuart Immonen, George Perez, John Estes, Jim Craig, Darick Robertson, Mike Deodato, Ian Churchill, Marvel Comics, Peter B Gillis, Elliot S! The following stories originally appeared in 2000AD Prog 1520 - Prog 1554 and Judge Dredd Megazine 253-260. Unfortunately, the one-note joke character Dredd starts as gets tedious at first when you read more than one story a week like intended for the original audience. The Big Meg is under siege from the Dark Judges, Dredd has been exiled to the harsh wastelands of the Cursed Earth and time is running out for the citizens he once swore to protect.Midway through the book Dredd is sent to Lunar-1, the moon, as the new Marshall, and the rest of the book takes place there which was a little disappointing as such little time was spent in MegaCity 1 for this book. I approached this book as an exercise for the sake of appreciating this character's history and development, and I'm glad I did.

In Mega-City One the streets are awash with danger, whether it be rampaging giant alligators or crazed perps with murder in mind. Written by comic-legends John Wagner (A History of Violence) and Alan Grant (Batman) and featuring art by world-renown artists Colin MacNeil (Judge Dredd: America), Carlos Ezquerra (Preacher) and Cam Kennedy (Star Wars) amongst others, this is another essential volume in the Case Files collection! I could go on about "this" Dredd and the later Dredd but when all is said and done this was a load of fun for a fan. Overall, continues to be scrappy, but with real acorns which grown into amazing story arcs such as the Cursed Earth, the Apocalypse War and many others.The art is black and white but very well detailed even if the sequential art is a tad focused on the "joke" at the end of each strip. Featuring the writing talents of comic legends Pat Mills (Slaine) and John Wagner (A History of Violence), this volume also features the art of Ian Gibson (The Ballad of Halo Jones), Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) and Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke) amongst many other artists. For instance, the characters live in "The Mega City" (rather than Mega-City One) and it says that judges are elected (rather than being trained since they were children). In the comics it's clearer than the films, both the Sylvester Stallone version from the mid 90's and the recent Karl Urban version, that the central concept of Dredd is a British parody of 1960's/1970's American cop-on-the-edge movies like "Bullitt" or "Dirty Harry".