Book Review: Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War

John Wagner and Alan Grant (writers), Carlos Ezquerra, Mick McMahon, Ron Smith, Brian Bolland and Steve Dillon (illustrators), and Tom Frame (letters), Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection #36 — The Apocalypse War (Hachette Part-works, 2015, hardback: ISSN 9772055766026 03), 240 pages.

Review by Greg Fewer

(Warning: There may be some spoilers ahead.) Aged ten or eleven, in 1979, I briefly enjoyed the excitement of getting and reading a few issues of 2000 AD, which was then a new British weekly science fiction comic. However, when my father saw the level of violence in it, he forbade me from ever getting the comic again, although I was allowed to keep the few issues I had already obtained. Instead, I was able to acquire other comics like Starlord (1978), Star Wars Weekly (1978–1980) (subsequently Empire Strikes Back Weekly [1980] and Return of the Jedi Weekly [1983–1986]), The Hotspur (1963–1981), and The Crunch (1979–1980). All of them ceased publication in just one to three years after I started reading them. However, 2000 AD has continued to thrive and remains in publication today, having twice changed publisher in the interim. As a result, I started buying the comic once again a few years ago and purchased some of its reprint compilation volumes.