Instead, however, Morrison took the strip in an aggressively lowbrow direction. and the Judge Dredd Megazine, Dredd was surely ripe for such a reinvention. Now, after more than 850 installments between 2000 A.D. Their reputation, after all, was built on their visionary reinventions of American properties like Animal Man and The Doom Patrol-radical reworkings that in many ways went further than even Alan Moore’s trademark reworkings of characters. Morrison’s approach to the challenge was, in some ways, surprising.
But Dredd has proven an idiosyncratic challenge for plenty of good writers, as Garth Ennis can attest. This is, on the surface, an enticing combination-one of Britain’s greatest comics writers on the country’s greatest comics property. More to the point, the Summer Offensive fit into the aesthetic tradition of the UK comics renaissance that was in 1993, down to its dying embers, with its name making clear that it was wholly committed to an aesthetic of shock and taboo breaking.īeing 2000 A.D., one of the five strips was Judge Dredd, which Grant Morrison took on as one of their two solo strips for the run, penning a twelve issue epic called Inferno (which ran for four weeks past the end of the Offensive). Save for “” and a single issue Janus: Psi Division strip, both in 2000 A.D., the Offensive would mark the last time Morrison was the sole credited writer on something for the UK market. For Morrison, this in practice marked a farewell to their run in the British market and a capstone to the phase of their career that included things like St. in July and August of 1993 in which the magazine was effectively turned over to Grant Morrison and Mark Millar, who between then wrote four of the five strips for those eight weeks, with the fifth being by John Smith. The Summer Offensive was an eight issue run of 2000 A.D. The way they find out everything- I knew I would be judged -but not like this! Not like tonight! – Garth Ennis, Helter Skelter Previously in The Last War in Albion: Garth Ennis handed off the reins on Judge Dredd to Mark Millar shortly before Millar began the Summer Offensive. And last night came t he first part of Volume 4, a whole volume on Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, a fact I’m definitely not mentioning because some highly visible piece of Sandman media launches today. Just wanted to remind you all that the entire remainder of Last War in Albion Volume 3 is available for Patrons. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Hey all.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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