The Essential Judge Dredd series is the perfect introduction to the Lawman of the Future - in Judgement Day Sabbat the Necromagus resurrects every corpse in the whole world as a zombie horde and Judge Dredd teams up with Strontium Dog to stop the walking dead!
The essential Judge Dredd graphic novel series - this is the ultimate introduction to the Lawman of the Future! It is Judgement Day! Sabbat the Necromagus has resurrected every corpse in the whole world to serve as his zombie horde. All over the globe the Judges are facing unimaginable odds, but then the unthinkable happens and time-travelling Strontium Dog, Johnny Alpha, arrives to lend Dredd a hand. It is the team-up of the century as Dredd and Alpha fight back against the walking dead!
Essential Judge Dredd: Judgement Day is a fast-paced and action-packed epic scripted by Garth Ennis (
Preacher,
The Boys), with art from Carlos Ezquerra (
Strontium Dog), and Dean Ormston (
Black Hammer).
Garth Ennis began his career on Crisis, 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, for which he wrote Judge Dredd, Strontium Dogs, True Faith and others. Outside of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic he is known for Preacher, The Boys, Hitman, The Punisher and a great many war comics- including War Stories, Battlefields, Out Of The Blue, The Stringbags and Sara.
Carlos Ezquerra was the co-creator of
Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog,
Rat Pack,
Major Eazy and many other fan-favourite characters, he designed the classic original Dredd costume as well as visually conceptualising Mega-City One. In addition to these credits he also illustrated
A.B.C. Warriors,
Judge Anderson,
Tharg the Mighty, and
Cursed Earth Koburn amongst many other stories. Outside of the 'Galaxy's Greatest Comic', Ezquerra illustrated the first
Third World War episodes in
Crisis magazine, and became a regular collaborator with Garth Ennis, working on
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade,
Bloody Mary,
Just a Pilgrim,
Condors,
The Magnificent Kevin and two special
Preacher episodes. He died in 2018 but his profound influence on the world of comic art cannot be overstated.
Peter Doherty is primarily known to fans of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic as artist of the
Young Death series, which opened the
Judge Dredd Megazine's first volume, but he has also contributed extensively to
Judge Dredd, working on the epic Judgment Day as well as many shorter stories, including John Wagner's classic 'Bury My Knee At Wounded Heart'. Outside of
2000 AD, Doherty's comic work includes
The Dreaming,
Superman/Batman: World's Finest and a
Grendel Tales series and
Shaolin Cowboy.
Dean Ormston's otherworldly pencils first graced the
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Megazine, where he contributed to the epic Judge Dredd Judgement Day saga, and pencilled the popular Raptaur. He is the co-creator of antique oddities
Harke and Burr, and has also pencilled
Heavy Metal Dredd,
Judge Death,
Missionary Man,
Strange Cases,
Tales of Telguuth. Ormston's other non-
2000 AD work includes
The Crow,
The Invisibles,
The Monarchy,
Sandman and the DC/Vertigo series
Lucifer and
The Books of Magick and most recently
Black Hammer published by Dark Horse. He also worked on character designs for the animated CGI series
Reboot.
