Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored • Writers: Pat Mills, John Wagner, Chris Lowder • Artists: Brian Bolland, Mick McMahon • Rebellion A/S, $35.00 hardcover, $15.00 Kindle edition. 208 pages. Almost 40 years ago, I was sitting in my office at DC Comics in Rockefeller Plaza creatively shirking my work when the mail room guy…
Today’s Zen question: Can a movie be called a sequel even if it has a cast that hadn’t been in the earlier three movies but it stars the same lead character and the worldview remains consistent with those movies and all four movies have the same director, but the last one was released 30 years…
This past weekend was a big, major one with Avengers: Age of Ultron premiering, and, on Saturday, Free Comic Book Day. And geeks, in general, had a good, busy weekend. Events were popping up all around the country, celebrating geekdom. It was also a huge money maker for geek companies. Marvel/Disney (as expected) scored big…
Despite Karl Urban uttering, “I am the law” his overall demeanor was just one of the many disappointments in the new film take on the classic 2000 AD hero, Judge Dredd. Dredd is out on home video this week from Lionsgate and it is amazing how bored I was watching it. The majority of the…
I don’t know why they call today Black Friday. It sounds like a superhero version of Gulliver’s Travels, as published by DC or Marvel in the 1970s. And that might be the quickest digression we’ve had on ComicMix to date. A bunch of the ComicMix columnists contributed a list of gift suggestions, all with snappy…
Mike Gold: So. How did Dredd 3-D compare to the first attempt? Martha Thomases: So much better! Karl Urban looked the part. The set, while not looking like the comics, had the gritty spirit of the comics. And the violence was terrifically cartoony. And no Rob Schneider, although I did think he was the best thing…
We begin our two part interview with the creator & cast of the blockbuster cable TV hit, BREAKING BAD. With less than two seasons remaining, the big questions are – where is it going – and where will it end? Plus both the comics and film industries react to the Colorado Tragedy, Judge Dredd gets…
Michael Chiklis loves the super hero life on ABC’s NO ORDINARY FAMILY, but could he ever slip back into the dark days of Vic Mackey and THE SHIELD? Michael tells us about the possibility of a SHIELD movie as well as remembering the first comic he ever read! Meanwhile they are talking about a JUDGE…
Judge Dredd’s return to the silver screen has accelerated with DNA Films cutting a deal with India-based Reliance Big Entertainment and IM Global to finance a 3-D film. The 2000 AD star last was seen in the movies via the 1995 Sylvester Stallone bomb. According to an exclusive report at Deadline, the movie has a…
Judge Dredd, England’s long-running weekly comic feature, is returning to the screen. At 2000 AD’s website, they had the following short announcement: “Rebellion and 2000 AD are proud to announce that Judge Dredd is coming to a cinema near you soon! “Together with DNA Films, the movie production company behind such great sci-fi movies such…
We swing over to DC’s Zuda Comics site for a talk with the guys who brought The Black Cherry Bombshells on line and to the top of Zuda’s Must Read List, plus: Dark Knight already the best selling movie and it isn’t out yet NY ComicCon salutes more comic greats Judge Dredd lives on as…
Mongoose Publishing has outlined their 2009 releases with several new Judge Dredd games coming. The new Dredd role playing game will use the rules from Mongoose’s Traveller game and will be accompanied by a hardcover Judge Dredd RPG Rulebook kicking off the new game in the summer. Before the year is out, campaign and sourcebooks…
