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    Judge Dredd #4
    Released by: IDW Publishing
    Released on: March 30th, 2016.
    Written by: Ulises Farinas, Erick Freitas
    Illustrated by: Dan McDaid
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    IDW's latest and greatest Judge Dredd series soldiers on, picking up where issue #3 left off. For those coming on board, Dredd wakes up one day in a Mega City that he doesn't recognize where he teams up with some feral girls to find out what has happened to the Mega City One he has sworn to protect. And to do that, to this point, he's had to battle Trog Lody's and giant robots, but eventually he gets what he thinks he needs - access to the Angela Davis block, meanwhile the girls who helped him get in get kicked out.

    But that was then, and this is now. Here in the now, Dredd wonders, despite his instincts not to, what the point of solving this mystery is if he can't put it back and what the point of being a Judge would be anyway if that were the case. Heavy stuff for Dredd to contemplate, but as he delves deeper into all of this, contemplate he does. Outside, however, the girls play catch with an eyeball belonging to an old man who would like it back. That old man knocks'em out and takes then to the boss but one of the girls falls out of the truck on the way and figures she'd best find Dredd to set this right.

    Dredd ,meanwhile, reaches the basement of the complex, the sewers if you will. Above him those robots tear up the populace, literally, as they get out of line but let's get back to Dredd - there are mutants of some sort in those sewers he is working his way through, and they're hungry. As Dredd 'brings light' (both literally and figuratively), however, he scares them off - saving the pug they were going to eat - and makes his way to what is left of a customer service center. He enters and learns from what's left of the mutated survivors that he's not the only Judge in these here parts, but before he can look into that he realizes that Lolo, off the truck, has gone into the bowels of the city after him and that she is in need of his help.

    “Drokkin' cannibal mutants!”

    The first three issues were really good and so too is this fourth one, building wonderfully off of what came before while advancing the plot in pretty significant ways. Dredd is clearly getting closer to sorting this all out but as the opening pages make all too clear, even if he does it might not really mean anything in the grand scheme of things. Ulises Farinas and Erick Freitas write things nicely, mixing up tensions and suspense with the action and dark humor you'd want out of a good Dredd story in equal measure. These guys clearly know what they're doing and it's hard to imagine anyone with an interest in the character not wanting to know where this is going to wind up heading.

    Artist Dan McDaid, with assists from colorist Ryan Hill, continues to craft an alternate Dredd-reality that looks dangerous and interesting and beautiful and wonderful and horrible all at the same time. The better lit scenes show off nice detail but really it's the darkly lit panels that are more impressive. Here Dredd stands out against the shadows, a lit at the end of the tunnel in a way, a potential savior in a world gone to Hell. Great stuff, no reason not to keep going with this series and seeing where a very talented creative team go with this series -one of the more interesting and original Dredd stories to be told on either side of the Atlantic in quite some time!






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