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The overriding impression is of the great warmth with which 2000AD is held by everyone present. "I’m a little younger than the comic by about half a year," writer Al Ewing says, "but over the years it sort of grew up a little bit as I was becoming a teenager, it grew up alongside me. It sounds a bit corny but we’re all here to celebrate the fortieth birthday of an old friend." However, on reflection, I thought things could have been a lot worse had Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to make the film his next role. I love Arnie when he’s at his best ( The Terminator, Conan The Barbarian, Jingle All the Way) but as Judge Dredd? Shudder. Use your heat gun and carefully heat the plastic. You will have to move the heat gun around or you may over melt the plastic. I suggest using gloves here. the middle mark will give you a better estimate of where to bend the plate.

If there is one story that embodies the essence of 2000AD, though, it’s Judge Dredd– the heavily armed ‘Lawman of the Future’ who acts as judge, jury and executioner on the mean streets of Mega-City One, a dystopian vision of a future American metropolis. "It’s a comedy, it’s a horror, it’s a drama and it’s a police procedural," artist PJ Holden explains.

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What happens once his helmet’s off and we’ve seen his face? His helmet will start being off more. There will be occasional scenes where we can see a clear emotional response. While he’ll still be an angry, violent figure who cares for little outside the law, he won’t be as detached and inhuman. i used the EVA foam as a base, and then took more craft foam and put that on top. I used a dremel to sand down the edges. Had Judge Dredd followed the RoboCop template, it could have delivered a story that was more in keeping with the vision of the comic strip itself, while still providing something that was dramatic and entertaining for filmgoers who were unfamiliar with the world of Dredd. But given how successfully Verhoeven depicted such a world, it’s perhaps understandable that, mindful of producing something that appeared RoboCop-lite, the makers of Judge Dredd avoided ploughing that particular furrow again, and instead attempted something different. Unfortunately, their view of something different was an attempt to humanise Judge Dredd and, in doing so, demystify him. As long term fans will know, over the years the character has developed into a more complex individual than the quasi-fascist he started out as. He’s a man who has wrestled with his fair share of moral dilemmas, disagreeing with his superiors, challenging his country’s laws, and never really exhibiting any sense of what you could call enjoyment when dishing out much of the death and destruction that comes with the job. O’Neill went on to say this was “the best thing that ever happened to the character”. It swiftly became a concrete rule of the strip, a thematic thing. As John Wagner told Judge Dredd: The Mega-History by Colin Jarman & Peter Acton, "It sums up the facelessness of justice − justice has no soul.”

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There’s another alternate way of having Dredd’s face be shown, and one that will greatly alter the strip. We should be clear that being less harsh doesn’t mean he’s not a bastard. 2000AD, especially under John Wagner’s pen, has a lot of hard bastards in it – Johnny Alpha of Strontium Dog, Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s other big creation, has always been more expressive but his expressions are mostly stoic or enraged, and he is capable of acts of cruelty and anger. Dredd would likely be closer to this, being an extremely tough cop rather than a symbol of fascist authority. I did not use the exact sizing for the straps and elastic. I just had 2 sizes of elastic straps, and 3 sizes of parachord. In that time, the comic book sub-genre has risen to lofty new heights, with stunning adaptations such as Christopher Nolan’s Batman, Bryan Singer’s X-Men, and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films, against which Judge Dredd now looks very old hat indeed. But even if you ignore such retrospective comparisons, the main reason the film looks decidedly average now is because it was decidedly average then.