The backup strip is something of a world building strip. Then again, the backup strip only features Dredd in the first issue, and then only slightly. Flipping through the Case Files, has the Judge Dredd installments alternating between 5 and 6 pages. (Yes, that means there are 22 pages of comics, not 20.) In a certain sense, that backup strip is closer to the traditional Dredd experience. There’s a 16 page lead story, that would be the one Nelson Daniel is drawing, and then there’s a 6 page story following it. The IDW flavor of Dredd has an unusual format. A character with the history of Judge Dredd, you should know where I’m coming from in terms of previous exposure. I’ve read a reasonable amount of the early material, but I’m not current and I haven’t purchased 2000AD or the Megazine on a regular basis. I’ve pulled a variety of editions out of sales piles over the years (much of it the late 80s/early 90s reprint materials) and I’m in the middle of the “Cursed Earth” section of the Case Files reprints (think Essential/Showcase), which is to say I’m about 1.3 volumes into that. I’d probably fall into the category of a casual reader of the Dredd.
This time around IDW has the license and is starting out with mystery novelist Duane Swierczynski as the writer and Nelson Daniel as the primary artist.
DC tried their hand at Dredd for 18 issues of the main title in the mid-90s. This is the second go-round with a US-based Judge Dredd series.
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