10 Overlooked Positives of Sylvester Stallone's Judge Dredd

5. The Official Adaptation And Tie-In Comics

Notable for having Judge Dredd co-creator Carlos Ezquerra draw the character without his helmet for the first time, thereby giving longtime readers a glimpse of what the big man's face really looks like. In truth, he just looks like that guy from Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot. As Ezquerra art will tend to do, he at least makes the movie look good, from his illustrations of the uniform to his depiction of the battle sequences and action. Even better is the all-ages tie-in comic, produced in conjunction with the film: Judge Dredd: Lawman Of The Future. Reading like a teen version of a Judge Dredd book, it keeps the helmet on and leaves old stoney face's characterisation mostly intact, save for a more marked reluctance to issue the death penalty. In the comic (which ran for 23 issues) Dredd battled the likes of Mean Machine and Judge Death, dispensing a form of justice somewhere between the movie and 2000AD. With co-creator John Wagner providing the first story, it's well worth picking up - not least for its version of Death, who emerges as a creepy alternate universe version of Dredd. Worth finding on eBay for a few credits, if you can.