Reviews
"Tale of the Dead Man" has been reviewed as "A piece of super-lean storytelling from Wagner ... This story has everything. Action, emotion, pathos, humour. Great characterisation ... And it contains my all-time favourite action scene as Kraken takes out a gang of terrorists unarmed and handcuffed! How cool is that?"
The Referendum was depicted in "Twilight's Last Gleaming" (1991), written by Garth Ennis. One reviewer credited this story with having "a brilliant understanding of society," while another described it as "One of the darkest and most political of all Judge Dredd stories ... This is a chilling reminder of how we can easily lose our rights if we don’t stand up for them."
Political cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson wrote:
| “ | Maybe we should see it as a dark satire on the failures of democracy, not as an ironic celebration of the triumphs of fascism... he greatest enemy of democracy is not fascism, but apathy. In the referendum, the Judges won with 68% of all votes cast. But there was a turnout of only 35%. In other words, the Judges won with the backing of only 23.8% of the possible electorate. And that is just 2% less than the percentage of the American population which first elected Ronald Reagan in 1980. | ” |
"Revolution," the story featuring the Democratic March, was reviewed as follows:
| “ | he most eye-opening story was "Revolution" ... This is probably the first time Dredd was ever portrayed unambiguously as the bad guy ... It had repercussions in the strip for years to come, but for me it was comparing the incidents of this strip with the events in Tiananmen Square two years later which made me realise this was rather too close to reality for comfort. | ” |
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