Friday, February 29, 2008
Happy St Paddy’s, creep…
JUDGE Dredd fans wanting to look zarjaz this St Paddy’s Day might want to check out this new 2000AD T-shirt. Hat-tip to NI’s very own Comic Book Guy, Mark the librarian.
Belfast Gonzo @ 11:52 PM
Ahhh now this was a classic Dredd storyline - when he goes to the emerald isle.
Art by Steve Dillon and story by local hero Garth Ennis.
Ireland has been turned into a disney of diddly-dee and begorrahs and Dredd comes over chasing a guy on the run. Turns out though that a paramilitary group called the Sons of Erin (armed with spud guns capable of firing everything from mash to chips) wants Ireland to throw of the shackles of being a twee tourist destination and takes it place in what remains of the family of nations.
I always thought the cover would make a briliant t-shirt and hadindeed gave it to a mate of mine to make me a t-shrt from it....... and never saw it again. Grud!!!!Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 12:04 PMNot only a classic storyline, but also worryingly prophetic. The landscape in the comic strip was full of twee irish cottages in every field. What have we today - a landscape with a bungalow in every field..... Also liked the way Dredd ran over and destroyed St Stephen’s Green (all 3 blades of grass) on his bike.
Posted by on Mar 01, 2008 @ 09:56 PM
