Dredd's motorcycle, meanwhile, rides on tires so fat it could be used as a steamroller. Batman's ears look like they've been borrowed from a psychotic rabbit, while the Batmobile violates every rule of practical design. Bisley's insane, exaggerated paintings present a nightmarish world of distorted details.
Judgment on Gotham should appeal to connoisseurs of comic-book art. Judge Death and the Scarecrow eventually take over a rock concert, with Death singing a song inspired by " Sympathy for the Devil," and the pair plotting a fear-filled bloodbath, which the Scarecrow will capture on film. He wonders what "unholy abomination" could "frighten death himself." The answer provided should amuse most readers. The Gotham criminal resorts to blackmail, at one point spraying Death with a fear-evoking aerosol. The Mean Machine, too, wanders across the universes, seeking revenge on Judge Death.ĭeath, meanwhile, having lost his most recent body, teams with the Scarecrow, who sees in their liaison an excellent opportunity to test his theories regarding fear. Not as much as the half-wit, though.Īnderson frees Batman and takes him to Gotham, with Dredd in pursuit. Batman, meanwhile, needs to find his way back to his version of earth, to stop the rampaging Judge Death.Įnter Judge Anderson, a telepath in the service of Mega-City's law enforcement:īatman: Do you have some authority? I'm having trouble getting through to this half-wit.Īnderson: I have some authority. Despite Batman's willingness to cooperate with the law, Judge Dredd arrests him and sentences him to fifteen years for vigilante activity.
In Mega-City One, he encounters the disturbed criminal known as the Mean Machine. Judge Death, one of Dredd's immortal adversaries, wanders from his home universe and finds himself in Gotham, where he engages in the senseless slaughter that one would expect from someone named "Death." The Batman intervenes, and soon finds himself crossing the same rift in reality that brought Death to Gotham. In 1991, these problematic crimefighters met.
He lives in 22nd Century Mega-City One, a dystopic, urban nightmare ruled by a totalitarian government and plagued by deranged, deformed criminals who, however, often merit more sympathy than the Judge. Judge Dredd: With little personality save slavish devotion to the law and boundless anger towards those who break it, Judge Dredd functions as both flawed hero and satiric parody. He lives in Gotham City, which draws a statistically improbable number of disturbed criminals with strange motives, stranger motifs, and appearances which take full advantage of the fact that Batman's adventures take place in a comic book. Hark to the merry glip! glip! glip! of the cranial fluids! Music to the ears of the Master of Fear.īatman: Bruce Wayne, traumatized by the murder of his parents, turns his entire life towards disabling criminal enterprises.
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