EXPLORING the early years of comic book heroes is proving popular in Hollywood.
Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class and TV hit Smallville are among the success stories, while Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and the upcoming series Arrow are also exploiting the trend.
Latest to join the crowd, but this time in printed form, is Judge Dredd. In anticipation of the upcoming Dredd movie, a new digital book aims to offer an essential introduction to the character and shed new light on his origins.
Matthew Smith, editor-in-chief of 2000 AD - the comic in whose pages the character was introduced - takes us back to the futuristic lawman's first year on the beat in his new e-novella Judge Dredd Year One: City Fathers.
Official description
Mega-City One, 2080. It is Joe Dredd's first year as a full-eagle Judge - he may have been created from the genes of Eustace Fargo, the 'Father of Justice', and thus part of an illustrious lineage, but right now Dredd is not long graduated from the Academy, and yet to establish himself as the metropolis's toughest, greatest cop.
His reputation will be moulded in the years ahead, but at the moment he's a young lawman, fresh on the streets.
The brutal murder of a Justice Department-sanctioned spy sparks an investigation that will see Dredd trawl the criminal underworld in the hunt for the killer - and he will discover that all is not what it seems in the sector's murky black market. Something new has entered the system, and unless Dredd can stop it, chaos will be unleashed.
This is an ebook exclusive novella from Matthew Smith, editor of 2000 AD and author of the novels, Judge Dredd: The Final Cut and Tomes of the Dead: Words of Their Roaring.
The 93-page book is available now, via digital platforms.
2000 AD also teamed up with Abaddon to publish a collection called Dredd.
New big-screen adaptation, Dredd, starring Karl Urban, is in cinemas on September 7.
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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]
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