DC published it as two issues, each with different artists. There’s very little for 2000AD fans in Riddle, so it helps a lot. It’s dramatically inert and often really dumb, but Dredd’s got a criminal along with him and it does provide some comic relief. It’s like DC wasn’t sure a 2000AD reader coming to the team-up would be familiar with the latest Batman continuity.Įxcept there’s a terrible tie-in to Zero Hour in The Ultimate Riddle, which has Dredd and Batman trying to get out of a Most Dangerous Game-type situation. Before I forget, it’s interesting how the Batmobiles in each series look like whatever’s in the movies at the time. Judgment on Gotham, with that glorious Bisley, shouldn’t have been the visual standard for the team-ups.
Only the next special is The Ultimate Riddle, with some incredibly wanting painted art by Carl Critchlow and Dermot Power (they split the special). The whole thing is a setup for the next special, which promises something interesting given the title– Die Laughing. Batman and Dredd’s issue long fist fight is a bore. It’s a good Scarface and Ventriloquist story from Grant and Wagner, but it’s a terrible comic.
No, really, they’re going to kill some kids. Vendetta in Gotham, with some rather light art from Cam Kennedy, is mostly about Batman and Dredd fighting while Scarface and Ventriloquist kill some kids. It seems like they should be the perfect creators for these team-ups, but things go dreadfully wrong with the second special and never get any better. They have the same two writers, Alan Grant and John Wagner, who both wrote a lot of Dredd and a lot of Batman. Since Judgment’s the only one worth spending much time on (or reading at all), I’ll go through its “sequels” first.Įach of the included issues–including both parts of Die Laughing–have different artists. The rest of the Files is a waste of time (through it varies depending on the one-shot). It’s an interesting mix of a 2000AD Dredd adventure with a Batman comic, with some truly beautiful art from Simon Bisley. The second issue of the two-parter, Die Laughing, came out in 1999. The first one-shot, Judgment on Gotham came out in 1991 (I remember buying it, my first exposure to Dredd). It took DC eight years to get these comics out. The Batman/Judge Dredd Files consists of three one-shots and a two-parter. There’s a lot of gristle for competing philosophies, if one wanted to do a story with a lot of gristle.
They ought to be an interesting team-up, right? Judge Dredd is the law, Batman isn’t.
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