John Wagner (1) (1949–)

A favourite from my youth. This is the collected works of all the people involved in Judge Dread. Opus, Oz. It starts with violin Shakespeare in an ice cube, awaiting the rest of his life and indeed the difficulties in coping with not being mega city ones icon. This is aA favourite from my youth. This is the collected works of all the people involved in Judge Dread. Opus, Oz. It starts with violin Shakespeare in a ice cube, awaiting the rest of his life and indeed the difficulties in coping with not being mega city ones icon. This is a Satirical treaties on survival, being out of the limelight, endurance and resilience. There is a little bit more than that involved, the Jude and associated stories makes for a pleasant diversion.… (plus d'informations)

As always very interesting and action full collection of stories from Judge Dredd universe.

Title story (Guatemala) finds Dredd acting on his late friend's last wish that happens to coincide with the Mega-City strategic goals - he leaves for Guatemala, country now ruled completely by robots. In a parody of Central and South America dictatorship Dredd will uncover some pretty ghastly things about the robot government and what needs to be done to stop them from threatening Mega-City. Excellent story with pretty good art.

Other stories are not related to Guatemala story-line. It is collection of various different stories set in the different times and places (story of Harry was .... insane) culminating with all out fight in one of the posh mega buildings taken by the terrorists. Reminiscent of the cyberpunk game action we follow slow deploy of Justice troops to take back the control of the building while stubber guns criss-cross and cut through entire concrete blocks. Art int his last story was on par with the title story. Others were not that catchy (to me) but they are signature art of AD2000 comics.

All in all very interesting collection that I found very entertaining. If you look for a collection of stories linked by the same topic (like collected stories of Dredd's actions in Soviet/Russian parts) you will be disappointed. If you look for overall good collection of Dredd's actions, some even more paramilitary than usual - you will enjoy this one.

Recommended to all fans of Dredd universe.… (plus d'informations)

Daughter of one of the Button Man is on a revenge path. Her father was killed because he broke the rules of the Game (you are never to talk about the Game) when she was little and she is now searching for all of the Button Man involved in order to avenge her father.

In a process Harry Ex is forced out of his pension only to teach his enemies same lesson again - he is not to be underestimated .... ever.

Fast paced with some great art. Keep in mind this is newer book and art is very different than in original volumes.

Highly recommended to all fans of action thrillers… (plus d'informations)

This book contains Button Man I, II and III.

Harry Ex is a former soldier and mercenary who unexpectedly ends up as a player (so called Button Man) in the Killing Game, game where assassins are pitted against each other by their handlers (aka Voices). Lots of money is circulating on the bets and Button Men are trying very hard to survive and make the other guy(s) pay.

Only thing is they do not count on Harry Ex. They treat him as an ordinary killer while he is much much more (I like when he says to his Voice controller "Do you know what kind of a man I am?", it reminds me of [b: Dorsai|263111|Dorsai! (Childe Cycle, #1)|Gordon R. Dickson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389845085s/263111.jpg|2252902] short story in which one of the brothers Graeme tells to man who tried scheming against him something in line of "You think I am soldier, I am not. I am man of war").

Harry Ex does not like to have his actions controlled by others so he rebels and tries to leave the game which puts him into whole bunch of problems and he becomes target of choice for all other assassins.

Art is photo-realistic, grainy-like which seems to the thing in the 90's and might take some time to get accustomed to it. Nevertheless composition and the way story is presented to the reader is very movie-like.

Very interesting book, highly recommended to all action and thriller fans.… (plus d'informations)