I am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher

Author:Michael Molcher
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: COMICS + GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / History
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd.

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414 Even Alex Garland’s 2012 Dredd film, while generally downplaying the crazier aspects of the city in its adaptation, features a very brief appearance of a Fattie, just as Peace Trees Block’s defensive ‘blast shield doors’ close (themselves a reference to ‘The Apocalypse War’).

415 2000 AD Progs 273-274 (1982) Script: John Wagner & Alan Grant, Art: Ron Smith, Letters: Tom Frame

416 These blocks are named after portly Sir Toby Belch from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Quinn Martin’s overweight character ‘Frank Cannon’ in CBS detective show Cannon (1971-1976), writer Charles Hamilton’s corpulent schoolboy ‘Billy Bunter’, and actor and director Orson Welles, who was well known for being overweight.

417 2000 AD Progs 236-244 (1981) Script: John Wagner & Alan Grant, Art: Mick McMahon, Brian Bolland, Steve Dillon & Ron Smith, Letters: Tom Frame

418 ‘Meka-City’, 2000 AD Progs 271-272 (1982) Script: John Wagner & Alan Grant, Art: Carlos Ezquerra, Letters: Tom Frame. This line was then repeated at the conclusion of the incredible nine-panel encapsulation of the entire one hundred and fifty-three pages of ‘The Apocalypse War’ that was published in the Daily Star on 18 September 1982.

419 Zachary J. Lechner, ‘What Jimmy Carter’s most famous moment can teach the Democrats running in 2020’ – washingtonpost.com (15 July 2019) https://wapo.st/3SgaUkw

420 Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth (2015)

421 Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019)

422 ‘Sob Story’, 2000 AD Progs 131-132 (1979) Script: John Wagner, Art: Ron Smith, Letters: Tom Frame

423 ‘Simp, 2000 AD Prog 527 (1987) Script: John Wagner & Alan Grant, Art: Cliff Robinson, Letters: Tom Frame. Short for ‘simpleton’, i.e. a foolish ‘simple’ person, the term ‘simp’ has subsequently taken on alternative meaning as internet slang term for someone who, in pursuit of affection or a sexual relationship, pays excessive attention toward someone who typically does not reciprocate.

424 ‘Citizen Snork’, 2000 AD Progs 356-358 (1984) Script: John Wagner & Alan Grant, Art: Ron Smith, Letters: Tom Frame

425 Two years before, Not The Nine O’Clock News had similarly portrayed ‘fat activism’ in the ‘Stout Life’ sketch, where Rowan Atkinson’s angry campaigner from FLAB (Fat Louts Against Bikinis) refers to ‘flab riots’.

426 Don Slater, Consumer Culture & Modernity (1997)

427 Ian Dunt, How To Be A Liberal (2020)

428 Margaret Thatcher, Interview for Woman’s Own – margaretthatcher.org (23 September 1987) https://bit.ly/3a1DuVJ

429 Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1988) https://bit.ly/3yDiJJ8

430 In a wisely ignored memo to speechwriters working on her address for the 1979 Conservative Party conference, Thatcher wrote: ‘Morality is personal. There is no such thing as a collective conscience, collective kindness, collective gentleness, collective freedom. To talk of social justice, social responsibility, a new world order, may be easy and make us feel good, but it does not absolve each of us from personal responsibility’.

431 Roger Sabin, Adult Comics (1993)

432 Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World (1965)

433 2000 AD Progs 331-334 (1983) Script: John Wagner & Alan Grant, Art: Carlos Ezquerra, Letters: Tom Frame

434 Broadcast on sports channel ESPN since 2004, the contest has made stars of Japanese ‘godfather of

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