Mega-City Undercover 01

Agree with booky's 3 star review;I got in to reading Dredd a few months ago and have gone through everything from Judge Cal saga to Day of Chaos. Perhaps I had been cherry-picking the best of Dredd and hence had very high expectations for this book. Not sure whether it was the art, the pace, the plot, but it just didn't do it for me (I fell asleep a few times while reading it).Compared to Dredd, the flashy characters and story all feel very lightweight and, aside from the setting and Dredd's guest appearance (which is the part I liked most), do not tie much with its universe and events.Perhaps it will get better with latter volumes.

Really good Judge Dredd spin off. Nice grey area Judge storytelling. Also Dirty Frank is iconic.

A real surprise!Dredd is only a bit player, but Dirty Frank is my new fave character after "Ole stony face" and steals the show.Worth a dozen reads to take it all in and to enjoy Franks strange external monologue.Excellent!

A fantastic Dreddworld graphic novel collecting some of the later years' finest stories from some of 2000ad's finest creators...lenny zero is an undercover judge ...for now...its hard to describe the tale without spoilers so i wont...needless to say theres double crossing a plenty and dirty tricks and judge dredd makes a cameo. The art work for zero is provided by Jock (faker). The one named pen bandit who incidentally is busy doing the concept art for the new rebooted improved and creator approved Judge dredd movie coming soon ish!lowlife follows primarily judge aimee nixon ,again and undercover (wally) judge with a broken nose and robotic arm she fits in well with the seedier side of mega city one hers is a more serious tale after the john woo zero and with some always excellent art by henry flint . The real star of the show is however none of the above...starting as a supporting character in aimee nixons squad Dirty Frank soon becomes a star in his own right. looking like a dishevelled alan moore with an eye patch frank talks in the third person and has spent way to much time under cover the highlight tale is the one with the ninja babies i kid you not.if you like your books to have a bit of everything in them this is for you and can be enjoyed i think if you are not a massive dreddhead but it does help.

I first bought this simply becuase it had a smashing review on ifanboy.com and because I had just got into 2000ad .After watching 3 seasons of the american cop drama known only as "The Sheild" continuisly (with only brief toilet breaks),I decided to re-read the "low life" part of the book which (according to writer Rob williams)was influenced by said tv series .Its about the under-cover mega city one judges who investigate the perps in the deapist ,dirtiest part Dredds world .It centers around 2 judges ,Aimee Nixon(a crazy haired lady judge) and Lenny Zero (who's like an under cover Vic Mackey).This is so good I took it to kapow to get signed by jock.