Judge Dredd Megazine #440 (with Hawk the Slayer) (Rebellion)

It seems the postal delays have more or less sorted themselves out as both my subscription copies of the Megazine and the Prog arrived on Saturday as normal. However according to one post I saw on Facebook at least one branch of WHSmith's has put the Meg on it's shelves a week in a advance of it's actual release date. That is it should be on sale on Wednesday 19th.

That aside this is a very special issue. Not only do we get the start of an very interesting Judge Dredd story which features representatives from cities around the world seeking to sanction Mega City One for it's chronal crimes we also get treated to a blast from the past in the form of Hawk the Slayer. More on the latter later.

The other stories in this issue are continued from the last but it's still worth jumping on board as it's not that difficult to "catch up" so to speak and there's the usual articles on of which focuses on the Hawk comic that comes bagged with this issue. I particularly like Death Gap which is getting more frantic, disturbing and sad in just the second chapter.

Lawless continues to deliver as does Diamond Dogs, though Surfer doesn't actually do much for the reader until the end.

Then this month there is the first of a six-issue mini-series of all new material as a "sequel" to the film  Hawk the Slayer in a  32 page comic by Garth Ennis with art from Henry Flint that will be published in US format with different covers for the direct market at a later date which is an interesting publishing move. 

The latter will be presumably be aimed squarely at the US market as I doubt many Meg readers will buy the story twice though some might!

Frankly I don't think I've seen this film though have heard of it. I've posted the trailer for the original 1980 movie below. The comic is good enough but then this is Garth Ennis we are talking about. As for ever watching the film. I'll leave that to your discretion dear reader....

Rating: 5 Stars

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