Recommended Dredd

2000AD featuring British comic icon, Judge Dredd (Anthrax wrote a song about him once), has a long and complicated history to say the least. And since the success of the 2012 movie Dredd with Karl Urban doing a stellar job as Mega City One's most feared lawman, newcomers to Dredd's world can easily get lost amidst the ton of storylines. He first appeared way back in 1977 remember, from creator John Wagner. So adventures? Yeah, Dreddy has quite a few, and a lot of those are classic must~reads too. Its a daunting task tracking them all down but that helpful pic (above) should put you straight.

Now run along creeps, you've got some reading to do Drokk it!

Commando Comics

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Commando comics (formerly Commando War Stories in Pictures), began its life in Scotland in 1961 courtesy of D.C. Thomson of Dundee. They are a series of British comic books that are inspired by incidents from World Wars I & II and use it as a running theme. I remember first seeing them in a local newsagents as a boy in the late seventies and always thought the handy pocket size a nice idea because you didn't have to fold it like the Beano and thus spoil it. Comic fans are funny about little things like creasing but now all that is a distant memory! Why? Because like with everything else, you can get an App to read them. I love living in the future!
And whats great is when you subscribe, being the kind folk they are, D.C. Thompson will shout you 4 free comics ('Combat Zone', 'Desert Vengeance', Jack's Private War' 'The Winter Warriors). That's 66 pages per comic so you get *does sums* 264 of brilliantly drawn action. Cool huh? Be warned though, they are better read on a tablet because I found using an iPhone got to be a strain after a few pages.