A review by thecommonswings
Tales Of The Dead Man by John Wagner

4.0

It loses something from the surprise reveal of Dredd himself - which in retrospect was only surprising if you were a kid in the same way that the weird bloke in the second volume of Bad Company who was exactly Kano’s physical match was very obviously Kano - but it’s still a fantastic thriller. Ridgway is a great artist, and one of my favourites of all time in many ways, but I think it has to be said that his visual references for Yassa being shocked... are more than a little dubious shall we say. Yassa’s fearful face is on every other page and it really, really spoils the story. Otherwise this is Dredd at his best and most human, brilliantly laying the way for Necropolis, a story that far better integrates the legacy Judda stuff than Oz ever does