Testing the Nerd Quotient of the Readership
Ok – who among this heavily GenX audience can name these relatively obscure characters?:
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May 25th, 2008 at 4:34 am
Uh… Judge Dread?
May 25th, 2008 at 5:37 am
That would be Judge Dredd and Judge Death. Collecting hundreds of dollars worth of comics finally paid off!!!
May 25th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Duh. Judge Dredd… Looks like it is from the 2000AD series, Judge Death being a "zombie" and all.
May 25th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Ian Taylor wins the coveted Simpson Comic Book Guy Award ( Sorry Selil, Judge Death is technically speaking, not a zombie)
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May 25th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I proudly accept this on behalf of my parents, for without their allowance money, I could never have broken my piggy bank at the comic book store every week.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Cool pic. I have some old Judge Dredd comics (along with the first 30 or 40 issues of American Flagg) in my "Collectibles" box.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
What’s obscure about Death and Dredd? The biggest selling Brit comix issues ever involved those two. Now, if you’d had a pic of Finn, or DR & Quinch…
Regards, C
May 27th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Oh, and Borag Thungg, earthlets!
May 27th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
just wanted to add belatedly that i knew Judge Dredd, but not the thing on the left đŸ˜‰
May 28th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Hi Cernig,
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Dredd was grouped in the "alternative/independent" section of the comic shop on this side of the pond. The others I’ve never heard of, I must admit.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Good old Judge Death and Judge Dredd. A crying shame what Hollywood did to this classic comic…Stallone as Dredd? Please….
When I was in Afghanistan, I worked with a very quirkly British Intel officer…we soon became friends – I had lived in London for 7 years during the 80’s – as a Yank no less- and loved the 2000AD comic newspaper/tabloid.
I mentioned DR and Quinch as being my favorite all time comic, and his eyes bugged out and he started laughing uncontrollably. He never thought a Yank would ever know about such an obscure comic strip like DR and Quinch…pure gold that strip was.
2000AD was the best comic book/tabloid, etc. ever. Strontium Dog, Torquemada, so many other great comics…