Deal with it, Creeps. And by the same token
>Maria Hill >>>>>>>>>> Sharon Carter
Hershey > Anderson
Kevin Wood
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Tyler Stewart
I don’t like the one fakeout bit, even though initially I was open to it. But the first story was not worth it at all.
Landon James
>could've just made the one statement and started a decent Dredd waifu thread
>Judge user could've storytimed some Hershey strips, it would've been a nice time
>make second statement "by same token"
>confirm you have a type
>confirm you have a bias
>undermine your own credibility
>ruin the thread in the OP
Luke Allen
Prove it in court.
Chase Martinez
Lie detector checks out.
Yeah, I love the art and I appreciate the intent but Williams just doesn't click for me when he's trying to be serious. Her getting bionic bits didn't sit well with me either. I do hope they're not planning to keep her around for much longer.
Levi Nelson
Chase Bell
Storytime when?
Ethan Gray
Mmm, gimme about half an hour.
Nathan White
yumyum
Julian Gutierrez
Based
Charles Bennett
Alright, let's get this show on the road.
Connor Taylor
Double based thx
Gavin Flores
Here's an interview on this story that came out the day of the first episode:
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Kayden Ward
It’s not a gruddam competition.
Isaiah Jenkins
>Rob Williams said: ”The idea for the series came off the back of The Small House. I felt the “I no longer recognise your authority” line had been building for years, and was organic and justified, but it also didn’t really let Hershey tell her side of things. I felt we’d undersold her a bit. And even in the scene that followed it that John wrote, when Hershey and Dredd meet on their bikes – that we play on in Hershey episode one – that was still written from Dredd’s point of view. I felt, after how long she’d been in the strip, she deserved a version that told her side of the story. A Long Walk for someone who’s deserved a journey that isn’t just going into The Cursed Earth. A Long Walk for someone burnt out and dying, who is asking herself the question – my life’s run its purpose. So, what’s left? Can she find that?
Anthony Wood
Whee! It’s judgment time!
Justin Lewis
>Editor of 2000 AD, Matt Smith, said: “When Hershey stood down as Chief Judge, Rob came to me with the idea of a solo series, with her repairing Smiley’s legacy in the wake of The Small House storyline. John said he had no plans for Hershey, and was happy for us to use her as we saw fit. When John wrote the first episode of Guatemala, he came up with a cover story that would take Hershey out of the game, with no one but Logan, Dredd and a select few others knowing the truth – and Rob worked his scripts in tandem with that. Hershey is still dying – she’s taking medication to stave off whatever microbe she’s been infected with – but she’s going out with the intention of righting wrongs that were done on her watch. Rob and Si’s series is a redemptive, violent, propulsive new arc for Hershey, with lots more surprises still in store.”
Benjamin Diaz
>Co-creator of Judge Hershey, John Wagner, said: “When discussing the new series with Matt Smith and how it might fit in with Guatemala, I suggested Hershey’s death could just be a subterfuge – I had no plans for Hershey and am happy to see others take her in new directions, so there’s a little clue in Guatemala, that I don’t think anyone spotted, that things were not as they seemed! And who doesn’t love a good old story of revenge?”
Carson Watson
>Simon Fraser said: “The planning process was, and I’m paraphrasing, “Hey Si , you want to do a hard as nails revenge thriller, kind of like Point Blank , but with Judge Hershey?” My reply, also paraphrasing, was ” Yes!” or maybe “**** Yes!”, which is my usual response when Rob suggests things.
>“I was looking for a story to stretch my new digital drawing tools. Lots of world building , which I love, but not much dialog … which I also love. I’m also very happy to be drawing a lady of advancing years being very angry and violent.
>“Hershey has been the good and dutiful public servant for a long time, she’s taken a lot of crap, stoically and responsibly, now let’s see how she chooses to close her account! I know that people get upset because we’re bringing a character ‘back from the dead’, but I think we’re giving an amazing woman the ending she deserves.”
Christopher Robinson
Anyway... I appreciate Williams' candid slight mea culpa in there, because he is kinda really responsible for the underselling of Hershey over the last couple of years.
Joshua Collins
Even before The Small House there was the extremely shitty bit in Enceladus where she gets knocked out in one page and spends the rest of the story as an unconscious potato sack for Dredd and Frank to throw around, so him saying "Yeah we could do better" is nice.
Evan Adams
You're giving me Picard PTSD
Jackson Lopez
And I like the idea of showing stuff from her PoV too because it's something that's also been missing in a lot of stories.
Angel King
Is it just me or does this dude remind you of original Ezquerra Dredd?
Noah Lee
Same with the action here. Once Hershey became Chief Judge she was pretty relegated to passive roles, so it's great to see her shooting people again, especially with Fraser's fucking awesome art and panelling. Dude is kicking ass in every single ep of this.
Lincoln Parker
Plus, him doing his best to show Hershey's advancing age is very welcome. Grizzled as drokk.
Now that you mention it, yeah, especially the curved visor.
Angel Campbell
All that said, I do have some issues with this, and the most obvious is that I wish it would've happened before she died.
Alexander Ramirez
I think Wagner and MacNeil gave Hershey the best sendoff possible according to her character. Not with a big badass blaze of glory but with the certainty of a job finished. Despite being a Street Judge at heart, Hershey was defined by her unambitious desire to serve the city in every way she could.
Tyler Rivera
When the city needed a Chief after the end of the second robot war, Hershey stepped up. When the city needed a Chief after the end of Chaos Day, Hershey stepped up again. Not out of a desire for power but out of an unbreakable sense of duty.
Carson Reed
I dunno OP I am not into rotting skeletons over cutey Psychic blondes.
I agree about Hill tho, Cyclops should have fucked her.
Isaiah Martinez
As cool as it is to have her waving guns and riding bikes again, I feel like her stubbornly refusing to die until MC-1 was back on its feet and stepping down the moment that happened is more in line with her overall character arc. Unspectacular, unassuming, but utterly devoted to the city.
Levi Russell
Even the fact that she was thrown into the sun to avoid any dangerous contamination fit perfectly with her story. Not just because she rejected any more honorable forms of burial for the sake of the city, but because her body was sent to space; the same place we first met her in during the Judge Child Quest.
Cooper Martinez
And remember, Wagner and MacNeil managed to pack all of that thematic weight into four pages. It was as perfect a finale as she could get.
Jaxon James
So right from the start, this story has an uphill battle in that it has to top that. And so far I don't think it does.
Alexander Robinson
I love that 2000AD tradition of compression.
Jaxon White
I was about to ask if this dude would thematically reflect original Dredd in some way. Well, he did resign at the drop of a hat...
Connor Davis
It's not just the larger character themes, but there's also smaller stuff that just bothers me a little. Like how angry and resentful she seems of Dredd in that first chapter. Written by Wagner, that scene read like a moment of acceptance from both parties of the good they'd done over the years. Under Williams, it comes off as too bitter for my taste.
Admittedly, Wagner has literally decades of experience doing that. "Machine Law", the story where he revealed Hershey was dying, is an absolute masterpiece of only telling what's important.
Cooper Rivera
Also, Williams tends to write Hershey as longing for her guns-a-blazin' days of youth. Back in Enceladus, he had her slip into her street uniform to fight back the invasion. And while it's a good bit of fanservice and makes for some cool action sometimes, I'm not a fan of that reading of her.
Joshua Gray
There is absolutely an element of "Conan on the Throne" to Hershey, of a warrior queen who resents being placed in a position of power away from the simplicity of frontline combat. There's no denying that.
Jeremiah Sanchez
This is some Fist of the North Star level shit.