{"id":69,"date":"2011-05-30T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2011-05-29T22:57:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T05:57:39","slug":"sketchtime-dredd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/30\/sketchtime-dredd\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch Time: Judge Dredd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Joe Dredd, and Old Stoney Face.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read comics regularly since I was three or four, and as much as I love the DC Comics characters I grew up with, my weekly thrill power hit came from 2000 AD and nothing was more eagerly awaited than the latest half dozen pages of Judge Dredd.<\/p>\n<p>I was one of those kids that trudged down to the newsagent in Feb 1977 and picked up issue one. I never stopped after that. Though living in Seattle these days has certainly made it harder to get hold of new issues. I could buy them in a digital format but I&#8217;m not so sure I want to say goodbye to the physical artifact (though my groaning bookshelves would certainly thank me).<\/p>\n<p>I actually did a couple of episodes of Judge Dredd for the Judge Dredd Megazine way back in 1993 and I bought my first ticket to the U.S. with those earnings and that&#8217;s where I met WotC. So I owe the old fascist curmudgeon big time.<\/p>\n<p>And occasionally I like to sketch him and think idly about asking the guys at Rebellion if I could do another Dredd episode&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/images\/Sketches\/Dredd1.jpg\" alt=\"Judge Dredd pencil sketch\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Such a grumpy old bastard! And such fun to draw.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. My favorite story was Block Mania and the subsequent Sov Apocalypse. I always thought Block Wars were the coolest damn idea (Narratively. I sure as hell wouldn&#8217;t want to see one in real life).<\/p>\n<p>P.P.S. Brian Bolland is the Man.<\/p>\n<p>P.P.P.S. I&#8217;m keeping my fingers crossed for the new Dredd movie starring Karl Urban. I try not to think of the Stallone version which was a squandered opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Joe Dredd, and Old Stoney Face. I&#8217;ve read comics regularly since I was three or four, and as much as I love the DC Comics characters I grew up with, my weekly thrill power hit came from 2000 AD and nothing was more eagerly awaited than the latest half dozen pages of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[42,23,43,117],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketch","tag-2000-ad","tag-comic-books","tag-judge-dredd","tag-sketch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}