Lord Samper's Library

It took me a little longer than planned to get to ‘Dreadnoughts Book Two’ but, well… *Gestures hopelessly at everything* ;o) Last night suddenly ended up being a good time to do something about that so I didn’t hang around, just settled down for a couple of hours reading instead. And there were no surprises here (which was great, I wasn't after surprises in last nights reading), ‘The March of Progress’ is a very solid follow up to ‘Breaking Ground’ and I think I’m more or less following this series for the duration now. After a crime blitz in Boulder leads to riots against the Judges’ excessive use of force and violation of human rights, the Hemlock Cartel takes advantage of the chaos to declare all-out war against the Justice Department. It is up to Judge Glover to eradicate their threat – even if her crusade could risk revealing the long-buried secrets of her past. ‘The March of Progress’ keeps a little of the social commentary, of its predecessor, and what better way to do th...

I love reading comic books but the one thing that stops me really going for it is the nagging, inevitable feeling that with some titles, there is just far too much backstory for me to ever get my head around. ‘X-Men’ is one (lets be honest, all of the Marvel comics now), ‘Judge Dredd’ is the other. I mean, I’ve read a number of the stories but the fact that the ‘2000AD’ comic is pushing what, fifty years old now? I’m never going to catch up with it all. So when I realise there’s a chance to get in on the ground floor, just a little bit, and maybe get a little bit of that backstory after all… I’m in :o) The year is 2035 and American society is crumbling. State brutality in response to public protests sparks even greater restrictions on what American citizens are free to do. The police force are being replaced by Judges, paramilitary cops who can dispense summary justice on the streets, and the public are about to learn just what it means to have a Judge in your neighbourhood. Judge Vera...

It’s been a while since I’ve read anything set in the world of Judge Dredd (mostly because some of it is starting to look a little too plausible and I want my reading to cheer me up dammit!) but it’s been a shitty week and ‘What Measure Ye Mete’ kept popping up in my recommendations so I thought what the hell, lets follow the algorithm and see where it takes me. And where did it take me…? United States of America, 2053 A.D. There’s not a lot left for the last few cops of what was once New York City to do, these days. Officer Cera Cortez once dreamed of chasing down killers, but now she mostly just puts a friendly face on the implacable justice of the Judges. Until a tiny robot falls onto her face screaming murder, giving her one last chance to do her job—and signs point to the killer being a Judge...   ‘What Measure Ye Mete’ is one of those ‘quick Kindle reads’ (a very slender 89 pages long) that are just what I need when I really fancy a read but also know that I don’t h...