![]() ![]() So a lot of The Fourth Faction deals with material that reminds the readers how the Judges are fallible and how the apparently omniscient, omnipresent justice department is just an organisation, with internal tensions, budgetary constraints and errors of judgement abounding. The threat Dredd and company face is existential, but the story is about how the Judges fail to overcome it*. So for a long time the victories antagonists scored against the judges were largely symbolic ones - characters like Chopper who could beat the system but had no chance of actually altering it.ĭay Of Chaos works so well because it undermines this structure. The Judges are on one level terrible, but they also win - Dredd is an action hero in that he can get the job done against overwhelming odds, but to the average citizen he IS the overwhelming odds. Reading Judge Dredd as a kid it was obvious the Judges and Justice Department weren’t the heroes in a wider ethical sense, but in general they were the heroes in a structural sense - they have to be for the satire to be effective.
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