Vanessa Blake: Dredd

In the dark, satirical hellscape of Mega-City One, where citizens are processed like meat and judges are barely human, perhaps a ghost is all the heart can afford. Vanessa Blake Dredd is the name given to the collective longing for Joe Dredd to have one moment of silence, one memory that isn’t a sentence.

A Complex Dynamic with Dredd

John Wagner famously dismissed her in a 1999 interview with Comic Heroes magazine, saying: “Dredd doesn’t have a daughter. He doesn’t have a wife. He doesn't have a lost love. He has a lawgiver and a motorcycle. That’s the point.”

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