ENNIS, GARTH & POWER, DERMOT - JUDGE DREDD - MUSAK KILLER LIVE! In MUSAK KILLER 2002 TITAN BOOKS. 

 

Graphic Book comic strip sequel to Judge Dredd – Musak Killer (also reviewed by myself). Psychotically disturbed vintage music lover Spok is behind bars for killing off many of the musak artists he disliked. Judge Dredd put him away for 60 years in the cubes (the prison cells). Spok gets beaten up by other inmates and idly contemplates escape, but he is surprised when a criminally motivated Independent music label arranges it for him. They want him free so he will wipe out the competition. After seeing him described as a sad sicko who no one cares about any more, Spok goes on another rampage. There are some excellent digs at the music scene, including a TV video show being presented by a Terry Christian (real TV presenter) lookalike. Spok, assisted by a disgruntled embittered music producer once arrested for ‘public whingeing’, goes after musak promotion shows on live television. He takes over a TV studio and interviews various rock stars with silly names.  They are clearly loosely based on real present day singers. Mairad McSlaphead is plainly Sinead O’Connor in all but name. Inevitably, Judge Dredd comes to stop him. After shutting down the transmission of the show just as Spok is about to play the old records he loves live on air, Dredd shoots Spok right in the brain, as he sings Frank Sinatra’s My Way as a Swan Song, reducing him to a docile imbecile. Spok is sent to an asylum, where he has musak piped into his padded cell round the clock. He even begins to like Kylie Minogue’s I Should Be So Lucky. A gloriously funny story, beautifully illustrated, with so many digs at popular culture that it hurts. You read this wondering whether the writers received letters from lawyers or not. .  http://www.2000adonline.com/

 

 

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