Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero Volume 3

This was way better than the previous volume. Also, kinda dig the religious symbolism.

Sadly I was very much unimpressed with IDW's most recent Judge Dredd offering ... Mega-city Zero (volume 3) was just as confusing, incoherent and baffling as the previous two editions and added nothing to the world of Dredd. Frankly writer Ulises Farinas ought to stop writing Dredd stories because if this is his best offering, then I would hate to see his worse ... it is not often that I am moved to so totally slight a writer (especially a published one) but seriously this book is JUST TERRIBLE.It revolves around a incoherent 'story' (I choke on the usage) wherein Dredd wakes up in a future world where Mega-City One is gone, and he spends three pointless volumes wandering aimlessly seeking a plot ... any plot, and guiding a group of psychotic children between what is left of the cityblocks in a sea of grass; only to ultimately discover that a rogue Judge decided to destroy the Judge System, the city and civilization as we know it simply because it was the cause of Mega-Cities problems.The 'supporting cast'' includes Judge Anderson who is in one edition and then gone and no explanation as to what is happening ... and the Dark Judges who are suddenly human and working for Dredd; honestly, even going back and re-reading (grindingly, and painfully) the previous two volumes I was completely unable to make any sense whatsoever of whatever was laughingly referred to as ''the plot'' because if there was one it was downtrodden, crushed beneath a pointless sub-text which just left me wondering why to date, for one story I have spent a grand total of £42.54 ($53.23) for a total of three hundred pages over three volumes - and they are NOT value for money.It actually put me to sleep, as did volumes one and two. My advice would be to AVOID all three volumes unless for some reason you enjoy novels that just use Dredd's likeness and environment yet add nothing to Dredd's world or indeed have anything to do with it whatsoever. I often got the impression while attempting to read through the book that the Dredd character could have been anyone and that the use of Dredd was merely to sell the story, nothing more - and that's an honest assessment.So in wrapping up, I'll stick with the British offerings by Rebellion (and classic Dredd from IPC) as it does at least do the character justice, no pun intended. In case the reader believes that I am being unfair, know this. I am a long-time Dredd fan, with my interactions with the original comic book going all the way back to 1977 and to the present and I am very well versed with the world of Dredd (and 2000AD/The Megazine in general).