Reprinting the out-of-print (and now super-pricey) Judge Dredd by Brian Bolland Apex Edition from 2022, this "Masterpiece Edition"  reproduces the same high quality scans (along with a dozen new scans that were not in the Apex edition) of page after page – and cover after cover – of classic original Brian Bolland art from the character that launched his career, Judge Dredd in a smaller (but still oversize) softcover edition.

This book includes pages from the Judge Dredd epics: "The Cursed Earth", "The Day the Law Died", "The Judge Child Quest", and Bolland’s masterpiece "Judge Death Lives". Also included is a gallery of covers ranging from 2000 AD to the Judge Dredd reprints published by Eagle Comics which brought Bolland to the attention of American readers and show off his graphic inventiveness and sardonic humour.

PLEASE NOTE:  This edition does not reproduce stories in their entirety; only select pages.  That said, the pages that they did select include most of those that we rank as the classics of the Bolland Dredd oeuvre.  So, heartily recommended for all Bolland aficionados.

Orson Welles was only 25 years old when he directed Citizen Kane, one the single most important and influential movies of all time – it was ranked "the greatest film of all time" by many film critics for decades (for example, The British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine's decennial poll, which gathers the opinions of critics, had "Citizen Kane" at the top for four decades, from 1962 to 2002).  Hard to believe, right?  Think of what you were up to when you were 25.

So, suffice it to say, starting out that big that early is going to have an effect on anyone's self-perception, and, of course, on the perception that others had of him, in turn.  Youssef Daoudi has already given us an intriguing look at Thelonious Monk that focused on his relationship with Pannonica de Koenigswarter, and here in the 272 pages of The Giant, expressively drawn black & white, he provides a look at the effects that such a level of early success had on the arc of Orson Welles's later life and career.