He is the law – and you
better believe it!

Judge, jury and
executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic
future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos
Ezquerra and launching in the pages of 2000 AD in 1977.

But what began as a
sci-fi action comic quickly evolved into a searing satire on hardline,
militarised policing and ‘law and order’ politics, its endless inventiveness
and ironic humour acting as a prophetic warning about our world today – and
with important lessons for our future.

Blending comic book
history with contemporary radical theories on policing, I Am The Law
takes key Dredd stories from the last 45 years and demonstrates how they
provide a unique wake up call about our gradual, and not so gradual, slide
towards authoritarian policing.

From the politicisation
of policing to ‘zero tolerance’, from violent suppression of protest to the
rise of the surveillance state, I Am The Law examines how a comic book
warned us about the chilling endgame of today’s ‘law and order’ politics.