darkSpyro

Dunno if you can count him as a superhero, but he doesn't get enough recognition IMO.

Quote: Plordigian

@Samius: if movies based on comic book properties worked the way comic book publishers (and fans)wished they did, i.e. brought new people into brick-and-mortars to buy books, Dredd would be far more in the spotlight at this point than a lot of characters who will probably never get the movie treatment. But yeah, certain runs of his comic have been absolutely phenomenal; and sadly, outside of Europe, very few have actually read them...

Exactly. I mean sure, Dredd has received a large amount of attention if you look a few decades back. There are two films, multiple videogames, card games, a tabletop miniature wargame (which I really like), etc. The comic books themselves are amazing, and they're really more than just post-apocalyptic science fiction. They've got heart, if you get what I mean. The stories reflect some really important values and the setting is just crazy, in an interesting way.

Still, were it not for the movies, I don't think many of the younger people would even know he existed.