Digitally Speaking...54 "Judge Dredd, etc."

This column features...digital comics.  Hence, ah, the title.  This edition features Jackie Rose Volume 1, John Carpenter's Asylum #1, and Judge Dredd FCBD Special.

Jackie Rose Volume 1: The Treasure of Captain Read (Josh Ulrich)
From 2013.

Somewhat completely hackneyed.  I used to spend a lot of time, in college creative writing classes, letting fellow students know in my comments on their work, how obviously they'd learned storytelling from movies, and not necessarily how to do storytelling, but merely aping the storytelling itself.  That's what Ulrich has done here, without any real finesse.  Actually, with no finesse at all.  The artwork is for the most part competent, except for the "bad guy mustache" (that otherwise seems to be on a boy who would be...too young for a mustache of any kind; just one of the many logic gaps present).  When you see this labeled as "all-ages," consider it most (if not completely) relevant for young ages.  A deeper analysis would only give me headaches...Darn you, comiXology bundles!

John Carpenter's Asylum #1 (Storm King)
From 2013.

I seem to be one of the few people who even knew the movie Deliver Us From Evil was even released, much less enjoyed it.  This is not Deliver Us From Evil.  But it does have copious nudity in it.  As if to make up for the lack of inspiration?

Judge Dredd FCBD Special (IDW)
From 2013.

This was published by IDW, but it's actually reprint material from 2000 A.D., where Dredd has also been featured in Free Comic Book Day material.  Dredd's a character you kind of have to already like in order to appreciate, which is why it's somewhat baffling that there have been two movies based on him (neither successful) without really addressing the lack of crossover appeal.  There's nothing inherently bad about Dredd comics (the FCBD 2000 A.D. material I've read the last two years is better than what's in this special), it's just, if IDW were going to go through the trouble of publishing him, maybe make the same effort DC made two decades ago?  New material?

I give up.  I struck out this time.