Sir, this should teach us to be as tender, zealous and careful to assert Christ and his church, their privileges and rights, and to forewarn all lest they endanger their souls by encroaching thereon, and lest their omissions and remissness bring eternal premunires upon them, let all know that the spirit of your Master is upon you […]

Fuck the past, let's dwell on the 500SL, the E&J and ginger ale / The way my pockets swell to the rims with Benjamins

It beat down upon Tokyo its fetid exhalations, the smell of cooking, of sewage and of humanity, and the queer sickly scent of a powerful evergreen tree aflower throughout the city, which resembled the reek of that Nagasaki brothel, and recalled the dancing of the Chonkina.

The Judge Child quest, the debut of skysurfing badboy Marlon Shakespeare in UnAmerican Graffiti, the MegaRackets, The Hotdog Run, Block Mania, The Graveyard Shift, Bob & Carol & Ted & Ringo, Dave the Orang-utan mayor, Dredd Angel, City of Damned - the list containing most of Dredd's character-defining moments has the name and style of Ron Smith stamped all over it, and all with this heady mix of ultra-violence and a grin that is as much an expression of Smith's own mischievous sense of humour as it is the scripts.