Don't need it
There is a strange obsession with making "year one"s for everything going around. But of all the characters in comicdom, or even pop culture in general, that need a back story, Dredd has to be towards the absolute bottom of the list. Do we really want to know who he is, where he came from, what's under the helmet? I don't. But, this is a pretty harmless issue. It's pretty average fare, I guess I'm just more questioning the usefulness of a series following a young Dredd. I would say it's worth a quarter or two if you can find it.