Scared of rats? The Cursed Earth gives you good reason to be; the standard Cursed Earth rat is far bigger than its ancestors, eerily intelligent, and spots venomous fangs that can kill a man with one bite. Worse, they're voracious predators with no fear of man - if anything, they regard humans as just another food source. Wilderlands storyline (progs 891–894 and 904–918 and Megazine 2.57–2.67). This story introduced Judge Volt and Judge Castillo, revived the Council of Five, and ended many long-running subplots, including the Mechanismo Program and McGruder's second stint as Chief Judge. Dredd is exposed as falsifying evidence to shut down the Mechanismo project and is arrested, while Chief Judge McGruder attempts to remain in power and see Mechanismo implemented. When a malfunctioning Mechanismo crashes a space cruiser on an alien world in an attempt to kill McGruder, Dredd takes control of the survivors. Multiple references to the 1995 movie are made on the sitcom Scrubs, notably by J.D. at the end of the episode " His Story II", while being wooed by Elliot. [146]

Written by Andrew Helfer and illustrated by Carlos Ezquerra and Michael Danza. Published by DC Comics in 1995, but a different version of Dredd to that in the DC comic books described above. In November 2017, Osprey Games announced their development of a new graphic adventure card game, entitled Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth. The game is designed and based on The Lost Expedition, a game from designer Peer Sylvester. [135] In the game, one to five players "[lead] a team of judges against dinosaurs, mutants, and the Cursed Earth itself". [136] It was released on 21 February 2019. [137] Collectible card game [ edit ]Luna-1 (multiple stories; progs 42–59) Dredd is assigned to act for six months as Judge Marshall of Luna-1, a colony on Earth's moon governed by judges from all three Mega-Cities. This story introduced Luna-1 and Judges from East-Meg One and Texas City. For some reason, despite ascertaining that Soon had a perfectly formed set of jaws, teeth, tongue and vocal chords, just sealed-shut lips, the Eugenics Division decided not to bother surgically correcting his deformity, and instead just feed him intraveneously for his entire life. The Daily Dredds Volume 1". 2000AD.wordpress.com. 11 January 2015. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015 . Retrieved 8 April 2015. When the seven survivors gave birth, one artificially engineered child was stillborn — though the project's head insists it couldn't have been, the midwife asserts that the child deliberately strangled itself to death with its own umbilical cord.

Mutants in Mega-City One (progs 1542–1545). The first in a series of short stories in which Dredd campaigns to change the apartheid laws prohibiting mutants from entering the city. This results in Chief Judge Hershey being voted out of office and replaced with Judge Francisco. Judge Dredd: "Giant" (by JohnThe Screaming Blue Messiahs recorded a song entitled "Mega-City One" on their final album Totally Religious. [143] As mentioned above, the cloned dinosaurs that inhabit the Cursed Earth aren't just incredibly dangerous predators, they're outright addicted to human flesh, and some of them follow the caravan through the hellscape, pausing only to eat the settlers who die on the journey and buried by the road. Their craving for human meat have effectively turned an already apex predator into a Super-Persistent Predator. Hover boards are surfboards fitted with anti-gravity units and crop up in numerous stories, but in particular those revolving around Chopper. They have become the basis of a popular sport - high-level skysurfing is legal in Mega City 1, whereas low-level surfing incurs severe penalties. Up until Supersurf 8 competition skysurfing was generally an underground sport.