AD Online – Judge Dredd: Year One City Fathers". 2000 AD Online. Archived from the original on 1 January 2016. Even the Undercity that the Big Meg is built over. In addition to Troggies (feral humans who descended from New York inhabitants), all manner of horrific and sometimes supernatural predators live down there, including, but not limited to, vampires, werewolves and ( Xenomorphs). Some judges even choose to take their long walk down there on account of its general chaotic nature. DC Comics published an alternative version of Judge Dredd between 1994 and 1996, lasting 18 issues. Continuity and history were different from both the original 2000 AD version and the 1995 film. A major difference was that Chief Judge Fargo, portrayed as incorruptible in the original version, was depicted as evil in the DC version. Most issues were written by Andrew Helfer, but the last issue was written by Gordon Rennie, who has since written Judge Dredd for 2000 AD (Note: the DC crossover story Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgment on Gotham featured the original Dredd, not the version depicted in this title). During the last stretch of the journey, some of the surviving settlers break off from the main group since there's seemingly another, shorter route to the western territories. The thing is, unlike the mapped route, this area doesn't have any details about it other than a massive warning to stay out. We never get to see what's actually out there, but the settlers seemingly make it through, shortly after the remaining survivors. Except every single person on the rad wagons are dead! No injuries, no damage, no sign at all what killed everyone except the expression on their faces - they all died from fear. Despite the losses the others suffered on the way, they really did take the easier path.

Dunt, Ian (3 October 2018). "Fascist Spain meets British punk: the subversive genius of Judge Dredd". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 July 2019. The story chosen to introduce the character was submitted by freelance writer Peter Harris, [note 3] and was extensively re-written by Mills, who added a new ending suggested by Kelvin Gosnell. [16] [17] It was drawn by newcomer Mike McMahon. The strip debuted in prog 2. Around this time Ezquerra quit and returned to work for Battle. There are conflicting sources about why. Ezquerra says it was because he was angry that another artist had drawn the first published Judge Dredd strip. [18] Mills says he chose McMahon because Ezquerra had already left, having been offered a better deal by the editor of Battle. [19] There have been multiple Judge Dredd games released for various video game consoles and several home computers such as the ZX Spectrum, PlayStation and Commodore 64. The first game, titled Judge Dredd, was released in 1986. Another game, also titled Judge Dredd, was released in 1990. At one time, an arcade game was being developed by Midway Games but it was never released. It can however be found online and has three playable levels. [117] [118] [119] 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. 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.PJ Maybe was a serial killer who murdered his first victim at the age of only 12. He evaded detection several times, and claimed thousands of victims, [78] including a mayor and a deputy mayor of Mega-City One, over a criminal career lasting three decades. Their solution? Use human surrogate mothers instead of Uterine Replicators. But they didn't just take volunteers. No, they effectively kidnapped women for the role, selecting a mixture of women in carehomes for "mental defectiveness" and ultra-violent criminals.

Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death was produced by Rebellion Developments and released in early 2003 by Sierra Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. The game sees the return of the Dark Judges when Mega-City One becomes overrun with vampires and the undead. The player takes control of Judge Dredd, with the optional addition of another Human player in co-operative play. The game is a first-person shooter– with key differences such as the requirement to arrest lawbreakers, and an SJS death squad which will hunt down Dredd should the player kill too many civilians. The player can also go up against three friends in the various multiplayer modes which include " Deathmatch", " Team Deathmatch", "Elimination", "Team Elimination", "Informant", "Judges Vs. Perps", "Runner" and more. [122] A novel was based on the game. [123]As well as the usual six rounds listed above, a stun shot has also been depicted in the comic, and a variety of other rounds have been shown in the films. From the same publishers as 2000 AD, this was nevertheless a completely different version of Dredd aimed at younger readers. Editor David Bishop prohibited writers from showing Dredd killing anyone, a reluctance which would be completely unfamiliar to readers acquainted with the original version. [83] As one reviewer put it years later: "this was Judge Dredd with two vital ingredients missing: his balls." [84] It ran fortnightly for 23 issues from 1995 to 1996, plus one Action Special. Judge Logan. Dredd's assistant for a number of years, later promoted to sector house chief. [73] Dredd encourages Logan to become Chief Judge when Hershey resigns. His public endorsement is instrumental in Logan attaining that office. [74]

Dennis the Complete Bloody Sadist; a Mega-City One criminal so awful that his sentence was to have his brain extracted from his body. His brain was to be installed in a urinal bot, sentencing him to an effective eternity of having people urinating into his "mouth" and being forced to drink it, but his men escaped with it before that could happen. Now he's become addicted to the sensation of being a Brain in a Jar and spends most of his time like that, taking his body only when he has to. Judge Dredd made his live-action debut in 1995 in Judge Dredd, portrayed by Sylvester Stallone. Later, he was portrayed by Karl Urban in the 2012 adaptation Dredd. In audio dramas by Big Finish Productions, Dredd is voiced by Toby Longworth. Soon's idea of home renovation; shrouding the exterior of Erebus in walls of fused human bones and rotting meat taken from his countless victims, save for that spared to erect great windmills of bones, with sails of flayed human skin. The other thing this approach brings is a focus on comics as items of literature rather than drawings - which, to be fair, is the analysis going on in a lot of other places too. Artists are credited throughout, but there's not much consideration of Judge Dredd art as art, of the comic as a comic. How often was the art in this political strip itself political? How does the strip's nature as described in the book manifest in the ink lines themselves? Did any of the art–or any of the artists–ever work against the writing and its politics? Did 2000 AD's existence as notionally a young person's comic impede the things that are now discussed here as grand subversions? The book is suitably withering about Sir James Anderton, "God's Copper", former chief constable of Greater Manchester whose relationships to policing and to reality were once big news. But if you wanted to see a comic go after him properly then you had to venture off-piste to Deadline, where Shaky Kane drew him imprinted on the Shroud of Turin. Of the other six host-mothers who were delivered by Caesarean, three died, two went irretrievably insane, and the last — Soon's mother, a Serial Killer named Doris "Driller Killer" Davison — lasted long enough to curse the project manager for unleashing a monster on the world before she committed suicide by swallowing her tongue.Williams, Owen (5 September 2012). "Dredd Prequel Comic Online – Movie News – Empire". empireonline.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014.

In January 2014, IDW began another miniseries, Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two. [94] There were five issues. In July 2015, IDW announced a new miniseries called Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero, [95] starting in January 2016. This ran for 12 issues, and then was followed by a sequel, set 10 years later, called Judge Dredd: The Blessed Earth, which lasted for nine issues. Cadet Jessica Paris. A recent addition to the family – a clone of Joe Dredd grown without SRY, making her a woman as a result. Has only made a single appearance in the comic to date in which she was shown as being heavily pregnant and the decision on what to do with her and the child being left ambiguous. [77] Dredd's adversaries generally do not return in sequels, since they are usually killed or sentenced to long terms of incarceration. However, a few notable villains have returned in multiple stories, and some later got their own spin-off series. According to Mills, the name Joseph – given to Dredd in a story written by Mills which appeared in "prog" (issue) no. 30 – refers to where he went to school, St Joseph's College, Ipswich. [8]It was eventually discovered that the cause of the civil strife was a psychotropic agent in the city's water supply which increased people's aggression and tribal instincts simultaneously. The dissipated old roué Max Normal, who only drank shampagne and therefore remained completely aggression-free, was a vital part of this discovery. The water had been contaminated by Orlok, a spy from the Sov city of East-Meg One. Orlok compounded his offence by killing Judge Giant, Snr., a popular character whom many readers felt deserved a better death. In Japan, manga comic Shōnen Jump Autumn Special (1995) included a one-off story featuring a unique version of Judge Dredd which was entirely different to both the comic character and the movie character. Set in Tokyo in 2099, Dredd Takeru is a part-time street judge whose day job is working as a primary school teacher. The UK band The Human League also wrote a song about Judge Dredd. "I Am the Law" appeared on the album Dare. Oh, and it gets worse; as the story Tarantula! reveals, the Cursed Earth is also home to giant tarantulas, so large they regularly prey on the bisoon (domesticated bison/cattle hybrids) that Mega-City One farms out in the Cursed Earth. And then the expy of the star of the film of the same name shows up... Widowmaker 2000: a fully automatic shotgun used by street judges. It was introduced in 2114 to replace the obsolete Arbitrator. It was introduced to the comic strip in the story "Judgement Day".