As the settlers leave, one of the Judges tells them that once they get past a certain point, they'll be considered dead until otherwise proven, and no one will come looking for them. 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. 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. A trilogy about the Dark Judges, The Fall of Deadworld, was written by 2000AD's editor, Matt Smith, and published by Abaddon Books: In November 2012, IDW Publishing began a new monthly series written by Duane Swierczynski and illustrated by Nelson Daniel. [91] It lasted for 30 issues.

The metal band Anthrax included a song about Judge Dredd on their third album ( Among the Living) entitled " I Am the Law". It is one of their most popular and well-known songs, and often features as an encore to setlists. They also released a 12" single and a 7" picture disc, both bearing the image of Dredd. [141] One 12" version featured a fold-out poster of the band dressed as Judges drawn by drummer Charlie Benante.

The Daily Dredds Volume 1". 2000AD.wordpress.com. 11 January 2015. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015 . Retrieved 8 April 2015. Judge Dredd has also been published in a long-running comic strip (1981–1998) in the Daily Star, [23] and briefly in Metro from January to April 2004. [24] These were usually created by the same teams writing and drawing the main strip, and the Daily Star strips have been collected into a number of volumes. 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 compet Their first experiments with their bio-engineered clone embryos were disastrous failures... because every clone they created immediately mutated into a hideous abomination too deformed to survive. There have been a number of Judge Dredd stories that have significantly developed the Dredd character and/or the fictional world, or which create and add to a larger storyline. These are listed below (for a complete list of all stories see here).

Gangs of Mega-City One". 2000adreview.co.uk. 25 March 2014. Archived from the original on 25 March 2014.

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Barnett, David (11 May 2017). "Justice served: comic creators announce Judge Dredd TV show". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 31 May 2020. Dolman. Another clone grown from Joe Dredd's DNA, but years younger. Formerly a trainee judge and member of the MC1 Space Corps. Has undergone face changing procedures to hide his heritage and so bears no resemblance to Dredd or Rico, and Vienna is the only person outside the Justice Department who knows his true identity. The fate of the three Cadet Judges who fall into Soon's hands; he shapes their living bodies into a single twisted altar of flesh and bone without letting them die, despite the incredible damage done to them. For his own amusement, he permits the altar a brief opportunity to scream... and scream it does. The Necropolis arc in general is a goddamn horrorshow from beginning to end. From Judge Kraken struggling to maintain his grip on sanity as he becomes a slave to Death's two Sisters, the city itself becoming a slaughterhouse where all the light is drowned out, and the groups of Juvies trying to escape from skull-headed Judge Mortis going after them like an undead Terminator. At one point, another tribe of mutants are encountered, with one of them being murdered by a settler fleeing criminal charges in the Big Meg. The previously-idealistic Trekkmaster Rudd ultimately decides (with support from the other settlers) to leave the killer to the mutant tribe's mercy; when his equally-criminal family expresses discontent, Rudd points out that the entire mutant tribe is camped out on the mountain pass they need to pass, waiting to ambush and destroy the convoy if they don't give him up.

Lawgiver: The lawgiver machine pistol is the standard sidearm used by judges. It fires six different kinds of bullets, and is programmed to explode when used by an unauthorised user. From 1993 to 1995, Virgin Books published nine Judge Dredd novels. They had hoped the series would be a success in the wake of the feature film, but the series was cancelled after insufficient sales. [ citation needed] In August 2015, these novels were re-released as e-books. [108] The books are: 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] A list of all Judge Dredd stories to appear in 2000 AD from March 1977 to September 2023 (#2 to #2350) is available at WikiCommons. [27]Svensson, Peter (11 July 2015). "SDCC '15: Panel Blow By Blow As IDW Announced Dredd, TMNT/Batman, Rom, Micronauts and More". Bleeding Cool News. Avatar Press . Retrieved 22 October 2019. This section may contain irrelevant references to popular culture. Please remove the content or add citations to reliable and independent sources. ( August 2022) The description of the biological degeneration produced as a side-effect of Soon's flawed genesis. His bones are said to be constantly reinventing themselves, spontaneously breaking, warping, and reknitting into new, unnatural shapes underneath his skin. The result is that Soon is in ceaseless pain, to the point he wishes he had a mouth so he could scream... H-wagon is not one particular vehicle but a generic term used by the judges for any Justice Department vehicle that flies. Inferno (progs 842–853). Escaped rogue Judges from Titan take over the city, forcing the Judges into exile out in the Cursed Earth.