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Judge Dredd: One-Eyed Jacks
FIGHTING CRIME ACROSS TIME WITH HELP FROM THE BLOODLINE!
Mega-City One, 2145 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 200 million citizens. Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! Dredd and Rico investigate a link between 1970s New York and the twenty-second century after antique items start to turn up in the 'Big Meg.' A trip back to the 'Big Apple' sets Dredd on course to come face-to-face with New York's toughest cop, Jack McBane and an undercover cop with a familiar surname - Eartha Fargo...
Mega-City One, 2145 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 200 million citizens. Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! Dredd and Rico investigate a link between 1970s New York and the twenty-second century after antique items start to turn up in the 'Big Meg.' A trip back to the 'Big Apple' sets Dredd on course to come face-to-face with New York's toughest cop, Jack McBane and an undercover cop with a familiar surname - Eartha Fargo...
112 pages, Paperback
Published September 9, 2025
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December 19, 2025
This is one of the best Judge Dredd stories ever written if you're a massive nerd for not only the character 'as is', but also the details and oddments of Dredd's creation itself.
The link between Dirty Harry and Judge Dredd is obvious, Dirty Harry and One-Eyed Jack break the rules with extreme violence, Judge Dredd *is the rules* with extreme violence. One-eyed Jack is a product of Dredd writer/creator John Wagner, and simply a Dirty Harry-alike in the classic late-70s UK comics form of taking something successful from popular culture, and doing it again.
Here's where it gets interesting, when Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra created Dredd, Ezquerra gave Judge Dredd black facial features (as much as we see them, what with the helmet!), a style copied by Mike McMahon in the first few years of Dredd's appearances (when, ironically, the art was nearly always black and white). Later Dredd artists did not continue this, and when Dredd went into colour, he was coloured-in as white.
That discrepancy, a product of what I guess might be called lax-ish product/quality control of the late-70s early-80s British comic industry, is now "explained" in the form of One-Eyed Jack's 1970's NYPD undercover officer colleague - and afro-bearing black woman - Eartha Fargo, grandmother of first Chief Judge Eustace Fargo - and so, by dint of Dredd being a clone of Fargo, grandmother of Dredd (and Rico-2). Their grandfather remains a mystery, at least in this story.
This being Judge Dredd, this story gives us all this super-nerdy in-universe explanation of a real-universe bit of comic-book creation trivia in a hilariously violent time travel caper featuring time paradoxes, sinister psychics, and lots of heads meeting bullets. 10/10
The link between Dirty Harry and Judge Dredd is obvious, Dirty Harry and One-Eyed Jack break the rules with extreme violence, Judge Dredd *is the rules* with extreme violence. One-eyed Jack is a product of Dredd writer/creator John Wagner, and simply a Dirty Harry-alike in the classic late-70s UK comics form of taking something successful from popular culture, and doing it again.
Here's where it gets interesting, when Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra created Dredd, Ezquerra gave Judge Dredd black facial features (as much as we see them, what with the helmet!), a style copied by Mike McMahon in the first few years of Dredd's appearances (when, ironically, the art was nearly always black and white). Later Dredd artists did not continue this, and when Dredd went into colour, he was coloured-in as white.
That discrepancy, a product of what I guess might be called lax-ish product/quality control of the late-70s early-80s British comic industry, is now "explained" in the form of One-Eyed Jack's 1970's NYPD undercover officer colleague - and afro-bearing black woman - Eartha Fargo, grandmother of first Chief Judge Eustace Fargo - and so, by dint of Dredd being a clone of Fargo, grandmother of Dredd (and Rico-2). Their grandfather remains a mystery, at least in this story.
This being Judge Dredd, this story gives us all this super-nerdy in-universe explanation of a real-universe bit of comic-book creation trivia in a hilariously violent time travel caper featuring time paradoxes, sinister psychics, and lots of heads meeting bullets. 10/10
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April 20, 2025A slightly forced cross-time crossover brings another of the old characters Rebellion now own out of decades of mothballs, in the process forging an in-world link between Dredd and one of his prototypes. It was an entertaining enough filler strip, but I have mixed feelings about the way it was played to enable 2000AD to retroactively declare that their most famous character had been mixed-race all along, actually; is that really the best approach to ensuring a diverse slate?
January 4, 2026
One of the better stories of judge Dredd. First half is a time travel story with a one eyed detective and his partner.
The second half is about McBane and his partner.
The second half is about McBane and his partner.
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