Mega-City One – a nightmarish enclosure located along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. Only the Judges – powerful law enforcers supporting the despotic Justice Department – can stop total anarchy running rife on the crime-ridden streets. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the law and these are his stories...
Newly appointed Sector Chief Galen DeMarco attempts to bring the Law to Sector 303, but the resident vigilante group stands in her way.Fortunately Judge Dredd is on the case! As well as contending with malfunctioning elevators, oppressed mutants, reality show hosts, bouncing bank robbers and the ‘Angel of Mercy’ serial killer, he begins to suspect that DeMarco’s affections for him may be… unprofessional!
THIS VOLUME INCLUDES THE STORIES 2000 AD Progs 1084-1099, 1101-1110 AND THE JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE Issues 3.39-3.45
John Wagner is a comics writer who was born in Pennsylvania in 1949 and moved to Scotland as a boy. Alongside Pat Mills, Wagner was responsible for revitalising British boys' comics in the 1970s, and has continued to be a leading light in British comics ever since. He is best known for his work on 2000 AD, for which he created Judge Dredd. He is noted for his taut, violent thrillers and his black humour. Among his pseudonyms are The best known are John Howard, T.B. Grover, Mike Stott, Keef Ripley, Rick Clark and Brian Skuter. (Wikipedia)
Been a while since I read some Dredd. Really enjoyed the writing in this. Amazing how much great work Wagner pumped out. The Megazine stories were less super, as usual, but not too shabby in this volume. Already ordered volume 29.