Name’s Rico Dredd. I was a Judge. I tried to save my city, and they called me a criminal. Twenty years hard labour in a penal colony a billion kilometres from Earth. They gave me mechanical lungs just so I can breathe, laced my skin with polymers so I can walk in sub-zero temperatures. Stripped away everything that made me human. I was a hero and they turned me into a gruddamned monster. But maybe that was fate, because in the year 2089 disaster hit the prison, and it was down to me to save everyone. Sometimes the monster becomes the hero.
The story of Rico Dredd comes full circle as the years of incarceration on Titan come to an end and Rico returns to the Meg for that final meeting with his clone brother Joe. It was a one shot from many years ago, the time we learned the feared Judge Dredd had a brother, but what led up to that fateful encounter, what made Rico Dredd the man he was is a new story and it's been a blinder.