Judge Dredd: Dread Dominion

Judge Dredd novels from Virgin Books #6

by Stephen Marley

A wave of hallucinations are sweeping Mega-City One. Even the judges are affected, and their behaviour is increasingly erratic. It's almost as if they become entirely different people. And throughout the city, people are being tortured and killed by a man calling himself Chief Judge Dread.

272 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1995

Reviews

[DoNotDoxMe Goodreads · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first Dredd novel I've read from the older Virgin publishing books. The story feels more like an original sci fi / horror novel mostly set in a nightmare world than a traditional Mega City One crime settling that I'd expect after reading Judge Dredd Year One and Two. As far as continuity goes, the story is set after Judge Dredd the complete case files 19 and there's a small reference to a previous Virgin Books Dredd novel, "Dreddlocked." I enjoyed the novel a whole lot.

[Michael Hill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deadly ghosts are haunting Mega City One. Judge Dredd investigates as he is blamed because of a ghost of himself. The problem all started when he arrested, or was it killed his brother Rico? A new timeline was formed, ruled by an utterly evil Judge Dread, as he now calls himself. Enhanced by psi powers, Judge Dread and the evil judges of the new reality plan on conquering the universe. Joe Dredd travels to the new timeline but is hopelessly outclassed by the beings there, causing him to make alliances with the small group of freedom fighters, fighting his evil alter ego.

[Matthew Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

A genuinely good dark story, which surprised and shocked me with its at times very grim aspects, but was a genuinely brilliant exploration of the Judge Dredd mythos and, in particular, used a very old and than abandoned concept for the type of 'policing' Judge Dredd would do as the basis for a very different Dredd encountered in this story.