SECTOR CONTROL In this issue JUDGE DREDD 50 SHADES OF CRIME EDITOR’S LETTER Mega-City One, 2135 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North I SHOULD IMAGINE THAT MOST OF YOU READING THIS ARE America is home to 50 million citizens. As the metropolis gets back on its feet after a viral ALREADY WELL FAMILIAR WITH JUDGE DREDD AND THE outbreak, crime is rampant, and the Judges are empowered to dispense summary justice. vast wealth of stories that have been published over the past These lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! thirty-six years, but for anyone that’s recently picked up the Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra Meg off the back of the movie sequel and would like to sample INSURRECTION III PART EIGHT some classic strips and discover how Old Stoney-Face grew Mega-City colonial space, 2135 AD. Mining colony K Alpha 61 renamed itself Liberty after cut- to become Britain’s most successful comics character, you ting loose from the Big Meg. Furious at this outright display of dissent, and in a bid to stop the should be aware that all twenty volumes of the bestselling revolt spreading to other colonies, the SJS launched a blistering attack on Colonial Marshal Case Files series are now available on iTunes to download Karel Luther’s forces. Now, the SJS and the rebels have joined forces against the alien Zhind... for iPad and iPhone for just £9.99/$13.99 each. These chunky Insurrection created by Dan Abnett & Colin MacNeil books reprint the Dredd stories in order, right from his first ORDINARY PART TWO appearance in Prog 2, and later volumes include the Dredd Queens, New York, 2013. Plumber Michael Fisher is nothing special, a man you’d pass in the strips from the Megazine too – they feature an amazing street and barely notice. Separated from his wife, and with a young son, he’s aware that his roster of talent, including John Wagner, Garth Ennis, Carlos life is going nowhere but feels unable to change anything about it. But change has come – the whole human race, with one exception, is undergoing a very startling transformation... Ezquerra, Brian Bolland, Mick McMahon, Grant Morrison, Alan Ordinary created by Rob Williams & D’Israeli Grant, Steve Dillon and more, and contain some his greatest adventures, from The Judge Child to Judge Death, The Cursed DREDD UNDERBELLY Earth to Necropolis. They’re a wonderful repository of the best Mega-City One, the cusp of the twenty-second century. Eight hundred million people are living in the ruin of the old world, a planet devastated by atomic war. Only one thing fighting for or- in British comics, and, needless to say, required reading – der in a metropolis teetering on the brink of chaos – the men and women of the Hall of Justice. plus Case Files 21 hits stores this very month! Now, Dredd and Psi-Judge Anderson are investigating mutant trafficking... Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra ALEX RONALD Sample file COVER ART MATT SMITH EDITOR Features PYE + SAM GRETTON DESIGN & PRODUCTION PAGES 16-23 EXCLUSIVE PROLOGUE Dept of Monsterology PAGE 49 DREDDLINES Vent your spleens, creeps! JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 341 Published monthly by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. All contents © 2013 Rebellion PAGES 50-52 A/S unless otherwise stated. Ordinary © 2013 Rob Williams & D’Israeli. Dept INTERROGATION of Monsterology © 2013 Gordon Rennie & PJ Holden. All rights reserved. Judge Dredd ® is a registered trademark. Reproduction, storage in a retrieval system Patrick Goddard or transmission in any form or by any means in whole or part without prior per- mission of Rebellion A/S is strictly forbidden. No similarity between any of the fictional names, characters, persons and/or institutions herein with those of any living or dead persons or institutions is intended (except for satirical purposes) and any such similarity is purely coincidental. Judge Dredd Megazine must not be sold at more than the recommended selling price shown on the cover. Printed in the UK by PCP. Distribution and trade enquiries: Seymour, 2 East Poultry Av- enue, London EC1A 9PT (0207-429-4000). ISSN 0960 1813. THARG’S FUTURE SHOP SHOP.2000ADONLINE.COM SUBSCRIPTIONS, BACK ISSUES & MERCHANDISE 01621 877250 51 18 ADVERTISING SALES Keith Richardson 01865 792201 3 g WWW.2000ADONLINE.COM P.03 (341 CONTENTS).indd 3 27/09/2013 15:03 JUDGE DREDD COMPACT CLASSICS Graphic NovelsOCTOBER YOU SMELL OF CRIME AND I’M THE DEODORANT! THE COMPLETE CASE FILES 21 ZOMBO by AL EWING & HENRY FLINT JUDGE DREDD by JOHN WAGNER, CARLOS EZQUERRA, IAN GIBSON and more! 1 g A L E W I N G H E N R Y F L I N T Sample file THE COMPLETE CASE FILES 21 2000 AD PROGS 888 - 915 Written by JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 2.57 - 2.68 John Wagner Dan Abnett YEAR: 2116 Alan McKenzie Chris Standley Art by Carlos Ezquerra Anthony Williams Mark Harrison Peter Doherty John Higgins Ian Gibson John Burns Trevor Hairsine Ron Smith Cyril Julien ISBN: 978-1-78108-034-4 g Paperback g 128 pages g £13.99 g On sale 10 October! ISBN: 978-1-78108-175-4 g Paperback g 320 pages g £19.99 g On sale 10 October! LIFE IS NOT SO GOOD FOR OUR CADAVEROUS CHAMPION. ALTHOUGH THE EPSILON-6 SPACE CONSPIRACIES ARE RIFE IN THIS LATEST COLLECTION OF JUDGE DREDD STORIES FROM STATION has been destroyed, the zombified head of Hank Epsilon has escaped with Mr Snyde and BOTH 2000 AD and the Megazine as opposition against the eccentric Chief Judge McGruder Zombo is back in the service of The GovernmentTM, his dreams of a musical career in tatters. grows. With talk circulating amongst Justice Department ranks of deposing her, events take To make matters worse Mr President intends on replacing Zombo with a stronger, faster, more a shocking turn when Dredd is himself arrested and sentenced to Titan... homicidal creation: Obmoz – the reverse Zombo! Featuring the work of John Wagner (Button Man), Carlos Ezquerra (Strontium Dog), Trevor Collecting both The Day the Zombo Died and Planet Zombo, this second volume of the flesh- Hairsine (Cla$$war), Ian Gibson (Halo Jones), Mark Harrison (Durham Red), Peter Doherty eating funster’s adventures also includes the Planetronix story Mohawk of Menace from the 2013 (Young Death), John Higgins (Greysuit) and more, this volume includes the mega-epic Free Comic Book Day issue, as well as an exclusive bonus look at the secrets of Zombo’s powers! Wilderlands, as Dredd and others must fight for survival on an alien planet! WWW.2000ADONLINE.COM // TO PURCHASE 2000 AD SUBSCRIPTIONS, BACK ISSUES AND MERCHANDISE CALL: 01621-877-250 OR VISIT SHOP.2000ADONLINE.COM P.31 (GNS AD OCTOBER 13).indd 1 18/09/2013 17:21 IT’S FAIR TO SAY \’D LED A SHELTERED, BLESSED LIFE UNTIL THE DAY FATHER NOLAN OPENED FIRE WITH A COLT WIDOWMAKER INSTEAD OF HANDING OUT COMMUNION. ROBBIE MORRISON SCRIPT PATRICK GODDARD ART DROKK YOU, DREDD! PETER DOHERTY COLOURS YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME Fifty ANNIE PARKHOUSE ALIVE! LETTERS Shades of AMEN TO THAT, PUNK! WITHIN DAYS, CHURCH THE REVELATION THAT FATHER AND CONVENT HAD NOLAN HAD BLUDGEONED A BEEN REPOSSESSED. ZERO-GEE DANCER TO DEATH STAY ON WITH A KING JOHN BIBLE THE RIGHT SIDE WAS ENOUGH TO SHAKE OF THE LAW, ANYONE’S FAITH... SISTER. \ WANDERED THE STREETS, SEARCHING FOR A SIGN, FOR SOME ...LET ALONE THAT HE’D AND AVOID FORM OF SALVATION. BANKRUPTED OUR ENTIRE TEMPTATION. PARISH BY SQUANDERING Sample file CHURCH FUNDS ON HER FIRST. BUT WHAT AND THEN SHOULD WE DO \ SAW IT... NOW, SIR? P.05-14 (DREDD-50 SHADES).indd 5 27/09/2013 14:43 ...RISING MAJESTICALLY FROM THE STREET, DOMINATING THE CHRISTIAN CROSS WAS A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE IN AN ATTEMPT TO BOOST THE SKYLINE. BUSINESSMAN AND PHILANTHROPIST, DIRECTOR POST-CHAOS ECONOMY, HE’D OF A CITYWIDE ROBO-HAULAGE COMPANY. STARTED A RECRUITMENT DRIVE, CREATING JOBS FOR REAL PEOPLE AMONGST HIS AUTOMATED STAFF. REFRESHMENTS, STARTING IN THE MOST SIR? MENIAL POSITION, \ NEVER IMAGINED THAT \’D ACTUALLY MEET THE MAN. OR HOW DELICIOUSLY, DEVILISHLY, DEVASTATINGLY HANDSOME HE WOULD BE... SYNTHI-CAFF. NO MILK. AS BLACK AS SIN. Sample file AND WHAT’S YOUR NAME? \ PREFER CH-CHASTITY. UH, THE REAL SYNTHI- THING. SUGAR? WHAT? BY NAME, BUT... BUT NOT BY NATURE, \ HOPE. OH, PLEASE. IN THE I-IT’S GRAND SPECTRUM AGAINST THE OF CRIME, IT’S FAR LAW! AN ILLEGAL FROM THE DARKEST STIMULANT! SHADE. P.05-14 (DREDD-50 SHADES).indd 6 27/09/2013 14:43 ONE SHOULD ALWAYS EIGHTEEN TRY SOMETHING BEFORE MINUTES LATER, JUDGING HOW GOOD OR \ RECEIVED A BAD IT IS, DON’T PROMOTION. YOU THINK? AS MR CROSS’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT, \ WAS BASED OUTSIDE HIS OFFICE. AT FIRST \ THOUGHT IT WAS MY IMAGINATION, BUT \ COULD FEEL HIS EYES CARESSING MY BODY AS \ TOOK DOWN HIS PARTICULARS. MS McBRIDE, \ REQUIRE SOME DISCREET PERSONAL TEMPTED? ASSISTANCE WITH A RATHER DELICATE MATTER THIS EVENING. Sample file MY OFFER’S POST-CHAOS DAY, MR CROSS MORE THAN FAIR. HAD MADE HIS ROBO-COURIERS GET OUT WHILE AVAILABLE FOR AID DELIVERIES THE GOING’S THROUGHOUT THE CITY. GOOD. DROKK YOU, CROSS! IT NEVER OCCURRED TO ME THAT THEY MIGHT BE CARRYING OTHER THINGS AS WELL... P.05-14 (DREDD-50 SHADES).indd 7 27/09/2013 14:43 \’M THE ONE WHO’S THEN HOW ABOUT GOT THE FRIENDS, THE CONGRATULATE \ PUT A GUN TO YOUR CONNECTIONS! ME. YOU’RE A DINOSAUR, HEAD AND YOU SIGN DANZIGER.