SECTOR CONTROL *MSGHRHRRTD JUDGE DREDD THE FAMILY MAN Mega-City One, 2133 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North EDITOR’S LETTER America is home to 400 million citizens, every one a potential criminal, and only the Judges A FORMER MAINSTAY OF THE GALAXY’S GREATEST COMIC can prevent total anarchy. These lawmen are judge, jury and executioner, and toughest of all AND PROLIFIC FIGURE FOR THE TITLE’S FIRST DECADE IS is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! Now, murders have been committed in a mutie township... Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra the subject of this month’s Interrogation. Brett Ewins has put his pen to some classic stories in his career, both within the ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION THE TRIP world of Dredd – The Haunting of Sector House 9, The Wally Mega-City One, 2133 AD. Psi-Division is a section within Justice Department that specialises Squad, The Possessed – and without – Bad Company, Rogue in Judges with accentuated psychic talents – from precognition and telepathy to exorcism, Trooper, as well as outside 2000 AD itself (the wonderful it is at the forefront in the war against supernatural crime. Cassandra Anderson is Psi-Div’s top telepath, and now she must stop a suicidal citizen from detonating a nuclear device... DC series Skreemer with Pete Milligan and Steve Dillon – if Psi-Judge Anderson created by John Wagner & Brian Bolland you haven’t read it, I heartily recommend you hunt down the NUMBERCRUNCHER trade paperback), and his bold, instantly recognisable work PART EIGHT has just been collected up into a volume called The Art of Bastard Zane is an enforcer for the Central Ministry of the afterlife. Back when he was alive, Brett Ewins, published by Air Pirate Press (visit www.airpi- he was a nineteenth-century thug, but a deal with the Supreme Being led him to find employ- ment with the ministry, who handle the universe’s accounts. Now, deceased mathematician ratepress.com). Well worth a browse to revisit the work of Richard Thyme has signed a contract to be reincarnated, so he can be with his one true love... an artist who played an integral part in stamping a pop-art Numbercruncher created by Simon Spurrier & PJ Holden sensibility onto the prog. Elsewhere, Anderson comes to its explosive finale this is- SAMIZDAT SQUAD RED SKIES sue, making way next month for the return of Cursed Earth Samizdat – a form of Soviet dissent. The Sov Block radwastes, 2133 AD. Captain Rykov and Lieutenant Tereshkova were formerly of the Sov military, fighting the separatists, but their Koburn, courtesy of series creators Gordon Rennie and Carlos refusal to follow orders meant they became enemies of the state. Sentenced to spend the rest Ezquerra. Prepare for a trip to the dark side... of their days in a gulag, they’re now free and forming their own rebel strike squad... Samizdat Squad created by Arthur Wyatt & Paul Marshall BOO COOK Sample file COVER ART MATT SMITH EDITOR 'D@STQDR PYE-01 & R1F4 DESIGN & PRODUCTION PAGES 16-22 17 INTERROGATION #QDSS&VHMR PAGES 32-34 INTERROGATION +@LDR(TMM JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 313 Published every four weeks by Re- PAGES 46-48 bellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. All contents © 2011 Re- bellion A/S unless otherwise stated. Numbercruncher © 2011 Simon Spurrier & COMICANA PJ Holden. All rights reserved. 2000 AD ® is a registered trademark. 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