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JUDGE THE SIMPING LOW DREDD DETECTIVE LIFE CREATED BY CREATED BY CREATED BY JOHN WAGNER & CARLOS EZQUERRA SIMON SPURRIER & FRAZER IRVING ROB WILLIAMS & HENRY FLINT Sample file TRIFECTA P.01 (TITLE).indd 1 11/06/2013 11:03 Sample file BULLET TO KING FOUR Script: Al Ewing Art: Henry Flint Colours: Chris Blythe Letters: Annie Parkhouse Originally published in 2000 AD Prog 1803 P.02-08 (BULLET TO KING FOUR).indd 2 11/06/2013 11:02 OKAY... VOICEPRINT AND THAT’S A GRAND HALL BADGE I.D. IDENTIFIED: MATCH. YOU’RE DREDD, JOSEPH, SECURE TAG CHECKS, SENIOR, STREET GOOD TO WING, 1300 RETINAL SCAN DIVISION. FULL GO, SIR. HOURS: CHECKS... VISITOR ACCESS AUTHORISATION’S AUTHORISED. DOWN AS IS LISTEN, \’M APPROVED... THAT SORRY ABOUT SO? ALL THESE SECURITY PROTOCOLS. \ HAVE ...JUST NO IDEA WHY WE NEED ONE NEED THREE MORE DIFFERENT VOICE VOICEPRINT SCANS _ AND WE’RE DONE. THEN YOU’RE NOT THE MAN FOR THIS POST. REPORT TO ADMIN FOR REASSIGNMENT _ THEY’LL FIND SOMETHING SECURITY’S FOR YOU. THIS TIGHT FOR A REASON, MUTTOX. WE’RE NOT TAKING CHANCES WITH THE CLONE OF HEH. WAR MARSHAL KAZAN. Sample file AND HERE \ THOUGHT YOU’D FORGOTTEN ME. \ MUST SAY, THIS VIEW ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE... P.02-08 (BULLET TO KING FOUR).indd 3 11/06/2013 11:02 A BLIND MAN, AS YOUR ON THAT ALLY _ IN MY PLEASE. TOPIC. OBSESSED WITH THE DEAD PAST, REFUSING CURRENT POSITION AS \’VE BEEN CONFINED TO CONSIDER THE STRATEGIC ADVISOR _ TO THIS CELL FOR UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES \ BECOME A VALUED ALMOST SEVEN YEARS LET’S AFFORDED BY A FUTURE ASSET... _ MY KNOWLEDGE TALK ABOUT OF FRIENDSHIP AND OF UNDERGROUND BORISENKO. CO-OPERATION... GUERRILLA FACTIONS EXCEPT IS NOT WHAT IT YOU NEVER TOLD ONCE WAS. US ANYTHING ABOUT BORISENKO AND HIS FACTION WE DIDN’T ALREADY KNOW. AGAIN? AS \’VE SAID MANY TIMES TO MANY OF YOUR COLLEAGUES, \ UNLIKE NEVER MET HIM IN PERSON. YOU, FROM WHAT \’VE HEARD HUH? WE HAD LITTLE IN COMMON. AS IN ALL KIND OF THINGS, IT IS A CONVENIENT \ SEE. SIMPLE MATTER OF THAT THE ONE TIME SO BY YOUR OWN STRATEGY. AS YOUR YOU DON’T HAVE INFO ADMISSION YOU’RE DEAD ENEMY, \ HAD LITTLE ON THE SOVS IS WHEN WEIGHT WE CAN DO TO LOOK FORWARD TO THEY’RE ABOUT TO WITHOUT. BUT DEATH, HENCE HIT US... MY DEFECTION. ...YOU HAVE ME IN CHECK. VERY NEAT. \ ASSUME YOU’VE PUT THE MATTER OF MY EXECUTION SampleTO THE file COUNCIL? PERHAPS MY GIFTS FOR STRATEGY CAN STILL BE USEFUL AFTER ALL. COME. LET US SET UP THE BOARD... AH, OF COURSE. THE COUNCIL CHANGES... OH, DON’T LOOK \’VE SO SURPRISED. ON TABLED IT. THE SOME THINGS \ CAN SOONER YOU’RE GONE, STILL KEEP MY EARS THE BETTER \’LL LIKE TO THE GROUND, IT. UNFORTUNATELY, YES? WE’VE OTHER FISH TO FRY. P.02-08 (BULLET TO KING FOUR).indd 4 11/06/2013 11:02 ...DREDD INTERIM COUNCIL MAKES A GOOD POINT. BENT JUDGES ARE MEETING, KAZAN LET US DOWN BADLY YOUR SPECIALITY, 1130 HRS: ON THIS ONE, DELIBERATELY BUELL, AND YOU OR NOT. HE KNEW THE HAVEN’T EXACTLY DEAL. STILL, BEEN BATTING HE’S BY FAR A THOUSAND THE BEST MILITARY LATELY... STRATEGIST WE HAVE _ CAN WE REALLY AFFORD TO LOSE A MIND LIKE THAT AT A TIME LIKE THIS? \’M WILLING EVEN TO TRUST YOUR ASSUMING HE JUDGEMENT ON THIS, IS ON OUR SIDE, DREDD. STILL, IT MIGHT MAGGIE _ THE SOVS BE BETTER IF YOU WERE HIS SPECIALTY MET WITH HIM AND HE FOLDED. AGAIN _ FACE HOW GOOD CAN TO FACE. HE BE? ONCE \’VE SEEN AN UPDATED REPORT FROM YOU ON THE MATTER, \’LL GIVE IT FURTHER CONSIDERATION. AN ACROSS UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS DIVISION THE BOARD WALLY SQUAD -- PSU -- SJS -- BLACK OPS DIVISIONAL MERGER. STREET DIVISION -PAT WAGON -- H-WAGON -- RIOT -- SNIPER ACADEMY TEK Sample file IN THE HER COVER MEANTIME, WAS BLOWN DURING THE WORST WE NEED TO IT’S A TALK SERIOUSLY WAIT, OF THE UPRISINGS WHAT’S MATTER OF _ EITHER HALDANE ABOUT THE CONSOLIDATING FUTURE. THIS _ ? AGAIN, OR JUST BAD AND STRENGTHENING LUCK. WE’RE WAITING OUR FORCES. CURRENT TO SEE IF SHE DIVISION HEADS WILL WAKES UP. REMAIN IN POSITION _ BUELL IN CHARGE AT SJS, HOLLISTER FOLGER AT WALLY HERE IS CURRENT SQUAD _ WHERE IS HOLLISTER? ACTING WALLY SQUAD CHIEF _ SHE’LL TAKE HOLLISTER’S PLACE SHOULD THE WORST YOU DON’T HAPPEN. KNOW? HMMPH. AS \ WAS SAYING, THE INDIVIDUAL STRUCTURE OF EACH DIVISION WON’T CHANGE MUCH _ THEY’LL JUST BECOME SUB-DIVISIONS OF LARGER UNITS. IF ALL GOES TO PLAN, THE HEADS OF THOSE LARGER UNITS AND \ _ INCLUDING THE NEW ASSUME BUELL UNDERCOVER DIVISION _ WOULD BE IN WILL FORM THE NEW CHARGE AT COUNCIL OF FIVE. UNDERCOVER? P.02-08 (BULLET TO KING FOUR).indd 5 11/06/2013 11:03 \ ASSUMED HAVE YOU YOU’D ALREADY LOST YOUR GUESSED. MIND, CHIEF JUDGE? IT’S A PROVISIONAL EVERYONE, POSITION. \’D LIKE TO ...NO. FORMALLY WITH ALL INTRODUCE OUR DUE RESPECT, CURRENT HEAD FOLGER’S RIGHT _ OF BLACK WE SHOULD NEVER OPS _ HAVE HAD A MOLE SO CLOSE TO THE CHIEF JUDGE. BACHMANN? SO WHO \ FEEL DOES THAT ARTHUR NEEDS LEAVE? TO CONCENTRATE ON REBUILDING THE SJS IT’S PUTTING AS AN EFFECTIVE A COCKROACH FORCE _ IN CHARGE OF THE EXTERMINATORS _ THAT’S ENOUGH, _ BUT YOU’VE YET DREDD. \ KNOW YOU TO PRODUCE ANY HAVE A HISTORY OF EVIDENCE TO IMPLICATE CLASHING WITH BLACK BACHMANN OR HER OPS _ AND \’VE HEARD OPERATIVES. AND IN THIS YOUR ACCUSATIONS CASE, YOUR SUPPOSITION REGARDING TOWNSHIP JUST ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH. THREE* _ DAMMIT, HERSHEY _ *THARGNOTE: SEE ‘THE FAMILY MAN’, Sample file JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINES 312-313. LET’S GET A COUPLE OF THINGS STRAIGHT, DREDD. BUT IF IF YOU WANT YOU DON’T WANT TO BE CHIEF JUDGE, THE RESPONSIBILITY THE CHAIR IS YOURS. _ IF YOU DON’T EVEN GRUD KNOWS YOU’VE WANT THE BURDENS EARNED IT. OF COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP _ _ IF YOU’D RATHER JUST BARGE INTO MY OFFICE AT REGULAR INTERVALS TO BLACKMAIL ME WITH A BADGE YOU’LL NEVER HAND IN, OVER ISSUES WHOSE COMPLEXITY YOU REFUSE TO ENGAGE WITH _ _ THEN THE DOOR IS THAT WAY. FULL REPORT ON THE KAZAN SITUATION BY THREE. DOUBLE- SPACED. 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