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PAGES 34-36 JUDGE DREDD THE CAROUSEL INTERROGATION Mega-City One, 2138 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America RYAN BROWN is home to over 72 million citizens. With unemployment rife and boredom universal, tensions are on a knife-edge and crime is rampant. Stemming the tide of chaos are future lawmen the Judges, empowered to dispense instant justice. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! Judge Dredd created by & REALM OF THE DAMNED TENEBRIS DEOS Some time in the near future. The world has finally been overrun by the forces of darkness. The Vatican’s last line of paranormal defence – The Congregation – has been overwhelmed, and sole survivor Alberic Van Helsing has made a deal with the creatures that were once his prey. He must stop an even worse threat – the rise of the reawoken half-vampire Balaur... Realm of the Damned created by Alec Worley & Pye Parr

BLUNT PART FOUR 34 The Mega-City One colony Getri-1, 2138 AD. On this remote outpost, Earth colonists have been attempting to make a new home on the planet, cataloguing and exploring its unusual flora and fauna. When one of their shuttles crashes in the Argossa Wilds, a search and rescue party is sent out to retrieve it, led by the half-human, half-Uplift tracker Blunt... Blunt created by T.C. Eglington & Boo Cook MATT LAWLESS OF MUNCE AND MEN SMITH Colonial Marshal Metta Lawson was appointed to the frontier township of Badrock on the EDITOR planet 43 Rega, intent on stamping her authority on the colony. But in doing so, Lawson made many enemies, including Munce, Inc., the mega-corporation that funds Badrock. After SAM GRETTON & Oz OSBORNE hired killers attempted to murder her, Lawson must get her only witness to Tractionhead... GRAPHIC DESIGN Lawless created by & Phil Winslade Phil Winslade COVER ART EDITOR’S LETTER the trainspotters amongst you will no doubt rejoice for this month’s issue has a decidedly Sample file locomotive flavour – behind Phil Winslade’s glorious wraparound cover you’ll find not just Metta Lawson battling hired goons on the non-stop to Tractionhead in the explosive double-length episode of Lawless, but also find themselves on track to a particularly destructive encounter in the bagged reprint Slow Train to Kal Cutter. Elsewhere in a packed Meg, we have a trippy instalment of jungle boogie Blunt, the confrontation with Balaur is building to a peak in the penultimate part of Realm of the Damned, there’s a complete Dredd one-off from Michael Carroll and Ben Willsher, and Karl Stock chats with cover artist Ryan Brown. Alas, the cover price of the Meg from this issue has had to rise by nineteen pence to £5.99, but subs prices are remaining frozen for the foreseeable future so now’s the time to beat the increases and take out a subscription JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 375 to either just the monthly or a dual-sub to both the Meg Published monthly by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. All contents © 2016 Rebellion A/S unless other- and 2000 AD. You know the spiel by now – save money; wise stated. Realm of the Damned © 2016 Werewolf Press. All rights reserved. Judge Dredd® is a registered trademark. Reproduc- delivered straight to your door, up to five days before it tion, storage in a retrieval system or transmission in any form or by any means in whole or part without prior permission 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 goes on sale in the shops; new subscribers to both titles living or dead persons or institutions is intended (except for satirical purposes) and any such similarity is purely coincidental. Judge Dredd receive an incentive completely free (at the moment, 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 it’s a snazzy notebook and pen set). And don’t forget, enquiries: Seymour, 2 East Poultry Avenue, London EC1A 9PT (0207-429-4000). ISSN 0960 1813.

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THE COMPLETE NUTS AND BOLTS VOLUME TWO JOIN THE ROBOT REVOLUTION!

The robots are in revolt! The boss of Ro-Busters Howard Quartz, also known as Mr Ten Per Cent, has seen his stock plummet after the attempted demolition of Northpool. In order to avoid bankruptcy, Quartz plans to destroy a number of his robots in a staged accident.

After uncovering Quartz’s plan, Hammerstein and Ro-Jaws seek out the robot underground, who begin to organise the safe evacuation of unwanted robots to a distant moon. The only thing standing in their way are the humans determined to stop the robots on their quest for freedom...

This action-packed finale to the Ro-Busters saga includes star-studded back-up stories from Alan Moore, and . T H E CA R O U S E L

‘PLEASE... THIS ISN’T GOING TO WORK!’

‘IT’S YOUR CLINIC _ YOU MAKE IT WORK.’

BACK SO SOON, JUST SOME HEART-RATE’S BOSS? YOU FORGET PAPERWORK _ ELEVATED... CAN YOU SOMETHING? CAN’T REMEMBER EXPLAIN THAT, DOCTOR IF \ SIGNED IT CAROUSEL? OR NOT.

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‘HE’S IN _ GO!’

Michael Carroll script Ben Willsher ART Chris Blythe COLOURs annie parkhouse letters GRUD...!

NESTOR, SCARLET _ DRAG THE STIFFS INSIDE AND WATCH THE GOOD ENTRANCE. WORK, DOC. LET’S MOVE _ CLOCK’S TICKING.

B-BUT YOU SAID YOU WERE JUST GOING TO STUN THEM!

COOPER, TAKE THEY YOUR BOYS AND SCOUT THE LOOKED PRETTY UPPER FLOORS. ANYTHING STUNNED TO ME. MOVES, KILL IT. Sample file DROKK NO! YOU! WE HAVE FIVE OTHER PATIENTS HERE!

YOU PLAY NICE, CAROUSEL, AND YOU MIGHT GET TO BE THE SOLE SURVIVOR. UNNF!

DUMB MISTAKE _ WE’VE ALREADY SUPPRESSED THE EXTERNAL NOW... THE ALARMS. LIKELIHOOD OF US LETTING YOUR FAMILY GO HAS JUST HALVED.

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