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SECTOR CONTROL In this issue JUDGE DREDD RAD TO THE BONE EDITOR’S LETTER Mega-City One, 2136 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North A BRAND-NEW CREATOR-OWNED STORY STARTS THIS America is home to 50 million citizens. Crime is rampant, and the Judges are empowered to ISSUE FROM GORDON RENNIE AND KEV HOPGOOD – THE dispense summary justice. These lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Man From the Ministry shines a light on the shadowy Judge Dredd – he is the Law! Now, Dredd has been captured by a mutant called Hard H... governmental department that’s been defending the UK Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra from alien invasion for the past sixty years. Trouble is, BLACK MUSEUM ...AND DEATH MUST DIE! cutbacks have meant that all that’s left of the ministry is Mega-City One, 2136 AD. Deep in the heart of the Grand Hall of Justice lies the Black Museum, Albert Morningside and his assistant Stan – the British Justice Department’s permanent exhibition of the relics from bygone crimes. Whether it’s a Isles’ sole defence against terrors from beyond the stars... notorious serial killer’s trophies or the weapons of the Dark Judges, the violent history of the Elsewhere, we have a complete Tale From the Black Big Meg is laid bare here. Let guide Henry Dubble show you around... Museum courtesy of David Baillie and Jake Lynch, plus the ...And Death Must Die! created by David Baillie & Jake Lynch penultimate episodes of both Rad to the Bone and Dead THE MAN FROM THE MINISTRY PART ONE End, as well as a peek into the twentieth 2000 AD Sci-Fi NEW STORY! UK, 2014. The British Government’s revolutionary space programme of the Special, which goes on sale on 28 May – the first summer 1950s, which saw manned expeditions heading out into the cosmos, led to all manner of alien special from the House of Tharg since 1996! beings taking an interest in Earth. A ministry was set up to defend the UK from invasion, but sixty years later, all that’s left is Albert Morningside and his assistant Stan... Those of you that haven’t yet paid a visit to the British The Man From the Ministry created by Gordon Rennie & Kev Hopgood Library to check out the Comics Unmasked exhibition, make sure you don’t miss out on seeing a stunning display ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION DEAD END of comics history – and on 7 July Pat Mills, Dave Gibbons Mega-City One, 2136 AD. Psi-Division is a section within Justice Department that specialises in Judges with accentuated psychic talents – from precognition and telepathy to exorcism, and Frazer Irving talk up the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic in the it is at the forefront in the war against supernatural crime. Cass Anderson is Justice Depart- panel A British Revolution: 2000 AD and Beyond! ment’s top telepath, and she must stop psi-perp Algol Rey from destroying Psi-Div... Psi-Judge Anderson created by John Wagner & Brian Bolland GLENN FABRY Sample file COVER ART RYAN BROWN COVER COLOURS Features MATT SMITH EDITOR PAGES 16-22 PYE + SAM GRETTON INTERROGATION DESIGN & PRODUCTION Mark Buckingham PAGES 46-49 NEW COMICS 2ooo AD Sci-Fi Special 2014 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 348 Published monthly by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. All contents © 2014 Rebellion PAGES 50-52 A/S unless otherwise stated. The Man From the Ministry © 2014 Gordon Rennie FICTION & Kev Hopgood. All rights reserved. Judge Dredd ® is a registered trademark. Reproduction, storage in a retrieval system or transmission in any form or by One-Way Ticket (Part Two) 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 living or dead persons or institu- PAGE 63 tions is intended (except for satirical purposes) and any such similarity is purely coincidental. Judge Dredd Megazine must not be sold at more than the recom- COMICANA mended selling price shown on the cover. Printed in the UK by PCP. Distribution Comics Unmasked and trade enquiries: Seymour, 2 East Poultry Avenue, London EC1A 9PT (0207- 429-4000). ISSN 0960 1813. 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WWW.2000ADONLINE.COM // TO PURCHASE 2000 AD SUBSCRIPTIONS, BACK ISSUES AND MERCHANDISE CALL: 01621-877-250 OR VISIT SHOP.2000ADONLINE.COM P.15 (GNS AD MAY 2014).indd 4 02/05/2014 10:41 THE SQUALL OF WHITE NOISE EVENTUALLY RESOLVES ITSELF INTO A RHYTHMIC POUNDING. HE PLAYS DEAD WHILE HE GETS HIS BEARINGS... ...AND TRIES TO FOCUS ABOVE THE PAIN, THAT AGONISING PRESSURE IN HIS HEAD, THE EXPOSED NERVES OF BROKEN TEETH, THE SICKENING ACHE OF THE RAD-POISONING. \ WANNA HIT HIM! CAN’T \ HIT HIM, HARD H? JUST A SOLID ONE TO THAT CHIN OF HIS! THERE ARE NO DISTINCTIVE NOISES OUTSIDE THAT REVEAL LOCATION. TRUCK IS PROBABLY SOUNDPROOFED. BE BETTER OFF WE TOOK HIS BADGE. THAT’S GONNA BE A PIECE OF HISTORY THAT PEOPLE’LL PAY GOOD CREDS FOR! WHOEVER PLANNED THISSample IS METICULOUS. file YOU BOTH ANYWAY, HE’S AWAKE _ DO YOUR JOBS AREN’T YOU, DREDD? PROBABLY AND NOTHING TRYING TO LISTEN OUT FOR ELSE. SOME CLUE AS TO WHERE YOU ARE. T.C. EGLINGTON SCRIPT WON’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. ALL BOO COOK YOU GOTTA KNOW IS ART YOU’RE OURS... ANNIE PARKHOUSE LETTERS RAD TO THE BONE PART two P.05-14 (DREDD-RAD 2).indd 5 02/05/2014 10:55 ‘...AND BY THE TIME THEY’VE FIVE REALISED YOU’RE GONE, HOURS. THE BLACKOUT WE’LL BE GONE.’ WHAT ELSE OCCURRED AT 2300 HOURS. DO WE KNOW? HOW HIS COM-LINKS ARE DOWN LONG HAS HE BEEN AND HIS PERSONAL TRACKER MISSING? IS UNRESPONSIVE. HELMETS ARE SEARCHING THE IMMEDIATE AREA. STILL IN THE SORRY FOR BARGING ANY MED-BAY. FRYER WAS WHAT IN HERE, CHIEF JUDGE, BUT \... WITNESSES? BADLY INJURED AND COULDN’T EXACTLY DO \ DON’T WANT TO GO DOWN IN WHAT ABOUT THE PROVIDE A POSITIVE I.D. ON YOU THINK THE HISTORY BOOKS AS THE OFFICER HE WAS THE PERP. ALL SHE YOU’RE DOING, JUDGE RESPONSIBLE FOR WITH? SAID WAS _ FRYER? DREDD’S DEATH. _ ALL \ SAID WAS THAT THE PERP WAS MOST LIKELY A MUTIE. HE WAS STRONG. UNNATURALLY STRONG. Sample file THERE WAS A CHARACTERISTIC RAD-READING AT EACH OF THE CRIME SCENES. TEK-DIV CAN LOOK FOR THAT READING. WE CAN FOLLOW _ WHAT? TEK-DIVISION HAVE ALREADY FOUND THE READINGS. THAT’S WHAT WE WERE DISCUSSING BEFORE YOU BURST IN HERE. IF YOU THE PERPS WANT TO HELP, ANTICIPATED THIS. SEVEN FRYER, \ SUGGEST DECOY RAD-TRAILS LEAVE THE YOU GET ON BOARD ONE CRIME SCENE AND LEAD OUT OF OF THE H-WAGONS THE CITY. THEY HAVE FIVE HOURS WE’RE SENDING ON US. THAT’S A LOT OF OUT. DISTANCE COVERED. P.05-14 (DREDD-RAD 2).indd 6 02/05/2014 10:55 ‘WHOEVER’S GOT DREDD, THEY’RE NOT DOING IT TO THROW HIM A SURPRISE PARTY.’ MUTIES? IS THIS NO ONE TOLD A JOKE? THAT’S ME THERE WOULD BE CRABFACE’S CREW! COME GRUDDAMN MUTIES HE KILLED SIX AND GET SOME, HERE! OF MY BEST SECTOR 3 SCUM! HOLD MEN! YOUR TONGUE, IF YOU’RE MAN HEY, DID BOY, OR \’LL BE ENOUGH! YOUR MOMMA WEARING IT. OPEN HER LEGS NEAR A SEWAGE PLANT OR WAS THAT LOOK PLANNED? LONNY SPARE ME, WHATEVER CARLUCCI, IT IS VESPERAL.