SECTOR CONTROL In this issue JUDGE DREDD THE MAN COMES AROUND EDITOR’S LETTER Mega-City One, 2136 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North WELCOME TO THE FIRST MEG OF 2014, AND WE HIT THE America is home to 50 million citizens. In the wake of the Chaos Bug, the city is trying to NEW YEAR RUNNING WITH THE SECOND INSTALMENTS OF recover. Crime is rampant, and the Judges are empowered to dispense summary justice. These DeMarco, P.I. and Anderson, Psi-Division as well as the lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! penultimate episode of Ordinary – be here next month for Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra the bumper-length finale of what’s proved to be a highly DEMARCO, P.I. THE WHISPER popular series. Also this issue, we welcome acclaimed SovSec, the ruins of Mega-City Two, 2136 AD. Galen DeMarco was once a Judge, a rising star Scalped artist RM Guéra to the world of Judge Dredd as operating out of the corrupt dumping ground that was Sector House 301. But she quit the he collaborates with writer Rob Williams on the complete force after one romantic indiscretion too many and set herself up as a private investigator. Mega-City thriller The Man Comes Around, in which Ol’ Now, she’s been hired to find a missing person in the newly established SovSec in MC-2... Stoney-Face’s age and increasing sense of his own mortality Galen DeMarco created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra become pressing personal concerns... ORDINARY PART FIVE Plenty for Dredd to be concerned about all over this year Queens, New York, 2013. Plumber Michael Fisher is nothing special, a man you’d pass in the as we’ve got numerous major stories in the pipeline – John street and barely notice. Separated from his wife, and with a young son, he’s aware that his Wagner returns in Meg 350 to script Dead Zone, in which the life is going nowhere but feels unable to change anything about it. But change has come – the whole human race, with one exception, has undergone a very startling transformation... burial pits containing the corpses from the Chaos Bug prove Ordinary created by Rob Williams & D’Israeli irresistible to certain elements; Gordon Rennie and Carlos Ezquerra take the future lawman deep into the Cursed Earth ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION DEAD END for a face-off against a mysterious figure in El Maldito; and 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, Al Ewing and Ben Willsher are crafting an epic crime drama it is at the forefront in the war against supernatural crime. Cass Anderson is Psi-Div’s top in The Cop. Stick around, creeps – you won’t be disappointed! telepath, but the evil and violence she’s confronted with on a daily basis is taking its toll... Psi-Judge Anderson created by John Wagner & Brian Bolland JOHN BURNS Sample file COVER ART MATT SMITH EDITOR Features PYE + SAM GRETTON DESIGN & PRODUCTION PAGES 16-19 NEW COMICS Revolutionary War PAGES 20-22 INTERROGATION Garry Brown JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 344 Published monthly by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. All contents © 2014 Rebel- PAGES 50-52 lion A/S unless otherwise stated. Ordinary © 2014 Rob Williams & D’Israeli. INTERROGATION All rights reserved. Judge Dredd ® is a registered trademark. Reproduction, storage in a retrieval system or transmission in any form or by any means in David Baillie whole or part without prior permission of Rebellion A/S is strictly forbidden. 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DREDD VS LOBO THE BATMAN Sample file JUDGE FEATURING JOHN WAGNER ALAN GRANT DREDD SIMON BISLEY COLLECTION GLENN FABRY VAL SEMEIKS CAM KENNEDY AND MORE! P.64 (BATMAN DREDD PB AD).indd 1 28/11/2013 10:34 THE EYES ARE THE WINDOW TO THE SOUL... THESE ONES ARE BIONIC, THE ORIGINALS POKED OUT BY SOME LIZARD MONSTROSITY IN A FUTURE THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. DON’T ASK. THE MAN COMES AROUND AND THEN THERE’RE THE WOUNDS _ FEELS LIKE THERE’S BEEN MORE BULLET HITS THAN BREATHS TAKEN. SPEED-HEAL MACHINES HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER LIKE AN ELASTIC BAND ACROSS THE GRAND CANYON. CANCER. GROWTH ON HIS DUODENUM. BEATEN LIKE A FLEEING PERP WITH A FRACTURED DAYSTICK. TIME WOULDN’T BEAT HIM. Sample file HE WOULD NOT LET IT. ROB WILLIAMS SCRIPT RM GUERA ART GIULIA BRUSCO COLOURS ANNIE PARKHOUSE LETTERS P.05-15 (DREDD-MAN COMES AROUND).indd 5 17/12/2013 17:09 Sample file CIT EXPLODED BEFORE HE HIT THE GROUND. YEAH, THEY’RE ALL DOING THAT. P.05-15 (DREDD-MAN COMES AROUND).indd 6 17/12/2013 17:09 H-WAGON AVAILABILITY? TWENTY MINUTES. CONTROL, THIS IS DREDD AT BF SKINNER BLOCK. SOMEONE’S THROWING CITIZENS OFF A FLOOR IN THE TWO-TWENTIES. WHAT DO YOU HMPH. GIVE SEE? ME SATELLITE ELEVATORS COVER. SNIPERS. SHUT DOWN, \ WANT THE INTERNAL LOWER FLOORS CAMERAS EVACUATED. CUT. SOMEONE’S GOT AN EXPLOSIVES STORE UP THERE. OOP. LOOK OUT, HERE COMES ‘WE’RE ANOTHER GOING ONE... UP.’ HEART THUMPS HARD AND HEAVY. NOT NORMALLY THIS DIFFICULT. LUNGS ARE A FAILING CHEMICAL FIRE. HE WANTS TO LIE DOWN, TO REST. Sample file SOME KIND OF GAS... RESPIRATORS! DREDD? DON’T THROW UP. P.05-15 (DREDD-MAN COMES AROUND).indd 7 17/12/2013 17:09 HE MOVES TO RAISE HIS LAWGIVER... Sample file P.05-15 (DREDD-MAN COMES AROUND).indd 8 17/12/2013 17:09 HE FEELS LIGHT-HEADED. SOMETHING PHYSICALLY GRATES IN HIS CHEST AND SUGGESTS HE SIT DOWN. HE SWEARS AT IT AND TELLS IT TO SHUT UP. Sample file IT DOESN’T THE WEIGHT OF LISTEN. EVERY CRIME HE’D EVER PUNISHED PUSHING DOWN ON HIS CHEST. LEGS DON’T LISTEN... MUST BE THE GAS... MAYBE NOT... P.05-15 (DREDD-MAN COMES AROUND).indd 9 17/12/2013 17:09 \’M GENUINELY IMPRESSED YOU MANAGED TO GET THIS THE GAS FAR, JUDGE, CONSIDERING DEGRADES LIVING THE FACT THAT YOUR CELLS IN YOUR BODY. IT BODY IS EFFECTIVELY TOOK SEVEN MONTHS TO DYING. CREATE. \ STARTED ON IT THE SAME DAY \ WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER. \ HAD TO MAKE SURE YOUR RESPIRATORS COULDN’T COPE WITH IT. IT ENTERS THE BODY VIA PORES IN THE SKIN, YOU SEE. IT MAKES SURE THAT ANYONE AFFECTED BY IT IS INCREDIBLY WEAK AND ONE HUNDRED PER CENT AGREEABLE TO ANYTHING \ SUGGEST. WANT PROOF? Sample file DESPITE MY COULD \ AM INTELLIGENCE A AND YOUR YOU GET UP, GOING TO DIE SOON HIGHER POWER HAS SENTENCE IS PLEASE? FROM MY DISEASE. IT’S DECIDED MY FATE. SO DEATH. JUMP. UNFAIR BUT THERE’S \ WILL NOW DECIDE NOTHING \ CAN DO THE FATE OF YOU ABOUT IT. AND EVERYONE HERE. LIFT THE... LAWGIVER... LIFT THE... 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