SECTOR CONTROL In this issue JUDGE DREDD NIGHT MAYOR ON L.M. STREET EDITOR’S LETTER Mega-City One, 2135 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North ANOTHER TWO COMPLETE DREDD STORIES JOIN THE America is home to 50 million citizens. In the wake of the Chaos Bug, the city is trying to SECOND EPISODES OF HONDO-CITY JUSTICE AND AMERICAN recover. Crime is rampant, and the Judges are empowered to dispense summary justice. These Reaper this issue – Alan Grant and Anthony Williams lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! collaborate on the post-Chaos Day Night Mayor on L.M. Street Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra as enterprising citizens try to fill the power vacuum left by the HONDO-CITY JUSTICE REVENGE OF THE 47 RONIN disastrous mayoral elections, while the Grant droid and Karl Hondo City, 2135 AD, where ancient samurai values clash with high technology in the Japan Richardson take us back to 2109 for a Lost Case involving a of the twenty-second century. Aiko Inaba is a rarity – a woman rightfully wearing the uniform confused Judda and a malfunctioning teleporter. of a Hondo-City Judge Inspector. Once Judge Shimura’s cadet partner, she’s a rising star in Alan is one of the many 2000 AD creators that will Justice Central. Now, the legendary 47 ronin samurai have come back from the dead... be attending the London Super Comic Convention, which Judge Inspector Inaba created by Robbie Morrison & Frank Quitely takes place at the Excel Centre in Royal Victoria Dock AMERICAN REAPER II PART TWO on 23 and 24 February, which you just might have time New York City, 2062. Fifty years in the future, identity theft has taken a new and deadly to snag a ticket to if you haven’t done so already. With twist – victims have their minds and personalities erased and their bodies stolen. A team of the likes of John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra, Brian Bolland, special agents, known as Reapers, has been formed to hunt down those that have illegally transplanted their identities into others and terminate them with extreme prejudice... Glenn Fabry, Mike Collins, Ian Edginton, Simon Davis and American Reaper created by Pat Mills & Clint Langley Frazer Irving, amongst many others, also scheduled to appear, it’s an impressive line-up of writers and artists. JUDGE DREDD: THE LOST CASES THE LAST JUDDA The Galaxy’s Greatest will have a booth there, playing host Mega-City One, 2109 AD. Morton Judd was Head of Genetics and a committed believer in the Judges’ cloning technology, but his ideas for its future applications were vetoed. After failing to signings and sketching, so make sure you pop by. Visit: to assassinate Fargo, Judd escaped with a large supply of tissue stock, creating the Judda www.londonsupercomicconvention.com! from the Father of Justice’s DNA, a brainwashed army who tried to take MC-1 by force... Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra HENRY FLINT Sample file COVER ART MATT SMITH EDITOR Features PYE DESIGN & PRODUCTION PAGES 16-19 COMICS ROUNDTABLE Horror PAGES 20-22 COMICANA Trifecta JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 333 Published monthly by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. All contents © 2013 Rebellion PAGES 50-52 A/S unless otherwise stated. American Reaper © 2013 Repeat Offenders Ltd in INTERROGATION association with Xingu Films Ltd. All rights reserved. Judge Dredd ® is a reg- istered trademark. Reproduction, storage in a retrieval system or transmission Karl Richardson in any form or by any means in whole or part without prior permission of Rebel- lion 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 institutions is intended (except for satirical purposes) and any such similarity is purely coincidental. Judge Dredd 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 enquiries: Seymour, 2 East Poultry Avenue, London EC1A 9PT (0207-429- 4000). Sole agents: Newsagents Direct Distribution Pty Ltd (Australia); Network Distributors Ltd (New Zealand). ISSN 0960 1813. THARG’S FUTURE SHOP SHOP.2000ADONLINE.COM 50 SUBSCRIPTIONS, BACK ISSUES & MERCHANDISE 01621 877250 ADVERTISING SALES Keith Richardson 01865 792201 3 g WWW.2000ADONLINE.COM P.03 (333 CONTENTS).indd 3 01/02/2013 15:28 JUDGE DREDD COMPACT CLASSICS Coming Soon! Graphic NovelsFEBRUARY DAY OF CHAOS: THE FOURTH FACTION THE AMERICAN DREAM JUDGE DREDD by Wagner, Willsher, Johnson, MacNeil & Flint THE TEN-SECONDERS by Williams, Harrison and more Sample file ISBN: 978-1-78108-108-2 g Paperback g 304 pages g £17.99 gOut now! ISBN: 978-1-78108-066-5 g Paperback g 144 pages g £14.99 Out now! WITH THE MUCH-LOVED MAYOR OF MEGA-CITY ONE PRESUMED DEAD BY THE CITIZENS, an election has been scheduled to choose his successor. Psi-cadet Judge Hennessey has predicted EARTH, THE NEAR FUTURE. Humanity has all but been destroyed by a race of superpowered beings, that something terrible will happen on election day and she may be right: East-Meg assassin Nadia who initially offered to help mankind but really intended to rule. Those who fight back against the has arrived in the Big Meg, looking for a scientist who has created a very dangerous virus... tyranny of the ‘Gods’ are nicknamed the ‘Ten-Seconders’ – so-called because that is their average This game-changing beginning to the biggest Judge Dredd story ever written is scripted by life expectancy against such a terrifying and unstoppable enemy... comics legend and Judge Dredd co-creator John Wagner (A History of Violence, Button Man), and Written by Rob Williams (Low Life), and featuring art by Mark Harrison (Durham Red), Dom features the incredible artwork of Staz Johnson (Detective Comics, Catwoman), Henry Flint (Zombo, Reardon (Ichabod Azrael), Shaun Thomas (Young Middenface) and Ben Oliver (Judge Dredd), The Shakara), Colin MacNeil (Chopper, Insurrection) and Ben Willsher (Lenny Zero). Ten-Seconders is an action-packed tale of superpowered mayhem! WWW.2000ADONLINE.COM // TO PURCHASE 2000 AD SUBSCRIPTIONS, BACK ISSUES AND MERCHANDISE CALL: 01621-877-250 OR VISIT SHOP.2000ADONLINE.COM P.04 (GNS AD FEB 13).indd 1 01/02/2013 15:29 \ AM DARKLY PERX. \’M STANDING FOR MAYOR OF MEGA-CITY ONE, AND \ WANT YOU TO VOTE FOR ME. GOOD EVENING, BLOCKERS. \ PROMISE TO BE THE BEST MAYOR WE EVER HAD. \’LL STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS IN OUR POST-CHAOS CITY. SO VOTE PERX IN TOMORROW MORNING’S BLOCK VOTE _ NIGHT MAYOR ON L.M. STREET ALAN GRANT SCRIPT ANTHONY WILLIAMS Sample file ART COMICSTRIPPER STUDIO COLOURS ANNIE PARKHOUSE LETTERS _ OR ELSE! P.05-14 (DREDD-MAYOR).indd 5 01/02/2013 15:32 WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAMME WITH BREAKING NEWS! DARKLY PERX HAS DECLARED HIMSELF MAYOR OF MEGA-CITY ONE! BUT, DARLING, \’VE WAITED FIVE YEARS TO FIND OUT WHO YOU REALLY ARE! TAKE OFF THAT MASK AND SHOW ME! CITIZEN PERX _ IS THIS A LEGAL OTHER MOVE? GROUPS ARE GOING TO BE INCENSED ABOUT THIS. CARE TO COMMENT ON THAT? NO CANDIDATE YES. SUCK IN THE ELECTION WAS SWORN HOTTIE, YOU IN. BUT A FULL TURN-OUT AT THIS LOSERS! MORNING’S BLOCK MEETING GAVE ME ONE HUNDRED PER CENT OF THE VOTE... SO \ CLAIM THE POSITION! Sample file AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT’S REACTION TO THIS LATEST TWIST? WE’RE TRYING TO REBUILD THIS CITY. LAST THING WE NEED IS THESE CLOWNS COMING OUT TO PLAY AGAIN! CITIZEN PERX’S INVESTITURE WILL BE HELD AT THE CONSUMER-MAN MALL ON L.M. STREET AT THREE THIS AFTERNOON. WE’LL KEEP YOU POSTED! P.05-14 (DREDD-MAYOR).indd 6 01/02/2013 15:32 WHERE THE HELL IS EVERYBODY? DEAD, WOUNDED, DRIFTED AWAY. \ GUESS THE ELECTION DOESN’T SEEM SO IMPORTANT AFTER THE CHAOS BUG. THAT’S PRECISELY WHY WE MUST FIELD A CANDIDATE! NO, IT’S A _ PACKAGE A DONATION FOR YOU, TO OUR FOLKS! CAMPAIGN? Sample file P.05-14 (DREDD-MAYOR).indd 7 01/02/2013 15:32 THAT’S DREDD HIMSELF ON OUR TAIL! MOVE IT! THEY’RE BIKE GONNA CAUSE A CANNON! PILE-UP! Sample file CONTROL? YOUR INFORMANT WAS RIGHT. THEY’RE ORGAN- LEGGERS. MEAT-WAGON AND TEKS TO LENNOX AND BEANIE! P.05-14 (DREDD-MAYOR).indd 8 01/02/2013 15:32 \ MAY FELLOW ONLY BE A HEAD DEMOCRATS! \’VE AFTER MY ACCIDENT CALLED THIS MEETING DURING THE CHAOS BECAUSE, IF ANYBODY PERIOD _ BUT, BY SHOULD BE MAYOR GRUD, \’M A OF THIS CITY, DEMOCRATIC IT’S ME! HEAD! YEAH, THE PARASITES MEDUSA! GO FOR ARE TRYING TO SHUT IT, GIRL! US OUT! WELL, \ SAY WE FIGHT BACK THE ONLY WAY WE KNOW HOW _ BY VOTING! BANNER DIVISION _ ARM UP! WE’RE GOING TO THE MALL! YOU’RE GOING NOWHERE, KORNER! Sample file WE FOUND A BODY IN AN ORGAN-LEGGERS’ VAN _ WITH YOUR NAME ON THE DELIVERY SHEET! \ CONFESS! \ COULDN’T WAIT THE ESTIMATED FIVE YEARS FOR A REPLACEMENT. FOR THE SAKE OF DEMOCRACY, \ NEED A NEW BODY _ NOW! SO YOU GUESS THOUGHT YOU’D \ WON’T NEED THE USE SOMEONE ELSE’S? CUFFS! CONSPIRACY TO MURDER _ TWENTY YEARS! BOO! FASCIST! P.05-14 (DREDD-MAYOR).indd 9 01/02/2013 15:32 WHAT CONTROL? DO WE DO DREDD. MEDUSA NOW? KORNER AT A HOLD- ING POST ON LOOB HERE’S STREET! SOMETHING FOR MEDUSA’S YOU, DREDD. WE PUT ONLY ONE VOTE.