SECTOR CONTROL IN THIS ISSUE FEATURES PAGES 16-18 JUDGE DREDD THE GYRE NEW BOOKS Mega-City One, 2138 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America GOLDTIGER is home to 72 million citizens. Crime is rampant, and 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 PAGES 19-23 Law! Now, Dredd and Joyce have travelled to the Pacific commune The Gyre on a rescue mission... EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT! Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra GOLDTIGER 2OOO 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 is hunted across America by the creatures that were once his prey. But something even worse has just been reborn: the half-vampire Balaur... Realm of the Damned created by Alec Worley & Pye Parr DEMARCO, P.I. DAMOCLES Mega-City One, 2138 AD. Galen DeMarco was once a Judge, a rising star operating out of the corrupt dumping ground that was Sector House 301. But she quit the force after one romantic indiscretion too many and set herself up as a private investigator. Now, in SovSec in the rebuilt Mega-City Two, she’s become embroiled in a plot to reprogram mysterious cyborgs... Galen DeMarco created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra DREDD DUST Mega-City One, the cusp of the twenty-second century. Eight hundred million people are living in 16 the ruin of the old world, a planet devastated by atomic war. Only one thing fighting for order in a metropolis teetering on the brink of chaos – the men and women of the Hall of Justice. Now, Dredd and Conti are investigating murders that occurred when a dust storm blew in from the Cursed Earth... Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra EDITOR’S LETTER BOTH DREDD THRILLER THE GYRE AND DEMARCO, P.I. ADVENTURE DAMOCLES REACH THEIR FINALES THIS Sample file issue alongside the second chapter of controversial new horror series Realm of the Damned and the penultimate part of movie sequel Dust. Plus, to coincide with the release of Goldtiger – Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton’s originally Kickstartered project that charts the secret history of the titular sixties newspaper strip that proved too much for its UK publishers and would disappear into cult apocrypha – not only does Karl Stock talk to the two curators of this lost gem of pulp action but we can exclusively unveil the hitherto unseen pages of the outrageously salacious Goldtiger 2000, which were offered to the prog back in the late seventies and never 19 printed. This will be the first time they’ve appeared in a JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 370 newsstand publication since Leonard Croyce’s ultra-rare Published monthly by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. All contents © 2016 Rebellion A/S unless otherwise stated. Realm of the anthology ROLLER, which itself virtually disappeared Damned © 2016 Werewolf Press. All rights reserved. Judge Dredd® is a regis- upon launch. tered trademark. Reproduction, storage in a retrieval system or transmission in One piece of sad news that broke just as this issue 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, was going to press was the passing of artist Tony Luke, characters, persons and/or institutions herein with those of any living or dead after a long battle with cancer. Longtime readers will NICK PERCIVAL persons or institutions is intended (except for satirical purposes) and any such COVER ART similarity is purely coincidental. Judge Dredd Megazine must not be sold at remember Tony’s distinctive art on the Anderson series more than the recommended selling price shown on the cover. Printed in the UK Postcards From the Edge (which you’ll get to revisit in MATT SMITH by PCP. Distribution and trade enquiries: Seymour, 2 East Poultry Avenue, London the Mega Collection next month) as well as co-writing EDITOR EC1A 9PT (0207-429-4000). ISSN 0960 1813. and stories with Alan Anderson Middenface McNulty SAM GRETTON THARG’S FUTURE SHOP SHOP.2000ADONLINE.com Grant. He also created the Dominator character, who got & Oz OSBORNE SUBS, BACK ISSUES & MERCH ENQUIRIES 01621 877250 his own movie in 2003. A full tribute next Meg. GRAPHIC DESIGN ADVERTISING SALES Keith Richardson 01865 792201 3 SECTORSECTOR CONTROL CONTROL MILLS g HEBDEN g LALIA g PEŇ A g AZPIRI g LóPEZ NEW 2000 AD GRAPHIC NOVELS! ON SALE NOW // SHOP.2000ADONLINE.COM Sample file GOLDTIGERAntonio Barreti & Louis Schaeffer USING SCAVENGED ALIEN TECH, THE MUTANT WARLORD KRAIT IS MOVING HIS PEOPLE OUT OF THE GYRE AND TOWARD HIS ULTIMATE GOAL: COLONISATION OF MEGA-CITY TWO... ‘MISTER?’ THE GYRE PART THREE Sample file ‘HE AIN’T A MISTER _ HE’S A JUDGE.’ ‘HEY, JUDGE, WAKE UP. \ KNOW YOU AIN’T DEAD _ DEAD MEN DON’T COUGH.’ MICHAEL CARROLL SCRIPT FISHED YOU OUTTA THE NICK PERCIVAL WATER JUST AFTER ART SUNDOWN. ANNIE PARKHOUSE LETTERS YOU’VE BEEN OUT COLD EVER SINCE. P.05-14 (DREDD-GYRE 3).indd 5 25/02/2016 15:26 KOFF KOFF! KRAIT’S GOT HIS BOAT MOVING _ AND DON’T W-WHERE...? CARE WHAT HE HAS TO RAM OUTTA THE WAY. YOU TELL ME, PAL _ HOW YOU’RE THE DO \ STOP JUDGE. HIM? ‘...FORTY YEARS AGO IT WAS LAUNCHED INTO THE GYRE IN AN ATTEMPT TO DAMPEN THE STORM. THAT DIDN’T WORK... ONCE YOU GET OUTSIDE THE GYRE AND AWAY FROM THE STORM, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SATELLITES WILL PICK YOU UP. NO, THEY WON’T. SEE, WHAT WE’VE GOT IN THERE IS A FULLY FUNCTIONING WEATHER-CONTROL MACHINE... Sample file ‘...BUT WE LEARNED HOW TO OPERATE IT. P.05-14 (DREDD-GYRE 3).indd 6 25/02/2016 15:26 ‘IT’S KEPT THE GYRE HIDDEN FOR ALL THESE YEARS, AND NOW WE’RE BRINGING THE STORM WITH US.’ ‘KRAIT, YOU’RE DELUSIONAL IF YOU THINK LIFE IS GOING TO BE ANY BETTER IN SOVSEC.’ ‘IT’S GOT TO BE BETTER THAN THIS. Sample file ‘YOU JUDGES TOOK THE SHATTERED FRAGMENTS LEFT BEHIND AFTER THE ATOMIC WAR AND FASHIONED A NEW WORLD... ‘...A WORLD FOR YOUR KIND ALONE. ‘A STERILE WORLD. P.05-14 (DREDD-GYRE 3).indd 7 25/02/2016 15:27 ‘CONTROLLED...’ ...AND GENETICALLY PURE. YEAH? LOOK AT WHAT YOU’RE DOING RIGHT NOW. YOUR STORM IS TEARING THE GYRE APART _ ‘ _ SO LET’S NOT PRETEND THAT THIS IS FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE.’ Sample file YOU KNOW YOU CAN’T WIN _ P.05-14 (DREDD-GYRE 3).indd 8 25/02/2016 15:27 ‘ _ SOVSEC’S BEEN UNDER CONSTANT ATTACK SINCE THE DAY IT WAS ESTABLISHED. ‘ITS DEFENCES ARE AMONG THE STRONGEST ON THE PLANET.’ CAN YOUR \ DOUBT _ AND WE STORMS STOP A THOSE DEFENCES CAN GENERATE TACTICAL NUCLEAR WORK WITHOUT STORMS THAT WILL WEAPON? ELECTRICAL TAKE DOWN THE POWER _ HIGHEST WALLS. Sample file WE’LL HAVE OUR SECTOR, JUDGE, AND THEY CAN THERE’S NOTHING SCRAMBLE ITS YOU CAN DO TO GUIDANCE CIRCUITS, STOP US. SCATTER THE FALLOUT SHOULD IT DETONATE. P.05-14 (DREDD-GYRE 3).indd 9 25/02/2016 15:27 WE ALL ENDED UP HERE THOSE BECAUSE YOUR WHO JUST WORLD REJECTED DON’T FIT IN... WE US. OUTCASTS, ARE THE EARTH’S MUTANTS... FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. \ GET IT... KRAIT, WE’RE ‘...YOU’RE SIR! BRACE FOR GONNA HIT GARBAGE.’ IMPACT! ONE O’ THE BARGES _ Sample file UNNFF! 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