SECTOR CONTROL IN THIS ISSUE FEATURES PAGES 16-20 JUDGE DREDD TERROR RISING Mega-City One, 2137 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America NEW COMICS Vertigo is home to 50 million citizens. Crime is rampant, and the Judges are empowered to dispense summary justice. These lawmen are judge, jury and executioner, and toughest of all is Judge Dredd PAGES 22-23 – he is the Law! Now, in the wake of Chaos Day, the terror group Total War are back... FICTION Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra Hunting With Missiles DEMON NIC PART FIVE PAGES 40-42 UK, the present day. Demons have walked alongside mankind since the dawn of time, NEW COMICS humanity waging war on their species. But now an uneasy peace exists between the two Bad Company races, and the Church operates as a quasi-military outfit to ensure no demon steps out of line. Now, demon-with-a-soul Nicodemus has been framed for the murder of a priest... Demon Nic created by Paul Grist STORM WARNING THE RELIC Brit-Cit, 2137 AD. Much like its Mega-City counterpart, Brit-Cit Justice Department has its various departments, from Tek to plainclothes, Tactical to Psi-Division, and one of its more prickly operatives in the latter is Lillian Storm, a psychically powerful Judge with the ability to talk to the dead. Now, she’s trying to retrieve a powerful and deadly relic... Storm Warning created by Leah Moore, John Reppion & Tom Foster LAWLESS BETWEEN BADROCK & A HARD PLACE Colonial Marshal Metta Lawson has been appointed to the frontier township of Badrock on the 4O planet 43 Rega, and is stamping her authority on the colony, where trouble comes in many forms. Now, as the trainline linking Badrock to Tractionhead is completed, the town celebrates – but someone also claiming to be Metta Lawson has just stepped onto the platform... Lawless created by Dan Abnett & Phil Winslade EDITOR’S LETTER THE JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE REACHES A MAJOR MILESTONE AS IT CELEBRATES ITS TWENTY-FIFTH Sample file anniversary, a remarkable age for any comic, and we see in the quarter-century with a special cover from veteran artist Barry Kitson, and the start of a gripping new Dredd thriller from John Wagner and Colin MacNeil, returning to the ruthless, anti-Justice Department world of Total War in Terror Rising. Elsewhere, we have the penultimate parts of both Lawless and Storm Warning, more infernal machinations in Demon Nic, and a chat with Peter Milligan, Rufus Dayglo and Jim McCarthy about the new Bad Company series that’s tearing up the prog right now. Milligan and Dayglo are also instrumental in the 16 new wave of titles emerging from DC’s mature readers JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 365 imprint Vertigo this month – alongside fellow regular Published monthly by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. 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Saved from the scrapheap by billionaire Howard Quartz, sewer droid Ro-Jaws and battle-weary warbot Hammerstein became part of Ro-Busters – Quartz’s international robotic rescue squad. Plunged into situations far too dangerous for human beings to handle, the robotic duo need to maintain a one hundred per cent success rate, or face the threat of being dismantled by the sadistic Sample file battle tank Mek-Quake! Written by Pat Mills (ABC Warriors) and featuring several British comic-art luminaries including Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Ian Kennedy (Commando) and Kevin O’Neill (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), this first volume includes all of the original Starlord strips and colour spreads. WHAT’S THE HOLD UP HERE? C’MON, BUDDY, MOVE IT! JUST WAITING FOR YOU, JUDGE. JOHN WAGNER SCRIPT COLIN MACNEIL ART CHRIS BLYTHE COLOURS ANNIE PARKHOUSE Letters Sample file TERROR RISING PART ONE Sample file TWENTY-FIVE \’M YEARS AGO. SORRY. THEY WERE TOLD TO HOLD THEIR FIRE. THOUGHT \ MIGHT FIND YOU HERE. Sample file WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT, BEENY, YOUR MOTHER WAS A TERRORIST. WHEN SHE GAVE HER ALLEGIANCE TO TOTAL WAR SHE FORFEITED ANY RIGHT TO CONSIDERATION. \ DON’T CONDONE WHAT WHEN FARGO CAME SHE DID. BUT \ IN THE GOVERNMENT WAS KNOW WHY SHE CORRUPT, THE COURTS WERE DID IT. CORRUPT, THE POLICE WERE IT THE SYSTEM CORRUPT. JUSTICE WAS DOESN’T WAS WRONG. SHE WANTED SOMETHING YOU COULD HAVE TO TO MAKE IT BETTER. BUT WE BUY. INJUSTICE CAME BE LIKE _ THE DEPARTMENT _ STAMPED FREE. IS THAT WHAT THAT. ON ANY KIND OF DISSENT. YOU WANT TO GO WE WOULDN’T LISTEN, WE BACK TO? DIDN’T WANT TO. STILL DON’T. THINGS HAVE CHANGED. NOT ENOUGH. BUT IT ALWAYS IS. LEAVE THE LAW TO THE PEOPLE AND YOU GET BAD THE CITY’S GROWING THE DEPARTMENT’S LAW. ALMOST FASTER THAN WE SHORT ON NUMBERS. CAN HANDLE. SEVENTY-TWO WE’RE NOT GETTING ADEQUATE MILLION, MORE EVERY DAY. PRODUCTION FROM THE ACADEMY IMMIGRANTS _ REFUGEES YET. YOU THINK WE HAVE TIME _ ALL THOSE MILLIONS OF TO DRAG CREEPS THROUGH THE CITIZENS WHO SAT OUT COURTS SO THAT JURIES CHAOS SOMEWHERE CAN GIVE THEM A ELSE, RETURNING. PASS CARD? INSTANT JUSTICE, OUT HERE ON THE SLAB _ IT’S THE ONLY WAY. Sample file IF YOU COME UP WITH SOMETHING BETTER, \’LL BE THE FIRST TO APPLAUD. \ WOULD MEANWHILE EXCUSE EXPECT NOTHING ME IF \ REMAIN LESS. SCEPTICAL. KESTON KNOX, TWENTY-SEVEN, RESIDENT OF THE GENEVA ENCLAVE. DNA TRACE SHOWS HIM TO BE THE SON OF KURD LORCA. YOU’LL REMEMBER LORCA WAS THE LEADER \ THOUGHT OF YOUR MOTHER’S YOU’D WANT TO TERROR CELL. KNOW, WE HAD A HIS OWN PERSON OF INTEREST MOTHER IS KIKI THROUGH ATLANTIC KNOX, THE SCULPTOR. HOVERPORT. SHE HAS A STUDIO ON RODEO SKED. SPENDS PART OF HER YEAR HERE, PART IN THE ENCLAVE. KNOX WAS NEVER SUSPECTED OF INVOLVEMENT WITH TOTAL WAR, BUT THIS PUTS A DIFFERENT COMPLEXION ON IT. HOW WOULD A SLAB RAT LIKE LORCA COME IN CONTACT WITH A SOCIALITE LIKE HER UNLESS THROUGH A MUTUAL INTEREST? OF COURSE, IT COULD BE NOTHING. IF IT DEVELOPS, \’LL KEEP YOU INFORMED. \’M SURE YOU’D LIKE TO BE PART OF IT. TOTAL WAR HAD BEEN QUIET SINCE CHAOS. THEY TOO MUST HAVE SUSTAINED CRIPPLING LOSSES. THERE’D BEEN AN INCIDENT HERE AND THERE, BUT SMALL DEAL _ RANDOM FANATICS CLOAKING THEMSELVES IN THE TERRORISTS’ BANNER. THIS LATEST SERIES OF OUTRAGES, THOUGH, BORE ALL THEIR HALLMARKS. THE DEVASTATION WROUGHT DURING CHAOS HAD NOT TEMPERED THEIR ZEAL. THE JUDGES WERE STILL THE ENEMY. THE WAR CONTINUED. Sample file HE’D BEEN CLOSE ENOUGH ON THE THIRD OCCASION TO HEAR THE SHOTS _ WE GOT A TAIL! DREDD! WE HAVE A REPORT, \’M ON JUDGE DOWN, MOUNT SEMI! TWO PERPS IN THEM! A BLACK SLABRUNNER, LAST SEEN HEADING SOUTH ON DIXON! Sample file UHNNN!.