SECTOR CONTROL IN THIS ISSUE FEATURES PAGES 16-19 JUDGE DREDD THE GYRE INTERROGATION Mega-City One, 2138 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America MARK SEXTON is home to 72 million citizens. With unemployment rife and crime rampant, the metropolis is a tinderbox, ready to explode. Stemming the tide of chaos are future lawmen the Judges, empowered PAGES 20-22 to dispense instant justice. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! NEW COMICS Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra CRY HAVOC DEMON NIC PART EIGHT PAGES 38-41 UK, the present day. Demons have walked alongside man since the dawn of time, humanity INTERROGATION waging war on their species. But now an uneasy peace exists between the two races, and the DARREN DOUGLAS Church operates as a quasi-military outfit to ensure no demon steps out of line. Now, demon- with-a-soul Nicodemus must stop the Singing Stone being used for nefarious purposes... Demon Nic created by Paul Grist 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 discovered experiments are being conducted on mysterious cyborgs... Galen DeMarco created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra DUST DREDD 16 Mega-City One, the cusp of the twenty-second century. Eight hundred million people are living in 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 WELCOME TO 2016, AND WE START THE NEW YEAR WITH A BRAND-NEW DREDD THRILLER FROM THE Sample file 20 Traumatown team-up of Michael Carroll and Nick Percival as the lawman sails out into the Pacific to investigate the floating commune known as The Gyre, shielded in the heart of an electromagnetic storm. Elsewhere, Paul Grist’s supernatural caper Demon Nic comes to a close, the action builds in the tense second instalments of DeMarco, P.I. and DREDD, and there are chats with artists Darren Douglas and Mark Sexton (don’t miss his terrific 2000 AD debut on the Dredd story Ghosts, currently appearing in a prog near you) as well as writer Simon Spurrier revealing all about his new Image title Cry Havoc. 38 Meanwhile, the Judge Dredd Case Files series rolls JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 368 on with the release this month of Volume 26, by which Published monthly by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. All contents © 2016 Rebellion A/S unless otherwise stated. Demon Nic point we hit 1997. Inside you’ll find the Hunting Party © 2016 Paul Grist. All rights reserved. Judge Dredd® is a registered trade- epic in which Ol’ Stoney-Face and a squad of cadets mark. Reproduction, storage in a retrieval system or transmission in any form track down a lethal pack of Dune Sharks causing chaos or by 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, in the Cursed Earth, as well as the John Smith-scripted NICK persons and/or institutions herein with those of any living or dead persons or and Siku-painted jungle jaunt that is Fetish, with Dredd PERCIVAL institutions is intended (except for satirical purposes) and any such similarity COVER ART is purely coincidental. 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ON SALE NOW // SHOP.2000ADONLINE.COM GORDON RENNIE g LEIGH GALLAGHER g PATRICK GODDARD Sample file BLOOD OF THE ICENI THE NORTH PACIFIC: GOT TO BE FAR ENOUGH _ NOT YET. THERE! Sample file THE LIGHT... MICHAEL CARROLL SCRIPT NICK PERCIVAL ART ANNIE PARKHOUSE LETTERS THE GYRE PART ONE IT’S WORKING _ THANK GRUD! YOU HAVE TO _ HUKK! AAHH _ ! COME ON, COME ON... WE’RE ONLY BARELY OUT OF THE ZONE, MISTER KRAIT _ SHE COULDN’T HAVE HAD TIME TO RECORD A MESSAGE. Sample file WE’RE TAKING HER BACK _ BUT SHE’S NEVER GOING TO RUN AGAIN. YOU BOYS WON’T FIND WHAT YOU’RE SEARCHING FOR _ _ STUFF MOSTLY THAT GETS \ STICK TO THE LOST IN THE GYRE COAST, BUT SOMETIMES TENDS TO STAY FOLKS WANNA GET OUT TO LOST. THE GYRE. DON’T MUCH LIKE THE PLACE MYSELF. \ JUST DROP ‘EM OFF AND GET OUTTA THERE. DAMN STORM IS TOO MUCH FOR THIS CRATE. THE GYRE IS WHERE MOST OF THE FLOTSAM AND SO NO JETSAM IN THE PACIFIC ENDS RADIO SIGNALS IN UP. A QUAGMIRE OF JUNK OR OUT... A HUNDRED KILOMETRES IN DIAMETER. SINCE THE ATOMIC WAR IT’S SUFFERED A CONSTANT ELECTRICAL STORM SO POWERFUL IT HYPERCHARGES THE AIR AND PREVENTS ELECTRONICS FROM FUNCTIONING. Sample file WE SCAVENGE WRECKS FOR PARTS CAPTAIN’S AND SUPPLIES. WE GOT CONFIRMED THAT NETS AND HOOKS AND A BIG NOTHING ELECTRONIC ELECTROMAGNET THAT WILL WORK IN THE GYRE, CAN HAUL A SUB IF SO LAWGIVERS ARE OUT _ IT HASTA. _ BUT HELL, WE WHAT ABOUT EVEN PICKED UP A YOUR EYES, CRASHED SATELLITE A DREDD? FEW MONTHS BACK. TRADED THAT TO THE FELLAS IN THE GYRE FOR A TONNE OF MUTUNA. THEY’RE SHIELDED. SHOULD BE OKAY. THAT’S A MID TWENTIETH- CENTURY AIRCRAFT CARRIER. IT’S YOUR WAY IN, JUDGE JOYCE _ _ WELCOME TO THE GYRE. Sample file SO, AS \ UNDERSTAND IT, THIS PLACE IS A CROSS BETWEEN A REFUGEE CAMP AND A HIPPIE A FEW COMMUNE. DIFFERENT CLANS, A LOT OF BARTERING AND SCAVENGING, AND PRETTY SHORT LIFE-EXPECTANCIES ALL ROUND. THE EXPECT INHABITANTS ARE THERE’S A FEW MUTANTS, NORMS, A FEW FUGITIVE PERPS, ALIENS, REFUGEES, TOO. KEEP YOUR DESERTERS... EYES OPEN. SO THIS IS THE GYRE... STINKS A BIT. FISH, MISTERS? GOT A NICE FRESH OCTOPUSS HERE! Sample file NOT INTERESTED. BUT WE ARE LOOKING LOOK, \ FOR INFORMATION. DON’T WANT WE’LL PAY. THIS FECKIN’ THING _ NO, HEY _ C’MON, YOU OCTOPUSS WHERE CAN’T JUST ONE MEG CRED. WOULD SOMEONE GET TAKE _ OR SEVEN FRESH HOLD OF A JUSTICE CHICKEN EGGS. DEPARTMENT MESSAGE BEST OFFER. POD? DAMN STRAIGHT UM... WE CAN. \ KNOW ABOUT FISH ONLY. YOU WANNA DON’T DISCUSS THIS WITH EVEN KNOW MISTER KRAIT, WE WHAT IS CAN ARRANGE MESSAGE THAT. POD. THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES IMPORTANT... MEANS THEY MIGHT BE BETTER PLACED TO GIVE US ANSWERS. THERE, JOYCE... THROWING THEIR WEIGHT AROUND. WE’LL DON’T, TAKE IT, AND PLEASE! JUST ANYTHING ELSE TAKE IT! THAT WE _ UNNFF! NO, YOU GOT A DEATH WISH, GOT SOME OLD MAN _ TAKIN’ QUESTIONS. US ON! Sample file.