SECTOR CONTROL In this issue JUDGE DREDD THE CALL OF K. CATTRALL EDITOR’S LETTER Mega-City One, 2136 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North BEFORE 1995, THE NEAREST 2000 AD READERS GOT America is home to 50 million citizens. In the wake of the Chaos Bug, the city is trying to TO A JUDGE DREDD MOVIE WAS 1987’S ROBOCOP, A recover. Crime is rampant, and the Judges are empowered to dispense summary justice. These NIGHTMARISH plunge into a dystopian near-future in which lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! social breakdown and rising crime lead to the creation of Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra a new breed of police officer – rigid, emotionless, more DEMARCO, P.I. THE WHISPER machine than man. With its uncompromising violence, SovSec, the ruins of Mega-City Two, 2136 AD. Galen DeMarco was once a Judge, a rising star witty media satire, and pointed attacks on corporate operating out of the corrupt dumping ground that was Sector House 301. But she quit the America, Paul Verhoeven’s masterpiece – we’re talking top force after one romantic indiscretion too many and set herself up as a private investigator. ten films here, so only superlatives will suffice – felt more Now, people are going missing in the newly established SovSec in MC-2... in common with Ol’ Stoney-Face as we know him than the Galen DeMarco created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra official lumbering Stallone vehicle than turned up eight ORDINARY PART SIX years later. Indeed, it comes as no surprise that Dredd DNA Queens, New York, 2013. Plumber Michael Fisher is nothing special, a man you’d pass in the was stranded through the original RoboCop movie for co- street and barely notice. Separated from his wife, and with a young son, he’s aware that his writer Ed Neumeier reveals in Calum Waddell’s overview 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... of the franchise that he was looking to the Dredd comics Ordinary created by Rob Williams & D’Israeli for the tone of the piece, keeping the dark humour that has always been present in the strip. It was a wise decision, for ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION DEAD END it elevates the film leagues above other SF actioners of the 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, time, and RoboCop remains an intelligent, exciting, moving, it is at the forefront in the war against supernatural crime. Cass Anderson is Psi-Div’s top and funny movie – just like the best Dredd stories... 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 PHIL WINSLADE Sample file COVER ART MATT SMITH EDITOR Features PYE + SAM GRETTON DESIGN & PRODUCTION PAGES 16-19 SCREEN STORY RoboCop PAGES 20-22 NEW COMICS The Royals: Masters of War JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 345 Published monthly by Rebellion, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES. All contents © 2014 Rebel- PAGES 52-53 lion A/S unless otherwise stated. Ordinary © 2014 Rob Williams & D’Israeli. OBITUARY 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 Jose Ortiz whole or part without prior permission of Rebellion A/S is strictly forbidden. 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THARG’S FUTURE SHOP SHOP.2000ADONLINE.COM SUBSCRIPTIONS, BACK ISSUES & MERCHANDISE 01621 877250 16 20 ADVERTISING SALES Keith Richardson 01865 792201 3 g WWW.2000ADONLINE.COM P.03 (345 CONTENTS).indd 3 31/01/2014 12:34 JUDGE DREDD COMPACT COLLECTIONS Graphic NovelsFEBRUARY THE SOLO MISSIONS by Pat Mills, Alan Moore, Henry Flint & more THE BATMAN/JUDGE DREDD COLLECTION ABC WARRIORS by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Simon Bisley, Cam Kennedy & more THE SOLO MISSIONS Sample file PAT MILLS g ALAN MOORE g STEVE DILLON g KEV WALKER g HENRY FLINT NEW PAPERBACK! ISBN: 978-1-78108-226-3 g Paperback g 96 pages g £13.99 ISBN: 978-1-78108-225-6 g Paperback g 304 pages g £17.99 On sale now! On sale now! THEY ARE THE ULTIMATE FIGHTING FORCE – SEVEN ATOMIC, BACTERIAL AND CHEMICAL-PROOF MEGA-CITY ONE’S TOUGHEST LAWMAN COLLIDES WITH GOTHAM CITY’S DARK KNIGHT! ALL FOUR robots who are trying to tame the planet Mars. As a team they are undefeatable, but how do they fare Batman/Dredd stories have been collected into one volume, alongside Dredd vs Lobo, now available when operating alone? Joe Pineapples shows why he is considered the galaxy’s greatest (and most in paperback. Batman and Dredd meet head-on when Judge Death sets his sights on Gotham City stylish) assassin as he targets the president of the world; the origin of Blackblood’s treacherous in Judgement on Gotham; there’s a desperate fight to stop the Ventriloquist in Vendetta in Gotham; nature is finally revealed; Deadlock returns to a Torquemada-free Termight on a mission to stop the Riddler lures our heroes into a deadly trap in The Ultimate Riddle; and Die Laughing sees the the alien-killer known as the Accountant; and Hammerstein finds hostile life on the Red Planet! Joker travelling to Mega-City One, intent on becoming the fifth Dark Judge! WWW.2000ADONLINE.COM // TO PURCHASE 2000 AD SUBSCRIPTIONS, BACK ISSUES AND MERCHANDISE CALL: 01621-877-250 OR VISIT SHOP.2000ADONLINE.COM P.10 (GNS AD FEB 2014).indd 1 22/01/2014 14:09 It’s the ocean... but different: primal, ancient. The water \’m deeper now. The water is Some kind of symbols. is blood-warm. Hallucinogenia scuttle away on ragged colder. The ocean floor gives way Familiar yet unfamiliar. claws as the current pulls me to my destination. to an abyss, and \ see something glinting down in the darkness. ZHENG? WE HAVE YOU DOWN AS AVAILABLE. SHOULD WE UPDATE? NEGATIVE. WE HAVE JUST FILLING IN A HOMICIDE, MY DREAM LOG _ KIM CATTRALL STANDARD PSI-DIV BLOCK. A PSI HAS BEEN REQUESTED. PROCEDURE. INVESTIGATING JUDGE IS DREDD. Sample file ARTHUR WYATT SCRIPT PAUL DAVIDSON ART THE CALL OF CHRIS BLYTHE COLOURS K. CATTRALL PART ONE ANNIE PARKHOUSE LETTERS P.05-14 (DREDD-CATTRALL 1).indd 5 31/01/2014 10:44 VICTIM’S NAME IS ZAC GAMMELL, CEO OF GAMMELL \’M ON INDUSTRIES. SO FAR WE HAVE IT! NO WITNESSES, NOTHING ON SURVEILLANCE, NO PRINTS OR RESIDUAL DNA. NO SIGN OF FORCED ENTRY, NOTHING TAKEN. HE HAD PLENTY OF ENEMIES, BUSINESS RIVALS MOSTLY... ...BUT NONE THAT STAND OUT AS LIKELY TO DO THIS. Sample file P.05-14 (DREDD-CATTRALL 1).indd 6 31/01/2014 10:44 NOT YET. HAS HIS HEAD BEEN FOUND? PITY. IF FIGURED YOU BRING IN WHAT’S THAT WOULD GET YOUR A MIND READER IT THIS? INTEREST. IT’S THE VICTIM’S HELPS TO HAVE OWN BLOOD. WHATEVER THE ONE OF THOSE SIGN IS IT DOESN’T MATCH AROUND. ANYTHING IN OUR DATABASES. \ RECOGNISE IT FROM SOMEWHERE... Sample file THERE’S THEY’RE DEFINITELY HERE! THE ANGER. SOMEONE KILLER, OR SOMEONE IT MEANS CLOSE TO THEM _ ‘THIEF’, ‘USURPER’, DEFENDING SOMETHING WATCHING THE SOMETHING LIKE APARTMENT! THAT. PRECIOUS TO THEM. WAIT, SOMETHING ELSE... P.05-14 (DREDD-CATTRALL 1).indd 7 31/01/2014 10:44 YOU THERE! STOP! HSSSSSS! DROKK _ ! Sample file FIRST HEADING PERP IS DOWN. THE HIM OFF! OTHER IS HEADED FOR THE INTRA-LEVEL STAIRWELL. 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