SECTOR CONTROL *MSGHRHRRTD JUDGE DREDD OLD MAN TIME Mega-City One, 2134 AD. This vast urban nightmare on the east coast of post-apocalyptic EDITOR’S LETTER North America is home to 400 million citizens. With crime rampant only the Judges can pre- NEW FROM THE HOUSE OF THARG THIS MONTH IS A RANGE vent anarchy. Empowered to dispense summary justice, these lawmen are judge, jury and OF CLASSIC JUDGE DREDD EPICS REPRINTED AT B-FOR- executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! Now, he’s gone back in time... Judge Dredd created by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra MAT paperback size. For a mere £6.99 each, you can have The Cursed Earth saga or The Day the Law Died in your pocket ARMITAGE THE UNDERGROUND as 160-page collections, and these will be followed by The Brit-Cit, 2134 AD. Detective-Judge Armitage is the best plainclothes operative in the Brit-Cit Dark Judges, The Judge Child and The Apocalypse War. Aimed Justice Department, trawling the seamy underbelly of a rotten state. Often clashing with the squarely at the mass-market bookshelves, hopefully these bureaucracy that he sees as hindering any CID investigation, he’s also arrogant, opinionated and stubborn. Now, Judge Dredd has arrived in Brit-Cit, tracking stolen technology... compact, convenient, easy-on-the-wallet volumes will be a Armitage created by David Bishop, Dave Stone & Sean Phillips handy inroad for the newcomer to Dredd looking to read some AMERICAN REAPER of his most famous stories before the movie’s released. PART FIVE Sizewise, they’re not that dissimilar to the vast swathes New York City, 2062. Fifty years in the future, identity theft has taken a new and deadly of manga titles that can occupy one whole wall of your local twist – victims have their minds and personalities erased and their bodies stolen. 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JUDGE SHERMAN BACK TO WHERE THE DROKK THE YEAR 2101 _ WHERE DID YOU COME SHERMAN IS ATTEMPTING TO FROM? PREVENT HIS FOUR-YEAR-OLD SELF FROM BEING ARRESTED... MICHAEL CARROLL SCRIPT JUST NICK DYER DROP THE ART LADDER! CHRIS BLYTHE COLOURS ANNIE PARKHOUSE LETTERS NO CAN DO, PART 02 JUDGE. DREDD’S OLD MAN TIME ORDERS _ GOTTA STICK WITH HIM. WE’RE GOING AFTER THAT LAWMASTER! Sample file STOMM. SHERMAN WILL TRY AGAIN. BETTER STAY CLOSE TO WHAT THE KID. WAS THAT? NOTHING. JUST GET ME INSIDE. NO YOU DON’T, YOUR HIGHNESS! AAHH! THEN \ ORDER YOU TO YOU’D BETTER YOU _ LET ME GO! \’M ARREST ME FOR WHAT’S YOUR THE KING! TREASON. NAME? YOU’RE JUDGE, OUT OF UNIFORM, UH... HELLMAN. JUDGE HELLMAN. SORRY, DREDD. SNAGGED MY CHAIN GETTING THROUGH THE WINDOW. LET ME GO, JUDGE DREDD! \ WARN YOU _ THE BOMBS WILL START GOING OFF AT FOUR O’CLOCK! BRING THAT CONTROL BOX, SampleHELLMAN. file ARREST THE PARENTS _ SHERMAN’S TOO SMALL TO HAVE PHYSICALLY PLANTED THE BOMBS HIMSELF. GOOD THINKING, HELLMAN. ONCE. LONG TIME DON’T AGO. THINK WE’VE MET BEFORE, HAVE WE? HESITATED FIRE UP THE WHEN \ ASKED STRESS MONITOR, SLOWING LET ME SHUT UP, YOU YOUR GO! PUNK. HELLMAN. NAME _ DOWN, HELLMAN? CAN HAPPEN TO A LOT OF JUDGES AROUND YOUR AGE. PILOT _ TAKE US UP. ALL RIGHT, SON _ Sample file YOU CAN’T HURT ME _ \’M A KID! \’M ONLY FOUR YEARS OLD! THAT JUST MAKES IT EASIER STRESS TO HURT YOU, MONITORS DON’T CREEP. WORK ON ME! \’M TOO SMART _ \ KNOW YOU HOW TO BEAT PLANTED FIVE THEM! H-BOMBS IN MY CITY... WE’LL SEE ABOUT THAT. \ WANT TO BOMB ON KNOW WHICH BOMB THE ROOF OF WILL GO OFF FIRST, ANDY STEWART ALBERT. BOMB IN BLOCK... SECTOR 7... BOMB IN THE BASEMENT OF WILKES WAREHOUSE... HIGH READINGS THERE, DREDD. THAT’S THE ONE! DROKK... Sample file GET US THERE, PILOT _ TOP SPEED! CONTROL _ DREDD. BEGIN IMMEDIATE EVAC WITHIN A FIVE-BLOCK RADIUS OF ANDY STEWART! DROP US Y-YOU’VE HERE AND CLEAR SMASHED THE OFF! CONTROLS! NOW THE BOMBS WILL GO OFF AUTOMATICALLY! ONE AN HOUR, STARTING WITH THIS ONE! NO TURNING BACK NOW, SON _ YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DEFUSE THEM SAFELY! CIRCLE THE BUILDING, PILOT. BUT \ KNOW DREDD’S WHAT HIS ORDER ORDER _ WAS. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT MY ORDER IS. DO IT. Sample file SEE, SON, THERE’S ONE THING THINK YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT IT. YOU’VE ABOUT POWER. IT’S NOT GOT FORTY-ONE MUCH FUN IF YOU’RE MINUTES... ROT YOU, NOT AROUND TO DREDD! \ SHOULD ENJOY IT. HAVE BEEN KING! AND NOW \ WILL BE! THIS IS BLACKMAIL! NOT ON MY UHNN! WATCH! FOR THIRTY-TWO YEARS \’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A WAY TO UNDO WHAT YOU DID TO ME! MORE THAN AND SMART YOU’VE SMART ENOUGH ENOUGH TO KNOW BEEN CARRYING TO FOOL THE THAT YOU DIDN’T HAVE THAT GRUDGESample ALL filePSYCHS. TIME TO CONFIGURE THIS THIS TIME? PSYCH MARK \ LAWGIVER TO REPORTS SHOULD YOUR PALM PRINT HAVE PICKED _ ANYONE CAN THAT UP. USE IT! YOU FORGET HOW SMART \ AM, DREDD!.