I’ll admit now, I love 2000AD. I love the thinly veiled political satire, the weird fiction and the sci-fi. It’s nigh impossible to talk about 2000AD, one of the few things I think good enough for me to maintain an ongoing subscription to, without talking about Judge Dredd. I’ll start at the beginning for those of you who are unfamiliar with the character. Dredd is not a superhero. A few people I’ve mentioned him to have had this misconception so I’ll deal with it first. He simply isn’t when the world he lives in is taken into context. The world of Judge Dredd is a post-nuclear dystopia in which the remains of humanity have

gathered themselves into huge metropolitan centres, thousands of miles large known as Mega Cities. Mega City One is Judge Dredd’s home. To keep law and order in the big Megs humanity has more or less signed itself over to an unquestionable, indisputable police state. This authority takes its form as the Justice Department, and it’s judges. Judges are people that have been trained from childhood to enforce the law and are able to act as judge jury and, if necessary, executioner. They are armed with the Continue reading “Concerning Judge Dredd” →