Judge Dredd: The Complete "Apocalypse War" Including "Block Mania" (Judge Dredd S.)

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As well as the usual six rounds listed above, a stun shot has also been depicted in the comic, and a variety of other rounds have been shown in the films. A four-issue miniseries, Under Siege, began in May 2018. It is not connected with any previous IDW Judge Dredd series. There are few citizens alive today who remember the Apocalypse War ( 2000 AD progs 245 to 270). Half the population — 400 million people — died in the bloody conflict, which left 65% of Mega-City One in ruins, and the city has not been unscathed since then. For those who do remember, the war occupies a unique place in the history of Mega-City crises. Never before or since have so many lives been lost to a single enemy, and so many Mega-City citizens contributed to their own destruction. Judge Fear's powers are this taken literally. The Face of Fear is able to actually scare people to death. He also shows the ability to detect people's inner fears without even using his face and project a terrifying aura that drives people insane. IDW began a new four-issue miniseries called Judge Dredd: Year One in March 2013, set during Dredd's first year as a judge. [92]

The Devil You Know and Twilight's Last Gleaming (progs 750–753 and 754–756). The long-running tensions in Mega-City One between the totalitarian Judge system and the movement for the restoration of democracy conclude with a vote. A large number of apathetic citizens take no part in the process, while the majority of those who do vote want the Judges to remain in control. A pro-democracy protest march of almost 2 million people heads for Justice Central and is ready to riot, but Dredd convinces the leaders the referendum was fair and votes were counted accurately. During this time, Dredd undergoes "rejuve" treatment for the first time, restoring his damaged skin and muscle from "The Dead Man" story and gaining more vitality and youth than a man his age should have. America ( Megazine 1.01–1.07). Dredd's philosophy is explored when democracy activists resort to terrorism. This story introduces the tragic characters America Jara and Bennett Beeny, as well as the terrorist group Total War.Judge Giant Junior. The 1989 story "Young Giant" [75] establishes Judge Giant fathered a child in 2101 before his death, despite judges being prohibited from marrying and/or creating families. Orphaned when his mother was murdered in front of him shortly after the Apocalypse War in 2104, Giant's son "Junior" is inducted into the Academy of Law. Years later, the ten-year-old Cadet Giant is supervised on a field test by Judge Dredd, who notes the cadet performs extremely well but has unresolved rage regarding the murder of his mother. With Dredd's help, Giant Jr. brings in his mother's killer according to proper protocol rather than simply hunting the man down and executing him. Giant Jr. spends the next several years as a cadet, helping Dredd on different occasions such as during the "Necropolis" affair and "Judgement Day." Five years after his introduction, Giant Junior's final assessment is conducted by Judge Dredd and he becomes a Street Judge in 2116, the youngest to do so at age 15. [76]

Another series of books, collectively called Judges, is about the first generation of judges, and are set six decades before Dredd's first stories to appear in the comic. [116] The books, all published by Abaddon Books, are: Reliance Entertainment produced Dredd, which was released in September 2012. It was positively received by critics with Rotten Tomatoes' rating of 80%. [99] It was directed by Pete Travis and written by Alex Garland. Michael S. Murphey was co-producer with Travis. [100] Karl Urban was cast as Judge Dredd and Olivia Thirlby portrayed Judge Anderson. [101] [102] Dredd's costume was radically redesigned for the film, adding armor plates and reducing the size and prominence of the shoulder insignia. PJ Maybe was a serial killer who murdered his first victim at the age of only 12. He evaded detection several times, and claimed thousands of victims, [78] including a mayor and a deputy mayor of Mega-City One, over a criminal career lasting three decades. DC Comics published an alternative version of Judge Dredd between 1994 and 1996, lasting 18 issues. Continuity and history were different from both the original 2000 AD version and the 1995 film. A major difference was that Chief Judge Fargo, portrayed as incorruptible in the original version, was depicted as evil in the DC version. Most issues were written by Andrew Helfer, but the last issue was written by Gordon Rennie, who has since written Judge Dredd for 2000 AD (Note: the DC crossover story Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgment on Gotham featured the original Dredd, not the version depicted in this title). It was eventually discovered that the cause of the civil strife was a psychotropic agent in the city's water supply which increased people's aggression and tribal instincts simultaneously. The dissipated old roué Max Normal, who only drank shampagne and therefore remained completely aggression-free, was a vital part of this discovery. The water had been contaminated by Orlok, a spy from the Sov city of East-Meg One. Orlok compounded his offence by killing Judge Giant, Snr., a popular character whom many readers felt deserved a better death.

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During the last stretch of the journey, some of the surviving settlers break off from the main group since there's seemingly another, shorter route to the western territories. The thing is, unlike the mapped route, this area doesn't have any details about it other than a massive warning to stay out. We never get to see what's actually out there, but the settlers seemingly make it through, shortly after the remaining survivors. Except every single person on the rad wagons are dead! No injuries, no damage, no sign at all what killed everyone except the expression on their faces - they all died from fear. Despite the losses the others suffered on the way, they really did take the easier path. Whilst most of the unholy miracles that take place around the story's midpoint are comical, the last of them is genuinely disturbing, as it consists of every single teddy bear, doll or other cuddly toy in the city's limits being possessed by the vengeful soul of a recently executed psychopath. The cruelty with which the humans, both the colonist "Overlords" and the deported criminal "nubugs", rule over the Donut's native population of Skysouls is made casually evident in the fact that there are multiple torture clubs — businesses that torture, mutilate and murder "Nandies" (as they call them) on-stage for the entertainment of paying human customers. It's later established that these were created by Dennis the Complete Bloody Sadist, who killed any Overlord who tried to stop them from going into business.