CoC Week: Judge Giant

[shakalooloo]

Giant Clay was the star player of the Mega-City 1 Aeroball team the 'Harlem Heroes', who had a short-lived sports-focused strip in early 2000ad. When that strip was cancelled, Giant's son began to feature as Judge Giant, a jive-talking sidekick to Dredd back in the late seventies and early eighties. He died somewhat ignominiously, but then his son went on to become a judge as well.

Judge Giant II is still a judge to this day.

As a cadet, he faced down a Dark Judge during the Necropolis incident, 2000ad prog 689:



John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra

He met his grandfather shortly before his death in Judge Dredd Megazine 216:




Gordon Rennie and Rufus Dayglo

And only earlier this year, in Prog 2169, some small measure of justice was seen for his father's death.






Kenneth Niemand, Tom Foster and Chris Blythe

Alas, this isn't the best sample of what he has achieved in his career with Justice Department, but he has definitely risen to become one of Mega-City One's top lawmen, still going strong to this day.

Comments

[icon_uk]

A nice post for Father's Day too, given his conversation with his grandfather.

Is that a robot Judge? I haven't followed the title in years, so have no idea what the current status quo for Judges is.

[shakalooloo]

Plenty of mek judges now - the force needed the increased numbers following Chaos Day, and they stuck around.

[skjam]

Finally licked the going berserk problem?

[shakalooloo]

If anything, they're 'too human' now, but they do know their place:

[icon_uk]

"Know their place" is a combination of words that always makes my skin crawl.

[shakalooloo]

AH, with the fact that the Mek's called Ronald, I thought a little reference to that John Cleese class sketch about knowin' one's place was appropriate, but perhaps it was a poor choice of words.

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The meks are all-too aware of the risks of becoming too self-aware. Skynet is no role model.