Mega City One dealt with a Pandemic ten years ago

[shakalooloo]

Ten years ago to this day I picked up 2000ad again after seeing the following cover in the newsagents:



Who could say no to the Dark Judges coming back after so long away? Since then of course, in less than a decade they've reached over-saturation through the disappointing 'Dark Justice' and overly-fanservicy 'Fall of Deadworld'. Still, back then, ten years ago: awesome.

The Dark Judges are not in the scans that follow.

They crop up in the storyline that features - Chaos Day - but they are a minor part of events. Just goes to show how big a story it was, taking up most of a year as Mega City One deals with a pandemic and has to take measures to handle it. In some ways, eerily prescient of what has happened recently in the real world, in others, thankfully fanciful.















































Written by John Wagner, art variously by Henry Flint, Ben Willsher and Colin MacNeil

Comments

[blues32]

Shoulda been honest from the start.

[shakalooloo]

Ain't that always the way? Yet no-one in power ever goes for it.

[cainofdreaming]

They've gone from one billion to, what, 30 or 40 million? And this in the city with Dredd in it. It doesn't really bode well for the long term survival of the human race, does it?

[shakalooloo]

Prog 1792 contents page description: "Mega-City One, 2134 AD. Home to 400 million citizens".

Prog 1793 contents page description: "Mega-City One, 2134 AD. Home to 50 million citizens".

Census took a bit of a cut.

[tinygaylaura]

I know the Dark Judges especially Judge Death have become overused as time went on but I'm still sad we never got that Dredd sequel that was going to have the Dark Judges as the villains

I bet it would have done them justice

No pun intended honest. Punning about the Dark Judges gets you ten years in an iso-cube

[shakalooloo]

Just pop a helmet on Bruce Spence and job's a good 'un.