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It concludes here, with the inevitable clash with Judge Death, behind a cover that was not ideally laid out to avoid covering the art with words.




Henry 'Zombo' Flint takes over the interior art, to add a little more gruesome-ness (the blood looks less comical, for one thing!). Any pretence of this being the 'grounded' take on Dredd dies here as easily as a cit in Mortis' grip. Cutting this down to a third means excising a lot of the 'non-essential' deaths, so, uh 'apologies' for that?

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It now seems almost certain that 2012's Dredd movie will not be getting a sequel on the big screen. For a while though, a decade back, the Judge Dredd Megazine did run some strips directly continuing from it, and tying up Dredd's story. Having re-discovered them in the process of tidying up my Megs, I thought it's long past time to share the increasingly bizarre places it goes.



Things start out simply enough, with a hacktivist causing a little spot of bother.

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Starting off in the 'all-ages' Regened issues of 2000ad, the Mary Poppins-esque criminal Pandora Perfect (and her cockney talkin' partner-in-crime Gort) graduated to the main title eventually. Now they've moved even further up, to the supposedly even more 'adult' Megazine.

Thankfully, this has not changed the strip's style.




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Also in this issue, Department K - the 2000ad answer to the dimension-hopping Exiles or Sliders - pop over to a universe populated by robots.

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The ever so difficult question of 'do you want to spend more time in the company of Margaret Thatcher?'

The votes say Ronald goes for a nap instead.

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The Euros, Wimbledon, we're deep in sportsball season. For those bemused by the arcane rules of these activities, Al Ewing returns to 2000ad in this month's Sci-Fi Special to make things much clearer!

The conceit of this special is a mash-up of existing characters, imagining a universe slightly sideways from our own. Mr Ewing's entry combines the classic future sports strip Harlem Heroes with the titular character of his own Zombo serial.




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So, a desperate all-nighter between RR and Gorbachev may bring about global peace or guarantee mutually assured destruction.

Cross-referencing letters and numbers will determine which it is!

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AFter getting out of Nicaragua last time, Ronnie now has to keep himself composed when greeting Gorbachev at a summit.

Votes were tied 50/50, but I choose to interpret a non-voting reply as an endorsement of a wacky statement rather than a boring, formal greeting.

THE PLEASUREDOME WINS

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Vote's decided, on to the next part!

Following on from Part II, a round of voting has decided the results...



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Yes, time for the UK to vote tomorrow! Vote, vote, vote!

What better time to reflect here upon how politics was back in the eighties. Or at least, how a parody comic modelled after Fighting Fantasy gamebooks illustrated it.

How different would things be if YOU were Ronald Reagan?




Can Scans Daily stop THE BIG BANG?

Vote in the comments for choices and let's see if we can collectively prevent nuclear armageddon!!!

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If you can read this, results are in.