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Almost THREE YEARS AGO we got a crossover where regular Judge Dredd met the Stallone movie Dredd. Now, in this latest issue of the Megazine, they cross over again.

But this time, Stallone's got CLONES...




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The movie was grounded. There were sci-fi drugs and psychics, but it was mostly grounded.

The previous movie sequel comic introduced robots, but they were definitely drones rather than sentient beings, so still, yeah, grounded.

Now, we get to the point where perps have plasma cannons and collapsible Swooping Hawk wings. Also, blood in the future is thick like emulsion paint.

New logo since last time.



Plus, the continuing adventures of that hacker guy from the movie!

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John Wagner returns once again to the character he co-created, with a story about them pesky robots...




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Dan Abnett and Richard Elson are having way too much D&D fun with Wrath & Bode going dungeon crawling...

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A couple of 'oh, judges' moments, one from Dredd himself, and one from Deadworld's Judge Eastwood:

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And finally, the 'what you need to read to catch up' page has a QR code if anyone wants to read the first volume of Ian Edgington and d'Israeli's Helium - a cloudpunk story of a society living above the now-toxic surface of Earth - for free:

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Sometimes, a Judge does get a little self-reflective.

Of course, it doesn't go well.

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Alan Grant deals with the theme of Evil Incarnate, ably illustrated by Arthur Ranson. 19 pages from a story of 57, so unfortunately many, many pages vistas of Satanic majesty omitted, but then this is for the writing, not the art, so let's just cut to Anderson following in the footsteps of all those famous figures that managed to challenge and outwit the Devil -



Sorry! My mistake. Anyway, the story also ends with perhaps the most compassionate little speech Judge Dredd will ever make.

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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.

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