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Judge Dredd: The Cursed EarthStart here, with Case Files 01 beforehand if you want the first year of one-offs. Dredd drives a vaccine across the nuclear wasteland to plague-hit Mega-City Two, and the journey sketches most of what lies beyond the city walls. Written largely by Pat Mills, it was the first Dredd story to run past…0 - 2
Judge Dredd: The Day the Law DiedThe first time the system turns on itself. Judge Cal murders Chief Judge Goodman and rules as a tyrant, a sharp early lesson that the city's safeguards are only as sane as whoever sits at the top. Dredd leads the resistance, and Griffin takes over as Chief Judge once Cal is dead. John Wagner…0 - 3
Judge Dredd: Judge DeathOnly three episodes, but Necropolis makes little sense without them. Judge Death reasons that crime is committed by the living, so life itself is the crime: the Judges' own logic followed to the graveyard. John Wagner and Brian Bolland made it in progs 149 to 151, reprinted in Case Files 03. His…0 - 4
Judge Dredd: The Judge ChildA psychic prediction sends Dredd across the galaxy after Owen Krysler, a boy marked to rule the city one day. It is the first epic Alan Grant co-wrote with John Wagner, and its ending is the point: Dredd abandons the child on Xanadu, a call that costs him standing back home. Progs 156 to 181, in…0 - 5
Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse WarThe hinge of the whole saga. In the prelude, Block Mania, the assassin Orlok poisons the water supply and the blocks go to war with each other; then East-Meg One's nuclear strikes kill about 400 million citizens. By the end East-Meg One is destroyed, Griffin is dead and McGruder is Chief Judge.…0 - 6
Judge Dredd: OzOfficially Dredd is in Australia to bring back Chopper, the sky-surfer who fled there. His real job is to stop Morton Judd, a former Council of Five member, and his Judda, and it ends with a nuclear bomb at Uluru. After the war epic it is a looser, stranger ride, and a reminder that other cities…0 - 7
Judge Dredd: NecropolisDredd loses faith in the system, retires, pardons the Democrats he once arrested and takes the Long Walk into the Cursed Earth. Tale of the Dead Man opens Case Files 14 and shows that turn; the fuller prelude, The Dead Man, ran in 2000 AD without Dredd's name on it and is collected separately. Then…0 - 8
Judge Dredd: AmericaRead straight after Necropolis, while Dredd's doubts are fresh. The Megazine's launch story follows two citizens caught up as democracy activists turn to terrorism, and it gives the case against the Judges more weight than anything before it. John Wagner and Colin MacNeil, Megazine volume 1 issues…0 - 9
Judge Dredd: Judgement DayThe necromancer Sabbat raises the dead worldwide and Mega-City Two is among the cities that fall. Dredd's answer is to propose nuking them, and the death toll passes two billion. It is the bleakest proof of how far the Judges will go to call something order. Garth Ennis wrote it across 2000 AD…0 - 10
Judge Dredd: WilderlandsThe Mechanismo robot judges were McGruder's pet project, and here the bill comes due. Stranded on the planet Hestia, Dredd survives only to be exposed for falsifying evidence to shut the program down, and he is arrested. The Council of Five returns and McGruder's second term ends. John Wagner…0
