Essential Judge Dredd #1

Plot

Collects stories from 2000 AD (1977 IPC/Fleetway) UK 460, 531-533, 656, 750-756 and Judge Dredd Megazine (1990) 1.01-1.07. Cover by Colin MacNeil.

In Mega-City One, the Judges are the law - acting as judge, jury, and executioner. But how do the citizens really feel about a system where they are powerless? America Jara and Bennett Beeny grow up as best friends, living a fairly trouble-free life in a dangerous city... bar the odd, negative encounter with a Judge. Time draws them apart, and when they are brought back together, Beeny is a successful singer and America has become involved with a terrorist organisation known as Total War, which has the Justice Department in its sights!

This dark and complex tale, considered to be one of the best stories to ever come out of the Judge Dredd universe, has been contextualised with contemporary thematic stories with re-coloured art by Watchmen's John Higgins.

Stories include:

Letter From a Democrat

Revolution

The Devil You Know

Politics

America

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