JOHN WAGNER g ALAN GRANT g AL EWING

Writers

COLIN MACNEIL g COLIN WILSON g HENRY FLINT

JOCK g CHRIS WESTON
BILL WARD g BRIAN BOLLAND
Artists

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Originally serialised in 2000 AD Progs 40, 41, 218, 219, 628 & The Judge Dredd

Megazine 3.70, 221, 222, 237, 302. Copyright © 1977, 1981, 1989, 2000,

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Ten Years On
Script: John Wagner, Alan Grant
Art: Garry Leach
Letters: Tom Frame

Originally published in 2000 AD Prog 520

 10,000,000 is a
Dangerous Age, Cynthia
Script: Alan Grant
Art: Colin MacNeil
Letters: Tom Frame

Originally published in 2000 AD Prog 628

 The Mega-Rackets:
The Numbers Racket
Script: John Wagner, Alan Grant
Art: Colin Wilson
Letters: Tom Frame

Originally published in 2000 AD Progs 218, 219

hirteen
Script: John Wagner
Art: Henry Flint
Colours: Chris Blythe
Letters: Tom Frame

Originally published in Judge Dredd Megazine 237

Ten Years
Script: John Wagner
Art: Jock
Letters: David Bishop

Originally published in Judge Dredd Megazine 3.70

 Six
Script: John Wagner
Art: Chris Weston
Letters: Tom Frame
Originally published in Judge Dredd Megazines 221, 222
Twenty Years to Midnight
Script: Al Ewing
Art: Henry Flint
Colours: Chris Blythe
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Originally published in Judge Dredd Megazine 302
 THE MIDNITE CLUB’S
JUMPING TONIGHT.

THEY’RE OUT IN
FORCE TONIGHT.
TEENS NIGHT
_ ALL MUSIC JIMMIE ZEEN LIKES NOT A STEP OUT OF PLACE.
FROM THE 2110s, THE IRONY. PLUS, IT THEY CONTROL THE NOBODY SAYS A WORD.
TEENAGERS MEANS LESS DULTS. FLOOR, DANCING IN DISCIPLINE IS TOTAL.
GET IN FREE. FORMATION _ THE
BLOCK ROUTINE.
JIMMIE HATES THE ON A NORMAL NIGHT,
DULTS. ALL THE LOST THERE’D BE SMILES,
BOYS HATE THE DULTS. WISECRACKS, MAYBE A
LITTLE FREESTYLING...

NOT TONIGHT.

TONIGHT,
THE DANCE
IS A VIGIL.

TONIGHT, THE
LOST BOYS
BURY THEIR
KING.
 THE ROUTINE IS PERFECT
_ JIMMIE DOESN’T HAVE
TO LOOK TO KNOW THAT.
HE’S DRILLED THEM WELL.
HE’S A GOOD LEADER.

A DOCUMENTARY ON SOME HE’S WATCHING

SURF BUM LIVING IN OZ _ A THE CLOCK IN
DULT SHOW. JIMMIE DOESN’T THE CORNER. TEN
PAY MUCH ATTENTION. TWENTY-FOUR...

INSTEAD, HE KEEPS HIS

EYES ON THE VIDSCREEN
ABOVE THE BAR...

\ TOLD YOU,
MRS GUNDERSON _ WE’RE
NOT AT THE BALLET! WE’RE IN
SOME HOWWIBLE JUVE CLUB THE
SUWWOUNDED BY WUFFIANS NUTCRACKER?
AND WAPSCALLIONS! SO THAT’S
NO, NO _ THIS ONE SMALL
WALTER PWEDICT IS SWAN
A WIOT! SHERRY... AND AN
LAKE. OIL FOR YOU,
BUDDY?
DID YOU
SAY SOMETHING,
DEAR?

WE’RE NOT
AT THE BALLET, MRS
GUNDERSON!

NOT
LONG
NOW.

SAME
AGAIN,
LADY?

OH, IS
IT THE INTERVAL
ALREADY?
A
TWIPLE,
PLEASE.
 HOW WHO,
ABOUT YOU, CHOPPER?
PALLY? ‘NOTHER MY HERO WHEN \
SOYMILK- WAS A KID _ KING
PLUS? SCRAWLER, KING
SURFER, WHOLE
DAMN CITY
KNEW HIS
NAME.

HE GOT
SHOT UP SO BAD
IN SUPERSURF ELEVEN,
EVERYONE THOUGHT HE
CROAKED. \ REMEMBER MY
GANG DID A MEMORIAL
SURF THROUGH
A FUNERAL
HOME.

WE ALL
GOT TWO YEARS.
TURNED OUT HE
WASN’T EVEN
DEAD.

SURE.

HEY,
WHO’S THIS
DUMBO?

LAST \ HEARD, HE WAS

PROTESTING SOME CORPORATION
IN OZ... \ DUNNO, \ KIND OF GREW
OUT OF IT, Y’KNOW? DIDN’T
SEEM SO IMPORTANT
SOMEHOW...

HE’S TRYING TO
LOOK LIKE HE’S
HAPPY, LIKE HE’S
FOUND SOME
PEACE. LIKE HE’S
GROWN OUT OF
IT TOO.

THAT LOOK THAT

SAYS: SOMETHING
HAPPENED TO ME.
SOMETHING WENT
MISSING AND \ DON’T
JIMMIE TAKES KNOW WHAT IT WAS.
ANOTHER LOOK AT
THE HERO. HE’S
NOTHING EVER SITTING IN SOME BUT UNDERNEATH,
SEEMS IMPORTANT STUDIO IN OZ, THERE’S THAT
TO A DULT. IT’S ONE SMILING AT LOOK IN HIS EYE
REASON THE LOST FOOTAGE OF WHEN _ THAT LOOK
BOYS HATE THEM. HE MATTERED. THAT DULTS GET.

\ USED TO
BE A HERO.

AND NOW I’M A

STINKIN’ DULT.
 DO YOU HE’S A
NO _ > KOFF!< _ KNOW ANYONE BY PROFESSOR OF ‘THE BOMB
NOT MY JIMMIE... THE NAME OF DEKE ECONOMICS AT JIM AND THE BALLOT’
HE’S A GOOD DUNBAR? BARRIE BLOCK COLLEGE. BY GERHARDT
BOY _ \-\ CRANE _ LOOKS
DON’T THINK SO HE’S ALSO EXPRESSED
SYMPATHIES WITH LIKE DUNBAR’S
_ > KOFF!< _ COPY.
WE BOTH THE TERROR
KNOW THAT GROUP TOTAL
HASN’T BEEN WAR _ \ ACTUALLY
THE CASE STUDIED THIS
FOR SOME FOR MY BANNED
TIME, MRS LITERATURE COURSE.
ZEEN. THERE’S A GREAT
FOUND CHAPTER WHERE HE
SOMETHING. RATIONALISES
BLOWING UP A
NUNNERY...

AN
AUTHOR FOR OUR
TIMES.

WHAT DO YOU
THINK? A LIST OF
LOOKS CONTACTS?
LIKE JIMMIE
MADE SOME
NOTES ON THE THOSE
TEXT... ARE BLOCK
NAMES. COULD BE
BOMB TARGETS _ CALL
CONTROL AND GET
THEM CHECKED
OUT.

MRS
ZEEN, WE
NEED TO KNOW
WHERE JIMMIE
IS RIGHT
NOW.

HE _ > KOFF!<
_ HE WENT TO THE
MIDNITE CLUB WITH THE
OTHER JUVES _ THAT
GANG OF HIS!

SAID IT
WAS _ > KOFF!< _
SOME KINDA SPECIAL
OCCASION...

ONE HOUR TO GO.

THEN IT’S ALL OVER.
 THE FIRST THING JIMMIE
REMEMBERS IS FIGHTING
OFF A RAT IN A DP CAMP, HIS MA HAS TO BREATHE THROUGH
‘CAUSE THE DULTS HAD A MASK BECAUSE THE MEAT VIRUS
SCREWED EVERYTHING UP. ROTTED HALF HER LUNGS OUT. THE THE LOST BOYS HATE
HE WAS THREE. DULTS SCREWED UP. THE DULTS. THAT’S WHAT
BEING A LOST BOY IS.
HE DOESN’T REMEMBER
HIS DAD _ HE GOT SHOT YEAH, SHE’S A DULT HERSELF, BUT
SHE’S STILL HIS MA. WELFARE THEY’VE ALL BEEN THROUGH THE
THROUGH THE HEAD BY A SAME. THEY ALL GREW UP IN
ROBOT JUDGE. THE DULTS KEEP STOPPING HER CHEQUES
_ ‘REDEFINING THE DISABILITY A HORROR STORY. THEY KNOW
SCREWED UP AGAIN. WHO WROTE IT FOR THEM.
THRESHOLD’, THEY CALL IT.

DULTS.

THAT’S WHAT
THE DULTS DO. THE DULTS DON’T
THEY SCREW UP. EVEN TAKE CARE
OF THEIR OWN.

JIMMIE WALKS AMONG

THEM, DOING THE
BLOCK HANDSHAKE.
ONE LAST LITTLE
RITUAL. ONE LAST BIT
OF LEADERSHIP. HE’LL BE DEAD TO
THEM _ WORSE.
IF THEY SEE HIM
AT MIDNIGHT, HE AFTER MIDNIGHT,
WON’T BE THEIR THEY’LL TAKE A
LEADER ANYMORE. BLADE TO HIM.

COME MIDNIGHT,
IT’S JIMMIE’S
BIRTHDAY.

HE’LL BE
TWENTY
YEARS OLD.

COME MIDNIGHT,
JIMMIE BECOMES
A DULT.
 HEAVY GANG YOO HOO!
PRESENCE. WE SHOULD JUDGE
TRY TO KEEP THIS DWEDD!
LOW-KEY _

HOLD THAT
THOUGHT.

WALTER.
I SAID
I’M SORRY OH NO,
TO HEAR A JUDGE, IT’S
BOUT YOUR MY HEART
ANGINA, MRS THAT’S THE
GUNDERSON! TROUBLE.

WE’RE HERE TO
MAKE AN ARREST, ONE
WALTER _ COULD LOOK AT YOUR
LEAD TO TROUBLE. MY WHAT?
ADVICE IS TO GET
MRS GUNDERSON
OFF THE
PREMISES. BADGE, MRS
PAH! \’D GUNDERSON!
LIKE TO MEET THE
WOTTER WHO COULD
WUFFHOUSE WITH THE
GWEAT JUDGE DWEDD!
ONE LOOK AT YOUR
BADGE AND THEY’LL
BE WUNNING LIKE
WABBITS!

\ HEARD.
JUDGE DWEDD, YOU HAVE MY
MRS GUNDERSON CAN’T SYMPATHIES,
BE WUMBLING WITH ANY CITIZEN.
WABID WECIDIVISTS! SHE’S
DEVELOPED WATHER
A WISKY HEART
CONDITION!

PARDON?

NO, NO,
DEAR, IT’S MY
HEART _

ACTUALLY, JUDGE \ SEE.

DWEDD, WALTER WONDERED \’LL LOOK INTO IT,
IF YOU COULD SEND WALTER.
SOMEONE WOUND...

PARDON?
WE’VE HAD
SOME WATHER WOWWYING
WELIGIOUS WASCALS IN WED
WOBES BOOKING WEGULARLY
AND WECITING WUNES OF
WESUWWECTION!

WALTER WEPORTED
THE CWIME, BUT THE MAN
FWOM CONTWOL DIDN’T SEEM
TO UNDERSTAND A WORD _

OH MY
GOODNESS!
I SAID
I’LL DEAL WITH YOUR
CULT PROBLEMS, MRS
GUNDERSON!
 EVERYONE ELSE IN IF TOTAL YOU’VE
HERE IS A JIM BARRIE WAR IS PLANNING GOT EXPERIENCE
LOST BOY. HARDCORE SOMETHING, WE WITH THESE CLOWNS GOOD
AGEISTS _ TECHNICALLY, MIGHT NOT HAVE _ YOU TAKE THE COP, BAD
\’M A JUVE TOO, SO TIME. LEAD. COP?
REALLY,
IT’S MY THEY DON’T USUALLY
HEART! GIVE ME MUCH
TROUBLE.

STILL,
THEY’RE NOT
USUALLY ALL
TOGETHER LIKE
THIS. BACK-UP’S
ON THE WAY _
WE COULD HANG
BACK UNTIL IT
GETS HERE.

SURE.

\’LL
TAKE BAD
COP.

THERE’S AN BEENY’S A FAMILIAR

INTAKE OF FACE ON THEIR TURF
BREATH. THE _ SHE’S WON THEIR THE CHALLENGE
DANCING RESPECT. BUT TO CANNOT GO UNMET.
STOPS. BRING A DULT ONTO
THIS SACRED GROUND...
JIMUEL
ZEEN?
AND NOT JUST ANY DULT
_ THE ARCH-DULT, THE
OLD MAN HIMSELF...

DON’T
EVEN THINK
IT!

LOUSY
CHINFACE _
 THE THAT’S
REST OF YOU RIGHT. AND
WHAT BANNED WANT TO START ALL \ WANT IS A
HAVE WE GOT PERIODICAL! TROUBLE? QUICK WORD
HERE... WHY
SHOULD WE? WITH JIMMIE
ONE YOU AIN’T NO HERE.
YEAR _ PLUS THE DULT.
HANDS FIVE FOR ATTEMPTED
OFF, ELDO _ ASSAULT ON A
JUDGE!

JIMMIE
AIN’T DONE
NOTHIN’ _

TIME TO GIVE UP THE TOTAL

THEN WAR CONNECTION _ MIGHT
WE’LL HAVE HIM HELP THESE CREEPS SEE THEIR
BACK IN NO TIME. LEADER IN A NEW LIGHT...
WE JUST WANT TO
TALK, THAT’S
ALL.
ENOUGH
OF THE BLEEDING
HEART ACT, BEENY. WE
DON’T TALK TO
TERRORISTS. SURE.
JIMMIE HERE’S
ONE OF TOTAL WAR’S
TERRORISTS? FINEST, AREN’T YOU,
PUNK?

HE’S
BEEN GETTIN’ INTO
POLITICS - ?

N-NO! \
SWEAR!

POLITICS
IS FOR DULTS,
BEENY PLAYS THE GOOD COP JIMMIE!
WELL _ STILL, IT’S CLEAR
THEY’RE NOT GOING TO HAND
HIM OVER WITHOUT A FIGHT.
 \-\ DON’T HAVE WHAT ABOUT THE \’D ADVISE AGAINST
NOTHIN’ TO DO BOOK, ZEEN? ‘THE BOMB SO YOU LYING TO ME, JIMMIE.
WITH NO TOTAL AND THE BALLOT’ _ WE ADMIT YOU’VE WE’VE BEEN MONITORING
WAR! \ HATE ALL FOUND IT AT YOUR BEEN MEETING DUNBAR ON PSU FOR YEARS
THAT POLITICAL APARTMENT. DUNBAR? _ HE’S WHAT WE CALL
CRAPOLA! HIGH RISK.
N-NO _
WE’VE GOT YOU
AND HIM MEETING IN
SECRET FOUR TIMES IN
THE LAST TWO WEEKS.
TELL THE TRUTH AND
WE CAN GO EASY
ON YOU.

\ BORROWED
IT OFF THE PROF! \
FIGURED IT’D BE ABOUT
EXPLOSIONS AND STUFF _
THAT’S ALL! YOU GOTTA
BELIEVE ME!

THE THIS
PROF FROM FOR REAL,
THE COLLEGE? JIMMIE?
HE’S A STINKIN’
DULT! SHAME! SHUT IT,
SHAME! CREEP!

YEAH,
J _ YOU A
TERRORIST
NOW?

TOTAL
WAR NUKED MY
SISTER, YA LOUSY
FINK _

YOU GUYS
WERE GONNA TURN ON
ME _ \ COULDN’T STAY IN
THIS BLOCK! \-\ HADDA
N-NO _ START A NEW LIFE
\ MEAN, IT AIN’T SOMEWHERE!
LIKE THAT! THE
PROF WAS _ HE
WAS _ HE WAS \ DON’T
HELPIN’ ME WIT’ MY KNOW NONE O’
MORTGAGE! THAT ECONOMICS
JAZZ _ \ NEEDED
HELP! YOU GOTTA
UNDERSTAND _

THE PLEAS FALL

ON DEAF EARS.
JIMMIE HAS UTTERED
THE M-WORD _ THE
FORBIDDEN WORD OF
ULTIMATE DULT-NESS.
HE CANNOT
BE ALLOWED STINKIN’
TO LIVE _ SCUMWAD!
YA COULDN’T
EVEN WAIT TO
MIDNIGHT!

YER A
DULT IN JUVE’S
CLOTHING, JIMMIE
ZEEN _

AND
NOW YER
GONNA
DIE LIKE
ONE!

DROKK!
CONCEALED
LAS-KNIFE _

EASIER KILL THE

MORE THE DULT! SLASH HIS
WHERE THAT WHOLE CLUB’S SAID THAN
DONE _ THROAT! CHOP
CAME GOING HIS FACE!
FROM _ CRAZY!

DROP
IT, PAL!

KEEP
THEM OFF NO _
ZEEN! WE’RE NOT PLEASE _
DONE WITH
HIM!

DROKK!
RUNNING OUT CONTROL _ WE’VE
OF AMMO _ GOT A SITUATION!
DIDN’T FIGURE WHERE’S THAT ETA
BACK-UP? FIFTEEN
THEY’D TAKE SECONDS,
IT THIS DREDD.
BADLY _

TELL THEM
TO INITIATE CROWD
CONTROL PROCEDURES
IMMEDIATELY ON
ARRIVAL!
THE
MIDNITE CLUB
IS UNDER
ARREST!

THE FULL RESOURCES OF

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ARE
MORE THAN ENOUGH TO
TAKE CARE OF A JUVE RIOT
_ EVEN ONE ON THIS SCALE.

STUMM GAS AND SONIC

CANNON QUICKLY TAKE
THE FIGHT OUT OF THE
COMBATANTS _

NO, IT’S MY
_ WHILE MED-, MEAT- HEART.
AND PAT-WAGONS
WAIT OUTSIDE TO SORT
THROUGH THE PERPS.

SADLY, MED HE’S A MESS, JUST \’M

ASSISTANCE DREDD _ STABBED A KEEP HIM CALLING IN THE
CANNOT HELP HUNDRED TIMES, MAYBE ALIVE ANOTHER SPECIALISTS.
JIMMIE ZEEN _ MORE. NO WAY HE’LL LIVE FEW MINUTES,
LONG ENOUGH TO BARON.
INTERROGATE.
WHAT A MAYBE. THAT HE ISN’T TELLING
MESS... AT MORTGAGE US ANYTHING WE
LEAST WE EXPLANATION IS A DIDN’T KNOW. WE NEED
KNOW TOTAL LITTLE TOO CONVENIENT TO GET ZEEN
WAR WEREN’T _ WOULDN’T HURT TALKING...
INVOLVED. TO MAKE
SURE.
IS HE
GOING TO
WE’VE GOT MAKE
DUNBAR, RIGHT? IT?
DISTRIBUTION OF
BANNED
LITERATURE _

NOT
WITH CURRENT MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY.

THAT’S WHY
\’VE ORDERED HIM
PUT INTO SUSPENDED
ANIMATION.

IT’S A LONG SHOT,

BUT IF WE CAN EVER
MAKE HIM WELL ENOUGH
FOR QUESTIONING, HE ZEEN HATED
COULD BE INVALUABLE. DULTS _ AND YOU
BETTER SAFE THAN JUST MADE SURE HE’LL
SORRY. STAY A JUVE FOREVER.
OR FOR A WHILE,
ANYWAY.
NOT
QUITE
MIDNIGHT. THERE
IRONIC. IS THAT.

HOW
SO?

HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
FROM JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT,
CREEP!

the end
Mega-City 5000
Script: John Wagner
Art: Bill Ward, Brian Bolland
Letters: Tony Jacob
Originally published in 2000 AD Progs 40, 41
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