Out Now: Judge Dredd Megazine #493
JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #493 OUT NOW
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Judge Dredd Megazine #493 is OUT NOW!
We welcome Genetic Infantryman and imminent movie star Rogue Trooper to the Megazine this issue as writer Andi Ewington and artist Sinu Senan collaborate on an explosive new story for the clone soldier in the shape of An Iteration of Allies.
Elsewhere, a couple of strips come to an end as we wave goodbye to both Atomfall and Fargo & McBane, while the drama ramps up in The Black Tower and the penultimate part of Megatropolis II.
Taking Rok the World’s place is a classic from the pages of Tornado, The Angry Planet, by Alan Hebden & Massimo Belardinelli, while we also chat to John Wagner & Simon Bisley about the epic Dredd/Batman crossover Judgement on Gotham, which is getting a thirty-fifth anniversary deluxe edition next month, new writer Paul Starkey is interviewed about breaking in to 2000 AD, and former Nerve Centre design-bot Pye Parr talks transforming vehicles as the artist on Image’s new take on Hasbro’s MASK.
Be here in thirty, citizens, as we’ve got more new stories coming your way next month, not least the return of Dan Abnett & Phil Winslade’s Lawless!
Judge Dredd Megazine #493 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of the Megazine in the first month of its release then postage in the UK is free!
JUDGE RICO // THE BLACK TOWER, Part Two
Mega-City One, 2148 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 300 million citizens, where tensions run a constant knife-edge. Bordered on one side by the toxic Black Atlantic and the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west, crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Rico – he is the Law! .
MEGATROPOLIS II, Part NINE
Imagine a Mega-City One from an alternate timeline – less the gleaming metropolis of the twenty-second century but instead an art deco retro-future variation. Joe Rico is the one good cop in a police department riddled with corruption, and partnered with the young Amy Jara, they investigated a series of vigilante killings committed by a robot…
ATOMFALL // THE WICKED ISLE, Part Three
Wyndham village, 1958. A year ago, reporter Jenny Coggins was sent by her newspaper to write a story on the Windscale Atom Plant, but she’d been receiving inside information that all was not what it seemed with the facility. While she was there, however, the plant exploded, and the entire area was quarantined by the military – now a new society has developed, and more mysteries emerge…
FARGO & MCBANE // FAVOURED SONS, Part Four
New York City, the 1970s. Detective Jack McBane was one of the toughest cops to patrol the metropolis, having no compunction in handing out summary justice upon criminals. Although his ruthless attitude wins him few friends, he has one in Officer Eartha Fargo, who’s partnered with him to investigate strange crimes on the mean streets of the Big Apple…
ROGUE TROOPER // AN ITERATION OF ALLIES, Part One
Nu Earth, a planet ravaged by war, its atmosphere poisoned by the use of chemical and biological weapons. It is the site of the conflict between the Southers and the Norts, each side battling for supremacy, and where Genetic Infantryman Rogue Trooper, along with his biochipped buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, is on a quest to find the Traitor General that sold out his comrades…