Mob "Blitzers" in Mega-City One have a strict code of honour - once a contact has been taken out on someone's life it cannot be cancelled, whatever the circumstances. Also, for the protection of a Blitz Agency, all their professional hitmen must consent to having a "suicide box" fitted into their bodies, before he is expected as a 'Blitzer'. The box is sensitive to emotional changes and prevents a Blitzer from surrendering to the Judges by blowing him up, thereby preventing comprising information about the Agency being passed on at the same time.
Introduced: 2000AD Prog 215
Block Mania - Fanatical loyalty to a person's neighbourhood/block, usually leading to hatred of surrounding blocks. The story Block Mania
Block War - Conflict: Inter-Block War, Mega-City One
Council of Five - Five Senior Judges, The deputy Chief Judge, plus the Special Judicial Squad, Psi-Divison and Tek-divison, along with other senior judge, would who collectively have the power to over-rule the Chief Judge if needs be, it is was disbanded on a few occasions but re-instated to deal with the McGruder Affair. Chief Judge Hershey has since added the Wally Squad to the council of five.
Cubes - prison
Cursed Earth - Location: Atomic wasteland, former U.S.A. heartland.
Dateline - The universe of Judge Dredd is set 122 years into the future. So first Judge Dredd published in 1977 is set in 2099 and Stories the year of 2000 are set in 2122. So, the characters of Mega-City One are eternally youthful, everyone include Judge Dredd can be seen ageing through the years, unless say Spiderman's Peter Parker. Also the seasons match. So, for example the January issues of Judge Dredd can feature New Year stories.
Drokk! - Mega-city curse
Grud - Mega-city word for "God".
Jimp - Judge impersonator, Crime where the perp dresses and acts like a judge who for their own benefit or enjoyment.
Judge - In the Police state of Mega-city ones, the police force known as the Judges have the power of Judge,Jury and Executioner
Judgement Day - In Mega-City era, not a religous era. "judgement day" refers when the heads of the mega-cities bombed out of existance those cities that had been over-run by zombie.
Lawgiver Gun - The weapon of choice for Judges, deadly mutli-faced weapon, featuring manual and automatic focusing and targeting, plus in-built its operation. It can only be operated by its designated Judge owner, whose palm print is programmed into the gun's computer memory.
Lawmaster Bike - Very high-powered, fast and manoeuvrable, the Lawmaster Bike provides the Judges of Mega-City One with an efficient and adaptable method of transport, as well as a mobile stockpile of equipment and weaponry. It comes with a Synitron audio on-board computer, a Cyclops Phylon TX laser cannon, an ammunition and stores pod and a personnel scatter gun, kept in and in-built holster. The Bike is tremendously powerful, boasting a Norton 4000cc engine, and it also benefits from having bullet-proof, all weather tyres.
SIMP - Variation on simpleton, In mega-city One a simp is one of the growing number, who wear ridiculous combinations of items and say stupid things like 'Clip-Clop' every five seconds.
Peeper - person who spies on other citizens of mega-city one in hope of seeing some crime to report to the Judges. Similar people who be the Bat-Glide club and fans of Judge Pal. Not every popular as seen here
Perp. - Criminal
Resyk - Dead are reprocessed in the factories across the city, Burial (under the ground) is only for the rich (see the story Bury my wounded knee). Similar to the film Soylent Green, based on the Harry Harrsion novel "no room, No room", the deceased end up on convernor belt although here they have teeth removed and are burnt. Taxidermists, such as Jake Sardini use resyk as a source of corpes.
SJS - Special Judicial Squad
Titan - The satellite of Jupiter which was turned into a prison world for all Mega-City One Judges. Standard sentence for crimes committed by Judges is a Twenty year stretch of Forced labour mining in a extremely lethal atmosphere, only severe bio-engineering enabled to work in this environment. Turning the prisoners into a sort of cyborg. Prison revolt lead by Judge Grice and blows up the moon unpon escape in 2116 (in the built-up to the '93 Dredd epic, inferno). No sign of a replacement yet.. but continues have importance as place Joe Dredd sent his brother Rico.
Wally Squad - Undercover section of the Mega-City One Justice Department. Rarely sees a situation the same as a regular Street Judge, due their close work with ordinary citizens.
TV advert - twice 2000AD has been TV advertisted.
Judge Dredd : Movie
The start of the movie was brilliant using many of the 2000AD covers that initially got most readers attention, but the script of the movie changed the vision of Mega-city one too much. ( Like having Dredd and Ferggie going to 'Aspen prison' instead Ferggie going to one of the ominous and ever-present 'Cubes' and Dredd being a judge should have gone to 'Titan'.. anyway isn't Aspen in the Rockies quite a long haul for any prison sentence ).
Index
It meant to be critical, and the resulting 5 page is the self-critizing ever published in 2000AD. And they are created are by...
In an overcrowded city like Mega-city One, tensions and rivalry between neighbouring City Blocks are inevitable and, very occasionally, these feeling spill over into full-scale wars. Because each City Block is an independent unit in its own right, a sense of patriotism is often attached to them by their residents and wars can break out with "enemy Blocks" over the most trivial matters. For the Judges, a Block War is one of the toughest situations to police, simply because there are usually so many people involved and arrests generally have to be made in vast numbers before things can be properly cooled down and peace restored.
Introduced: 2000AD Prog 182
Mega-city one with its extremely high prison populated ( as Dredd said "90% of the citizens will commit a crime sometime their lives" ) needs many massive prison blocks that become part of the cityscape. Also for extreme psychopaths are the Psycho-cubes" where each prisoner is kept in strict isolation also Cyro-cubes for prisoners in suspended animation
Following the Atomic Wars of 2070 most of the U.S.A. became a nuclear wasteland. With only the three Mega-Cities surviving, the remainder of the country became known as the "Cursed Earth". Although considered unfit for human habitation, the Cursed Earth is populated by all manner of creatures, scraping a living in a tough environment. Since the Atomic Wars, genetic mutations appeared, but mutants are banned from living in the cities, so they are forced to make their homes there. The area is largely deindustrialized and the communities are mostly poor, rural groupings, often dominated by quasi-religious doctrine. In most extreme cases, these communities become cults well enough organised to threaten Mega-City One as a revenge for the way the city has treated the outcasts.
Swearwords such as this had to be invented to replace those that would bring on the censors. The creators of 2000ad were previously trouble with censors over violence and language in the 70's comic ACTION.
The gun has a maximum range of up to three miles and six distinct settings: HEAT SEEKER - a general purpose shell, propelled by the unstable element, 'Agron 286'; Ricochet - a rubber missile, intended for human targets; INCENDIARY ; ARMOUR-PIERCING; GRENADE; and HIGH EXPLOSIVE - even more powerful than the Grenade settings.
Introduced in Prog 2
Short for 'perpetrator of a crime', in Mega-city one, judges have the right to decide for the spot if you are the perp. at which time term "Creep" is more frequently used.
The 'Judges who judge the Judges', internal affairs department.
Shok!
One of Walter's robo-tales ( Scripted by Steve MacManus/Kevin O'Neill & Art by Kevin O'Neill ) that was the basis for the British science-fiction film "Hardware" ten years it was published in the Judge Dredd Annual 1981 ( reprinted in Prog. 614 )
The first issue got a big launch with free gifts, and the ne Dan Dare grabbing headlines.. available at 2000adOnline.
Prog 889 (7th March 1994) had a short ad (30 seconds?) of Armoured Gideon stomping around in bad anmation (not a patch on something like "Murphy's Stout" manga style advert of 2000) recently rebellion have commisoned a series of 2000AD adverts from scf-fi channel, themed on popular sci-fi films.. available at 2000adOnline.
The only 2000AD related movie, released in 1995. With great hope,hype and build up. Sylvester Stallone was to become Judge Dredd But stands one of biggest Hollywood flops ever! (The Video did well in the UK, but worldwide success was needed to break even).
Among the many mistakes in the film was leaving Stallone take off his helmet something Dredd would Never do and letting scripting to taken away from the creators of Judge Dredd, it was the "wrong" story as John Wagner said.
Although the movie was visually excellent mainly thanks to Kevin Walker and Chris Halls, the start made good use of the many excellent JD covers over the previous eighteen years (Although this is not as effective on the small-screen). It could be said it was a decent sci-fi movie, but it did not do Judge Dredd any justice, a makes other 2000AD movies less likely.
This book 146page explains the long and convoluted story ISBN 1 85291 128 X
Tharg's head Revisited
For prog. 500 (twenty weeks short of the tenth anniversary of 2000AD) a special feature, where some of most important creators of 2000AD were let loose.
The situation with the creators credit and royalities is now a better state, proved by the return of so many the orginal creators for Prog 2000. and the first creator owned series in 2000AD.
Pat Mills & Dave Gibbons image
Dan Dare III, Rogue Trooper, Mr S. Mr L. Alan Moore & Ian Gibson Book 4
[GIF, 2468x1216x2]featuring Halo Jones, Robo-Hunter (last Alan Moore in 2000AD) Mike McMahon & Pat Mills Image featuring Hammerstein & Ro-Jaws. Replacement for the Mike Mahon's IPC censored contribution 'Bloodsuckers' (GIF 2150x2565x2, 220kB) (which is what the groups of characters are reading at the end of the replacemnt strip) Alan McManus/Simon Geller & Cam Kennedy Captain Dollar Rogue Trooper brings 4 ex-2000AD droids to the firing squad for desertion!? Kevin O'Neill & Pat Mills Nemesis, Metoliz, Ro-Jaws, Bonjo etc. Tharg and Kevin O'Neill discussing artistic license (includes mention of O'Neill banned art) Brian Bolland The Dredd End As well as Mike McMahon's entry getting stopped, was Brian Bolland's Dredd End which appeared in Judge Annual 1989 after much doctoring.
Compare the original (103kB GIF) with the published version (103kB GIF) The Dredd End
