Judge Dredd (series)
Judge Dredd is a multimedia franchise created by John Wagner (writer), Carlos Ezquerra (artist), and Pat Mills (editor) which began in the form of a series of comics in 2000 AD. The series stars the main character of Joseph Dredd, and features the recurring location of Mega-City One.
The series has gained several further instalments, such as various films, books, etc.
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Judge Dredd was among the various series to be represented in The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic [+]Loading...["The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)"], with Judge Dredd appearing twice in the narrative, albeit in separate sections to the Doctor Who elements.
Virgin Books published a series of nine Judge Dredd novels from 1993 to 1995 at the same time that it was releasing the Doctor Who New Adventures and Missing Adventures novels. All three of the main authors of the Judge Dredd novel series – Dave Stone, David Bishop, and Stephen Marley, who combined wrote all but one of the books – went on to write Doctor Who novels for Virgin. A crossover between the two franchises was planned for the novel Burning Heart [+]Loading...["Burning Heart (novel)"], but Virgin lost the Judge Dredd rights following the release of the 1995 film, so the range ended and the Judge Dredd-specific elements of Burning Heart were renamed.[1]
Deathmasques, a novel written by Dave Stone in 1993 for the Virgin Dredd range, features the Maze. This location was later reused by Stone in the Bernice Summerfield novel The Infernal Nexus [+]Loading...["The Infernal Nexus (novel)"]. The book directly references this by stating that the Maze seen in The Infernal Nexus is such an archetypical building that "versions of it spontaneously occurred in books written the universe over by a certain kind of braindamaged writer who was responsive to the resonances of multiverses other than his own".
From 2003 to 2006, Black Flame continued the Judge Dredd book series with another nine novels. Stone and Bishop returned for the series, and they were joined by Andrew Cartmel, James Swallow, Gordon Rennie, and Simon Jowett. The last instalment, Stone's Psykogeddon [+]Loading...["Psykogeddon (novel)"], featured various licensed references to Jason Kane, a character Stone had created for the Virgin New Adventures, and Kane's Xenomorphic Bondage Slaves series, which was first mentioned in Stone's Bernice Summerfield short story Back and There Again [+]Loading...["Back and There Again (short story)"], released earlier in the same month as Psykogeddon.
References to Judge Dredd in the DWU[[edit] | [edit source]]
Courtmaster Cruel, featured in Izzy's Story [+]Loading...["Izzy's Story (audio story)"], is a parody of Judge Dredd.
In the Doctor Who Magazine comic story "Supernova in the Sky" [+]Part of Mancopolis, Loading...{"namedpart":"Supernova in the Sky","1":"Mancopolis (comic story)"}, the Fifteenth Doctor compares the appearance of Mancopolis with digital cladding to Mega-City One.
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The Citadel Miniatures line of Doctor Who miniatures released a "Temporal Marauders" set of three miniatures which were human-resembling sci-fi soldiers with guns. These models were repurposed from their Judge Dredd line, where they'd been low-ranking law officials named "Security", "City Def", and "Citi-Def Machine Gun".
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