r/JudgeDredd

12 crimes a minute - 17,000 crimes a day
6% get answered - 1,020 crimes a day answered

Mega City 1 fits roughly 800 million people

Each Mega Block can fit up too 75,000 people

800 million divided by 75,000 is 10,666 Mega blocks inside Mega city 1.

That’s fucking insane. That raises so many questions. How many judges are on duty at once ? How many even exist for only 6% of crimes to be answered .?? Plus where do they live ? Do they have government housing or do they just have to drive home at the end of the shift & ignore crimes just to get home .??

It just seems like it’s so overwhelming for the judges to even uphold order. Maybe that’s why “order” is so swift and definitive (death/ Cube under most circumstances) because they’re just so overwhelmed by the numbers daily their individual “empathy” levels just get desensitized.

Plus with such low numbers. There’s no way there’s a quota. They would just have to receive government funding just because they’re the only force even trying to still maintain order.

Just some thoughts.

One of the greatest comics of all time, and mighty fine collected editions.

Black Tower starts in this issue, looks like Rico is in charge now OUT NOW: Judge Dredd Megazine #492 | 2000 AD

JUDGE DREDD

MEGATROPOLIS

ATOMFALL

FARGO AND MCBANE

ROK THE WORLD

DEPARTMENT K

Case Files 30 contains the whole Doomsday epic, all written by John Wagner. Doomsday is basically two different stories mashed together, with the second story being told twice from two different perspectives. The first story is the strongest and centers on Orlok from The Apocalypse War kidnapping Dredd and taking him to what remains of the Sovs to stand trial for the bombing that ended that war. The second and larger story is about criminal kingpin Narcos sending a huge robot army to destroy the judges, with the help of a booby trap to their service weapons. This we see first from Dredd’s perspective and then again from DeMarco of The Pit fame. I feel this wouldve worked better if they had interspersed these perspectives instead of doing one all the way through and then the other. The DeMarco section is definitely the stronger story of the two, because the Narcos stuff itself isn’t particularly interesting and the destruction feels mostly retread. Still, even lesser Wagner is better than the other writers around this time.

Hi, these two vehicles were included in Citi-Block (1987) and were intended for use with the Judge Dredd Role-playing Game.

Does anyone know what vehicles from the comics they're intended to represent?