Judge Dredd heads to Mega-City Two

A brand new mini-series from IDW has the legendary future-lawman heading from the unfriendly confines of Mega-City One and to the… unfriendly (but way more laid-back) confines of Mega-City Two in City of Courts.

In the year 2094, a secret mission puts Dredd behind the wheel of a Lawcruiser in Mega-City Two, the West Coast megalopolis that sprawls around what was once Los Angeles. And he’s about to discover that the rules—and the laws—are very different in a city where image is everything…

“Ulises, Ryan and I are going to show you a vision of Dredd’s world that you’ve never seen before,” Wolk says. “We’re yanking the East Coast’s toughest lawman out of his element, and plunging him into the bizarre, sunlit depths of post-apocalyptic California. There’ll be studio stars and cycle cultists, cartoon predators and beachfront terrors—plus, of course, ultraviolence, musical numbers and the occasional thrill-powered salute to Joan Didion.”

“Mega-City Two remains a criminally underexplored facet of Dredd’s world,” said 2000A.D./Rebellion Editor-in-chief, Matt Smith, “and Doug and Ulises are having a ball crafting an environment, not only geographically, but ideologically the opposite of MC-1. Dredd is the proverbial fish out of water, and a lot of the fun comes from seeing that East Coast mentality clash with the laid-back attitudes of MC-2. Dredd fans shouldn’t miss this really quite unique mini-series.”

MC2 is, much like the rest of Dredd’s world outside of the East Coast megapolis actually, almost a completely blank slate. Seeing IDW do a little more poking around in the universe created by 2000AD is definitely a welcome thing for fans of the Judge who have been all but starved for content featuring the character over the years- especially in the US comics market.

Dredd’s ongoing series already published by IDW won’t be going anywhere either as the book will run alongside the Mega-City Two: City of Courts mini-series. Bringing the new book to life will be first-time scribe and Eisner Award-winning journalist Douglas Wolk, Transformers artist Ulises Farinas and colorist Ryan Hill. You can also expect to see variant tribute covers for the book that’ll pay homage to “iconic films” from Joe Corroney, NAR!, E.J. Su, and more.

IDW is going all-out for Dredd fans, so don’t miss Mega-City Two: City of Courts when the mini-series kicks off in 2014.