Judge Dredd Thread: Dark Judges Edition

The crime issss life, Sup Forums. The sssentence isss ssstorytime! Let's read a collection of gruesome tales starring the deadliest alien superfiends to ever cross the dimensional void in a never-ending crusade to erradicate all life on Earth. I'm talking, of course, about Judge Death and his three amigos, Fear, Fire and Mortis!

Let's start from the start, with the single most reprinted story in the history of Judge Dredd. Written by John Wagner and Alan Grant and drawn by Brian Bolland, it's Judge Death!

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Ah, but this isn't just Death's first appearance. We also get the debut of Psi Division and everyone's favorite leather-clad mind-reading Debbie Harry lookalike, Judge Cassandra Anderson!

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So fun story: Bolland was famously slow with his art, and Judge Death was supposed to come out way earlier than it did. But when then-editor Steve MacManus saw the first few finished pages he realized it was a sure-fire hit, and gave Bolland much more leeway to finish it.
His reward was getting a shoutout in this page. See if you can find it!

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I can never get over the fact this story is 15 pages long. Fifteen pages.

So of course the story was a major hit with readers, and soon, Death came roaring back into the strip with three new friends to boot!

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Things that never ever get old:

This panel.

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Now, back in the mid-80s, with Dredd at peak popularity, a plan was made to start a spinoff title of nothing but Dredd and Dreddworld stories. A dummy was made and strips were planned, including, naturally, an Anderson solo tale. The project fell through but the story was to good to lose, and so it was published in the regular prog right alongside Dredd and everyone else as the first Anderson: Psi Division long form strip!

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Ewins' Deadworld is so fucking cool.

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