Judge Dredd Megazine #490 is OUT NOW! As Peter Milligan’s current series The Discarded reaches its finale over in the Prog, his first for 2000 AD - Sooner or Later, that back-page oddity created with Brendan McCarthy, in which young Micky Swift is transported from 1980s unemployment one thousand years into the future - celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year, and this issue Thrill-cast co-presenter Chloe Maveal takes a look at its prevailing themes, seen through the lens of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic anti-war SF novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Elsewhere, Fargo & McBane are back for new story Favoured Sons by Ken Niemand & PJ Holden, and there’s a complete Dredd from Geoffrey D. Wessel & Boo Cook, and a Cursed Earth tale from Ned Hartley & Steve White, plus more Rok, Megatropolis and Dept K. Enjoy, creeps! JUDGE DREDD // HUMAN GRADEMega-City One, 2146 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 200 million citizens, bordered by the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. Tensions run a knife-edge and crime is rampant. Stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the Law! MEGATROPOLIS II, Part SIXImagine a Mega-City One from an alternate timeline -less the gleaming metropolis of the twenty-second century but instead an art deco retro-future variation. Joe Rico is the one good cop in a police department riddled with corruption, and partnered with the young Amy Jara, they investigated a series of vigilante killings committed by a robot… TALES FROM THE CURSED EARTH // JUDGE GRRRR’S LAST STANDThe Cursed Earth, 2148 AD. This inhospitable, irradiated wasteland covers much of what used to be the United States of America. A desolate, blasted plain, the result of the devastating Atomic Wars, it is home to all manner of mutants and strange lifeforms, scratching an existence from the barren rock, far from the walls of the Big Meg. These are their stories… FARGO & MCBANE // FAVOURED SONS, Part OneNew York City, the 1970s. Detective Jack McBane was one of the toughest cops to patrol the metropolis, having no compunction in handing out summary justice upon criminals. Although his ruthless attitude wins him few friends, he has one in Officer Eartha Fargo, who’s partnered with him to investigate strange crimes on the mean streets of the Big Apple… ROK THE WORLD // Chapter ThreeTERRAN OMEGADEPARTMENT K // …NO MORE, Part TwoMega-City One, 2148 AD. Justice Department has many divisions within it tasked with dealing with the various threats that face the metropolis. The mysterious Department K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies that are seeking to break through the walls of reality. Young intern Afua recently had an encounter with one such entity…
