City Hall is rotten to the core, and the police force is equally on the take. In a near-future US city, corruption within the branches of government has reached unsustainable levels.

Script: John Wagner / Art: Carlos Ezquerra / Letters: Jim Campbell SPECTOR // Incorruptible, part two Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! Now, Dredd and Rico are investigating a link between 1970s New York and the twenty-second century… Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 200 million citizens. Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Kieran McKeown / Colours: Quinton Winter / Letters: Annie Parlhouse JUDGE DREDD // One-Eyed Jacks, part five Judge Dredd Megazine #456 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of the Megazine in the first month of its release then postage in the UK is free! SUBSCRIBE NOW > DOWNLOAD THE APP > Elsewhere, there’s all-out action in the latest instalments of Judge Dredd, Death Metal Planet, Dreadnoughts and Spector – and to coincide with the new Battle Action series, we reprint Ennis and Keith Burns’ Johnny Red mini-series, originally published by Titan in 2015. Indeed, two of those creators, Dan Abnett and Phil Winslade, are back in this very Meg as Lawless returns, picking up on the story from last year, with Metta Lawson now aligning herself with the organised crime outfit plaguing Badrock.

For #1, John Wagner returns to the naval drama of HMS Nightshade, drawn by Dan Cornwell – learn more about the all-star line-up as Karl Stock chats to the writers and artists involved in this issue! Ennis writes one of the stories per issue with a different artist, and he’s joined by a whole bunch of other creators working on characters such as Major Eazy, Death Squad, D-Day Dawson and more. With the new five-issue series of Battle Action that starts the end of this month.

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