They break Death free and kill many citizens, but in the end Dredd and Anderson are able to defeat them in their own dead dimension. In Judge Death Lives, The Dark Judges are introduced, further undead galactic menaces. Dredd stops him, but with the price of imprisoning his ally Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson in a plastic stasis while Judge Death possessed her. Judge Dredd's most fearsome menace Judge Death is introduced around this time ( 2000AD #149), with the goal of wiping out all life. Minty walks out of the city with his final task, to go into the Cursed Earth and bring law to the lawless. The long walk, a bittersweet retirement for Judges who have grown too old or otherwise unfit to continue their hard job, is shown in Judge Minty. We meet Dredd's niece Vienna, daughter of Rico, and while Dredd does mean well, he has no time for family. In Punks Rule, Dredd makes an example out of criminals by defeating many single-handedly and exiling them from the city in a dumptruck. Framed and disgraced, Dredd brings order back to the city through rebellion. While he was gone, the mad Judge Cal had taken control of Mega-City One and corrupted it. When Dredd finally returns home, tired and triumphant, he is faced with the next epic, The Day The Law Died. Dredd treks across The Cursed Earth that is America, facing numerous mad foes to bring an antidote to Mega-City Two on the West Coast.
Then we have the first Dredd mega epic, The Cursed Earth, which ran for 25 weeks.
A notable early case was The Return of Rico, where Dredd's disgraced dirty Judge clone brother Rico Dredd comes back to frame him. Dredd faced countless strange menaces at that time, including a robot uprising. The year is 2099 at that time, and Dredd is already a hardened street Judge of many years. Judge Dredd is the flagship title in the 2000AD anthology, first appearing in its second issue in 1977.
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