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Young Guns
The denizens of Dreddworld return to their younger days in Mega-City Max
► SCI-FACT! Roger Langridge was inspired by Joe Collins and Brian Bolland’s Walter The Wobot strips, in 1978’s Prog 59-68.
JUST AS 2000 AD Regened showcases the wider worlds of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic for a younger audience, new one-shot Mega-City Max acts as a Judge Dredd Megazine for teenagers – but don’t expect to see Ol’ Stoney Face himself.
“Mega-City Max is all about the people who live, survive and thrive in the bustling metropolis of Mega-City One,” says editor Oliver Pickles. “This is all about those side characters and new favourites starring in epic stories of their own, which means that Judge Dredd – and even Cadet Dredd – are out, as they’re off having adventures of their own.” The one-shot is described by Pickles as “closer in tone to 2000 AD than to Regened”. Writer/artist Hannah Templer’s contribution explores how former Judge-turned-private eye Galen DeMarco is now accepted in her community. “Hannah also weaves in the backstory of DeMarco, and how she is able to maintain a friendship with some of the other Judges such as Hershey and Anderson,” continues Pickles.