Books in series
#2
Judge Dredd
Death Trap!
2002
Dredd's greatest enemy is Judge Death, an alien superfiend from another dimension who believes that all life is a crime… and the sentence must be death!
Twelve years ago, Death and his dark acolytes slaughtered more than 60 million citizens. Now, Death is held captive in Iso-Block 99, an apparently inescapable prison - but a terrorist group are threatening to break him out. If they succeed, the consequences for Mega-City One are too terrifying to contemplate…
Judges Joe Dredd and Amy Steel race against time to stop the alien superfiend's plan to turn the Big Meg into a city of the dead!
Chronological Placement
This story takes place in April 2124.
#3
Strontium Dog
Down to Earth
2002
Times are tough for the Search/Destroy agents. With criminals in short supply, the bounty hunters compete for the left-overs. Johnny and his partner Wulf Sternhammer are down on their luck, and looking for trouble.
Sick Squid doesn't follow the bounty hunters' code. He looks after number one, even if it means ratting on a friend. When a private citizen posts a huge reward for the capture of Wulf Sternhammer, Squid turns kidnapper.
Johnny must find Squid before the trail goes cold. If he wants to save Wulf, he's going to have to break the law. He must risk his freedom… face his past… go back down to Earth!
Chronological Placement
This story takes place in 2176 AD, in the 'classic' Strontium Dog continuity - and before the Big Bust of 49 storyline (2000 AD Progs 416 - 424).
#4
Judge Dredd
The Killing Zone
2002
Bodies have been found throughout the city, each bearing the signs of being a victim of the Killing Zone - the illegal snuff-sport which has taken Mega-city One by storm. Half a billion people are watching this holo-vid slaughter - and with the Judges unable to stop these deadly games, the Justice Department's reputation is at an all-time low. The man behind it is turning the Law itself into a laughing-stock - and the Law must be seen to be served.
Now Judge Dredd is forced to resort to unorthodox methods and allies: a low-life Wally Squad operative with an attitude, and an erratic Psi Judge with an attitude even worse. Can he rely on them? Just how far can he trust them as they take him down into the dark?
#6
Judge Dredd
Trapped on Titan
2002
It's the most hellish place in the Solar System - a prison for the Earth's worst criminals. Now Titan is under new management - a cabal of two-faced spin doctors intent on bleeding the inmates dry.
But something is out there on the freezing plains of Titan. For thirty years, people have committed murder to keep it quiet, but now its secret has escaped. Time is running short for Titan, and Dredd alone can stop the killing.
The future of the Earth is at stake, and Dredd must go into the prison undercover. He must walk among serial-killers and mass-murderers to find the answer to the puzzle, before he spends the rest of his life Trapped on Titan!
#10
Strontium Dog
Fire from Heaven
2003
Cowering in fear of the Devastator death-god, the simple folk of the desert planet Muspel worship a prophet who fell from the sky. He prepares them for the final battle, predicting that the Devastator will send terrifying agents of destruction… the Strontium Gods!
But high-priest "Omega" is really fugitive conman Oswald Mega, ready to resist arrest with an army of fanatical followers. The Devastator's power is merely the side-effect of a terraforming project by Muspel's sister-planet Midgard. And the four horsemen of the apocalypse are a Viking on vacation, a Scot with a lumpy chip on his shoulder, a small white furry thing… and Johnny Alpha.
The Search/Destroy agents have just 24 hours to find Omega before the reward is open to all-comers. But the trail goes cold on Midgard, and time is running out. It's Alpha versus Omega… with Floods, Famine, and Fire from Heaven!
#11
Judge Dredd
99 Code Red!
2003
Synopsis
There's a big new attraction at the White Cliffs of Dover, a Brit-Cit theme park where the inhabitants of Mega-City One can blow off steam. But the local law enforcement officers have got a grudge, because the famous Judge Dredd is patrolling on sector rotation, and that means they can't be as easy as usual on the tourists.
When Dredd finds arch-snitch Max Normal running for the radioactive hills, he suspects that there's more to a recent laboratory break-in than meets the eye. Someone has stolen three precious vials of a lethal plague, and they intend to release it in a public place.
But as the barometer rises and tempers fray, Dredd has to call in a Code Red - the signal for a wounded Judge in need of immediate assistance. With Mega-City One in the grip of a fearsome tempest and all aerial vehicles grounded, Dredd must brave the overcrowded, understaffed squalour of Mega-City General, soon in the grip of a viral outbreak. Dredd must lock the hospital down before the occupants take the disease outside. But there are several patients who will do anything to escape, even if it means carrying a lethal virus into the streets of Mega-City One!
Things are just about to get Ugly. And we mean that.
#13
Judge Dredd
Jihad
2004
For the first time in its history, Mega-City One is playing host to the Global Justice Summit, a gathering of Chief Judges from city-states around the world - and as the senior officer in charge, Judge Joseph Dredd is facing a security nightmare!
Hidden in the slums of City Bottom, a fanatical religious cult has awakened an enemy from the city's distant past, and their deadly schemes of extortion and revenge are about to come to a head; together with Oz Judge Hogan, Dredd must discover the secrets of this new threat before the city pays the ultimate price!
Can Mega-City One's toughest lawman survive a fight to the death with his own dark reflection? Pitted against an unstoppable terror weapon, Judge Dredd must stem the tide of a raging holy war - or sacrifice his city to the forces of the Jihad!
Chronological Placement
This story takes place in March 2126
#14
Judge Dredd
War Crimes
2004
2104 AD: Mega-City One is close to capitulation during the Apocalypse War, with half the population dead and invaders on the streets. Judge Dredd saves his city by nuking East-Meg One out of existence, killing half a billion people.
2126 AD: Dredd wakes up in an interrogation cell, stripped of his weapons and uniform, manacled to a chair. Implanted in the Judge's spine are electrodes that deliver crippling shock treatments directly into his central nervous system.
For the next sixty minutes Dredd will be interrogated by an inquisitor determined to make the Judge admit to war crimes. It will be the longest hour of Dredd's life.
Chronological Placement
This story takes place in April 2126
#15
Judge Dredd
For King And Country
2004
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptr'd isle… this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this Brit-Cit."
When the royal family of England is wiped out by a terrorist attack, the authorities prepare for a coronation at Nu-Westminster Abbey. Yet, as the Pomp and Circumstance machine begins to roll the unsuspecting heir to the throne is discovered on the streets of Mega City One.
Judge Dredd is forced to endure the pageantry whe he is dispatched to protect the young king and finds himself thrown into a world of demanding divas, cockney kidnappers and souvenir tea-cups. The king is dead, how long will the new king survive?
Authors
James Swallow
Author · 93 books
James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 bestselling author and scriptwriter, a BAFTA nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over sixty books, along with scripts for video games, comics, radio and television. DARK HORIZON, his new stand-alone thriller, is out now from Welbeck; OUTLAW, the 6th Marc Dane novel, is published by Bonnier, and the 4th book in the series - SHADOW - is available in the USA from Forge. His writing includes the Marc Dane action thrillers, the Sundowners steampunk Westerns and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Marvel, Tom Clancy, Warhammer 40000, Doctor Who, 24, Deus Ex, Stargate, 2000AD and many more. For information on new releases & more, sign up to the Readers’ Club here: www.bit.ly/JamesSwallow Visit James' website at http://www.jswallow.com/ for more, including ROUGH AIR, a free eBook novella in the Marc Dane series. You can also follow James on Twitter at @jmswallow, Bluesky at @jmswallow.bsky.social, Mastodon at @jmswallow@mstdn.social and jmswallow.tumblr.com at Tumblr.
Cavan Scott
Author · 91 books
is a freelance comic writer and author. He is best known for his work on a variety of spin-offs from both Doctor Who and Star Wars, as well as comics and novels for Vikings, Pacific Rim, Sherlock Holmes, and Penguins of Madagascar. Cavan Scott, along with Justina Ireland, Claudia Gray, Daniel Jose Older, and Charles Soule are crafting a new era in the Star Wars publishing world called Star Wars: The High Republic. Cavan's contribution to the era is a comic book series released through Marvel Comics titled Star Wars: The High Republic.
Jonathan Clements
Author · 45 books
Jonathan Clements is an author, translator, biographer and scriptwriter. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Marco Polo, Mao Zedong, Koxinga and Qin Shihuangdi. He also writes for NEO magazine and is the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas.
