As the Judges cart Rico Dredd away for questioning and exile on Titan, his clone-brother Joe comes under scrutiny. They’re cut from the same cloth; can Joe Dredd be trusted? An investigation begins, and Dredd is shipped off to an iridium-mining town in the Cursed Earth, which has come under pressure from mutant raiders. But everything is not as it seems. When the reason for the raids becomes clear, Dredd will have some tough decisions to make.

ONE BAD DAY... Mega-City One, 2081, Joe Dredd’s second year on the streets as a full-eagle Judge. He’s got the experience, he’s done the sked-time, but no Judge is infallible – all it takes is one bad day, and all those years of training can disappear in the simple pulling of a trigger. A routine arrest, an ambush, an explosion. The perp’s down, but Dredd is bleeding and burned, his Lawmaster is destroyed, and he’s in a bad part of town with no backup. For the first time in his career, he’s truly alone...

“YOU’VE MET YOUR DEADLINE.” Someone’s killing journalists, and with the mayoral elections looking to set Mega-City One on fire, the pressure’s on Judge Joe Dredd – two years out of the Academy, and already a legend – to find the killer. Or killers; as the bodies mount up, the confessions come on just as fast, and according to Psi-Division, they’re all sincere – and all impossible…