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How art thou - ? I've done a few world judges in my Dreddhead thing so far:

Brit Cit


Murphyville


next I'm planning on doing a Dreddhead of a man from Hong Kong - so I know there's a "Hong Tong" in the Dreddverse. There was a Gordon Rennie story set there I think in the last ten years but I can't for the life of me remember what kind of judges were there - all wiki has is this...

"in Hong Kong, and under dual Brit-Cit/Sino Cit control. Heavily dominated by the triads; Sino-Cit officially claims it's "contaminated" by the West and they use it to keep unrest away from the main city, though unofficially the money Hong Tong generates is used to fund judicial crackdowns back home."

So what type of uniform am I giving my Hong Kong chap - or should I just do a "Sino Cit" uniform based on this...

...based on this...



Obviously not a judge uniform based on "image hosted by Angelfire"

Do the Sino Cit. Keep with the wonders that you have already done.





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'The People's Justice Ministry', when they appeared in Jonny Woo, were still wearing almost the same uniforms as in the War Games story, Owen, and as that was their most recent appearance I'd say go for it.

Oooh has anyone got a scan of them from that, just out of interest?

That was PJ on art wasn't it?

Resurrecting this thread for a quick question for the Hivemind -

Does Brit-Cit have psi judges? If so what the frigg do their badges look like?

The closest I recall seeing of a Brit-Cit PSI-Division was from an Armitage story, The Mancunian Candidate, the one where Steel is locked up for been too aggressive.  As I recall it hints that because Brit-Cit has a much smaller population it has far fewer psychics than MC-1 so it relies a lot on auxiliaries and "gifted" citizens some of whom are a little... odd (read bat-shit, ten rolls of padded wallpaper and a self-hugging jacket please, crazy).  It's not very effective.

Right just dug out the Megs in question (285-290) and no sign of any special badges.

Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 15 May, 2014, 02:17:46 PM
Resurrecting this thread for a quick question for the Hivemind -

Does Brit-Cit have psi judges? If so what the frigg do their badges look like?

They did at one point, yes, but the only one we see in Armitage is Mordakai, who spends the whole story in the nip so we don't see his badge.  The entire Division were wiped out in the Gabriel attack anyway.

There's 'The Three' from Cal Hab Justice, too... where the entire Division gets wiped out (again) by Schellion.

Wiped out, eh?

Oh well -

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,36966.msg826599.html#new

Just put the standard "Psi" bit in front of an extended union jack... cheers Tombo & Lobo I'll try asking more than a few hours before my next one! Tis just standard Brit Cit again next... with a potential time lordy twist.. ;)

Phew it's been a while since I last did a Dreddhead, just building up to doing another...

So according to wiki there is a Spanish megacity called 'ciudad espana' where the judges have "matador-style uniforms".... any pictographic evidence of this, Hivemind?

Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 06 April, 2015, 10:47:55 PM
So according to wiki there is a Spanish megacity called 'ciudad espana' where the judges have "matador-style uniforms".... any pictographic evidence of this, Hivemind?

That was never in a strip, surely?! Sounds like something from one of the RPG supplements or something.

Never heard of this either, but that's not saying too much. Z

Anybody else?

Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 06 April, 2015, 10:49:44 PM

Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 06 April, 2015, 10:47:55 PM
So according to wiki there is a Spanish megacity called 'ciudad espana' where the judges have "matador-style uniforms".... any pictographic evidence of this, Hivemind?

That was never in a strip, surely?! Sounds like something from one of the RPG supplements or something.

Ciudad Espana is on the world map in Shambala... and that's its only canonical mention.  It was run by a criminal gang in D20 Dredd, if I recall - no Judges.

We did manage to sneak in a couple of new Mega-Cities into the D20 world - I got Helos in (Greece, with the Spartan-like Archons) and Calibur got Midguard in (Vikings) but that chapter got cut right back to the absolute minimum and they're just names on the map...

...if it was just on a map in Shamballa where did the "matador-style" uniform come from?!

I don't think there ever was one officially published. The whole world Judge thingy really needs reappraised, what's GRennie doing at the moment. He need but spend a few days and could probably give us a cohesive overview of the entire issue. Z

So... hmm - faced with a Spanish Judge character do I entirely make something up or just conveniently have a transfer from Ciudad Espana to the Meg...?

THIS KIND OF STUFF KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT

Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 11 April, 2015, 11:29:44 AM
So... hmm - faced with a Spanish Judge character do I entirely make something up or just conveniently have a transfer from Ciudad Espana to the Meg...?

THIS KIND OF STUFF KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT

Errmm, there were Luna-1 Judges Che and Chico, but I'm pretty sure they were Mexicans...

(http://s123.photobucket.com/user/Lobo_Baggins/media/CheampChico_zpsilc4ginz.jpg.html)

Then there was Judge Julio Hernandez, who definitely seems to be Spanish but was a Mega-City One Judge Tutor...

(http://s123.photobucket.com/user/Lobo_Baggins/media/Fernandez01_zpsiehscvw8.jpg.html)

He looks awfully familiar, but I can't quite place him.

 :lol:

Cheers for that Lobo - and yes now that you point it out... there is something about that hirsuite tutor that seems familiar.

Isn't it strange that given one of our most beloved creators is Spanish that no-one's ever gone full-in for having a gander down there...

Let your imagination take wing CFM and design your own Spanish Judges. Or use it as the theme for one of your fantastic art competitions. Z

nb: sans national/linguistic stereotypes....pretty please.

Quote from: ZenArcade on 12 April, 2015, 11:20:14 AM
nb: sans national/linguistic stereotypes....pretty please.

:O ...but that's the WHOLE basis of worldjudge design!

Ah the much missed Ron Smith....ok just a wee bit then. Z

Quote from: ZenArcade on 12 April, 2015, 11:20:14 AM
nb: sans national/linguistic stereotypes....pretty please.

But it makes total sense!

I detest the idea that everyone in Dreddworld operates a Judge system (Viking judges with horned helmets for Scandanavia and ridiculous fan-wank like that), but where you do have one, the Justice system is by nature going to be defiantly nationalistic. They want people to be in no doubt of exactly where they're from; hence the national animals as shoulder pads, flag colours inspiring the uniforms, etc. And the whole point of a street Judge is to be seen - prevention rather than cure, wherever possible - so it makes sense for them to have these gaudy, flamboyant uniforms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacities_in_Judge_Dredd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacities_in_Judge_Dredd)

Described in Wetworks as having Matador style uniforms.

http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=specials&choice=wetworks (http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=prog&page=specials&choice=wetworks)