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At least the poor superhero-fed heathens will get The Ballad Of Halo Jones - those lucky people.

In Casanova, on tele lastnight, the aging lothario has been telling his life story to a young woman who is amazed and enthralled by his adventures and voices her desire to leave her mundane life behind:

Casanova: "Where will you go?"
Woman: "Out."
Casanova: "What will you do?"
Woman: "Everything."

The idea of killing off Dredd must have been discussed by the creators / editors / owners at some point.

Oh to be a fly on the wall*...


* An armoured repellant-immune fly.

Spotted a glaring error in the http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=dredd&page=timelines" target="_blank">timeline on this site.

Check out what it says for 2110.

Could perhaps add "Judges Dredd and Anderson use the Proteus time machine to travel to 2120 where..."

And need to end it with something like "They return to 2110 and destroy the infant Mutant, thus cancelling out that future timeline."

There could also be some reference to the zombie Dredd, because it's mentioned in the entry for 2120.

The whole Strontium Dog / Judge Dredd timeline is quite interesting.

If you take Portrait of a Mutant (prog 201) and Top Dogs (JD Annual 1991) as being accurate, then in 2028 (our time) we should see (in the Judge Dredd timeline) the world being decimated by a global thermonuclear war.

Only 23 years to wait...

Apart from all of the obvious reasons why Robo-Hunter and Judge Dredd are obviously set in different universes, there's always this:

Judge Dredd goes in search of the Judge Child in 2102, aboard Justice One, which is an FTL ship.

In Robo-Hunter, FTL for humans isn't discovered until 2110.

My guess is that even the creators were a bit confused, as in the second (I think) episode of Robo-Hunter he thinks "One day I?m a robo-hunter working Megacity...", plus Smokin' Joe keeps offering everyone Umpty Candy and at the end of Day of the Droids they take the Atlantic zoom to Brit-Cit.

Mind you, there are hats in Watchmen and hats in Spiderman:  doesn't mean that they're both in the same universe.

Can't be bothered studying:

So, there are of course, continuity problems.  Look too closely at the facts provided in the stories and you'll soon find inconsistencies.  But (if you do look that closely) then you can rest assured that you're putting way too much effort into it, as the creators themselves have admitted that they tend to work from memory and don't tie themselves too tightly in continuity knots.

Secondly, there have been various creators on Dredd, and the key dude, Wagner, doesn't consider much of the mid-90s material that he didn't write to be "canon" (I think I remember reading).

That may be why the two timelines I linked to earlier tend to mention different things as having happened in the later years:  in 2115 (for example) on the matrix site there is reference to renegade judges from the Judge Dredd story Inferno, which many readers consider to be poop.  On this site, there is a much shorter entry for 2115 which neatly sidesteps those issues by listing a very quiet year in the Dredd-verse.

And rest...

Crucially, Judge Dredd is set 122 years in our future, and keeps in step with our measure of time.  For each year that passes, Dredd ages a year.

There is a timeline presented at the this site.  Both are derived from the old Judge Dredd rpg.

In the early part of the timeline there is a reference to the ABC Warriors and the Volgan Wars (which featured in Savage from the early progs and a recent Extreme Edition).

So, the ABC Warriors existed before Mega-City One, throughout it's history (so presumably could easily feature in a crossover with Dredd) and well into the future where Earth becomes Termight - which is where Nemesis the Warlock is set, an older story that ties directly into the more recent ABC Warriors saga.

Most of the stories in the Megazine are set in Dredd's world, and more usually the 2000AD stories have a universe each (with exceptions such as Tiger Sun, Dragon Moon cropping up from time to time).

I'm only writing all of this to avoid studying...I better leave the floor open so people can correct all the mistakes I've made.

I just watched it (sort of) - the city looks great.  The west wall looks great.  Hershey's hair looked great.

Hammerstein was quite cool - if anyone has a few spare millions lying around could they do me a favour and hire the people behind that transformers-dancing car advert and make a movie called The Meknificent Seven?

You might want to have a word with the makers of Hardware as well.  That was good.

Fergee as a well-spoken comedy sidekick - gahhh!

Dredd kissing Hershey (as opposed to headbutting her and arresting her for assault) - gahhh!

A clone brother that doesn't look the same - gahhh!

Hammerstein without a hammer - gahhh!

Long boring monologues about the rights and wrongs of a facist dictatorship dynasty - gahhh!

The Angel Gang introduced and then casually offed in about 5 minutes - gahhh!

For the first 200 or so progs the graph is flat - did nobody vote or is that a 5/10 equivalent score?

I mean, have voters just considered the first 200 or so progs as being hugely average?

(I know the graph is just based on the opinions of a relative few, and therefore not gospel, but it does seem to reflect the supposed dip in quality in the 7-800s region.)

Yoohoo Watcher - is the graph based on scores taken from this site?

It's cool - gives a good overview.  I started doing a slightly different version myself because I wanted to see the structure of the prog over time, as well as the detail of who wrote what, but it was taking so long I figured that I'd be better off building a database and then generating the result on the fly.

That, of course, is easier to say than do and has turned into a mighty project with no end in sight.

All I managed to come up with in my uber-detailed format was this:

http://www.amenable.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/progSlice.htm" target="_blank">1298-1351

Impressive...most impressive (as Darth would say).

Tell me, was that all typed into Excel by hand and then "Saved As..." an html document?

Aye, that cover really lets it down:  I remember being disappointed at the time.  Such a great story should have had some care and attention given to the cover.  For shame, I say!

I'd be really interested in seeing a "thrill-power graph" across the entire 2000AD collection.

I have a suspicion that it might blow some of  the "golden era" myths out of the water.

As you say, there's usually a weak element that lets down what might otherwise be considered a top-scorer.