Spooky Dredd

[Byron Virgo]

Okay, 2000AD has had plenty of horror strips over the years - Fiends of the Eastern Front, Devlin Waugh, Necronauts, Chiaroscuro, etc - but I was thinking today, how often has horror crossed over into other ongoing strips (like that fill-in story of Nikolai Dante and the vampires, for example). Specifically I was thinking about Dredd - we all know stuff like The Haunting of Sector House 9 and Cry of the Werewolf, but does anyone have any favourites or forgotten classics that they can think of?

A personal favourite of mine was Tomb of the Judges(?), somewhere around the 400's with Gibson art - I remember it scaring the crap out of me as a kid.

[I, Cosh]

Maybe not quite what you're getting at, but I always loved Warlord when I was a kid. I thought the Radlands of Ji sounded like a pretty cool place to live!

[Byron Virgo]

No, I was wondering myself whether or not The Warlord counted - definitely a fave of mine as a kid.

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[Concrete Block 15]

Er, Judge Death and F(r)iends is a given...

Off the top o' me noggin:

The DNA Man tale from Progs 113-115, with Professor Milton D. Frankenstein, Dennis, and his brood of clone-freaks. Nasty!

Night of the Fog from Prog 127 - robo-exhibits from the Big Meg Chamber of Horrors programmed to go on a crime spree under cover of unseasonably misty conditions (bloody Weather Control!)and featuring a plethora of pant-wetting perps including Jack The Ripper, Quasimodo, and Burke and Hare. I near shat meself, so I did!

[Jared Katooie]

Dredd's meeting with Murd the oppressor during the Judge Child quest was brilliant.

[Concrete Block 15]

This from Dice Man #1 fair got me sphincter twitchin' 'n' all back in 1986!http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c377/CB15/DICEMAN.jpg">

[Byron Virgo]

Yeah, Murd and Fog definitely have to be up there, what with the lush McMahon and Bolland art respectively.

Just a thought: do stuff like Dredd/Aliens and Raptaur count, or is that more 'actiony'?

[JOE SOAP]

Didn't we see the face of Judge Fear in that Dice Man Dredd game? Not very scary.

[Dog Deever]

Phantom of the Shoppera (Shopera?), I remember that.  What about the lethal gameshow one? Would that count as being a horror? Shoggy beast in Slaine? Garp had a brush with horror in Garpetbaggers as well, I think, though more of as comedy!

[W. R. Logan]

>This from Dice Man #1 fair got me sphincter twitchin' 'n' all back in 1986!

and you can play it here:

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Link: http://www.2000ad.nu/classof79/diceman/dice_man.htm" target="_blank">You Are Judge Dredd - In HOUSE OF DEATH

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[Concrete Block 15]

Bugger. Judge Death gets me every time!

[Concrete Block 15]

Judgement Day. Zombies a go-go.

[Matt Timson]

Came unstuck at panel 43.  There's no option to take me where I need to go (or if there is, I can't find it).

[ARRISARRIS]

...have always had a soft spot for the Dracula/Vampire story in the 1989 Judge Dredd annual, i think it was called 'Costa Del Blood' and had some prime Ezquerra art, just before he started using computers, hardly ever gets a mention in the board, a jolly good fun romp...

[W. R. Logan]

>Came unstuck at panel 43. There's no option to take me where I need to go

If you have found the Master Key there's a number on it. Replace the 'XX' in the link below with that number and it'll take you where you need to go.

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