Judge Dredd, the Sugar Stories?

[FletchNZ]

Hi all.

I'm trying to discover which issues/progs have stories about Judge Dredd and him fighting pushers or users of the illegal drug, sugar 

I've done a google search, but can't seem to find much on it.

It has only come to my mind because, here in New Zealand, a group is looking to tax and eventually outlaw soda drinks by the year 2025.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11198199

That put me in mind of the Dredd stories. I'm sure I've read them in the past, but can't remember when.

I'm a new user and can't see a search box in order to do a forum search, either.

Many thanks!

[mimikeke]

Lol I can't remember the names at the top of my head but there's the recent one about the nun in meg 341?

And there's one where a guy who works the cleanup crew ends up trying to shoot Dredd cuz Dredd shot up a girl he was supposed to go on a date with.  I think the girl was caught with sugar.

Lol pretty sure that's not helpful. Someone help me here :p

[Steve Green]

Hi,

the forum search never seems to work well.

Off the top of my head

You've got the Uncle Ump/Umpty Candy storylines (not sugar, but banned because it tasted so good it was addictive) (prog 145) (case files 03)

There were some follow-ups to this in a later prog/reprinted case file as well as Dead Ringer in the Megazine which had an Umpty planet and Dredd tripping on Umpty.

The Sweet Taste of Justice was in a 1981 special, reprinted in the restricted case files 01 (probably the best example)

There was also a Neil Gaiman text story in the 1988 annual called Sweet Justice

And a Ron Smith story called the Sugar Beat Prog 873-8

Cheers

Steve

[FletchNZ]

Thanks!

I actually had the 1981 2000AD special that Sweet Taste Of Justice originally appeared in.
Just couldn't remember which one it was. Found the special out in a cardboard box in my folks' shed 

[Frank]

Snowstorm by Garth Ennis and Colin MacNeil (819).

[JayzusB.Christ]

I liked Snowstorm apart from the very unlikely scenario of a pusher [spoiler]affirming to Dredd that he was carrying, without even turning round to check who was asking.[/spoiler].  But it was one of the few Ennis Dredds I thought was pretty good.

Also, one of these had Jason Donovan (well, a future version of him) using sugar, and Dredd busting him. Again, he was undone by an improbable lack of common sense for an illegal drug abuser. Also, though i haven't re-read it recently, the story has to be dated now; featuring as it does the (mostly) long-forgotten crap musicians of the early 90s.  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95412.Judge_Dredd

But fair play, history has shown that the real-life Jason did indeed have a fondness for a certain illegal white powder around that time.  ALLEGEDLY.

[TordelBack]

Arrest for sugar possession comes up in one of the Crime Swoop stories... possibly The Graveyard Shift?