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Barry Kitson Returns For A Judge Dredd Mega-Nificent 25 Years

Next week's Judge Dredd Megazine celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special cover by Barry Kitson.

The cover features 25 of Dredd's all-time greatest villains, including: Kraken, Judge Death, Judge Fear, Call-Me-Kenneth, Judge Mortis, Mean Machine Angel, Trapper Hag, Fink Angel, The Judge Child, Stan Lee, Chief Judge Cal, Judge Fire, Captain Skank, Sabbat the Necromancer, Judge Rico Dredd, Don Uggie Apelino, Father Earth, PJ Maybe, the Mutant, the zombie Dredd from City of the Damned, a Sov Judge, Pa Angel, Whitey, and several more… with 'Wagner' and 'Grant' blocks in the background, paying tribute to the two scripting titans of Dredd's world.

One of the great Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson artists, Barry hasn't done a cover for 2000 AD since Prog 587 in 1988 and hasn't appeared in the Megazine since 1992, when he illustrated a John Wagner Christmas story. He recently enquired about doing a cover and it seemed fitting to welcome him back to The House of Tharg for this special anniversary.

The Judge Dredd Megazine was launched as 2000 AD's sister comic on 1st October 1990, with John Wagner scripting three of the first issue's stories, alongside stories from Garth Ennis and Alan Grant. It featured the beginning of 'America' – now one of the definitive Dredd stories – as well as the black comedy 'Young Death', which told the origin story of Judge Death. It also featured the artistic talents of Glenn Fabry, Sean Phillips, John McRae, Peter Doherty, Cam Kennedy, and Jim Baikie. Since then it has weathered hard times to produce many seminal stories from Dredd's world and is now a firm monthly fixture on British newsagent shelves.

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