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Judge Dredd Takes On the Scottish Referendum This Week

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This is the cover of this week's Judge Dredd Megazine.

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You might have noticed, there's a Scottish referendum going on. The vote is Thursday. As Tharg says….

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2000AD has a long Scottish tradition. John Wagner, who grew up in Greenock is Judge Dredd co-creator, was one a Highland mansion caretaker and worked for Dundee-based DC Thomson, where many other 2000AD creators worked, such another Dredd co-creator Pat Mills. Other popular Scottish Dredd writers and artists include Cam Kennedy, Alan Grant, Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison, Robbie Morrison, Mark Millar, Gary Erskine, Jim Alexander, Colin MacNeil and more. Grant and Wagner also created Kenny Who?, named after Dennis O'Neill's misunderstanding of Cam Kennedy's first introduction to him in a broad Scots accent, resident of the 2000AD Scotland, Calhab, the Caledonian Hab Zone…

Basically, 2000AD may be based in Oxford. But Scots is in its blood…

 

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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