
A Brian Bolland cover showing Dredd shooting towards the reader, with details of each bullet that the Lawgiver can fire: armour piercing; high explosive; heat-seeker; incendiary; ricochet. I thought it best to list them, as they’re not always exactly the same (the missing one is general purpose).
The Nerve Centre has Tharg calling for reader’s art featuring savage aliens for Tharg to fight. Meanwhile, one earthlet uses a calculator to spell the word HOLE with the number 3104. Other words that get printed are LIE, SHE and SHOE. Can you think of any other words?
Judge Dredd: Sob Story – it’s actually an untitled story but it can’t be called anything other than Sob Story. Otto doesn’t appear in this episode but mopads do, and Ron Smith turns in some fantastic cityscapes focussed on the highways and byways. John Howard brings us reality TV, 22nd century style as Sob Story encourages mega-citizens to share their calamities with Mega-City One in the hope that the viewers will send them money. Dredd gets involved because each contestant’s address is shown at the end of the programme, so that the viewers know where to send the money – meaning that everybody who watches an episode with a popular contestant knows that they are both a) rich and b) where they live. Dredd finds this out when a luxury mo-pad goes out of control (a mo-pad being a mobile pad, i.e. an apartment on wheels) and upon entry finds the owner long-dead in their swimming pool, the controls of the mo-pad set to auto-control for years. Trivia – there are eighteen million people living in mo-pads on the 13.25 billion miles of roadway. More trivia – Johnny Teardrop has a Bruce Forsyth-like chin, but more than that, the catchphrase: “Didn’t she sob well!”
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