The Judge Child comes back, mainly as an excuse to revive Mean Machine, but gets killed by the end just as poor old Fink - there’s a thesis to be written about how willing Dredd creators are to create gloriously vivid bad guys and then destroy them at the end of a story. There’s a throwaway idea of a bunch of Mega City gangsters trying to get Dredd to break the law which could easily have been a multi part story, but instead is thrown away after three pages to be replaced with Ron Smith enjoying showing Dredd be chased around the city by heat seeking missiles. This is the sort of golden period for a lot of prog readers, a sense that Wagner and Grant were almost burning through ideas that later Dredd writers would have given anything for. Loved it! Next volume will be out soon! Yeah! No epic story arcs in this volume but really heavy on the justice and fighting crime. Lots of criminals were sent to the cubes so I won't be surprised to see some of them return in the future.
Other than the Fatties story I don't recall much cheesiness there were several monsters of the radiation type, a good showing of muties (I love them!) and a couple of aliens to make a very exciting variety of bad guys added to the usual city thugs. There are only a few one-shots and two-parters. Almost all the stories are longer serial runs with serious storylines. Shanty Town is finally taken over by the Judges and Dredd's partner most of the time is future Chief Judge Barbara Hershey. Vilins he meets up with include introduction of Trapper Hagg, the Fatties, and the Starborn Thing along with the resurrection of Mean Machine. Dredd has to go into the Cursed Earth quite a few times so we have mutie and radiation problems.
Starting off with the after affects of the Apocalypse War, Mega-City One is being put back together slowly but surely throughout this whole volume. By this point we are really into the good stuff.
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