The Cursed Earth

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the CURSED EARTH extended saga within the Judge Dredd chronicles marked the first 'proper' Dredd epic, taking up a full six months of 1978. An earlier pseudo-epic entitled the Robot Wars had been published within a few short months of the early 1977 futuristic-lawman stories, however for all it's cinematic scope, this earlier tale is sometimes dismissed by Dredd historians, and it certainly lacked the sheer build-up and sense of grandeur associated with the 1978 tale.

Essentially a sweeping epic extending over a backdrop that is the radioactive hell-on-Earth surrounding the civilization represented by Mega-City One, World War Three has reduced much of post-WW3 America to an irradiated no-man's land, populated by muties, slay-riders, marauding renegade robots, and much, much more. The crux of the story centres around the plight of Mega-City Two which has succumbed to a deadly virus 2-T Fru-T which has reduced most of the population to the level of demonic vampires. Dredd's mission is to ensure the secure delivery of a valuable anti-dote to the virus, but first he has to overcome endless insurmountable odds, which take in corrupt future sociities [Las Vegas has been completely over-run by Mafia Hoodlums] demented droids [who seek out fresh blood from victims in order to prolong the life of the Last President of the United States]and even, in an extended saga of graphic brutality, exceeedingly vicious Tyrannosaurus Rex and other dinosaurs brought back into being from Prehistoric times.