Angel Gang

The Angel Gang were a family of desperados from the Cursed Earth first introduced to readers of 2000AD during the Judge Dredd epic The Judge Child Quest. Denizens of the radioactive badlands beyond Mega City One, they were a quartet of sadistic killers, the head of the family being Pa Angel and the others his sons Link Angel, Mean Angel and Junior Angel. The family clashed with Judge Dredd when they kidnapped Owen Krysler, the mutant boy known as the Judge Child, and all four were seemingly killed by the lawman; however, a fourth brother, Fink Angel later turned up looking for revenge on Dredd, and later still, Mean Machine Angel was resurrected by Krysler and teamed up with his brother Fink in another attempt on Dredd's life. On that occasion, Fink died too, but Mean survived and returned to bedevil Dredd on several occasions before apparently being cured of his homicidal tendencies, which were the result of unnecessary cybernetic surgery carried out on him as a child on Pa's instructions (he felt that the peaceful, gentle Mean was letting the side down). Years later, it was revealed that Pa and Junior had also survived their initial clash with Dredd, but they were subsequently jailed and haven't been seen since (writer John Wagner later admitted that resurrecting them was a mistake).