The Judge Child Quest

he is fated to RULE Mega-City One in it's gravest hour.....FIND the JUDGE CHILD!'

So quoth the dying Judge Feyy, and although his pre-cog predictions were 'merely' 88.8 per-cent accurate, this was deemed more than enough for Chief Judge Griffin to order a mission to locate the mutant boy known as the Judge Child, in a far-reaching mission that stretched as far as accross the Galaxy: the search, of course, was headed by gritty, sombre Judge Dredd in one of the finest extended stories, that ran for 26 in 1980.

Previous impressive 'Mega-Epics' had included the hyperintense Cursed Earth saga, which segued directly into the bizarre-but-brilliant the Day the Law Died, which also ran for around another mind-bending six months. [A very early 'epic' materialized in the very early DREDD days: the Robot Wars, however some fans don't count this one as an 'official' epic].

The Judge Child Quest is as episodic and disjointed as the Cursed Earth story, and the 26 chapters within this highly imaginitive, if eccentricly-tinged hyperdrama ranks as amongst the most memorable of the fairly early DREDD period: among it's many highlights were the twisted Murd the Opressor, the truly mind-boggling Jigsaw Man, ---and, the icing on the proverbial cake, the unforgettable, sadistic antics of the amorally evil Angel Gang: who must surely rank amongst the finest adverseries/foes that the futuristic Lawman ever encountered, with their murderous and foul atrocities making up the bulk of much of the later episodes.