JUDGE DREDD - MEGA
CITY TWO [ENG] 2014
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Mega-City Two is a
huge fictional city in the Judge Dredd comic book series. It was first
described as covering "five thousand square miles of the Californian West
Coast" and a later map showed Mega-City Two stretching up the entire West
Coast, covering California, Oregon, and Washington. Like its sister city of
Mega-City One, it was a dictatorship run by the Judges. The city was destroyed
in 2114 after being overrun by zombies.
Fictional timeline
The city formed out of a growing urban sprawl
and became partially self-governing under the Autonomy Act of 2052, with its
own Chief Judge. It later became America's second city (nicknamed "the
Second Meg") after the Atomic Wars of 2070, which killed Chief Judge Gabe
Suarez, and closely allied itself with Mega-City One and Texas City. The city
would develop its own laws, culture, and aesthetics; this was depicted in
Mega-City Two: City Of Courts (see below) which may or may not be in
continuity. Mega-City Two owed its survival to a mission of mercy carried out
by the Judges of Mega-City One when it was afflicted with the deadly Virus
Strain 2T(FRU)T in 2100. With millions infected and all airports overrun, Judge
Dredd had to drive a vaccine through the Cursed Earth (with only Dredd and the
alien Tweak surviving). Despite that, Mega-City Two refused to intervene in the
Apocalypse War between its sister city and East-Meg One. This was because they
could not attack East Meg One when it was protected by its force field, and
they would be destroyed by a counter strike. The late 80s and early 90s used
Mega-City Two in two stories, Chopper: Song of the Surfer (progs 654-665) and
Judge Dredd: Babes in Arms (progs 776-9). The city was shown to be a brighter,
more colourful place than Mega-City One, with an unpolluted ocean along its
coastline and a less oppressive atmosphere. Under the Death Game Amendment of
2104, violent televised "death games" were legal and hugely popular;
Supersurf 11 was brought to the city and deliberately made so violent by the
organiser that most of the contestants were slaughtered. (The organisers StigCo
had been bribing the Judges, as their plans hadn't quite matched the law; heads
rolled in Justice Department when the news broke). The citizens resembled contemporary
parodies of California. In 2114 Mega-City Two was completely overrun by zombies
unleashed by the evil Necromagus Sabbat. With the city beyond hope of rescue,
the place was nuked out of existence on the orders of a council of Judges from
all over the world at the suggestion of Judge Dredd. A second incarnation of
Mega City Two was later built by the Hondo City Judges and run by acting-Chief
Judge Tokugawa, and held the Supersurf 13 contest in 2117 to draw attention to
the new city. The Hondo Cluster was soon abandoned due to the cost, a series of
strange murders and disappearances, and the sheer difficulty of getting people
to move thousands of miles from friends and family. The story
Judge Dredd, Judge
Dredd: Mega-City Two. Tags: Douglas Wolk, Ulises Farinas.
Dredd heads
Californee way! As part of a judicial exchange program, Dredd is sent packing
to Mega-City Two, a sprawling city covering 5,000 square miles of the
Californian West Coast and centered in what was once known as Los Angeles,
where he soon discovers that they do things differently there.
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