Fifteen years of iron discipline, rigid self-control and concentrated aggression. It takes fifteen years to train a Judge for life on the streets of Mega-City One. Here, there are no police, no trials and no juries, only the Judges. So dangerous, it demands a special breed of law enforcer.
Stretching the length of the 22nd century American eastern seaboard, Mega-City One is the most dangerous city on Earth, for it is calculated that one serious crime takes place every second of every day. His first appearance is in 2000 AD #149.Welcome to Mega-City One, a city of over four hundred million people and everyone of them a potential criminal.
John Wagner and Brian Bolland are responsible for creating the character of Judge Death. After a long absence, Death was brought back for the storyline Dark Justice, in which once again he was presented in a sinister light, with very little humor. John Wagner decided to rectify this in the solo Death story My Name Is Death, and while later strip The Wilderness Days added humour to Death’s tale, he was still a menacing and unstoppable killer Alan Grant’s Half Life, released at the same time, also treated Death as pure, unstoppable evil. For instance, in the Judge Dredd/Batman crossover graphic novel Judgement on Gotham, Death was used as a practically comical figure. However, later stories have tended to present him in a much more humorous light. In his first appearances his image was dark, sinister and menacing.
The representation of Judge Death in the Judge Dredd and related comic strips has changed somewhat in character over the years. After years of appearing in Judge Dredd stories, he later got his own series in the Judge Dredd Megazine and in 2000 AD. He is the leader of the Dark Judges, a sinister group of undead law enforcers from the alternate dimension of Deadworld, where all life has been declared a crime since only the living commit crimes. Judge Death is a fictional character of the Judge Dredd stories in the UK comic 2000 AD.
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