''Dread Dominion'' (1994) is an original novel written by

Stephen Marley Stephen Robert Nesta Marley (born April 20, 1972) is a Jamaican-American musician. The son of Bob Marley, Marley is an eight-time Grammy Award winner, three times as a solo artist, twice as a producer of his younger paternal half-brother Dam ...

and based on the long-running British

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comic strip ''

Judge Dredd Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of '' 2000 AD'' (1977), which is a British weekly anthology comic. He is the magazine's longest-running c ...

''. It is Marley's second ''Judge Dredd'' novel.

Synopsis

37 years ago Judge Joe Dredd arrested his brother Judge Rico Dredd for corruption. But in a

parallel universe Parallel universe often refers to parallel universes in fiction, a self-contained separate world, universe or reality coexisting with the real world, which is used as a recurring plot point or setting used in fantasy and science fiction. Parallel ...

he killed him instead, and the Joe Dredd from that universe turned evil. Now the twisted judges from Dreadworld are invading

Mega-City One Mega-City One is a fictional city that features in the ''Judge Dredd'' comic book series and related media. A post-nuclear megalopolis covering much of what is now the Eastern United States and some of Canada, the city's exact geography depends ...

and the whole world is at stake. Meanwhile, corrupt judges in the Special Judicial Squad are trying to assassinate Judge Hershey.

Continuity

At the time ''Dread Dominion'' was published in 1994, its detailed description of events in Mega-City One's history adhered with complete accuracy to what had until then been published in '' 2000 AD'' and the '' Judge Dredd Megazine''. However in 2000 the story ''Blood Cadets'' in ''2000 AD'' #1186–1188 (written by John Wagner) depicted a different version of how Joe Dredd arrested Rico.

External links

Dread Dominion
at the '' 2000 AD'' website (note: the title is erroneously given as "Dredd Dominion"). Novels by Stephen Marley Judge Dredd novels {{UK-comics-stub