''Wetworks'' (1995) is an original novel written by

Dave Stone Dave Stone (born 12 June 1964) is a British science fiction writer. Biography Stone has written many spin off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and ''Judge Dredd''. Stone also contributed a number of com ...

and based on the long-running British

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...

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 (comics), 2000 AD'' (1977), which is a British weekly anthology Comic book, comic. He is the ...

''. It is Stone's third ''Judge Dredd'' novel.

Synopsis

A massive conspiracy to change the world for ever requires the assassination of 3,600 people every day, and Judge Dredd is targeted for murder. Blinded by his would-be killer, he must save the world without his sight.

Continuity

The unnamed female assassin who blinds Dredd first appeared in ''Culling Crew'', a one-off comic strip story in the 1994 ''Judge Dredd Mega-Special'' by Dave Stone and Steve Sampson. She would return over ten years later in Stone's ''

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'' strips in the ''Judge Dredd Megazine''.

External links

Wetworks
at the '' 2000 AD'' website. Novels by Dave Stone Judge Dredd novels {{UK-comics-stub