The Oubliette. The Black Tower. The Fathers. “The Shift” continues in Judge Dredd in this week’s 2000 AD Prog 2421, celebrating 48 years of thrill-power.

For a too-subtle satire, Judge Dredd currently seems terrifyingly on the nose ... remained the embodiment of a dehumanising regime which crams people into mile-high tower blocks and denies them due ...

Two years before the first 'John Wick' came out, Karl Urban had a lock on the same type of character, set in a dystopian ...