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Starting in January 2014, IDW began publishing a five-issue mini-series titled Mega-City Two: City of Courts. [6] The city that has unfolded from the remains of Hollywood is not quite like Mega-City One. The Judges are forced to carry stun-guns only and nearly everyone is interested in fame and glory — quite possibly, before justice.
In the year 2100, Mega-City Two, on the West Coast of North America, becomes infected with the virus 2T(fru)T (a play on tutti frutti), which drives people violently insane before a painful death. Scientists in Mega-City One manage to develop a vaccine, but authorities find it impossible to safely land at Mega-City Two's airports.
A megacity is a very large city, typically with a population of more than 10 million people. [1] [2] [3] ...
A robot rebellion led by Call-Me-Kenneth, The Robot Wars, brings large-scale destruction to Mega-City One before finally being quelled by the Judges. [66] Rico Dredd, returning from his penal servitude on Titan, is killed during a showdown with his brother Joe. [67] 2100. A deadly plague threatens the very existence of Mega-City Two.
In "Tour of Duty", Dredd is appointed to the Council of Five, Mega-City One's highest governing body below the Chief Judge, [55] on which he serves for two years (2132 to 2134). [56] On several occasions, he saves his city from conquest or destruction by powerful enemies, and in 2114, he saves the entire world during the Fourth World War .
IDW Comics hired Fariñas for art duties on Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two in 2014. [2] He followed up that series in 2016 with Judge Dredd: Mega-City Zero, which he wrote. [3] [4] In 2016, Fariñas and Storme Smith launched Buño, a publishing imprint at Magnetic Press. [5]
Although Los Angeles and the West Coast have been treated as a futuristic concept geographic region by different names in other works — "Los Andiegoles" in the novel A Friend of the Earth, "Rattown" in the novel Dr. Adder, and "Mega City 2" in the comic stories of Judge Dredd; San Angeles remains the more popular identifying description.
All episodes written by Rob Williams (except where noted): . Mega-City Undercover (160 pages, Rebellion Developments, January 2008, ISBN 1-905437-52-8) collects: "Paranoia" (art by Henry Flint, in 2000 AD #1387–1396, 2004)