Al Ewing would bring back Black Ops for a two-part story, The Family Man, where corrupt Black Ops figure Judge Bachmann assassinated civilian dissidents and a liberal judge in Township Three Dredd was unable to prove her involvement. Dredd had run afoul of their operative Domino Blank-One. Spurrier had created a Black Ops Division in his Dredd strips: a morally dubious outfit who were raised to worship the city as the “God-City” and carry out their work unthinkingly.
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However, Kazan had then defected to Mega-City One and, much to Dredd’s discomfort, given a job as a strategic advisor because of his knowledge of Sov plans. In previous strips by Gordon Rennie, Dredd had fought a Sov Block strategist named Anatoli Kazan – clone of War Marshal Kazan – and his niece Vienna Dredd had been a target in a Kazan plot. The names of the villains of the piece, Judge Bachmann, the head of the Church of Simpology, Turner, and the company Overdrive Inc appear to be a joke based on the name of the rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
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Al Ewing later said "It turned out that that was the best thing that could have happened." Īll three series ended on cliffhangers in prog 1811, and concluded in a story called "Trifecta", which merged all three series into a single 28-page story occupying the whole of prog 1812. However they soon realised that their story actually benefited. Because "Trifecta" was planned before John Wagner's story " Day of Chaos" was published (only a few weeks before "Trifecta" was due to begin its run), at first the writers were caught out by the changes Wagner's story introduced to Judge Dredd's continuity. The fact that we made something that’s as coherent as it is, is testament to Si and Rob’s skill as writers and my extreme flukiness". So we got drunk again." Al Ewing described the process as "like doing a jigsaw where all three of us have slightly different sets, and we’re trying to make a coherent picture with them. The we sobered up and realised how much hard work it'd be, and the funniness went away. One of the writers, Simon Spurrier, has said that the story came about because the writers "Got Drunk And Thought It Would Be Funny. The title refers to a cold deck in card games, where a deck of cards is swapped with a stacked deck during play.Īll three strips were revealed to be part of the same story in prog 1807, when a cliffhanger at the end of that week's episode of "The Cold Deck" became the opening of The Simping Detective, which then carried on into Low Life.
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In prog 1806 a new Judge Dredd story, "The Cold Deck", began. Judge Dredd started the arc with a prologue in "prog" (or issue) 1803, "Bullet to King Four", while the new Simping Detective strip started in prog 1804, and Low Life in prog 1805, with seemingly unrelated stories. The story was an unannounced crossover between Judge Dredd and its spinoff strips The Simping Detective and Low Life. " Trifecta" is a Judge Dredd story arc published in British comic 2000 AD in late 2012, following on from the earlier strip Day of Chaos.