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
character. He also appears in a number of movie and video game adaptations.
Judge Dredd is a law enforcement and judicial officer in the dystopian future city
of Mega-City One, which covers most of the east coast of North America. He is a
"street judge", empowered to summarily arrest, convict, sentence, and execute criminals.
There's been two movies, to date... in 1995 portrayed by Sylvester Stallone
and by Karl Urban in 2012.
