Judy Janus was introduced in prog 842. Her debut one-shot introduced several subplots that were never developed. With Judge Anderson off learning about her humanity in the Megazine in the mid-1990s, Janus became her erstwhile replacement in the weekly with several dark and mean-spirited adventures. However, as Anderson returned to duty in the city, sharing space in the Megazine with another female psychic named Karyn, the city seemed choked with psis. Janus was the natural one to drop as Morrison and Millar left the books. The villain Faustus, incidentally, is another dull Millar indestructible man.

Joe was a coffee-drinking agent of PEST - the Planetary Exploration and Survey Trust. He appeared in six Future Shocks but unfortunately never graduated to a full series. His tales are mostly forgotten, which is a shame, as some of them, especially "Horn of Plenty," are quite clever.

As with Bato Loco and Cursed Earth Koburn, Johnny Woo (aka Hong Tong Judge Inspector Liu Chan Yeun) first appeared as a guest star in one of Rennie's Judge Dredd scripts and graduated, in time, to his own series.

Predating The Books of Magic by years, never mind Harry Potter, this story of a young man learning magic benefits from its slow pace, rural setting and gorgeous artwork. There was some question among the editorial staff as to whether the series actually belonged in 2000 AD, which may explain the very long gap between the initial "Summer Magic" adventure, and "The Night Walker" (which was announced, and apparently finished, well over a year before it appeared). More stories were supposedly forthcoming, but, as Alan McKenzie left the comic industry, it looks like Luke's journal will be closed for the forseeable future.

Top moment: On holiday with his family, Luke’s cousin Kim asks him to tell her fortune, hoping for a large house and family. Luke instead sees her grisly death in a traffic accident.

Judge Death is a monster from a parallel dimension where the ruling judges decided that, as all crimes were committed by the living, life itself would be criminalized. After wiping out the entire population of his planet, Death visited Mega-City One in progs 149-151. A little more than a year later, he returned in the five-part “Judge Death Lives,” wherein it is revealed, in possibly comics’ greatest cliffhanger, that there are actually four Dark Judges - Fear, Fire and Mortis have come to our world to free him.

The Dark Judges appeared twice more to plague the Mega-City, but while Fear, Fire and Mortis are captured after the events of “Necropolis,” Death remained at large, and was revealed in “Young Death,” one of the series which launched The Judge Dredd Megazine, to be hiding out as a tenant in Mrs. Gunderson’s flat. It was this story, and his periodic appearances afterward, which began to treat the character less as a real threat and more as an over-the-top comic creation; previously the absurdity of the concept had been played straight, despite an almost Marvel Comics-styled “arch-enemy” antagonism with Psi-Judge Anderson. This reached a nadir when Judge Death appeared in the first of four Batman / Dredd crossovers, “Judgement on Gotham,” attacking a crowd at a heavy metal concert while singing his own take on the Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil.”

Although captured in this story, Death continued to make goofy cameos for years afterward, before making another bid for freedom in the fourth of the Batman crossovers, “Die Laughing.” Mercifully, this was the last of the stupid “humor” Judge Death stories. Most recently, he was broken out again and was seen in a six-parter in the weekly. Attempting to kill Anderson and believing himself successful, Death left Mega-City One to bring his brand of vengeance to the muties and outlaws of the Cursed Earth. While this was a welcome return to form and the first good Judge Death story in over a decade, we can’t help but wish Death would remain out there for a very long time before returning to battle Dredd and Anderson; the character has just appeared far too frequently, and has lost virtually all of his impact through overuse.

Hershey has been one of the longest-running supporting members of the Judge Dredd universe. She was introduced in “The Judge Child” in 1981 and has regularly appeared as one of Dredd’s staunchest allies, frequently turning to him for advice. In the Megazine, she appeared in a recurring solo series under the auspices of a number of writers, her cases generally dealing with city corruption and human issues (she was shown in "The Harlequin's Dance" to have a young nephew), and not the bizarre future crimes often seen in Dredd’s series. Following 1999’s “Doomsday” Dredd epic, Hershey became Chief Judge of Mega-City One.

Juliet November is a freelance pyrokinetic in Mega-City One, introduced in prog 1189. She got a short series of her own in 2003.

The least offensive of Fleisher's contributions, but only by comparison, this one is still very predictable, sexist and dated. Our hero is one of those "dese, dem, dose" he-man wumman haters that populate too much trash American fiction. Ridgway's artwork isn't up to his usual standards. The space shots look beautiful and are colored well by Perkins, but there are plenty of panels that include just the heads of the talking characters, without bodies or backgrounds.