Predator vs. Judge Dredd

"Predator vs. Judge Dredd"
Cover to Predator vs. Judge Dredd trade paperback
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics (U.S.) Fleetway Publications (U.K.)
Publication date	October – December 1997
Genre	Science fiction
Title(s)	Predator vs. Judge Dredd #1–3 (U.S.) Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 3 #36–38 (U.K.)
Creative team
Writer(s)	John Wagner
Artist(s)	Enrique Alcatena
Colourist(s)	Perry McNamee, Jimmy Johns, John Hanan III, Dave Stewart
Judge Dredd vs. Predator	ISBN 1-84023-021-5
Judge Dredd vs. Predator	ISBN 1-56971-345-6

Predator vs. Judge Dredd is an intercompany crossover featuring the galaxy's greatest lawman and the galaxy's greatest hunter. It was originally published in 1997 in serial form in Judge Dredd Megazine and a three-issue miniseries by Dark Horse Comics. It was then collected as a trade paperback.

Characters

• Judge Dredd
• Judge Schaefer, a Judge from Psi Division who is the great-great-granddaughter of Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in the original film).

Plot

The Predator enters the urban jungle of Mega-City One to hunt a challenging prey – the Judges themselves. As the Judges' heads start accumulating in the Predator's trophy room, it is down to Dredd and Schaefer to stop the hunt.

When discussing the Predator, the Judges say it had visited New York. This never happened in the film but did in the Predator comic book story Concrete Jungle, written by Mark Verheiden (which parallels a lot of the themes in the second film).

Collections

The series has been collected as a trade paperback:

• Predator vs Judge Dredd, 80 pages, Titan, 1998, ISBN 1-84023-021-5
• Predator vs Judge Dredd, 80 pages, Dark Horse Comics, 1999, ISBN 1-56971-345-6
• Predator vs Judge Dredd vs Aliens, 176 pages, Dark House Comics, 2014, ISBN 1-61655-479-7
• Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 27, 304 pages, Rebellion, 2016, ISBN 1-78108-432-7

See also

• Judge Dredd vs. Aliens
• Predator, the main comic book series

References

• Predator Versus Judge Dredd at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• 2000 AD profile
• Dark Horse page for the trade