Judge Dredd Megazine #492: Meg 492

Judge Dredd Megazine #492 is OUT NOW!A major story starts this issue as we kick off a crossover event with 2000 AD - while Prog 2483 (on sale right now!) sees the commencement of the Oubliette plot thread, here we’re focusing on Mega-City One and The Black Tower, which has just manifested right in the middle of the metropolis.Make sure you keep up with both titles over the coming months as you’ll discover how the two elements will come together. Elsewhere, we’ve got more Megatropolis, Fargo & McBane and Atomfall (which won Best British Game last month at the Baftas, and has a TV production in the works), plus the last part of Department K, and Rok the World takes a mid-season break after this episode.In addition, there are tributes to IPC Group Editor Barrie Tomlinson, the driving force behind Roy of the Rovers, Scream! and more, who sadly died on 21 April, plus much more!JUDGE RICO // THE BLACK TOWER, Part OneMega-City One, 2148 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 300 million citizens, where tensions run a constant knife-edge. Bordered on one side by the toxic Black Atlantic and the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west, crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Rico - he is the Law!MEGATROPOLIS II, Part SIXImagine a Mega-City One from an alternate timeline - less the gleaming metropolis of the twenty-second century but instead an art deco retro-future variation. Joe Rico is the one good cop in a police department riddled with corruption, and partnered with the young Amy Jara, they investigated a series of vigilante killings committed by a robot…ATOMFALL // THE WICKED ISLE, Part TwoWyndham village, 1958. A year ago, reporter Jenny Coggins was sent by her newspaper to write a story on the Windscale Atom Plant, but she’d been receiving inside information that all was not what it seemed with the facility. While she was there, however, the plant exploded, and the entire area was quarantined by the military - now a new society has developed, and more mysteries emerge…FARGO & MCBANE // FAVOURED SONS, Part ThreeNew York City, the 1970s. Detective Jack McBane was one of the toughest cops to patrol the metropolis, having no compunction in handing out summary justice upon criminals. Although his ruthless attitude wins him few friends, he has one in Officer Eartha Fargo, who’s partnered with him to investigate strange crimes on the mean streets of the Big Apple…ROK THE WORLD // Chapter Five DEPARTMENT K // …NO MORE, Part FourMega-City One, 2148 AD. Justice Department has many divisions within it tasked with dealing with the various threats that face the metropolis. The mysterious Department K is a branch of Tek-Div, whose brief is to tackle interdimensional enemies that are seeking to break through the walls of reality. Young intern Afua recently had an encounter with one such entity…