Fast Food is Bad for Comics, Says Judge Dredd

Britain ’s 2000AD is know for cut its scifi with caustic remark , but now and then even the Galaxy ’s Greatest Comic can go too far . Such was the case with four episodes of Judge Dredd in 1978 , which set out to prove just how dangerous flying nutrient could be , and terminate up demonstrating that it ’s not a sound idea to mess up with copyrights of international corporation if you ’re look to avoid lawyers writing awful letters . Who do it that Ronald McDonald could be so disagreeable ?

The four sequence — part of the popular “ Cursed Earth ” storyline , and the only chapter of that story to have never been reprinted , under scourge of legal action — were two freestanding two - parters , each focusing on somewhat familiar characters . In the first , Dredd got caught up in a war between McDonalds and Burger King that include riots , lynch - mobs and Ronald himself slaughtering unproductive staff , whereas the 2nd include an Island of Dr. Moreau - style mad scientist circumvent by mutant versions of the Jolly Green Giant , Mr. Peanut and other corporate icons .

As soon as the lawyer got ask , 2000AD ’s publishers quickly promised never to reissue the offending strips again , and even went so far as to create a particular half - page funnies let the earthly concern know that , hey , the real Jolly Green Giant ? A stand up up kinda guy cable . fortuitously , the event of the internet mean that some of these lost strips can still be take in by a extremely impressionable world , eager for disillusionment . Now , how long before cease and refrain emails start to go out … ?

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