victims to geometrically vanish piece by random piece. Just before he dies he tells Dredd that he believes the Judge Child is evil, because it was the Judge Child who caused him to catch the disease in the first place, apparently intentionally. Dredd begins to doubt the mission but continues to Xanadu where he confronts and kills most of the Angel Gang, who had also begun to suspect the boy had been manipulating them. However the last of the Angel Gang is killed by the Judge Child himself. Finally having hold of the Judge Child, Dredd looks into his eyes and sees that he is evil and unfit to rule. Believing that the ruler of his city has to be pure and uncorrupted, Dredd abandons him on the planet and returns home - to the exasperation of the remaining Justice 1 crew. Sequels For deliberately failing in his mission Dredd himself had to be judged, in the story's epilogue Block War in prog 182. This story introduced another major character, Judge McGruder, who thought that Dredd had exceeded his authority. In a sequel called Destiny's Angels, the Judge Child was executed for attempting to assassinate Dredd in revenge for depriving him of the opportunity to rule Mega-City One. In McGruder's eyes this vindicated Dredd's earlier judgement of him, and she authorised the execution herself. Krysler returned in City of the Damned, this time as a deformed but much more powerful telepath called The Mutant. This version of Krysler was a clone, grown from cultures taken from the original by The Grunwalder, the then-ruler of Xanadu. This storyline completed the Judge Child arc, with Dredd noting that Feyy (the original pre-cog judge) was wrong in one important respect - Krysler was not the saviour of the city, but the doom of it instead. In other media Although the Judge Child himself does not feature in the 1995 Judge Dredd film, the Angel Family appear as secondary villains and are depicted very similarly to their original versions from this story arc. The film's iteration of Mean Machine (played by Christopher Adamson) ends up killing Justice Fargo (Max von Sydow). A brief visual reference to the Judge Child is made in the 2012 film Dredd. During a shootout outside a cinema, a poster on the wall advertises a film called Krysler's Mark, featuring a young boy as the central character. References External links