Judge Dredd's assault on consumer culture icons finally unleashed

Withheld since the 1970s for legal reasons, two unseen episodes of The Cursed Earth series satirising consumer brands will now be published

Episodes of the Judge Dredd strip from classic British weekly comic 2000AD that poked fun at McDonald’s, Burger King and corporate mascots such as the Michelin Man and the Jolly Green Giant are due to be reprinted after almost four decades in legal limbo.

In 1978, the comic featured a long-running storyline called The Cursed Earth, in which the far-future lawman went on a road trip through an America reduced to a post-nuclear wasteland populated by grotesque mutants.

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