Mutants (Judge Dredd storyline)
| "Mutants in Mega-City One" "Tour of Duty" |
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| Publisher | Rebellion Developments |
| Publication date | "Mutants in Mega-City One" 20 June – 11 July 2007 "Tour of Duty" 26 August 2009 – 14 July 2010 |
| Genre | |
| Title(s) | "Mutants in Mega-City One" 2000 AD #1542–1545 "Tour of Duty" 2000 AD #1650–1693 |
| Main character(s) | Judge Dredd |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | John Wagner |
| Artist(s) | Colin MacNeil and others |
Mutants are the subject of a number of stories in the Judge Dredd science-fiction series published in British comics 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. Mutants are genetically-flawed, physically deformed people who are the subject of prejudice and apartheid in the 22nd century. Although they have appeared in Judge Dredd since the strip's earliest stories in 1977, a major story arc beginning with "Mutants in Mega-City One" in June 2007 and ending with "Tour of Duty" in July 2010 dealt specifically with their struggle against apartheid in Dredd's city, Mega-City One.
Mutants are de novo mutations created by radiation or radioactive contamination following the Atomic Wars in 2070. Their genetic mutations (which are inherited by their children) cause them to exhibit bizarre physical deformities. They first appeared in 2000 AD #4 (1977), described as raiders from outside the city, in the "wilderness from the Atomic Wars." Another early issue revealed that mutants have been banned from the city, on grounds that "[they] hate ordinary people because they themselves are warped". However "The Cursed Earth" (1978) explained that mutants were actually the victims of irrational prejudice by those fortunate enough to be unaffected by the disaster — normal people, or "norms." As a result, all mutants were deprived of citizenship and expelled from Mega-City One, Judge Dredd's city on the east coast of America, and forced to live in the radioactive wasteland outside the city, the inhospitable and lawless Cursed Earth. There they remained for sixty years.
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