10 Judge Dredd Comics You Must Read Before You Die
6. America
With all the gun-toting, perp smacking action that he deals out each month, it's sometimes easy to forget that the folks of Mega-City One are, basically, living under a jack-booted dictatorship. This is something that John Wagner and Colin MacNeil remedy with the excellent America.
It's very rare for a Judge Dredd story to be told from any viewpoint but that of his and the other Lawbringers, yet this tale is from the outside looking in.
It all revolves around the titular character, America, and her stand against the fascist regime that she sees everywhere. Ever since her early days, she has looked at the Judges as nothing more than oppressors, and as she grows up she heads down a path of civil rebellion, that takes her away from her childhood friend, Bennett Beeny.
No matter what she does, Beeny still loves her, even when her gang's ambush leaves three Judges dead and sees him shot it the throat.
After he recovers she comes to him seeking money for a huge terrorist attack and, even though he gives her it, he turns her in, resulting in her death as well as the death of those involved in the plan.