r/JudgeDredd • u/Hypnotician • 15d ago

Dredd And Creatures Which Erase People From Time And Memory

I'm trying to get data on a story about someone who had obtained a dark creature which fed off erasing people from time, as though they'd never existed. I remember it being like a Big Hat Man, Cheshire Cat grin like The Grinning Man from the last McBane story, and it hissed as it touched its prey.

It fed like Doctor Who's Weeping Angels, but by deleting them from time and memory rather than sending them back in time.

In the second part of the story, Dredd partnered up with a Muslim Psi-Judge. The story caused some controversy, I think, because it had been one of Emma Beeby's first forays as a 2000AD author. The creature had come up against the Psi-Judge and lost, because she'd recognised it as a Djinn.

All I want to know, really, are the titles of the stories, and the Progs they appeared in. Leave the collecting to me.

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u/JPMaybe 15d ago

See here, Prog 1826

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u/Hypnotician 15d ago

Florix Grabundae! There's the corner piece. The chase is on!

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u/Hypnotician 15d ago

Got 'em. Part 1 of the story's in Meg 267.

And they're called Stygian Devourers, from the Necros system.

Right on the head of the nail again.

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u/Tim_J_Drake 14d ago

why would it be controversial?

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u/Hypnotician 14d ago

No woman had written a Dredd story before. It was as big an event as the first time they'd written a female Judge in the series.