Mega-City One, 2130 AD. This vast urban nightmare on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to 400 million citizens, every one a potential criminal. With lawlessness rife, only the Judges can prevent total anarchy. These future lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the law!

Mars, the far future. War droids created for a conflict that ended centuries ago, the A.B.C. WARRIORS are resistant to Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical warfare. Recruited to bring peace to the civil war-ravaged frontier colonies on the Red Planet, the Mek-nificent Seven comprise leader Hammerstein, the mystical Deadlock, sharpshooter Joe Pineapples, the brutish Mongrol, voice of Mars Steelhorn, the treacherous Blackblood, and the pin-headed battle-tank Mek-Quake.

Codenames SNOW and TIGER are agents of T.A.C.T.I.C. (Trans-Atlantic Counter-Terrorist Intelligence Command), a joint British/American covert ops agency set up to combat international terrorism. Snow is a cautious British Intelligence Officer, while Tiger is an ex-U.S. Delta Force warrior who believes only in direct action. But in today's shifting international landscape, nothing is ever quite as it seems...