This reign of misrule continued for months, with few managing to escape. Under their rule at least ten thousand citizens were rounded up and killed by the Dark Judges each day, with Kraken forced to take part in the slaughter many others committed suicide, were shot by judges for breaking curfew, or fell to disease and starvation. All life was outlawed, and the Dark Judges sentenced the entire population to death. The Sisters of Death shrouded the city in impenetrable shadow and blotted out all sun- and starlight, plunging the city into darkness transforming Mega-City One into Necropolis. Chief Judge Silver attempted suicide, but was captured, killed and then reanimated as their pet zombie and torture victim.

With their Sisters' psychic power, the Dark Judges seized control of the city's Judges. In the midst of this chaos, the Sisters sent Kraken to Tech 21, the dimensional research laboratory, and forced him to use their technology to free the Dark Judges from another dimension. She disappeared beneath a tank, only to fall through a crumbling roadway into the Undercity the remains of old New York. Top psi-judge Anderson realised that Kraken was under the Sisters' control, but was knocked out before she could raise the alarm. The Sisters retaliated, their illusions making short work of the Judges.

Realising something was up, Chief Judge Silver ordered a full-scale assault on Dunc Renaldo Block the last known location of Judge Agee. He soon fell under the psychic influence of the Sisters of Death, and kidnapped Psi-Judge Judge Agee, whose psychic powers were used to form a bridge between Deadworld and Mega-City One. To that end, Kraken, a clone-brother of Judge Dredd rescued from the fanatical Judda sect, was ordered to assume Judge Dredd's identity. The Justice Department considered Dredd a symbol of justice, and that knowledge of his resignation could adversely affect public order. Set in the year 2112, the story concerns the tragedy that befalls Mega-City One following the resignation of Judge Dredd in 'Tale of the Dead Man'.

Necropolis john wagner