Incident At Rowdy Yates

     Five years into his thirty year sentence for attempted judge-murder and 
in the wake of the Second Robot War Walter returned to 2000 AD.  Prog 1169 
(Nov 10-16 1999) featured a Dredd story titled "Incident at Rowdy Yates" which
saw Dredd returning to his apartment in Rowdy Yates Block for the first time
in weeks after a call that a robot had been seen hanging around his quarters.
Dredd had been too busy to drop by lately what with being shanghied to the 
New Kremlin in the Mediterranean Free State to stand trial for war crimes 
before the survivors of East-Meg 1.  After escaping that and fighting the 
Robot War orchestrated by Nero Narcos, the head of the Frendz Crime Syndicate
anf the aftermath of that Dredd had been far too busy for any downtime.  But
a report of robotic presence at his apartment could mean a boobytrap had been 
installed by Narcos before his death.  Dredd investigated and just before 
opening the door found there was a robot lurking near his apartment.  However 
it wasn't one of Narcos' Assassinators. 








     The door was blasted as soon as Walter opened it.  Dredd had been quite 
right, Narcos had left him a going away present.  Dredd blasted the 
assassination droid but there wasn't much left of his apartment after the 
firefight.  After quoting, "The evil men do lives after them", Dredd 
remembered to check how Walter was doing.








    For those who don't know her Mrs Gunderson was once Judge Death's 
landlady.  Amazingly she had survived this, a subsequent encounter with the
superfiend and several other nervewracking adventures protected from trauma
by her almost total lack of eyesight and hearing.  Like Walter before her
Dredd appears to have a soft spot for her as he was the one who suggested she
turn the room she used to rent into a tourist attraction with "Holiday 
Macabre" after it was discovered to have been spiritually contaminated by
Judge Death's presence.
     Within the year this new dynamic duo had an adventure together as Walter
finally got his rematch with Mean Machine Angel!





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