Banzai Battalion
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Banzai Battalion are a group of recurring characters, created by John Wagner
, that appears in 2000 AD
. They are tiny gardening robots designed as a bug-fighting military outfit that have been deployed in a garden in Mega-City One
where their adventures initially involved Judge Dredd
, although in their more recent stories they have branched out into their own series.
John Wagner
John Wagner is a comics writer who was born in Pennsylvania in 1949 and moved to Scotland as a boy. Alongside Pat Mills, Wagner was responsible for revitalising British boys' comics in the 1970s, and has continued to be a leading light in British comics ever since.He is best known for his work on...
, that appears in 2000 AD
2000 AD (comic)
2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic. As a comics anthology it serialises a number of separate stories each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary which was sold...
. They are tiny gardening robots designed as a bug-fighting military outfit that have been deployed in a garden in Mega-City One
Mega-City One
Mega-City One is a huge fictional city-state covering much of what is now the Eastern United States in the Judge Dredd comic book series. The exact boundaries of the city depend on which artist has drawn the story...
where their adventures initially involved Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
Judge Joseph Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running . Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner...
, although in their more recent stories they have branched out into their own series.