Cursed Earth Asylum is an original novel written by David Bishop

David Bishop

David Bishop is a screenwriter and author. Born in New Zealand, he was a UK comics editor during the 1990s, running such titles as the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD, the latter between 1996 and the summer of 2000....

 and based on the long-running British science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 comic strip

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 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...

. It is Bishop's second Judge Dredd novel. At the time of publication (1994) Bishop was editor of the Judge Dredd Megazine

Judge Dredd Megazine

Judge Dredd: The Megazine is a monthly British comic magazine, launched in October 1990. It is a sister publication to 2000 AD. Its name is a play on words, formed from "magazine" and Dredd's locale Mega-City One.-Content:...

.

Synopsis

A dangerous psychic called Soon is being held prisoner in a lunatic asylum in the Cursed Earth

Cursed Earth

The Cursed Earth is a part of the fictional universe from the Judge Dredd series that appears in the UK comic book 2000 AD.-Background:...

 on account of his staggeringly vast powers. When Soon escapes and threatens 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...

, Judge Dredd and a party of cadets are sent to stop him, only for Dredd to be framed for murdering the cadets.

Continuity

The book features the return of another psychic called Hope, who first appeared in 1991 in the Judge Anderson

Judge Anderson

Judge Cassandra Anderson is a fictional character that started as a supporting player in the comic story Judge Dredd of 2000 AD and eventually rose in prominence and became the star of her own series, which is entitled Anderson: Psi-Division. It was created by writer John Wagner and artist Brian...

 story Engram (in 2000 AD #712-717 and 758-763).

External link

• Cursed Earth Asylum at the 2000 AD website (note: the "reprint material" section erroneously refers to another story).