Judge Karyn

Judge Karyn is a fictional character from the "Judge Dredd" comic strip in British comic "2000 AD".

Fictional character biography

Karyn, a psi judge, first worked with Dredd in the initial Raptaur invasion and would work alongside him several times afterwards. She primarily handled supernatural threats. Karyn expressed a desire to replace Judge Anderson as the department legend, taking several missions just to achieve this, such as joining Dredd's covert team infiltrating Sov gulags. ["Judge Dredd": "Gulag" (by Gordon Rennie and Charlie Adlard, in "2000 AD" #1382-1386, 2004)]

She would also work alongside other notable names in the Judge Dredd Universe, teaming up with Devlin Waugh during his "Fetish" story (lead into through "Visions").

Her career met an ignoble end in 2127. Four years before, she and Dredd had teamed up to handle an East-European vampiric entity (termed virkolak) known as the Shadow King, who had been killing Sov asylum-seekers. Unknown to her, its spirit had escaped into the Undercity; when she and Dredd led a rescue mission into the Undercity, they discovered the Shadow King had spent the last four years building up an army of vampiric Troggies. After the creature possessed Dredd, she tried to emulate Anderson by drawing its spirit into her mind to be imprisoned - the attempt went wrong and she was completely possessed. She is currently locked in a Psi-Division cell, and it is considered unlikely her mind can ever be retrieved.

Publication

She has appeared in "Judge Dredd" as well as her own eponymous series.

*"Judge Dredd":
** "Raptaur" (by Alan Grant and Dean Ormston, in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #1.11-1.17, 1991)
** "Fetish" (by John Smith and Siku, in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #3.26-30, 1997)
** "Gulag" (by Gordon Rennie and Charlie Adlard, in "2000 AD" #1382-1386, 2004)
** "Lazarus" (by Gordon Rennie and Adrian Salmon, in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #217, 2004)
** "Master Moves" (by Gordon Rennie and D'Israeli, in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #217, 2004)
** "Descent" (by Gordon Rennie and Boo Cook, in "2000 AD" #1432-1436, 2005)

*"Judge Karyn":
** "Skinner" (by John Freeman and Adrian Salmon, in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #2.56-2.61, 1994)
** "Concrete Sky" (by John Freeman and Adrian Salmon, in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #2.67-2.72, 1994)
** "Beautiful Evil" (by John Freeman and Adrian Salmon, in "Judge Dredd Mega Special 1994")
** "Visions" (by John Smith and Ashley Wood, in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #3.08, 1995)

References

External links

* [http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=KARYN 2000 AD profile]