In Memorandum: Former Chief Judge Barbara Hershey

Death has finally caught up to Barbara Hershey, and Mega-City One will never be the same…

The final chapter of Hershey by Rob Williams, Simon Fraser and Simon Bowland hit the pages of 2000 AD Prog 2349 this Wednesday, and brought with it quite a significant change to the ‘Dreddverse’. 

Barbara Hershey is no more! 

Created by John Wagner and Brian Bolland in 1980, Hershey has been a mainstay of Judge Dredd's world ever since – a street Judge who attained the city's highest position, a friend and foe to Dredd, and someone whose lifetime of service is ending with a tale of revenge and retribution.

Having previously faked her death, Hershey was seriously ill from an incurable virus as she attempted to deal with an alien outbreak that could destroy her beloved city. Her past and uncertain future fused together in the third and final book of Rob Williams, Simon Fraser and Simon Bowland’s ‘Hershey’, as seen in the concluding chapter of their run in Prog 2349.

Only a few people knew that Hershey was still alive, but her death will have a lasting impact both on and off the pages of 2000 AD. In 2000 AD Prog 2351, out on the 27th September, Judge Dredd will begin his new mission: to find out who infected the Former Chief Judge and bring them to justice...