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Judge Dredd writer: My nightmare vision of a state gone mad has come true

Depressing reality of social trends exaggerated for comic book fame

Alan Grant, the writer behind the infamous lawman Judge Dredd and the post-apocalyptic Mega-City One, has admitted he now finds it hard to write the comic because real life has strayed too close to his science fiction dystopia.