Black Atlantic is an original novel written by Simon Jowett

Simon Jowett

-Biography:His early work was in comics, as the writer of the James Bond stories Silent Armageddon and Shattered Helix ) and as a contributor to 2000AD. He left comics largely behind in the mid-1990s, when he moved into script-writing for other media...

 and Peter J. Evans

Peter J. Evans

Peter J. Evans is a British author.He made his professional writing debut in 1992. Since then he has worked on a broad spectrum of projects, including over two hundred articles for various entertainment magazines...

, 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...

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Synopsis

Judge Dredd must find and destroy an illegal "bio-weapon" – a deadly creature created in a laboratory and designed to kill everyone it sees – which has been stolen and is being held somewhere on a massive city-ship full of mutants, in the highly toxic Atlantic Ocean.

External link

• Black Atlantic at the 2000 AD website.