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Mega-City One is a huge fictional city-state covering much of what is now the Eastern United States and some of Canada in the ''Judge Dredd'' comic book series and its spinoff series. The exact geography of the city depends on which writer and artist has done which story, but from its first appearance it has been associated with New York City's urban sprawl; originally it was presented as a future New York, which was retconned as the centre of a "Mega-City One" in the very next story.〔''2000 AD'' No. 2 and 3〕 The ''Architects' Journal'' placed it at No. 1 in their list of "comic book cities".〔(Top 10 comic book cities: #1 Mega City One ), ''Architects' Journal'', July 8, 2009〕 == Development == When the series ''Judge Dredd'' was being developed in 1976–77 it was originally planned that the story would be set in New York, in the near future. However, when artist Carlos Ezquerra drew his first story for the series, a skyscraper in the background of one panel looked so futuristic that editor Pat Mills instructed him to draw a full-page poster of the city. Ezquerra's vision of the city – with massive tower blocks and endless roads suspended vast distances above the ground with no visible means of support – was so futuristic that it prompted a rethink, and a whole new city was proposed. Art director Doug Church suggested that the city should extend along the entire Eastern Seaboard, and be called Mega-City One, and his idea was adopted.〔(Pat Mills's blog ), September 22, 2012 (retrieved November 12, 2012).〕 While the first ''Judge Dredd'' story is set in "New York 2099AD", prog 3 retconned that and said New York was just part of Mega-City One.〔Progs 2 and 3: "Judge Whitey" and "The New You."〕 The back of prog 3 included an Ezquerra "Futuregraph" poster of Mega-City One (a page from an unused ''Dredd'' story), which said the city stretched from Montreal to Georgia and had 150 million citizens; it was part of the "United States of the West" (USW).〔Prog 3 "Futuregraph" map, reproduced at (Pat Mills's blog ), September 22, 2012〕 Prog 4 then established that Mega-City One was surrounded by wildernesses from the Atomic Wars. The 150 million population was later revised to 100 million in earlier strips and abruptly bumped to 800 million later on.〔Prog 59〕 The United States of the West concept was dropped entirely; a "United Cities of North America" of three megacities was mentioned in prog 42 and then itself dropped in favour of Mega-City One being an independent entity. In early strips, the Judges existed alongside a regular police force,〔Progs 10–12, "Robot Wars" Parts 1–3; Prog 30, "Return of Rico"〕 were popular with the citizens, and the people enjoyed robots doing the work, with the "Grand Judge" saying they wouldn't consent to work more than ten hours a week.〔Prog 11〕 Over time, the strip would have the Judges as a feared police-state force with sole power; prog 118 (written when unemployment was going up in Britain) established that citizens resented being unemployed and took up bizarre crazes to deal with the boredom, and this remained part of the strip from then on. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mega-City One」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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