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"Trifecta" is a ''Judge Dredd'' story arc published in British comic ''2000 AD'' in late 2012, following on from the earlier strip ''Day of Chaos''. The story was an unannounced crossover between ''Judge Dredd'' and its spinoff strips ''The Simping Detective'' and ''Low Life''. ''Judge Dredd'' started the arc with a prologue in "prog" (or issue) 1803, "Bullet to King Four," while the new ''Simping Detective'' strip started in prog 1804, and ''Low Life'' in prog 1805, with seemingly unrelated stories. In prog 1806 a new ''Judge Dredd'' story, "The Cold Deck," began.〔(2000 AD Online: "Do You Know What A Cold Deck Is? )〕 The title refers to a cold deck in card games, where a deck of cards is swapped with a stacked deck during play. All three strips were revealed to be part of the same story in prog 1807, when a cliffhanger at the end of that week's episode of "The Cold Deck" became the opening of ''The Simping Detective'', which then carried on into ''Low Life''. One of the writers, Simon Spurrier, has said that the story came about because the writers "Got Drunk And Thought It Would Be Funny. The() we sobered up and realised how much hard work it'd be, and the funniness went away. So we got drunk again."〔(2000 AD Forums: Prog 1807 )〕 Al Ewing described the process as "like doing a jigsaw where all three of us have slightly different sets, and we’re trying to make a coherent picture with them. The fact that we made something that’s as coherent as it is, is testament to Si and Rob’s skill as writers and my extreme flukiness".〔(SFX: Judge Dredd Writer Al Ewing on 2000AD’s Surprising Crossover )〕 Because "Trifecta" was planned before John Wagner's story "Day of Chaos" was published (only a few weeks before "Trifecta" was due to begin its run), at first the writers were caught out by the changes Wagner's story introduced to ''Judge Dredds continuity. However they soon realised that their story actually benefited. Al Ewing later said "It turned out that that was the best thing that could have happened."〔"Best Laid Plans" (feature by Michael Molcher), in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' #333 (March 2013)〕 All three series ended on cliffhangers in prog 1811, and concluded in a story called "Trifecta," which merged all three series into a single 28-page story occupying the whole of prog 1812. The names of the villains of the piece, Judge Bachmann, the head of the Church of Simpology, Turner, and the company Overdrive Inc appear to be a joke based on the name of the rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive. ==Background== In previous strips by Gordon Rennie, Dredd had fought a Sov Block strategist named Anatoli Kazan – clone of War Marshal Kazan – and his niece Vienna Dredd had been a target in a Kazan plot. However, Kazan had then defected to Mega-City One and, much to Dredd’s discomfort, given a job as a strategic advisor because of his knowledge of Sov plans.〔''2000 AD'' #1466〕 Spurrier had created a Black Ops Division in his ''Dredd'' strips: a morally dubious outfit who were raised to worship the city as the “God-City” and carry out their work unthinkingly. Dredd had run afoul of their operative Domino Blank-One.〔''2000 AD'' prog 1482 and ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' #245〕 Al Ewing would bring back Black Ops for a two-part story, ''The Family Man'',〔''Judge Dredd Megazine'' #312-3〕 where corrupt Black Ops figure Judge Bachmann assassinated civilian dissidents and a liberal judge in Township Three; Dredd was unable to prove her involvement. Over in Spurrier’s ''The Simping Detective'', undercover (or "Wally Squad") judge Jack Point had encountered a criminal operative called Miss Anne Thrope, part of a group of former judges run by an unknown figure. Point also had to deal with his Sector Chief, a corrupt judge named Daveez, and had an ally in Galen DeMarco, an ex-judge turned private investigator. The previous year, ''Low Life'' had concluded a story arc where Dirty Frank, a borderline insane Wally Squad judge, had been revealed to require the tether of the law to remain ‘sane’ and one of the only honest judges in the “Low Life” Squad. Frank had gone on a suicide mission to Hondo City to bring down a yakuza clan and arrest a corrupt former colleague, in order to remain on the force.〔''2000 AD'' progs 1750 to 1761: "Low Life: The Deal"〕 (Rob Williams, the ''Low Life'' writer, had also written a story named ''Breathing Space'' in 2005, involving the collapse of oxygen companies on Luna-1.) An earlier ''Low Life'' tale had shown that Frank had once been a uniformed judge, but he went insane after a mission went badly wrong, leaving him stranded for days in a frozen wasteland. In July 2012 the story ''Day of Chaos'' had ended, in which survivors of East-Meg One, destroyed by Dredd in the Apocalypse War, had released a weaponised virus in Mega-City One. Using a horde of sleeper agents within Justice Department (one close to Chief Judge Francisco himself) and allied terrorist groups, they undermined any judicial efforts to stop the infection. By the end of “Chaos Day”, 350 million citizens were dead (out of 400 million living at the beginning of the storyline), Francisco had resigned, and Judge Hershey had become chief judge (for the second time) and appointed an interim Council of Five. In Hershey’s first tenure as chief judge, Dredd had often used his position and their old relationship to pressure her into doing what he wanted. He had also used the threat of resigning to blackmail her into ending the mutant apartheid laws, which had led to the end of her first administration after the other judges voted her out of office. Upon being pressured by him in a similar manner during her second term in office, she snapped at him (in prog #1803), saying, "If you want to be Chief Judge, the chair is yours... But if you don't want the responsibility – if you don't even want the burdens of Council membership – if you'd rather just barge into my office at regular intervals to blackmail me with a badge you'll never hand in, over issues whose complexity you refuse to engage with – then the door is that way." 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「Trifecta (Judge Dredd story)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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