City Block (Judge Dredd) - Examples of Block Names

Examples of Block Names

• Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were the names of two warring blocks featured in a story produced shortly after the real-life couple separated.
• For around twenty years, Judge Dredd lived in Rowdy Yates block, named after a character in the TV series Rawhide who was played by Dredd's own inspiration, Clint Eastwood.
• In Judge Death Lives, the Dark Judges, led by Judge Death, took over Billy Carter block (named after the brother of former US president Jimmy Carter).
• In Four Dark Judges, the Dark Judges attacked Ronald Reagan block (named after the 1980s US president) and massacred its "elderly and infirm" citizens, before proceeding to Caspar Weinberger block (named after Reagan's long-serving Secretary of Defense) and overwhelming its Citi-Def squad. They also attack Dunc Renaldo and (former 2000AD art designer) Doug Church blocks during their rampage, the former (named after a Western actor) becoming important in the later story Necropolis as the entry-point of the Sisters of Death into Mega-City One.
• The first name ever featured as a block name was Charlton Heston in 1979.
• English Comedian Sue Perkins had a block named after her in 2000 AD prog. 1792
• Peach Trees was the city block in which Dredd is mostly set in, and was ruled over by the tyrannical Ma-Ma, the film's antagonist.