Sit lawbreakersssss as I tell the tale of the dark judgesssss the onesssss who will bring justice to this city filled with the stench of the living.
They started as Judges on their homeworld, who became acolytes of Judge Death - who had determined that as all crime was committed by the living, all crime could be stopped by killing the 'guilty'. The other three were slavishly devoted to him and his philosophy, and the four went around killing people on whatever justification they could find (Judge Fuego was named Fire after he sentenced a whole school to death for noise pollution). The society of the parallel universe they inhabited placed very little value on human life and many inhabitants were sadistic and violent, but even by the standards of their people the Dark Judges were vicious.
Things changed when Death encountered Phobia and Nausea in a cave. The Sisters were death cultists and mass murderers with supernatural powers, and Death fell in love; the three of them committed acts on victims that he admitted sickened even him. With their help, he and his acolytes were able to become undead beings, thus being 'pure' to judge without hypocrisy. The Sisters would themselves become ethereal beings with hideous magical powers.
Already, the Judges were out of control and killing on the slightest whim. The Dark Judges took control and began murdering everyone on their world.
After they'd won, the group dispersed and were slowly consumed by the boredom of eternity and their own insecurities. Luckily for them, in the early 22nd century dimension-travelling visitors chanced upon the now 'Deadworld' and found the Dark Judges. After 'judging' them and taking their dimension jumping warp devices, Judge Death travelled to Sydney in order to dispense Justice upoun this lawless city.
Death was eventually defeated by the combined efforts of Judges Dredd and the Sydney Police Department.
Having sensed Death's peril, his comrades Fear, Fire and Mortis crossed the dimension warp to rescue him. Released from imprisonment and with a new body created, the four Dark Judges are about to continue their 'judgement' upon Sydney and claim thousands of victims.
