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The Angry Planet review

Spoilers! Spoilers!  The Angry Planet part One (Script: Alan Hebden. Art: Massimo Belardinelli. Reprinted in JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 493) CHAPTER 1 (2092 AD. Mars is The Angry Planet. A monopolistic megacorp (MARS Incorporated) wants to own the fourth planet from the Sun. Matthew Markham (a Marshy/Marshie i.e. a human born on Mars, an independent farmer (like Luke Skywalker)) refuses to have his land prospected by MARS Inc. for peanuts. To force Matt into selling his land... MARS Inc. stops their deliveries of water from Earth to Matt's farm.) CHAPTER 2 (Matthew will represent the Martian colonists/farmers that are being ruined and exploited by MARS Incorporated. Matt will go to the United Nations (on Earth) to plead for an independent planet. Vince (a friendly Earthling) flies Matt to Earth.) CHAPTER 3 (Earth's gravity is too much for the Martian-born Matt, he is put in a gravity-defying water tank. The richest man in the galaxy and the President of MARS Inc. (Hugo Kray) sends hi...