The rest of the story tells of their hazardous journey through the Cursed Earth, during which they are attacked by various hostile inhabitants. When the Dead Man discovers Yassa, he forbids him to accompany him any further due to the exceptionally dangerous terrain they will be passing through, but Yassa disobeys and the Dead Man gives up trying to stop him. The Dead Man sets out alone, but is followed by Yassa and his dog. Yassa's father gives him a rifle and some clothes: a brown overcoat and a wide-brimmed hat, giving him the appearance of a character from a Western.
Once the Dead Man has finished recuperating, he resolves to set out on his own and retrace his steps in an effort to find out who he was. Therefore Yassa nicknames him "Dead Man", and for want of a better alternative the name sticks. When he has finally recovered enough to talk, it transpires that the mental trauma caused by his injuries has caused him to lose his memory, and he has no idea of who he is. The townsfolk collect the injured man and take him back with them, fully expecting him to die during the night, but he survives. At first believing the man to be dead, Yassa is startled when the man regains consciousness, and he runs home to get help. Yassa discovers the body of a man with appalling injuries caused by acid burns, leaving him so badly disfigured that he effectively has no face left. The story is told from the point of view of Yassa Povey, a young boy living in the Cursed Earth, a radioactive desert in post-nuclear war America where the whole story takes place. It was part of a series of stories that set the scene for the main Judge Dredd story of 1990, " Necropolis". Although it was not billed as a Judge Dredd story, it featured Dredd as the amnesiac protagonist known only as the Dead Man. The Dead Man was a science fiction strip in the British comic 2000 AD by writer John Wagner and artist John Ridgway, published in black and white in 1989–90.
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