Any group of assassins/mercenaries in the Dredd-verse?

[Zarjazzer]

Hire some Kleggs they do good work.

[Dark Jimbo]

It would have been interesting to do them as the Morlock Zoidberg versions. I guess semi-human would have been even more disturbing - I think it's the lobster claws that kills the design for me.

That scene in their debut story where they accept a (literal) suitcase of bank notes from a gangster in advance payment is rendered fairly ludicrous by those lobster claws - how on earth could they hope to spend a cred of it (much less get the suitcase open on their own!)

[JayzusB.Christ]

I seem to remember Frank Quitely drew some very different Gila Munja in Missionary Man, with very few human characteristics.  Also, which story introduced the Gila Bruja?  I thought they came from Missionary Man too.

Going back to the OP's question, there's also Dave Stone's Brit Cit organisation who sends out a sexy redhead in bondage gear to kill people.  I can't remember if they're secret Justice Dept ops or not, but they're very much part of Armitage's world.  They may be called Wetworks (at least that was the name of the novel that featured them; I never read it. Wish I had, though - Dave Stone's other Dredd novel was great.).

[Sandman1]

So the Dredd-verse doesn't have a group of professional killers that only includes "normal" people, like something that resembles the League of Assassins? 

[The Adventurer]

Did Stan Lee work for anyone? Surely Hando is up to its eyeballs in Assassin guilds.

[I, Cosh]

Did Stan Lee work for anyone? Surely Hando is up to its eyeballs in Assassin guilds.

The highest bidder.

[Frank]

So the Dredd-verse doesn't have a group of professional killers that only includes "normal" people, like something that resembles the League of Assassins? 

I'd been meaning to create a dedicated thread posing a similar question, but since you ask.

Trifecta, written in part by Rob Williams, featured Invisible Ninjas, dressed in black gimp suits, with red eyes and wielding katanas. Said Invisible Ninjae resurfaced in Williams' recent Act Of Grud (now apparently under the direction of Smiley).

Michael Carroll's Blood Of Emeralds kicked off with Joyce being targetted for assassination by a private hire contract killer called Stonefish - an Invisible Ninja wearing a black gimp suit, with red eyes and carrying katana.

Michael Carroll's most recent Dredd story, Deep In The Heart featured a former Sector Zero operative ("which one were you, Hunsacker, Gaudiano?") with Ninja skills, dressed in a black gimp suit, and throwing shapes with the old katana.

So, are these Ninjas - with their black gimp suits, red eyes, katana, and varying degrees of visibility - despite appearing in apparently unrelated stories by different writers, part of a single organisation? Was Stonefish (who had his memory professionally wiped) actually one of the missing Sector Zero operatives (Hunsacker or Gaudiano) mentioned by Brass?

Were the members of Sector Zero's Invisible Ninja Academy and Trifecta's Invisible Ninjas under the impression they were different organisations with different aims, while acting as unwitting agents of a wider grouping? Are Williams and Carroll quietly cooperating in the creation of TordelBack's globe spanning coup?

[Smith]

That does seem like a theme...

[Frank]

Are Williams and Carroll quietly cooperating in the creation of TordelBack's globe spanning coup?

At the time, I remember thinking Williams (apparently) quoting the title of Carroll and Sexton's Sector Zero story (1963-1968) in Act Of Grud (Williams & Flint, 2004-2006), was a little too on the nose to be more than coincidence. Now, I'm not so sure:

[Sandman1]

Trifecta, written in part by Rob Williams, featured Invisible Ninjas, dressed in black gimp suits, with red eyes and wielding katanas. Said Invisible Ninjae resurfaced in Williams' recent Act Of Grud (now apparently under the direction of Smiley).

Michael Carroll's Blood Of Emeralds kicked off with Joyce being targetted for assassination by a private hire contract killer called Stonefish - an Invisible Ninja wearing a black gimp suit, with red eyes and carrying katana.

Michael Carroll's most recent Dredd story, Deep In The Heart featured a former Sector Zero operative ("which one were you, Hunsacker, Gaudiano?") with Ninja skills, dressed in a black gimp suit, and throwing shapes with the old katana.

Hmm, seems to be the group I've been looking for. Will need to read some of those stories and hopefully get a little more perspicuous picture of their motives and abilities. Nevertheless, thanks for the tips!

[Dark Jimbo]

So the Dredd-verse doesn't have a group of professional killers that only includes "normal" people, like something that resembles the League of Assassins?

MOB BLITZERS!

[AlexF]

Low Life had a storyline set at a hitman convention in MC1, although by the end of it all of them had either been killed or arrested, hence leaving room for all those invisible ninjas to swoop in I guess!

What about the Ex-Men? Hard-luck cases who have either been coerced or volunteered into being suicude assassins who stand next to the targets and then blow up. I can see one of them managing to get close to a high-ranking person, since they could easily be an insider forced into a bad position by mob bosses.

[Sandman1]

MOB BLITZERS!

Where can I read about them?

[ming]

Can't find any images online but Ron Smith had a pretty good take on Cooper's version of the Gila Munja in 'The Hotdog Run', didn't he?

Prog 235:

[Dark Jimbo]

MOB BLITZERS!

Where can I read about them?

Primarily prog 130/Case Files 3 and progs 214-215/Case Files 5.