Ranson is an impeccable artist, so the art is impeccable, and the effort put in phenomenal. The 2015 Shamballa collection is better, but the entire saga is split over Judge Anderson: The Psi-Files 02 and 03. Much of it is found in Judge Anderson: Childhood’s End. While both stories here work separately, Grant plots Anderson’s stories as a continuing personal journey, so they’re better experienced with the missing material between, even if most isn’t drawn by Ranson. During the original continuity much happens in between, drawn by other artists, so a hefty page of fill in text is required. ‘The Jesus Syndrome’ has preacher Jon Baptiste rapidly gathering a large following with his endorsement of the Biblical New Testament, while the title story concerns a creature of infinite evil heading toward Mega-City One. The two stories here look at the opposite sides of 20 th century Christianity. The sample art shows their mutual antipathy. She’s also been paired with Judge Goon, representing the unthinking brutality of the Judges in upholding a system Anderson’s no longer sure she believes in. It redefined Anderson, giving her a greater spiritual dimension to run alongside her light personality, and that was the spark plug for subsequent stories drawn by both Ranson and other artists, during which she learned of her past. Alan Grant had written all Anderson’s solo material, but it was working on Shamballa with Ranson that proved the landmark. Satan contains two Judge Anderson stories drawn by Arthur Ranson, but several years apart.
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