PJ Maybe
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Philip Janet Maybe is a fictional character in the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd.
The only child of the Maybe's and a relative of the wealthy Yes' (a family of trouser makers), he was a child genius and serial killer; he began (whilst 12 years old ) by murdering a neighborhood couple, and gradually moved on to killing family members. After being captured by Dredd, he was sent to an asylum.
During the Necropolis storyline, he escaped and fled back home (where he witnessed his parents suicide). Shortly afterwards, he was contacted by a family friend, Mrs Urchison. Her killed both her and her only child, and used the family's face changing machine to alter his appearance. After inheriting the family fortune and killing several more associates, he was apprehended by Dredd as he was escaping to Ciudad Barranquilla.
Imprisoned for seven years in Iso-Block 666, he escaped again by drugging one prisoner and and convincing another he was PJ Maybe. Using the Robot War as cover, he left the Iso-Block and attempted to change his face into that of a billionaire named Gunga Dinsdale. Tricked by a back street merchant (who disfigured him), he killed a Judge nearby and fled the city.
Once free, he stole the identity of Pedro Julio Montez and faked his own death. He went back to Mega-City One to set up a lucrative business deal with the city. This was all subterfuge for his real plan: to kill his six childhood tormentors. After killing five of the six, he realised that Dredd might suspect him. He ordered his robot pilot to drug another pilot to crash into the sixth floor of an apartment block, igniting an inferno.
Shortly after his escape, several ambassadors from Mega City One came to Ciudad Barranquilla. He murdered several , and deliberatly cut himself in front of Dredd, exposing his real identity. He then kidnapped a doctor from Cal-Hab and switched his heart (stored at the time in the Black Museum.) He then tricked Dredd into believing he was dead, switching bodies with the doctor (leaving him to die in a fire) and changed his identity again, returning to Mega-City One and planning more killings already.
[edit] Trivia
- His MO usually involves face changing machines, drugs (mainly SLD 88 which renders people open to suggestion) and acting.
- His personal assistant and lover is a robot named Inga.
[edit] Publications
All the stories have been collected in The Complete P.J. Maybe.
- Judge Dredd:
- "Bug" (by John Wagner/Alan Grant and Liam Sharp, in 2000 AD #534, 1987)
- "PJ Maybe, Age 13 " (by John Wagner and Liam Sharp, in 2000 AD #592-594, 1988)
- "The Further Adventures of PJ Maybe, Age 14" (by John Wagner and Liam Sharp, in 2000 AD #599, 1988)
- "The Confeshuns of PJ Maybe" (by John Wagner and Liam Sharp, in 2000 AD #632-634, 1989)
- "Wot I Did During Necropolis" (by John Wagner and Anthony Williams, in 2000 AD #707-709, 1990)
- "PJ & the Mock-Choc Factory" (by Garth Ennis and Anthony Williams, in 2000 AD #820-822, 1993)
- "The All New Adventures of P. J. Maybe" (by John Wagner and Peter Doherty, in 2000 AD #1204, 2000)
- "You're a Better Man Than I Am, Gunga Dinsdale" (by John Wagner and Ben Oliver, in 2000 AD #1210, 2000)
- "Bring Me the Heart of P. J. Maybe" (by John Wagner and Ben Oliver, in 2000 AD #1211, 2000)
- "Six" (by John Wagner and Chris Weston, in Judge Dredd Megazine #221-222, 2004)
- "The Monsterus Mashinashuns of P.J. Maybe" (by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, in Judge Dredd Megazine #231-234, 2005)
