Douglas Wolk is a Judge Dredd historian, has written a series of articles for Comics Alliance[1] and IDW and wrote Judge Dredd Mega City Two: City of Courts[2].
Wolk had written a blog Dredd Reckoning and articles at the back of IDW's Judge Dredd comics and was asked to write a comic story. Wolk has spent a lot of time in California (though is from higher up on the West Coast[1]) and has used his experiences in writing City of Courts. Some of Wolk's favourite Dredd sequences are the stories involving America Jara, Necropolis, Day of Chaos and Trifecta[3].