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However, the first full-length follow-up strip, an Africa-set Judge Dredd crossover titled Fetish, was plagued with so many problems that the then-editor David Bishop took to referring to the " curse of Devlin Waugh ".

After the script had gone through a lengthy re-write, it turned out that Phillips would not be available to draw the character.

Artist Ashley Wood also dropped out of the project, which was eventually handed to Siku.

In the end, it would be seven years between Waugh ’ s first and second appearance, and Siku ’ s radical style was not to the tastes of many readers.

These two factors may have contributed to the relatively small number of strips containing this initially popular character.