 Now the strip's sole writer, Wagner was free to return to the Democracy theme, this time with a more sympathetic depiction of Dredd's character in which Dredd began to have misgivings about his role in suppressing the Democratic March.Dredd's qualms would become the catalyst to take the whole "Judge Dredd" strip in a new direction.Wagner used the Democracy theme to add depth to a separate story arc that he had already begun to develop in two sequels to "Oz", which had introduced the character Judge Kraken.