According to Armitage, she was terminated from the project and farmed out to Justice Department instead of being sold to the criminal Overlords, but she is not entirely sure he was telling her the truth. As well as appearing in the "Armitage" comic series in the "Judge Dredd Megazine", Steel has also appeared in three novels by Dave Stone: "Deathmasques" (Virgin Books, 1993), "The Medusa Seed" (Virgin, 1994) and "Psykogeddon" (Black Flame, 2006). Don Uggie Apelino was a genetically altered intelligent ape who encountered Dredd several times – first during a gang war, and later after a foiled attempt to have Dredd assassinated. After the Apocalypse War, radiation regressed his intelligence to that of a normal ape, whereupon he led a group of insane and brutal apes in the Cursed Earth. Dredd followed a regressed Fast Eeek, and executed the gang – including Apelino – as a danger to Mega City residents. In the IDW Publishing 2013 series ""Mars Attacks Judge Dredd"", Apelino features with his intelligence intact as a major character in the plot – initially the leader of a mafia syndicate in sector 301, then later assisting Dredd and Anderson in the fight against the Martians once his gang has been eliminated. (IDW's stories are not necessarily on the same canon as "2000 AD's".) Apelino was often accompanied by his two henchmen Fast Eeek and Joe Bananas. Judge Carolyn Bachmann is a character in the "Judge Dredd" comic strip appearing in British comics "2000 AD" and the "Judge Dredd Megazine". She was the main villain in the 2012 stories "The Cold Deck" and "Trifecta". Al Ewing told "SFX" "Originally, Bachmann was just someone for Dredd to bounce off, so the second half of that story could take place in real time, a month after the first half. And then it turned out that she was very popular, so I felt that I needed to finish her story quickly, so she wasn’t just another Dredd villain simmering in the background for years and years, which was why I pushed for her to be the Big Bad of ‘Trifecta’. It was literally me saying, ‘I have a villain going spare, can we use her?’" Bachmann first appeared in "Family Man" in "Judge Dredd Megazine" #313 (2011), but in "2000 AD" #1809 she was retroactively stated to have been in charge of Black Ops Division for many years before and deliberately kept out of sight.