Something For The Weekend (w/c 22nd August 2026): Judge Anderson Steps Out!

2000AD Prog 1995

Behind a smashing Judge Anderson cover by Jon Davis-Hunt, 2000AD heads ever closer to Prog 2000, with a fine mix of great strips. Top of the list has to be the cracking conclusion to “Tharg’s 3rillers: Mindmine” by Rory McconvilleColin MacNeilPeter Doherty and Simon Bowland. Both script and story on this are brilliant, with a fantastic end twist that, just possibly, surely sets up a return for the story’s angry protagonist. Utterly brilliant, as is the rest of the Prog, but I’m also enjoying  “Anderson : Psi Division” by Emma BeebyNick Dyer, Richard Elson and Ellie De Ville – and ” Scarlet Traces: Cold War” by Ian Edginton, D’Israeli and Annie Parkhouse is just a thoroughly enjoyable romp from a team at the top of their game.

Plus, Judge Dredd Megazine Issue 375 is out this week – details below!

Over at Titan Comics, this week sees the release of a brand new arc of Assassin’s Creed with #11. This is a perfect jumping on point for new readers, a story that finds Charlotte reeling from the meeting with Erudtio. Explosive secrets are uncovered in the start of this brand new arc!

It’s Fira’s final, most challenging test in Dark Souls #4 – for the fate of Andolus, the ancient Wyrm King, will determine the very future of her Kingdom!

In Tank Girl: Two Girls One Tank #4, the series reaches its explosive conclusion as our heroine comes to blows with her long-lost chum. Keep the tissues handy, folks; you’re gonna need the whole box!

Two more Doctor Who trade paperbacks out this week including Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Volume Two, written by Robbie Morrison and illustrated by Brian Williamson and a collection of last year’s Summer Who event, written by superstar writer Paul Cornell (Wolverine) with art by Neil Edwards (Assassin’s Creed) – Four Doctors!

UK Newsagents Releases

Commando No 4943 – Ice-Cold CombatThere are plenty of comics on sale in newsagents that still delight in bringing you such subversive delights, including 2000AD, The Beano, Danger Mouse comic, Commando (latest release intel here), Judge Dredd MegazinePanini Comics Marvel Collector Editions titles, Titan Comics superhero titles and VIZ, with great strips also featuring in titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who Adventures, Titan’s Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS (collecting their strips from the US format titles), Mega, TOXIC and many others.

Still on sale this week in newsagents is Panini Comics first issue of their new Lion Guard comic, packed with original adventure stories featuring Kion and his group of friends on their journey to protect the Pride Lands and defend the Circle of Life. It comes with two jigsaw puzzles plus a collectable figurine.

Don’t forget the wonderful Phoenix Comic is on sale in many (but not all) Waitrose supermarkets and selected high street WH Smiths stores – and some comic shops (stockist list here), as well as available on subscription.

So let’s not get too downhearted by some British publishers lack of faith in full-blown cover to cover comic strip action and humour that only those of us over a certain age remember.

Hachette Partworks, whose partwork titles include Doctor Who: The Complete History and Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection, continue their How To Draw The Marvel Way, along with their re-release of their hugely successful part work, Marvel’s Marvel Ultimate Graphic Novelseries.

Note that you may now have to subscribe if you want to continue buying Part Works some are not distributed in newsagents after their first few issues.

Aces Weekly. Art by and © Dylan Teague

Art by and © Dylan Teague

Digital Comic Picks

Aces Weekly Volume 23 is out now. Just £1 a week gets you this and more to come forever – well, you know… till the mountains fall into the sea: Dylan Teague, Paul Rainey, Marc makes comics, David Leach, Jeffrey Vaughn, Brendon and Brian Fraim, Jok LP and Rodolfo Santullo, plus Roberto Corroto Cuadrado and Ertito Montana. Up to 200 pages of cool stuff – for a pound a week!

Tune in now at www.acesweekly.co.uk/shop

Don’t miss out on all the Previous Volumes, either, which have up to 200 pages of comics including Extras, and in full form feature in an exclusive Week-to-Week facility, which transforms any volume’s serialised stories into continuous comic book-sized narratives.

British Comic Publishers

2000AD/Rebellion

2000AD Prog 1995

Judge Dredd: Ladykiller by John Wagner (w) Carlos Ezquerra (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Anderson : Psi Division by Emma Beeby (w) Nick Dyer (a) Richard Elson (c) Ellie De Ville (l)
Outlier: Survivor Guilt by TC Eglington (w) Karl Richardson (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
Tharg’s 3rillers: Mindmine by Rory Mcconville (w) Colin Macneil (a) Peter Doherty (c) Simon Bowland (l)
Scarlet Traces: Cold War by Ian Edginton (w) D’Israeli (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)

Judge Dredd Megazine 375Judge Dredd Megazine 375

Judge Dredd: The Carousel by Michael Carroll (w) Ben Willsher (a) Chris Blythe (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Realm of the Damned by Alec Worley (w) Pye Parr (a/l) Luke Preece and Steven Denton (c)
Lawless: Of Munce and Men by Dan Abnett (w) Phil Winslade (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
Blunt by TC Eglington (w) Boo Cook (a) and Simon Bowland (l)
Features: Ryan Brown interviewed by Karl Stock
Bagged graphic novel: Sinister Dexter: The Train to Kal Cutter by Dan Abnett (w) Simon Davies, Andy Clarke, Mark Pingriff (a) Ellie De Ville (l)

Titan Comics

Assassin's Creed #11Assassin’s Creed #11
Writers: Conor McCreery & Anthony Del Col
Artist: Neil Edwards

A new arc! And an explosive new secret! While Charlotte is reeling from the meeting with Erudtio, it is time for the Assassin cell headed by Brotherhood stalwart Galina Voronina to pull her team together, but will she be able to do it alone, or is it time for reinforcements?

COVER A: Staz Johnson
COVER B: Blair Shedd
COVER C: Paul Duffield

Dark Souls #4Dark Souls #4
Writer: George Mann
Artist: Alan Quah

Robbed of her guide and hard-sought gains, Fira’s final test will prove her greatest challenge yet, for the fate of Andolus, the ancient Wyrm King, will determine the very future of her Kingdom!

Cover A: Alan Quah
Cover B: Josh Cassara
Cover C: Game Cover

Tank Girl: Two Girls One Tank #4 Cover A

Tank Girl: Two Girls One Tank #4 Cover A

Tank Girl: Two Girls One Tank #4
Writer: Alan Martin
Artist: Brett Parsons

Our hedonistic heroine and her long-lost chum come to blows as Two Girls One Tank reaches its tear-jerking terminus. Keep

the tissues handy, folks; you’re gonna need the whole box!

Cover A: Brett Parsons
Cover B: Ian McQue

Titan Comics Collections

Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Volume Two - Fractures (Soft Cover)Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Volume Two – Fractures (Soft Cover)
Writer: Robbie Morrison
Artist: Brian Williamson
Colourist: Hi-Fi
Letters: Comicraft
Cover: Blair Shedd
FC – 128pp – ISBN: 978-1782766599
On sale in comic stores: 24th August 2016
On sale in book stores: 20th September 2016

Collects The Twelfth Doctor #6-10

The second softcover collection of the Twelfth Doctor series!

After their adventures in India, the Doctor and Clara return to her present – but danger is slipping through the cracks between universes, and London (and UNIT!) have no defence against the Fractures! Will the Doctor risk all of reality to reunite a family – or sacrifice a good man to keep the multiverse spinning? Then, the Doctor gambles with his life in 1960s Las Vegas, as he and Clara must team up with gangsters in order to defeat an intergalactic crime syndicate – but is this one too many spins on the Doctor’s roulette wheel?

Doctor Who: Four Doctors (Soft Cover)
Writer: Paul Cornell
Art/Colours: Neil Edwards
Colourist: Ivan Nunes
Lettering: Comicraft
Cover: Neil Edwards & Ivan Nunes
FC – 128pp – ISBN: 978-1785855238
On sale in comic stores: 24th August 2016
On sale in book stores: 20th September 2016

THE UNIVERSE-SHATTERING CROSSOVER…
…THE LAWS OF TIME SAID SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN!

Don’t miss this unforgettable first meeting between the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, with guest cameos from past incarnations, and an astonishing mystery at its heart!

Written with style by Paul Cornell, Hugo Award-winning author of Doctor Who episodes ‘Father’s Day’ and ‘Human Nature/The Family of Blood’, and drawn by superstar Neil Edwards (Iron Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Legion of Superheroes), this five-part crossover adventure, collected for the first time in softcover, will take you from the Time War to 1920s Paris, and on to the ends of the universe! Three Doctors, three companions… and a whole host of heated discussions, flailing arms, and perfectly-phrased insults between immortal Time Lords who really should know better!

This one has it all!

US Comics On Sale This Week

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Action Comics 962
Adventure Time Comics 2
Archie 11
Back To The Future: Citizen Brown 4
Batgirl 2
Blue Beetle Rebirth 1
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Ten 30
Captain America: Steve Rogers 4 CW2
Captain Marvel 8 CW2
Dark Souls 4
Deadpool 17 CW2
Deathstroke 1
Detective Comics 939
Drax 10
Duck Avenger 1
Dungeons And Dragons 4
Extraordinary X-Men 13
Faith 5
Flash 5
Futurama Comics 80
Generation Zero 1
Ghostbusters International 8
Hal Jordan And The Green Lantern Corps 3
Harley’s Little Black Book 4
Hellblazer 1
International Iron Man 6
Invincible 130
Island 10
Lucifer 9
Marvels Mightiest Heroes Vol 70 SPIDER-GIRL HC
Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man Vs Sinister Six 2
Marvels Doctor Strange Prelude 2
Mickey Mouse Shorts Season 1
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2016 Annual 1
Missy Fury Volume Two 5
Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur 10
New Avengers 15 CW2
Outcast By Kirkman And Azaceta 20
Patsy Walker AKA Hellcat 9
Rai 16
Renato Jones One Percent 4
Rom 2
She Wolf 3
Six Pack And Dog Welder: Hard Travelin’ Heroez 1
Snotgirl 2
Sombra 2
Star Wars 22
Star Wars Force Awakens Adaptation 3
Tank Girl 2 Girls 1 Tank 4
Teen Titans 23
Thief Of Thieves 34
Titans 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 61 (late subscription variant covers)
Tomb Raider 7
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 11
Uncanny Inhumans Annual 1
Venom Space Knight 11 CW2
Wacky Raceland 3
Wonder Woman 5
The X-Files 5

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