Following last week’s blockbuster release of 2000AD Prog 2500, there’s a jam packed lineup of stories up and running in The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic to keep you going until Christmas! Prog 2501, with a cover by Lee Carter, is on sale today in newsagents, select supermarkets, Local Comic Shops and digital platforms, too…

“Judge Dredd: The New Future” headlines this week’s Prog, as the story picks up pace, and the aftermath of Judge Maitland’s experiment to fix Mega-City One takes us in some unexpected directions.

“Herne & Shuck” also head off somewhere unexpected – Leeds, good god – while the good ship “Azimuth” heads out across the waters as Ramone Dexter’s journey pushes ever-forward.

Add to that a new agenda for “Durham Red” and a million new mysteries for “Ghosted”, and you’ve got the complete package in 2000AD this week!

If you want more 2000AD-related thrills, up front and personal, you might want to head to this weekend’s EPIC Comic Con at Glasgow SEC (26th – 27th September), which sees several comics guests in attendance alongside film and TV stars (Red Dwarf fans will welcome appearances by Chris Barrie, Robert Llewelyn and Doug Naylor, for example), including Judge Dredd co-creator John Wagner (making a rare public appearance), Simon Bisley, David Hine, Dan Cornwell, alongside BEANO artist Nigel Parkinson and colourist Nika Nartova.

Taking place in Halls 2 and 3, you’ll find them in a dedicated Comics Village and Artist Alley.

2000AD Prog 2501
UK RELEASE DATE: 23rd September £3.99
LUNAR RELEASE DATE: 7th October $7.99
COVER: Lee Carter

In this issue:

JUDGE DREDD // THE NEW FUTURE
By Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt (Writer) Henry Flint (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

Mega-City One, 2148 AD. Home to over 300 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant and only the Judges – empowered to dispense instant justice – can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD – he is the Law! Accounts Judge Maitland attempted to lower crime through social programmes, and was shockingly assassinated…

AZIMUTH // HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DAGON
By Dan Abnett (Writer) Tazio Bettin (Artist) Matt Soffe (Colourist) Rob Steen (Letterer)

Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything is possible. Ruled by an aristocracy of the New Flesh, such concepts of life, death, and body-forms are fluid. Anyone can take any shape, if it can be conceived by the imagination. A stranger has ridden into town – none other than Ramone Dexter – and revealed that Azimuth is in fact Downlode recrafted by a rogue Artificial Intelligence…

DURHAM RED // HUNGRY CITY
By Alec Worley (Writer) Ben Willsher (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Late 22nd century. Of all the mutants that have operated as Search/Destroy agents, perhaps the most feared is vampire DURHAM RED, who requires blood to survive. Mistrusted by both the criminals she hunts and her fellow Strontium Dogs, Red has a formidable reputation that precedes her, and now she’s awoken amongst dead bodies on a resort world with next to no memory of what happened…

GHOSTED // BOOK TWO
By Guy Adams (Writer) Megan Huang (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the far future. One of the fastest-growing mega-cities in the world, the metropolis is now a walled city-world, so vast and divorced from the rest of the planet that it’s virtually its own realm. Young citizen Benu found herself neurally connected to a soldier fighting an alien war – but upon fleeing the city, she’s discovered that war is taking place outside the wall…

HERNE & SHUCK // STORMING THE STONE
By David Barnett (Writer) Lee Milmore (Artist) Quinton Winter (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

The UK. Herne is a troubleshooter and hired help for many different magical factions. Accompanied by Shuck, a demon in dog form, he travels the country picking up work where he can, whether it be an exorcism or a rescue. Recently, he was tasked with saving young Carys from ritual sacrifice, and has made an enemy of the organisation known as St Michael. Now, they have her again, and Herne must lead a rescue…

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New Rebellion Collections

Brass Sun Volume 1: The Wheel of Worlds
By Ian Edginton and INJ Culbard
Out: 24th September 2026 
Paperback | 208 pages
ISBN: 978-1837868568
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A ground-breaking steampunk epic, in which the survival of a clockwork solar system lies in the hands of a courageous young girl!

The Orrery is a fully functioning, life-sized clockwork solar system. Several planets attached to huge metal spars, orbit a great brass sun. For many years, these worlds have fought amongst each other and many have degenerated into minor kingdoms. Worse yet, the sun has begun to wind down, and the outer worlds are starting to freeze while the rest will inevitably follow.

Wren, a young girl who lives on the outer world of Hind Leg, is tasked by her scientist grandfather to find the lost pieces of a key that can restart the sun. Setting off from her homeworld of Hind Leg, Wren is given part of the secret of the lost key that has the power to restart the sun again. Charged with travelling across the various worlds to pick up other parts of the key which was broken up after The Great War, she alone possesses the power to save the galaxy from extinction…

From the creative team behind New Deadwardians, Ian Edginton (Stickleback, Ampney Crucis Investigates) and I.N.J. Culbard (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Deadbeats) Brass Sun is a unique fantasy adventure, executed with panache. One of the most critically-acclaimed series in 2000AD’s history, the series made a recent return to the pages of The Galaxy’s Greatest in 2025 as a welcome reminder of the creative team’s mastery of comics. 

Now, 2000AD celebrate the series with a new collection which makes Brass Sun available in paperback for the first time.

This huge paperback collection includes the first three series: Wheel of Worlds, The Diamond Age and The Floating World.

Featuring stories set across the fragile clockwork universe which Wren is determined to save, it’s time to live the adventure in this acclaimed, expansive series which has enthralled readers around the world.

The Dark Judges: The Fall of Deadworld Omnibus
By Kek-W (Author), Dave Kendall (Artist)
Out: Scheduled for 24th September 2026
Hardcover | 388 pages
ISBN: 978-1837868469

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On the planet Deadworld, the insane Judge Death and his lieutenants Fear, Fire and Mortis have deemed that as only the living could break the law, life itself should be a crime, and living person is due their judgement. As the Dark Judges set out to bring extinction to their world, a small group of rebels led by Judge Fairfax launch a desperate effort to halt their city’s conversion into a Necropolis.

In the midst of all this chaos, the neighbouring Soviet forces launch an attack on their American enemies in a bid to stop the devastation.

This omnibus collection contains all the Fall of Deadworld stories from the first three volumes, all written by Kek-W (The Order) and drawn by Dave Kendall (Dreams of Deadworld).

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John  is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of  comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.

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