Be ready for more Thrills from Tharg this week, as 2000AD heads into full autumn assault mode, with “Judge Dredd“, “Azimuth“, “Durham Red“, “Herne & Shuck” and “Ghosted’, all pulsating at with Thrill power behind the cover of Prog 2503 from Stewart K. Moore.

With Prog 2500 sold out online at the 2000AD official store, do we dare suggest The Galaxy’s Greatest Perog is on something of a roll as it heads towards its 50th anniversary next year? Answers on postcards only, to avoid thrill sucker infestation!

Oh – and If 2000AD alone isn’t enough for the battle hardened out there, then be sure to pick up new collections, on sale this week: Judge Dredd: Nordland Rising, Rogue Trooper: The Complete Collection – Book 4 and Thistlebone – The Complete Collection! Details below!

2000AD 2503
RELEASE DATE: 7th October £3.99
US RELEASE DATE: 21st October $7.99
COVER: STEWART K MOORE

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000AD in the first week of its release from 2000AD direct, then postage in the UK is free!

Also Out This Week…

Judge Dredd: Nordland Rising
by Kenneth Niemand, Peter Milligan, Arthur Wyatt, Gordon Rennie, Dan Abnett (Writers), Nick Dyer, Nick Percival, Simon Coleby, John McCrea, Jake Lynch, Clint Langley and Dan Cornwell (Artists)
Out: 7th October 2026
Paperback | 112 pages
ISBN:978-1837868520
• Pre-order from AmazonUK (Affiliate Link)
• Judge Dredd: Nordland Rising – 2000AD Webshop Exclusive Cover

Thanks to advances in Nort technology, War Marshal Josef Jaegir has used the black hole around which Nu Earth orbits as a means of invading other universes. Reaching out to Sov War Marshal Kazan, he’s joined forces with East-Meg One to subjugate Mega-City One, and in other realities the Norts have allied themselves with the alien Krool, the Geeks,the Volgans and the Nazis. It’s a war on all fronts, with Jaegir demanding nothing less than total victory.

Can Judge Dredd and a team of mighty multi-versal warriors including, Rogue Trooper, Major Eazy and Bad Company, overcome this overwhelming alliance of evil?

Rogue Trooper: The Complete Collection – Book 4
By Steve Dillon (Writer, Artist), Simon Geller, Mark Millar, Gordon Rennie (Writers), Brett Ewins, Chris Weston, Staz Johnson (Artists)
Out: 7th October 2026
Paperback | 352 pages
ISBN: 978-1837866199
• Preorder it from AmazonUK (Affiliate Link)

The collected adventures of Rogue Trooper come to a close in this final volume of the updated Complete Collection.

Featuring seminal stories like “Cinnabar” and “What Lies Beneath”, this volume includes the work of 2000AD veterans Gerry Finley-Day, Brett Ewins and Gordon Rennie alongside superstar artists Dave Gibbons (The Killing Joke) and Steve Dillon (Preacher).

Thistlebone – The Complete Collection
By T.C. Eglington (Writer), Simon Davis (Artist)
Out: 7th October 2026
Paperback | 224 pages
ISBN: 978-1837868629

Britain, 2019.

The secluded rural village of Harrowvale holds a dark past: years earlier, on a farm bordering the woods, a cult—led by the charismatic Jasper Hillman—sought to escape civilisation and find purity in the old ways, namely worshipping an ancient deity called Thistlebone. The cult’s pagan beliefs grew so deranged that they kidnapped a young girl, Avril Eason, with the intention of sacrificing her. But Avril escaped… and now, so many years later, she returns to Harrowvale to face the demons of her past.

Haunting and visceral, The Complete Thistlebone collects volumes 1-3 of the acclaimed folk horror series by T.C. Eglington and Simon Davis.

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John Freeman

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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