2000AD’s Dark Judges stalk into New Scientist – the strangest crossover yet?

By John Freeman on 22 December 2017

You cannot kill what doesss not liiiive – but how will the future cope with the four alternative horsemen of the apocalypse?

For a darkly gothic Christmas treat, Britain’s biggest comic – 2000AD – has teamed up with New Scientist, Britain’s top science magazine, for a special story that flings Judge Dredd’s arch-nemeses, the infamous Judge Death and his Dark Judges, into a future they never thought to visit!

A brand new Dark Judges strip, No Future, appears in Christmas issue of New Scientist, available now in print and digitally.

They’re far from the bones of Deadworld and the streets of Mega-City One but what will they do when they reach a very different Earth?

In a grim, grisly tale, writer Kek-W, artist Patrick Goddard, colourist Abigail Bulmer, and letterer Simon Bowland bring you a story of death, destruction, and woe from the far flung future – straight from the pages of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, 2000AD!

What fate awaits the Earth, what does the distant hereafter hold for mankind, and can they cope with the unexpected return of the four horsemen of the apocalypse – Judge Death, Judge Fear, Judge Fire, and Judge Mortis!

• New Scientist‘s Christmas issue is out now from all good newsagents and digitally from newscientist.com

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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.