The first of quarterly bumper 2000AD prog for 2025 is out now, and behind the scrotnig cover of Prog 2426 from Ex Machina and Starman artist Tony Harris, his first work for the Galaxy’s Greatest, you’ll find a stunning roster of extra-sized Thrills. 

Cover artist Tony Harris is an Eisner Award-winning comic book artist, commercial illustrator, painter, sculptor, designer, and prop builder, who’s worked for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Disney, Lucasfilm, Universal Studios, Heavy Metal, and many, many others. His credits include Batman, Superman, Doctor Strange, Iron Man and Fantastic Four, and he won the Eisner for his work on Starman and Ex Machina – and in fact, has been nominated 19 times. A prolific cover illustrator, he returned to sequential interiors in 2022, re-teaming with his co-creator of Starman, James Robinson.

As well as the explosive finale to “Portals & Black Goo”, the latest 2000AD features a one-off “Fall of Deadworld” story, “Blow By Blow”, by the regular team of Kek-W and Dave Kendall, which acts as an interlude before the series returns proper with next arc “Justice”, plus another “War Tale” set on Nu Earth, from Gordon Rennie and Colin MacNeil. 

Add to that the return of a certain popular [REDACTED] and you have a blast of zarjazosity that can’t be equalled anywhere on your planet or beyond! 

2000AD Prog 2426 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’s webshop and apps. (oh, and don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free).

JUDGE DREDD // THE TRUTH BOMBER
Script: Ken Niemand / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Jack Davies / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Mega-city One, 2147 AD. Home to over 250 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. 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!

PORTALS & BLACK GOO // A QUORUM OF FIENDS, Part Fourteen
Script: John Tomlinson / Art: Eoin Coveney / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

In the near future, the job market is more perilous than ever and Generation Y must take on any task to make ends meet. Kroy Plemons is a rider for Devouroo — a fooddelivery service for creatures of myth and legend. Devouroo policy is ruthless and Kroy has in the past barely escaped with his life after being given the night shift, when London’s most lethal denizens are hungry. Indeed, there’s unrest across the capital…

THE FALL OF DEADWORLD // BLOW BY BLOW
Script: Kek-W / Art: Dave Kendall / Letters: Simon Bowland

The planet that became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a parallel dimension. But the end of days is coming, and creatures called the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life. While Sov forces have take advantage of the chaos and invaded, Jess Childs and her fellow rebels have rescued the tortured Judge Fairfax from De’Ath’s clutches — but others want revenge…

NU EARTH WAR TALES // BLACK DOME
Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Colin MacNeil / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Jim Campbell

Nu Earth, site of a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers, where the atmosphere has been rendered poisonous. So the Southers created the Genetic Infantrymen, immune to the pollutants – G.I.s like ROGUE TROOPER, the last of his kind. As he, together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, search for the traitor that sold them out, stories swirl around the characters involved in this conflict…

Also on 2000AD Online

• Torunn Grøenbekk on the Soviet ‘Night Witches’ – In Orbit Every Wednesday

Battle Action #8 is out now and Molch-R & KLO-E are joined by writer Torunn Grønbekk to talk about her ‘Nina Petrova and the Angels of Death’. There’s diversions aplenty – and some bad language – as they touch on everything from history, Hitler’s secret s*x life, and trying to paint World War Two bi-planes!

Using wooden Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes, these Soviet all-female bomber crews harrassed Nazi soldiers on the Eastern Front of World War Two, who dubbed them ‘Nachthexen’ – the Night Witches. In her latest ‘Nina Petrova’ story for Battle Action, Grønbekk and artist Patrick Goddard revisit the risks and heroism of these celebrated but little-known aviatrixes.

• Simon Bisley interview – The 2000AD Creator Tapes

He’s one of the most recognisable names in comics – a titanic talent who burst onto the scene in the late 1980s with his groundbreaking work on ABC Warriors: The Black Hole and Sláine: The Horned God. In the first of a two-part exclusive interview, The 2000 AD Creator Tapes – the new podcast series from the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast – heads to Simon’s studio to talk directly with him about his work, his beginnings, his style, and his philosophy in a wide-ranging and in-depth discussion set against his feeling of renewed artistic vigour!

Part two of this interview will go live on 29 April 2025

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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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