All guns are blazing in 2000AD Prog 2445 this week, with a cover from Simon Davis, as Azimuth starts to spiral towards the conclusion of its most recent storyline and Suzi, Tracy and Ramone fight for their lives!
Judge Dredd‘s also approaching the end of his gruelling mission through the jungle, and “The Ravilious Pact” is close to wrapping up its run as well.
Yes, change is coming to the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, people: get ready! With stories wrapping up over the next month, we’re heading towards the annual jumping-on issue, Prog 2450, out on 17th September in the UK and, Tharg teases, “what Thrills await you!
“Do you think your optical sensors will be able to handle Rob Williams and Henry Flint’s chilling Dredd epic ‘And to the Sea Return’? Make sure they’re updated and primed!”
But first: let’s welcome back Peter Doherty, who returns to 2000AD for the first time pencilling interiors in a decade! He returns just in time for a “Nu Earth War Tale” – an ideal showcase for his incredible talents!
2000AD Prog 2445
UK and DIGITAL: 13 August July £3.80
NORTH AMERICA: 1 October $26.99 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: JUN251428
COVER: Simon Davis
In this issue:
JUDGE DREDD // TUNNELS
By Rob Williams (Writer) RM Guera (Artist) Giulia Brusco (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
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. Tensions are on a knife-edge, 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! Now, he’s tracking a terrorist in the Amazon jungle, following an attack on a Sector House…
THE RAVILIOUS PACT
By T.C.Eglington (Writer) Steven Austin (Artist) John Charles (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
Jason Ravilious is an enforcer for the notorious Boucher mob, one of the capital’s more feared underworld organisations. But they are no ordinary gangland outfit — they have connections with demonic entities that have helped them build their criminal empire. Jason was loyal to the Boucher patriarch Archie, but he’s now died and power has transferred to his unstable son Todd…
AZIMUTH // ABANDONED BY GOD
By Dan Abnett (Writer) Tazio Bettin (Artist) Matt Soffe (Colourist) Jim Campbell (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…
SCARLET TRACES // EMPIRE OF BLOOD
By Ian Edginton (Writer) D’Israeli (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
England, the late nineteenth century. Earth has come under attack by Martian war machines, devastating huge swathes of the country with their heat rays and harvesting enormous numbers of people. Finally struck down by the planet’s viruses, the Martians’ assault collapses. Now, humanity is picking up the pieces and coming to terms with the aftermath, but there appears to be vestiges of the aliens left…
NU-EARTH WAR TALES // TRAITOR
By Gordon Rennie (Writer) Peter Doherty (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
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 Out Now from Rebellion…
The Sludge! – 60th Anniversary (featuring Robot Archie)
by E. George Cowan, Ernest Kearon and Bill Lacey (Artists)
Hardcover | 112 Pages
Out: Wednesday 13th August 2025
ISBN: 978-1837865208
• Preorder it from AmazonUK (Affiliate Link) | Preorder it from The Treasury of British Comics Webshop
SIXTY YEARS OF TOXIC TERROR!
A strange and terrible living jelly-like substance – the product of nuclear weapons testing – emerged from the depths of the sea near Canada in 1965. Known by the human world as ‘The Sludge’, this unique monster posed a threat to anything that stood in its way. Anything it covered became possessed of a frightening, malignant power aimed against Mankind!
Celebrating sixty years since the character first appeared in the pages of Lion, this collection includes all of the Sludge’s appearances from the 1960s and 70s, including his crossover into the pages of the “Robot Archie” strip.
Coming Soon…
Essential Judge Anderson: Childhood’s End (Volume 3)
by Alan Grant, Kev Walker, et al.
Out: Wednesday 27th August 2025
Paperback | 144 Pages
ISBN: 978-1837865307
• Buy it from AmazonUK (Affiliate Link)
PSI Judge Cassandra Anderson’s belief in the origins of civilisation is put to the test when she is brought to investigate an ancient relic on Mars, believed to be half a million years old. But as her crew members start dying, she finds herself confronting a threat that feels all-too familiar…
This volume collects some of Alan Grant’s (Judge Dredd, Batman) defining storylines, including his previously uncollected Judge Death stories.
Rat Pack: Convict Commandos
By Alan Hebden (Writer) and Eric Bradbury and Cam Kennedy (Artists)
Release Date: Wednesday 28th August 2025
Paperback | 128 Pages
ISBN: 978-1837865376
• Buy it from AmazonUK (Affiliate Link)
• Buy the hardback limited edition direct from 2000AD
Major Taggart leads the squad of four soldiers, court martialled for various offences and dubbed the Rat Pack. These soldiers are sent on do-or-die missions for the Allies during World War II, and despite them resent Taggart and not trusting each other, they must still complete their missions against the Nazi forces.
With stories ranging from finding stolen diplomatic papers, destroying German-held dams in Norway, and hijacking Hitler’s personal train in order to steal Nazi war plans, this collection brings together the ultimate, and greatest, Rat Pack stories in one volume, with stunning art by Cam Kennedy and Eric Bradbury.
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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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