On sale today, in comic shops, TG Jones on the high street, and digitally, too, are 2000AD Prog 2446 and Judge Dredd Megazine 483 – double the action, double the thrills!
Behind a cover by Jake Lynch the ongoing Judge Dredd story for 2000AD, “Tunnels”, takes a brief break while the Droids re-oil their circuits, so instead, there’s a complete Judge Dredd story, “The Double”, from Karl Stock and John McCrea this issue.
Plus, enjoy a “Future Shock” from the team of Evie Roebuck and Lucas McCoy, who both won last year’s Talent Search contest at Thought Bubble 2024! This is their first-ever mainstream comics work to be published, and the 2000AD editorial team hope to see more from them both, alongside joint winner Adam Stone, in future!
Both creators are interviews in this week’s 2000AD podcast, “Who are the new 2000 AD creators?“, available to listen to here
Meanwhile, Judge Dredd Megazine 483, featuring a cover by Stewart K. Moore, is packed with new stories, making this a great issue to jump on with! There’s a complete Judge Dredd thriller, a “Tales from the Black Museum” story, and a tale of Mega-City 2099!
Plus, enjoy an interview with comic creator Andi Ewington and there’s a great preview of “The Haunting of Jilly Johnson” courtesy of editor Keith Richardson, too – that superb collection featuring the art of Spanish artist Rafael Busóm Clúa (writer unknown), out now.
Add to that the continuing saga of “Rok The God” and the latest instalment of “Cadet Dredd”, and you’ve got a packed read ahead of you, folks!
2000 AD Prog 2446
UK and DIGITAL: 20th August £3.80
NORTH AMERICA: 1st October $26.99 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: JUN251428
COVER: Jake Lynch
In this issue:
JUDGE DREDD // THE DOUBLE
by Karl Stock (Writer) John McCrea (Artist) Mike Spicer (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2147 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is bordered by the toxic Black Atlantic and the irradiated Cursed Earth. It is home to over 250 million citizens, where tensions run a constant knife-edge. Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law!
THE RAVILLIOUS PACT
by T.C.Eglington (Writer) Steven Austin (Artist) John Charles (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
London, 2025. 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…
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…
FUTURE SHOCKS // EMMETT’S GIRL
by Evie Roebuck (Writer) Lucas McCoy (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutary lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected…
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…
Available in print from the 2000AD webshop, TG Jones and select supermarkets, and comic shops via Diamond | Available in digital from: 2000AD webshop, 2000AD app for Apple & Android
Judge Dredd Megazine 483
UK and DIGITAL: 20th August £3.80
NORTH AMERICA: 1st October $26.99 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: JUN251429
COVER: Stewart K. Moore
In this issue:
JUDGE DREDD // ZOOMER
by Joe Ratcliffe (Writer) Anthony Williams (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2147 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is bordered by the toxic Black Atlantic and the irradiated Cursed Earth. It is home to over 250 million citizens, where tensions run a constant knife-edge. Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law!
TALES FROM THE BLACK MUSEUM // KILLING CODE
by Andi Ewington (Writer) Luke Horsman (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2147 AD. Deep in the heart of the Grand Hall of Justice lies the Black Museum, Justice Department’s permanent exhibition of the relics from bygone crimes. Whether it’s a notorious serial killer’s trophies or the weapons of the Dark Judges, the violent history of the Big Meg is laid bare here. Let undead guide Henry Dubble show you around…
CADET DREDD // THE HAUNTING OF ISO-BLOCK 8
by Paul Starkey (Writer) Nick Brokenshire (Artist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2076 AD. Overcrowding in the metropolis is rife, unemployment is at ninety per cent, boredom is universal and crime is rampant. Only the Judges can stop total anarchy. Cadet Joe Dredd – together with his clone-brother Rico – is a rising star in Justice Department, and will one day be its finest officer. Now, he and a group of cadets have been plunged back in time..
ROK THE GOD
by John Wagner & Alan Grant (Writer) Dan Cornwell (Artist) Abby Bulmer & Jim Boswell (Colourist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)
MEGA-CITY 2099 // CARDIAC ARREST
by Liam Johnson (Writer) Conor Boyle (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2099 AD. Before the Judges took complete control of the metropolis, there were two strands of law enforcement – regular uniformed cops did much of the day-to-day policing, while the helmeted Judges were called upon to pass judgement on certain criminals, their vested powers giving them the ability to dispense on-the-spot sentences…
Available in print from the 2000AD webshop, TG Jones and comic shops via Diamond | Available in digital from: 2000AD webshop, 2000AD app for Apple & Android
Coming Soon…
RAT PACK: CONVICT COMMANDOS
CREATIVE TEAM: Alan Hebden (Writer) Eric Bradbury, Cam Kennedy (Artist)
RELEASE DATE: August 27th
PAPERBACK, 144 pages
PRICE: £19.99
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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!
ESSENTIAL JUDGE ANDERSON: CHILDHOOD’S END
CREATIVE TEAM: Alan Grant (Writer) Kev Walker, Dave Taylor, David Roach, Jake Lynch (Artist) Steve Potter, Ellie De Ville (Letterer)
RELEASE DATE: August 27th
PAPERBACK, 144 pages
PRICE: £21.99
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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.
JUDGE DREDD – ONE-EYED JACKS
CREATIVE TEAM: Ken Niemand (Writer) Ian Richardson, Kieran McKeown, Anna Readman (Artist) Quinton Winter (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
RELEASE DATE: September 10th
PAPERBACK, 112 pages
PRICE: £16.99
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FIGHTING CRIME ACROSS TIME WITH HELP FROM THE BLOODLINE!
Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Dredd and Rico investigate a link between 1970s New York and the twenty-second century after antique items start to turn up in the ‘Big Meg.’
A trip back to the ‘Big Apple’ sets Dredd on course to come face-to-face with New York’s toughest cop, Jack McBane and an undercover cop with a familiar surname – Eartha Fargo…
ROBOT ARCHIE AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
CREATIVE TEAM: E. George Cowan (Writer) Ted Kearon, David Harwood (Artist)
RELEASE DATE: September 10th
PAPERBACK, 144 pages
PRICE: £16.99
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Originally built by Professor C.R. Ritchie, the mechanical being known as Robot Archie was employed to battle injustices around the world. First published in Lion Comic, Robot Archie’s adventures are now reprinted for the first time in over fifty years! This volume also includes a one-off story which finds Archie face-to-face with The Spider, The King of Crime.
Together with the Professor’s nephew, Ted Ritchie and his best friend Ken Dale, Archie is travelling in a temperamental time-machine called ‘The Castle.’ Desperate to get back to their own time, the trio land in the middle of a future alien invasion. Can Archie defeat the sinister Krulls on his own?
ANDERSON VERSUS DEATH
WRITER: Anna Smith Spark
RELEASE DATE: September 24th
PAPERBACK, 384 pages
PRICE: £9.99
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In early 2102, Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson sacrifices herself to trap the spirit of the terrible Judge Death, holding him in her mind as her fellow Judge Joe Dredd encases her in an impenetrable polymer. Her comatose body is laid in a place of honour in the Justice Department’s famed Hall of Heroes, to be remembered forever.
For eighteen months, Anderson lies trapped, sharing her tomb with the monster she defeated. An epic battle rages silently within the Psi-Judge’s skull, as she delves into Death’s secrets and watches her city being destroyed over and over.
This is the story of Anderson versus Death…
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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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