2000AD Prog 2455 and The Judge Death Mega-Special 2025 hit the shops this week – double the thrills for Tharg fans!

The Judge Death Mega-Special offers 52 pages of horror and fright! The undead superfiend is joined by his three Lieutenants, together forming The Dark Judges – each of whom get a spotlight story in this very special anthology. With a framing story from Deadworld, this standalone issue offers dark delights for readers old and new – what makes Judge Death inevitable? Who can withstand the face of Judge Fear? How can anyone outrun Judge Mortis? And what stokes the flames of Judge Fire? Finally, a chance to revel in some evil!

And 2000AD Prog 2455 also lands this week, featuring a gnarly cover by Cliff Robinson and Dylan Teague – and some truly crazy sci-fi comics stories in the form of “Judge Dredd”, “Red Dragon”, “Brass Sun”, “Void Runners” and “Rogue Trooper”!

All top thrills, leading into a bumper prog next week…

2000AD Prog 2455
UK and DIGITAL: 22 October £3.99
NORTH AMERICA: 29 October $28.99 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: AUG250919
COVER: Cliff Robinson with Dylan Teague

In This Issue:

JUDGE DREDD // AND TO THE SEA RETURN 
by Rob Williams (Writer) Henry Flint (Artist) 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. 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, a mysterious mist has wafted in off the Black Atlantic, and floating prison the Barge has just emerged…

RED DRAGON 
by Rob Williams (Writer) Steve Yeowell & Patrick Goddard (Artists) Dylan Teague (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Siadwell Rhys was once a member of sixties British superhero team Cloud 9, who operated under the name RED DRAGON. When they disbanded due to illness and loss of powers, Siadwell returned to his home village in Wales, where his heavy drinking caught up with him. He died fighting against Masterman, but now, forty years later, journalist Martin Howe is looking into Red Dragon’s past for a documentary…

VOID RUNNERS // BOOK TWO 
by David Hine (Artist) Boo Cook (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

The far future. The Federation is made up of a huge number of planetary systems, and such an immense group of civilisations requires an enormous level of control. The Ankorites have taken it upon themselves to rule the Federation, using the drug Kali’s Dust to stimulate visions, which is harvested from benign creatures called the Pleroma. VOID RUNNER Alice Shikari has decided to free people from the Federation…

BRASS SUN // PAVANE 
by Ian Edginton (Writer) INJ Culbard (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

The Orrery is a clockwork solar system, a clutch of planets orbiting a vast BRASS SUN, but the outer worlds are freezing as the sun dies. Young Wren was charged with finding the elements of the key that would restart the sun, and embarked on an epic quest with conductor novice Septimus. Now the two are separated, and Wren has partnered with Ariel O’Conner to fight back against the Enginemen…

ROGUE TROOPER // GHOST PATROL 
by Alex de Campi (Writer) Neil Edwards (Artist) Matt Soffe (Colourist) Jim Campbell (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. Together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, the digitised souls of his dead comrades, he searches for the traitor that betrayed the clone-soldiers…

Available in print from: 2000AD webshop, newsagents, TG Jones, select supermarkets, Amazon, and comic book shops via Diamond | Available in digital from: 2000AD webshop, 2000AD app for Apple & Android

The Judge Death Mega-Special 2025
UK and DIGITAL: 22 October £4.99
NORTH AMERICA: 26 November $8.99
DIAMOND: AUG250921
COVER: Brian Bolland

Hailing from a parallel dimension known as Deadworld, Judge Death is a creature for whom all life is a crime. Once, he was a young psychotic boy called Sidney De’Ath, the son of an equally depraved and lunatic dentist, whose penchant for violence saw him joining Deadworld’s brutal Justice Department as a Cadet Judge.

As he rose through the ranks, his philosophy took shape — since crime is committed by the living, therefore life itself is a crime, and the sentence can only be death.

Encountering a pair of witches, these self-styled Sisters of Death went about transforming Sidney from the still-living human being into a resurrected supernatural ghoul, incapable of being killed — and thus Judge Death was born, complete with his modified robes of office.

Death gathered lieutenants to aid him in his quest to purge all life from the world, and, similarly transformed by the Sisters: Judge Fear (whose helm reveals the victim’s greatest, heart-stopping fear), Judge Fire (whose flaming trident immolates all in its path) and Judge Mortis (whose fetid touch brings decay) joined Death to become the Dark Judges. They murdered an entire planet.

But the Dark Judges knew there were other worlds beyond theirs, where guilty life still existed, demanding their twisted judgement. So after forging devices capable of crossing dimensions, Death discovered Mega-City One and began his long reign of terror, attempting to massacre the metropolis in the same manner as he’d destroyed his own realm…

In This Issue:

ENDGAME 
by Kek-W (Writer) Stewart K. Moore (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

JUDGE DEATH // CRUEL MERCY 
by Dale Halvorsen (Writer) Tazio Bettin (Artist) Matt Soffe (Colourist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)

JUDGE FEAR // THE JUDGEMENT OF ANNI CRIP 
by Alec Worley (Writer) Leigh Gallagher (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

JUDGE MORTIS // FADE TO GREY 
by Antony Johnston (Writer) Lee Carter (Artist) Rob Steen (Letterer)

JUDGE FIRE // EMBERS 
by Alex de Campi (Writer) Mark Sexton (Artist) Dylan Teague (Colourist) Rob Steen (Letterer)

Available in print from: 2000 AD webshop, book shops, Amazon, and comic book shops via Diamond | Available in digital from: 2000AD webshop, 2000AD app for Apple & Android

Rebellion Book Releases

The Judge Dredd Art of Jock
By: Jock
Out: 22nd October 2025
PAPERBACK, 304 pages
ISBN: 978-1837865383
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Jock is a highly influential stylist, an in-demand film poster artist, and one of the most respected comic artists working in the medium.

Collecting sketches, layouts, and final unlettered artwork, The Art of Judge Dredd by Jock illustrates the artist’s processes across sequential and concept art, including his character designs for 2012’s Dredd.

From his earliest work to his latest 2000AD covers, this book showcases the artistic evolution of one of the modern masters of comic art.

Jock is one of 2000AD’s finest creators. As well as illustrating “Judge Dredd”, “Pulp Sci-Fi”, “Tharg the Mighty” and “Tor Cyan”, he co-created Lenny Zero with ex-2000AD editor Andy Diggle, and now produces work for the American market under exclusive contract to DC Comics. Among these projects are the Eisner award nominated The Losers and Green Arrow: Year One, also with Diggle, and numerous covers including Batman, Catwoman, Scalped and Hellblazer. Outside of comics, Jock has enjoyed a successful career as a movie concept artist, working on such films as Hancock, Children of Men, Batman Begins, The Losers and Dredd.

The Complete Full Tilt Boogie
By Alex De Campi (Writer) and Eduardo Ocaña (Artist)
Out: Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Paperback | 192 Pages
ISBN: 978-1837866052
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“Saga meets Avatar the Last Airbender” – The Hollywood Reporter

INTERGALACTIC MAYHEM!

Out in the deep reaches of the cosmos, teenager Tee – together with her grandmother and a cat (called cat!) – is a wannabe bounty hunter operating from her patched-together spaceship, the Full Tilt Boogie. After rescuing the Luxine Prince Ifan from his debtors’ prison, Tee finds herself on the run from various new enemies, including sacred knights and a deadly Anubite warrior, as war and unrest spread accross the universe.

This thrilling love letter to space anime sagas includes the complete run of the strip.

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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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