Who needs fireworks when you have the pyrokinetic charge that is 2000AD this week? Pick up a Prog instead, on sale now in all good TG Jones stores and Local Comic Shops, featuring a rocket blast of Thrill-Power! 

Plus – be ready! Next week sees the release of this year’s 2000AD and Treasury of British Comics Annuals – two stupendous treats! More info below…

Judge Tan walks into deadly danger as “Judge Dredd” continues, while death lurks around the cast of “Brass Sun” – and there’s an uprising in “Void Runners”. There’s a very familiar baby bump making an appearance in this week’s “Red Dragon”, and Rogue Trooper attempts a risky dive back into his past!

2000AD Prog 2457
UK and DIGITAL: 5 November £3.99
NORTH AMERICA: 31 December $27.95 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: SEP250169
COVER: John McCrea with Jack Davies

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 Dredd has gone onboard the Barge…

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…

VOID RUNNERS // BOOK TWO 
By David Hine (Writer) 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..

RED DRAGON 
By Rob Williams (Writer) Steve Yeowell & Patrick Goddard (Artist) 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…

Other Rebellion Releases….

BIG-ASS SWORD
by Andreas Butzbach (Writer, Artist)
Out: 6th November 2025
Hardcover | 96 Pages
ISBN:  978-1837865635
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In a world far from our own reality, a robot warrior wanders through a vast and hostile techno landscape, filled with strange lifeforms and mechanical beings left over from a long, forgotten war. At the robot’s side is a talking Skull. On his back, a BIG-ASS SWORD!

This stunning, Heavy Metal-esque adventure, marks a stunning, original graphic novel debut in the English-speaking market for Andreas Butzbach.

Andreas Butzbach was born 1982. Today, he’s a a self-taught creative working in various fields from his studio, Hangar67. Starting out as a locksmith with an urge to draw, he liked to often shake the spray-can and sharpen the pencil. In the following years he got into advertising, movies and 3D animation. The urge to draw crazy stuff never stopped, and now he is the creator of comic titles such as Molekei – Last of the Amish and Six Cuts, writing and drawing horror strips for German magazines, Horror-Schocker and Welten des Schreckens. Since then, he’s been dipping into various genres such as the Western comic, The Dude with no pants, dystopian Sci-Fi in Fantasy 3000 and most recently, prehistoric jungle adventure with, Gorrn, a love letter to barbarians and dinosaurs.

Outside of Germany, Andreas has worked for Rebellion Publishing on The Thirteenth Floor, Smash! and Monster Fun.

• In Review: Big-Ass Sword by Andreas Butzbach

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 48
By John Wagner, Al Ewing, Gordon Rennie et al
Out: Scheduled for 6th November 2025
Paperback | 304 Pages
ISBN: 978-1837866076
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UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

The epic, world-shattering Tour of Duty storyline begins as Judge Dredd is exiled to the Cursed Earth in the wake of his decision to support new pro-mutant laws in Mega-City One.

The best-selling series collecting The Law in order continues as the ultimate lawman of the future brings his unique brand of policing to the streets and creeps of the dystopian nightmare he calls home.

Written by John Wagner (A History of Violence), Al Ewing (The Immortal Hulk), Gordon Rennie (Missionary Man), Robbie Morrison (The Authority) and John Smith (Vampirella) with art by Karl Richardson (Warhammer), Carl Critchlow (Batman/Judge Dredd), Colin MacNeil (Strontium Dog), PJ Holden (Terminator/RoboCop), Mike Collins (Captain Britain), Paul Marshall (Firekind), Cliff Robinson (Vector 13), Jon Haward (Tharg’s Future Shocks), Colin Wilson (Point Blank), Peter Doherty (Kingsman: The Red Diamond), Kev Walker (Hellblazer), Patrick Goddard (Rogue Trooper: Blighty Valley) and John Higgins (Watchmen).

Coming Soon…

The 2000AD Annual 2026
WRITERS: ROB WILLIAMS, T.C. EGLINGTON & MAURA MCHUGH
ARTISTS: ARTHUR RANSON, COLIN MACNEIL, GLENN FABRY, JOHN HICKLENTON, STAZ JOHNSON, STEVE DILLON, JAKE LYNCH, JOE CURRIE & CROM
COVER ARTISTS: SIMON BISLEY & LADRONN
Out: 12th November 2025
• Buy The 2000AD Annual 2026 from 2000AD direct

The 2000AD Annual 2026 brings Thrill-Power home for Christmas with a standard-edition cover from superstar artist Ladronn (Final Incal) and a webshop-exclusive cover from 2000AD legend Simon Bisley (Sláine).

Inside, there are all-new stories for you featuring Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper and Judge Anderson – from an all-star lineup of 2000AD writers and artists including Crom, Joe Currie, T.C. Eglington, Staz Johnson, Jake Lynch, Maura McHugh and Rob Williams.

Plus, there are also some surprises from the archives for you this year – but what those are remain shrouded in secrecy – for now…

Tharg The Mighty blesses us once more with such nuclear-powered comics to keep your fires burning! Who needs a winter fuel allowance?

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS ANNUAL 2026
ARTISTS: DAVID ROACH, ERIC BRADBURY, IAN KENNEDY, JESUS REDONDO, STEVE WHITE, VANYO, KEN REID, BRETT PARSON, CARLOS CRUZ & FRANCISCO SOLANO LÓPEZ DAVID ROACH, SCOTT GOODALL, NED HARTLEY & SUYI DAVIES OKUNGBOWA
COVER ARTIST: STAZ JOHNSON
Out: 12th November 2025
• The Treasury of British Comics Annual 2026

And this year The Treasury of British Comics Annual 2026 returns with a fantastic range of stories from the archives, including strips originally published in the weekly comics Jag, Smash!, Wildcat, Wham!, Valiant, Misty and Whizzer & Chips, amongst others.

Alongside the wonderful and unexpected reprint stories featured in the comic – many out of print for decades! – are four all-new stories specially for this Annual:

• “Helmet Head” by Stephen Brotherstone & David Lawrence (The Scarred For Life Podcast) and Henrik Sahlstrom (The Thirteenth Floor) – originally from the pages of Tiger
• “Imagine If Gums Was Published in Action“… by Ned Hartley (Steel Commando) & Steve White (Battle Action)
• “Vanessa From Venus Vs Spellbinder” written and drawn by David Roach (Judge Anderson)
“Mytek The Mighty” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Lost Ark Dreaming) & Edison Neo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

This year’s Annual will once come in two editions – the standard edition will feature a new cover by Staz Johnson, while the webshop-exclusive edition has a cover from James Harren (Seven To Eternity)!

Don’t miss out on ordering yours today, as both Annuals sold out in 2024.

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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.

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