“Death of a Judge” in 2000AD Prog 2465, on sale today in all good newsagents, and some run by Kleggs, with a superb cover by Toby Willsmer to pop the title out from competing fare.

Plus, don’t miss out on Rebellion’s latest collection from the archive, Legend Testers, on sale from all good bookshops! Plucked from the pages of classic weekly comic Smash!, this is a time travel epic, written by Graham Baker – and features stunning art by legendary Spanish artist Jordi Bernet, today best known for the gangster comics series Torpedo and for American weird western comic book, Jonah Hex. More details below!

In this stunning tale from John Wagner and Mike Perkins, Judge Dredd heads out into danger – but will it be a one-way trip?

Elsewhere in the issue, Herne & Shuck seek out the goddess Brigantia, and take on a bar full of Geordie dwarves; Young Death attempts to make some allies; “Azimuth” sees the labyrinth close in on our heroes; and Veera Banksy arrives on the scene in “The Discarded”…. but what’s her agenda?

Get ready to warm your diodes in the midst of winter!

2000AD Prog 2465

UK and DIGITAL: 14 January £3.99
COVER: Toby Willsmer

JUDGE DREDD // DEATH OF A JUDGE by John Wagner (Writer) Mike Perkins (Artist) Chris Blythe (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

Mega-City One, 2148 AD. Home to over 300 million citizens, this urban hell is situatedalong the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and onlythe Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughestof them all is JUDGE DREDD — heis the Law! Now, the future of the Mechanismorobot Judges is under discussion following their failed coup many months ago…

HERNE & SHUCK // POWER TRIP by David Barnett (Writer) Lee Milmore (Artist) Gary Caldwell (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

Herne is a troubleshooter and hired help for many different magical factions. Accompanied by Shuck, a demon in dog form, he travels the country picking up workwhere he can, whether it be an exorcism or a rescue. Recently, he was tasked withsaving young Carys from ritual sacrifice, and has made an enemy of the organisationknown as St Michael. Now, he must prove himself before a magical council…

YOUNG DEATH // FITTING IN by Kek-W (Writer) Tom Foster (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

The planet that became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisationexisting in a parallel dimension. Its Judge force was notoriously brutal and openlycorrupt, and so when young psychopath Sidney De’Ath joined its ranks, he quicklybecame something of a rising star. But Sidney is being courted by entities beyond theveil, who want to use him to usher in a global apocalypse…

AZIMUTH // CORNERED by Dan Abnett (Writer) Tazio Bettin (Artist) Matt Soffe (Colourist) Jim Campell (Letterer)

Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything ispossible. Ruled by an aristocracy of the New Flesh, anyone can take any shape, if it canbe conceived by the imagination. But the fact is, Azimuth was once Downlode, and ithas been remade by a rogue A.I. Gun-shark Ramone Dexter is on a mission to destroyit, aided by Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson and Suzi Nine Millimetre…

THE DISCARDED // PART THREE by Peter Milligan (Writer) Kieran McKeown (Artist) Jim Boswell (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Junkfall, the near future. Society’s extravagant attitude to waste has continuedunabated, with robot drones now collecting rubbish to be hauled away in gianthovering tankers, bound for the vast garbage island/prison known as Junkfall that liesout in the middle of the ocean. Dissident Aaxon ‘Red’ Banksy has been incarceratedhere, but has discovered a self-evolving chip amongst the trash…

Available in print from the 2000AD webshop, TG Jones, WHSmiths Travel, and comic book shops via Diamond | Available in digital from: 2000AD webshop, 2000AD app for Apple & Android

More Rebellion Releases

The Legend Testers: 60th Anniversary
by Graham Baker (Writer) and Jordi Bernet (Artist)
Paperback | 160 pages | Scheduled for release 13th January 2026
ISBN: 978-1837866540
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Twelve Monkeys meets Clash of the Titans in this epic time travel adventure story fearless art by Spanish comics superstar, Jordi Bernet.

3900AD. Rollo Stones and Danny Charters are the “Legend Testers”, employees of the Central Knowledge Museum, tasked with taking exhibits back through time to see if they are genuine or not. Using the world’s only time machine called, ‘The Time Chamber’, Rollo and Danny throw themselves into peril, seeking out the truth behind myths and legends. From werewolves to Greek Gods, the Legend Testers are ready to face any supernatural challenge!

This collection includes the entire run of the “Legend Testers” strip from the weekly comic, Smash!, all beautifully illustrated by Spanish art superstar, Jordi Bernet. The strip ran began in Issue 9 and continued until Issue 75 (April 1966 to July 1967), with seven regular adventures published.

Jordi Bernet Cussó is a Spanish comics artist, born in Barcelona in 1944. The son of comic artist, Miguel Bernet, Jordi’s uncle, Juan Bernet Toledano, was also an illustrator, while another of his uncles, Miguel Cussó, was a writer. Jordi got his start in comics in his early teens, working on the magazine, Pepe Cola, working alongside his father. 

He started working for several foreign publishers in the 1960s including some in the UK, illustrating strips in DC Thomson’s Victorand The Hornet, and Fleetway’s Smash! and Tiger. 

His career took off in 1982,:when he started working on Torpedo – a strip about a gangster operating in New York during the Great Depression. It was published in several Spanish comics, including Creepy, Thriller, Comix International and Totem El Comix, before getting its own title in the early 1990s. It won the ‘Best Foreign Album Award’ in 1986 at the Angoulême Comics Festival. 

In recent years, Jordi has also illustrated several issues of DC’s Jonah Hex comic.

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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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