Brace yourselves, readers: starting with next week’s 2000AD Prog 2475, The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic will now be available to pick up each and every week at ASDA.
The news means ASDA joins major supermarkets across the UK including Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Co-Op and many more in stocking 2000AD in their magazine section – and overnight, becomes one of the major stockists of the comic in the UK.
Given recent uncertainty over the future of some TG Jones stores, the High Street replacement for WHSmith High Street, the news could not be more welcome for fans of Tharg’s weekly title.
The first issue available through ASDA will be 2000AD Prog 2475, which features a cover from legendary artist Colin MacNeil, and stories including Judge Dredd, Brink, Tharg’s 3rillers, and The Discarded – as well as a complete Future Shock from Andi Ewington and John McCrea.
Publishing since 1977, 2000AD, headed up by Tharg, an alien spreading Thrill Power from Quaxxann, a fictional planet that orbits the star Betelgeuse, is the weekly 32-page anthology featuring five serialised stories in each issue. Featuring Judge Dredd – The Ultimate Lawman of the Future – 2000AD has also been home to iconic and influential series including Strontium Dog, Halo Jones, Nemesis the Warlock, ABC Warriors and many more.
The crucible which introduced creators including Alan Moore, John Wagner, Pat Mills, Brian Bolland, Grant Morrison, Dave Gibbons, Al Ewing and many more to the comics industry, 2000AD is the home to genre-defying and anarchic comics which challenge authority and give readers a taste of the unknown and bizarre.
More recently, 2000AD has featured stunning visions of science fiction such as the cosmic horror of Brink; the violent and vampiric Silver (writer Michael Carroll interviewed here); the fantastical steampunk universe of Brass Sun; and the dark and depraved dystopia of The Fall of Deadworld, as well as many other stories.
And the news comes ahead of 2000AD‘s first 48-page bumper issue of the year, out on the 1st April, which will feature classic characters Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper, a standalone Red Dragon thriller from Rob Williams, Steve Yeowell and Patrick Goddard, and the return of the steampunk aerial adventure of Ian Edginton and D’Israeli’s Helium.
It’s never been easier to get a taste of Thrill-Power, Earthlets – just head on down to your local!
• 2000AD is also online ay 2000ad.com
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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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