The rumours are true – Judge Dredd / Biker Mice From Mars arrives in stores this December, as The Lawman of The Future takes on Those Radical Rodents in a two-part comics event from Dan Watters, Ryan O’Sullivan and Jordi Tarragona…
You Can’t Outrace The Law!
In advance of Comic-Con International 2026 in San Diego, California, the Nacelle Company, Oni Press, and Rebellion have announced a historic partnership, which officially begins today with the announcement of Judge Dredd /Biker Mice from Mars #1 – launching the wreckage-strewn collision of the 22nd Century’s most feared lawman against its hardest-charging mutant outlaws in a no-holds-barred showdown for supremacy!
Spanning two 40-page, deluxe format issues beginning in December 2026, Judge Dredd /Biker Mice from Mars #1 will be written by blockbuster writers Dan Watters (M.A.S.K., Batman: Dark Patterns) and Ryan O’Sullivan (Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War) with art bysupercharged artist Jordi Tarragona (Injustice: Gods Among Us).
As initially announced by IGN, Judge Dredd /Biker Mice from Mars #1 will also mark the first milestone in a newly cemented merchandising partnership between Rebellion and the Nacelle Company that will see Nacelle’s Consumer Product division create a new line of highly detailed action figures and other collectibles that will feature crossovers between The Biker Mice From Mars and Rebellion’s Judge Dredd characters.
The first wave of figures will be made available for pre-order this autumn, and be released online and in stores in 2027.
Special Merch at Comic-Con International 2026
To celebrate the new partnership, Nacelle, Oni Press, and Rebellion will be giving fans a special reward directly from the streets of Mega-City One at Comic-Con International 2026 in San Diego, CA, beginning on Thursday 23rd July. If you’re attending, simply visit the Rebellion booth (#2121) to retrieve your free Mega-City One parking ticket with an official Department of Justice stamp – then get it stamped again in sequence at the Nacelle Company booth (#2547) and Oni Press booth (#1829) to avoid the death penalty, and receive one of 500 limited-edition Judge Dredd /Biker Mice from Mars art prints, featuring the upcoming cover art of Eisner Award-winning superstar David Finch (Batman, Skinbreaker)!
“It’s truly a thrill to be walking the streets of Mega-City One with our amazing partners at Rebellion and the Nacelle Company. The amount of love and fervour for Judge Dredd and the iconic legacy of 2000AD that flows through both Oni and Nacelle is palpable, and, thanks to the huge talents of Dan Watters, Ryan O’Sullivan, and Jordi Tarragona, we’re excited to give fans the 22nd century’s first truly great comic event,” said Oni Press President & Publisher, Hunter Gorinson.
“I’ve been a massive fan of Judge Dredd for at least 35 years and when Hunter suggested this collab, I warned him that he better not be punking me,” said Nacelle CEO, Brian Volk-Weiss. “Being able to play in the Mega City One sand box is beyond a dream come true!”
Across the frayed cordons of space-time, the greed-fueled oligarchs Limburger and Karbunkle have identified a strange new world to plunder, but they never anticipated that Throttle, Vinnie, and Modo – the extraterrestrial anti-heroes known as the Biker Mice from Mars – would dare to foil their latest cross-dimensional conquest: the smog-clogged metropolis known as Mega-City One.
Now, the Martian brothers and their bikes are stranded between blocks in Mega-City’s endless, chaotic sprawl … alongside 400 million citizens who want them dead and the one man committed to delivering them to justice at any cost: the unforgiving Judge Dredd! The law has no place for vermin on Mega-City One’s streets … but when the Biker Mice’s otherworldly abilities draw the gaze of the inhuman entity calledJudge Death, man and mouse alike will be caught in the crosshairs in the first-ever Biker Mice from Mars crossover outside of the NacelleVerse.
“Mutants and mayhem are two of the founding pillars of Judge Dredd’s world, so when Oni and Nacelle approached us about a crossover with the Biker Mice From Mars we knew this would be exactly our kind of Thrillpower,” said Ben Smith, Head of Publishing for Rebellion. “The Biker Mice From Mars are the perfect fit for Dredd’s radical, radioactive vision of the future, and this is going to be a revved-up, all-action spectacular for fans. To take this crossover off the page into a new toy range is next level exciting – Rebellion and 2000AD are delighted to bring this new partnership with our new partners Oni Press and Nacelle into fifth gear.”
Created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, Judge Dredd has been bringing law and order to the crime-ridden, dystopian streets of Mega-City One since he first appeared in the pages of 2000AD back in 1977. Throughout his almost 50 year history, Dredd has faced down everyone from Batman to Aliens and Predator … but he’s never met anyone quite like Throttle, Vinnie, Modo.
Set to appear in a brand-new animated series from executive producers Brian Volk-Weiss, Ryan Reynolds, George Dewey, Matt Kravitsky, and Kevin Hill in 2027, the Biker Mice from Mars have been a fixture for fans and collectors since their first appearance in 1993 and have since helmed multiple new comic series published by Oni Press.
• Judge Dredd / Biker Mice From Mars #1 will arrive in comic shops worldwide in December 2026, featuring covers by David Finch (Batman, Karl Kerschl (The Flash), and Andrew Krahnke (G.I. Joe), and more to be revealed
Meet The Partners…
Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, K. O’Neill’s Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Ezra Clayton Daniels’ Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.
The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.
Established in 2017, The Nacelle Company, founded by Brian Volk-Weiss, is an American diversified media company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to producing quality entertainment. Nacelle has evolved into a leader in the pop-culture space through its scripted and unscripted productions, consumer products, records, distribution, and podcasting divisions. Nacelle’s comedy division, Comedy Dynamics, is a worldwide leader in the stand-up comedy space, having produced and distributed specials for Ali Wong, Tom Segura, Iliza Shlesinger, Pete Davidson, Jim Gaffigan, Tiffany Haddish, Larry the Cable Guy, and more.
Nacelle is currently producing the NacelleVerse, an interconnected universe of animated shows that include RoboForce, which is co-produced by Brian Volk-Weiss and Seven Bucks Productions’ Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, and Brian Gewirtz, as well as their Biker Mice from Mars animated series, which is co-produced by Brian Volk-Weiss and Matt Kravitsky from Nacelle, Maximum Effort’s Ryan Reynolds, George Dewey, and Kevin Hill. The company’s hits include Netflix’s Emmy-winning docuseries, Down To Earth with Zac Efron and the NAACP Image award-nominated Kevin Hart’s Guide To Black History, as well as Netflix’s The Movies That Made Us, The Toys That Made Us, Behind The Attraction on Disney+, Sony’s Mad About You, Icons Unearthed on Vice TV, CW’s Discontinued, and the History Channel’s Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. The Nacelle Company develops, produces, and distributes content across multiple media platforms including Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, HBO, Discovery, BET+, A&E Networks, Peacock, Hulu, Vice, Viacom, History, and many more.
Founded in 1992, Rebellion is one of the world’s most successful independent studios. Its flagship Sniper Elite series is renowned for its authentic stealth and sniping gameplay with more than 50 million players worldwide. Most recently Rebellion released Sniper Elite: Resistance in January 2025 and the critically acclaimed Atomfall, a new IP, in March. 2000AD is synonymous with the absolute finest in British comic book art. With the acquisition of a $100m film studio and the world’s largest archive of English language comics, Rebellion continues to grow from strength to strength.
Rebellion now operates across books, comics, TV and film, but at its core it’s still a leading developer and publisher of games. Whether it’s the breath-taking intensity of the Sniper Elite, the face-hugging terror of Aliens vs. Predator or the grindhouse frenzy of the Zombie Army series, the Oxford-based studio is revered for creating stand-out games designed to thrill.
Published in print and digital every Wednesday, 2000AD is the legendary weekly British anthology comic and needs no introduction to regular downthetubes readers – the home of Judge Dredd and a galaxy of original sci-fi, fantasy, and horror action stars. Producing innovative and provocative comics for more than four decades, it has brought the industry some of its biggest talents, from Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, and Mark Millar, to Jock, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, and many more.
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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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