We may be at almost at the end of 2025, but as this week’s Rebellion releases reveal, 2000AD aren’t slowing down anytime soon. There’s Thrill-Power to be shared!

This week, 2000AD 2461, with a cover from Alex Ronald, has the debut of a new Thrill in the form of Deadtown by David Barnett and Luke Horsman, and the latest instalment of Rogue Trooper.

Plus, “Judge Dredd: Messengers” continues, which brings more supernatural horror to the underbelly of Mega-City One – and there’s the conclusion of “Brass Sun“, too – and what a conclusion it is!

INCOMING EVENT! If 2000AD itself isn’t enough for you, and you’re heading to London on Saturday 13th December, Garth Ennis, Keith Burns, Rob Williams, Steve White and Torunn Grønbekk will be signing copies of Battle Action Volumes 1, 2 & 3 at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore as part of our Big Xmas Gathering from 2.00pm until 3.00pm. Full details here

2000AD Prog 2461
UK and DIGITAL: 3 December £3.99
NORTH AMERICA: 7 January $7.85
DIAMOND: OCT250130
COVER: Alex Ronald

In This Issue:

JUDGE DREDD // MESSENGERS
by Ken Niemand (Writer) Nick Percival (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, he is being visited by the spirit of the young woman he saved from the dimension known as the Shift…

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…

DEAD TOWN
by David Barnett (Writer) Luke Horsman (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

NEW THRILL! Manchester, 1998. It is five years since a Russian satellite crashed into a cemetery and caused the resurrection of the three thousand bodies buried there. The dead now exist alongside the living, though most have been housed in the enclave known as DEADTOWN. After a three-year battle, a government Revenant Rights bill has been passed, allowing the resurrected to find employment…

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…

Don’t Miss This…

Spider’s Syndicate of Crime vs. Spider-Boy (Volume 4)
By Jerry Siegel (Writer) and Reg Bunn (Artist)
Out: Scheduled for 4th December 2025
Paperback | 112 Pages
ISBN: 978-1837865604
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The Spider is a sensational adventurer who operates on both sides of the law, using a whole host of hi-tech equipment to stay one step ahead of his enemies.

When gangleader, ‘Turk’ Dobbs crossed Criminal scientist, Sylvester Jenkins, the evil genius had Dobbs killed and framed the Spider for the murder. Not long after, a new enemy – ‘Spider-boy’, emerged from the shadows, seemingly intent on causing trouble for the ‘King of Crooks’. With access to his own super equipment and an unparalleled hatred for the web-master, the Spider has never encountered a foe like this before!

Jerry Siegel was born on October 17, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of six children born to Lithuanian, Jewish immigrants. While attending Glenville High School he befriended Joe Shuster, as the two bonded over a shared interest in science fiction and movies. Unable to pay for college, Siegel had various day jobs while he also started to submit and sell comic scripts to National Allied Publications. Together with Shuster, he had developed a character called Superman, which they had intended on selling as a syndicated newspaper strip. However, after a few unsuccessful years, they finally sold the character to comic-book publisher, Detective Comics Inc. for $130.00. The comic became a huge success with Jerry Siegel on board as writer and Shuster on art duties. After military service during World War Two, Siegel returned to DC Comics for a brief spell, but left in 1947 following a much publicised rights battle with the publisher over Superboy. He would return to DC Comics later in his career. Throughout his career, he co-created a number of key characters for DC, including Doctor Occult, The Spectre, Star-Spangled Kid and many of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Beyond DC, Siegel would team up one more time with Shuster to create the comic Funnyman, published by Magazine Enterprises. As well as scripting some Strange Tales scripts for Marvel and The Fly, The Mighty Crusaders and The Web for Archie Comics, he reached out to Fleetway, the publishers of Lion, having received some copies of the comic and was so taken by The Spider, took over scripting duties from Ted Cowan.

In 1944 Reg Bunn survived a serious car accident which rendered him paralysed from the neck down, he recovered and went on to take part in the 1949 Amalgamated Press talent search which would gain him work for The Comet. He is renowned for his work on Lion, and his greatest creation is The Spider with writer Ted Cowan.

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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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