Epic Dredd ahead in 2000AD, trailed this week!

By John Freeman on December 10, 2025 • ( 0 )

The penultimate prog of 2000AD for 2025 finds “Judge Dredd: Messengers” wrapping up with a preview for what’s to come in 2026, as Dredd embarks on a new Mega-Epic with horrific consequences for the Lawman of the Future.

2000AD Prog 2462, with a cover by Nick Percival, also wraps up “Dead Town“, while “Rogue Trooper” heads towards its own conclusion in next week’s 100-page Christmas issue.

All this, and a new “Future Shock” from James Lovegrove and Toby Willsmer – the Galactic Thrills have no end!

And by way of a teaser for next week’s 100-page page blow-out, be ready for Prog 2463, which will be no exception to previous annual Christmas celebrations for the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic from Tharg, with the usual mix of new stories and special one-offs.

Alongside the scrotnig double-length finale to Rogue Trooper epic “Ghost Patrol”, you can find the opening instalments of both Peter Milligan & Kieran McKeown’s SF prison thriller “The Discarded”, and the second full-length series of David Barnett & Lee Milmore’s folk horror “Herne & Shuck”, plus complete tales for Judge Dredd, Azimuth, Hawk the Slayer, Strontium Dog and Young Death… A right plum pudding and no mistake!

2000AD Prog 2462
UK and DIGITAL: 10 December £3.99
NORTH AMERICA: 14 January $7.85
DIAMOND: OCT250131
COVER: Nick Percival

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 thespirit of the young woman he saved from the dimension known as the Shift…

THARG’S FUTURE SHOCKS // THE HAPPINESS MEME
by James Lovegrove (Writer) Toby Willsmer (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected…

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

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…

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…

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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.