This week’s 2000AD – Prog 2436, on sale now, with a dramatic cover from Joe Currie – wraps up the current “Judge Dredd”, “Rogue Trooper” and “Silver” stories, as Rebellion clear the decks for next week’s bumper issue of the Prog! Get ready for “Fiends of the Western Front”, “Strontium Dog”, “Tharg’s Future Shocks” and much more when the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic reaches Prog 2437 – but for now, get ready for an apocalyptic ending… or three!

And then, there’s Battle Action #10, a fantastic finale to Garth Ennis and Keith Burns‘ as Johnny Red‘s World War Two story ends – but will it be in tragedy… or triumph? Garth and Keith pull out all the stops as the events of past issues, laced with the threat of bacteriological warfare, come to a powerful, dramatic end. As ever, Keith excels in delivering some stunning aerial combat, and I doubt this conclusion will disappoint either longtime or new Johnny Red fans. Thoroughly recommended!

2000AD Prog 2436
UK and DIGITAL: 11 June £3.80
NORTH AMERICA: 30 July $25.99 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: APR251621
COVER: Joe Currie

In this issue:

JUDGE DREDD // THE FIRST 100
by Dan Abnett (Writer) Colin MacNeil (Artist) Chris Blythe (Colourist) 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. Tensions are on a knife-edge, 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, Judge Gable is relating the time she partnered Dredd…

ROGUE TROOPER // TIDES OF WAR
by Andi Ewington (Writer) Paul Marshall (Artist) Pippa Bowland (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. He and his biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman have gone AWOL, hunting for the Traitor General that sold them out. Now, he’s joined a patrol-boat crew…

GHOSTED // BOOK ONE
by Guy Adams (Writer) Megan Huang (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the far future. One of the fastest-growing mega-cities in the world, the metropolis is now a walled cityworld, so vast and divorced from the rest of the planet that it’s virtually its own realm. Rich and diverse, it prides itself on being the perfect place to live — but for Benu something strange is going on in her head, a mental connection to a soldier…

SILVER // PERFIDIOUS
by Mike Carroll (Writer) Joe Currie (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Earth, the year 2001. A group of armed survivors sought out the resting place of a five hundred-year-old vampire, who may just help them against the alien Sepsis, who invaded the planet a few decades earlier. The vamp, called Baroness DeSilva, has proved powerful in battling the extra-terrestrials, and now, having aided the rebels in destroying Sepsis infrastructure, has been given a new mission to undertake…

SCARLET TRACES // EMPIRE OF BLOOD
by Ian Edginton (Writer) D’Israeli (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

England, the late nineteenth century. Earth has come under attack by Martian war machines, devastating huge swathes of the country with their heat rays and harvesting enormous numbers of people. Finally struck down by the planet’s viruses, the Martians’ assault collapses. Now, humanity is picking up the pieces and coming to terms with the aftermath, but there appears to be vestiges of the aliens left…

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Battle Action #10
UK and DIGITAL: 11 June £4.99
NORTH AMERICA: 16 July $7.99
DIAMOND: MAR251586
COVER: Keith Burns

In this issue:

JOHNNY RED // A COUPLE OF HEROES
by Garth Ennis (Writer) Keith Burns (Artist) Jason Wordie (Colourist) Rob Steen (Letterer)

The all-action finale! The war is coming to an end – will Johnny make it to see Nina Petrova again? Find out into this double-length story which concludes our ten-part Battle Action series!

• Available in print from: 2000AD webshop, book stores, Amazon, and comic book stores via Diamond | Available in digital from: 2000AD webshop, 2000AD app for Apple & Android

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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.

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