“Death of a Judge” comes to an end in 2000AD Prog 2469 this week, as the mighty John Wagner pens what may be his final Judge Dredd story! Accompanied by Mike Perkins, this has been a heck of a roller coaster to read each week – and as you might expect, there’s a twist in the tale as it comes to a close.
Accompanying this dramatic finale, there’s the next part of “Judge Dee“, which takes yet another gnarly turn courtesy of Ben Wheatley and Simon Coleby. But then – the issue brings us “Herne & Shuck”, which offers us a surprise family reunion.
Heartwarming stuff in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic? Whatever next??
2000AD Prog 2469
UK and DIGITAL: 11 February £3.99
COVER: Mike Perkins
In This Issue:
JUDGE DREDD // DEATH OF A JUDGE
by John Wagner (Writer) Mike Perkins (Artist) Chris Blythe (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2148 AD. Home to over 300 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, as the Mechanismo robot Judges return to the streets, Dredd’s been targeted by an unknown perp…
HERNE & SHUCK // POWER TRIP
By David Barnett (Writer) Lee Milmore (Artist) Gary Caldwell (V) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
The UK. Herne is a troubleshooter and hired help for many different magical factions. Accompanied by Shuck, a demon in dog form, he travels the country picking up work where he can, whether it be an exorcism or a rescue. Recently, he was tasked with saving young Carys from ritual sacrifice, and has made an enemy of the organisation known as St Michael. Now, he must prove himself before a magical council…
JUDGE DEE
By Ben Wheatley (Writer) Simon Coleby (Artist) Jack Davies (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2148 AD. JUDGE DEE is a psi-operative in Justice Department’s Psi-Division, in which psychic powers are deployed in the fight against supernatural threats as well as everyday crime. She has an unmatched arrest record, which is causing some suspicion amongst her superiors — however, little do they know that she is host to a demon that is assisting her in her investigations…
THARG’S 3RILLERS // MONEY SHOT: HIGH STAKES
By Kek-W (Writer) Rob Richardson (Artist) Rob Steen (Letterer)
Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! The USA, the 1990s, and accountant Carla Dietrich has been hired for her book-keeping skills on both sides of the law. She’s received mysterious instructions to travel to a place called The City, where she discovers that she’s been employed by vampires…
THE DISCARDED
By Peter Milligan (Writer) Kieran McKeown (Artist) Jim Boswell (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
Junkfall, the near future. Society’s extravagant attitude to waste has continued unabated, with robot drones now collecting rubbish to be hauled away in giant hovering tankers, bound for the vast garbage island/prison known as Junkfall that lies out in the middle of the ocean. Dissident Aaxon ‘Red’ Banksy has been incarcerated here, but has discovered a self-evolving chip amongst the trash…
This Week’s Rebellion Releases…
Judge Dredd: Rend and Tear with Tooth and Claw
by Rob Williams (Writer), R M Guéra (Artist)
Out: Scheduled for 10th February 2026
Paperback | 96 pages
ISBN: 978-1837865451
The hunter becomes the hunted as Dredd faces a bloodthirsty beast in this survival thriller from veteran 2000AD writer Rob Williams and Scalped artist R.M. Guera.
After an aerial attack, Dredd and a judge squad find themselves stranded deep into the Northern Radlands, a hundred miles from the nearest city and with no way of contacting help.
But fending off attacks from mountain gangs becomes the least of their problems: a great, murderous bear is on their trail, and Dredd and Cadet Moon will have to brave the elements and join forces with an unlikely ally to escape the frozen woods alive.
The Thirteenth Floor Anthology
Featuring thirteen brand-new stories by James Lovegrove, MK Hardy, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Mason Cross, James Goss, Katerina Diamond, Derek Farrell, and more
Scheduled for release 10th February 2026
Paperback | 352 pages
ISBN: 978-1837866038
The Thirteenth Floor’s evil AI Max goes worldwide in this anthology of thirteen horror stories set across the globe….
London’s Maxwell Towers have long been under the control of Max – an all-seeing AI intent on punishing wrongdoers and wicked tenants by sending them to the Thirteenth Floor, where unspeakable horrors come to life. Now, Max’s coding has been embedded in apartment complexes all over the world, and there is no escape from his nightmarish reign…
James Lovegrove is the author of nearly 60 books, including the New York Times bestselling Pantheon series, the Redlaw novels and the Dev Harmer Missions. He has produced five Sherlock Holmes novels and a Conan Doyle/Lovecraft mashup trilogy, The Cthulhu Casebooks. He has also written tie-in novels for the TV show Firefly. James has sold well over 50 short stories and published two collections, Imagined Slights and Diversifications. He has produced a dozen short books for readers with reading difficulties, and a four-volume fantasy saga for teenagers, The Clouded World, under the pseudonym Jay Amory. James has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Society Award and the Manchester Book Award. His short story “Carry The Moon In My Pocket” won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Translated Short Story. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and his journalism has appeared in periodicals as diverse as Literary Review, Interzone, BBC MindGames, All About History and Comic Heroes. He contributes a regular fiction-review column to the Financial Times and lives with his wife, two sons and tiny dog in Eastbourne.
Lavanya Lakshminarayan is the author of Analog/Virtual: And Other Simulations of Your Future. She is a Locus Award finalist and is the first science fiction writer to win the Times of India AutHer Award and the Valley of Words Award, both prestigious literary awards in India, and her work has been longlisted for a BSFA Award. She’s occasionally a game designer, and has built worlds for Zynga Inc.’s FarmVille franchise, Mafia Wars, and other games. She lives in India, and is currently working on her next novel.
MK Hardy is the pen name for Morag Hannah and Erin Hardee, two geeky women living and writing together in Scotland. They are both communications specialists working in higher education. With backgrounds ranging from museum interpretation to web design, and from science communication to ghost tours, they are devoted to storytelling in almost every aspect of their lives and work. When they are not telling stories they can be found singing in choirs, foraging for fungi, and working on their 1880s fixer-upper.
Guy Adams lives with genius and writer A.K. Benedict in Rochester, Kent. He’s the author of the Heaven’s Gate trilogy of weird westerns, the Clown Service books and the Deadbeat novels. He’s written countless hours of audio drama for Big Finish, from a wide range of Doctor Who titles to an adaptation of HG Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come and the original horror series Blind Terror: The Gods of Frost. In comics he writes Rogue Trooper, Ulysses Sweet: Maniac for Hire and Max Normal for 2000AD. With his comics husband, Jimmy Broxton, he is the co-creator of Goldtiger, the sixties newspaper strip that never existed… until now.
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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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