2000AD lands with a Bumper-Sized issue this week, featuring complete new stories for Judge Anderson and Rogue Trooper alongside your regularly-scheduled Judge Dredd, Durham Red Ghosted, and Herne & Shuck.

Anderson deals with the fallout of the Mega-Epic Oubliette event, whilst Dredd has a crisis of his own – there’s a ticking clock counting down in Mega-City One!

And if that wasn’t enough, get ready to SCREAM! The Scream! Halloween Special 2026 arrives worldwide on the 28th October, with five all-new stories filled with frights and fear! “The Dracula File” finds the world’s most famous vampire getting involved in Realpolitik; “The Thirteenth Floor” claims a new victim; “Consent Is Key” makes a deal with the devil; “The Bog Body” is awakened; and a small town receives some visitors in “Welcome To Bishop’s End”… With stories from Babs Tarr, Zoe Tunnell, Chloe Brailsford, Vic Malhotra, Zac Thompson and more horrific talents, it’s the best horror comic you’ll read this spooky season!

2000AD Prog 2506
UK Release Date: 28th October £4.99
Lunar Release Date: 11th November $8.99
Cover: Toby Willsmer

In this issue:

JUDGE DREDD // THE NEW FUTURE
By Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt (Writer) Henry Flint (Artist) 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! In the wake of the failed Sector 304 social reforms, now a new underground voice has suddenly appeared demanding change..

ROGUE TROOPER // LONG SHOT
By Andi Ewington (Writer) Conor Boyle (Artist) Rob Steen (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..

DURHAM RED // HUNGRY CITY
By Alec Worley (Writer) Ben Willsher (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Late 22nd century. Of all the mutants that have operated as Search/Destroy agents, perhaps the most feared is vampire DURHAM RED, who requires blood to survive. Mistrusted by both the criminals she hunts and her fellow Strontium Dogs, Red has a formidable reputation that precedes her, and now she’s awoken amongst dead bodies on a resort world with next to no memory of what happened…

GHOSTED // BOOK TWO
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 city-world, so vast and divorced from the rest of the planet that it’s virtually its own realm. Young citizen Benu found herself neurally connected to a soldier fighting an alien war — but upon fleeing the city, she’s discovered that war is taking place outside the wall…

HERNE & SHUCK // STORMING THE STONE
By David Barnett (Writer) Lee Milmore (Artist) Quinton Winter (Colourist) 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, they have her again, and Herne must lead a rescue…

JUDGE ANDERSON // EGREGORE
By Liam Johnson (Writer) Simon Fraser (Artist) Gary Caldwell (Colourist) Rob Steen (Letterer)

Psi-Division is a section within Justice Department that deals with the supernatural, and its operatives all have psi-powers, from telepathy to psychokinesis. Cassandra Anderson is one of the division’s most experienced and powerful officers, responsible for saving the city from many paranormal threats. Now, Psi-Division is trying to rebuild following the evens of the Black Tower manifestation…

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The Scream! Halloween Special 2026
UK Release Date: 28th October £5.99
US Release Date: 28th October $9.99
Cover: Salvador Lavado

• Read Luke Williams Review here

In this issue:

THE DRACULA FILE // REALPOLITIK
By Alex Paknadel (Writer) Alejandro Aragon (Artist) Jason Wordie (Colourist) Jonathan Stevenson (Letterer)

THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR // CONVERSATIONAL REALITY GENERATION
By Zac Thompson (Writer) Mattia Monaco (Artist) Maco (Letterer)

CONSENT IS KEY
By Zoe Tunnell (Writer) Chloe Brailsford (Artist) JP Jordan (Colourist) Jodie Troutman (Letterer)

THE BOG BODY
By Oliver Gerlach (Writer) Vic Malhotra (Artist) Maco (Letterer)

BISHOP’S END // LIGHTS OUT
By Michael Gorman (Writer) Babs Tarr (Artist) Kyle Fewell (Colourist) Maco (Letterer)

• Read Luke Williams Review here

The Scream! Halloween Special 2026 is available select newsagents including TG Jones not staked in the heart by capitalist parasites, and in Local Comic Shops from Wednesday 28th October 2026, direct from the 2000AD webshop here, and major retailers such as Forbidden Planet (Affiliate Link)

Coming Soon from Rebellion…

Johnny Red – Volume 1 The Falcons (Classic Johnny Red)
By Tom Tully (Writer), Joe Colquhoun (Artist)
Out: Scheduled for 4th November 2026
Paperback/ Hardcover | 320 pages
ISBN: 978-1837868513 (Paperback) | 978-1837869206 (Hardcover)
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“The Falcons are yours now, Johnny. Protect them from this madness that men bring upon each other.”

It is 1941.

Kicked out of the Royal Air Force for striking an officer, trainee pilot Johnny Redburn finds himself on a British merchant vessel, part of a supply convoy bound for the beleaguered USSR. When the Germans attack he takes to the skies in the ship’s sole fighter aircraft – and is very soon fighting for his life. Yet Johnny’s real struggle begins when he joins Russia’s Falcon Squadron, a fighter unit abandoned by its superiors, the pilots expected to sacrifice themselves against the Nazi invaders.

So begins the legend of the Red Devil, as the young Englishman and his Russian comrades fling themselves against the foe in one dreadful battle after another: Leningrad, Murmansk, Stalingrad, each more terrible than the last. Assailed by both the German Air Force and the Soviet secret police, Johnny and the Falcons fly into peril alongside the Angels of Death, the all-woman night bomber squadron led by the beautiful Nina Petrova. As the carnage intensifies and casualties mount, Johnny Red must fight for the lives of his squadron – before the war devours them all.

The first in a series collecting Johnny Red in its entirety, this volume presents the complete two-year run by original artist Joe Colquhoun (Charley’s War), written by co-creator Tom Tully (Roy of the Rovers): a British comics classic, quite simply the greatest aerial combat strip of all time.

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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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