There’s thrills old and new, and some spruce ups, too, on Rebellion’s lead newsstand titles, 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine.
“Judge Dredd”, “Silver”, “Ghosted” and “Chimpsky’s Law” surge forward in their respective plotlines in this week’s 2000AD (Prog 2428), while the current “Nu Earth War Tale”, “Nu Romance”, paving the way for a new Rogue Trooper story, “Tides of War” next week, by Andi Ewington and Paul Marshall.
Plus, Judge Dredd Megazine Issue 479 – which celebrates its 35th anniversary in the autumn – is out this week too, and there’s a bunch of new series to launch
into. Cadet Dredd investigates “The Haunting of Iso-Block 8” by Paul Starkey and Nick Brokenshire; Brit-Cit Detective Judge Armitage has another cold case to untangle in “Murder. Setting: Automated, Express” by Liam Johnson and Warren Pleece; and space pirates Barrel and Hammer make their debut, courtesy of David Barnett and Luke Horsman.
The Megazine has had a format overhaul its page count reduced from 128- to 96-pages, in order to refocus exclusively on new material. The £6.99 cover price ($12.99 US) remains unchanged.
2000AD Prog 2428
UK and DIGITAL: 16 April £3.80
NORTH AMERICA: 4 June $36.00 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: FEB251945
COVER: Joe Currie
In This Issue…
JUDGE DREDD // BLITZERS by Ken Niemand (Writer) Dan Cornwell (Artist) Dylan Teague (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, former Mob-blitzers are trying to escape to a new life before they explode…
CHIMPSKY’S LAW // THE TRUTH CONUNDRUM by Ken Niemand (Writer) PJ Holden (Artist) Jack Davies (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2147 AD. Noam Chimpsky is a super-intelligent ape living in Ludi Wittgenstein block, and he sees it as his mission to protect his fellow residents from the various threats and problems that can befall a citizen of the Big Meg. He does all this secretly, allowing others to take the credit — but now he’s encountered a rogue droid that’s perfecting a truth gas that plans to unleash it on the city…
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 she’s recovering, having aided the rebels in destroying Sepsis infrastructure, striking them a major blow…
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 city-world, 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 well-to-do citizen Benu something strange is going on in her head…
NU-EARTH WAR TALES // NU ROMANCE by Gordon Rennie (Writer) Gary Welsh (Artist) Gary Caldwell (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. As he, together with biochips Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, search for the traitor that sold them out, stories swirl around the characters involved in this conflict…
• Available in print from: 2000AD webshop, book stores, Amazon, and comic book shops via Diamond | Available in digital from: 2000AD webshop, 2000 AD app for Apple & Android
Judge Dredd Megazine 479
UK and DIGITAL: 16 April £6.99
NORTH AMERICA: 19 May $12.99
DIAMOND: FEB251947
COVER: Toby Willsmer
In this issue:
JUDGE DREDD // OLD MAN JOE by Ken Niemand (Writer) Dan Cornwell (Artist) Matt Soffe (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2147 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 250 million citizens. Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! Now, an older version of Dredd from a parallel dimension has found himself in the Big Meg…
DEATH CAP // FRONTIER JUSTICE by T.C. Eglington (Writer) Boo Cook (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
The Cursed Earth, 2144 AD. This blasted, irradiated wilderness covers much of what’s left of post-apocalyptic twenty-second century North America. Here, mutants scratch out a meagre existence in ramshackle townships. Former Judge Anita Goya’s family were massacred, and she
became infected with a virulent fungus. Now she’s being hunted by Justice Dept…
CADET DREDD // THE HAUNTING OF ISO-BLOCK 8 by Paul Starkey (Writer) Nick Brokenshire (Artist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)
Mega-City One, 2076 AD. Overcrowding in the metropolis is rife, unemployment is at ninety per cent, boredom is universal and crime is rampant. Only the Judges can stop total anarchy. Cadet Joe Dredd – together with his clone-brother Rico – is a rising star in Justice Department, and will one day be its finest officer. Make no mistake, he is the Law!
ATOMFALL by Jonathan Howard (Writer) Anthony Williams (Artist) Steve Canon (Colourist) Rob Steen (Letterer)
Continuing the Megazine’s exclusive tie-in with Rebellion’s new game!
ARMITAGE // MURDER. SETTING: AUTOMATED, EXPRESS by Liam Johnson (Writer) Warren Pleece (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
Brit-Cit, 2147 AD. While the UK equivalent of Mega-City One has its own Judge force, it’s retained its CID plainclothes division, of which Detective Inspector Armitage was one of its veteran officers. Now a consultant, Armitage hasn’t lost his surly demeanour and distrust of authority – and now he’s looking into another of his cold cases…
ROK OF THE REDS by John Wagner & Alan Grant (Writer) Dan Cornwell (Artist) Abby Bulmer (Colourist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)
How to deal with a nosey copper… although that’s the least of ROK’s problems!
BARREL & HAMMER // BOOTY CALL by David Barnett (Writer) Luke Horsman (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
NEW STORY! Deep in the void of space, the far future. The buccaneers that patrol the galaxy on the hunt for ships to plunder have a strict hierarchy that they have to adhere to – certain targets are only available to those that belong to the Space Pirates Guild, and to break that ruling can land you in a whole heap of trouble…
• Available in print from: 2000AD webshop, book stores, Amazon, and comic book stores via Diamond | Available in digital from: 2000AD webshop, 2000 AD app for Apple & Android
Coming Soon…
Maroc the Mighty
Art by Don Lawrence
Release Date: Scheduled for Wednesday 21st May 2025
Paperback | 96 Pages
ISBN: 978-1837865178
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• Webshop Hardback Exclusive Cover Available
Originally serialised in Lion, Maroc the Mighty is a action-packed adventure story about a thirteenth century superhero! A knight fighting in The Crusades, John Maroc comes into possession of the ‘The Hand of Zar’ – a magic amulet which grants its wearer superhuman strength, but only when bathed in the sun’s rays.
This medieval superhero strip was illustrated by Don Lawrence and published in Lion between his work on the “Karl the Viking” series, previously released by Rebellion, and his beautifully-painted work on the series “The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire“.
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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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