There’s only one Rebellion release this week, seeing the publisher’s 2023 releases out in style – Judge Dredd Megazine 463, with a snowy scene from Mike Perkins on the cover. But if you hav already picked up the bumper 2000AD Christmas Special (Prog 2362), it’s still on news stand shelves, and it’s a great read!

Judge Dredd Megazine 463

JUDGE DREDD: DOLLMAN’S YULETIDE MASSACRE by Ken Niemand (Writer) Paul Marshall (Artist) Quinton Winter (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-
apocalyptic North America is home to over 200 million citizens, with the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law!

SPECTOR: INCORRUPTIBLE by John Wagner (Writer) Dan Cornwell (Artist) Dylan Teague (Colourist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)

In a near-future US city, corruption within the branches of government has reached unsustainable levels. City Hall is rotten to the core, and the police force is equally on the take. To that end, Spector is created, a robot detective – beyond bribery and untainted by potential malfeasance – charged with rooting out criminal elements. Now he’s running to be elected as the new D.A….

DEMARCO, PI: A PICTURE PAINTS by Laura Bailey (Writer) Rob Richardson (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Galen DeMarco was once a Judge, a rising star operating out of the corrupt dumping ground that was Sector House 301. But she quit the force after one romantic indiscretion too many and set herself up as a private investigator. Now, she’s been hired to look into thefts from a warehouse, but can’t get a fix on the suspects’ identities…

LAWLESS: MOST WANTED by Dan Abnett (Writer) Phil Winslade (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

Colonial Marshal Metta Lawson was appointed to the frontier township of Badrock on the planet 43 Rega, intent on stamping her authority on the colony. But in doing so, Lawson made many enemies, including Munce, Inc., the mega-corporation that funded Badrock. Now, she’s revealed that she’s been working undercover, and is leading a raid against Fugly’s outfit…

This issue also includes a interviews with British comics artist and writer Mike Collins, talking 2000AD, Doctor Who and much more, and comic artist Gary Welsh, comedian and recent “Rogue Trooper” writer Rufus Hound, plus a feature on illustrator and comic artist Oliver Frey, who, sadly, died in 2022.

Plus, from the Rebellion Archives…

THE TRIGAN EMPIRE by Mike Butterworth (Writer) Oliver Frey (Artist)

JOHNNY RED by Garth Ennis (Writer) Keith Burns (Artist) Jason Wordie (Colourist) Rob Steen (Letterer)

JUDGE DREDD: DEVIATIONS by John McCrea (Writer & Artist) Mike Spicer (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

• Available in print from: newsagents and comic book stores via Diamond Available in digital from: 2000AD webshop, 2000AD apps for Apple and Android

Still On Sale: 2000AD Prog 2362

Inclued in this special issue are a selection of self-contained one-off stories starring some of the Galaxy’s Greatest’s most iconic characters. Judge Dredd’s here of course (in a manner of speaking) and visited by the ghosts of his past, courtesy of Ken Niemand and Tom Foster, plus there’s new adventures for Rogue Trooper in Runaway by the Wessel and Coleby droids, Anderson, Psi-Division in The Game Within by Torunn Grobekk and Kieran McKeown, and Strontium Dog in Alpha by Rufus Hound and Dan Cornwell, a seasonal Fiends of the Eastern Front tale by the Edginton and Trevallion droids, and the latest chapter of Dan Abentt and Tazio Bettin’s Azimuth.

In this issue:
JUDGE DREDD // A MATTER OF LIFE & DREDD by Ken Niemand (Writer) Tom Foster (Artist) Gary Caldwell (Colourist ) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
AZIMUTH // SNOW ZONE by Dan Abnett (Writer) Tazio Bettin (Artist) Matt Soffe (Colourist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)
ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION // THE GAME WITHIN by Torunn Grønbekk (Writer) Kieran McKeown (Artist) Pippa Bowland (Colourist) Rob Steen (Letterer)
FIENDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT // SILENT KNIGHT by Ian Edginton (Writer) Tiernen Trevallion (Artist) Jim Capbell (Letterer)
STRONTIUM DOG // ALPHA by Rufus Hound (Writer) Dan Cornwell (Artist) Dylan Teague (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
ROGUE TROOPER // RUNAWAY by Geoffrey D. Wessel (Writer) Simon Coleby (Artist) F Segala & S. Del Grosso (Colourist) Rob Steen (Letterer)
HELIUM // SCORCHED EARTH by Ian Edginton (Writer) D’Israeli (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
ENEMY EARTH // BOOK THREE by Cavan Scott (Writer) Luke Horsman (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
THE DEVIL’S RAILROAD by Peter Milligan (Writer) Rufus Dayglo (Artist) Jose Villarrubia (Colourist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)
FERAL & FOE // BAD GODESBERG by Dan Abnett (Writer) Richard Elson (Artist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)

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

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “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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