Everything starts ramping up this week in 2000AD 2419, on sale now, especially in “Hawk the Slayer”, as his hunt for Morgaine intensifies! Elsewhere, Captain Constanta finds out that the term “ghost town” is literal in “Fiends of the Western Front”, while Judge Dredd finds himself falling deeper into “The Shift”!
But wait! There’s more! Because nestling in this Prog’s Nerve Centre is a tantalising tease for “Judge Dredd versus Strontium Dog”, by Garth Ennis and Henry Flint… but we’ll have to wait a few months for that, as it won’t drop until Prog 2437.
Tharg is a fiend! Surely the wait will be agonising…
2000AD Prog 2419
UK and DIGITAL: 12th February £3.80
NORTH AMERICA: 5th March $24.99 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: NOV241785
COVER: Cliff Robinson and Dylan Teague
In this issue:
JUDGE DREDD // THE SHIFT by Ken Niemand (Writer) Nick Percival (Artist) 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. 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, Dredd’s looking for a missing student, who was researching a mythical elevator ritual…
FULL TILT BOOGIE // BOOK THREE by Alex de Campi (Writer) Eduardo Ocana (Artist) Giulia Brusco (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
Tee — together with her grandmother and cat — is a bounty hunter/hired help, operating from her spaceship the FULL TILT BOOGIE. Tee was paid to rescue the Luxine Prince Ifan from his debtors’ prison. In the process, she encountered a resurrected Anubite warrior, a member of the enemy race with whom the Luxine Empire battled. Now, Tee and her allies must take on the Empress herself, who is once again going to war…
HAWK THE SLAYER // THE LAST OF HER KIND by Alec Worley (Writer) Simon Coleby (Artist) Gary Caldwell (Colourist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)
It is a time of legend. HAWK THE SLAYER defeated his evil brother Voltan some years before, and now he and his compatriots are keeping an eye on the malign spread of the Black Wizards’ influence. Rumours of dark magic abound, and armed with his fabled Mindsword, Hawk must keep the peace. Now he’s entered the city of Valensfort, ruled by the Lady Morlaine, who’s using necromancy to maintain order…
PORTALS & BLACK GOO // A QUORUM OF FIENDS by John Tomlinson (Writer) Eoin Coveney (Artist) Jim Boswell (Colourist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)
In the near future, the job market is more perilous than ever and Generation Y must take on any task to make ends meet. Kroy Plemons was a rider for Devouroo — a food-delivery service for creatures of myth and legend. Devouroo policy is ruthless and Kroy has in the past barely escaped with his life after being given the night shift, when London’s most lethal denizens are hungry. Indeed, there’s unrest across the capital…
FIENDS OF THE WESTERN FRONT // WILDE WEST by Ian Edginton (Writer) Tiernen Trevallion (Artist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)
In 1980, the diary of German soldier Hans Schmitt was discovered in Berlin, detailing events that occurred in 1941, when he encountered the terrifying vampire Captain Constanta and his Romanian platoon. But Schmitt was not the first person to meet Constanta — the vampire has popped up throughout history, in various countries and under various guises, and now he’s in North America in the late nineteenth century…
• 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
Also on Sale This Week…
Cover Story: The 2000AD Design Art of Robin Smith
By Karl Stock
Paperback – out Wednesday 12th February 2025 | 176 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1837864355
The early 1980s saw 2000AD hit its golden era. With Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper, Sláine and more firing on all cylinders it became the UK’s most exciting and innovative comic. Its covers played no small part in its appeal, and those covers were the brainchild of Robin Smith whose job was to lay out a cover design to pass to an artist who would transform it into the finished product.
This collection of some of Smith’s cover layouts shows just how integral his ideas were to some of 2000AD’s most famous and revered covers, and it’s a fascinating glimpse into the creative process.
Featuring covers by some of the galaxy’s greatest artists, including Brian Bolland (The Killing Joke), Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Carlos Ezquerra (Judge Dredd), Kevin O’Neill (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Mick McMahon (Judge Dredd), Ian Gibson (The Ballad of Halo Jones), Alan Davis (Captain Britain), Steve Dillon (Preacher), Cam Kennedy (Rogue Trooper), Massimo Belardinelli (Ace Trucking Co.), Eric Bradbury (Mytek The Mighty), Brett Ewins (Johnny Nemo), Glenn Fabry (Sláine), Ian Kennedy (Dan Dare), José Ortiz (The Thirteenth Floor), Cliff Robinson (Judge Dredd), Kim Raymond (Roy of the Rovers), Ron Smith (Judge Dredd), Brendan McCarthy (Rogan Gosh) and Bryan Talbot (Nemesis the Warlock).
The Soccer Diaries: Rocky Takes the Lead
By Tom Palmer
Scheduled for 13th February 2025
Paperback, 90 Pages
ISBN: 978-1837864140
• Check out our Roy of the Rovers book checklist
Rocky Race loves football so much that she moved to the United States to train at a high school with an amazing soccer team. She’s made new friends, even won a state championship! Now her best friends from her home in Melchester, England, have come to play a match against her new American team. Rocky is so excited!
But when her friends arrive, not everyone gets along. Her American friends don’t understand why the British call it ‘football’, and her British friends don’t understand why the Americans call it ‘soccer’. And with the match the next day, Rocky feels pressured to pick a side. But Rocky has a plan.
Will Rocky be able to take the lead and show everyone that they’re all united by their love for the game?
Coming Soon…
Roxy Romance Reborn
By Mags Visaggio, Alex De Campi, Nadia Shammas, Sarah Gordon (Writers) | Eric Henderson, Sterric, Jaws Stone (Artists) VV Glass (Artist/Cover Artist)
ISBN: 978-1837862122 Out: 19th February 2025
Diamond Catalogue Order DEC241828
Hannah Templer Roxy returns with an 80-page anthology that brings romance comics into the 21st century! The glorious Getaway Girls take on a daring heist that leads to them stealing hearts in a feisty new story by Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson; a fateful romance stretches across history in Mags Visaggio and Sterric’s time-bending Banmoor; and Nadia Shammas and Jaws Stone present a tale of unbound love in the future in What I Was Made For. Romance comics are re-invented in this packed new anthology!
REBELLION RELEASES – CURRENT CHECKLISTS
• Check out our guide to 2000AD and Treasury of British Comics releases for 2025
• Roy of the Rovers – Rebellion Books Check List
PREVIOUS YEARS CHECKLISTS
• Check out our guide to 2000AD and Treasury of British Comics releases for 2024
• Check out our guide to 2000AD and Treasury of British Comics releases for 2023
• Check out our guide to 2000AD and Treasury of British Comics releases for 2022
- About the Author
- Latest Posts
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.
Categories: 2000AD, British Comics, British Comics - Current British Publishers, Comic Previews, Comics, downthetubes Comics News, downthetubes News
“Nu Earth War Tales” launches in 2000AD, “Atomfall” game gets comic prequel 
The Prog, It is A-Changing! (Line-up, that is) 
New Judge Dredd thriller, “The Shift”, starts in this week’s 2000AD 
Rebellion Releases: 2000AD cranks up the thrillpower as storylines conclude ahead of Christmas special