Who is Poster Girl? The hunt is on in 2000AD!

By John Freeman on April 30, 2026 • ( 0 )

This week’s 2000AD, Prog 2480, with a cover by Joe Currie, on sale now, offers a standalone Judge Dredd story from Ken Niemand and Nick Dyer, which follows the exploits of – bear with us here – a taxidermied body which may be the key witness to a crime committed in Mega-City One. How will Dredd be able to team up with this new dead ally?

Elsewhere, theres the start of a new three-part “3riller” story from the team of Paul Starkey and Paul Marshall, which revolves around the search for the mysterious Poster Girl!

All this and the latest instalments of “Brink”, “Silver” and “Helium”? The Mighty Tharg blesses us once more!

2000AD Prog 2480
UK and DIGITAL: 29 April £3.99
COVER: Joe Currie

In This Issue:

JUDGE DREDD // SILENT WITNESS
By Ken Niemand (Writer) Nick Dyer (Artist) John Charles (c) 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, with the toxic Black Atlantic to the east, and the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west. 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!

HELIUM // RED OCTOBER
By Ian Edginton (Writer) D’Israeli (Artist) Annie Parkhouse (Letterer)

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eightyfive per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged from a city below the belt, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge was tasked with protecting him, but it came at great cost…

SILVER // MALIGNANT
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, having aided the rebels in destroying Sepsis infrastructure, has just been instrumental in blowing up a nuclear facility…

BRINK // THE CALL OF THE VOID
By Dan Abnett (Writer) INJ Culbard (Artist) Simon Bowland (Letterer)

The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and Bridget Kurtis of the Habitat Security Division is investigating their reach…

THARG’S 3RILLERS // POSTER GIRL
By Paul Starkey (Writer) Paul Marshall (Artist) Dylan Teague (Colourist) Rob Steen (Letterer)

Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of supercharged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! In the near future, the Avalon Project created supersoldiers to fight wars and protect the UK. Years later, these experimental troops are all dead, their identities mostly forgotten, but one group of journalists think they can track down a survivor…

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John Freeman

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.