Jake Lynch pays tribute to a 2000AD legend with this week’s issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, Prog 2429, on sale now, as his cover homages the late Steve Dillon‘s classic work for the Galaxy’s Greatest.
The thrills inside are just as explosive, with the latest instalments of “Judge Dredd”, “Chimpsky’s Law”, “Ghosted” and “Silver”. Plus, to say Dan Cornwell is going all-out on the latest Dredd adventure is an understatement…
Those four stories are joined by a new Thrill, as Rogue Trooper returns to the Prog once more for a new eight-part story “Tides of War” by Andi Ewington and Paul Marshall – and there’s a tantalising tease for a new thrill, “Discarded”, by Peter Milligan and Kieran McKeown, coming soon, too..
Who packs more into thirty pages than Tharg the Mighty? It’s fit to burst!
Also out this week is a new collection, Spector, John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s high-velocity tale of an android cop programmed to clean up a corrupt city. Sadly, this would prove to be Carlos’s final comics work, completing the first two episodes before he passed away in 2018. Dan Cornwell ably stepped in to complete the series, and now you can read the whole story in one volume — a chance to appreciate the enduring skill and nuance of a legendary comics creator.
If you’re in London this weekend, why not celebrate the release of this new collection and pop along to Gosh! on Saturday (26th April), where three titanic creator droids – Dan Cornwall, Mick McMahon and John Wagner will be signing on from 1-2pm. Two brand new 2000AD releases are tge focus of the special event, Sláine: The Definitive Edition and Spector: Incorruptible. Full details here
2000AD Prog 2429
UK and DIGITAL: 23rd April £3.80
NORTH AMERICA: 4th June $36.00 (Prog Pack)
DIAMOND: FEB251945
COVER: Jake Lynch
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, having aided the rebels in destroying Sepsis infrastructure, is being given a new mission to undertake…
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…
ROGUE TROOPER // TIDES OF WAR by Andi Ewington (Writer) Paul Marshall (Artist) Pippa Bowland (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. He and his biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman have gone AWOL and are
searching for the Traitor General that sold out Rogue’s comrades…
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…
Strontium Dog: Search and Destroy Volume 4
CREATIVE TEAM: John Wagner, Alan Grant, Chris Lowder (Writers) Carlos Ezquerra, Robin Smith (Artists) Jack Potter, Steve Potter (Letterer)
RELEASE DATE: April 23rd
HARDBACK, 192 pages
PRICE: £24.99
Warped by radioactive Strontium-90 fallout after the Great Nuclear War, mutants like Johnny Alpha only have one career option available: a hard life as galactic bounty hunters known by the ‘norms’ as ‘Strontium Dogs’. The Strontium Dogs patrol the galaxy, bringing trouble to the troublemakers.
This collection sees Johnny and his brother-for-life Wulf Sternhammer return to the Gronk homeworld seeking justice against a band of violent trappers – unaware that they’re walking into a trap…
Alongside “The Kid Knee Caper” and “The Killing”, this volume also contains “The Moses Incident”, in which a routine bounty takes a dark and sinister turn which changes Johnny’s world forever and sends him into the darkest parts of the galaxy. Will he be able to escape The Island of the Living Dead?
Essential Judge Dredd: Tour of Duty – Book 3
CREATIVE TEAM: John Wagner, Robbie Morrison, Al Ewing, Rob Williams (Writers) Carlos Ezquerra, Kev Walker, Patrick Goddard, John Higgins, John Haward, Mike Collins, Guy Davis, Colin MacNeil (Artists) Fiona Stephenson, Chris Blythe, John Higgins, Sally Jane Hurst, Dave Stewart (Colourists) Annie Parkhouse, Ellie de Ville (Letterer)
RELEASE DATE: April 23rd
PAPERBACK, 208 pages
PRICE: £24.99
The essential Judge Dredd graphic novel series – this is the ultimate introduction to the Lawman of the Future! And this is the grand finale to the epic Tour of Duty storyline!
During Origins, Dredd discovered a mutant branch of his own bloodline. For the lawman, it brought home the injustice inherent in Justice Department’s Mutant policies. He believes that those unfortunates warped by the legacy of the Atomic Wars deserve to be treated with more humanity, as they are currently forbidden entry into Mega-City One, and exiled to facilities and townships in the irradiated wasteland.
But Dredd’s support of Mutants may see him join them to live out the rest of his life in The Cursed Earth…
Spector: Incorruptible
CREATIVE TEAM: John Wagner (Writer) Carlos Ezquerra, Dan Cornwell (Artists) Dylan Teague (Colourist) Jim Campbell (Letterer)
RELEASE DATE: April 23rd
PAPERBACK, 112 pages
PRICE: £18.99
Just a few years into our future, faced with unsustainable levels of corruption within the branches of city government, and a police force that is equally rotten, Spector is created. A robot detective, untainted by corruption and beyond bribery, Spector is charged with cleaning up the city. But it is an uphill battle, as many people currently in positions of power want the robot to fail.
Written by John Wagner (A History of Violence), this standalone graphic novel represents the final work of Carlos Ezquerra (Judge Dredd), with Dan Cornwell (Rok of the Reds) completing the story.
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, Events
Trouble Ahead for Judge Dredd, in this week’s 2000AD (when isn’t there?)