OUT NOW: Judge Dredd Megazine 427

More thrills abound in Meg 427, with more Dredd, The Returners, Deliverance, Megatropolis and Dreadnoughts!

Judge Dredd Megazine 427 is out now!

Despite the tinsel and jollities associated with the festive season (and after a dumpster-fire of a year we could all frankly do with some seasonal cheer), there’s also a tradition for Christmas ghost stories that no doubt has a lot to do with Charles Dickens.

If you fancy some chills to go with your eggnog, make sure you check out the Misty Winter Special, on sale now, which features two unsettling tales ideal for reading on dark evenings – Karl Stock catches up with the creators in this issue as they reveal more about their stories.

Indeed pair it with this month’s The Alienist mini-trade and you can have your own Xmas horror double bill!

Elsewhere, there’s the latest instalments of Dreadnoughts, Megatropolis, The Returners and Deliverance, plus a festive Judge Dredd one-off and a chat with artist Wayne Reynolds.

Stick with the Meg into 2021 as we’ve got some stunning stories coming your way including the returns of both Devlin Waugh by Aleš Kot and Mike Dowling, and Angelic by Gordon Rennie and Lee Carter. Happy new year, citizens, and stay safe!

Judge Dredd Megazine 427 is now available from all good comic book shops and newsagents – as well as 2000 AD‘s webshop and apps.

Don’t forget that if you buy this issue in print direct from our webshop within the next month you’ll not pay a penny in postage fees in the UK! And if you subscribe to the Megazine you’ll get a FREE print of each month’s cover with each issue!


Cover by Nick Percival

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Script: Rory McConville / Art: Augustin Padilla / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // He Sees You When You’re Sleeping

Mega-City One, 2141 AD. Home to over 130 million citizens, this urban hell is situated
along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated wasteland
known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal and
crime is rampant. Tensions rest on a knife-edge and only the zero-tolerance Judges can
stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!


Script: Kenneth Niemand / Art: Dave Taylor / Letters: Jim Campbell

MEGATROPOLIS // Part Four!

Imagine a Mega-City One from an alternate timeline – less the gleaming metropolis of the
twenty-second century but instead an art deco retro-future variation. Joe Rico is the one good
cop in a police department riddled with corruption, and he’s just been joined by a new partner in
the shape of Amy Jara. Together they’re investigating a series of vigilante killings…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: John Higgins / Colours: Sally Hurst / Letters: Simon Bowland

DREADNOUGHTS // Breaking Ground // Part Four!

USA, 2035 AD. The new Justice Department is still in its early years, with Judges working
alongside the police. It’s proving an explosive transition, with many citizens – and more than
a few cops – unhappy with these helmeted officers taking to the streets. Judge Veranda Glover
is a recent transfer to Boulder, Colorado, and now she’s leading a kidnapping investigation…

Script: Si Spencer / Art: Nicolo Assirelli / Colours: Eva de la Cruz / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE RETURNERS // HEARTSWOOD // Part Four!

Brit-Cit, 2142 AD. Four different people in Ciudad Barranquilla – academic Barrancourt, exJudge Mineiro, gangbanger Correira, and transgender street-walker Chavez – all awoke from near-death experiences, and as a consequence encounter supernatural entities. Now, they’ve fled to Brit-Cit, hoping to find a way to escape their curse, and entered a strange house…

Script: David Hine / Art: Nick Percival / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

DARK JUDGES // DELIVERANCE // Part Four!

After the events on the Mayflower, the cargo ship the Solips discovered the Dark Judges
Death, Fire and Mortis floating in space, and the alien superfiends murdered the crew. They
subsequently also decimated a colony, Dominion, before Mega-City marines destroyed the
planet. Death was trapped in a Boing® bubble, and has been recovered by the Mortarian cult…