End-of-year highlights from Rebellion’s 2023 comics, fiction & games
22nd December 2023
It’s been another zarjaz year of new releases for Rebellion Publishing, from 2000 AD and Treasury of British Comics collections to the best in genre fiction from Solaris and brand new board games from Rebellion Unplugged.
We’ve selected some of our highlights this year, including bestsellers and team favourites – check them out and discover whole new universes of excitement!
Click on these links to discover…
>> The year’s best 2000 AD books
>> The year’s best Treasury of British Comics collections
>> The year’s best Rebellion fiction
>> The year’s best Rebellion board games
2000 AD books
Judge Dredd: The Darkest Judge
Over thirty years since the end of the world was averted by Judge Dredd and mutant bounty hunter Johnny Alpha in 1994’s ‘Judgement Day‘, The Darkest Judge is a blistering ‘what if?’ that sees the myriad of worlds from 2000 AD’s 45 years converge in an explosion of death and destruction!
Published in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine last summer, this self-contained, multi-part epic features work by Ken Niemand, Henry Flint, Mike Carroll, Gary Erskine, Emma Beeby, Neil Googe, Karl Stock, Kieran McKeown, Dan Abnett, Russell M. Olson, Ian Edginton, D’Israeli, Arthur Wyatt, Toby Willsmer, Rob Williams, Staz Johnson, Leigh Gallagher, Kei Zama, Honor Vincent, Boo Cook, Gordon Rennie, Dan Cornwell, James Peaty, Nicolo Assirelli, Liam Johnson, Conor Boyle, and Steve Yeowell!
The Ballad of Halo Jones full colour omnibus
With a brand new introduction by Kieron Gillen (The Wicked & The Divine), lovingly restored and beautifully coloured art, original scripts, and bonus content, this is the ultimate edition of Moore and Ian Gibson’s feminist space opera The The Ballad of Halo Jones.
Radical and revolutionary, this ground-breaking and critically-lauded feminist space opera from Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) and Gibson (Star Wars) is a true science fiction classic, and is now brought together in a full colour, hardcover omnibus for the first time.
Nemesis the Warlock Definitive Collection Vol.1
The first volume in a brand new series of collections of Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s seminal sci-fi epic, Nemesis the Warlock.
The five-volume Nemesis the Warlock Definitive Edition collection presents the landmark series by Mills (Marshal Law) and O’Neill (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) in a comprehensive collection of the complete storyline in order. The first 176-page volume is published in large-format size measuring 307 x 231mm.
Long regarded as one of the crown-jewel epics from the pages of 2000 AD, this new series of paperbacks of Nemesis the Warlock is being published alongside gorgeous hardcover editions with stunningly designed new covers – available only from the 2000 AD webshop – that present O’Neill’s groundbreaking and mind-bending art in all its glory.
Nemesis the Warlock Definitive Collection Vol.1
An incredible insight into the art of one of comics’ most unique talents – The 2000 AD Art of Kevin O’Neill: Apex Edition is out now.
The contents of this 160-page collection were compiled by O’Neill from his own archive, working closely with Rebellion’s editorial and reprographics teams to curate this unmissable testament to his remarkable career.
Presented in a deluxe, over-sized facsimile edition, the Kevin O’Neill Apex Edition will reproduce these stunning pages at their actual size – from covers to stunning double-page spreads, from just some of his famous work on Nemesis the Warlock to his final sequential work on Bonjo From Beyond The Stars, giving fans the chance to see these pages in all their glory.
I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future
He is the law – and you better believe it! The new brand new book that examines how Judge Dredd predicted the future is out now!
Judge, jury and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and launching in the pages of 2000 AD in 1977.
But what began as a sci-fi action comic quickly evolved into a searing satire on hardline, militarised policing and ‘law and order’ politics, its endless inventiveness and ironic humour acting as a prophetic warning about our world today. Blending comic book history with contemporary radical theories on policing, I Am The Law takes key Dredd stories from the last 45 years and demonstrates how they provide a unique wake up call about our gradual, and not so gradual, slide towards authoritarian policing.
Treasury of British Comics collections
A Very British Affair
Curated by Eisner-nominated historian and artist David Roach, A Very British Affair charts the stratospheric rise of romance comics in postwar Britain with a selection of the greatest romance comics ever printed in the UK. Featuring an eclectic mix of artists from Spain, Italy, and the UK, this collection unearths the sensual art and emotional writing which delighted generations of comics readers.
Featuring over 50 comics stories – many of which have never been reprinted before – this lavish book is a stunning tribute to the often uncredited creators who crafted an industry of love. Roach shines a spotlight on the Spanish and Italian artists who dominated romance, as well as the genre’s forgotten female contributors, like Jenny Butterworth, Pat Tourett and Diane Gabbott.
Misty: 45 Years of Fear
Misty: 45 Years of Fear is a hardcover collection bringing together some of the best stories of the classic British girls’ horror comic.
In 1978 British comics were changed forever with the release of Misty, the classic cult horror comic for girls. Masterminded by Pat Mills, the creator of 2000 AD, this weekly comic featured the best comics talent working on haunting, terrifying tales. This hardcover features work by John Armstrong, Brian Delaney, Mario Capaldi, Jordi Badia Romero, Shirley Bellwood, and Jaume Rumeu Perera.
The Best of Jane Bond
It’s the Swingin’ Sixties, and there’s only one spy standing between crime and world domination – and her name is Jane Bond!
Jane Bond, Secret Agent, is the finest spy on Worldpol’s roster. Armed with her wits, her fists, and an array of futuristic tech, she is our last line of defense against a international criminal underworld. From fighting a school of super villainesses, to foiling plans to melt to Artic ice caps, to escaping the clutches of a giant mechanical lobster, there’s no shortage of dangerous missions Jane must undertake for Queen and Country!
This collection of campy espionage adventure from 1960s girls’ comic Princess Tina is lovingly restored to its full glory, and is lavishly illustrated throughout by Mike Hubbard, the artist of iconic Daily Mirror strip Jane.
Treasury of British Comics Annual 2024
Packed with lovingly-restored classics and brand new high-octane stories, the Treasury of British Comics Annual 2024 is a gorgeous hardcover collecting early work by industry greats such as Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke), Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) and Steve Dillon (Preacher) along with gems like ‘Moon Madness’ by Alf Wallace and artist Brian Lewis, Leo Baxendale’s ‘Grimly Feendish’ and Ken Reid on ‘Frankie Stein’, as well as new comics such as the comics head-to-head ‘The Spider vs The Leopard from Lime Street’ by Simon Furman (Transformers), David Roach (Anderson, Psi Division) and Mike Collins (Doctor Who), fantasy questing in Black Beth by Alec Worley (Durham Red) and DaNi (Coffin Bound) and the gory action of Gustav of the Bearmacht by Kek-W (The Order) and Staz Johnson (Dark Legacies).
Rebellion fiction
The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan
Two worlds bound by a pomegranate gate
Toba Peres can speak but she can’t shout; she can walk but she can’t run; and she can write in five languages… with both hands at the same time.
Naftaly Cresques dreams every night of an orange-eyed stranger; when awake, he sees things that aren’t real; and he carries a book he can never lose and never read.
When the Queen of Sefarad orders all the nation’s Jews to leave or convert, Toba and Naftaly are forced to flee, but an unlucky encounter leaves them both separated from their caravan. Lost in the wilderness, Toba follows an orange-eyed stranger through a mysterious gate in a pomegranate grove, leaving Naftaly behind.
With a single step, Toba enters an ancient world that mirrors her own. There, she finds that her fate—and Naftaly’s—are bound to an ancient conflict threatening to destroy both realms.
The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu
Hayden Lichfield’s life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the process, he uncovers a recording his father made in the days before his death, and a dying wish: Avenge me…
With the lab on lockdown, Hayden is trapped with four other people—his uncle Charles, lab technician Gabriel Rasmussen, research intern Felicia Xia and their head of security, Felicia’s father Paul—one of whom must be the killer. His only sure ally is the lab’s resident artificial intelligence, Horatio, who has been his dear friend and companion since its creation. With his world collapsing, Hayden must navigate the building’s secrets, uncover his father’s lies, and push the boundaries of sanity in the pursuit of revenge.
Nordic Visions edited by Margret Helgadottir
A Unique Speculative Fiction Collection From The Nordic Countries
Storytelling has been a major force in the Nordic countries for thousands of years, renowned for its particular sense of dark humour, featuring pacts with nature and a view of the worlds you seldom find in other places.
Perhaps it is the freezing cold winter? The closeness to the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic? Maybe it’s the huge ancient forests…
Featuring 16 stories from the best contemporary speculative authors from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and The Faroe Islands, including John Ajvide Lindqvist, Hannu Rajaniemi, Tor Åge Bringsværd and more, many of which are appearing in English for the very first time.
Gothikana by RuNyx
“If this is madness,” she whispered almost against his lips, “drown me in it.”
Corvina Clemm is a woman with secrets. The last thing she expects to receive is an admission letter from the University of Verenmore, a place just as secretive.
A castle atop a mountain, Verenmore is steeped in shadows, deceit and death, a place where students have been disappearing every five years for over a century. As Corvina becomes caught up in unravelling the clues to solve the mystery, her path collides with Vad Deverell, her enigmatic professor.
Vad, too, is a man with secrets. And he cannot allow Corvina to get close enough to discover what he hides. But whenever she is near, his heart and soul yearn to possess her.
As Corvina and Vad become more and more entangled, their passion for each other could be the very thing to solve
Rebellion Unplugged games
Joyride: Survival of the Fastest
Fast-paced and action-packed, JOYRIDE is a racing game system where skilful driving triumphs over pure speed. Hit the track with up to four players, where spectacular collisions, wacky items, and dramatic driver abilities bring an unrivalled level of player interaction to every race. Brought to life through the vivid comic art of Pye Parr, this highly customisable game puts you in the driver’s seat of the ultimate frenzied racing experience. Buckle up for JOYRIDE!
Adventure Presents: Tiny in the Tower
You are a group of courageous adventurers who have been called upon to investigate the disappearance of a local wizard, the great and powerful Zura Zathra.
Zura hasn’t returned from her tower for the last two days, and there’s enough volatile and dangerous magic at play to make the tower too perilous for anyone other than a group of brave adventurers to explore. Just be sure to watch your footing – who knows what strange concoctions Zura may have left lying around!
Written by Rose Whittaker and illustrated by JJ Ariosa, Tiny in the Tower is a cosy fantasy RPG sure to enchant experienced players and new adventurers alike. Everything you need to run this stand-alone fantasy RPG is included within a single magazine!