Comics

OUT NOW: Judge Dredd Megazine 390

15th November 2017

Judge Dredd Megazine #390 hits shelves with another packed issue of Dredd-tastic treats!

Don’t forget that if you buy this issue in print direct from 2000 AD‘s webshop within the next month you’ll not pay a penny in postage fees!

Cass Anderson’s long-running battle with the agents of the dragon reaches its climax this issue as Alan Grant and Paul Marshall present the final episode of NWO – look out for more adventures with the Psi-Judge over in 2000 AD in early 2018 as Emma Beeby scripts a new case, Undertow, featuring the art of David Roach, Mike Collins and Cliff Robinson.

Beeby also makes an appearance in one of this month’s articles as Karl Stock talks to some of the creative talent behind a pair of exciting new imprints coming through Dark Horse and IDW – Berger Books and Black Crown, two projects helmed by former Vertigo editors Kargen Berger and Shelly Bond. Given Vertigo’s reputation for hiring a good proportion of 2000 AD writers and artists, it comes as no surprise that Squaxx will find a few familiar faces amongst the launch line-up of these two lines.

Elsewhere, there’s a new Dredd thriller, Contrabandits, from Rory McConville and Leigh Gallagher, plus more high-octane action in Devlin Waugh, Lawless, and the penultimate part of Dominion, plus with Titan’s recently launched Dan Dare series we take a look at the various iterations of this enduring SF icon. Enjoy, creeps!

Judge Dredd Megazine #390 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps!

JUDGE DREDD: CONTRABANDITS
by Rory McConville (w) Leigh Gallagher (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
Mega-City One, 2139 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 72 million citizens. Unemployment is near-total, boredom universal, and crime is rampant. Tensions run a constant knife-edge, and stemming the chaos are the Judges, empowered to dispense instant justice. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law!

ANDERSON: NWO
by Alan Grant (w) Paul Marshall (a) Dylan Teague (c) Simon Boland (l)
Mega-City One, 2139 AD. Psi-Div is a section that specialises in Judges with accentuated psychic talents – from precognition to exorcism, it is at the forefront in the war against supernatural crime. Cass Anderson is Justice Dept’s top telepath, and following a discovery of a secret society living in the Cursed Earth, the agents of the Dragon are making their move…

DEVLIN WAUGH: BLOOD DEBT
by Rory McConville (w) Mike Dowling (a) Simon Bowland (l)
Brit-Cit, 2139 AD. A freelance paranormal troubleshooter and exorcist for the Vatican, Devlin Waugh is the world’s foremost supernatural investigator. Despite becoming a vampire after getting bitten tackling an outbreak in an underwater prison, Devlin seeks out the finer things in life – but recently he’s been receiving messages about his missing brother Freddy…

LAWLESS: BREAKING BADROCK
by Dan Abnett (w) Phil Winslade (a) Ellie De Ville (l)
Colonial Marshal Metta Lawson was appointed to the frontier township of Badrock on the planet 43 Rega, intent on stamping her authority on the colony. But in doing so, Lawson made many enemies, including Munce, Inc., the mega-corporation that funds Badrock, which has attempted to have her killed. Now, Munce is planning to dispose of Badrock once and for all…

THE DARK JUDGES: DOMINION
by John Wagner (w) Nick Percival (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
The cargo ship the Solips discovered the Dark Judges Death, Fire and Mortis floating in space, and the alien superfiends murdered the crew and possessed Captain Bundy and Science Officer Riggins. Landing on a remote Mega-City colony world, the ship was declared quarantined after a virus outbreak – but cop Rosco has investigated further…

Features: 

COMIC ICONS: Dan Dare
NEW COMICS: Black Crown & Berger Books

Bagged graphic novel: Helium by Ian Edginton (w) D’Israeli (a) Ellie De Ville (l)