OUT NOW: Judge Dredd Megazine 425

More thrills abound in Meg 425, with more Dredd, The Returners, Dark Judges, Megatropolis and Dreadnoughts!

Judge Dredd Megazine 425 is out now!

WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY BLOW-OUT LAST MONTH – AND JUDGING BY THE RESPONSE, the bumper birthday Meg seemed to go down very well (the issue selling out in twenty-four hours was certainly heartening to see).

Do send in your feedback to the Dreddlines address – dreddlines@2000ADonline.com – about the current roster of stories as we’d still like to run a letters page one of these months. If you too want to have Dreddlines back then we need your letters!

This month’s thrill-tastic Meg line-up sees more new Judge Dredd, The Returners, Dark Judges, Megatropolis and Dreadnoughts!

As befits this month’s suitably ghoulish Judge Death cover, October is traditionally a time for terrifying tales of the supernatural, so naturally the House of Tharg has that covered.

Make sure you check out the 2020 Misty and Scream special that’s on sale now, featuring strips by Maura McHugh, Alec Worley, Kek-W, Simon Coleby, Dani, John Lucas and more, and the Treasury of British Comics releases the second volume of The Thirteenth Floor by John Wagner, Alan Grant and José Ortiz, plus The Dracula File by Gerry Finley-Day, Simon Furman and Eric Bradbury gets a paperback edition.

Pull the curtains, curl up in a comfy chair, and prepare to chill!

Judge Dredd Megazine 425 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: John Wagner / Art: Colin Macneill & Dan Cornwell / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // The Victims of Bennett Beeny / Part Two!

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 Two!

NEW STORY! 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 about to get a new partner in the shape of Amy Jara…


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

DREADNOUGHTS // Breaking Ground // Part Two!

NEW STORY! USA, 2035 AD. The new Justice Department is still in its early years, with
Judges working alongside the police, military and the government, though Fargo’s people are slowly taking over. It’s proving an explosive transition, with many citizens – and more than a few cops – unhappy with these helmeted officers taking to the streets…

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

THE RETURNERS // HEARTSWOOD // Part Two!

Brit-Cit, 2142 AD. Four different people in Ciudad Barranquilla – academic Barrancourt, ex- Judge Mineiro, gangbanger Correira, and transgender street-walker Chavez – all awoke from near-death experiences, and as a consequence are capable of dealing with the supernatural. Now, they’ve fled to Brit-Cit, hoping to find a way to escape their curse…

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

DARK JUDGES // DELIVERANCE // Part Two!

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, and when marines were sent in, they were joined by Fear. Dominion was destroyed, and Death was trapped in a Boing® bubble…