OUT NOW: Judge Dredd Megazine #451 – new format, more pages!
21st December 2022
Judge Dredd Megazine 451 out now
Judge Dredd Megazine #451 is OUT NOW!
The Megazine gets a face-lift this month – the print mag is now squarebound, with the reprint moved inside the mag itself, thereby ditching the polybag and the separate mini-trades. To mark this format change, this bumper Xmas issue is a massive 144 pages in which alongside the latest instalments of Devlin Waugh, Surfer, Storm Warning and Death Metal Planet – plus of course a complete seasonal case for Judge Dredd, courtesy of Ken Niemand and Stewart K. Moore – we’ve got two bonus stories in the shape of an eight-page Judge Dredd by Rob Williams and Will Conrad, and the debut of Mega-City 2099, a slice of retro law enforcement from Niemand and Conor Boyle, channelling that 1970s aesthetic.
Elsewhere there are interviews with two comics creators that have dipped their toes into prose – former Rogue Trooper script-droid Gerry Finley-Day and cover artist John Watson – as well as writer and editor John Freeman, plus reprints of the first issues of Judge Dredd: Year One and Mega-City Two: City of Courts, both originally published by IDW, and some classic Steel Claw material.
Judge Dredd Megazine #451 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of the Megazine in the first month of its release then postage in the UK is free!
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JUDGE DREDD // Dollman
Mega-City One, 2144 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 180 million citizens. Unemployment is endemic, boredom universal, and tensions run on a constant knife-edge. Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law!
STORM WARNING // Dead & Gone, part three
Brit-Cit, 2147 AD. Much like its Mega-City counterpart, Brit-Cit Justice Department has its various divisions, from Tek to plainclothes, Tactical to Psi, and one of its more prickly operatives in the latter is Lillian Storm, who has the ability to talk to the dead, and is always accompanied by her ghostly helpers. Now, Storm has been seemingly laid to rest to cross into the afterlife…
DEVLIN WAUGH // Karma Police, part three
Brit-Cit, 2144 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 continues to enjoy the finer things in life. Now, after a trip to Hell, he must investigate the curse on his bloodline…
DARK JUDGES // Death Metal Planet, part three
After the events on the Mayflower, in which the Dark Judges were ejected into space, they ended up on the colony world of Dominion, which they proceeded to decimate. When Mega- City marines were sent in, assisted by survivor Rosco, the planet was destroyed. Worshipped like gods on Thanatopia by a death-cult, they’ve now been targeted by a death-metal band…
SURFER // Book Two, part three
Mega-City One, 2144 AD. Skysurfing is one of the most popular pastimes in the twenty-second century metropolis, a sport that requires a great deal of skill and agility. Young Zane Perks is a particularly gifted surfer, and won a place to be in an illegal movie recreating the famous Supersurf 7. Now Zane’s trying to save his father from local crim Snarky by doing a courier job…
JUDGE DREDD // Year One
‘The Long Hard Road’ begins here! In an adventure from Joe Dredd’s early days as a Mega City-One Judge, writer (and Eagle-Award-winning 2000 AD Editor) Matt Smith presents a tale where ‘all the young juves, carry the news,’ only in this case, the news is delivered with a lethal blow!
JUDGE DREDD: MEGA-CITY TWO // City of Courts
Dredd heads Californee way! As part of a judicial exchange program, Dredd is sent packing to Mega-City Two, a sprawling city covering 5,000 square miles of the Californian West Coast and centered in what was once known as Los Angeles, where he soon discovers that they do things differently there.
THE STEEL CLAW // Reign of the Brain
A preview of the second collection of the sci-fi classic, The Steel Claw: Reign of the Brain! This collects writer Tom Tully’s first two stories originally published in the comic Valiant between 1963 and 1964.
MEGA-CITY 2099 // Rampage
A brand new retro tale set 45 years ago in the year that Judge Dredd first roared onto the pages of 2000 AD! In 2099 AD, Judge Dredd is the law!
