OUT NOW: Judge Dredd Megazine #456

Judge Dredd Megazine #456 out now

Judge Dredd Megazine #456 is OUT NOW!

With the new five-issue series of Battle Action that starts the end of this month. Ennis writes one of the stories per issue with a different artist, and he’s joined by a whole bunch of other creators working on characters such as Major Eazy, Death Squad, D-Day Dawson and more. For #1, John Wagner returns to the naval drama of HMS Nightshade, drawn by Dan Cornwell – learn more about the all-star line-up as Karl Stock chats to the writers and artists involved in this issue!

Indeed, two of those creators, Dan Abnett and Phil Winslade, are back in this very Meg as Lawless returns, picking up on the story from last year, with Metta Lawson now aligning herself with the organised crime outfit plaguing Badrock. Elsewhere, there’s all-out action in the latest instalments of Judge Dredd, Death Metal Planet, Dreadnoughts and Spector – and to coincide with the new Battle Action series, we reprint Ennis and Keith Burns’ Johnny Red mini-series, originally published by Titan in 2015. Fall in and enjoy, citizens!

Judge Dredd Megazine #456 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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Cover by Nick Percival

Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Kieran McKeown / Colours: Quinton Winter / Letters: Annie Parlhouse

JUDGE DREDD // One-Eyed Jacks, part five

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 200 million citizens. Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law! Now, Dredd and Rico are investigating a link between 1970s New York and the twenty-second century…


Script: John Wagner / Art: Carlos Ezquerra / Letters: Jim Campbell

SPECTOR // Incorruptible, part two

In a near-future US city, corruption within the branches of government has reached unsustainable levels. City Hall is rotten to the core, and the police force is equally on the take. To that end, Spector is created, a robot detective – beyond bribery and untainted by potential malfeasance – charged with rooting out criminal elements. But the android inspector is making many enemies…


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

DARK JUDGES // Death Metal Planet, part eight

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’re now part of a death-metal festival…


Script: Ales Kot / Art: Rob Richardson / Letters: Simon Bowland

LAWLESS // Most Wanted, part one

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 funded Badrock. Now, having been thrown off the force, and becoming a vigilante, she’s turned to organised crime…


Script: Matt Smith / Art: Carl Critchlow / Letters: Shawn Lee

ANDERSON, PSI DIVISION // The King of the Six Sectors, part two

In an adventure from Cassandra Anderson’s early days in the Mega-City One Psi-Division, writer Matt Smith and artist Carl Critchlow present “King of the Six Sectors.” It all starts with Anderson awaking from an unusually strong vision of an attack on the Megapolitan Museum showcasing Cursed Earth artifacts…


Script: Douglas Wolk / Art: Ulises Farinas / Colour: Ryan Hill / Letters: Tom Long

JOHNNY RED // part one

Legendary British fighter ace, Johnny ‘Red’ Redburn, returns once more as the commander of the Falcons – a Russian fighter squadron battling the Nazis in the skies over Stalingrad. But dogfighting Messerschmitts is about to become the least of his troubles when the NVKD – the notorious Soviet secret police – come calling!


THE 10,000 DISASTERS OF DORT

Written by Mike Butterworth, the writer behind the hit series The Rise and Fall of The Trigan Empire, and with art by Luis Bermejo and José Ortiz, THE 10,000 DISASTERS OF DORT is a slice of classic British comics filled with disaster, action, and peril! It is the year 2000. In fifty years’ time the planet Dort will collide with its sun and be destroyed. Ratta, the dictator of Dort has chosen Earth as a new home for his people – but first he is creating ten thousand disasters to wipe out all human life! Only Britain’s best scientist, Professor Mike Dauntless, has the mind and spirit to stop Ratta from destroying humankind! Originally running in the legendary comic Lion from 18 May 1968 to 23 November 1968, though when the strip was reprinted in Lion in 1974 it featured a new conclusion! The last two episodes were changed, though the writer and artist behind this remain unknown.


DREADNOUGHTS // The March of Progress, Part One

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 is making her presence felt…


Features:

  • Focus on Diceman by Stephen Jewell
  • Interviews with creators behind the new Battle Action series by Karl Stock
  • Focus on José Ortiz by Karl Stock