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2000 AD Prog 2363 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2363 is OUT NOW!

Call me The Mighty Tharg, godlike Betelgeusian superbeing at the helm of this SF anthology!

I bid you welcome to the space-year 2024, Terrans, as we launch once more into another ghafflebette twelve months of Thrill-power. I trust your circuits were suitably dazzled by the Xmas mega-blast and you’ve recovered enough over the last three weeks to be ready for another scrotnig onslaught. This prog sees the final instalment of Helium: Scorched Earth and a complete Dredd story from the Carroll and Califano droids, alongside the latest instalments of The Devil’s Railroad, Feral & Foe and Enemy Earth.

Next issue, upgrade your Thrill-buffers for the return of folk-horror chiller Thistlebone in the third series The Dule Tree by the regular creative combo of T.C. Eglington and Simon Davis, plus there’s the start of a zarjaz new Dredd case, A Better World, by Rob Williams, Arthur Wyatt and Henry Flint as Accounts Judge Maitland’s social experiment to drive down crime reaches a critical point!

I think you’ll agree, my Squaxx, that we’re truly hitting the ground running in terms of 2024’s zarjazosity, and, of course, this is only the beginning — plenty of epic Thrills to come!

2000 AD Prog 2363 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 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover Art: Steven Austin / Colours: Jim Boswell

Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Silvia Califano / Colours: F. Segala & S. Del Grosso / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // VOX POPULI

Mega-City One, 2146 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. Crime is rampant, and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland

HELIUM // SCORCHED EARTH, Part Twelve

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eighty-five per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt — a toxic cocktail of biological weapons. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge is tasked with protecting him, but they’ve been followed…


Script: Peter Milligan / Art: Rufus Dayglo / Colours: Jose Villarrubia / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE DEVIL’S RAILROAD // Part Eleven

The Earth year 3038, and Planet Diaspora X-167 is a world that has been ravaged by war, a conflict that sees no sign of ending despite years of death and destruction. One couple, Palamon and Constance, are attempting to escape the caranage, especially now that Constance is pregnant — if the baby is born on Earth, it’ll have full Earth rights. Seeking a new life, these refugees must take a risky journey…


Script: Cavan Scott / Art: Luke Horsman / Letters: Simon Bowland

ENEMY EARTH // BOOK THREE, Part Four

The near future. Mother Nature has turned against the people that live upon the Earth’s surface. Now, the planet’s flora and fauna have mutated and are viciously attacking humanity. As society crumbles, and survivors seek safety, young Zoe, who has lost her own family, has rescued Jules, who’s the prime minister’s son. Now, the PM and the two youths have been captured and held in a military base…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell

FERAL & FOE // BAD GODESBERG, Part Twelve

It’s been over five years since the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. Now, they’ve travelled to Godesberg, a stronghold that’s in trouble…

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2000 AD Prog 2362 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2362 is OUT NOW!

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS! Iam The Mighty Tharg, all-powerful alien editor of this award-winning SF anthology — prepare for Xmas overload!

Welcome, my Thrill-hungry humanoids, to the traditional end-of- year bumper prog, where we both celebrate your planet’s festive season and also cap another scrotnig twelve months of circuit-frying amazingness. It’s an issue of two halves this time around — in the latter half, we have the ongoing Thrills Helium, The Devil’s Railroad, Enemy Earth and Feral & Foe, continuing from their autumn runs and going on into the beginning of 2024.

Front-loaded in this pulse-pounding prog, however, are a selection of self-contained one-off stories starring some of the Galaxy’s Greatest’s most iconic characters. Judge Dredd’s here of course (in a manner of speaking) and visited by the ghosts of his past, courtesy of Ken Niemand and Tom Foster, plus there’s new adventures for Rogue Trooper in Runaway by the Wessel and Coleby droids, Anderson, Psi-Division in The Game Within by Torunn Grobekk and Kieran McKeown, and Strontium Dog in Alpha by Rufus Hound and Dan Cornwell, a seasonal Fiends of the Eastern Front tale by the Edginton and Trevallion droids, and the latest chapter of Dan Abentt and Tazio Bettin’s Azimuth.

Phew! Quite the packed prog, I think you’ll agree, my Squaxx. Remember, Terrans, that this ghafflebette issue is on sale for three weeks, so I’ll see you all again on 3 January 2024 for more SF excitement. Have a zarjaz Christmas and New Year, humes!

2000 AD Prog 2362 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 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover Art: Cliff Robinson / Colours: Dylan Teague

Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Tom Foster / Colours: Gary Caldwell / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // A MATTER OF LIFE & DREDD

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America with the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the poisoned Black Atlantic to the east. Unemployment is rife, 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: Dan Abnett / Art: Tazio Bettin / Colours: Matt Soffe / Letters: Jim Campbell

AZIMUTH // SNOW ZONE

Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything is possible. Ruled by an aristocracy of the New Flesh, such concepts of life, death, and body-forms are fluid. Anyone can take any shape, if it can be conceived by the imagination. The New Flesh masters have been troubled by strange dreams and portents, which seem to have predicted the coming of a stranger — none other than Ramone Dexter…


Script: Torunn Grønbekk / Art: Kieran McKeown / Colours: Pippa Bowland / Letters: Rob Steen

ANDERSON, PSI-DIVISION // THE GAME WITHIN

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Psi-Division is a section of Justice Department that specialises in Judges with accentuated psychic talents — from precognition to exorcism, astral projection to pyrokinesis, its operatives deal with all manner of paranormal crimes. Cassandra ANDERSON is Psi-Div’s top telepath, who has been responsible for saving the city on a number of occasions from supernatural threats…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Tiernen Trevallion / Letters: Jim Campbell

FIENDS OF THE EASTERN FRONT // SILENT KNIGHT

In 1980, the diary of German soldier Hans Schmitt was discovered in Berlin, detailing events that occurred in 1941, when he encountered the terrifying vampire Captain Constanta and his Romanian platoon. But Schmitt was not the first person to meet Constanta — the vampire has popped up throughout history, in various countries and under various guises, and in Romania he ruled over his cowed subjects…


Script: Rufus Hound / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Simon Bowland

STRONTIUM DOG // ALPHA

Late 22nd century. After the Atomic Wars, many survivors were warped by the Strontium 90 fallout. These ‘mutants’ became a victimised underclass, forced into ghettos, and the only job open to them was bounty hunting. One such Search/Destroy agent, or STRONTIUM DOG, is Johnny Alpha, whose eyes emit piercing alpha waves. Partnered with his Viking buddy Wulf Sternhammer, they’re good men in a bad galaxy…


Script: Geoffrey D. Wessel / Art: Simon Coleby / Colours: F. Segala & S. Del Grosso / Letters: Rob Steen

ROGUE TROOPER // RUNAWAY

Nu Earth, site of a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers, where use of chemical weapons has rendered the atmosphere poisonous. So the Southers created the Genetic Infantrymen, bred to be immune to the planet’s lethal cocktail of pollutants — G.I.s like ROGUE TROOPER, the last of his kind. Together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, they’re searching for the traitor that sold them out…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland

HELIUM // SCORCHED EARTH, Part Eleven

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eighty-five per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt — a toxic cocktail of biological weapons. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge is tasked with protecting him, but they’ve been followed…


Script: Peter Milligan / Art: Rufus Dayglo / Colours: Jose Villarrubia / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE DEVIL’S RAILROAD // Part Ten

The Earth year 3038, and Planet Diaspora X-167 is a world that has been ravaged by war, a conflict that sees no sign of ending despite years of death and destruction. One couple, Palamon and Constance, are attempting to escape the caranage, especially now that Constance is pregnant — if the baby is born on Earth, it’ll have full Earth rights. Seeking a new life, these refugees must take a risky journey…


Script: Cavan Scott / Art: Luke Horsman / Letters: Simon Bowland

ENEMY EARTH // BOOK THREE, Part Three

The near future. Mother Nature has turned against the people that live upon the Earth’s surface. Now, the planet’s flora and fauna have mutated and are viciously attacking humanity. As society crumbles, and survivors seek safety, young Zoe, who has lost her own family, has rescued Jules, who’s the prime minister’s son. Now, the PM and the two youths have been shot down en route to India, crashing in the jungle…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell

FERAL & FOE // BAD GODESBERG, Part Eleven

It’s been over five years since the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. Now, they’ve travelled to Godesberg, a stronghold that’s in trouble…

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2000 AD Prog 2361 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2361 is OUT NOW!

I am The Mighty Tharg, Thrill-channeller from Quaxxann, and this is the Galaxy’s Greatest!

Welcome to the last regular prog of 2023 — although Dredd thriller Clanker wraps up inside these ghafflebette pages, The Devil’s Railroad, Feral & Foe, Enemy Earth and Helium all continue into next week’s Xmas special, which will be an issue of two halves. In one half, the current series you Squaxx are all immersed in; in the other, a whole clutch of one-off strips featuring some of this pulse-pounding publication’s most popular characters.

Last prog I revealed that Rogue Trooper and Anderson, Psi-Division will putting in an appearance — well, they won’t be alone, because they’ll be joined by Strontium Dog too, in a story scripted by TV presenter and comedian Rufus Hound and drawn by Dan Cornwell, as well as Fiends of the Eastern Front in a seasonal tale from Ian Edginton and Tiernen Trevallion!

Add to that the next instalment of the Abnett and Bettin droids’ Azimuth, and a complete Dredd story from Ken Niemand and Tom Foster, and it’s an end-of-year extravaganza to remember — as packed with zarjaz treats as any annual of yesteryear. Steel your Thrill-diodes, Terrans!

2000 AD Prog 2361 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 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover Art: John McCrea / Colours: Mike Spicer

Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Nick Dyer / Colours: John Charles / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // CLANKER, Part Two

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! An unknown extradimensional entity has possessed city machinery in a bid to take control…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland

HELIUM // SCORCHED EARTH, Part Ten

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eighty-five per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt — a toxic cocktail of biological weapons. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge is tasked with protecting him, but they’ve been followed…


Script: Peter Milligan / Art: Rufus Dayglo / Colours: Jose Villarrubia / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE DEVIL’S RAILROAD // Part Nine

The Earth year 3038, and Planet Diaspora X-167 is a world that has been ravaged by war, a conflict that sees no sign of ending despite years of death and destruction. One couple, Palamon and Constance, are attempting to escape the caranage, especially now that Constance is pregnant — if the baby is born on Earth, it’ll have full Earth rights. Seeking a new life, these refugees must take a risky journey…


Script: Cavan Scott / Art: Luke Horsman / Letters: Simon Bowland

ENEMY EARTH // BOOK THREE, Part Two

The near future. Mother Nature has turned against the people that live upon the Earth’s surface. Now, the planet’s flora and fauna have mutated and are viciously attacking humanity. As society crumbles, and survivors seek safety, young Zoe, who has lost her own family, has rescued Jules, who’s the prime minister’s son. Now, the PM and the two youths have been shot down en route to India, crashing in the jungle…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell

FERAL & FOE // BAD GODESBERG, Part Ten

It’s been over five years since the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. Now, they’ve travelled to Godesberg, a stronghold that’s in trouble…

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2000 AD Prog 2360 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2360 is OUT NOW!

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS! Tharg The Mighty here once again, beaming circuit-shattering Thrill-power into your brains!

A brand-new Judge Dredd story starts this week, and it’s a follow-up to a couple of previous one-offs by the Niemand and Dyer droids — after Grinder and Flusher, get ready for Clanker as the extra-dimensional entity intent on ushering in the era of the New Flesh has now possessed an old Mark One Mechanismo unit.

Also starting this issue is the third and final book of Enemy Earth, by the regular creative combo of Cavan Scott and Luke Horsman, picking up the action as Zoe and co are flying to India in the hope of finding sanctuary — but of course in this world of hostile flora and fauna, danger is never far away…

Also not far away is the Xmas behemoth otherwise known as Prog 2362, heading your way on 13 December. What will you find within its one hundred scrotnig pages? Well, how about a zarjaz Anderson, Psi-Division tale The Game Within by Torunn Grobekk and Kieran McKeown as Cass deals with murderous, psi-controlled citizens? Or Rogue Trooper: Runaway by Geoffrey D. Wessel and Simon Coleby as the G.I. plays a lethal game of Where’s Waldo?

Don’t miss ‘em, Terrans!

2000 AD Prog 2360 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 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover Art: Rufus Dayglo

Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Nick Dyer / Colours: John Charles / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // CLANKER, Part One

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! An unknown extradimensional entity has possessed city machinery in a bid to take control…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland

HELIUM // SCORCHED EARTH, Part Nine

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eighty-five per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt — a toxic cocktail of biological weapons. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge is tasked with protecting him, but they’ve been followed…


Script: Peter Milligan / Art: Rufus Dayglo / Colours: Jose Villarrubia / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE DEVIL’S RAILROAD // Part Eight

The Earth year 3038, and Planet Diaspora X-167 is a world that has been ravaged by war, a conflict that sees no sign of ending despite years of death and destruction. One couple, Palamon and Constance, are attempting to escape the caranage, especially now that Constance is pregnant — if the baby is born on Earth, it’ll have full Earth rights. Seeking a new life, these refugees must take a risky journey…


Script: Cavan Scott / Art: Luke Horsman / Letters: Simon Bowland

ENEMY EARTH // BOOK THREE, Part One

The near future. Mother Nature has turned against the people that live upon the Earth’s surface. Now, the planet’s flora and fauna have mutated and are viciously attacking humanity. As society crumbles, and survivors seek safety, young Zoe, who has lost her own family, has rescued Jules, who’s the prime minister’s son. Now, the pair have been reunited with the PM, and they’re journeying to India…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell

FERAL & FOE // BAD GODESBERG, Part Nine

It’s been over five years since the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. Now, they’ve travelled to Godesberg, a stronghold that’s in trouble…

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2000 AD Prog 2359 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2359 is OUT NOW!

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS! I am The Mighty Tharg, and it is my weekly pleasure to bring you this awesome SF anthology!

Another seven days have rolled around and it is once again time to elevate your imaginations through the medium of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. Within this latest pulse-pounding prog, you’ll find the zarjaz final episode of current Dredd thriller Poison as the true story behind Hershey’s murder is revealed, and alongside the ongoing instalments of Helium, Feral & Foe and The Devil’s Railroad, we also reach a break in The Fall of Deadworld arc Retribution. Call it a mid-season hiatus, call it a breather from the pitch-black body horror, but the story will recommence in spring next year — fear not, Sidney stans, it will be back!

Unbelievably, we’re only three short weeks away from this year’s Xmas bumper issue, Prog 2362 (it should be up for pre-order on shop.2000AD.com by the time you read these words, so no excuses for missing it!), and as you’ll know by now, this Betelgeusian likes to build the hype-machine early to generate some anticipation. Thus over the next couple of progs I’ll divulge the contents that will be super-charging your festive season!

2000 AD Prog 2359 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 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover Art: D’Israeli

Script: Rob Williams / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Peter Doherty / Letters: Simon Bowland

JUDGE DREDD // POISON, Part Eight

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, in the wake of former Chief Judge Hershey’s death, he’s tracked down who was responsible…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland

HELIUM // SCORCHED EARTH, Part Eight

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eighty-five per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt — a toxic cocktail of biological weapons. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge is tasked with protecting him, but they’ve been followed…


Script: Peter Milligan / Art: Rufus Dayglo / Colours: Jose Villarrubia / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE DEVIL’S RAILROAD // Part Seven

The Earth year 3038, and Planet Diaspora X-167 is a world that has been ravaged by war, a conflict that sees no sign of ending despite years of death and destruction. One couple, Palamon and Constance, are attempting to escape the caranage, especially now that Constance is pregnant — if the baby is born on Earth, it’ll have full Earth rights. Seeking a new life, these refugees must take a risky journey…


Script: Kek-W / Art: Dave Kendall / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE FALL OF DEADWORLD // RETRIBUTION, Part Seven

The planet that became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a parallel dimension. But the end of days is coming, and creatures called the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life. While Sov forces have take advantage of the chaos and invaded, Jess Childs and co have been trying to save Judge Fairfax — but in the process Jess has been sucked through a portal…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell

FERAL & FOE // BAD GODESBERG, Part Eight

It’s been over five years since the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. Now, they’ve travelled to Godesberg, a stronghold that’s in trouble…

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Drokk the Halls! Rufus Hound joins 2000 AD 100-page Christmas spectacular – pre-order now!

2000 AD Prog 2362

The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic marks the end of another year with the traditional festive blowout – a 100-page mega-special featuring brand-new stories and a surprise creative guest!

2000 AD Prog 2362 is out on the 13th December – and you can pre-order this special issue now, with FREE postage within the U.K.

Within its pages you will find an all-new Strontium Dog story by comedian and actor Rufus Hound, with artist Dan Cornwell!

We spoke to the newly-anointed Hound droid about joining the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic and he bleeped back: “I’d never believed that I’d get a chance like this. That ACTUAL 2000 AD would ask me – ME! – to write so much as a single syllable for their illustrious pages. Not only that, but to be given the opportunity to reimagine something from the golden era of Strontium Dog? Proper dream come true stuff.”

In Strontium Dog: ‘Alpha’, Johnny and Wulf are en-route to the planet Aminovarm in the hold of a star cruiser when Johnny intervenes in a domestic incident. When the son gives Johnny an alien delicacy as a thank you gift, things go south and psychedelic in equal amounts! Hound described the story:

“Johnny Alpha always had it hard, but kept his upper-lip stiff and his chin granite-like. However, what if a diary of his was discovered? Something that peeled away a later or two of the man? That allowed us some insight into the mind of Johnny Alpha, not merely marvel at his tough-as-hell actions. That’s what ‘Alpha’ is.

I’ve filled my story with classic SD references, but I hope the greatest act of fan service is the tale itself. I’ve tried to give Wulf and Johnny something that I think most fans have always craved for them, whilst still letting them be Johnny and Wulf. With Carlos’ passing, getting this right seems even more important somehow. I just hope the amount of love and hard work I’ve lavished on it shines through.

The 100-page Spectacular will continue ongoing stories Feral & FoeHeliumEnemy Earth and The Devil’s Railroad, but they’re joined by a heavenly host of one-off stories: a new Judge Dredd tale by Ken Niemand & Tom Foster, Azimuth by Dan Abnett & Tazio BettinRogue Trooper by Geoffrey D. Wessel & Simon ColebyFiends of the Eastern Front by Ian Edginton & Tiernen TrevallionAnderson, Psi-Div by Torunn Gronbekk & Kieran McKeown, and Strontium Dog by Rufus Hound & Dan Cornwell!

All this wrapped inside a classic and chaotic cover from Cliff Robinson and Dylan Teague? Grud bless us, every one!

On sale 13 December, Prog 2362 isn’t a Christmas stocking-stuffer – it’s a Yuletide mind-expander! Pre-Order it today from the 2000 AD webshop!

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2000 AD at Thought Bubble 2023: All Our Announcements, Talent Search Winners, and More!

The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic soared back into Harrogate this past weekend for Thought Bubble Comics Festival 2023, with the return of our Writer and Artist Talent Searches – the only contests of their kind anywhere in the country, offering new creative talent the chance to be published in the Prog! We also ran The Galaxy’s Greatest Panel, revealing secrets and surprises for everything that our editor Tharg the Mighty has planned in 2024 and beyond…


2000 AD: The Galaxy’s Greatest Panel!

Panellists (l-r): El Sandifer, Anna Morozova, Rob Williams, Laura Bailey and Tom Foster

Featuring the all-star creative lineup of 2000 AD droids El Sandifer (Tharg’s Future Shocks), Anna Morozova (Lowborn High), Rob Williams (Judge Dredd) Laura Bailey (DeMarco, PI) and Tom Foster (Judge Dredd), The Galaxy’s Greatest Panel looked at some of our recent stories, and what Earthlets can expect from 2024!

For a full read-through of everything discussed by our panellists, head to Popverse, who live-blogged the entire panel! For anyone who is interested in future art contests in particular, there’s some zarjaz hints and tips – both Laura and Tom started their 2000 AD careers through the Thought Bubble Talent Search, so there’s plenty of great advice!

But for now – onto the future…

With Dredd currently closing in on his target in Judge: Dredd Poison by Rob Williams, PJ Holden, Peter Doherty and Simon Bowland, his life isn’t going to get any easier in the new year. Even with Hershey’s killer discovered, there are plenty of other problems rising up in Mega-City One. The Williams Droid revealed that in 2024 he will be teaming up with Arthur Wyatt and Henry Flint for Judge Dredd: A Better World, continuing Judge Maitland’s interest in funding education and social reform. Would it actually improve Mega-City One if the Judge Department were de-funded as a result?

That isn’t everything Dredd will be contending with in the new year, however! Judge Dredd: Rend & Tear with Tooth & Claw pairs Williams with artist RM Guera (Scalped) and Giulia Brusco (The Goddamned) for a multi-part survivor horror story! Dredd and his team head out into the wilderness for a mission, only for things to go wrong in the snowy wilderness of the territory which once was called Alaska…

If it’s horror you’re looking for, then make sure you’re picking up the Prog in January! T.C. Eglington and Simon Davis‘ acclaimed folk horror story Thistlebone will be returning next year for the third book in the series, called “Thistlebone: The Dule Tree”.

And finally at the panel, artist Tom Foster announced that next year the trilogy of stories featuring former Judge Asher will be collected into a huge collection, called Judge Dredd: A Penitent Man. Written by Kenneth Niemand, this story follows Kyle Asher as he returns from the Titan penal colony, determined to find new ways to serve the city he once swore his oath to. Is Asher truly penitent, or will this all end in disaster? The collection will be released on 12th March 2024, with pre-orders available from our webshop now!


The 2000 AD Writer Talent Search 2023!

Judges Laura Bailey and Leah Moore with winner Ed Whiting and 2000 AD’s Trusty Droid Mike Molcher

Every year at Thought Bubble we run a Writer Talent Search, where new creative talent have the chance to vie for a place in the Prog! Presided over by writers Laura Bailey, Leah Moore and Andy Diggle, this year saw us return to the pitching room, as writers were challenged to stand in front of the room and pitch their idea for a Tharg’s Future Shock. These five-page stories were the way into 2000 AD for many legendary talents in the comics industry: from Alan Moore to Al Ewing, Neil Gaiman and more. So mastering the Future Shock is key to finding Tharg’s favour!

There were some ghafflebette pitches at this year’s contest, but congratulations ultimately go to Ed Whiting, who was chosen as the winner for his pitch “Essence of the Piece”. Look out for Ed’s debut in the Prog in the near future, Earthlets!


The 2000 AD Artist Talent Search 2023!

Across the weekend we also held portfolio reviews for our 2023 Artist Search, with entrants challenged to draw Al Ewing’s script for The Gifts of The Magi, a Tharg’s Future Shock originally drawn by Lee Townsend and colourist Chris Blythe. After whittling down the huge lineup of entrants to a few finalists, the artists progressed through to our Talent Search Panel, presided over by judges Jock, Anna Morozova, and Tom Foster.

Each entrant got to hear feedback from the judges, giving them all some real experience from some of the most talented artists in the industry today, before the very deserving winner was chosen: massive congratulations to the judges’ choice Sinu Senon!

Here are Sinu’s pages which won the contest this year – and will now lead to him working directly with Tharg in 2024!

Andrei:

Lucas M:

Rose Plaxton:

Russ Dobson:

Tom Crielly:

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2000 AD Prog 2358 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2358 is OUT NOW!

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS! Welcome to the wondrous world-shaker that is the Galaxy’s Greatest — sup at my Thrill-cup!

More ghafflebette Thrills than you can shake an ion cannon at this week, Terrans — on the one hand, you’ve got the contents of this pulse-pounding prog, with the latest zarjaz instalments of Dredd, Helium, The Devil’s Railroad, Feral & Foe and The Fall of Deadworld.

On the other, you’ve got Judge Dredd Megazine 462, which is out right now and is equally scrotnig, with a complete Dredd story by Ian Edginton and Mike Collins, and a Mega-City 2099 tale, The Multitronic Man, by Arthur Wyatt and Jake Lynch, alongside Spector, Lawless and the start of a new case for DeMarco, P.I. by Laura Bailey and Rob Richardson.

Add to that there’s a chat with writer Karl Stock about his brand-new tome Comic Book Punks, which interviews the creative and editorial movers and shakers behind the comics explosion between the mid seventies and 1995, alongside an exclusive extract. Plus there’s a delve into the contents of The Treasury of British Comics Annual, a look at Rob Williams and Pye Parr’s new comic Petrol Head, John Reppion and PJ Holden lift the lid on Fascinating Folklore, and much more. Buyyyyy it!

2000 AD Prog 2358 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 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover Art: Rufus Dayglo

Script: Rob Williams / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Peter Doherty / Letters: Simon Bowland

JUDGE DREDD // POISON, Part Seven

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, in the wake of former Chief Judge Hershey’s death, the question remains of who was responsible…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland

HELIUM // SCORCHED EARTH, Part Seven

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eightyfive per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt — a toxic cocktail of biological weapons. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge is tasked with protecting him, but they’ve been followed…


Script: Peter Milligan / Art: Rufus Dayglo / Colours: Jose Villarrubia / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE DEVIL’S RAILROAD // Part Six

The Earth year 3038, and Planet Diaspora X-167 is a world that has been ravaged by war, a conflict that sees no sign of ending despite years of death and destruction. One couple, Palamon and Constance, are attempting to escape the caranage, especially now that Constance is pregnant — if the baby is born on Earth, it’ll have full Earth rights. Seeking a new life, these refugees must take a risky journey…


Script: Kek-W / Art: Dave Kendall / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE FALL OF DEADWORLD // RETRIBUTION, Part Six

The planet that became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a parallel dimension. But the end of days is coming, and creatures called the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life. While Sov forces have take advantage of the chaos and invaded, Jess Childs and co have been trying to save Judge Fairfax — but in the process Jess has been sucked through a portal…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell

FERAL & FOE // BAD GODESBERG, Part Seven

It’s been over five years since the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. Now, they’ve travelled to Godesberg, a stronghold that’s in trouble…

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2000 AD Prog 2357 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2357 is OUT NOW!

I am The Mighty Tharg, Betelgeusian brainbox at the helm of this awe-inspiring anthology!

As I settle back into the editorial hotseat recently vacated by my nephew — Joko-Jargo’s on his way back to Quaxxann after last prog’s all-ages takeover — we resume the stories that were paused for a week. Judge Dredd’s investigation into Hershey’s death takes him to the Cursed Earth in Poison; Godesberg is a stronghold under assault in Feral & Foe; Sidney De’Ath reasserts his dominance in The Fall of Deadworld; there are revelations about Hodge’s parentage in Helium; and Palamon and Constance are refugees divided as they continue their perilous journey along The Devil’s Railroad. So, all in all, pretty damned Thrill-powered, I think you’ll agree!

Equally zarjaz is The Treasury of British Comics Annual, which is out this week, and the first annual that this pulse-pounding publishing house has released in years. Once upon a time, 2000 AD and Dredd annuals were a regular occurrence until the early nineties — now, there’s a new hefty hardback to put under the Xmas tree featuring stories from the likes of Starlord, Scream! and Action, as well as new material!

2000 AD Prog 2357 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 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover Art: Cliff Robinson / Colours: Dylan Teague

Script: Rob Williams / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Peter Doherty / Letters: Simon Bowland

JUDGE DREDD // POISON, Part Six

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, in the wake of former Chief Judge Hershey’s death, the question remains of who was responsible…


Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland

HELIUM // SCORCHED EARTH, Part Six

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eighty-five per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt — a toxic cocktail of biological weapons. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge is tasked with protecting him, but they’ve been captured…


Script: Peter Milligan / Art: Rufus Dayglo / Colours: Jose Villarrubia / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE DEVIL’S RAILROAD // Part Five

The Earth year 3038, and Planet Diaspora X-167 is a world that has been ravaged by war, a conflict that sees no sign of ending despite years of death and destruction. One couple, Palamon and Constance, are attempting to escape the caranage, especially now that Constance is pregnant — if the baby is born on Earth, it’ll have full Earth rights. Seeking a new life, these refugees must take a risky journey…


Script: Kek-W / Art: Dave Kendall / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE FALL OF DEADWORLD // RETRIBUTION, Part 5

The planet that became known as DEADWORLD was once a regular civilisation existing in a parallel dimension. But the end of days is coming, and creatures called the Dark Judges are spreading their contagion, exterminating all life. While Sov forces have take advantage of the chaos and invaded, Jess Childs and co have been trying to save Judge Fairfax — but in the process Jess has been sucked through a portal…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell

FERAL & FOE // BAD GODESBERG, Part Six

It’s been over five years since the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. So now they’re in the bounty-hunting business…

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Origins Concludes – pre-Order Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Vol.44 now!

JUDGE DREDD: THE COMPLETE CASE FILES 44

NO CITY FOR OLD MEN!

The best-selling series collecting The Law in order continues. This action-packed volume contains the finale of the epic Origins saga, which sets Dredd on a new quest for justice as he begins to question Mega-City One’s treatment of the mutant population and the laws that keep them down. But what happens when the man upholding the law no longer believes in it?

Written by John Wagner (A History of Violence), Gordon Rennie (Warhammer), Rob Williams (Suicide Squad), Ian Edginton (Batman), and Robbie Morrison (The Authority), with art by Carlos Ezquerra (Strontium Dog), Ian Gibson (The Ballad of Halo Jones), Colin MacNeil (Devlin Waugh), Mike McMahon (Slaine), Jock (The Losers), Henry Flint (Rogue Trooper), Rufus Dayglo (Tank Girl), Vince Locke (A History of Violence), PJ Holden (Rogue Trooper), Patrick Goddard (Battle Action), Boo Cook (Doctor Who), Richard Elson (Sonic The Comic), Paul Marshall (Sinister Dexter), Cliff Robinson (Vector 13), Len O’Grady (X-Men Unlimited), D’Israeli (Nikolai Dante), Lee Garbett (Skyward), Anthony Williams (The Real Ghostbusters) and Peter Doherty (The Dreaming).

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files is the ultimate series for fans of the lawman of the future, collecting every case, in order, from more than four decades of adventures in the pages of 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. From the groundbreaking classics to the modern masters, this on-going and best-selling series collects the stories that have made Judge Dredd one of the world’s biggest comic book characters!