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Posted on 15th November 202315th November 2023 by Steve Morris

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!

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Lucas M:

Rose Plaxton:

Russ Dobson:

Tom Crielly:

Posted on 15th November 20238th November 2023 by Steve Morris

2000 AD Prog 2358 out now!

PROG 2358 out now

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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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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…

Posted on 8th November 20236th November 2023 by Steve Morris

2000 AD Prog 2357 out now!

PROG 2357 out now

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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!