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Stories From A Sideways Universe: The 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2024 is Out Now!

SCI-FI SPECIAL 2024 out now

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ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – The 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2024 is OUT NOW!

I am The Mighty Tharg, all-powerful alien editor of 2000 AD – the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic!

Welcome, my Thrill-seeking Squaxx, to 2024’s Sci-Fi Special, a 48-page self-contained issue designed to entertain you Terrans through the summer months. This particular edition is something a little different – following a rupture in the space/time continuum, a wormhole appeared close to Earth, through which several objects fell into this reality from a parallel dimension. Amongst them were pages from an alternate version of my Mighty Organ featuring characters slightly different to what Terrans may be used to.

In the parallel edition, toughest of the Mega-City Judges is mutant Johnny Alpha, while Downlode duo Ramone and Finny are Robo-Sharks, hunting rogue droids! Such was my intrigue and interest in these alternate takes on some of the Galaxy’s Greatest’s most popular strips – witness Stickleback as the captain of The Red Wench, or Strontium Dog Friday seeking revenge for being betrayed, or an aeroball team made up of flesh-hungry zombies from the Zombo universe – that I thought you deserved to see them too.

So I compiled them into this unique special, where some of 2000 AD’s favourites are as you’ve never seen them before!

The 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2024 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: Mike Perkins
Script: Karl Stock / Art: Ben Willsher / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE ALPHA // PORTRAIT OF A JUDGE

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 wasteland known as the Cursed Earth to the west. Crime is rampant and only the zero-tolerance Judges can stop total anarchy. Toughest of these future cop is JUDGE ALPHA, one of a group of mutants given Special Dispensation to wear the uniform — he is the Law!

Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Anthony Williams / Letters: Jim Campbell

ROBO-SHARKS

Ramone Dexter is a ROBO-SHARK in the future city of Downlode, where life can be short and the streets brutally violent. If a droid goes rogue or you need your personal robot found, then he and his mek-partner Finnigan are the team to call. It’s a dangerous job, and Ramone’s never far from trouble — and to make things worse, robots are seeking to disguise themselves amongst humanity…

Script: James Peaty/ Art: Nicolo Assirelli /Colours: Jack Davies / Letters: Simon Bowland

ROGUE/DOG

In the twenty-second century, an atomic war left many survivors mutated by the Strontium 90 fallout. These mutants were feared and despised by the ‘norms’ and became a marginalised underclass, forced to live in ghettos. The only job open to them is bounty hunting, and these Search/Destroy agents — or Strontium Dogs — are sanctioned by the Galactic Crime Commission to hunt the most lethal of criminals…

Script: Ian Edginton / Art: Paul McCaffrey / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

STICKLEBACK // SECRET HISTORIES

In the eighteenth century, pirates often prey upon merchant ships for their fat bounties. No terror of the seas is more feared than the ruthless STICKLEBACK, captain of The Red Wench. Together with his second-in-command Ampney Crucis, they prowl the southern seas looking for prey. But Stickleback is secretly looking for a particular treasure, one that will bring him unlimited power…

Script: Al Ewing / Art: Boo Cook / Letters: Simon Bowland

HARLEM ZOMBOS

Aeroball is one of the most popular sports of the future, a violent combination of basketball and American football, played at high speed with the teams strapped into powerful jetpacks. But when the ZOMBO squad take to the skies, you’re guaranteed even more carnage — under the management of ‘living brain’ Louis, they’re a force to be reckoned with…

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Dredd vs Zombies – The Darkest Judge collection out now!

JUDGE DREDD: THE DARKEST JUDGE out now

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It’s the smash hit 2000 AD multiverse mega-crossover ‘undead event’ – and it’s out now as a complete collection!

Published in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine last summer, this self-contained, multi-part epic sold out from newsagents and comic shops – but is now presented in one collection featuring work by Ken Niemand, Henry Flint, Mike Carroll, Gary Erskine, Emma Beeby, Neil Googe, Karl Stock, Kieran McKeown, Dan Abnett, Russell M. Olson, Ian Edginton, D’Israeli, Arthur Wyatt, Toby Willsmer, Rob Williams, Staz Johnson, Leigh Gallagher, Kei Zama, Honor Vincent, Boo Cook, Gordon Rennie, Dan Cornwell, James Peaty, Nicolo Assirelli, Liam Johnson, Conor Boyle, and Steve Yeowell!

A special limited edition hardcover, limited to just 500 copies, featuring a brand new cover by Greg Capullo – the first time the acclaimed Batman artist has worked in the Judge Dredd universe – will be available exclusively the convention-goers at San Diego Comic Con.

And 200 copies are available for 2000 AD subscribers to order online through the 2000 AD webstore – 2000 AD subscribers can log into their account and order a copy of this limited run now.

Over thirty years since the end of the world was averted by Judge Dredd and mutant bounty hunter Johnny Alpha in 1994’s ‘Judgement Day‘ by Garth Ennis, Dean Ormston, Peter Doherty, Chris Halls, and Carlos Ezquerra, The Darkest Judge is a blistering ‘what if?’ that sees the myriad of worlds from 2000 AD’s 45 years converge in an explosion of death and destruction!

Instead of Dredd and Alpha executing Sabbat the Necromagus, they drop dimension-bombs to shift the whole zombie horde into a different reality – this means disaster for all the other characters published in the pages of 2000 AD, as the zombies infect everyone from Rogue Trooper to Sinister Dexter, from Ace Trucking to The V.C.s. There is now a whole multiverse of zombies that need killing, and only a few heroes left to take care of business!

Judge Dredd: The Darkest Judge is the epic event you don’t want to miss – order now from your local book or comic book shop, or through one of the retailers listed above!

Paperback cover by Cliff Robinson & Dylan Teague
Ltd. ed. hardcover by Greg Capullo
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Dredd vs Zombies – pre-order The Darkest Judge collection!

JUDGE DREDD: THE DARKEST JUDGE

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It’s the smash hit 2000 AD multiverse mega-crossover ‘undead event’ – and it’s coming as a complete collection this July!

Published in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine last summer, this self-contained, multi-part epic sold out from newsagents and comic shops – but is now presented in one collection featuring work by Ken Niemand, Henry Flint, Mike Carroll, Gary Erskine, Emma Beeby, Neil Googe, Karl Stock, Kieran McKeown, Dan Abnett, Russell M. Olson, Ian Edginton, D’Israeli, Arthur Wyatt, Toby Willsmer, Rob Williams, Staz Johnson, Leigh Gallagher, Kei Zama, Honor Vincent, Boo Cook, Gordon Rennie, Dan Cornwell, James Peaty, Nicolo Assirelli, Liam Johnson, Conor Boyle, and Steve Yeowell!

A special limited edition hardcover, limited to just 500 copies, featuring a brand new cover by Greg Capullo – the first time the acclaimed Batman artist has worked in the Judge Dredd universe – will be available exclusively the convention-goers at San Diego Comic-Con this July and to 2000 AD subscribers through the new subscriber exclusive email!

Over thirty years since the end of the world was averted by Judge Dredd and mutant bounty hunter Johnny Alpha in 1994’s ‘Judgement Day‘ by Garth Ennis, Dean Ormston, Peter Doherty, Chris Halls, and Carlos Ezquerra, The Darkest Judge is a blistering ‘what if?’ that sees the myriad of worlds from 2000 AD’s 45 years converge in an explosion of death and destruction!

Instead of Dredd and Alpha executing Sabbat the Necromagus, they drop dimension-bombs to shift the whole zombie horde into a different reality – this means disaster for all the other characters published in the pages of 2000 AD, as the zombies infect everyone from Rogue Trooper to Sinister Dexter, from Ace Trucking to The V.C.s. There is now a whole multiverse of zombies that need killing, and only a few heroes left to take care of business!

Out on 19 July, Judge Dredd: The Darkest Judge is the epic event you don’t want to miss – order now from your local book or comic book shop, or through one of the retailers listed above!

  • Paperback cover by Cliff Robinson & Dylan Teague
  • Ltd. ed. hardcover by Greg Capullo