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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes: Al Ewing, Michael Carroll, Matt Smith

Welcome to the third of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

With the Judge Dredd: Year One Omnibus on special offer for 24 hours on Kindle, we talk to the authors of the three novellas it contains – Al Ewing, Michael Carroll, and Matt Smith.

Host Molch-R talks to the comic-writing trio about translating Dredd into prose, the challenges of writing fiction of the legendarily tactiturn lawman, what prose fiction brings to the table, and how Year One kickstarted eight years of stories, including the on-going Judges series exploring the world before Dredd.

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The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes: Ram V, Dan Lish, 2000 AD 8-bit games

Welcome to the second of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic!

In this episode, we talk to writer Ram V and artist Dan Lish about their strips for the new Action 2020 Special, which is out now. We touch on questions of the legacy of the highly controversial comic from the late 1970s, handling violence in comics, changing tastes, hope in dark times, and why eyebrows come in really useful when trying to get animals with little beady black eyes to emote.

And, following on from our episode with Dan Abnett, Chris Roberson, and Tim Jones about comics and video games, we talk to games journalist Graeme Mason about 2000 AD games from the 8-bit revolution of the 1980s, from tepid Strontium Dog side-scrollers to ambitious Rogue Trooper first person shooters and also games that got made but were never released. The YouTube version of this episode includes footage from just some of these titles, courtesy of RZX Archive.

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: The Lockdown Tapes – Mike Dorey

The Nerve Centre is in lockdown – but that won’t stop The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast from broadcasting the Thrill-power gospel to the world!

Host Molch-R welcomes veteran art droid Mike Dorey onto the official 2000 AD podcast to talk about his career in comics, from working with the legendary Barry Mitchell to being an artist on the first issue of the ground-breaking Action in 1976, from making sure Ro-Jaws LOOKED like a sewer droid to why he switched to the world of advertising.

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast will be increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stand by for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: Comics & Video Games

Everyone craves more video games based on 2000 AD characters, but the relationship between comics and games isn’t all one way – this week on the official 2000 AD podcast we talk to two writers and a game-maker about comics based on video games and video games based on comics, from Dredd vs Death to Zombie Army: Last Rites via Wardog, the game that only made it half way!

Your host Molch-R chats to Dan Abnett and Chris Roberson, two writers with plenty of experience navigating between the two mediums, and they are joined by Head of Creative at Rebellion, Tim Jones, to talk about what comics and video games can teach each other about storytelling.

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: Aleš Kot on Devlin Waugh

The latest story featuring John Smith and Sean Phillips’ gay vampire exorcist, Devlin Waugh, has set the internet ablaze thanks to the presence of Titivillus, the typo demon trapped in a sex toy.

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast talks to writer Aleš Kot about how there’s more to this new series than meets the eye. On the way they chat about humour as a weapon, Devlin’s uniqueness, and queer characters in comics.

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: Kingmaker & All-Ages 2000 AD

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Hosted by publicity droid Molch-R, the official 2000 AD podcast welcomes Ian Edginton and Leigh Gallagher to talk about the first collection of their fantasy/sci-fi mash-up series Kingmaker, which is out in April.

And with a brand new issue of 2000 AD Regened hitting stands on 26 February, we talk to writer Cavan Scott and artist Ilias Kyriazis about their Rogue Trooper and Judge Dredd stories, and how ‘all-ages’ doesn’t mean ‘just for kids’.

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: The Best of 2000 AD with Jamie McKelvie and Becky Cloonan

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast returns for its first episode of 2020 with a deep dive into the newest title from the House of Tharg – the Best of 2000 AD!

The new 12-issue US-format, 100-page, perfect-bound series features a selection of the stories from the legendary comic, including a complete 48-page Judge Dredd story! Launching on 29 April, Best of 2000 AD is also supported by an ‘issue zero’ primer on Free Comic Book Day – the ideal entry point for new readers! Click here for more details!

On this episode of the Thrill-Cast, PR droid Molch-R is joined by Best of 2000 AD cover artists Jamie McKelvie (Young Avengers, The Wicked + The Divine) and Becky Cloonan (Punisher, Batman), as well as Rebellion’s publishing coordinator Owen Johnson, to talk about this brand new title, the thought process behind the choice of covers and strips, and what the future holds for this new title.

Watch the first vid-cast of the 2000 AD podcast now on the 2000 AD YouTube channel >>

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline