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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Rob Williams & Chris Weston

Welcome to the forty-third episode 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

The Judge Dredd: Control is out in December and the Thrill-Cast talks to writer Rob Williams and artist Chris Weston about Judge Pin, the difficulty of coming up with new foes for Dredd to face, the joys of Sensitive Klegg, and then they wander off into a few diversions along the way!

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Greg Staples

Welcome to the forty-second episode 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

From his working class roots in Sheffield to working on the latest Hollywood blockbuster, the career of Greg Staples has been anything but typical. After brief stints as a sign painter and in an architect’s office, he began working for 2000 AD after Simon Bisley spotted his talent and introduced him to then-editor Richard Burton. He worked on Judge Dredd, Sláine, and Sinister Dexter before moving into video games, movie concept work, and creating art for the globally-successful card game Magic: The Gathering. Greg chats to the Thrill-Cast about the lessons he’s learnt along the way and how his perspective on his work and interests has kept him grounded.

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – David Hine & Nick Percival

Welcome to the forty-first episode 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

In sssspace, everyone sssscreamssss! The Dark Judges are back in Deliverance, currently running in the Judge Dredd Megazine, and the Thrill-Cast talks to creative team David Hine and Nick Percival about body horror, bringing something fresh to the fearsome foursome, and what they’d do if they could write the ultimate Dark Judges story.

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Ian Edginton & D’Israeli // Judge Dredd: Origins deep-dive

Welcome to the fortieth episode 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

The pope of crime is back – but he’s not the same man we thought we knew! After a hiatus of six years, STICKLEBACK returns to the pages of 2000 AD and the Thrill-Cast talks to creative team Ian Edginton and Matt “D’Israeli” Brooker about what’s in store for the Machiavellian malefactor and his oddball gang, plus updates on Scarlet Traces and Helium.

We’re then joined by comics scholar Kelly Kanayama to dive into John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s seminal Judge Dredd: Origins epic, where we discover the roots of the Judge system and Dredd’s own origin story … or do we?

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Kenneth Niemand // Judge Dredd: Satire & Policing in 2020 panel

Welcome to the thirty-ninth 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

Writer Kenneth Niemand has arrived at 2000 AD not only brimming with ideas about also with his own authorial voice. Crafting some classic Judge Dredd stories as well as co-creating simian rebel Noam Chimpsky, he and artist Dave Taylor have recently begun the ‘Elseworld’ style reimagining of Dredd in ‘Megatropolis’ in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Although not a fan of interviews, he chats to the Thrill-Cast about his background, his views on Dredd, and what he has planned for the future.

Sadly, this year’s New York Comic Con didn’t take place … at least not in the confines of the Javitt’s Centre. For Reedpop’s online ‘Metaverse’ event, Molch-R gathered together critics Evan Narcisse, Chloe Maveal, and Kelly Kanayama, and Judge Dredd writer Arthur Wyatt for the Judge Dredd: Satire & Policing in 2020 panel. This is the full recording of the panel, which asks what Judge Dredd says about this moment in history, whether the character’s satire still stands up, and how the strip can be viewed in relation to the events in the UK and America.

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes: Steve Sampson

Welcome to the thirty-eighth 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 his pop art sensibilities, and use of photo references and bold colours, Steve Sampson’s work was a regular fixture of the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD in the 1990s; starting with Brit-Cit Babes and then creating a significant body of work on the Judge Anderson series, Sampson’s style had both fans and detractors. The Thrill-Cast talks to him about his life and career, from ditching art college to illustrating for men’s magazines, from working in a sheet metal factory to moving into the video games industry.

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes: Misty & Scream! and Invasion! deep-dive

Welcome to the thirty-seventh 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

The nights are drawing in, so it’s time to curl up with a good scare story … or how about the Misty & Scream! Special, which is out now? We’re join by writers Kristyna Baczynski, Cavan Scott, Maura McHugh, and Alec Worley to talk about things that go bump in the middle of the night, how comics can be scary, and their own ideas of what makes them quake!

And then critic and writer Claire Napier takes a deep-dive into Invasion!, one of inaugural thrills of 2000 AD that was revived in 2004 as Savage. More than four decades on, how does this classic series read and did its sequel compete or complement its legacy?

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – 30 years of the Judge Dredd Megazine!

Welcome to the thirty-sixth 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

We continue our celebration of 30 years of the Judge Dredd Megazine with a podcast first – every editor of the Megazine from the past three decades, all together! We host Steve MacManus, David Bishop, John Tomlinson, Andy Diggle, Alan Barnes, and Matt Smith as they discuss the creation and life of the Megazine, its highs and lows, its relations with 2000 AD, and whether it has achieved its mission to open up the world of Judge Dredd.

We then take another dive into the archive and back to our very first episode in 2015, with artist Colin MacNeil talking about working on one of the Megazine’s first ever stories – ‘America’.

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Lawless: The Musical & Dreadnoughts

Welcome to the thirty-fifth 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

The Judge Dredd Megazine celebrates 30 years this month and there’s celebrations aplenty – we’ve even got a soundtrack! The creators behind Lawless, the acclaimed Dredd-world frontier series, have teamed up with a band of talented musicians to turn the series all-musical 50th episode into reality! Listen to Dan and actor/musician Jack Gray talk about turning comics into musical chords – and check out the full playlist at 2000ad.com/news/lawlessthemusical/

We then talk to Michael Carroll and John Higgins, the team behind Dreadnoughts, the brand new Megazine series that explores the very foundation of Justice Department in an all-too-real story that sees Judges first deployed to the streets as chaos and disorder threaten to overwhelm America.

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Mick McMahon (2016 interview)

Welcome to the thirty-fourth 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

A seminal Judge Dredd artist and a towering figure in British comics, Mick is a remarkably humble and down-to-earth guy who is responsible for the ‘big boots’ look of Dredd’s outfit as well as many iconic covers and key moments for the future’s greatest lawman. He also brought a unique look to Sláine and Ro-Busters before going on to co-create the incredible Last American. The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast sits down for a landmark two hour interview with one of the greatest 2000 AD artists of all time.

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