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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Kek-W & Dave Kendall

Welcome to the forty-sixth 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

Readers have been transported back to Deadworld with a new series by Kek-W and Dave Kendall, which continues to explore the downfall of the homeworld of the Dark Judges. The Thrill-Cast chats to Kek and Dave about this long-running series, how to find the humanity in the midst of apocalyptic horror, and whether a giant statue made of teeth is a sign that Judge Death has a bit of an ego problem…

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Rob Williams & Laurence Campbell, Michael Carroll & Jake Lynch

Welcome to the forty-fifth 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

It’s December and so the bumper Christmas issue of 2000 AD is on its way! This week we talk to two of the creative teams involved, both focusing on the return of a series – Strontium Dog and Proteus Vex!

Since the tragic loss of Carlos Ezquerra in 2018, Strontium Dog has been on a hiatus but Johnny Alpha and Wulf Sternhammer return courtesy of Rob Williams and Laurence Campbell, who have a one-off tale in the Christmas Prog. The Thrill-Cast talks to Rob and Laurence about Westerns, Starlord, and old 2000 AD annuals, as well as Carlos’ incredible artistic legacy.

And Proteus Vex is back! Michael Carroll and Henry Flint’s high concept sci-fi action series returns to 2000 AD, with Jake Lynch now handling art duties. Inbetween complimenting each other, they chat about Henry’s influence on the strip, how the change in artist has affected the strip’s direction, and what’s in store for their “Jason Bourne in space”!

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes: Misty Winter Special

Welcome to the forty-fourth 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

It’s time to wrap up warm and indulge in some seasonal scares with the Misty Winter Special – the latest special from Rebellion which brings you two scary stories designed to give you chills this Christmas! The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast talks to creators Lizzie Boyle, David Roach, Anna Savory, and V.V. Glass about their stories in this new issue, the nature of horror, hidden Easter eggs, and how sometimes the scariest places are those that are humdrum and familiar!

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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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