Adam Eterno and Cursitor Doom bring Smash! into 2023!
The six decade-spanning adventure comes to an explosive conclusion as Cursitor Doom is outwitted by a former sidekick, and the demon trapped in the stone idol since the time of Janus Stark is unleashed. The time-travelling Adam Eterno enters the fray in an attempt to halt the demon’s reign of terror, but whose side will the King of Crooks choose to align with? An action-packed finale written by Paul Grist (Jack Staff, Kane) and drawn by V.V. Glass (The Last Witch).
From two very different 1960s secret agents – Jane Bond and The Steel Claw – to mechanical menaces Robot Archie and the murderous AI Max from The Thirteenth Floor, and villainous anti-hero The Spider and supernatural avenger Cursitor Doom, this is a series a whole century in the making.
This brand new mini-series unleashes the power of some of the last century’s greatest comic book characters. Having been inspired by them to create his acclaimed self-published series Jack Staff, Grist now realises his vision with the original versions of these legendary characters.
In Victorian London, when the legendary elastic-limbed escapologist Janus Stark traps a demon in a stone idol, hoping to seal away the malevolent monster for all time – yet he has just created a prize too alluring for criminal masterminds to resist!
Sixty years later, terrifying high-tech thief The Spider organises a heist for his Crime Syndicate to the steal the statuette. But heroes from across the ages unite to confound the king of crime, and prevent him from unleashing the demon hidden inside. Can they succeed and keep the evil of the stone idol contained?
The King of Crooks latest heist has gone badly wrong!
He has been trapped in Maxwell Tower by the caretaker computer programme running the building and Robot Archie is closing in on capturing the arch-criminal. Forced to face his fears on the nightmare inducing-thirteenth floor and evade the team-up of two AI programmes, this could be the master thief’s last stand. This eighties-set thriller is brought to you by Paul Grist (Jack Staff) and Jimmy Broxton (Goldtiger).
From two very different 1960s secret agents – Jane Bond and The Steel Claw – to mechanical menaces Robot Archie and the murderous AI Max from The Thirteenth Floor, and villainous anti-hero The Spider and supernatural avenger Cursitor Doom, this is a series a whole century in the making.
This brand new mini-series unleashes the power of some of the last century’s greatest comic book characters. Having been inspired by them to create his acclaimed self-published series Jack Staff, Grist now realises his vision with the original versions of these legendary characters.
In Victorian London, when the legendary elastic-limbed escapologist Janus Stark traps a demon in a stone idol, hoping to seal away the malevolent monster for all time – yet he has just created a prize too alluring for criminal masterminds to resist!
Sixty years later, terrifying high-tech thief The Spider organises a heist for his Crime Syndicate to the steal the statuette. But heroes from across the ages unite to confound the king of crime, and prevent him from unleashing the demon hidden inside. Can they succeed and keep the evil of the stone idol contained?
Issue #2 of Smash! is out now! Please beware sinister robots offering you any alternative comics. Available in all good comics stores, or direct from the 2000 AD Webshop here!
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Judge Dredd Megazine #462 is OUT NOW!
Former Judge turned Private Investigator Galen DeMarco returns this issue after a four-year absence with a new case, A Picture Paints, by Laura Bailey and Rob Richardson, plus we have a complete Dredd thriller from Ian Edginton and Mike Collins, another flashback to Mega-City 2099 in The Multitronic Man by Arthur Wyatt and Jake Lynch, and Lawless hits the penultimate episode of its current arc (don’t miss the double-length finale next issue!).
Elsewhere, PJ Holden is coincidentally the artist on two book projects we turn the spotlight on this month – he collaborates with John Reppion on Fascinating Folklore, an around-the-world guide to various legends, and he also illustrates the first Skulduggery Pleasant graphic novel, Bad Magic, scripted by the YA series’ creator Derek Landy.
Plus we chat to Rob Williams and Pye Parr about their new Image comic Petrol Head, and regular Meg contributor Karl Stock lifts the lid on Comic Book Punks, his unmissable look at the writers, artists and editors that shaped the creative comics boom from the mid seventies to the early nineties. All that and annuals are back! Enjoy, citizens, enjoy…
Judge Dredd Megazine #462 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 the Megazine in the first month of its release then postage in the UK is free!
Cover Art by Alex RonaldScript: Ian Edginton / Art: Mike Collins / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Jim Campbell
JUDGE DREDD / OLD SOLDIERS
Mega-City One, 2145 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 200 million citizens, with the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law!
Script: John Wagner / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Jim Campbell
SPECTOR / INCORRUPTIBLE, Part Eight
In a near-future US city, corruption within the branches of government has reached unsustainable levels. City Hall is rotten to the core, and the police force is equally on the take. To that end, Spector is created, a robot detective – beyond bribery and untainted by potential malfeasance – charged with rooting out criminal elements. But the android inspector is making many enemies…
Script: Arthur Wyatt / Art: Jake Lynch / Letters: Jim Campbell
MEGA-CITY 2099 / THE MULTITRONIC MAN
Mega-City One, 2099 AD. Before the Judges took complete control of the metropolis, there were two strands of law enforcement – regular uniformed cops did much of the day-to-day policing, while the helmeted Judges were called upon to pass judgement on certain criminals, their vested powers giving them the ability to dispense on-the-spot sentences…
Script: Brian Buckley / Art: Alberto Ponticelli / Colours: Stephen Downer / Letters: Tom B. Long
ROGUE TROOPER / Part four
Nu-Earth, just another planet ravaged by a galaxy-wide war, its atmosphere poisoned by chemical weapons. Created to fight in such conditions were the G.I.s – genetically engineered infantrymen. But now only one remains, the man known as… Rogue Trooper!
Script: Garth Ennis / Art: Keith Burns / Colour: Jason Wordie / Letters: Rob Steen
JOHNNY RED / Part Seven
Legendary British fighter ace, Johnny ‘Red’ Redburn, returns once more as the commander of the Falcons – a Russian fighter squadron battling the Nazis in the skies over Stalingrad. But dogfighting Messerschmitts is about to become the least of his troubles when the NVKD – the notorious Soviet secret police – come calling!
Script: Laura Bailey / Art: Rob Richardson / Letters: Simon Bowland
DEMARCO, PI: A PICTURE PAINTS, Part One
Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Galen DeMarco was once a Judge, a rising star operating out of the corrupt dumping ground that was Sector House 301. But she quit the force after one romantic indiscretion too many and set herself up as a private investigator. Now, a recent case that ended with her fighting for her life has left her scarred, but ready to take on new clients…
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Phil Winslade / Letters: Simon Bowland
LAWLESS / MOST WANTED, Part Seven
Colonial Marshal Metta Lawson was appointed to the frontier township of Badrock on the planet 43 Rega, intent on stamping her authority on the colony. But in doing so, Lawson made many enemies, including Munce, Inc., the mega-corporation that funded Badrock. Now, she’s revealed that she’s been working undercover, and is leading a raid against Fugly’s outfit…
Superheroes from across the ages – assemble! A brand new comics mini-series unleashes the power of some of comics’ greatest characters of all time!
Written by renowned artist/writer Paul Grist (Kane, Jack Staff) with art from Tom Foster (Judge Dredd), Anna Morozova (Lowborn High) and cover artist Andy Clarke (Batman and Robin), this fast-paced action-adventure mini-series features the very best and the most outlandish heroes, superheroes, and anti-heroes that comics can offer!
From two very different 1960s secret agents – Jane Bond and The Steel Claw – to mechanical menaces Robot Archie and the murderous AI Max from The Thirteenth Floor, and villainous anti-hero The Spider and supernatural avenger Cursitor Doom, this is a series a whole century in the making.
This brand new mini-series unleashes the power of some of the last century’s greatest comic book characters. Having been inspired by them to create his acclaimed self-published series Jack Staff, Grist now realises his vision with the original versions of these legendary characters.
In Victorian London, when the legendary elastic-limbed escapologist Janus Stark traps a demon in a stone idol, hoping to seal away the malevolent monster for all time – yet he has just created a prize too alluring for criminal masterminds to resist!
Sixty years later, terrifying high-tech thief The Spider organises a heist for his Crime Syndicate to the steal the statuette. But heroes from across the ages unite to confound the king of crime, and prevent him from unleashing the demon hidden inside. Can they succeed and keep the evil of the stone idol contained?
However, The Steel Claw and Jane Bond are assigned to halt the theft, but they encounter a mysterious stranger who throws both sides’ plans into disarray.
Paul Grist said: “The Spider is, without doubt, my favourite British comic character. There are others that are more famous, more heroic, or just longer running, but it’s the Spider that’s been living rent free in my head since I first came across him in the pages of a ‘Summer Special’ whilst on a caravan holiday with my family many summers ago.
“So to be asked to write a bunch of stories of his battles with his more ‘heroic’ contemparies wasn’t something I was going to turn down! At least I could finally get him to earn his keep!
“The three-issue that make up this series of Smash! give the Spider a chance to cavort across 60 years of British comics history, crossing paths with the Steel Claw, Robot Archie and Adam Eterno, as well as a few surprise ‘guest stars’ along the way. I even get to write a Janus Stark story to kick things off!
“But don’t worry, it doesn’t require the reader to have read years of British comics in order to appreciate it. But I hope that it will give the you, the reader, a flavour of the range, variety and, quite frankly, the sheer bonkersness of British comics over the years!”
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Judge Dredd Megazine #461 is OUT NOW!
As the dust clears on the warzones of the Battle Action crossover last month – by all accounts a palpable hit with you Squaxx – it’s back to business as usual. There’s two complete new stories this issue – Mike Carroll and Colin MacNeil collaborate on the Judge Dredd one-off, ‘Risk Assessment’, and we get into the spirit of the spooky season with a Tale From the Black Museum from Guy Adams and Gary Welsh.
Elsewhere, there’s the latest instalments of Spector, Lawless, Rogue Trooper and Johnny Red, plus we reach the finale of the current Dreadnoughts arc (Mike and John will be back for more early-era Judges action in Nothing to Fear next year).
Elsewhere, writer and editor John Tomlinson gets the Interrogation treatment, discussing his recent horror comedy Portals & Black Goo that ran in the prog, Jock talks his new solo project Gone, we delve into the contents of the new three-part Smash! special as Paul Grist handles the Spider alongside artists such as Anna Morozova and Tom Foster, and Karl Stock tries to find out more about Robo-Hunter artist José Luis Ferrer – enjoy!
Judge Dredd Megazine #461 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 the Megazine in the first month of its release then postage in the UK is free!
Cover Art by Colin MacNeilScript: Mike Carroll / Art: Colin MacNeil / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Jim Campbell
JUDGE DREDD / RISK ASSESSMENT
Mega-City One, 2145 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 200 million citizens, with the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. Crime is rampant, and stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law!
Script: John Wagner / Art: Dan Cornwell / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Jim Campbell
SPECTOR / INCORRUPTIBLE, Part Seven
In a near-future US city, corruption within the branches of government has reached unsustainable levels. City Hall is rotten to the core, and the police force is equally on the take. To that end, Spector is created, a robot detective – beyond bribery and untainted by potential malfeasance – charged with rooting out criminal elements. But the android inspector is making many enemies…
Script: Guy Adams / Art: Gary Welsh / Letters: Jim Campbell
BLACK MUSEUM / THE TOOTH WILL KILL YA!
Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Deep in the heart of the Grand Hall of Justice lies the Black Museum, Justice Department’s permanent exhibition of the relics from bygone crimes. Whether it’s a notorious serial killer’s trophies or the weapons of the Dark Judges, the violent history of the Big Meg is laid bare here. Let undead guide Henry Dubble show you around…
Script: John Wagner / Art: Ian Gibson & Jose Ferrier / Colours: Ian Gibson / Letters: Pete Knight & Steve Potter
ROBO-HUNTER / PLANET OF THE ROBOTS
For forty years, Sam Slade has been one of the best robo-tectives in the business, but all of his experience couldn’t prepare him for his latest case. The Commission believe that robots have taken control of the planet Verdus and want Sam to uncover the truth. It’s a dangerous case, but one Sam can’t refuse – otherwise he’s guaranteed a bullet in the head!
Script: Brian Buckley / Art: Alberto Ponticelli / Colours: Stephen Downer / Letters: Tom B. Long
ROGUE TROOPER / Part three
Nu-Earth, just another planet ravaged by a galaxy-wide war, its atmosphere poisoned by chemical weapons. Created to fight in such conditions were the G.I.s – genetically engineered infantrymen. But now only one remains, the man known as… Rogue Trooper!
Script: Garth Ennis / Art: Keith Burns / Colour: Jason Wordie / Letters: Rob Steen
JOHNNY RED / Part Six
Legendary British fighter ace, Johnny ‘Red’ Redburn, returns once more as the commander of the Falcons – a Russian fighter squadron battling the Nazis in the skies over Stalingrad. But dogfighting Messerschmitts is about to become the least of his troubles when the NVKD – the notorious Soviet secret police – come calling!
Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Phil Winslade / Letters: Simon Bowland
LAWLESS / MOST WANTED, Part Six
Colonial Marshal Metta Lawson was appointed to the frontier township of Badrock on the planet 43 Rega, intent on stamping her authority on the colony. But in doing so, Lawson made many enemies, including Munce, Inc., the mega-corporation that funded Badrock. Now, having been thrown off the force, and becoming a vigilante, she’s turned to organised crime…
Script: Mike Carroll / Art: John Higgins / Colour: Sally Hurst / Letters: Simon Bowland
DREADNOUGHTS / THE MARCH OF PROGRESS, Part Seven
USA, 2035 AD. The new Justice Department is still in its early years, with Judges working alongside the police. It’s proving an explosive transition, with many citizens – and more than a few cops – unhappy with these helmeted officers taking to the streets. Judge Veranda Glover is a recent transfer to Boulder, Colorado, where a drugs cartel is striking back at the law…
Not even hiding behind the sofa will protect you this Halloween – pick up The Best of Tharg’s Terror Tales now!
From the deepest, darkest recesses of the Nerve Centre vaults, the eerie alien editor of 2000 AD known as Tharg the Mighty presents the creepiest tales to ever grace the pages of the galaxy’s greatest Comic!
This fear-filled anthology introduces one-off stories full of ghosts, demons, mutants and killers and is thick with atmosphere, dark humour and mind-blowing twists.
Written and illustrated by some of the biggest names in the comic book industry, this collection features strips by Mark Millar, Al Ewing, Simon Spurrier, Chris Weston, Richard Elson and Eric Bradbury amongst others.
Get your spooky season off to a sinister start by picking up The Best of Tharg’s Terror Tales today – but make sure all your doors and windows are locked before unleashing the multiple faces of horror!
The fourth volume of Best of 2000 AD – the best-selling landmark series from the cult comic, bursting with our greatest stories for a new generation of readers – is out today!
Every Best of 2000 AD contains a mix of modern classics and gems from the vault. In each edition you’ll find an explosive new Judge Dredd adventure, fresh essays by prominent popular culture writers, a graphic novel-length feature presentation by global legends and a vintage Dredd case.
When Judge Dredd investigates a potential whistleblower, it’s hard to avoid paranoia when information is this Mega-City Confidential; from medieval Prague to the streets of Elizabethan London, Kek-W and John Burns sound the call to battle extra-dimensional Wurms and join The Order; a rolling stone gathers no mousse as Pete Milligan and Jamie Hewlett tangle you in Hewligan’s Haircut, a shear reality-warping victory roll that’s just the tonic; quake to the Cry of the Werewolf with an all-time Dredd classic by Alan Grant and Steve Dillon.
Out today and boasting brand new covers from an all-star line-up of artists including Marguerite Sauvage (Archie) and Glyn Dillon (The Batman) with designer Tom Muller (X-Men), Best of 2000 AD is the essential gateway into the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.
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2000 AD Prog 2351 is out this week and it’s the perfect issue to start your journey with the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic™ – with brand new stories from the likes of Garth Ennis (The Boys), Dan Abnett (Warhammer), Rob Williams (Suicide Squad) and more, you’ll be spellbound by the best of British comics!
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Start your 2000 AD subscription now with 2000 AD Prog 2351, containing all-new stories designed to allow new readers to jump on board. In this issue you’ll get FOUR incredible tales designed to charge your Thrill-receptors and leave you begging for more:
Judge Dredd
In the urban hell of Mega-City One, future cops called the Judges are empowered to dispense instant justice, maintaining law and order amidst rampant crime and disorder. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law and he’s hot on the trail who was behind the murder of a former Chief Judge!
Perfect for: fans of Robocop, police procedurals, American Flagg and hard sci-fi
Feral & Foe
What do you do if you’re on the losing side in an epic fantasy war? In Dan Abnett and Richard Elson’s Feral & Foe, it is five years after the Last-of-All-War and the defeat of the Malign Lord. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two of his minions scattered across the lands and fleeing the retribution of the Wretchfinders…
Perfect for: fans of Lord of the Rings, Warhammer 40k and World of Warcraft
Helium
In Ian Edginton and D’Israeli’s skyship saga, humanity clings to mountain tops and soars in vast airships above poisoned clouds that blanket most of the Earth’s surface. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a professor named Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Young Constable Hodge was tasked with protecting him… And you can catch up on the series for FREE, as Prog 2351 includes a link to a download of the entire first book!
Perfect for: fans of steampunk, the books of H.G. Wells, Lockwood & Co. and TV series like The Nevers
Judge Dredd vs Robo-Hunter
The hit writer behind Preacher and The Boys, Garth Ennis, and fan-favourite artist Henry Flint deliver a blast from the past as Sam Slade, the Robo-hunter hired to find missing droids or track down malfunctioning meks, journeys to Mega-City One for a very special job!
Perfect for: fans of classic 2000 AD and of Garth Ennis comics
The name’s Slade, Sam Slade! That’s S-L-A-Y-E-D to you!
John Wagner, Ian Gibson and Jose Ferrer’s Robo-Hunter is one of the all-time classic 2000 AD comic strips and now for the first time the original story, printed in colour as a five-issue mini series by Eagle Comics in the 1980s, will be available in a single collection!
For forty years, Sam Slade has been one of the best robo-tectives in the business, but all of his experience couldn’t prepare him for his latest case. In 2080 overpopulation of the Earth led the Space Commission into seeking out new planets to colonise.
Four years later they discovered Verdus, a suitable planet in the Crab Nebula. Now, Colonists who sent there have not been heard from again. The Commission believe that robots have taken control of the planet and want Sam to uncover the truth. It’s a dangerous case, but one Sam can’t refuse – otherwise he’s guaranteed a bullet in the head!
Out on 27 September, with Gibson and Ferrer’s stunning artwork, with gritty old school colour, this is a collection that’s guaranteed to slay!
ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2351 is OUT NOW!
Welcome to Thrill-Central — I am your host, galactic green godhead Tharg The Mighty!
After the scrotnig circuit-scrambling alt-history shenanigans of last week’s Battle Action merger, we’re back to the current reality with an all-new line-up of zarjaz stories.
Future lawman Judge Dredd is on the trail of those responsible for former Chief Judge Hershey’s death in Poison by Rob Williams and PJ Holden; Feral & Foe is back for its third outing, courtesy of regular creators Dan Abnett and Richard Elson, as Bode and Wrath continue their bounty-hunting business; and Ian Edginton and D’Israeli’s skyship saga Helium returns after an extraordinary eight years. The last we saw of Hodge and Sol was their craft crashing in the Poison Belt so I’m sure you’re eager to find out what happened next — and if you need a refresher, the entire first series is available as a free download from 2000AD.com!
Add to that a special crossover one-off from the Ennis and Flint droids, and you’ve got another ghafflebette jumping-on prog.
2000 AD Prog 2351 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!
Cover art by John McCrea with Mike SpicerScript: Rob Williams / Art: PJ Holden / Colours: Peter Doherty / Letters: Simon Bowland
JUDGE DREDD // POISON
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: Dan Abnett / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Jim Campbell
FERAL & FOE // BAD GODESBERG
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. So now they’re in the bounty-hunting business…
Script: Ian Edginton / Art: D’Israeli / Letters: Simon Bowland
HELIUM // SCORCHED EARTH
The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eighty-five per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a vast gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt — a toxic cocktail of biological weapons. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a professor named Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Young Constable Hodge was tasked with protecting him…
Script: Garth Ennis / Art: Henry Flint / Letters: Rob Steen
JUDGE DREDD Vs ROBO-HUNTER
In 22nd-century Brit-Cit, Sam Slade is a ROBO-HUNTER, a private detective hired to find missing droids or track down malfunctioning meks. Partnered with his idiot robot understudy Hoagy and his excitable robo-cigar Stogie, trouble is never very far away when Sam’s on a case — and when the creds are running dry, he’ll take any case that he can get his hands on, and that includes journeying to Mega-City One…
