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2000 AD Prog 2379 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2379 is OUT NOW!

I am The Mighty Tharg, bringer of Thrills to a planet beset by brain-sapping mundanity!

Yes, it’s that time of the week again, my Squaxx, when you get to escape everyday reality — if just for the time it takes to peruse and absorb these pulse-pounding pages — and be transported to the circuit-shattering worlds of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. Inside this ghafflebette prog, you’ll find the latest high-octane instalments of Judge Dredd, Brink, Aquila, Proteus Vex and Indigo Prime, brought to you by the fevered imaginations of my creator droids.

Chained as they are in their work-cubicles, channelling every key-tap and pencil-stroke through my office so I get to oversee the entire process and ensure that it’s all at the necessary level of zarjazosity, the whole Command Module meshes together as a finely tuned machine… staffed by machines! Many of you may be wondering, is this a utopian vision of the future I can get behind — mechanoids programmed to deliver high-intensity entertainment under the direct rule of an alien overlord, who demands nothing less than total subservience?

Well, all I can say is, it works for me — and the end result is pretty damn scrotnig!

2000 AD Prog 2379 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: I.N.J. Culbard

Script: Rob Williams / Art: RM Guera / Colours: Giulia Brusco / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // REND & TEAR WITH TOOTH & CLAW, Part Four

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. 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, he’s crash-landed in the radlands, and come under attack by a rampaging grizzly bear…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: INJ Culbard / Letters: Simon Bowland

BRINK // CONSUMED, Part Two

The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and Bridget Kurtis of the Habitat Security Division is investigating their reach…


Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Patrick Goddard / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

AQUILA // THE RIVERS OF HADES BOOK TWO, Part Three

Following Spartacus’s failed revolt against his Roman masters, his rebel army was crucified. Amongst these was the slave-turned-gladiator AQUILA, who cried out to the gods for vengeance — and was answered by Ammit the Devourer, a deity that gifted him with immortality in return for keeping her fed with evil men’s souls. Now, Aquila has travelled into Hades and retrieved the spirit of Nero, who knows Ammit’s location…


Script: Kek-W / Art: Lee Carter / Letters: Jim Campbell

INDIGO PRIME // BLACK MONDAY, Part Nine

The multiverse. There is an infinite number of parallel realities, and all need managing in case of dimensional instability. This is where INDIGO PRIMEINDIGO PRIME came in, the multiverse’s troubleshooters, whose agents are trained to deal with space/time catastrophes. Now, IP’s HQ has been destroyed in a cataclysmic event, and its assets acquired by the company ICP. But Clive Vista has a plan, involving Tyranny Rex…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // DEVIOUS, Part Five

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict ended when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. In the wake of the war with the Scorchers, Vex is missing, presumed dead…

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The 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2024: Supernova Stories from a Sideways Universe!

Cover Art by Mike Perkins

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SUPERNOVA STORIES FROM A SIDEWAYS UNIVERSE!

It’s the summer of true nuclear fusion as 2000 AD mashes and smashes its most popular strips together in the return of its pulsating Sci-Fi Special!

Exploding into shelves on 3 July in a 48-page supernova, the 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special will feature an all-thriller AND killer line-up of creators including Ian Edginton, Dan Abnett, Ben Willsher, Nicolò Assirelli… and the return to 2000 AD of the mighty Al Ewing!

This all-new Sci-Fi Special comes beamed from an alternate dimension – one in which familiar characters from the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic have been given a different twist. The Thrill-powered characters you thought you knew have been amalgamated into one other in strange and unpredictable ways, creating an all new version of the Galaxy’s Greatest!

In this sideways universe there is only one person who has the strength to enforce the law in Mega-City One… and he’s a high-powered mutant! With eyes which can emit piercing Alpha waves, JUDGE ALPHA makes sure that nobody messes with the Justice Department!

When robots go rogue and start causing chaos in the neighbourhood, who’re you gonna call? Sinister and Dexter, of course, the ROBO-SHARKS! Hired to track down and terminate troublesome droids, this pair of robo… hunters? never miss their targets! 

The Search/Destroy Agency have a number of highly-trained bounty hunters on their intergalactic roster: but none were as skilled as Friday! Framed for a crime he didn’t commit, this ROGUE/DOG is now being hunted by his fellow bounty hunters!

Ahoy! When you’re out on the wild seas of the world, flag flying in the wind and your team of scurvy dogs on deck, no bounty goes unclaimed! But the Red Wench’s captain is a rather strange chap: who is STICKLEBACK?

And if you’re a fan of high-octane thrill-sports, there’s only one place to enjoy extreme and enervating combat! The most violent sport of the future features undead, flesh-eating teams… welcome THE HARLEM ZOMBOS to 2000 AD!



Priced at £4.99 for 48 pages of interstellar amalgamation action, the 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2024 is out on 3 July from all good newsagents and comic book stores, as well as the 2000 AD app and webshop! Pre-order your copy today!

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2000 AD Prog 2378 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2378 is OUT NOW!

Call me The Mighty Tharg, universally renowned purveyor of Thrills — the future is now!

One of the most popular of modern 2000 AD series returns this prog as the sixth book of Brink commences within these pages, courtesy as ever of the Abnett and Culbard droids. While 2022’s previous arc, Mercury Retrograde, took a deviation and followed journalist Nolan Maslow’s parallel investigation into sect activity, in Consumed we’re back with HSD officer Bridget Kurtis, stopping over at Belleholme Habitat and about to become embroiled in a spate of murders…

With Brink joining the scrotnig likes of Dredd, Aquila, Proteus Vex and Indigo Prime, once again it’s a line-up thrumming with so much Thrill-power that it threatens the very fabric of your reality. What can be done? Why, pour more on, of course, with the release this week of Meg 467, featuring a complete Dredd story from Mike Carroll and Paul Marshall, more DeMarco, P.I., Devlin Waugh and Harrower Squad, and the return of Brit-Cit Detective Judge Armitage courtesy of Liam Johnson and Warren Pleece.

Add to that chats with Chris Weston, Igor Goldkind and more, it’s a ghafflebette package you mustn’t miss, Terrans!

2000 AD Prog 2378 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: Patrick Goddard / Colours: Dylan Teague

Script: Rob Williams / Art: RM Guera / Colours: Giulia Brusco / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // REND & TEAR WITH TOOTH & CLAW, Part Three

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. 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, he’s crash-landed in the radlands, and come under attack by a rampaging grizzly bear…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: INJ Culbard / Letters: Simon Bowland

BRINK // CONSUMED, Part One

The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of deep-space Habitats. But life on these cramped, overcrowded stations is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and Bridget Kurtis of the Habitat Security Division is investigating their reach…


Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Patrick Goddard / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

AQUILA // THE RIVERS OF HADES BOOK TWO, Part Two

Following Spartacus’s failed revolt against his Roman masters, his rebel army was crucified. Amongst these was the slave-turned-gladiator AQUILA, who cried out to the gods for vengeance — and was answered by Ammit the Devourer, a deity that gifted him with immortality in return for keeping her fed with evil men’s souls. Now, Aquila has travelled into Hades and retrieved the spirit of Nero, who knows Ammit’s location…


Script: Kek-W / Art: Lee Carter / Letters: Jim Campbell

INDIGO PRIME // BLACK MONDAY, Part Eight

The multiverse. There is an infinite number of parallel realities, and all need managing in case of dimensional instability. This is where INDIGO PRIMEINDIGO PRIME came in, the multiverse’s troubleshooters, whose agents are trained to deal with space/time catastrophes. Now, IP’s HQ has been destroyed in a cataclysmic event, and its assets acquired by the company ICP. But Clive Vista has a plan, involving Tyranny Rex…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // DEVIOUS, Part Four

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict ended when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. In the wake of the war with the Scorchers, Vex is missing, presumed dead…

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2000 AD Prog 2377 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2377 is OUT NOW!

I am The Mighty Tharg, a cosmic being from Betelgeuse with the awesome power to Thrill!

You know, a question many of your species has pondered over the last few years has been to do with the nature of reality — or, more pertinently, is what you’re witnessing actually what it purports to be? Yes, I’m talking about Is it Cake?, a televisual journey into existentialism that asks you — can you truly rely on your senses that you’ve used to navigate this world since birth? Or are you being fooled, and notions of what you thought was real can easily be undone? Is that really a shoe? A handbag? A bowl of fruit? Or is it just cake?

It’s something I mull over here in the Command Module in this age of manipulated reality — replace cake with artificial intelligence and it becomes more sinister. Do I hold in my hand something that was created by a single imagination, or a code inputted into a program? Is it what it claims to be, or an approximation of a creative endeavour? A computerised recreation of artistry?

Needless to say, nothing but pure zarjaz creativity here in these pages, with the return of Aquila and the finale to Full Tilt Boogie. Be here in seven for the start for Brink Book Six, humes!

2000 AD Prog 2377 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: Cliff Robinson / Colours: Dylan Teague

Script: Rob Williams / Art: RM Guera / Colours: Giulia Brusco / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // REND & TEAR WITH TOOTH & CLAW, Part Two

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. 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, he’s crash-landed in the radlands, and come under attack by a rampaging grizzly bear…


Script: Alex de Campi / Art: Eduardo Ocana / Colours: Eva De La Cruz / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

FULL TILT BOOGIE // BOOK TWO, Part Eleven

Out in the deep reaches of the cosmos, teenager Tee — together with her grandmother and cat — is a bounty hunter/hired help, operating from her spaceship the FULL TILT BOOGIE. Tee was paid to rescue the Luxine Prince Ifan from his debtors’ prison. In the process, she encountered a resurrected Anubite warrior, a member of the enemy race with whom the Luxine Empire was at war. Now, they’ve sought refuge on Tanzagar…


Script: Gordon Rennie / Art: Patrick Goddard / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

AQUILA // THE RIVERS OF HADES BOOK TWO

Following Spartacus’s failed revolt against his Roman masters, his rebel army was crucified. Amongst these was the slave-turned-gladiator AQUILA, who cried out to the gods for vengeance — and was answered by Ammit the Devourer, a deity that gifted him with immortality in return for keeping her fed with evil men’s souls. Now, Aquila has travelled into Hades and retrieved the spirit of Nero, who knows Ammit’s location…


Script: Kek-W / Art: Lee Carter / Letters: Jim Campbell

INDIGO PRIME // BLACK MONDAY, Part Seven

The multiverse. There is an infinite number of parallel realities, and all need managing in case of dimensional instability. This is where INDIGO PRIMEINDIGO PRIME came in, the multiverse’s troubleshooters, whose agents are trained to deal with space/time catastrophes. Now, IP’s HQ has been destroyed in a cataclysmic event, and its assets acquired by the company ICP. But Clive Vista has a plan, involving Tyranny Rex…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // DEVIOUS, Part Three

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict ended when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. In the wake of the war with the Scorchers, Vex is missing, presumed dead…

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2000 AD Prog 2376 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2376 is OUT NOW!

Call me Tharg The Mighty, Thrill-channelling, cosmically charged superbeing from Betelgeuse!

Back to normal service this prog, my Squaxx — or as normal as the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic can ever be, considering we’re dealing with several planes of reality just in one issue — after last week’s bumper edition, and within these pulse-pounding pages you’ll find the start of a new Dredd story by the Williams and Guera droids as well as a complete Terror Tale from debuting script-bot Jon Lock and art-mek Richard Elson, alongside the latest instalments of Full Tilt Boogie, Indigo Prime and Proteus Vex!

As we plunge into April and the skies brighten, the trees bud with life and the dark evenings of winter are left behind, no doubt your human spirits soar a little, the sense of growth that comes with spring revitalising your mood. It’s well established that the seasons affect you Terrans’ outlook, which can ebb and rise over the course of a year — but one thing that is consistent, that will always bring you joy, intrigue and excitement no matter what the weather, is, of course, my illustrious organ.

Every week you can rely upon the fact that 2000 AD’s a guaranteed circuit-shatterer!

2000 AD Prog 2376 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: RM Guera

Script: Rob Williams / Art: RM Guera / Colours: Giulia Brusco / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // REND & TEAR WITH TOOTH & CLAW, Part One

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 toxic Black Atlantic to the east and the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west. 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!


Script: Alex de Campi / Art: Eduardo Ocana / Colours: Eva De La Cruz / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

FULL TILT BOOGIE // BOOK TWO, Part Ten

Out in the deep reaches of the cosmos, teenager Tee — together with her grandmother and cat — is a bounty hunter/hired help, operating from her spaceship the FULL TILT BOOGIE. Tee was paid to rescue the Luxine Prince Ifan from his debtors’ prison. In the process, she encountered a resurrected Anubite warrior, a member of the enemy race with whom the Luxine Empire was at war. Now, they’ve sought refuge on Tanzagar…


Script: Jon Lock / Art: Richard Elson / Letters: Simon Bowland

TERROR TALES // ANTUMNOS, Part One

Experience the terrifying side of Thrill-power with these one-off tales from beyond the veil of sanity. Whether they be ghostly goings-on that send shivers up the spine or splatterfests that sear the retina and paralyse the mind, nothing is what it seems in these glimpses of a realm beyond our own. Sharpe is a member of Herne, a specialist governmental division investigating unusual phenomena and disappearances…


Script: Kek-W / Art: Lee Carter / Letters: Jim Campbell

INDIGO PRIME // BLACK MONDAY, Part Six

The multiverse. There is an infinite number of parallel realities, and all need managing in case of dimensional instability. This is where INDIGO PRIMEINDIGO PRIME came in, the multiverse’s troubleshooters, whose agents are trained to deal with space/time catastrophes. Now, IP’s HQ has been destroyed in a cataclysmic event, and its assets acquired by the company ICP. But Clive Vista has a plan, involving Tyranny Rex…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // DEVIOUS, Part Two

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict ended when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. In the wake of the war with the Scorchers, Vex is missing, presumed dead…

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Rogue’s First Mission! Essential Rogue Trooper Vol 1: Genetic Infantryman is Out Now!

ESSENTIAL ROGUE TROOPER vol.1

The first of a new series in the Essential line featuring 2000 AD’s legendary war machine, Rogue Trooper! The basis for the upcoming feature film directed by Duncan Jones (Moon), Rogue Trooper races into action in this Essential Collection which includes his action-packed origin story!

Rogue Trooper is the last of the G.I.s – genetically-engineered infantrymen designed to withstand the noxious atmosphere of Nu-Earth, a planet ravaged by the conflict between Norts and Southers. A lone survivor of the Quartz Massacre, equipped with the bio-chips of his fallen clone brothers, he crosses the war-torn landscape in search of the Traitor General, the man responsible for their deaths – and will not rest until he has his revenge!

Out from today from all good book shops, comic book shops and the 2000 AD webshop, as well as digitally from the 2000 AD webshop and app, this first volume in this new Essential series features selected stories by co-creators Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), with art by Colin Wilson (Judge Dredd) and Cam Kennedy (Star Wars: Dark Empire).

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2000 AD Prog 2375 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2375 is OUT NOW!

I am The Mighty Tharg, alien editor of this award-winning SF weekly — prep for Thrill-power!

Welcome, my Squaxx, to this bumper issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic — the first of four that will be seeded throughout the year, allowing for bonus stories to run alongside the ongoing Thrills. They’ll also be scrotnig points for new readers to join the throng of devotees to my illustrious organ, and this pulse-pounding prog is no exception.

Joining the latest instalments of Full Tilt Boogie and Indigo Prime, and the heart-stopping climax to folk chiller Thistlebone, we have a new Dredd story by Rob Williams and RM Guera that acts as a prologue to the zarjaz series that starts next week, the ten-page opening instalment of deep-space actioner Proteus Vex by Mike Carroll and Jake Lynch, and a complete Rogue Trooper tale from David Barnett and Paul Marshall.

As you may have heard, there’s a Rogue movie heading your way in 2025 courtesy of Duncan Jones, so my droids and I are making sure everyone’s fully versed in Nu Earth lore by the time it hits. Look out for more Rogue stories coming your way in a few months, and don’t miss the Essential Rogue Trooper collection, out now at all good stores!

2000 AD Prog 2375 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: John McCrea / Colours: Jack Davies

Script: Rob Williams / Art: RM Guera / Colours: Giulia Brusco / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // NEXT MAN UP

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 toxic Black Atlantic to the east and the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west. 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!


Script: Alex de Campi / Art: Eduardo Ocana / Colours: Eva De La Cruz / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

FULL TILT BOOGIE // BOOK TWO, Part Nine

Out in the deep reaches of the cosmos, teenager Tee — together with her grandmother and cat — is a bounty hunter/hired help, operating from her spaceship the FULL TILT BOOGIE. Tee was paid to rescue the Luxine Prince Ifan from his debtors’ prison. In the process, she encountered a resurrected Anubite warrior, a member of the enemy race with whom the Luxine Empire was at war. Now, they’ve sought refuge on Tanzagar…


Script: T.C Eglington / Art: Simon Davis / Letters: Simon Bowland

THISTLEBONE // THE DULE TREE, Part Twelve

Britain, 2020. It’s been over a year since journalist Seema Chaudry accompanied cult survivor Avril Easton back to the village of Harrowvale, where she suffered at the hands of THISTLEBONE worshippers, a crazed occult group that believed in an ancient woodland deity. One man in the village, Malcolm Kinniburgh, was keeping the Thistlebone legend alive — but it seems to be connected with an old ‘70s horror film…


Script: Kek-W / Art: Lee Carter / Letters: Jim Campbell

INDIGO PRIME // BLACK MONDAY, Part Five

The multiverse. There is an infinite number of parallel realities, and all need managing in case of dimensional instability. This is where INDIGO PRIMEINDIGO PRIME came in, the multiverse’s troubleshooters, whose agents are trained to deal with space/time catastrophes. Now, IP’s HQ has been destroyed in a cataclysmic event, and its assets acquired by the company ICP. But Clive Vista has a plan, involving Tyranny Rex…


Script: David Barnett / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Pippa Bowland / Letters: Jim Campbell

ROGUE TROOPER // WAR CHILD

Nu Earth, site of a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers, where use of chemical weapons has rendered the atmosphere poisonous. So the Southers created the Genetic Infantrymen, bred to be immune to the planet’s pollutants — G.I.s like ROGUE TROOPER, the last of his kind. Together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, they’re searching for the traitor that sold them out…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // DEVIOUS, Part One

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict ended when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. In the wake of the war with the Scorchers, Vex is missing, presumed dead…

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Duncan Jones Wraps Principal Photography on Rogue Trooper Movie

Duncan Jones’ (Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute) eagerly anticipated movie adaptation of classic British comic Rogue Trooper has wrapped principal photography in the UK. Written and directed by Jones, Rogue Trooper  is an animated science fiction feature from Rebellion and Liberty Films.

Shot at Rebellion Film Studios in Oxfordshire, breakout talent Aneurin Barnard (The Goldfinch, Dunkirk) stars as the eponymous Rogue Trooper, alongside Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One), Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk), Daryl McCormack (Bad Sisters, Good Luck To You Leo Grande), and Reece Shearsmith (Inside No. 9, Saltburn). Rounding out the cast is an incredible ensemble, which includes Jemaine Clement (Avatar 2: The Way of Water), Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows), Diane Morgan (Cunk on Earth), Alice Lowe (Black Mirror), Asa Butterfield (Sex Education, Hugo) and Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings).

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Rogue Trooper tells the story of 19, a ‘Genetic Infantryman’, who finds himself the sole-survivor of an invasion force. Desperate to track down the traitor who sold him and his comrades out, the super soldier is accompanied by three killed-in-action squad mates, whose personalities have been stored in his gun, helmet and rucksack.

Filmmaker Duncan Jones said: “2000 AD offers a very different flavour of comic action: Political and brutal at times, but always with a Pythonesque twinkle in the eye. Dredd (2012) was a taste of what 2000 AD has to offer and now we get to show the world another side of the beast. It is a genuine privilege to be given the opportunity to make Rogue Trooper.”

Treehouse Digital (The Well) is creating all imagery and animation for the film, working with Jones to bring to life the world of Rogue Trooper from concept art to final pixel in Unreal Engine 5.

Producer Stuart Fenegan commented: “The advancements in Unreal Engine 5 and the inclusion of MetaHuman rigs mean that it is now possible to achieve a very high standard of animation within an indie budget. Working with our amazing partners at Rebellion, Epic and Treehouse Digital we are pioneering and developing a new creative pipeline that will enable independent production of CG animated films.”

Unreal Engine from Epic is a development platform that enables creators across numerous industries to realise real-time 3D content and experiences.

Rebellion CEO, Jason Kingsley CBE, who is a Producer on Rogue Trooper, added: “We are thrilled to be working with Duncan Jones, who is a fellow British creative visionary and 2000 AD fan with global reach. Rogue Trooper highlights Rebellion’s leading position within the entertainment industries. It has been filmed at our dedicated Oxfordshire film studios and combines beautiful storytelling from our iconic 2000 AD comic book universe with animation and production technology from the video game industry. We cannot wait for everyone to see these incredible stories bought to life on screen.”

The Rogue Trooper comic was created by legendary artist Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, Kingsman) and writer Gerry Finley-Day (Dan Dare) and released by British publishers 2000 AD, home to Judge DreddHalo Jones and Sláine.

Rogue Trooper is produced by Stuart Fenegan (Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute) alongside Jason Kingsley (Dredd, School’s Out Forever), Chris Kingsley (Dredd, School’s Out Forever) and Duncan Jones. The film is set to complete in 2025.

For the latest news and updates, please visit roguetrooper.com.

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Rogue’s Return! Pre-Order Rogue Trooper: Blighty Valley Today!

Rogue Trooper: Blighty Valley

Through the fog of Nu-Earth comes a brutal and hard-hitting new story featuring the Genetic Infantryman, Rogue Trooper, from the powerhouse creative team of Garth Ennis and Patrick Goddard!

Nu Earth is the site of a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers, and the Genetic Infantrymen like Rogue Trooper have been created solely for this war. However, after the betrayal of the Traitor General Rogue is the last of his kind, and together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, they’re searching for the traitor that sold them out.

But now the black hole above Nu-Earth causes a time-rift, and Rogue must team up with British soldiers from World War One to fight both the Hun and the Norts, fix the time barrier, and get back to his original mission.

Garth Ennis (The Boys, Preacher) writes this new, standalone Rogue Trooper adventure – melding together historical action with the sci-fi adventure that is the core of 2000 AD – drawn by Patrick Goddard, who brings the character back in a style reminiscent of the classic Rogue Trooper artists.

Releasing on the 2nd July 2024, Rogue Trooper: Blighty Valley is an incredible new addition to the classic canon of stories featuring the Genetic Infantryman! Pre-order now to reserve your copy!

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Essential Rogue Trooper – pre-order the greatest tales of the Genetic Infantryman!

ESSENTIAL ROGUE TROOPER vol.1

Pre-order the first of a new series in the Essential line featuring 2000 AD’s legendary war machine, Rogue Trooper! The basis for the upcoming feature film directed by Duncan Jones (Moon), Rogue Trooper races into action in this Essential Collection which includes his action-packed origin story!

Rogue Trooper is the last of the G.I.s – genetically-engineered infantrymen designed to withstand the noxious atmosphere of Nu-Earth, a planet ravaged by the conflict between Norts and Southers. A lone survivor of the Quartz Massacre, equipped with the bio-chips of his fallen clone brothers, he crosses the war-torn landscape in search of the Traitor General, the man responsible for their deaths – and will not rest until he has his revenge!

Out on 26 March from all good book shops, comic book shops and the 2000 AD webshop, as well as digitally from the 2000 AD webshop and app, this first volume in this new Essential series features selected stories by co-creators Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), with art by Colin Wilson (Judge Dredd) and Cam Kennedy (Star Wars: Dark Empire).