2000 AD and Treasury of British Comics publisher responds to virus lockdown pressures with graphic novel rescheduling – but weekly and monthly comics to continue
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented challenge to the comic book industry but as a publisher Rebellion is determined to support creators, readers, and retailers as best it can at this difficult time.
With the safety of printers, distributors, and staff in mind, Rebellion has revised its 2020 graphic novel schedule to ensure readers can still enjoy the best collections in comics, making sure we are able to support retailers that remain open while also helping those that are closed by staggering new releases through to 2021.
Printing and distribution of our periodicals will continue – this includes the weekly 2000 AD, the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine, and the range of Rebellion specials. These are available from open retailers, such as newsagents and selected grocery chains, as well as in print and digital from 2000 AD and the Treasury of British Comics webshop, and the 2000 AD app.
Due to the closure of many book and comic book stores, unfortunately some graphic novel collections will now be delayed by a few months while others have been completely rescheduled for 2021.
Some graphic novels due for release in May, June, July, and August 2020 will go digital-first, with standard print editions postponed until later in the year. Webshop-exclusive print editions of some titles will still go ahead. This means readers can still enjoy collections while in lockdown, while avoiding a glut of titles hitting retailers when they reopen.
Ben Smith, Head of Publishing, said: ”Due to the challenges facing the book and comic book industry in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have revised Rebellion’s 2020 publishing schedule, pushing back some graphic novel releases until later in 2020 or 2021.
“We won’t be going on hiatus – the periodical comics will continue while some book collections will go digital-first so we can continue to share and shout about the amazing work our creators and editors are putting together while we’re all in lockdown. Where special hardback editions have already been printed we will release these from our webshop on the planned dates.
“We look forward to getting back to normal service, but in the meantime our mission to deliver to best in new and classic comics continues.”
Customers who have already pre-ordered titles such as Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Vol.35 will have their orders honoured when the print edition is published later in the year.
Digital titles will be available from the 2000 AD and Treasury of British Comics webshops, as well as from the 2000 AD app. By registering with the same details on the webshop and app, readers will be able to purchase and read titles in both.
The revised Rebellion graphic novel schedule:
The Complete Johnny Future: print and digital – 30 April
Judge Dredd Case Files 35
Digital release – 14 May
Standard print edition postponed to 1 October 2020
Smash! Special: print and digital release – 27 May
Sláine: The Horned GodCollector’s Edition
Digital and webshop-exclusive edition – 28 May
Standard print edition postponed to 3 September 2020
Strontium Dog: Search and Destroy
Digital and webshop-exclusive edition – 11 June
Standard print edition postponed to 12 November 2020
2000 AD Summer Sci Fi Special: Twenty Years of Rebellion: print and digital – 24 June
Concrete Surfer
Digital and webshop-exclusive edition – 25 June
Standard print edition postponed to 17 September 2020
War Picture Library: Battler Britton
Digital – 9 July
Standard print edition postponed to June 2021
Judge Dredd: Control
Digital – 9 July
Print edition postponed to 10 December 2020
Tammy & Jinty Special: print and digital – 12 August 2020
Hope Book 2
Digital – 20 August
Print edition postponed to 21 January 2021
Essential Judge Dredd: America: print and digital – 3 September 2020
Battle Special 2020: print and digital – 16 September 2020
Misty & Scream Special 2020: print and digital – 30 September 2020
The Dracula File paperback edition: print edition – 1 October 2020
The Thirteenth Floor Vol.2: print and digital – 15 October 2020
Thriller Picture Library Special: print and digital – 11 November 2020
Faceache Vol.1 paperback edition: print edition – 12 November 2020
Death Squad: print and digital – 26 November 2020
Misty Creepy Christmas Special: print and digital – 2 December 2020
Sláine: Web of Weird: print and digital – 10 December 2020
Sugar Jones: print and digital – 24 December 2020
Cor! Buster Collection: print and digital – 24 December 2020
The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire Vol. 2: print and digital – 10 December 2020
King’s Reach: John Sanders’ Twenty-Five Years at the Top of Comics: print and digital – 7 January 2021
2000 AD Regened Collection: print and digital – 7 January 2021
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files Vol.36: print and digital – 4 February 2021
The Vigilant: print and digital – 1 April 2021
Thistlebone: print and digital – 29 April 2021
Devlin Waugh: Blood Debt: print and digital – May 2021
Ken Reid Football Funnies: print and digital – July 2021
Essential Judge Dredd: Origins: print and digital – September 2021
Fiends of the Eastern Front: print and digital – October 2021
Black Max Vol.2: print and digital – October 2021
Please note: this list does not include all graphic novel titles slated for release in 2021, just new dates for titles that have been postponed from the 2020 schedule.
From folk horror to sci-fi fantasy mash-ups, from new series to old favourites – 2000 AD’s graphic novel schedule for 2020 is a high-octane blast of the very best in comics!
Leading the way in encouraging younger
readers into picking up the comic book habit is 2000 AD Regened (September) with a collection of all-ages re-imaginings
of the legendary anthology’s greatest characters by creators such as Alex De
Campi, Alec Worley, Chris Weston, and Neil Googe.
This year’s list combines the best of 2000 AD’s newest output while presenting
old classics in fresh ways, including a new Collector’s Edition of Pat Mills
and Simon Bisley’s seminal industry-changing Sláine: The Horned God (May)
and revisiting the beginning of John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s mutant bounty
hunters Strontium Dog with Strontium Dog: Search and Destroy
(June), a sumptuous hardcover featuring restored colour pages.
Science fiction with a twist has been 2000 AD’s raison d’être for more than 40
years and two collections this year reinforces the comic’s place at the
bleeding edge of sci-fi publishing – Kingmaker (April) by Ian Edginton
and Leigh Gallagher, which brings an alien invasion crashing into a
Tolkien-esque world, and the fourth volume of Dan Abnett and Richard Elson
fan-favourite epic Kingdom (February), with more dark secrets uncovered by dog
soldier Gene the Hackman.
There’s plenty to keep those who enjoy horror happy too, with the break-out folk horror hit of Thistlebone (December) by Tom Eglington and Simon Davis, Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton’s 1940s magic noir thriller Hope … Under Fire (August), and a new collection of 2000 AD historical slasher classic Fiends of the Eastern Front (October) with new stories from Ian Edginton, Dave Taylor, Tiernan Trevallion, and Dave Kendall that take arch-vamp Captain Constanza to new conflicts. Plus, everyone’s favourite favourite gay vampire exorcist, Devlin Waugh, returns in Devlin Waugh: Blood Debt (July) from Aleš Kot, Rory McConville, and Michael Dowling.
For fans of the greatest lawman of the
future, the latest hit Judge Dredd stories from 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd
Megazine are collected for the first time, with John Wagner, John McCrea,
and Colin MacNeil’s Judge Dredd – Mechanismo: Machine Law (March) while Rob
Williams and Chris Weston introduce a Judge even more deadly than Dredd himself
in Judge
Dredd: Control (July). Meanwhile, the best-selling Judge Dredd: The Complete Case
Files series continues publishing the law in order with Volume 35 (May) and
Volume 36 (September)
And as part of 2000 AD’s mission to introduce new readers to its greatest
character, the brand new Essential Judge
Dredd series launches in September with two books revisiting the most
important stories from more than four decades of Dredd – Essential Judge Dredd: America
(September) and Essential Judge Dredd: Origins (November).
“Our books for 2020 really are the best of
old and new,” said senior graphic novels editor Keith Richardson, “and reflect
the fact that 2000 AD continues to
produce the best comic books out there. Whether you’re a veteran fan or a new
reader looking to dip your toe in, from prestige editions of classics like Sláine: The Horned God and Strontium Dog: Search and Destroy to new
series like 2000 AD Regened and Thistlebone, we’ve precision-engineered
this year’s schedule to make sure there’s something for everyone!”
Kingdom: Alpha and Omega
Dan Abnett, Richard Elson
ISBN: 9781781087534
6 February (UK)
UK £15.99 // US $19.99
Pages: 144 // Paperback
The latest collection of 2000 AD’s latest
breakout success from the mind of New York Times bestselling SF and Warhammer
author Dan Abnett! A high octane wide-screen action series, perfect for fans of
the films Aliens and Dog Soldiers! After dragging Gene to their faltering
cryogenic space station and abandoning his pack to the swarming insect “Them”,
the masters are how holding Gene in idyllic V.R. suspension. Rescued before
execution by an old friend, and joined by a terrorist working to undermine the
master’s grip on the world below, Gene forms a tenuous alliance. The three must
work together to infiltrate the master’s security systems and steal the codes
to their massively destructive arsenal. But Gene might not be prepared for what
else he finds…
Judge Dredd – Mechanismo: Machine Law
John Wagner, John McCrea, Colin MacNeil
ISBN: 9781781087541
5 March 2020 (UK) 3 March 2020 (US)
UK £10.99 // US 13.99
Pages: 96 // Paperback
A buddy cop tale like no other! Man and
mechanismo, on the mean streets of Mega-City One. The next chapter in the
legendary Judge Dredd epic, penned by incomparable Judge Dredd co-creator John
Wagner! With art by renowned DC Comics artist John McCrea (Deadpool, Wonder
Woman), this is the new blockbuster collection from Judge Dredd’s co-creator.
With Mega-City one eating Judges faster than they can be replaced, the Justice
Department prepares once more to trial a radical solution for their manpower
shortage: The Mark-8 RV Mechanismo unit, robotic judges programmed to deal with
everything the city can throw at them. Judge Dredd has never hidden his
feelings on robot Judges, but the responsive, resilient and ultimately
expendable machines may be the answer to the justice department’s problems.
Dredd is ordered to put aside his prejudices and conduct an assessment with one
of the latest models, nicknamed HARVEY…
Kingmaker
Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher
ISBN: 9781781087572
2 April (UK) 7 April (US)
UK £14.99 // US $19.99
Pages: 144 // Paperback
The Magic is Gathering! The inhabitants of
the nine kingdoms fought hard to liberate their world from the tyranny of
Ichnar the Wraith King. Little did they suspect that a greater threat would
soon fall upon them in the form of the Thorn – a race of aliens intent on
stripmining all of the magic from the world. Now old enemies have formed an
alliance – Wizard Ablard, ork Crixus and the dryad Princess Yarrow have set
aside their differences and are seeking to use the Ebora world spirit against
the invaders… The first book in a thrilling post-modern fantasy action saga,
written by one of 2000 AD’s modern masters Ian Edginton (Scarlet Traces, Brass
Sun).
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #35
John Wagner, Alan Grant, Gordon Rennie, Richard Elson, John Higgins, Ian Gibson, Siku, Ben Willsher, Colin MacNeil, Kevin Walker, Paul Marshall, Cam Kennedy, Carlos Ezquerra
ISBN: 9781781087541
14 May 2020 (UK)
UK £19.99
Pages: 304 // Paperback
The latest in the smash-hit, best-selling
graphic novel series! Almost half a million copies sold! The floating
multi-story metropolis of illegal delights known as “Sin City” has anchored
outside Mega-City one, and Dredd has seemingly been sent aboard to keep what
order can be kept on a lawless floating city. His real task? Locate Ula Danser,
the De-Megification terrorist determined to destroy the Mega-Cities at any
cost! But Danser isn’t working alone – Dredd’s old enemy Orlok is coming to
meet her, and he’s carrying a cargo intended to pay back everything Dredd did
to East-Meg one – with interest! The latest in the world-wide best-selling,
flagship 2000 AD graphic novel series which has become a perennial classic.
Includes artwork by some of 2000 AD’s very best, including Cam Kennedy, Ian
Gibson, Carlos Ezquerra, and Marvel artist Kev Walker!
Sláine: The Horned God Collector’s Edition
Pat Mills, Simon Bisley
ISBN: 9781781087626
28 May 2020 (UK) 26 May 2020 (US)
UK £19.99 // US $24.99 // CAN $33.99
Pages: 208 // Paperback
Rediscover one of the most influential
graphic novels ever, with the Sláine: The Horned God – Collector’s Edition.
Timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of its first publication, this new,
larger edition of the bestselling 2000 AD collection, written by industry
visionary Pat Mills, features the groundbreaking fully-painted art of comics
legend Simon Bisley. One of the most popular stories ever published in the
pages of 2000 AD, The Horned God is a heady mix of Celtic mythology, extreme
violence, and beautiful artwork. As well as Mills’ fascinating characters and
saga-like storytelling, the stunning enormity of Bisley’s work on the series
cannot be understated, with epic battles and vast landscapes evoking everything
from the work of Frank Frazetta to Gustav Klimt. This deluxe collector’s
edition returns us to the mist-wreathed realm of Tír na nÓg, the ancient land
suffering under the dominion of the Drunes; strange druids who have poisoned
the land with their magic. Sláine has had enough of their tyranny and, through
the Earth Goddess, he learns some shocking truths about the priesthood and his
own future. Now Sláine must unite the four kings of Tír na nÓg and use their
mystical weapons as he and the Sessair tribe prepare for all-out war!
Strontium Dog: Search & Destroy
John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra
ISBN: 9781781087657
26 June 2020 (UK)
UK £19.99
Pages: 144 // Hardcover
The earliest adventures of one of 2000 AD’s
greatest series – Strontium Dog – are to be reprinted in colour for the first
time in decades. Reprinted with its original colour pages, Strontium Dog:
Search and Destroy is a sumptuous hardcover 144-page collection collecting the
origins of John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s hard-hitting story of prejudice
and violence. Strontium Dog: Search and Destroy brings back into print one of
the seminal series of British comics, a science fiction Western that merges
everything from time travel to a trip to Hell itself. This new collection is a
must for fans and collectors alike, restoring this series to its rightful place
as one of the key series in the annals of British comics. Originally published
in Starlord, 2000 AD’s sister comic, these early stories had a profound effect
upon readers, including future film director Edgar Wright. After the comic
merged with 2000 AD, Johnny Alpha quickly became a fan favourite character and
Strontium Dog remains one of the most iconic strips in the history of British
comics!
Judge Dredd: Control
Rob Williams, Chris Weston
ISBN: 9781781087770
9 July 2020 (UK) 7 July 2020 (US)
UK £14.99 // US $19.99 // CAN $26.99
Pages: 128 // Paperback
Writer Rob Williams follows up his smash
hit Judge Dredd: Small House with a brand new collection that sees him at the
mercy of Judge Pin – his most sinister opponent since Judge Death! The
psychopathic SJS Judge murders officers that fall short of her standards, and
Judge Dredd is in her sights in this collection of stories featuring
flesh-eating Kleggs, hijacking ape gangs and out of control war robots
reprogrammed by insane accountants in tales ranging from deathly serious to
outrageously funny, all from one of the most popular contemporary Dredd
creative teams – Rob Williams and Chris Weston. Entirely drawn by Weston, the
talented artist for DC Comics (The Filth), Image (Ministry of Space) and Marvel
Comics (The Twelve), this storyline is a game changer for the Dredd universe.
Devlin Waugh: Blood Debt
Aleš Kot, Rory McConville, Michael Dowling
ISBN: 9781781087671
23 July 2020 (UK) 21 July 2020 (US)
UK £16.99 // US $19.99
Pages: 176 // Paperback
Everyone’s favourite gay vampire exorcist returns! Vatican exorcist, freelance paranormal investigator and altogether dashing rogue, Devlin Waugh is in the business of getting up close and extremely personal with the occult! This time he’ll have to rescue his debtor brother Freddy from a casino suspended over an unending interdimensional void , save Brit-Cit from a plague of mutagenic nightmare spores, and befriend a possessed demonic dildo, all while negotiating boyfriends ex- and current… A fresh entry point into the vivid, mindbendingly fast-paced occult-charged world of the Devlin Waugh series, this collection is written by rising star Rory McConville (Unfollow) and Image superstar Aleš Kot (The New World) with art by Mike Dowling (Unfollow).
Hope … Under Fire
Guy Adams, Jimmy Broxton
ISBN: 9781781087718
20 August 2020 (UK) 18 August 2020 (US)
UK £9.99 // US $9.99 // CAN $12.99
Pages: 64 // Paperback
The second volume of the dazzling 2000 AD
debut – mixing Hollywood noir and occult magic! In an alternate post-war 1940s
Los Angeles, where dark magic is a fact of life, Mallory Hope is a private
detective haunted by his past…and by the occult forces he uses. An inspired new
classic in the making, a stylish supernatural detective noir for fans of The
Fade Out (Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips) and the novels of Raymond Chandler, James
Elmore and Dashiell Hammett.
2000 AD Regened
Alex De Campi, Alec Worley, Chris Weston, Neil Googe
ISBN: 9781781088135
27 August (UK) // 25 August (US)
UK £10.99 // US $13.99
Pages: 96 // Paperback
Your old 2000 AD favourites break out with
an all-new all-ages bumper adventure package! 2000 AD Regened is a one-off,
bumper, all ages instalment of the Galaxies Greatest Comic! Join Cadet Dredd in
three astonishing adventures (one of which is brand new for this collection),
discover how Johnny Alpha became a Strontium Dog in ‘Trial Run’ and meet the
teenage intergalactic bounty hunter and her family in ‘Full Tilt Boogie’, plus
many other new takes on old favourites!
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 36
John Wagner, Gordon Rennie, Andy Diggle, Henry Flint, Ben Willsher, Ian Gibson, John Ridgeway, Mick McMahon, Jim Baikie, Simon Fraser, PJ Holden, Carl Critchlow, Staz Johnson, Carlos Ezquerra
ISBN: 9781781087695
3 September (UK)
UK £19.99
Pages: 304 // Paperback
The best-selling Judge Dredd graphic novel
series continues with the most popular crossover story in its history!
Mega-City One – a nightmarish enclosure located along the Eastern Seaboard of
North America. Only the Judges – powerful law enforcers supporting the despotic
Justice Department – can stop total anarchy running rife on the crime-ridden
streets. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the law and these are his
stories… Judge Dredd has brought countless monsters to justice but now the
ultimate killing machines, cinema’s most famous xenomorphs, surface in
Mega-City One and it may well be more than the Justice Department can handle!
Features action-packed stories from some of 2000 AD’s greatest, including
Carlos Ezquerra (Preacher), Mick McMahon (Hellboy, Slaine), Ian Gibson (Halo
Jones) and Henry Flint (Haunted Tank)!
Essential Judge Dredd: America
John Wagner, Garth Ennis, Colin MacNeil, John Higgins
ISBN: 9781781088609
September
UK £19.99 // US $25 // CAN $34
Pages: 160 // Paperback
Beginning a brand new series of essential
stories from one of the greatest ever comic characters, the Essential Judge
Dredd is the perfect jumping on point for new readers! In Mega-City One, the
Judges are the law – acting as judge, jury, and executioner. But how do the
citizens really feel about a system where they are powerless? America Jara and
Bennett Beeny grow up as best friends, living a fairly trouble-free life in a
dangerous city… bar the odd, negative encounter with a Judge. Time draws them
apart, and when they are brought back together, Beeny is a successful singer
and America has become involved with a terrorist organisation known as Total
War, which has the Justice Department in its sights! This dark and complex tale
is considered to be one of the best stories to ever come out of the Judge Dredd
universe. Now it has been contextualised with contemporarily thematic stories
and recoloured art by John Higgins (Watchmen).
Fiends of the Eastern Front
Gerry Finley-Day, Carlos Ezquerra, Ian Edginton, Tiernen Trevellion, Dave Taylor, Dave Kendall
ISBN: 9781781087749
October
UK £19.99 // US $24.99 // CAN $33.99
Pages: 176 // Paperback
Sink your teeth into the collection of the
classic supernatural war stories from the pages of 2000 AD – now expanded and
updated! Buried deep underground are the remains of Wehrmacht soldier, Hans
Schmitt, and his diary, which journals his eerie encounter with the Romanian
Captain Constanta and his platoon of blood-sucking freaks! Back in 1943, with
the Russians willing to fight until their last man in order to defend
Stalingrad, Panzergrenadier Richter discovers Constanta’s secret and learns
than sometimes your allies can be just as dangerous as the enemy! This
fiendishly-fun collection features the breathtaking art of Carlos Ezquerra
(Judge Dredd) and Colin MacNeil (America, Chopper: Song of the Surfer), with
stories from Gerry Finley Day (Rogue Trooper), David Bishop (Thrill-Power
Overload), and recent classics from Ian Edginton (Stickleback, Scarlet Traces),
and Dave Kendall (Fall of Deadworld), that takes the blood-soaked story of
Constanta back into history!
Essential Judge Dredd: Origins
John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra
ISBN: 9781781088630
November
UK £19.99 // US $25.00 // CAN $34.00
Pages: 192 // Paperback
The origin of Judge Dredd, and the
Mega-City One Justice system – This is Judge Dredd: Year One! An unusual
delivery is made to the Grand Hall of Justice, a package that will force Dredd
to lead a mission into the Cursed Earth and into the darkest recesses of the
history of the Judges and Mega-City One… In this acclaimed epic, history is
written by Dredd co-creators John Wagner (A History of Violence) and Carlos
Ezquerra (Strontium Dog) with a special introductory tale featuring the art of
Kev Walker (ABC Warriors: Khronicles of Khaos). Now presented as part of the
Essential line of Judge Dredd stories, this book is the ultimate introduction
to the Judge Dredd universe.
Thistlebone
Tom Eglington, Simon Davis
ISBN: 9781781087787
3 December (UK)
UK £12.99
Pages: 64 // Hardcover
The first volume in an all new creepy
folk-horror series, beautifully painted by the popular Sláine artist Simon
Davis! England, 2019. The secluded rural village of Harrowvale holds a dark
past — that years earlier, on a farm bordering the vast tracts of woodland, it
hosted a cult that was seeking to escape civilization and find purity in the
old ways, namely worshipping an ancient deity called THISTLEBONE. Led by the
charismatic Jasper Hillman, their pagan beliefs grew ever more radical to the
point where they held the young Avril Eason captive with the intention of
sacrificing her. But Avril escaped.