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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 2349 out now!


ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2349 is OUT NOW!

I am The Mighty Tharg, your galactic green godhead at the helm of this cosmic comic!

At what point in the history of my pulse-pounding publication did you first encounter that severe-looking young Judge with the bob haircut?

Maybe you’re a long-term Squaxx and you were there for her debut in The Judge Child in 1980; perhaps you caught up a little later when she reappeared across the decades in stories like Destiny’s Angels, The Graveyard Shift or The Doomsday Scenario, after which she ascended to the highest office in Mega-City One. Or there were the series of solo adventures that were a regular part of the Megazine’s line-up during the nineties.

Either way, Judge Barbara Hershey has been a significant and iconic character for many, many years, both a reliable ally for Dredd and in more recent years someone with whom he clashed over policy. But now we wave farewell to Hershey as her post-Smiley mission has come to an end, and the pathogen that has been slowly consuming her can no longer be fended off.

Terrans, I bid you to raise a glass (or polystyrene cup, your choice) and say goodbye to Hershey — bringing the law to the lawless until death!

2000 AD Prog 2349 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 by Simon Fraser

Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Tom Foster / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // A Fallen Man, Part Eight

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, former Judge Kyle Asher is attempting to flee the city, having betrayed his Mob employers…


Script: Eddie Robson / Art: Nick Brokenshire / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

THARG’S 3RILLERS // DIE HOARD, Part Three

Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! Earth, the twenty-second century, in the aftermath of a brutal war with an alien race called the Imishoi. A house-clearance team are assessing the hundreds of items that have been hoarded in a reclusive millionaire’s mansion — but the house’s A.I. is still active…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Tazio Bettin / Colours: Matt Soffe / Letters: Jim Campbell

AZIMUTH // INFLICTER OF SORROWS

Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything is possible. Ruled by an aristocracy of the New Flesh, such concepts of life, death, and body-forms are fluid. Anyone can take any shape, if it can be conceived by the imagination. The New Flesh masters have been troubled by strange dreams and portents, which have predicted the coming of a stranger — none other than Ramone Dexter…


Script: Rob Williams / Art: Simon Fraser / Letters: Simon Bowland

HERSHEY // THE COLD IN THE BONES, Part Eight

Barbara Hershey was a respected young officer before she became Chief Judge. Leading the city through numerous challenges, the ‘Small House’ affair and the revelation of Judge Smiley’s clandestine operations on her watch made her re-evaluate her position. Seriously ill from a microbial virus, she’s faked her death to deal with his legacy, and now, with the case closed, her time is almost up…

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2000 AD Prog 2348 out now!


ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2348 is OUT NOW!

Alien editor Tharg The Mighty here once again, delivering Thrill-power to your needy circuits!

Things are coming close to wrapping up in this prog, as we hit the penultimate parts of Judge Dredd thriller A Fallen Man, Azimuth, the 3riller Die Hoard, and Hershey’s elegiac outing The Cold in the Bones. Add to that a complete Future Shock, Fear & Loathing of Las Vegas, by the Hartley and Currie droids, and it’s an issue thrumming with sheer momentum. Be here in seven for multiple finales across the board!

Indeed, be here in a fortnight and you’ll have the pleasure of diving into the zarjaz Prog 2350, a bumper outing so expansive that it spills into Meg 460 too, which is on sale the same day (yes, like the zombie spectacular last year, you’ll get the most from the experience if you purchase both titles). So what’s the theme of 2023’s scrotnig special?

Well, long-term Squaxx will be aware that both Starlord and Tornado were merged with 2000 AD, bringing with them select characters such as Strontium Dog and Blackhawk. But what if, in an alternate past, Battle Action folded into the GGC, and the likes of Major Eazy, Hellman and El Mestizo joined the SF line-up? What then, Terrans? What then? Stay tuned!

2000 AD Prog 2348 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 by Jake Lynch

Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Tom Foster / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // A Fallen Man, Part Seven

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, former Judge Kyle Asher is attempting to flee the city, having betrayed his Mob employers…


Script: Ned Hartley / Art: Joe Currie / Letters: Simon Bowland

FUTURE SHOCKS // FEAR & LOATHING OF LAS VEGAS

Out in the vast reaches of the universe, there are an infinite number of stories waiting to be told. These cautionary tales pass from traveller to traveller in the spaceports and around campfires on distant planets, acquiring the status of legend, their shocking ends a salutory lesson in hubris. Anything is possible in these twisted trips into the galaxy’s dark side. Abandon your preconceptions, and expect the unexpected…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Tazio Bettin / Colours: Matt Soffe / Letters: Jim Campbell

AZIMUTH // THE STRANGER, Part Six

Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything is possible. Ruled by an aristocracy of the New Flesh, such concepts of life, death, and body-forms are fluid. Anyone can take any shape, if it can be conceived by the imagination. The New Flesh masters have been troubled by strange dreams and portents, which seem to have predicted the coming of a stranger — none other than Ramone Dexter…


Script: Eddie Robson / Art: Nick Brokenshire / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

THARG’S 3RILLERS // DIE HOARD, Part Two

Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of super-charged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! Earth, the twenty-second century, in the aftermath of a brutal war with an alien race called the Imishoi. A house-clearance team are assessing the hundreds of items that have been hoarded in a reclusive millionaire’s mansion — but the house’s A.I. is still active…


Script: Rob Williams / Art: Simon Fraser / Letters: Simon Bowland

HERSHEY // THE COLD IN THE BONES, Part Seven

Barbara Hershey was a respected young officer before she became Chief Judge. Leading the city through numerous challenges, the ‘Small House’ affair and the revelation of Judge Smiley’s clandestine operations on her watch made her re-evaluate her position. Seriously ill from a microbial virus, she’s faked her death to deal with his legacy, and now she’s returned to MC-1 to see out the case…

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2000 AD Prog 2347 out now!

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2347 is OUT NOW!

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS! I am alien editor Tharg The Mighty, here once again to overload your Thrill-sensors!

We’re back after last week’s all-ages intervention helmed by my nephew Joko, and Judge Dredd: A Fallen Man, Azimuth: The Stranger and Hershey: The Cold in the Bones are all continuing, while Portals & Black Goo reaches its ghafflebette finale. Joining the line-up is another of my 3rillers in the shape of the zarjaz Die Hoard by Eddie Robson and Nick Brokenshire, plus I publish the winning Art Stars Dredd one-pager by Alan Kerr!

We’re just three weeks away from the ultrascrotnig Prog 2350 and the amazing delights it contains — more news on what you’ll find inside that bumper issue to come — but while you’re eagerly anticipating that particular Thrill-splurge, make sure you keep your circuits topped up by immersing yourself in Meg 459, which features three new stories: there’s a complete Dredd, another retro Mega-City 2099 thriller, and the start of IDW’s short-lived Rogue Trooper series by Brian Ruckley and Alberto Ponticelli.

Add to that more Lawless, Dreadnoughts, Johnny Red and Spector, interviews with John Stokes and Steve Sampson and much more, it’d be a crime to miss it!

2000 AD Prog 2347 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 by Stewart K Moore

Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Tom Foster / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // A Fallen Man, Part Six

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, a former Judge called Kyle Asher has returned from Titan, and is working for the Mob…


Script: John Tomlinson / Art: Eoin Coveney / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PORTALS & BLACK GOO // Night Shift, Part Seven

In the near future, the job market is more perilous than ever and Generation Y must take on any task to make ends meet. Kroy Plemons is a rider for Devouroo — a food delivery service for creatures of the night. Devouroo policy is ruthless and Kroy barely escapes with his life after being placed on the Night Shift. Elsewhere, Magister Dain makes a fateful call and Nona Nomus fights off a self-styled vampire-hunter…


Script: Eddie Robson / Art: Nick Brokenshire / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

THARG’S 3RILLERS // DIE HOARD, Part One

Three episodes, one complete, self-contained story — a condensed hit of supercharged Thrill-power beamed to you directly from the Nerve Centre! Earth, the twenty-second century, in the aftermath of a brutal war with an alien race called the Imishoi. Humanity’s data-storage systems were attacked, as well as libraries, museums and archives, erasing vast swathes of culture and history…


Script: Rob Williams / Art: Simon Fraser / Letters: Simon Bowland

HERSHEY // THE COLD IN THE BONES, Part Six

Barbara Hershey was a respected young officer before she became Chief Judge. Leading the city through numerous challenges, the ‘Small House’ affair and the revelation of Judge Smiley’s clandestine operations on her watch made her reevaluate her position. Seriously ill from a microbial virus, she’s faked her death to deal with his legacy, and now alien creatures are loose, the result of a drug operation…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Tazio Bettin / Colours: Matt Soffe / Letters: Jim Campbell

AZIMUTH // THE STRANGER, Part Five

Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything is possible. Ruled by an aristocracy of the New Flesh, such concepts of life, death, and body-forms are fluid. Anyone can take any shape, if it can be conceived by the imagination. The New Flesh masters have been troubled by strange dreams and portents, which seem to have predicted the coming of a stranger — none other than Ramone Dexter…

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Get eleven Dan Abnett graphic novels for just £50!

THE ULTIMATE DAN ABNETT DIGITAL BUNDLE out now

He’s one of the most inventive and prolific writers to ever grace the pages of 2000 AD – and the Dan Abnett Digital Bundle brings you just some of his greatest series for an unbeatable price!

For just £50 you can download some of the award-winning writer’s best work for the Galaxy’s Greatest Comics, from his fan favourite Dredd-world epics like Insurrection and Lawless, to top notch sci-fi like Sinister Dexter and The VCs, and his acclaimed new series Brink and The Out.

Few writers have developed such a remarkable catalogue of hits for 2000 AD, and this digital bundle gives the perfect overview of Abnett’s creative and innovative career. It also includes the ebook of his novel based on his lauded post-apocalyptic sci-fi series, Kingdom.

Get ELEVEN graphic novels and one ebook novel for just £50 – download DRM-free from the 2000 AD webshop or through the 2000 AD app for Apple and Android devices.

Insurrection

When Mega-City One mining colony K-Alpha 61 declares independence from the ‘Big Meg’ and renames itself Liberty, Justice Department’s Special Judicial Squad launch a vast armada to stop further colonies from rebelling. War is inevitable…

Set in the Judge Dredd universe, this high-octane space adventure features art by 2000 AD fan favourite Colin MacNeil (Chopper, Strontium Dog, Fiends of the Eastern Front).

Brink

In the late 21st century the remains of the human race are crammed into the Habitats: vast artificial space stations; hotbeds for crime and madness policed by private security firms. When a routine drug bust goes wrong, no-nonsense Investigator Bridget Kurtis finds herself in a life or death struggle with a new sect of cultists. But evidence begins to point to something far more sinister going on behind the scenes… The first series of the new atmospheric, sci-fi thriller from Dan Abnett and I.N.J. Culbard.

Lawless

Welcome to Badrock, where the synthol flows freely, fights break out daily and scavengers bicker over pieces of scrap found in the war-scarred badlands. Good thing they have a new Colonial Marshall, no-nonsense Metta Lawless, to keep the peace! Tensions between Meks, Muties, Uplifts and Humans are rife and only she can bring the change that Badrock needs. But for the local branch of ruthless inter-galactic hypercorp, Munce Inc. change is bad for business… How far will they go to protect their investments?

Kingdom

Out into the wilderness they trek, led by the Urgings from their Masters, charged with keeping Them off of his lawn. The pack, led by Gene the Hackman, are strong, experienced soldiers – they don’t know exactly what Them are, but they have their orders, and Them are to be scrapped at every opportunity. The Masters must be obeyed. But the The Masters are not all they appear to be and when Gene the Hackman’s pack scatter he will come face to face with a world shattering truth! With art by Richard Elson (Judge Dredd) this action-packed tale of earth’s far future is not to be missed!

The Out

Cyd Finlea is a photo-journalist working for the publishers Neographic. It has been a decade since she left Earth and travelled to into the deepest reassesses of outer space – otherwise known as THE OUT. Her encounters include meetings with strange alien societies and ex-pat humans, an experience that she shares with her trusty sentient backpack… This exciting, first volume features the inventive visuals of Mark Harrison.

The VCs

2581 AD, Earth SOLAR SYSTEM. Fifty years have passed since the human/Geek war and the surrender of the Geek homeworld. Once a star-trooper and a member of the elite battle unit known as The V.C.s, Steve Smith is now just a janitor haunted by the memories of his fallen comrades. When the Geeks launch an unprecedented attack on the humans during peace celebrations, Smith is dragged back into a bloody and vicious conflict. But this time things are different. This time the Geeks have developed a weapon that may destroy Earth itself! This sequel to a 2000 AD classic featues stunning full colour art from Henry Flint (Judge Dredd) and Anthony Williams (Spiderman).

Wardog

In the aftermath of an apocalyptic world war, humanity shares the world with sentient robots, and the population has fractured into countless tiny enclaves, each with their own customs and laws, linked only by the Sailrail network. Feuds and wars rage between these enclaves on a near-constant basis, and human-robot animosity is on the rise. Enter Jack Wardog, a man with a hole in his mind; he woke up one day with all his memories wiped, and in their place, an explosive charge with a timer display had been bonded to his forehead. Now Jack works as a Bombhead, taking on suicide missions with near-impossible deadlines — and if he fails, the consequences are terminal!

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The Day of Judgement is upon us – the epic 2000 AD undead crossover event out now!

It’s the comics event of the year – an epic undead crossover comes to the 2000 AD multiverse!

2000 AD Prog 2300 and Judge Dredd Megazine #448 are out now – combining into one zarjaz epic storyline in an explosion of death and destruction!

Riffing off Garth Ennis’ 1990s mega-epic ‘Judgement Day’, the myriad of worlds from 45 years of 2000 AD coverge into one overarching storyline featuring legendary characters, all brought to (un)life by Ken Niemand, Henry Flint, Mike Carroll, Gary Erskine, Emma Beeby, Neil Googe, Karl Stock, Kieran McKeown, Dan Abnett, Russell M. Olson, Ian Edginton, D’Israeli, Arthur Wyatt, Toby Willsmer, Rob Williams, Staz Johnson, Leigh Gallagher, Kei Zama, Honor Vincent, Boo Cook, Gordon Rennie, Dan Cornwell, James Peaty, Nicolo Assirelli, Liam Johnson, Conor Boyle, and Steve Yeowell.

From Judge Dredd to Robo-Hunter, from Rogue Trooper to Strontium Dog, characters past and present come together in an undead event like no other – will the contagion of ‘Judgement Day’ consume the whole of the worlds of 2000 AD?

2000 AD Prog 2300 and Judge Dredd Megazine #448 are out from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Get 10% off cover price with the special webshop bundle – including free UK postage until 27 September.

2000 AD PROG 2300 out now

JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #448 out now

2000 AD Prog 2300:

Judge Dredd: Judgement Days
Writer: Ken Niemand
Art: Henry Flint
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Rogue Trooper: Mortal Remains
Writer: Mike Carroll
Art: Gary Erskine
Colours: Yel Zamor
Letters: Simon Bowland
Survival Geeks
Writer: Emma Beeby
Art: Neil Googe
Colours: Gary Caldwell
Letters: Jim Campbell
The Meat Arena
Writer: Karl Stock
Art: Kieran McKeown
Colours: Matt Soffe
Letters: Simon Bowland
Sinister Dexter: Zed Zone
Writer: Dan Abnett
Art: Russell M. Olson
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Ampney Crucis Investigates…: Setting Sons
Writer: Ian Edginton
Art: D’Israeli
Letters: Jim Campbell
Robo-Hunter: Z-Inf
Writer: Arthur Wyatt
Art: Toby Willsmer
Letters: Simon Bowland
Strontium Dog: In the (Dead) Doghouse
Writer: Rob Williams
Art: Staz Johnson
Colours: Chris Blythe
Letters: Jim Campbell

Judge Dredd Megazine #448:

Judge Dredd: The Darkest Judge
Writer: Ken Niemand
Art: Leigh Gallagher
Colours: Chris Blythe
Letters: Annie Parkhouse
Shimura: Hope Lies Buried
Writer: Karl Stock
Art: Kei Zama
Colours: Gary Caldwell
Letters: Jim Campbell
Anderson, Psi-Div: Allied Forces
Writer: Honor Vincent
Art: Boo Cook
Letters: Simon Bowland
Missionary Man: The Lonesome Undeath of the Widow McCall
Writer: Gordon Rennie
Art: Dan Cornwell
Colours: Dylan Teague
Letters: Jim Campbell
Cadet Giant: ‘I am…’
Writer: James Peaty
Art: Nicolo Assirelli
Colours: Peter Doherty
Letters: Simon Bowland
Devlin Waugh: How I Lost the Waugh
Writer: Liam Johnson
Art: Conor Boyle
Colours: Barbara Nosenzo
Letters: Jim Campbell
Armitage: An Underlying Fear
Writer: Mike Carroll
Art: Steve Yeowell
Colours: John Charles
Letters: Simon Bowland