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Welcome to the thirteenth of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

From the war-torn communities of Northern Ireland in Troubled Souls to the mean streets of Mega-City One, artist John McCrea has a fascinating career defined by its variety. A frequent collaborator with writer Garth Ennis, McCrea went from running his own comic book store to working for IPC, DC, and Marvel, but the journey has not always been an easy one and he speaks candidly to the Thrill-Cast about his work, the people he has worked with, and some of the challenges he has faced. From Hitman to The Simpsons, from Middenface McNulty to Judge Dredd, McCrea discusses how his career has evolved over the past 30 years.

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

Welcome to the twelfth of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

Strap on your caligae and pick up your gladius as we talk Aquila with series artist Patrick Goddard. In a career now spanning more than 20 years, Goddard has worked on strips such as Sinister Dexter, Savage, Judge Dredd, and Sniper Elite where his solid linework and eye for detail has earned him a firm place in 2000 AD‘s list of artists. We talk to him about his art on Aquila, how research has become something of a running theme for his work, and how he’s more at home as a penciller than an inker.

Comics critic and writer Tom Shapira takes a deep-dive into Judge Dredd: Brothers of the Blood, the 2006 collection which explores Dredd’s relationship with his ‘family’ of clones and his niece, Vienna. From Jungian archetypes to the Three Ages of Man, Tom and Molch-R dig down into the themes and ideas underpining this pre-Origins collection and explore how John Wagner spun a dynastic epic out of a single one-part story from 41 years ago.

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

Welcome to the eleventh of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

Brian Bolland is one of the all-time greatest 2000 AD artists. Alongside Carlos Ezquerra and Mick McMahon, he is one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists and his work remains evocative and universally acclaimed. As the co-creator of Judge Anderson, Judge Death, and Judge Hershey, he has also had a major influence on the strip’s history and his art has adorned everything from skateboards to band T-shirts, from wall posters to prints. The Thrill-Cast chatted with Brian about his long career in comics, from his love of DC superheroes to his work alongside Dave Gibbons on the Nigerian caped crusader Powerman, from his work for 2000 AD to helping lead the ‘British Invasion’ into American comics in the 1980s.

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

Welcome to the tenth of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

In this episode we round off our look at the Cor!! Buster Easter Special with a chat with Hilary Barta, artist on Plastic Man and What the–? for Marvel and now Kid Kong with Alec Worley for the latest humour anthology from Rebellion. As well as discussing the difference in American and British humour, we touch on how to tell jokes in comics and new takes on classic characters.

We’re then joined by political journalist and writer Ian Dunt for a deep-dive into the work of Rob Williams on Judge Dredd. From breaking Dredd in ‘Titan’ to the end of the conspiracy in ‘The Small House’, Dunt and Molch-R examine what is unique about Williams’ work on the series and what it says about the lawman’s changing character over the past decade. There are swears and spoilers aplenty, so be warned Earthlets!

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

Welcome to the seventh of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

Still going strong, artist Ian Kennedy has worked in comic books for more than 70 years. From his early days as an apprentice at DC Thomson in his native Dundee to his life-long love of aircraft, from more than 1,600 covers for the classic war comic Commando to fighting amongst the stars in Dan Dare, the story of Ian’s remarkable career across the golden age of comics and into the 21st Century is a compelling and fascinating one. The Thrill-Cast chats to the veteran artist about his art, his influences, and his thoughts on three quarters of a century of working in comics.

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

Welcome to the sixth of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

The Cor!! Buster Easter Special is out now and on this episode we chat to writer Ned Hartley and artist Pye Parr about creating comics for kids and the role comics can have during times like these. And then Molch-R and Graeme MacMillan, comics journalist with the Hollywood Reporter and Wired, delve into Dan Abnett and INJ Culbard’s Brink for another deep-dive, chewing over its influences, ideas, and how they think Abnett and Culbard have crafted a classic series that could only exist at 2000 AD.

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

Welcome to the fifth of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

Masters of British Comic Art is a sumptuous, entertaining, educational, and definitive journey through the history of British comics, with a focus on the artists – recognised and forgotten – who have defined the industry. On this episode, Molch-R talks to artist and writer David Roach, the author behind this painstakingly-researched compendium and the history of British comics, the industry’s influence on global culture, forgotten artists who deserve to be remembered, his mission to catalogue every comic and his own career drawing for 2000 AD, Doctor Who, Batman, and many more classic characters.

Masters of British Comic Art is out now, order your copy from the Treasury of British Comics >>

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

Welcome to the fourth of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

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With the shock revelation in 2000 AD Prog 2175 that former Chief Judge Barbara Hershey did not die last year, Thrill-Cast host Molch-R talks to writer Rob Williams and artist Si Fraser about their brand new series ‘Hershey: Disease’ which sees the veteran Judge back from the dead and on a mission of revenge.

And with Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #35 now up for pre-order from shop.2000AD.com, Molch-R is joined by his Rebellion Publishing colleague Owen Johnson to do a deep dive into the latest volume in the best-selling series, which includes John Wagner and Kev Walker’s ‘Sin City’, as well as a host of shorter stories.

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

Welcome to the third of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic! Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

With the Judge Dredd: Year One Omnibus on special offer for 24 hours on Kindle, we talk to the authors of the three novellas it contains – Al Ewing, Michael Carroll, and Matt Smith.

Host Molch-R talks to the comic-writing trio about translating Dredd into prose, the challenges of writing fiction of the legendarily tactiturn lawman, what prose fiction brings to the table, and how Year One kickstarted eight years of stories, including the on-going Judges series exploring the world before Dredd.

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline

Welcome to the second of The Lockdown Tapes as The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the COVID-19 pandemic!

In this episode, we talk to writer Ram V and artist Dan Lish about their strips for the new Action 2020 Special, which is out now. We touch on questions of the legacy of the highly controversial comic from the late 1970s, handling violence in comics, changing tastes, hope in dark times, and why eyebrows come in really useful when trying to get animals with little beady black eyes to emote.

And, following on from our episode with Dan Abnett, Chris Roberson, and Tim Jones about comics and video games, we talk to games journalist Graeme Mason about 2000 AD games from the 8-bit revolution of the 1980s, from tepid Strontium Dog side-scrollers to ambitious Rogue Trooper first person shooters and also games that got made but were never released. The YouTube version of this episode includes footage from just some of these titles, courtesy of RZX Archive.

The Thrill-Cast is increasing its broadcasts during this difficult time, so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe – and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at youtube.com/2000ADonline