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He’s the British Army’s number one secret weapon – he is the Steel Commando!

Tomorrow is V-Day – The Vigilant hits shelves in the UK and Ireland, as well as digitally on the 2000 AD webshop and apps!

We’ve been giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

Created by Frank Pepper and Alex Henderson, and debuting in Thunder in 1970, the Steel Commando was a Mark 1 Indestructible Robot developed by British scientists in World War Two. He quickly became became a thorn in the side of the Axis powers but, due to a programming glitch, he would only take orders from Ernie Bates – the laziest soldier in the British Army!

Read the first episode of Steel Commando >>

Steel Commando is just one of the classic series being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

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It came whoosing out of the sky like a giant comet – but this other-worldly visitor brought more than fire and fear! Soon, young Pete Parker would find a new gang of friends who may be small in stature but they’re big in friendship!

With just a day to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

First appearing in Buster in 1973 and created by Tom Tully and Francisco Solano Lopez, Pete’s Pocket Army saw six tiny aliens crash land on Earth and then adopt young Pete Parker. These alien castaways – Kon-Dar, Dokk, Moonie, Grunf, Tigg and Zapp – lived in his pockets and spent their time helping Pete get even with school bullies and Pete’s sneaky cousin, Julie.

Read the first episode of Pete’s Pocket Army >>

Pete Parker and his diminutive alien chums are just one of the classic series being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

Order The Vigilant in UK and Ireland >>
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Watch out for the final firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

Julian Caine thought he could create a willing servant to carry out his petty criminal desires – but he soon learned it was HE who was The Prisoner of Zenga!

With just three days to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

Beginning in Valiant in 1975, Professor Gleeson hoped to prevent the loss of great intellectuals by recording their brain patterns and feeding their knowledge into Project Z – a hulking metal robot that could give new life to the greatest minds! But lab assistant Julian Caine had other ideas – he recorded the brain-patterns of the most cunning and ruthless arch-criminal that had ever existed, Max Zenga, and switched the tapes! Caine believed Zenga would be his willing servant- but Zenga has his own plans!

Read the first episode of The Prisoner of Zenga >>

Zenga is just one of the classic charcters being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

Order The Vigilant in UK and Ireland >>
Order The Vigiliant in North America >>

Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

By day he’s a mediocre policeman, laughed at by his colleagues. But by night he is the electrically-charged muscleman Thunderbolt the Avenger!

With just three days until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

Debuting in Buster in 1965, Constable Mick Riley is a bit of a laughing stock but he lives a double life as the superheroic Thunderbolt the Avenger after he was given a special wristwatch containing a mysterious substance which gives him incredible powers!

Read the first appearance of Thunderbolt the Avenger >>

Thunderbolt the Avenger is just one of the classic charcters being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

Order The Vigilant in UK and Ireland >>
Order The Vigiliant in North America >>

Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

There’s weird science and then there’s Vonn Hoffman’s Revenge!

With over a few days to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

Created by Tom Tully and Eric Bradbury, and appearing in Jet in 1971, after spending 25 years in prison following World War II the evil Nazi genius Dr Von Hoffman has sworn revenge against Britain. Having perfected a gas that allows him to enlarge and control all manner of creatures, Von Hoffman has embarked on his one-man invasion. Now every church fete, army camp and national monument is in dire threat! The only thing that stands in his way are the plucky young brothers Barry and Joey Drake…

Download the first episode of Von Hoffman’s Revenge >>

Pre-order the first collection of Von Hoffman’s Revenge now >>

Von Hoffman is just one of the classic charcters being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

Order The Vigilant in UK and Ireland >>
Order The Vigiliant in North America >>

Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

“Rise, Angor … RISE!” This is Dr Mesmer’s Revenge!

With less than a week to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

Written by Donne Avenell and illustrated by Carlos Cruz and debuting in Lion & Thunder in 1971, the  mysterious Dr Mesmer is infuriated when the inner sanctum of his pyramid is desecrated and so summons a 5,000 year old mummy to life to take revenge!

Download the first episode of Dr Mesmer’s Revenge >>

Dr Mesmer is just one of the classic characters being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

Order The Vigilant in UK and Ireland >>
Order The Vigiliant in North America >>

Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

Scratched by a radioactive leopard, young Billy Farmer soon discovered that he had acquired the strength, agility and senses of the mighty jungle cat – and so he became The Leopard from Lime Street!

With just a week to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

Created by Tom Tully, Mike Western and Eric Bradbury, The Leopard from Lime Street is the crown jewel of British superhero comic strips. After being gifted extraordinary powers by the radioactive scratch, Billy creating a costume to disguise his identity and became the masked vigilante known as the ‘Leopard-Man’ – Selbridge’s premier crime fighter! Living with his aunt and mean uncle in a small house on Lime Street, Billy juggles his time between schoolwork and saving lives, earning some money on the side as a freelance photographer for the Selbridge Sun.

Read the first appearance of The Leopard from Lime Street in our first free download >>

Buy the first volume of The Leopard from Lime Street here >>

The Leopard from Lime Street is just one of the classic charcters being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

Order The Vigilant in UK and Ireland >>
Order The Vigiliant in North America >>

Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

He’s an artist! A battler of evil! A master of the mystic art! And his last album was kinda alright. He is … DOCTOR SIN!

With just a week to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the characters in this brand new title!

Created by Rob Williams and Luca Pizzari, Sin Tax is sarcastic, superficial and, many would say, annoying – but he’s also Britain’s number one hip hop artist. He’s also, bafflingly, the leader of The Vigilant!

Grandson of the late Doctor Sin, a leading figure in the world of occult magics, this new Doctor Sin is living up to his Grandfather’s legacy and fast becoming the most powerful mystic the world has ever known!

Read the first appearance of Sin Tax>>

Sin Tax is just one of the charcters in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

Order The Vigilant in UK and Ireland >>
Order The Vigiliant in North America >>

Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!

Motor racing champion Blake Edmonds had it all – but then an accident left him terribly disfigured and he made a deadly vow – this is his Death Wish!

With just a week to go until The Vigilant hits shelves, we’re giving readers the chance to discover the first appearances of some of the classic characters revived in this brand new title!

Created by Barrie Tomlinson and artist Vanyo, Blake Edmonds debuted in Speed #1 in 1980. A handsome world motor racing champion, Edmonds had everything – until the plane crash. Hiding his terrible facial injuries beneath a mask and with no will to live, he began performing every crazy stunt and deadly job he could – hoping that, eventually, the odds would catch up with him and his death wish!

Download the first appearance of Blake Edmonds >>

Edmonds is just one of the classic charcters being revived and rebooted in The Vigilant, out on 15th August!

When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and Dr Mesmer team up and pluck the immortal Adam Eterno from the winds of time, all of reality is under threat! Only The Vigilant; a mighty team composed of super-beings, warlocks, warriors and monsters stand between us and total chaos!

Join The Leopard from Lime Street, Steel Commando, Dr. Sin, Pete’s Pocket Army, Blake Edmonds, Yao, and Thunderbolt the Avenger on their premiere adventure!

This much-anticipated US-format reboot and reinvention of classic British characters from the 1970s and 1980s features the work of Simon Furman (Transformers), Simon Coleby (Judge Dredd), DaNi (Judge Anderson), Henrik Sahlstrom (Vice Press), Staz Johnson (Catwoman) and many more!

Order The Vigilant in UK and Ireland >>
Order The Vigiliant in North America >>

Watch out for more firsts from the cast of The Vigilant as we had towards V-Day on 15th August!