What’s coming from Rebellion’s comics imprints this May?

May will be another Thrill-packed month – get all the skinny on what’s coming out from the House of Tharg two months from now!

Issues of Best of 2000 AD #2, 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine and our new graphic novels are available to order from comic book stores from Diamond Distribution’s Previews magazine, which is out now!

Don’t forget – North American readers can order a month’s worth of 2000 AD in a single monthly pack, just enquire at your local comic book store about ordering it!

BEST OF 2000 AD #2

The ultimate 2000 AD mix-tape has arrived! Best of 2000 AD is a brand-new full-color US-size monthly designed for new readers, the essential gateway to the “Galaxy’s Greatest Comic.” Collecting the finest stories of the UK publication’s modern era, Best of 2000 AD features a self-contained 48-page Judge Dredd adventure supported by three of the legendary comic’s stand-out series. The second part of Alan Moore’s first comics epic Halo Jones continues, a Judge Anderson story by Batman legends Alan Grant and Arthur Ranson and a brand new cover by Becky Cloonan (Gotham Academy).

In stores: 27 May, monthly, £4.99 / $4.99

Smash! Special

Brand new adventures featuring some of the most popular British superheroes are featured in this 64 page giant. Fantastic action-packed stories from a host of terrific creators, including The Steel Claw by Charlie Higson, The Spider written by Rob Williams and drawn by John McCrea, Mytek the Mighty by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, JohnnyFuture drawn by Tom Raney, House of Dolman by Simon Furman and Davi Go, Thunderbolt by Helen O’Hara, and Cursitor Doom by Maura McHugh and Andreas Butzbach.

In stores: 27 May (UK) 10 June (US), £4.99 / $10.99

2000 AD Progs 2180-2183

  • 2180 on sale 6 May 2020
  • 2181 on sale 13 May 2020
  • 2182 on sale 20 May 2020
  • 2183 on sale 27 May 2020

Incredible SF action from the Eisner-nominated UK anthology! Super-intelligent ape Noam Chimpsky gets embroiled in a terrorist plot in Judge Dredd: Chimpsky’s Law; Aquila enters the underworld in the finale to “The Burning Fields”; SkipTracer: “Nimrod” comes to a close and The Cube is changed forever; and the Survival Geeks face off against their multiple selves as the series reaches its climax, but which reality will prove the winner? Meanwhile, Prog 2183 is the second of 2020’s all-ages bumper issues, featuring the Galaxy’s Greatest’s characters in complete stories; this issue, Cadet Dredd undergoes a trial in “Combat Ready”, a tale from young Johnny Alpha’s past in the Mutant Army in “Acceptable Losses”, and ghost-hunters Eliot and Meera have a new supernatural case in Finder & Keeper: “Nuisance Neighbours.”

32 pages, weekly, £2.99 / $29.96 (per pack)

JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE 420

On sale 20 May 2020

More action and adventure in the future-shocked world of Judge Dredd! The lawman leads an assault on the fungal drug factory in the finale to ‘Bad Sector’; a new menace arrives in Badrock in Lawless: “Boom Town” by Dan Abnett and Phil Winslade; Devlin Waugh fights for his life in the climax to “A Very Large Splash”; the Zhind mutant claims more lives in series three of “Blunt” by T.C. Eglington and Boo Cook; and in ZombieArmy, the exclusive videogame tie-in written by I, Zombie‘s Chris Roberson and illustrated by Andrea Mutti, one shot can stop the undead in the concluding chapter! In addition, in the bagged mini-trade, East-Meg agent Orlok is the best at what he does in “Eurozoned” by Arthur Wyatt and Jake Lynch!

64 pages (plus bagged 64-page graphic novel), monthly, £5.99 / $13

Sláine: The Horned God Collector’s Edition

  • ISBN: 9781781087626
  • 28 May 2020 (UK) 26 May 2020 (US)
  • UK £19.99 // US $24.99 // CAN $33.99
  • Pages: 208 // Paperback

The number one best-selling graphic novel is back in print, bigger and better than ever in a deluxe collector’s edition. For too long the people of T r na n g have suffered under the dominion of the drunes; strange druids who have poisoned the land with their magic. Features fully painted art from comics legend Simon Bisley.

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files #35

  • 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!