2000 AD THRILL-CAST
PODCAST
Listen now to 2000 AD’s award-winning official podcast – the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast! Beamed direct from the Nerve Centre of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, every fortnight publicity droid Molch-R brings you the lowdown on the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, interviewing some of the world’s greatest comics creators, welcoming special guests, giving you exclusive announcements and the chance to win zarjaz prizes – plus so much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on iTunes or download on Soundcloud and Podomatic.
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15th April 2024
Was this the CREEPIEST comic ever? – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
This episode is not for the nervous! At least that’s what Ghastly McNasty, the editor of Scream! might claim! With a brand new hardcover collection publishing all the stories from the 1980s horror comic in order out in May, the Thrill-Cast talkes to its editor Ian Rimmer, sub-editor and writer Simon Furman, and SFX editor […] More…
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1st April 2024
“I feel like a son of 2000 AD” – Liam Sharp on the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
From “gifted child” to million-selling comic artist, Liam Sharp’s artistic journey has been one of high hopes and hard work. Beginning his career as an apprentice of legendary The Rise & Fall of The Trigan Empire artist Don Lawrence, Sharp went on to debut at 2000 AD while still in his teens and co-create the precocious homocidal teenager PJ […] More…
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18th March 2024
A Tribute to John M Burns – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
At the very end of 2023, the legendary artist John M Burns sadly passed away. While well known amongst 2000 AD fans for his extensive work on stories including Judge Dredd, The Order, and Nikolai Dante, Burns’ career spanned six decades and endeared him to generations of readers thanks to enthralling and enchanting work on TV tie-ins such as Champion […] More…
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4th March 2024
Simon Harrison on Bradley, Revere & beyond – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
2000 AD has had more than its fair share of artists whose work can be described as “unique” – but few match the distinctive individuality of Simon Harrison. From his first work on the demonicly badly-behaved alien infant Bradley to the lead up to the most iconic moment in Strontium Dog and the fever dream […] More…
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19th February 2024
Defund Judge Dredd! And top tips for 2000 AD newbies – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
The official 2000 AD podcast is back! We switched Molch-R on and off again, and it did the trick – the Thrill-Cast again takes you behind-the-scenes on the Galaxy’s Greatest Comics! We launch the first episode of 2024 with a special chat for readers new or unfamiliar to 2000 AD – newly minted droid Steve […] More…
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27th September 2023
R.I.P. Judge Hershey – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
LISTENER ADVISORY: STRONG LANGUAGE The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is back to mark the passing of a legend – as Judge Barbara Hershey comes to the end of her days bringing law to the lawless! With the final episode of Hershey: ‘The Cold In The Bones’ in 2000 AD Prog 2349 still fresh in the memory […] More…
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1st March 2023
Did Judge Dredd Predict Our Future – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast brings you more from the worlds of 2000 AD! Did Judge Dredd predict the future? In a startling turn of events, Molch-R goes from interviewer to interviewee as journalist Graeme McMillan grills him about his new book, ‘I Am The Law’, which is out now. […] More…
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10th February 2023
Lockwood & Co.’s Jonathan Stroud on comics, TV & more – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
Lockwood & Co. is the hit new show on Netflix – and eagle-eyed viewers will have spotted plenty of references to the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast talks to author Jonathan Stroud about childhood reading, the influence of comics on his writing, and seeing his characters come to life on the screen. You […] More…
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21st December 2022
A Tribute to Alan Grant – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
The official 2000 AD podcast finally returns with a special pre-Christmas episode paying tribute to writer Alan Grant, who passed away in July this year. In a discussion recorded at New York Comic Con, writer Garth Ennis, editor Dan Raspler, and comics critic Chloe Maveal discuss the impact and legacy of Grant’s work, before Ennis […] More…
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1st June 2022
Battle Action with Garth Ennis, Keith Burns & Patrick Goddard – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast brings you more from the worlds of 2000 AD! The Battle Action Special is out in comci book stores on 8 June and we welcome back writer Garth Ennis to the 2000 AD podcast to talk about how influential Battle Action was on him and […] More…
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28th April 2022
From Crisis to Prose to Comics: 45th anniversary panels – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast brings you more from the worlds of 2000 AD! With things a little hectic in the 2000 AD Nerve Centre we bring you three of the panels from our 45th birthday online convention last month… The second wave of the ‘British Invasion’ no less an […] More…
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15th April 2022
Garth Ennis on Hawk the Slayer – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast brings you more from the worlds of 2000 AD! This is a story of heroic deeds…! Writer Garth Ennis talks to Molch-R about his new Hawk the Slayer sequel series, and we bring you the Pat Mills and John Wagner interviews from our zarjaz 45th […] More…
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16th March 2022
Intestinauts with Arthur Wyatt & Pye Parr – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast brings you more from the worlds of 2000 AD! They’re back and they’re ready to clean up – with the imminent release of a new Intestinauts story in 2000 AD, the Thrill-Cast welcomes back writer Arthur Wyatt and artist Pye Parr to chat about tiny […] More…
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3rd March 2022
Al Ewing interview (2018) – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast brings you more from the worlds of 2000 AD! With the ‘Blaze of Glory’ collection bringing together his lauded Judge Dredd stories out now, we revisit our long chat with hit comics writer Al Ewing from 2018. Bringing a unique new voice to 2000 AD, […] More…
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16th February 2022
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: A Tribute to Ian Kennedy
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast brings you more from the worlds of 2000 AD! With the sad news that comics legend Ian Kennedy has passed away at the age of 89, Molch-R talks with three people who knew Ian both professionally and personally – Martha Julian from the Thought Bubble […] More…
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2nd February 2022
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast – Dredd @ 45 @ The Cartoon Museum
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – and The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is back for a new year! ‘Dredd @ 45’ is now open at the Cartoon Museum in London and Molch-R is joined by museum director Joe Sullivan and Learning Coordinator Steve Marchant to discuss the capsule exhibition marking forty-five years of the lawman of […] More…
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22nd December 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast – Our Favourite Things From 2021 with Matt Smith & Olivia Hicks
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – and The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is back for a final broadcast of for 2021! Molch-R is joined by Tharg’s underling, Matt Smith, and graphic novels editor Olivia Hicks to talk about their highlights of the year, from 2000 AD and the Treasury of British Comics to comics and books! […] More…
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8th December 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: Lee Carter
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – and The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is back with another injection of Thrill-power for your aural sensors! As the new series of Angelic begins in the Judge Dredd Megazine, Molch-R chats to artist Lee Carter, covering everything from working in video games to drawing military hardware, from secret story reveals […] More…
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24th November 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: The rise of the Judges & classic Brian Bolland art
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – and The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is back with another injection of Thrill-power for your ears! The Thrill-Cast chats to Stitch – who writes under the name Zina Hutton and is the author of (In)famous, the latest in the Judges series of novellas that explore the foundations of the world […] More…
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10th November 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: The 2000 AD Encyclopedia with Scott Montgomery
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – and The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is back with another injection of Thrill-power for your ears! The 2000 AD Encyclopedia is out in February, in time for 2000 AD‘s 45th anniversary. A might tome representing chapter and verse on four and a half decade of the galaxy’s greatest comics from […] More…
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27th October 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: Dave Taylor on ‘Megatropolis’
It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – and The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is back with another injection of Thrill-power for your ears. It’s Mega-City One as you’ve never seen it before! This week, Molch-R talks to artist Dave Taylor, one half of the creative team – with writer Kenneth Niemand – behind Megatropolis, the Elseworlds-style alternative […] More…
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13th October 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast: Stainless Steel Rat with Kelvin Gosnell
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is back! After some … technical difficulties Molch-R returns with a new episode of the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast celebrating the slippery-est son-ovva-gun in the whole cosmos – Jim diGriz, aka THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT! To complement the summer’s release of the deluxe edition of the classic 1980s adaptation from the pages of […] More…
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25th August 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – The 2000 AD Guide to Colouring & Lettering
Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the seventy-fourth episode of The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! On this episode of the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast we talk to four of 2000 AD‘s unsung heroes. Gary Caldwell and Chris Blythe are two of 2000 AD‘s longest-serving colourists. Gary’s biggest body of work for 2000 AD was on […] More…
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18th August 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Chopper at 40
Welcome to the skysurfing seventy-third episode of The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! The teenage wallscrawler who became a tearaway skysurfer hits his fortieth anniversary this year and three creators behind his most recent appearances come together to discuss the changing face of Chopper. Writer David M Barnett and artist Nick Roche are the team […] More…
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4th August 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Gordon Rennie & Robin Smith (2016 & 2017 interviews)
Welcome to the salubrious seventy-second episode of The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! Another dive into the archive this week, with the choices of interview coinciding nicely with new stories from Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. First up is our interview with writer Gordon Rennie in 2016 about ‘Angelic’. The series has just returned to the Judge […] More…
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28th July 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Judging Dredd
Welcome to the super-duper seventy-first episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! Judging Dredd is a collection of essays from publisher Sequart that examines Judge Dredd and his world, focusing on everything from ideas about security and justice to surveillance and even the Dark Judges. On this episode of the podcast we talk to […] More…
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21st July 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Ben Wheatley (2016 interview)
This is the astonishingly surreal seventieth episode of The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! We return to our 2016 interview with the Ben Wheatley, the acclaimed director behind Sightseers, Kill List, A Field in England, and High Rise, to discuss his love of 2000 AD and the influence the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic has had on […] More…
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14th July 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Michael Carroll & Maura McHugh
This is the sensational sixty-ninth episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes (nice). The new 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special is out now and the writers behind it, Michael Carroll and Maura McHugh, return to the Thrill-Cast to talk about how you construct a crossover comics event, working with and editing their fellow creatives, and […] More…
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7th July 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Arthur Ranson (2018 interview)
It’s the fascinating sixty-eighth episode of The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! An artist who should need no introduction, Arthur Ranson was a stalwart of British comics from the 1970s with work on licensed properties for Look-in before moving to 2000 AD in the 1980s and quickly establishing himself as one of the seminal artists […] More…
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30th June 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Alec Worley & Dani on Black Beth
It’s the fantastical sixty-seventh episode of The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! Black Beth and The Devils of Al-Kadesh is the new one-shot comic book from Rebellion, a fantasy ‘sword and sorcery’ saga resurrecting the warrior woman from the pages of Scream! Writer Alec Worley and artist DaNi join Molch-R on the Thrill-Cast to talk […] More…
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23rd June 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Henry Flint (2018 interview)
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16th June 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Trevor Hairsine
Welcome to the fantastical flying sixty-fifth episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! From Judge Dredd to Mercy Heights, from Strontium Dogs to Harmony, with his Mick McMahon-influenced style and solid storytelling Trevor Hairsine’s time at 2000 AD in the 1990s was filled with variety, but it was the politically-charged Cla$$war with Rob Williams […] More…
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9th June 2021
The 2000 AD Lockdown Tapes – Steve Yeowell (2015 interview)
Welcome to the retro-tastic sixty-fourth episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! This week we dive back into the Thrill-Cast archive to our 2015 two-part interview with artist Steve Yeowell, now abridged into one episode! From how he got started in the industry on a toy tie-in series with Grant Morrison to swashbuckling across […] More…
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3rd June 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Roger Langridge, Brett Parson, PJ Holden
Welcome to the sutephalacalidaistic-exhimanitopus sixty-third episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! This episode is, also, late – apologies for the technical issues that mean we’re a week and a day late with the latest burst of aural Thrill-power, Earthlets. Something something Thrill-suckers something. But we’re back and we have two short interviews with […] More…
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19th May 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Kev Walker (2015 interview)
Welcome to the splendorous sixty-second episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! This week we delve back into the archives to the Thrill-Cast’s earliest days for an interview with artist Kev Walker. After starting his career on 2000 AD primarily as an inker on Steve Dillon pencils for Rogue Trooper and Harlem Heroes, Walker […] More…
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12th May 2021
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes – Clint Langley
Welcome to the sensational sixty-first episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes! From royal dinosaurs to Celtic barbarians, from fully-painted art to computer-aided photo manipulation, Clint Langley’s career has been full of fascinating challenge and evolution. The Sláine and ABC Warriors artist talks to the Thrill-Cast about work, life, how he developed his unique […] More…