2000ad Archives

4001AD's War Mother From Valiant Reminds Me Of 2000AD's Rogue Trooper…
Fittingly, the title of the one-shot is "A Girl and Her Gun." Does that remind you of anyone else? A certain Rogue Trooper from 2000AD? A genetically created, blue-skinned, manufactured super soldier with a sentient gun, backpack and helmet, personalities of dead soldiers grafted onto his equipment? A solid heritage if true… Valiant had already teased this part[...]
The 2000AD FCBD Comic Will Be Bigger In The UK Than In The USA
Last year, Bleeding Cool ran the story that 2000AD was being dropped from Free Comic Book Day 2016 over issues including the magazine size of the comic book. That decision was reversed, after considerable lobbying from retailers and readers, but changes were made to ensure the decision Including the comic being shrunk down to traditional US[...]
Alan Moore And John Wagner's Monster, To Be Reprinted From 2000AD
Monster continued as a strip in Eagle for a number of years. Well, now it's coming back. It's one of a number of classic British comics that Rebellion, the publishers of 2000AD, are reprinting – and possibly reviving – Monster Which means we will get the original story reprinted for the first time, with the complete 190 published pages. And here's[...]
2000AD And Valiant Comics Advance Further Into Europe
While Star Comics and Bliss Comics will begin publishing  X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Harbinger, Archer & Armstrong, Divinity, Quantum and Woody and more next year, in print and digital formats. Valiant will be making appearances at conventions across Europe to help launch the lines. Meanwhile European publisher Rebellion, of 2000AD and Judge Dredd Magazine, has gone slightly further afield, announcing Sláine[...]
Judge Dredd Beats A Citizen To Death For Talking Back, In The New 2000AD
But there are certain lines of police brutality he's never been known to cross. But, with such events back in the headlines, it seems that this is the right time to do so. A new 2000AD three-part story by Judge Dredd co-creator John Wagner and artist Patrick Goddard that began this week called 'The Beating'[...]
Rebellion Brings Back Misty, The Teen Horror Comic For Girls
As Bleeding Cool reported last week, 2000AD publisher Rebellion are bringing the classic girls horror comic from the seventies back into print. They will reprint comics from creators also well known for their 2000 AD work, beginning with the work of 2000 AD's first editor, Pat Mills. Which means, as we also reported, Moonchild by Pat Mills and John Armstrong[...]
Eric Powell's Judge Dredd Kicked Out Of Free Comic Book Day 2016 (Confirmation UPDATE)
2000AD has had a comic in Free Comic Book Day for four years now I understand their FCBD print run had nearly quadrupled in that time,  they have consistently been a silver sponsor, as well as being one of the few publishers commissioning brand new material for FCBD. But not, it seems, in 2016. This year, a restriction on size was added[...]
Rebellion To Bring Back Misty Comic For Girls, With Pat Mills
And the girls comics went away. Well I understand that Rebellion, publishers of one of those boys comics, 2000AD, have managed to get the rights from 2000AD's old owners Fleetway/IPC to Misty. And for next summer, planning a revival, reprinting old Misty content from creators who are also well known for their 2000AD work, starting with the granddaddy of them all,[...]
Simon Bisley Returns To Judge Dredd For A Christmas Cover
Ho Ho Ho. Looks like Judge Dredd is making a bid to be the next Magnus Robot Fighter, in this Diamond UK retailer variant cover for 2000AD's Christmas issue, Prog 1961 Or he's just blowing up your Christmas presents No one gets a BB-8 this year. By Simon Bisley, he is returning for this cover, to the[...]
Bad Company Just Returned To 2000AD With Peter Milligan
Bad Company was a 2000AD comic strip Alan Grant and John Wagner, but that was recreated from the ground up by Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy when it launched in 1986 with 2000AD #500. A science fiction war comic it sees the survivors of a platoon banding together, made up of all manner of strange individuals. The last time[...]
Legendary Carlos Ezquerra Awarded Comic-Con Inkpot Achievement in Comics Arts
After the presentation, PR & Marketing for 2000AD's Michael Molcher provided a brief introduction to Spanish artist Ezquerra, who is probably most known for his visual work on Judge Dredd and Johnny Alpha from Strontium Dog. Ezquerra stated that as a boy, he did not have all the modern devices and games to entertain himself on[...]
SDCC '15: Dan Abnett And INJ Culbard's New Comic, Brink, For 2000AD/Rebellion
Mentioned in a previous report from the 2000AD panel at San Diego Comic Con Dan Abnett and I.N.J Culbard are working on a new series titled Brink and is described as True Detective set in space Just in case its previous mention asn't prominent enough…. Sneaky little mention of a new project from @VincentAbnett and me[...]
SDCC '15: 2000AD's Carlos Ezquerra, Andy Diggle And Jock Talk Shop About Judge Dredd
By Michele Brittany, West Coast Correspondent Thursday afternoon's panel, From Dredd to Zenith: This is 2000AD, was hosted by charismatic PR & Marketing Director Michael Molcher He was joined by Carlos Ezquerra, co-creator of the series Judge Dredd, Andy Diggle, writer and former editor of 2000AD and the artist Jock. Molcher led off the hour with some[...]
The Forbidden Planet FCBD Doctor Who Signing Is In The FCBD Doctor Who Comic
In a manner of speaking. This weekend, Forbidden Planet London is hosting two signings, one for the FCBD Doctor Who comic with Al Ewing and Rob Williams at 1pm and then for 2000AD FCBD title with Matt Smith (that's the editor of 2000AD, not… oh you know), Pye Parr, Ben Willsher and Mike McMahon from 3pm. But a quick peek inside the Doctor[...]
Orbital In Conversation – Live From London Super Comic Con With 2000AD, Valiant, And Friends!
By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/OiCPodcastEpisode127.mp3] Following on from last week's tribute to my good friend Herb Trimpe (which you can still listen to here), this time I'm back with a series of interviews recorded *live* in the inaugural Podcast Alley at the recent London Super Comic Con. First up, Alex Paknadel chats about his new series Arcadia from Boom![...]
2000AD Rips Stories Straight From The Headlines – FCBD Spoilers
In July last year, this got a new twist as the media noticed something about one such construction in New York that threatened to spread its influence. A furious row erupted in New York earlier this month when the city council approved a proposal by one of the largest real estate developers in the city to build[...]
Preview This Week's 2000AD – Judge Dredd, Slaine, Grey Area, Orlok, Strontium Dog
Prog 1927 arrives this week from 2000AD, appearing on Wednesday, April 22nd on shelves in the UK, on May 22nd in print in the USA, and digitally worldwide on Wednesday via the 2000 AD webshop, 2000 AD iPad app, and the 2000 AD Android app. Prog 1927 contains: Judge Dredd Enceladus: New Life by Rob Williams and Henry Flint Sláine: Primordial by[...]
Jump On Board With This Week's 2000AD
Prog 1924 offers a brand new jumping on point for new readers of 2000AD, and each of the five featured stories in this issue contains introductory information sheets like this one, here featuring Slaine: Quite handy—if you know a potential 2000AD reader in your life, now's the time to bring them into the fold[...]
MCM Comic Con Birmingham: Pat Mills Talks Marshal Law, 2000AD And Slaine
Let the rumormongering begin. Moving onto the inception and birth of 2000AD, Mills commented on the influencing styles of the French anthology magazine Heavy Metal had on the comic, and in general the more detailed, sumptuous art of French comic strips of the era It stood in stark contrast to the superficiality of the American comics[...]