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September 23, 2026
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ATTENTION, LAND – 2000 AD Program 2501 is now available!
I am The Mighty Tharg, the all-powerful alien editor at the helm of this brain-sapping sci-fi anthology!
Welcome back to Thrill-central, Terrans, where I take it as a personal challenge to reconfigure your realities. I trust you have recovered from the Prog 2500 ghafflebette, and although we return to the usual thirty-two pages of this issue, the zarjazness does not diminish as we launch into the second installment of Dredd, Azimuth, Red Durham, Herne and Shuck and Ghost!
In case you missed it, Judge Dredd Megazine 496 also hit stores last week, and features the start of a new Dredd story by Geoffrey D. Wessel and Nick Roche along with the final chapters of Rogue Trooper, Mega-City 2099, Storm Warning and Lawless, in addition to the grand finale of the Treasure classic The angry planet by the droids Hebden and Belardinelli.
Add to that a chat with Rob Williams and Arthur Wyatt about The new futureBryan Talbot reveals the stories behind his latest projects, and Dave Gibbons and John Higgins reflect on Lightning Jaxontheir collaboration with Albion that will have a new edition in December, and it is another spectacular number, full of emotion.
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JUDGE DREDD // THE NEW FUTURE, Part One
Megacity One, 2148 AD Home to over 300 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant and only judges, empowered to deliver instant justice, can stop total anarchy. The toughest of all is JUDGE DREDD: he is the Law! Judge Maitland tried to reduce crime through social programs and was surprisingly murdered…
AZIMUT // HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DAGON, Part Two
Welcome to the city of AZIMUTH, a data-driven metropolis, where anything is possible. Ruled by a New Flesh aristocracy, such concepts of life, death, and bodily forms are fluid. Anyone can take any form, if the imagination can conceive it. A stranger came to town, none other than Ramone Dexter, and revealed that Azimuth is, in fact, Downlode rebuilt by a rogue artificial intelligence…
DURHAM RED // HUNGER CITY, Part Two
End of the 22nd century. Of all the mutants who have operated as search/destroy agents, perhaps the most feared is the vampire DURHAM RED, who requires blood to survive. Distrustful of both the criminals she hunts and her fellow Strontium Dogs, Red has a formidable reputation preceding her and often takes jobs outside the Galactic Crime Commission…
GHOST // BOOK TWO, PART TWO
Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the distant future. One of the fastest-growing megacities in the world, the metropolis is now a walled urban world, so vast and divorced from the rest of the planet that it is practically its own kingdom. The young citizen Benu found herself neurally connected to a soldier fighting an alien war, but upon fleeing the city, she discovered that the war was being fought outside the wall…
HERNE & SHUCK // ASSAULT ON THE STONE, Part Two
The United Kingdom. Herne solves problems and hires help for many different magical factions. Accompanied by Shuck, a demon in the form of a dog, he travels the country looking for work wherever he can, whether it be an exorcism or a rescue. He was recently tasked with saving young Carys from ritual sacrifice and has become an enemy of the organization known as St Michael. Now they have her again and Herne must lead a rescue…