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The Judge Dredd television series,'Mega City One', long reportedly in development limbo, as a finished pilot script announced at SDCC. More details here.

Today he finally revealed what it's gonna be after much speculation. We were hopeful he'd be doing one for the two big studios (a Green Lantern flick for WB with his flare and visual prowess would be freaking incredible, or Eternals for Marvel), but that's simply not the case as Jones revealed in this video posted[...]

Rebellion, the British publisher behind 2000AD, is bringing back two horror anthology properties from the days of old this Halloween Scream! and Misty, which surely scared the bejeezus out of a wee Bleeding Cool Rumormonger-in-Chief Rich Johnston back in the day, are returning for the first time in over 30 years We asked Rich for[...]

Announced at the 2000AD 40 Years Of Thrill Power Festival, in Hammersmith today, Jason Kingsley of gaming company Rebellion and publishers of 2000AD, announced a new initiative for the company. Best known as a games publisher and developer, Rebellion have made a number of 2000AD-based games, but feel they are at full capacity, and are leaving[...]

  May 6th sees 2000AD, now in its fortueth year, issues a brand new freebie comic for Free Comic Book Day Initially they thought they'd been excluded for providing an anthology, but that soon turned around.The galaxy's greatest Eisner-nominated SF anthology returns to Free Comic Book Day with a 32 page, And here's a preview…[...]

There are many things that excited me about 2000AD's upcoming 40 Years of Thrill-Power Festival on 11th February And not just that Hammersmith is just a thirty-minute bus ride away from me But that is one of them. Here are all the others… including panels hosted by Bleeding Cool's Olly Macnamee Tickets have sold out, but Bleeding[...]

Borag Thungg! The 2000AD 40th anniversary celebrations are upon us, with the big event coming up on the 11th, but they're also hosting a number of satellite happenings around the period This one being a life drawing session in conjunction with Art Model Collective called Muties & Perps on the 05th of February (facebook event | tickets). Jason Atomic, an artist embroiled[...]

Dredd has gone on to have quite a life on home and streaming releases. The film has garnered a real love from a cult following, meaning cries for a sequel

By Olly MacNamee "I would like to write his death story, and have suggested it to Rebellion': John Wagner on Judge Dredd, The Cursed Earth and his possible death With the sell out success of The Cursed Earth hardback, both here in the UK and in the States, I caught up with John Wagner to discuss Dredd then,[...]

By Olly MacNamee With the recent release of the warts and all documentary, Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD, documenting the history of the galaxy's greatest comic, I was able to sit in on the panel accompanying an exclusive screening at Birmingham's The MAC and listened in as Paul H Birch interviewed 2000ADalumni Phil Winslade, Ian Richardson and Ian[...]

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[...]

With his recent welcome return to the pages of 2000AD, with his Lawless strip alongside Dan Abnett, there was no better time to catch up with Winslade and shoot the breeze. Olly MacNamee: Phil, was becoming an artist always something you wanted to be? And if so, was it fine art of did you always dream[...]

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[...]

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[...]

    Here are the remaining 35 Free Comic Book Day titles for 2016 – including the 2000AD edition with a Eric Powell Judge Dredd story that was previously reported as refused by the committee Looks like a little outrage went a long way.  Add to that Attack On Titan, One Punch Man, Stan Lee's The Unknowns,[...]

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[...]

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'[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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,[...]

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[...]

At the time it was biting satire for a kids comic.   But that satire came too close to the liking of certain multinational conglomerate fast food

Next week’s Judge Dredd Megazine celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special cover by Barry Kitson. The cover features 25 of Dredd’s all-time greatest

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[...]

As some of you may know I've worked with them extensively with my novels as well as my various 2000AD series so they were an obvious publisher to speak to when the proverbial hit the spinning air thing We discussed various ideas with them and mutually came up with a plan to expand the book[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Rebellion is publishing a hardcover volume Ex Machina - Ava Evolved by Jock and Alex Garland. Only available from its website, limited to 500 copies and

This Wednesday, May 13th, Prog 1930 of 2000AD arrives in print in the UK and internationally digitally It will arrive in print in the USA around June 13th You can find the digital version of the comic conveniently located on the  2000 AD webshop, 2000 AD iPad app, and the 2000 AD Android app. This week's Prog contains: Judge Dredd:[...]