Issue Description

Dredd: Breaking Bud [1]

Mega-City One, 2130 AD. This vast urban nightmare on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to 400 million citizens, every one a potential criminal. With lawlessness rife, only the Judges can prevent total anarchy. These future lawmen are judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd - he is the Law!

Orlok, Agent of East-Meg One: The Rasputin Caper [6]

East-Meg One, 2100 AD. Four years before he will set in motion the events of Block Mania, and become a notorious enemy of Mega-City One’s Justice Department, ORLOK is a ruthless agent and assassin of the East-Meg Diktatorat. Skilled in stealth, sabotage and subterfuge, he’s a lethal weapon sent on the most dangerous missions — but can he be truly trusted? Now, he’s been charged with securing defecting artist Jiri Rasputin...

Sláine: Primordial [6]

Albion, in a time of myth and legend. Celtic barbarian warrior SLÁINE united the tribes of the Earth Goddess Danu and became the first High King of Ireland. After ruling for seven years, he travelled through time to fight for the Goddess in other eras before returning to save his people from the Fomorian sea devils. He then became a wanderer, serving the Goddess where she directs him, and now he’s battling the Drune Lords...

Grey Area: Locked In [3]

North America, 2045. The Global Exo Segregation Zone — aka the GREY AREA — is a huge sector in Arizona given over to housing the large number of extra-terrestrial immigrants that arrive on Earth. A massive shanty town that acts as a holding area, it’s policed by Exo Transfer Control squads, heavily armoured cops that patrol and keep the peace amongst the aliens. But right now, Bulliet and co are somewhere else entirely...

Strontium Dog: The Stix Fix [6]

Late 22nd century. After the Atomic Wars, many survivors were warped by the Strontium 90 fallout. These ‘mutants’ became a victimised underclass, forced into ghettos, and the only career open to them was bounty hunting. One such Search/Destroy agent, or STRONTIUM DOG, is Johnny Alpha, who was thought killed. Now, following a mutant rebellion, he’s been offered a job that will see him released from prison...

Cover: Ryan Brown

Judge Dredd - Breaking Bud (Part One) (John Wagner - Richard Elson)Orlok: Agent of East-Meg One - The Rasputin Caper (Part Six) (Arthur Wyatt - Jake Lynch)Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles Book Two - Primordial (Part Six) (Pat Mills - Simon Davis)Grey Area - Locked In (Part Three) (Dan Abnett - Mark Harrison)Stronium Dog - The Stix Fix (Part Six) (John Wagner - Carlos Ezquerra)

2000 AD (1977)

Publisher

Rebellion

Volume Description

The first issue from 1977

Iconic, cult and British aptly describe 2000 AD. For over 35 years it has delivered weekly thrill-power to the masses. Much of its success lies in its consistency, as original creators Pat Mills and John Wagner still write for the comic and future lawman Judge Dredd has been at the core of the sci-fi anthology since prog 2. As well as appearing in the weekly, Dredd's popularity has granted him his own series, which is still going today having topped 350+ issues as well as appearances in Annuals (1980-1990), Yearbooks (1991-1994) and Mega-Specials (1988-1996).

2000 AD has launched the careers of some of British comics best known writers and artists such as Alan Moore, Alan Grant, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis, John Wagner, Kevin O'Neill, Pat Mills, Peter Milligan, Simon Bisley and many more.

Annuals & Specials

Throughout its publishing history (from IPC, Fleetway, Egmont and currently Rebellion), there have been many spin-off specials and series, including:

Hardbacked Annuals (1977-1990) and softcover Yearbooks (1991-1994)Summer Supercomics and Sci-Fi Specials (1977-1996)Action Special (1992), Winter Specials (1988-2005) and poster progs (1977-2004)New Annuals (or, "end of the year" issues)

To mark the millennium (a year nobody thought the comic would see), a new tradition was started with the publication of the new 'Annual Progs' starting from issue number #2000 when the ongoing series had just reached #1173 (12/08/1999).

These 100-page specials slot in between the last prog of the old year and the first of the new. As well as featuring special one-off stories and features, they also kick-off the new years series.

Notable Characters

British boys comics have been in decline since the 1980s and 2000 AD is now the last man standing, having seen off all of the competition. But despite all of these cancellations, only two other comics have ever merged with 2000 AD - Starlord (1978) and Tornado (1979). Both added new characters to the 2000 AD roster including Strontium Dog from Starlord, which is still in the line-up today and still being scripted and illustrated by its original creators.

With such a back catalogue of characters, stories and sagas, reprints were inevitable. In the UK, Titan Books printed the first graphic novel collections, starting with Judge Dredd in 1981. In the US, Eagle Comics began printing a monthly Judge Dredd comic in 1983 (with iconic covers from Brian Bolland).

Over the years there have been countless graphic novel collections and reprint titles. In the UK these have taken the form of the more traditional anthology format (Best of 2000AD, Classic 2000AD and Extreme Editions), but in the US, stories have been resized and recoloured to fit the smaller format and released as specific character series (such as ABC Warriors, Nemesis the Warlock, Sam Slade and Judge Dredd).

Judge Dredd movie and IDW's spin-off

In 2012, 2000 AD celebrated its 35th anniversary. With the comic in rude health, this special year saw the release of new movie Dredd - a faithful adaptation of the future lawman that banished memories of Sylvester Stallone's 1995 effort. Plus, IDW launched their own original Judge Dredd series (the first time a US publisher has printed new Dredd stories since DC gave us Judge Dredd and Legends of the Law back in 1994).

Publication HistoryProgsPublisherStart DateEnd Date#1-535IPC02/26/7708/15/87#536-1013Fleetway08/22/8710/15/96#1014-1204
#2000Egmont/Fleetway10/22/9608/08/00#1205-1262
#2001Egmont Magazines
(under license from Rebellion)08/15/0010/03/01#1263-
#2002-Rebellion10/10/01present

Notes:

#86-126 were published as 2000 AD and Star Lord (10/14/78-08/18/79).

#127-177 were published as 2000 AD and Tornado (08/25/79-09/13/80).

#2000 and higher are considered annuals or so-called "end of the year" issues (see description above).

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