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Judge Dredd Megazine turned 25 yesterday… how cool is that?

October 22nd, 2015 by Marc Comments

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2000 AD’s sister comic, Judge Dredd Megazine, celebrated its 25th anniversary yesterday – with a special cover by artist Barry Kitson.

The veteran artist on Judge Dredd, Anderson: Psi Division, Fantastic Four, and The Amazing Spider-Man has returned to the ‘House of Tharg’ after 23 years to produce an image of Dredd having bested many of his most dangerous foes, before beckoning the next generation of villains to try their best.

Launched in 1990, the monthly Megazine has published some of the most seminal Judge Dredd stories of the past four decades, including America, Young Death, and Bury My Knee At Wounded Heart.

Its first issue in October 1990 featured the artistic talents of Glenn Fabry, Sean Phillips, John McRae, Peter Doherty, Cam Kennedy, and Jim Baikie. Over the past 25 years it has also debuted popular characters such as Gordon Rennie and Frank Quitely’s Missionary Man, Simon Spurrier and Fraser Irving’s The Simping Detective, and Dan Abnett and Phil Winslade’s Judge Metta Lawson.

The special cover by Kitson features 25 of Dredd’s all-time greatest villains, including: Kraken, Judge Death, Judge Fear, Call-Me-Kenneth, Judge Mortis, Mean Machine Angel, Trapper Hag, Fink Angel, The Judge Child, Stan Lee, Chief Judge Cal, Judge Fire, Captain Skank, Sabbat the Necromancer, Judge Rico Dredd, Don Uggie Apelino, Father Earth, PJ Maybe, the Mutant, the zombie Dredd from City of the Damned, a Sov Judge, Pa Angel, Whitey, and several more… with city blocks in the background named after John Wagner and Alan Grant, paying tribute to the two scripting titans of Dredd’s world.

This month’s issue sees the start of a stunning new Dredd thriller, Terror Rising, by the America team of John Wagner and Colin MacNeil; Brit-Cit Psi-Judge Lillian Storm goes underground in her pursuit of the mysterious box in Storm Warning: The Relic by Leah Moore, John Reppion and Tom Foster; Colonial Marshal Metta Lawson has more than her hands full keeping the town in check as the carnival kicks off in Lawless: Between Badrock and a Hard Place by Dan Abnett and Phil Winslade; and Demon Nic faces the Assassin Apostles, by Paul Grist!

Plus, in the bagged graphic novel this month, we catch up with Carl and Kilquo in the Freaks sequel Faces by John Higgins and Mindy Newell.

Judge Dredd Megazine #365 is on sale this Wednesday from all good newsagents and comic book stores, as well as digitally through the DRM-free 2000 AD webshop and the 2000 AD apps for Apple and Android devices

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….