Rebellion Releases — 11 March 2026

A ground-breaking steampunk epic, in which the survival of a clockwork solar system lies in the hands of a courageous young girl!

The Orrery is a fully functioning, life-sized clockwork solar system. Several planets attached to huge metal spars, orbit a great brass sun. For many years, these worlds have fought amongst each other and many have degenerated into minor kingdoms. Worse yet, the sun has begun to wind down, and the outer worlds are starting to freeze while the rest will inevitably follow.

Wren, a young girl who lives on the outer world of Hind Leg, is tasked by her scientist grandfather to find the lost pieces of a key that can restart the sun. Setting off from her homeworld of Hind Leg, Wren is given part of the secret of the lost key that has the power to restart the sun again. Charged with travelling across the various worlds to pick up other parts of the key which was broken up after The Great War, she alone possesses the power to save the galaxy from extinction…

From the creative team behind New Deadwardians, Ian Edginton (Stickleback, Ampney Crucis Investigates) and I.N.J. Culbard (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Deadbeats) Brass Sun is a unique fantasy adventure, executed with panache. One of the most critically-acclaimed series in 2000 AD’s history, the series made a recent return to the pages of The Galaxy’s Greatest in 2025 as a welcome reminder of the creative team’s mastery of comics.

Now, 2000 AD celebrate the series with a new collection which makes Brass Sun available in paperback for the first time! This huge paperback collection includes the first three series:

    Brass Sun: Wheel of Worlds
    Brass Sun: The Diamond Age,
    Brass Sun: The Floating World

Featuring stories set across the fragile clockwork universe which Wren is determined to save, it’s time to live the adventure in this acclaimed, expansive series which has enthralled readers around the world!

Brass Sun Volume One: The Wheel of Worlds will be published on 24th September 2026, and is available for pre-order now!

And now, this week's releases...

2000AD Prog 2473
Cover: Mark Sexton.

JUDGE DREDD // CLIMATE CRISIS by Rob Williams & Ned Hartley (w) PJ Holden (a) Jack Davies (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
HERNE & SHUCK // POWER TRIP by David Barnett (w) Lee Milmore (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
BRINK // THE CALL OF THE VOID by Dan Abnett (w) INJ Culbard (a) Simon Bowland (l)
THARG’S 3RILLERS // WHO IS ADRIAN APOLLO? by Liam Johnson (w) Steven Austin (a) John Charles (c) Rob Steen (l)
THE DISCARDED by Peter Milligan (w) Kieran McKeown (a) Jim Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)

Rex Power—Invastion of the Fear Bugs! by RAMZEE (w) Claude TC (a)
Rebellion 978-183786522-2, 11 March 2026, 144pp, £9.99. Available via Amazon.

He's a Dino-Cop – from space!
    Rex is an alien descendant of the mighty Tyrannosaurus and a skilled bounty hunter. After one of his bounties - the mad alien scientist, Zardax - escapes, Rex is forced to crash his ship on Earth. Stranded in Catford, south east London, an accident causes Rex to merge with a young, teenage orphan called Korey. Once bonded, Korey and Rex will have to learn how to get along so they can stop an army of Zardax's alien parasites from taking over the district, the city, and then the planet
    Written by Ramzee (Marvel’s Edge of Spider-Verse, The Cheat Book) and featuring the kinetic art of Claude T.C., Rex Power is the freshest new British superhero on the block!

Sinister Dexter: Bulletopia by Dan Abnett (w) Steve Yeowell, Tazio Bettin, Nicolo Assirelli (a)
Rebellion  ‎ 978-1837866663, 11 March 2026, 192pp, £19.99. Available via Amazon.

NEW WORLD DISORDER!
In the rotting corpse of a city called Downlode, only the most ruthless people can survive. Finnigan Sinister and Ramone Dexter have made their mark working together as ‘gun-sharks’ (hitmen) for some of the underworld’s biggest mob bosses.
    Having killed Holy Moses Tanenbaum, a mobster from an alternate dimension whose presence threatened the fabric of reality, Finnigan Sinister and Ramone Dexter have reset the continuum, and now no one knows who they are, except for the hacker, Billi Octavo. Hired to protect a sentient A.I. called Lillith, the duo has discovered that another rogue A.I. is at large in the city.

Comic Cuts — 6 March 2026

It's a good news week. The first proof for ACTION: THE SEVENPENNY NIGHTMARE has arrived and I've looked through it and found very little that needed changing. I've now put in a print order that and that means I have copies of the book for sale at the Glasgow Swap Meet on March 21st. 

The print order also included some additional stock so that I also have other books on sale. I'm not taking every book Bear Alley has published, but I should have a couple of copies of each of the strip reprints and the indexes. I will have copies of recent books, the four MYTEK THE MIGHTY reprints and the AIR ACE COMPANION and will be offering them post-free to anyone attending. Special show discount!

As there's no rest for the wicked, I've already started work on what I hope will be the next couple of books. These will be comic reprints and I've been running the scanner hot for the past few days making sure I have all the pages. Now comes the rather more tedious job... cleaning and doing the occasional repair (I noticed a couple of torn pages when the comics went on the scanner). That will take some weeks as there are a lot of pages to get through. One strip will be published in two volumes, so that will probably mean writing a couple of introductions—which is the bit that I enjoy most, so I leave it as a reward for when I finish the artwork.

I've recorded a couple of little bits of video while I was waiting for the proof to arrive which will give you a bit of background to the book, its tortuous history, and my own history as a reader. That's if they've come out. I haven't watched any of the bits back yet. It might be too awful to inflict on you, dear reader. 

I'll leave you with a few random covers. I mentioned last week that I'd gone into town to trawl through the charity shops. Some of the covers have already gone into their various author's cover galleries, but here are a few strays. The first was a surprise... the first Badger seen out in the wild for many years and it happens to be one I don't have. The Spinrad I didn't recognise, but it turns out I had an earlier Sphere edition. Not to worry as it was only a couple of quid. The Arkady Martine I saw a few years ago in a charity shop for £1, but it was in such a state I didn't want to buy it even as a stop-gap shelf-filler. So I left it. I was regretting not buying it all the way home. Fast forward about four years and I now have a £1.99 copy that is good as new. There's a moral to this story: pick the damned book up when you see it! You'll regret not buying it, and a better copy might turn up later.

One of my greatest regrets is getting rid of my Poul Anderson books when I had a cull many years ago. I've replaced some whenever I see them, but they don't often turn up and some I have are not in great condition. To think I bought quite a few new and kept them as mint as I could... *sniff* 

The Bees I bought thinking it was a science fiction set in a dystopian society on an alien planet... but it turns out to be about bees. Gwyneth Jones liked it, so I'll hang on to it, although it's not high on my list of books to read.

The gem of the day was a hardback first of M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again. I don't think I'm missing any of his sf novels—I know I don't have his non-sf Climbers—so I only need his memoir Wish I Was Here and that will complete my Harrison library! Wish I could say that of my Poul Anderson collection...

Rebellion Releases — 4 March 2026

Five weeks ago, director (Kill List, High Rise, A Field in England, Meg 2) Ben Wheatley made his debut in 2000AD with a story (art by Simon Coleby) set in Mega-City One's Ps-Div featuring Judge Dee. Now he's welcomed by Michael Molcher to the 2000AD Thrill-Cast (In Orbit Every Wednesday). Wheatley discusses his supernatural Dredd-world yarn, as well his love for 2000 AD and the challenges of going from writing for film screens to hyper-compressed comic pages. Available from your usual podcast provider and on YouTube (video, 49m).

And now, this week's release...

2000AD Prog 2472
Cover: INJ Culbard.

JUDGE DREDD // CLIMATE CRISIS by Rob Williams & Ned Hartley (w) PJ Holden (a) Jack Davies (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
HERNE & SHUCK // POWER TRIP by David Barnett (w) Lee Milmore (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
BRINK // THE CALL OF THE VOID by Dan Abnett (w) INJ Culbard (a) Simon Bowland (l)
THE DISCARDED by Peter Milligan (w) Kieran McKeown (a) Jim Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)
 

Joseph Green cover gallery

A rather slim collection for the late Joseph Green, who died in February. Although he began publishing his SF in the UK, only three of his novels had paperback editions over here, although a couple of additional novels appeared in hardback.

The Loafers of Refuge (London, Gollancz, 1965; New York, Ballantine Books, Mar 1965)
Pan Books X651, 1967, 175pp, 3/6. 

Gold the Man (London, Gollancz, Mar 1971; as The Mind Behind the Eye, New York, DAW Books, Apr 1972)
Pan Books 0330-23461-7, 224pp, 30p. Cover by Roger Dean

Conscience Interplanetary (London, Gollancz, Mar 1972; New York, Doubleday, Jul 1973)
Pan 0330-24209-1, Mar 1975, 219pp, 40p.
---- [2nd imp.] 50p.

The Horde (Laser Books #27, Apr 1976; London, Dennis Dobson, Sep 1979)
(no UK paperback)

Star Probe (London, Millington, Mar 1976)
(no UK paperback)

Spies of Nyscandia (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, Aug 2017)
(no UK paperback)

A Murder in the RealWorld (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, Mar 2018)
(no UK paperback)

A Lasting Dream of Murder (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, Jun 2018)
(no UK paperback)

Three Sons of Bitter Sands (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, Mar 2019)
(no UK paperback)

Down Freedom River (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, Mar 2020)
(no UK paperback)

The Resistance Revolution Murders (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, Jul 2020)
(no UK paperback)

Crystal Coming Home (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, May 2021)
(no UK paperback)

The Assassins for God (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, Jun 2023)
(no UK paperback)



COLLECTIONS

An Affair with Genius (London, Gollancz, May 1969)
(no UK paperback)

Running Wild: Unfettered Stories of Imagination (Wildside Press, Sep 2016)
(no UK paperback)

Fantastic Tales of Love and Loss: Unfettered Stories of Imagination (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, Feb 2019)
(no UK paperback)

Otherwise Lost: Unfettered Stories of Imagination (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, Oct 2020)
(no UK paperback)

Space to Move: Unfettered Stories of Imagination (Merritt Island, FL, Greenhouse Scribes, Mar 2021)
(no UK paperback)

• 5 Mar. With interest surrounding the sale of Peter Hansen's collection of British comics peaking ahead of the auction on 11-12 March, here's an old interview from 2019. 
• 3 Mar. A number of Giles' annual covers are coming up for auction shortly at Chiswick Auctions on 12 March 2026. "The cartoons, which include one of his original, carefully crafted Giles Annual covers, were gifts from the artist to his old editor, Harold Keeble."
• 25 Feb. Brands Untapped talks to Victoria Justice, Director of Consumer Products & Ecommerce at Rebellion, about Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper and 2000AD's upcoming big milestone. "2000 AD will celebrate 50 years in 2027, so that’s a huge focus right now at Rebellion and full of relatively untapped potential. We’re already speaking to partners about ways to commemorate this exceptional anniversary… With big plans in the works for Judge Dredd!"
• 22 Feb. The illustrator who became a national catchphrase—W. Heath Robinson—is the subject of a brief radio clip from BBC Radio Surrey. (7m) "His cartoons of improbable military machines – pulleys, pipes and teetering platforms – offered a gentle, satirical counterpoint to the grim realities of war and helped to make him a household name."
• 22 Feb. Jacob Phillips introduces The Peril of the Brutal Dark—an Ezra Cain mystery—to Andrew Sumner at Forbidden Planet TV. "Cain's debut case is a hypnotic mean-street-walking pulp magazine mix of Hammett & Chandler, bled thru a dark Mignola filter with touch of Indiana Jones, all wrapped up within [writer Chris Condon]'s razor-sharp 40s dialogue and Jacob's carefully-researched and beautifully-rendered artwork." (video, 28m)
• 16 Feb. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett discuss their new Gorillaz album, The Mountain. "I think that the fact that we are an animated band has helped just a little bit. Young people go, “What’s that? I love that animation. Let me check it out.” Then they hear the music and they go, “Oh, my God, I love it.” And then it brings a new audience."

Comic Cuts — 27 February 2026

Still waiting on proofs of the ACTION: THE SEVENPENNY NIGHTMARE book as I write this, although it shouldn't be long before I have a copy in my hands.

As mentioned last week, I decided to take a couple of days off and headed into town on Friday for a trawl through the charity shops of Colchester. I came away with a nice little haul of books, some of which may well turn up below. It was, admittedly, a bit of a mixed bag—a couple that fill gaps in author runs, for instance, and even a couple of upgrades, although they weren't bought for that reason... I'd simply forgotten that I already had copies. 

Scanning covers doesn't sound like much of a break from what I've been doing for work, but I actually enjoy the process of cleaning up covers. It's nice to have something that, even if it has creases and is sun-bleached, I can scan and drag into Photoshop and have an improved version of ten minutes later. Sometimes it takes a little longer—I've spent a couple of hours on some old 1950s gangster paperbacks trying to make them look acceptable—but there's an end result not too long after I start the process.

Don't forget, most of the projects I start are a commitment to months of work. I began working on ACTION: THE SEVENPENNY NIGHTMARE back in late October and really got going in early November. And this was meant to be a quick project as I already had a large chunk of the history written. (How that came about I'll explain closer to the book's launch.)

This relatively quick project still took three and a half months to complete (writing and design) and I've still to put any thought into promotion and selling. I will say that it looks good for having copies available for Glasgow on March 21st.

Some projects will take even longer (I'm eyeing the Valiant index as one I want to update soon) as there are more issues and more stories to cover; however, it's not something you can mathematically predict: Valiant's 712 issues won't take eight times as long to cover as Action's 86 issues because there isn't nearly as much interview material available from creators describing their work on Valiant in the way that Action has been covered. 

Imagine facing a blank screen or a blank piece of paper knowing that you've five or six months work ahead of you putting down that first word and that first sentence. It can be daunting... and that's why I can happily sit for half an hour cleaning up scratches and creases and sticker damage with tiny strokes of the mouse in Photoshop. It's relaxing, although it can be demanding if there's a lot of damage, but at the end of a relatively short time you've usually got something presentable and usable and you're not going to go back to it every day for the next five months!

You can see some additional scans have been added to the Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss cover galleries recently and I'll add some more shortly.

After that it was back to work on Monday, scanning some strips for a book I raised the idea for with Rebellion last year. I'll not say what it is until we've signed contracts—which will be some way down the line because the closer I can leave it to publication day, the later I have to pay the licence fees. I've already got the expense of a print run of the new book and various other running costs that are associated with doing a show.

Scanning can get a bit tedious, so I've mixed it up with a bit of indexing of some books that aren't currently in the Fictionmags Index. Reference books... I was looking for an interview with someone the other day and realised I have a load of books but tucked away on shelves and in boxes, so wouldn't it be useful if I knew which books I was looking for? Yes, yes is the answer, so I've spent a couple of days listing contents of books, which itself can be pretty boring, but not when the alternative is scanning page after page after page... 

Keeping me sane is the new album from Big Big Train, a concept piece called Woodcut, which came out three weeks ago. On the same day, the new Solstice live album arrived with a link through to a video of the concert, which Mel and I watched on the Sunday. Absolutely brilliant. We actually appeared briefly in the previous video release which was recorded in Colchester last April. Again, brilliant. I've always thought that the best bands are at their best live. There's an energy and engagement that you just can't get with a studio album, which may have every bell and whistle in perfect harmony but doesn't have the sheer exuberance of a live performance. 

This might be a hang-over from my early listening of rock bands like Deep Purple and UFO, where the live album would bring together their best songs, usually note perfect, backed by the shouts of an ecstatic audience. I loved going to see bands live, usually in London or at festivals (Knebworth, Reading, Donnington) or more locally in Ipswich or Chelmsford (the old Odeon, where the likes of Hawkwind, XTC and Wishbone Ash used to play). Happy days!

(If you bump into me at a show, ask me why I was almost arrested after the Wishbone Ash gig!)

I'll leave you with some random scans from my miscellaneous covers file, not all of them cleaned up, but mostly in good nick. Definitely an odd selection...

Commando 5935-5938

Celebrating International Women’s Day on the 8th March, our next set of Commandos features the explosive fifth story in the Commandos Vs Zombies series written by Commando’s own Georgia Standen Battle. Following this up is the heroic tale of a tenacious nurse in Crete in 1941, written by Hailey Austin and inspired by true events! Issues 5935 – 5938 are on sale today, 26th February. 

5935: Commandos Vs Zombies 5 

After the explosive events on the island, Oberfuhrer Randolph Mensch flew towards his private prisoner-of-war-camp. Housed there were the Soviet and British inmates Mensch used for his vile, mad experiments. 
    Miles away, a small raiding force of British Commandos were on a doomed mission – and they had no idea what was awaiting them at the camp!

Story: Georgia Standen-Battle
Internal Art: Vicente Alcazar
Cover Art: Neil Roberts

5936: The Good Soldier
 
Mario Galasso was a very good type indeed — brave, cool-headed and thoughtful. In battle, he would never ask his men to do anything he wouldn’t do himself. 
    But when he returned to his home village after the war, he was arrested for war crimes! And the trouble was, he seemed to be the only one who knew he was innocent…

Story: Feldwick  
Internal Art: Denis McLoughlin
Cover Art: Ron Brown
First published 1984 as No. 1818

5937: Captured in Crete

The Island of Crete,1941. What did an English Nurse, a Māori soldier, a Cretan monk and a German general all have in common? They were all captured in Crete!
     After German paratroopers descend on the island, the Allied forces, nurses and Cretan people must fight back against the invaders in any way they can. Resistance and soldiers unite, while Nurse Stavros moves over 500 wounded soldiers to a cave and tricks the Germans into feeding them — all inspired by true events!

Story: Hailey Austin
Internal and Cover Art: Carlos Pino

5938: The Two Deserters
 
It wasn’t that Mike Briers had really meant to desert. Not exactly. It was just that Foxy Billings had persuaded him to leave the rest of the lads so that the two of them would have a better chance of escaping the Germans. 
    So how was it that he found himself wearing civilian clothes and fighting for his life on top of a French goods train that was about to be sent to its destruction?

Story: Feldwick  
Internal Art: Blasco 
Cover Art: Jeff Bevan
First published 1982 as No. 1607

Rebellion Releases — 25 February 2026

If you’ve been reading Death of a Judge these past six weeks, you’ve surely been blown away by not just the story – it’s a John Wagner Dredd, of course you’re going to be blown away – but by the artwork on show from Mike Perkins. It’s a Dredd that’s a perfect end to Wagner’s career, and a Dredd made all the more zarjaz due to Perkins’ art, capturing the man and his city perfectly.

For some of you who only read Tharg’s finest, this might well be a first look at his art, as, although his career may have started at the House of Tharg back in the 1990s, he’ss spent many years drawing up a storm for the US since then. So, what better time to chat to him than now as he comes back, as so many do, the the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic? Sit back, relax, and let’s say hello… to Mike Perkins.

To read the interview, head over to the 2000AD website.

When you've finished, come back for the latest Rebellion releases...

2000AD Prog 2471
Cover: Cliff Robinson with Dylan Teague.

JUDGE DREDD // CLIMATE CRISIS by Rob Williams & Ned Hartley (w) PJ Holden (a) Jack Davies (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
HERNE & SHUCK // POWER TRIP by David Barnett (w) Lee Milmore (a) Gary Caldwell (c) Annie Parkhouse (l)
JUDGE DEE by Ben Wheatley (w) Simon Coleby (a) Jack Davies (c) Simon Bowland (l)
THARG'S TERROR TALES // FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH by Andi Ewington (w) Mike Walters (a) Rob Steen (l)
THE DISCARDED by Peter Milligan (w) Kieran McKeown (a) Jim Boswell (c) Simon Bowland (l)

Brink Book Six by Dan Abnett & INJ Culbard
Rebellion 978-183786658-8, 25 February 2026, 160pp, £19.99. Available via Amazon.

CONSUMED!
The late 21st century, and through environmental catastrophe and industrial overload Earth has been reduced to a wasteland. Mankind finally evacuated the planet in 2072 and millions were housed in a number of huge deep-space Habitats.
    But after twenty years on these cramped, overcrowded stations life is tense, often spilling over into madness. Sects are rife, and Bridget Kurtis of the Habitat Security Division investigates their reach and influence over the remaining inhabitants of each space-faring vessel – can she stop the encroaching chaos as it works to snuff out the remnants of humanity.

Molly Parkin cover gallery

A bit of a memorial to the late Molly Parkin, who died on January 5th at the age of 93.

Love All (London, Blond & Briggs, 1974; Nash Publishing, 1975)
Star 0352-30080-9, 1975, 190pp, 50p.
---- [2nd imp.] 1977; [3rd imp.] 1979; [4th imp.] 1979; [6th imp.] 1980; [7th imp.] 1984, £1.80.

Up Tight (London, Blond & Briggs, 1975)
Star 0352-29717-9, 1976, 207pp, 60p.
---- [2nd imp.] 1977; [3rd imp.] 1978, 60p.

Full Up (London, Michael Joseph; New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1976)
Sphere 0722-10433-2, 1977, 224pp, 75p. 
---- [2nd imp.] 1979; [3rd imp.] 1981; [4th imp.] 1983; [5th imp.] 1984
Sphere 0722-10576-2 [6th imp.] 1985
---- [7th imp.] 1985, 224pp, £2.25.

Write Up (London, Michael Joseph, 1977)
Sphere, 1978.

Good Golly Ms. Molly, edited by Richard Barber (London, Star, 1978)
Star 0352-30215-1, 1978, 154pp, £1.25. Cover photo by John Timbers

Switchback (London, W. H. Allen, 1978)
Star 0352-30263-1, 1979.
---- [2nd imp.] 1979
---- [3rd imp.] 1982, 154pp, £1.25. 

Fast and Loose (London, W. H. Allen, 1979)
Star 0352-30455-3, 1980, 171pp, 95p. 

Up & Coming (London, W. H. Allen, 1980)
Star 0352-30758-7, 1981.
---- [2nd] 1982
Star 978-0352-30758-3 [3rd] 1985, 159pp, £1.60.

A Bite of the Apple (London, W. H. Allen, 1981)
Star 0352-31035-9, 1982, 165pp, £1.35.

Love Bites (London, W. H. Allen, 1982)
Star 0352-31223-8, 1983

Breast Stroke (London, W. H. Allen, 1983)
Star 0352-31457-5, 1984
---- [2nd imp.] 1987
Star 978-0352-31457-4 [3rd imp.] 1989, 185pp, £2.25.