Rebellion Releases — 20 August 2025

The 2000AD website often carries interesting features, which we often draw on here to spice up the rather dry release lists. One regular series is '2000AD Overs Uncovered', which offers some background on how the cover art to various issues has been developed. The latest is for Prog 2445 by Simon Davis, who says of his latest, "I often reference other paintings in my work and in this case, Manet’s ‘A Bar at the Folies-Bergère’ sprang to mind... I sent Tharg the rough [above left] and once I got the go ahead, went about the not inconsiderable task of trying to paint black flames. 

"After much trial and error, I decided the best way would be to actually hold the artwork over a candle and let the smoke ‘paint’ the flames. Although fraught with difficulties and always conscious of the fact that if it went wrong, the whole piece would A) have to be scrapped and started again or B) I would set fire to my studio.

"Happily, it went fine, and I think that bit of unpredictability and chaos helped with the overall effect."

And now, this week's releases...

2000AD Prog 2446
Cover: Jake Lynch.

JUDGE DREDD // THE DOUBLE by Karl Stock (w) John McCrea (a) Mike Spicer (c) Simon Bowland (l)
THE RAVILLIOUS PACT by T.C.Eglington (w) Steven Austin (a) John Charles (c) Simon Bowland (l)
AZIMUTH // ABANDONED BY GOD by Dan Abnett (w) Tazio Bettin (a) Matt Soffe (c) Jim Campbell (l)
SCARLET TRACES // EMPIRE OF BLOOD by Ian Edginton (w) D'Israeli (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
FUTURE SHOCKS // EMMETT’S GIRL by Evie Roebuck (w) Lucas McCoy (a) Simon Bowland (l)

Judge Dredd Megazine 483
Cover: Stewart K. Moore.

JUDGE DREDD // ZOOMER by Joe Ratcliffe (w) Anthony Williams (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
TALES FROM THE BLACK MUSEUM // KILLING CODE by Andi Ewington (w) Luke Horsman (a) Simon Bowland (l)
CADET DREDD // THE HAUNTING OF ISO-BLOCK 8 by Paul Starkey (w) Nick Brokenshire (a) Jim Campbell (l)
ROK THE GOD by John Wagner & Alan Grant (w) Dan Cornwell (a) Abby Bulmer & Jim Boswell (c) Jim Campbell (l)
MEGA-CITY 2099 // CARDIAC ARREST by Liam Johnson (w) Conor Boyle (c) Simon Bowland (l)