Keith Burns is one of the best aviation artists around, a member of the Guild of Aviation Artists, who’s been exhibited at the RAF Club in London, and won Aviation Painting of the year.
But comics run in his blood, particularly 2000 AD. His first published work came in 2006’s Strip Search volume organised by Hunt Emerson and John McCrea. Since then, he’s been busy, busy busy in comics, contributing to Garth Ennis and McCrea’s The Boys: Herogasm and other Boys-related comics, making a hell of a lot of Commando covers, and, of course, Keith and Garth have been working together to tell the definitive saga of classic Brit war hero Johnny Red over the years – with the final Johnny Red tale, A Couple of Heroes, out in January.
His wrapround Megazine cover is one that gives him a chance to really show off all that he’s great at. And it doesn’t stop there, as Keith’s doing the art for the Garth Ennis-written Judge Dredd strip this month, something playing to their love of all things war comics and aviation, in Judge Dredd: Rhinemann Seven. It’s Keith’s very first Megazine cover and his very first time doing Dredd, in a tale of a Messerschmitt pilot taking a very wrong turn and ending up in Mega-City One. It’s a follow-up to the one-off Dredd from Prog 446 in 1985, The Squadron That Time Forgot by Alan Grant, John Wagner, and Ron Smith, under a cover by Ian Kennedy, another great of war and aviation artwork…
... And you can continue reading about how the cover came to be in an interview with Keith by Richard Bruton & Pete Wells at the 2000AD website.
And now, this week's releases...
2000AD Prog 2460
Cover: Nick Percival.
JUDGE DREDD // MESSENGERS by Ken Niemand (w) Nick Percival (a) Annie Parkhouse (l)
RED DRAGON by Rob Williams (w) Steve Yeowell & Patrick Goddard (a) Dylan Teague (c) Simon Bowland (l)
BRASS SUN // PAVANE by Ian Edginton (w) INJ Culbard (a) Simon Bowland (l)
ROGUE TROOPER // GHOST PATROL by Alex de Campi (w) Neil Edwards (a) Matt Soffe (c) Jim Campbell (l)
Judge Dredd by Carlos Ezquerra Apex Edition
Rebellion ISBN, 26 November 2025, 128pp, £95.00.
Carlos Ezquerra was one of 2000 AD’s great pioneers. He co-created Judge Dredd, cementing the look of one the most enduring characters in the history of comics. This collection presents his work to the reader in its true size, newly scanned from the original artwork, showcasing the work of a master in all its glory.
This Apex volume contains seven complete stories in colour (‘Behold the Beast’, ‘The Big Itch’, ‘It’s Happening on Line 9’, ‘The Other Slab Tynan’, ‘The Big Bang Theory’, ‘Tarantula’, and ‘John Brown’s Body’) from the Judge Dredd Annuals published in the 1980s, when Ezquerra was at the peak of his powers, and more Judge Dredd classics, as well as several of his early Strontium Dog pages.
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