2000 AD Prog 2456 Preview - the Final Bumper Issue of 2025

2000 AD Prog 2456 lands as the final bumper issue of 2025, packed with the exciting thrills you'd expect, to launch you into the shadowy depths of autumn. As October fades, this electrifying edition delivers fresh instalments of fan-favourites like Void Runners, Red Dragon, Brass Sun, and Judge Dredd. Plus, there's a chilling one-off from Nightmare New York and a technopunk teaser from Big-Ass Sword.

Big-Ass Sword in Prog 2456 is a special strip by writer and artist Andreas Butzbach, linked to the upcoming launch of his original graphic novel Big-Ass Sword. It's a technopunk fantasy adventure full of battling robots and talking skulls. If Defrag Process excites your circuits, be sure to order the graphic novel at shop.2000AD.com. It's a brilliant graphic novel, so we hope it does well so that we can see more.

• UK and DIGITAL: 29 October £4.99
• NORTH AMERICA: 3 December $35.00 (Prog Pack)
• DIAMOND: AUG250919
• COVER: MIKE DOWLING

In Prog 2456

Judge Dredd: And to the Sea Return

Writer: Rob Williams.
Art: Henry Flint.
Letters: Annie Parkhouse.

Mega-City One, 2147 AD. Home to over 250 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, a mysterious mist has wafted in off the Black Atlantic, and Dredd has boarded floating prison the Barge...

Red Dragon

Writer: Rob Williams.
Art: Steve Yeowell & Patrick Goddard.
Colours: Dylan Teague.
Letters: Simon Bowland.

Siadwell Rhys was once a member of sixties British superhero team Cloud 9, who operated under the name RED DRAGON. When they disbanded due to illness and loss of powers, Siadwell returned to his home village in Wales, where his heavy drinking caught up with him. He died fighting against Masterman, but now, forty years later, journalist Martin Howe is looking into Red Dragon's past for a documentary...

Big-Ass Sword: Defrag Process

Writer/Artist: Andreas Butzbach.

In a world unlike our own, a robot warrior wanders through a vast and hostile techno landscape, filled with strange life forms and mechanical beings left over from a long-forgotten war. At the robot's side is a talking skull. On his back, a BIG-ASS SWORD! But despite the ancient battles having been fought and won eons ago, still some sides continue to indulge in bitter conflicts...

Void Runners: Book Two

Writer: David Hine.
Art: Boo Cook.
Letters: Annie Parkhouse.

The far future. The Federation is made up of a huge number of planetary systems, and such an immense group of civilisations requires an enormous level of control. The Ankorites have taken it upon themselves to rule the Federation, using the drug Kali's Dust to stimulate visions, which is harvested from benign creatures called the Pleroma. VOID RUNNER Alice Shikari has decided to free people from the Federation...

Nightmare New York: Hard Times

Writer: Kek-W.
Art: David Roach.
Colours: Peter Doherty.
Letters: Jim Campbell.

Lower Manhattan, 1845. Paradise Square is at the centre of Five Points in Old New York. The early days of the North American metropolis are marked by a mix of poverty, organised crime and hardscrabble lives, where ragpickers rub shoulders with Christian missionaries. Young Lil was living rough on these dank streets when she discovered she had paranormal powers, and was almost sacrificed by her devil-worshipping father...

Brass Sun: Pavane

Writer: Ian Edginton.
Art: INJ Culbard.
Letters: Simon Bowland.

The Orrery is a clockwork solar system, a clutch of planets orbiting a vast BRASS SUN, but the outer worlds are freezing as the sun dies. Young Wren was charged with finding the elements of the key that would restart the sun, and embarked on an epic quest with conductor novice Septimus. Now the two are separated, and Wren has partnered with Ariel O'Conner to fight back against the Enginemen...

Rogue Trooper: Ghost Patrol

Writer: Alex de Campi.
Art: Neil Edwards.
Colours: Matt Soffe.
Letters: Jim Campbell.

Nu Earth, site of a galactic war between the Norts and the Southers, where the atmosphere has been rendered poisonous. So the Southers created the Genetic Infantrymen, immune to the pollutants — G.I.s like ROGUE TROOPER, the last of his kind. Together with biochip buddies Helm, Gunnar and Bagman, the digitised souls of his dead comrades, he searches for the traitor that betrayed the clone-soldiers...

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