Judge Dredd Megazine 399 Preview

The next Judge Dredd Megazine, issue 399, is out this week packed full of stories - including a second half that's quite exciting in Judge Dredd: The Lost Files. As good as everything inside will be, there's also this stunningly detailed cover by Adam Brown. If you could be sold on covers alone and this doesn't do it for you, then we don't know what else to say as it's just incredible.

Anyway, check out what's to come in this issue below.

• UK and DIGITAL: 15th August 2018 £2.75
• NORTH AMERICA: 15th September 2018 $6.75
• DIAMOND: JUN181953
• COVER: ADAM BROWN

Contained within this issue:

JUDGE DREDD: BRAIN DRAIN
by Rory McConville (writer) Staz Johnson (artist) Chris Blythe (colourist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

Mega-City One, 2140 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 100 million citizens. Unemployment is rife, boredom universal, and crime is rampant. Stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges, future law-enforcers empowered to dispense instant justice. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law!

THE RETURNERS: IRMAZHINA
by Si Spencer (writer) Nicolo Assirelli (artist) Eva De La Cruz (colourist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

Ciudad Barranquilla, 2140 AD. This South American metropolis, sometimes referred to as ‘Banana City’, is a notoriously poor and corrupt enclave, ruled over by a Justice Department in the pockets of the cartels. Life on its streets can be short and violent. Four different people have awoken from NDEs, and have been tasked with investigating a mysterious temple...

DEVLIN WAUGH: KISS OF DEATH
by Rory McConville (writer) Mike Dowling (artist) Simon Bowland (letterer)

Brit-Cit, 2140 AD. A freelance paranormal troubleshooter and exorcist for the Vatican, Devlin Waugh is the world’s foremost supernatural investigator. In a bid to do his own public image a bit of good, young celebrity Mercury has gone on a date with Devlin, but it’s turned into a disaster. While investigating a fungal attack, Mercury has been fatally wounded...

CHOPPER: WANDERING SOUL
by David Baillie (writer) Brendan McCarthy (artist) Len O'Grady, Brendan McCarthy (colourist) Ellie De Ville (letterer)

The Oz Radback, 2140 AD. Marlon Shakespeare was once one of MC-1’s greatest skysurfers, winning the illegal Supersurf 7 before escaping from the cubes to travel to Oz to participate in Supersurf 10. After the slaughter of Supersurf 11 in MC-2, he retired to Oz, where he’s mostly led a trouble-free life. Now, he and his friend Wally must save the city from a nano-storm...

STRANGE BRIGADE
by Gordon Rennie (writer) Tiernen Trevallion (artist) Annie Parkhouse (letterer)

It is the 1930s, and Department of Antiquities head Lady Imelda Webster has assembled a team to battle the unnatural and uncanny – comprising sniper Frank Fairburne, Oxford academic Professor Archimedes De Quincey, brash Northern demonslayer Gracie Braithwaite and Maasai spirit-warrior Nalangu Rushida, they are the Strange Brigade!

Features: How To Write A Future Shock, Strontium Dog miniatures game,
Bagged reprint: JUDGE DREDD: THE LOST CASES by Alan Grant (writer) PJ Holden, Anthony Williams, David Roach, Paul Marshall, Nick Dyer, Karl Richardson (artists) Ellie De Ville, Simon Bowland (letterers)