2000 AD Prog 2456 out now
PROG 2456 OUT NOW
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ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2456 is OUT NOW!
Call me Tharg The Mighty, your genial green guide to all that is circuit-shatteringly zarjaz!
Welcome to the fourth and final bumper prog of 2025, a hyper-powered blast to see you into the darkest depths of autumn as we edge out of October.
Inside you’ll find the latest instalments of Void Runners, Red Dragon, Brass Sun, Rogue Trooper and Dredd’s creepy current case, the scrotnig And to the Sea Return, plus there’s an eight-page Nightmare New York one-off, Hard Times, courtesy of Kek-W & David Roach, catching up with Lil after last year’s inaugural adventure, and providing a taster for 2026’s full-length follow-up.
Also new this issue is an exclusive strip from writer/artist Andreas Butzbach, tying in with the release next week of his original graphic novel Big-Ass Sword, a technopunk fantasy saga filled with warring robots and talking skulls. If Defrag Process tantalises your diodes, make sure you place an order for the GN at shop.2000AD.com!
With Halloween looming, you’d also do well to check out the ghafflebette horror items on sale at the online shop — there’s plenty of specials and GNs to give you chills with your Thrills!
2000 AD Prog 2456 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!
Cover Art: Mike Dowling
Script: Rob Williams / Art: Henry Flint / Letters: Annie Parkhouse
JUDGE DREDD // AND TO THE SEA RETURN, Part Seven
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, with the toxic Black Atlantic to the east, and the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west. Tensions are on a knife-edge, 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!
BIG-ASS SWORD // DEFRAG PROCESS
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 longforgotten 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…
BRASS SUN // PAVANE, Part Seven
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. He freed Wren from the clutches of the Motherless Men, and together they escaped, but not without consequence…
RED DRAGON, Part Six
NEW STORY! 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. To help with his battle with Masterman, Zenith got Red Dragon cleaned up — but Siadwell did not survive in the fight against the enemy…
VOID RUNNERS // BOOK TWO, Part Seven
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
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…
ROGUE TROOPER // GHOST PATROL, Part Seven
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…