The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own...Created by Ian Edington and Matt "D'Israeli" Brooker, Scarlet Traces is the popular 2000 AD series exploring the world after the events of HG Wells' seminal War of the Worlds - and now, writers have come together to explore that world in prose in SCARLET TRACES: AN ANTHOLOGY BASED ON WAR OF THE WORLDS, out now from Rebellion Publishing!On this edition of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast, co-creator and anthology editor Ian Edginton, writer Maura McHugh, and Rebellion commissioning editor David Moore join 2000 AD publicity droid Molch-R to discuss the world of Scarlet Traces, the legacy of HG Wells' original novel, imperialism and speculative fiction, and moving from comics into prose.The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everything is at stake and no-one is safe Judge Dredd: The Small House! - and as the critically-acclaimed story gets collected this week, The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast talks to creative team Rob Williams and Henry Flint about working together, playing the long game, and the politics of Judge Dredd.Judge Dredd and his team of hand-picked allies finally takes on the nefarious Judge Smiley, Mega-City One s behind-the-scenes manipulator but who will be left standing at the end? And with tensions with Chief Judge Hershey at breaking point, has Dredd finally met his match?The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After their smash hit debut last year, The Vigilant return, resurrecting the greatest home-grown superheroes Britain has to offer!This 64-page special lands on shelves this week and writer Simon Furman talks to the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast about bringing back some of the greatest home-grown superheroes Britain has to offer in a shared universe! Alongside artists Simon Coleby, Jake Lynch and Will Sliney.The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was another busy San Diego Comic Con for the 2000 AD droids, with signings, selling, and a host of zarjaz panels!The 2000 AD podcast is pleased to present you with three fascinating chats with guests new and familiar, as we bring a little bit of Thrill-power to the greatest show on Earth!Please note that these panels were recorded live and so the sound quality at times is poor.Judge Dredd: Supercop or Satire?He's the hardline cop bringing justice to the mean futuristic streets of Mega-City One, but is Judge Dredd a hero or a villain? Is he a law enforcement role-model or, in the light of recent years, is he becoming a worrying vision of the future? Our panel of creators and commentators debate the pros and cons of the ultimate lawman of the future! Moderated by Rosie Knight (Nerdist) with guests Joelle Monique (Teen Vogue), Ani Bundel (The Beat), Christina “Steenz” Stewart (Archival Quality), Graeme McMillan (Hollywood Reporter), INJ Culbard (Brink) and Mike Molcher (2000 AD).“It’s Women Who Love Horror”: The Forgotten British Girls' ComicsMisty was the groundbreaking British comic for girls that laid the way for women's horror comics. Our diverse panel will discuss how, while horror has often been seen as a male-centric genre, it has always been driven by a huge female fandom and how the revival of Misty can once again pave the way for a new kind of comics. Moderated by Rosie Knight (Nerdist) with guests Joelle Monique (AV Club), Jazmine Joyner (Women Write About Comics), Mallory Yu (All Things Considered (NPR)) and Mike Molcher (2000 AD).Reimagining 2000 AD2000 AD has been one of the most prolific and iconic publications on shelves since 1977. But the future of the comic is just as exciting and in this panel a crack group of creators and critics discuss how 2000 AD's owners, Rebellion, are embracing new creators and outlooks to push 2000 AD even further into the future! Moderated by Graeme McMillan (Hollywood Reporter) with guests Mike Molcher (2000 AD), Anna Morozova (Future Shock), INJ Culbard (Brink), and Tula Lotay (2000 AD covers). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The latest Judge Dredd Megazine sees the return of Galen DeMarco! Once a Judge, a rising star operating out of the corrupt dumping ground that was Sector House 301, DeMarco quit the force after one romantic indiscretion too many and set herself up as a private investigator. Although the heir to a fortune, she lost much of her cash in one of her last cases, so is keen to take on any client.The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast talks to new script droid Laura Bailey and new art droid Paul Williams (both winners of the Thought Bubble new talent competitions!) about the series, what it's like getting their first series for the House of Tharg.The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tammy and Jinty were two of the biggest comics for girls in the 1970s and '80s, with a groundbreaking mix of sci-fi, fantasy, peril, and adventure - and now they're back for the 21st Century!The Tammy & Jinty Special is out on 26th June and editor Lizzie Boyle and creators Emma Beeby, Rachael Smith, Rachael Ball, and Rob Williams joined Molch-R to talk about creating comics for girls, aspirational stories, and social commentary. Plus, Rob's dog Millie has an all-too-brief cameo!The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a brand new series that will make you think twice about taking that shortcut home through the trees - the official 2000 AD podcast takes a look at creepy new folk-horror series Thistlebone by T.C. Eglington and Simon Davis! Cult survivor Avril Eason and journalist Seema Chaudry heads back to the village of Harrowvale to investigate the lingering myth of the titular woodland deity, in a nerve-jangling, atmospheric thriller debuting in 2000 AD Prog 2135.Molch-R talks to Eglington and Davis about how to do horror in comics, the 1970s, music, and why the folk horror 'revival' may be a reaction to our changing world.The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been a week of exciting news for comics fans as Rebellion Publishing announced both a brand new series of graphic novels collecting Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence's The Trigan Empire, and the first ever Roy of the Rovers comic featuring a lead female character - Roy's younger sister, Rocky!The Thrill-Cast sits down with Rebellion's deputy publishing manager Rob Power and graphic novels editor Oliver Pickles to discuss these two new projects, one published to coincide with the women's football world cup in France this summer and the other finally collecting one of the jewels of British comics for the first time in a mass market paperback. Along the way they discuss the power of comics, why reaching out to new audiences in new ways is important for the future of the medium, and what the best way to pronounce 'Trigan' is!The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, 2000 AD has a bumper all-ages takeover issue with Prog 2130: for one week, the title is 48 pages and contains an array of complete stories!It's a titanic face-off in 'Cadet Dredd vs Grudzilla'; Rogue Trooper is imprisoned by the Norts in 'Secrets of the Keep'; Psi-Judge Anderson enters a dangerous video game in 'Spellcraft'; meet the teenage intergalactic bounty hunter and her family in 'Full Tilt Boogie'; schooldays turn anarchic in the 'Future Shock: That Weird Kid'; and Leah Moore and John Reppion bring a new chilling tale of the supernatural!In this episode of the official 2000 AD podcast we talk to editor Matt Smith about the thinking behind this all-ages special, as well as to Alex De Campi about her new series 'Full Tilt Boogie' and how to write comics that appeal to all ages!The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From blue hedgehogs battling against Dr. Robotnik to genetically-engineered dog soldiers fighting giant insects in a post apocalyptic future, Richard Elson is one of British comics' unsung names.Whether it's his fan-lauded work on Sonic the Hedgehog comic or his art on the critically-acclaimed Kingdom with Dan Abnett, Elson has been a mainstay of the industry.He talks extensively to Thrill-Cast host Molch-R about the challenges and setbacks he's faced along the way, along with his constant need to reinvent his working methods.The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! As well as interviewing top creators and famous fans, we bring you announcements, competitions, and much more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes and Spotify, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.