2000 AD Prog 2468 Review
- Bobby Campbell
- 3 hours ago
- 3 min read
Release date: February 4, 2026
Cover Artist: Cliff Robinson
Cover Colorist: Dylan Teague
And the hits keep on coming! And at breakneck speed no less, with a perfectly paced prog that leaves you waiting on pins and needles for the next drop!
JUDGE DREDD // DEATH OF A JUDGE - PART FIVE
Writer: John Wagner
Artist: Mike Perkins
Colorist: Chris Blythe
Letterer: Annie Parkhouse
Building towards our final confrontation with a BANG! I’d complement the world building, but I’d say it is already well beyond established, so instead I’ll praise the world maintenance. The internal consistency of Mega-City One allows for even the business-as-usual police procedural drama to create deep immersion and real stakes for the inevitable end.
HERNE & SHUCK // POWER TRIP - PART SIX
Writer: David Barnett
Artist: Lee Milmore
Colorist: Gary Caldwell
Letterer: Annie Parkhouse
The King-Without-A-Castle gives Herne a Zen riddle to solve which imparts a great lesson straight through our point of view character right to the reader themselves! While simultaneously setting up the next episode with a big turn of the narrative arc.
And do please take time to soak in Lee Milmore’s nearly wordless woodworking storytelling!
JUDGE DEE // PART TWO
Writer: Ben Wheatley
Artist: Simon Coleby
Colorist: Jack Davis
Letterer: Simon Bowland
The plot thickens, bubbles, and boils over into the best psychic buddy cop demonic adventure going! The flexibility of the Judge Dredd universe is on impressive display here with a Psi-Fi occult thriller, complete with a crime-solving giant purple demon symbiote, that still feels cogent with the larger Mega-City One world. More please!
THE DISCARDED // PART SIX
Writer: Peter Milligan
Artist: Kieran McKeown
Colorist: Jim Boswell
Letterer: Simon Bowland
Our undercover cop protagonist, the newly anointed Sister Trash, seems to have finally caught on to the idea that there may indeed be some societal problems in the world that gave rise to the Junkfall wasteland!
I’m not sure if I just missed it previously, or maybe it’s because I joined in after the story had already started, but the idea that Veera has been successfully propagandized by the dystopian forces of an authoritarian government is something of a surprising revelation to me!
I knew she had trauma from being abandoned* by her father, Aaxon, for an idealistic cause, but didn’t realize the degree to which that had blinded her to reality.
*Last issue made it clear that probably the main reference for the titular “discarded” is Veera and her mother, who Aaxon leaves behind as he joins a strike against the corrupt government regime.
THARG’S 3RILLERS // MONEY SHOT: HIGH STAKES - PART TWO
Writer: Kek-W
Artist: Rob Richardson
Letterer: Rob Steen
Our genre jumping pulp novella continues with a three color mobster vampire shootout, with a perfect one-liner from our hired gun hero that encapsulates our current zeitgeist, “nothing much surprises me anymore.”
With still another truly wild twist to set up our final act!
And that’s Prog 2468! What a show! Here we’ve been thrown off five cliffs in rapid succession, drawn and quartered with narrative tension, and only next Wednesday can save us :)))
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