What If... 2000AD & Judge Dredd Merged With Battle/Action

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Rebellion is asking “What If 2000 AD had merged with Battle Action”, with character team-ups and Dreddverse variations of Battle strips.

2000AD and Judge Dredd time! Any British child who learn British weekly comedian books within the sixties, seventies or eighties can be accustomed to this cry. “Great news for all readers inside!” the comedian e-book would say on the quilt of the problem. To be revealed as “your favourite strips from BinkyBonky will now be appearing with your favourite strips from Corwumph!” Two comedian books would merge, with the dream of carrying each titles’ readerships to hopefully mix them and preserve one comedian alive, as a substitute of cancelling them each. Eventually the strips from the lesser title would (largely) be dropped and the title would fade from the masthead.

Buster and Jet merged, Tiger and Jag merged, Tiger and Roy of The Rovers merged, Starlord merged with 2000 AD, Tornado merged with 2000AD, Wham merged with Pow, Hoot merged with Dandy, Cor merged with Buster, Oink merged with Buster, Lion merged with Valiant, Smash merged with Valiant, Joe 90 merged with TV 21, TV 21 merged with Valiant, it was the best way of issues.

Now Rebellion Publishing is asking “What If 2000 AD had merged with Battle Action”, itself a merged title, and 2000AD’s war-themed predecessor, within the Nineteen Eighties? So they’re reviving Battle Action within the pages of 2000AD, with team-ups of the respective characters, in addition to Dreddverse variations of basic Battle strips. A particular 48-page bumper problem of 2000 AD Prog 2350 and the 132-page Judge Dredd Megazine #460 can be merged with Battle/Action for one – properly, two – points solely. The comics can be revealed on the twentieth of September within the UK and the first of November within the US.

Judge Dredd Megazine will see Judge Dredd tackle the anarchic, riotous teenagers of ‘Kids Rule OK’, the controversial sketch that noticed questions requested in Parliament and Action being from cabinets in 1976. The comics can even function Alan Hebden and Carlos Ezquerra’s former enslaved gunslinger El Mestizo and laconic WWII officer Major Eazy, in addition to lethal future sport ‘Death Game 2049’, and daring Panzer officer ‘Hellman of Hell Force’, in addition to Dreddworld reinventions of strips comparable to John Wagner and Mike Western’s story of the ‘Forgotten Army’, ‘Darkie’s Mob’, and Tom Tully and Joe Colquhoun’s WW2 air ace ‘Johnny Red’.

Creators embrace Ken Neimand, Alex de Campi, Gordon Rennie, Arthur Wyatt, Chris Weston, Staz Johnson and extra.

Matt Smith, editor of 2000 AD, stated: “The history of comics on the UK’s newsstand is marked by the practice of merging titles, where two great anthologies combine. In the case of Starlord joining 2000 AD, it meant the Prog gained Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters. When Tornado’s Black Hawk joined the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, it led to a radical reinvention of the strip. Writer Ken Niemand suggested to me a special asking what would’ve happened if Battle Action merged with 2000 AD in the early eighties, with its war stories getting something of a science-fiction/fantasy makeover, and I couldn’t resist! Major Eazy, Hellman of Hammer Force, El Mestizo, Dredger – all these great characters get the 2000 AD treatment in Prog 2350, courtesy of the likes of Niemand, Simon Coleby, Chris Weston, Dan Cornwell, Jake Lynch and more. And over in Judge Dredd Megazine #460, we’ve got Dreddworld reinventions of ‘Rat Pack’, ‘Darkie’s Mob’ and ‘Johnny Red’ – it’s a ‘What if…’ that fans of both Battle and 2000 AD won’t want to miss.”

This crossover will then be adopted by a model new ‘leaping on’ problem of 2000 AD that includes an all-new line-up together with ‘Poison’, a brand new ‘Judge Dredd’ story by Rob Williams and PJ Holden, extra ‘Feral & Foe’ by Dan Abnett and Richard Elson, the return of ‘Helium’ by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli, plus a particular one-off conflict between two basic characters by Garth Ennis & Henry Flint.

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