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Best of 2000 AD #1 – A Perfectly Curated Gateway into the Worlds of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic for New Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 27, 2022

Two and a half years ago at Broken Frontier we advance-reviewed the first issue of Best of 2000 AD, an upcoming anthology maxiseries designed as a gateway publication into the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Thirteenth Floor Vol. 2 and 3 – Mad Max, the Tower Block A.I. with a Vengeful Personality, Returns in the Final Collections of this Classic Brit Horror Comic Strip

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 9, 2021

Of all the Treasury of British Comics reprint collections to have emerged since publisher Rebellion gained ownership of decades of classic UK comics characters a few years back, few have…

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Preview: The Citadel – John Wagner Returns to ‘Judge Dredd’ for a Major New 45th Anniversary Story in ‘2000 AD’

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • October 18, 2021

It seems no time at all since we were celebrating 2000 AD’s 40th anniversary at that splendid birthday event in London in 2017. Here we are though with the 45th…

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Rebellion to Publish John Wagner’s ‘America: Lost & Found – The Rediscovered Scripts’ Giving Unique Insights into a Judge Dredd Classic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2020

For comics scholars and historians there’s exciting news about a unique opportunity to gain further insights into a Judge Dredd classic. Rebellion will be publishing America: Lost & Found –…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Invasion 1984! – Extraterrestrial Terror Invades the Pages of War Comic ‘Battle’ in Another Classic Collection from the Treasury of British Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 9, 2019

Seeming rather incongruous in the pages of Battle in the mid-1980s, Invasion 1984! was a perhaps a somewhat unlikely science fiction offering from the long-running weekly war comic anthology. It…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Thirteenth Floor Vol. 1 -The Treasury of British Comics Takes Us Back to a Horror Comics Cult Classic from the Pages of ‘Scream!’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2019

The Thirteenth Floor is perhaps the most fondly remembered of all the strips to originate in the very short-lived early ’80s British horror comics weekly Scream!. Written by the popular…

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Staff Picks for August 12, 2015 – Including Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl, Judge Dredd: America, Dirty Rotten Comics, The Yankee, King Tiger and More

  • by Broken Frontier Staff
  • August 11, 2015

It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

2000AD Prog 1924 - Cover by Brian Bolland

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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2000 AD Prog 1924 – The Future Has a Very Old-Fashioned Feel in the Latest Jump-On Issue

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 2, 2015

By focusing on old 2000 AD favourites, Tharg the Mighty misses an opportunity to give his comic a fresh shot of energy. As 2000 AD has enjoyed its renaissance in recent…

2000 AD Prog 1900 cover Judge Dredd

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Preview: 2000 AD Prog 1900 – Great Starting Point with New Stories by John Wagner, Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • September 23, 2014

Tomorrow marks a great jumping-on point for 2000 AD’s long-running weekly anthology series with the release of 2000 AD Prog 1900. The issue features three brand new strips by some…

Durham Red - John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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It’s a 2000 AD Double Bill, With the Satirical Vampirism of Durham Red and the Zombie Samurai of Hondo City Justice

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 23, 2014

2000 AD has released two new graphic novels onto the US market. Durham Red introduces the US audience to this enigmatic vampire bounty hunter in the classic tale The Bitch,…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Smut and Crime Mix it Up Like the Law and Broken Teeth in the Dirt-Filled ‘Judge Dredd: The XXX Files’

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • August 19, 2014

Judge Dredd is famous for showing no emotion and upholding justice, but what happens when the citizens of Mega-City One want to cut loose, let their hair down and really,…

Judge Dredd Complete Case Files #7

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Judge Dredd Hits the US Where it Hurts in Case Files #7, Featuring Dinosaurs, Fatties, Snorks and Werewolves

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 10, 2014

In the ongoing epic of the life of Dredd, Case Files #7 is a quiet but remarkably solid collection that switches from straight action to smart satire at the snap of…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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It’s a 2000 AD Droid Double Bill, with John Wagner’s Parody Banzai Battalion and Pat Mills’s Down & Dirty Ro-Busters

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • April 29, 2014

Two classic 2000 AD robotic features get repackaged for the US market, so it’s droid madness at Crossing Borders! But do Wagner’s Banzai Battalion and Mills’s Ro-Busters really deserve this special…

Cover of 2000AD Prog 1874

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2000 AD Prog 1874 – The Latest ‘Jump-On’ Issue Offers Strong Stories But Few Surprises

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 27, 2014

With five new stories, the annual ‘jump-on’ issue of the British sci-fi anthology offers a solid mix of old and new series, all delivered in the comic’s familiar style. It’d…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Let’s Do Battle

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • February 11, 2014

Curated by superstar writer Garth Ennis, Battle Classics presents two previously uncollected tales of intense warfare during WWII by Alan Hebden and John Wagner, from the heydays of the Battle comic. If…

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for January 29, 2014

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • January 28, 2014

It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, BF…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Get Harry Ex

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • November 12, 2013

If you’re going to be referencing one of the all-time great revenge movies, you better make sure that your comic lives up to the reference and I can safely say…

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Preview: John Wagner Returns to Judge Dredd with ‘Wastelands’

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • June 13, 2013

It’s close to a year since Judge Dredd co-creator John Wagner penned a story featuring Mega-City One’s hard-nosed cop. But next week, Wagner returns with ‘Wastelands’, the follow-up to his year-long…

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