The Judge Dredd Megazine hits its 400th issue this week and the 2000 AD podcast sits down with editor Matt Smith to talk about what it's taken to shepherd the Meg to this new milestone, if there were any close-calls along the way, and what's in store for the monthly...

Plus, we chat about the forthcoming Thought Bubble convention - from why it's one of the best comics shows in the UK to the new talent we've discovered through our art and script competitions!

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 iTunes or on the podcast app of your choice, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast

He's the mad genius behind Zombo, Damnation Station, and the Zaucer of Zilk - and now he's in the pub, talking to the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast!

Bringing a unique new voice to 2000 AD, his vivid imagination and dark humour-tinged stories quickly established him as one of 2000 AD's most popular writers and a regular on Judge Dredd, where he worked with Si Spurrier and Rob Williams on the hugely successful Judge Dredd crossover epic, Trifecta.

With his on-going success with Marvel Comics, Ewing sits down with Molch-R to discuss his beginnings as a writer, his preferred version of 'The Marvel Method', his thoughts on continuity, and whether he's coming back to the Galaxy's Greatest Comic.

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 iTunes or on the podcast app of your choice, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast

One of comics’ rock ‘n’ roll superstars, Simon Bisley’s incredible artwork changed the industry forever in the late 1980s with his work on Slaine: The Horned God and Judge Dredd, producing a myriad imitators and launching a decade-long fad for painted comics art.

We round off our coverage of the 2000 AD panels at San Diego Comic Con 2018 with a recording of the 'Spotlight on Simon Bisley' panel as 2000 AD publicity droid Mike Molcher sits down with Simon in front of a live audience to discuss his work, career, and philosophy.

A unique and irrepressible talent, Simon’s work has reached far beyond the page to influence mainstream culture, and while he has always evolved, his style remains timelessly recognizable.

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 iTunes or on the podcast app of your choice, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast

We continue our special coverage of San Diego Comic Con 2018 with a recording of the 'Judge Dredd: Supercop or Satire?' panel from the Saturday of this year's show.

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? The expert panelists debating the pros and cons of the lawman of the future Rosie Knight (Nerdist), Meg Downey (CBR, Mark Russell (Judge Dredd: Under Siege,)and Evan Narcisse (io9, Rise of the Black Panther).

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 iTunes or on the podcast app of your choice, or you can listen now at 2000AD.com/podcast

We continue our special run of episodes recorded at San Diego Comic Con 2018 with a recording of the 'The Treasury of British Comics: Can A Forgotten Archive Teach Us About Comics In The 21st Century?' panel from the Thursday of this year's show.

They've influenced some of comics' biggest names, but you've probably never heard of them; this is the hidden history of what was one of the biggest comics industries in the world. From The Leopard from Lime Street to Whizzer and Chips, from horror comics aimed at young girls to warped humor comics for preteens, these weekly anthologies were a unique influence on some of the biggest names in comics and, with their weekly format and cross-genre mashups, form the missing link between American comics, European comics, and manga.

Discover the untold story of British comics with moderator Michael Molcher and guests Rosie Knight (Nerdist) Ben Smith (head of books and comic books for Rebellion), Jack Davisson (translator: Devilman & Showa: A History of Japan) and Graeme McMillan (The Hollywood Reporter).

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 iTunes or on the podcast app of your choice, or you can listen now at www.2000ADonline.com/podcast

San Diego Comic Con got a much-needed injection of Thrill-power as 2000 AD landed with a booth stuffed with ghafflebette delights! Over the coming weeks we'll be bringing you some of the highlights of the show, as well as all four of our panels - featuring expert opinions on 2000 AD, the Treasury of British Comics, and Judge Dredd. Plus, don;t miss our special chat with the legend himself, Simon Bisley!

This week, we speak to Judge Dredd: The Feels artist Babs Tarr and cover artist Lisa Wood about the 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special and what it's like to work for Tharg for the first time.

And then it's off to our first panel - the 2000 AD Thrill-Hour! with special guests Rogue Trooper co-creator Dave Gibbons, Tyranny Rex creative team Liana Kangas and Katy Rex, journalists Graeme McMillan and Jimmy Aquino and a brief appearance by writer Paul Cornell! We chat Sci-Fi Special, 2000 AD in America, and the Rogue Trooper movie news, plus there's a special announcement about the Mega-City One TV series!

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 iTunes or on the podcast app of your choice, or you can listen now at www.2000ADonline.com/podcast

Following on from the our two-part interview with artist Arthur Ranson (https://2000ad.com/post/3233), the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast sits down with comics journalists, publishers and artists to discuss Arthur's work and ongoing legacy.

Host Molch-R is joined by Rebellion Publishing's Head of Books and Comic Books Ben Smith, Hollywood Reporter geek culture correspondent Graeme McMillan, comics journalist John Freeman, and photographer and artist Ellen Rogers. They chat about what Arthur's work for 2000 AD and beyond means to them, why it deserves wider awareness, and the influence it has had on generations of readers and creators.

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 iTunes or on the podcast app of your choice, or you can listen now at www.2000ADonline.com/podcast

The 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2018 lands next week - the first ever title from 2000 AD with exclusively female creators is on sale on 20 June, with new voices working on some of the Galaxy's Greatest Comics biggest characters, including Judge Dredd, Judge Anderson, Rogue Trooper and more!

The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast talks to Emma Beeby, Leah Moore, Katy Rex, Liana Kangas, and Alex De Campi about their stories for the Sci-Fi Special and what it means to have women working on such classic characters, many of them for the first time.

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 iTunes or on the podcast app of your choice, or you can listen now at www.2000ADonline.com/podcast

This summer, Irish comic book writer and author Michael Carroll has launched a new novella series tracing the earliest days of the Judges - and the 2000 AD podcast chats to him about the first installment, The Avalanche!

The Judges series from Abaddon Books is set in the 2030s as the USA is beset by widespread poverty, inequality and political unrest. Special Prosecutor Eustace Fargo’s controversial new justice laws have come into effect and the Judges have hit the streets. But, in middle America, will the cure be worse than the disease?

Carroll discusses the convergence of comics and prose, what it takes to delve into the back story created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra in Judge Dredd: Origins, and the methods behind his own writing.

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 iTunes or on the podcast app of your choice, or you can listen now at www.2000ADonline.com/podcast

With IDW’s latest incarnation of Judge Dredd returning on 23 May, the official 2000 AD podcast talks to series writer Mark Russell about his first case for the lawman of the future.

From discussing the parallels between today's world and Mega-City One to crafting believable and interesting dystopias, the writer behind critically-lauded The Flintstones and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles for DC Comics sets out how you can tell any story with Dredd's world and why he decided to tell this one...

Issue one of IDW's Judge Dredd: Under Siege by Mark Russell and Max Dunbar hits shelves on 23rd May!

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 iTunes or on the podcast app of your choice, or you can listen now at www.2000ADonline.com/podcast