Rebellion have announced the latest edition of annual summer institution, the 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2026. Set to release in the UK July 22, the US edition (orderable via Lunar) has an anticipated release date of August 19. Featuring 48 pages and 5 standalone stories, it will all cost the tidy sum of £4.99 in the UK, $8.99 in the US.
According to a press release,
“This Summer, kick off your shoes, put on your shades, kick back and relax by the pool… the 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2026 is here to fill your holidays with dread and fear!”
Liam Sharp covers this year’s 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special
2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 2026 will feature original stories featuring Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, and Judge Death, the Twilight Zonesque Tharg’s Future Shocks, and – rather exciting for many fans – a return appearance of Ian Edginton & D’Israeli‘s Stickleback, the self-styled, Victorian-era, “Pope of Crime”.
Stickleback has remained broadly absent from weekly 2000 AD since the conclusion of his last series, New Jerusalem, in 2021’s Prog 2210. We last got a little tease with an appearance in the crossover-themed 2024 Sci-Fi Special but by the sounds of the press release this could, maybe, be a timeline continuation (“The grotesque and fiendish Stickleback has plans for his home of London – but can he complete them without giving away his startling secret identity?”).
While the plots of the stories themselves are largely under wraps, the creative teams have been handily supplied, alongside Liam Sharp‘s cover:
- Judge Dredd, by writer T.C. Eglington and artist Boo Cook
- Strontium Dog, by writer Karl Stock and artist Colin MacNeil
- Judge Death (more specifically Young Death), by Kek-W and Anthony Williams
- Tharg’s Future Shocks, by writer Andi Ewington and artist Gary Welsh
- Stickleback, with original creative team of writer Ian Edginton and artist D’Israeli
The 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special has a long history as a companion to British weekly 2000 AD, running all the way back to 1978. Intended as both a bonus summer vacation thrill for fans and an access point for those unfamiliar. The first iteration lasted until 1996 but the modern one has been going almost every summer since 2014.
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