You don't have to be mad to read the Megazine - but it helps

[2000AD Online]

Simped-up private eye (and undercover Judge) Jack Point is one of three top Thrills returning to the100-page Judge Dredd Megazine with issue 234, on sale at all good newsagents from 29 June, priced just ?4.50!

NEW! THE SIMPING DETECTIVE: PLAYING FUTSIE
By Simon Spurrier & Frazer Irving

An all-new case for the clown who walks the mean streets of Angeltown, at the arse-end of ?City Bottom?. The last blameless cit makes a shocking discovery about the forces which shape the lives of every single denizen of Mega-City One ? but will Jack Point be distracted from his sleazebag nekkid wrestling channel long enough to help?

NEW! THE BENDATTI VENDETTA: SEE NAPLES AND DIE
By Robbie Morrison & John Burns

For years, rumours have circulated amongst the law enforcement agencies of Europe about a mysterious order known only as the Bendatti, who wreak cruel and merciless vengeance upon criminals that the legitimate authorities cannot touch. Commissioned by bring down the godfather of the Neapolitan mafia, have Bendatti agents Faulkner and Serrault taken on a vendetta too far?

NEW! YOUNG MIDDENFACE: MIDNAPPED!
By Alan Grant & Shaun Thomas

Qarped by radioactive fallout and oppressed by the vicious Kreelers, mutants are the underclass of future Britain. In the wake of the Killoden massacre which wiped out the rebel muties? Tartan Army, teenager Archibald ?Middenface? McNulty has turned guerrilla ? and he?s trying hard to make it big as Public Enemy Number One!

PLUS!

By popular demand ? the return of Battle classic CHARLEY?S WAR, by Pat Mills & Joe Colquhoun. It?s winter 1917: wounded by shrapnel in the Battle of the Somme, at last teenage Tommy Charley Bourne is returning home from the horrors of the battle-ravaged Western Front. But little does he know that the Great War is coming back to Blighty with him ...

The nerve-shredding conclusion to JUDGE DREDD: THE MONSTERUS MASHINASHUNS OF PJ MAYBE! Who lives? Who dies? You won?t believe your eyes as this modern classic by John Wagner & Carlos Ezquerra reaches its astonishing finale!

DEVLIN WAUGH journeys headlong into the Abyss in ALL HELL, by John Smith & Colin MacNeil ? the terrifying truth about the Half-Life virus is revealed as ANDERSON ? PSI-DIVISION: CITY OF DEAD continues, by Alan Grant & Arthur Ranson ? Nikolai Dante creator ROBBIE MORRISON interviewed ? and: Mrs Peel, THE AVENGERS are needed as the latest BRITISH ICONS to come under the spotlight in this popular run of features!

Link: Tharg's Newsround

[IndigoPrime]

:: By popular demand ? the return of
:: Battle classic CHARLEY?S WAR

ARGH!

[LARF]

: By popular demand ? the return of
:: Battle classic CHARLEY?S WAR

Yyyyuhhhhessssss!!!!

[Dudley]

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[Artificial Idiot]

Never heard of the Bendatti Vendetta, but I really couldn't be happier with the rest of  the line up!

This should be fantastic!

[Funt Solo]

: By popular demand ? the return of
:: Battle classic CHARLEY?S WAR

Yyyyuhhhhessssss!!!!"

I second that "Yyyyuhhhhessssss!!!!"

[Wils]

CHARLEY?S WAR

Bugger.

[Grant Goggans]

Sounds like a great lineup, but whichever droid has the unenviable job of summing up The Avengers in only five pages has my sympathy!

--Grant

[Artificial Idiot]

Am I the only one who thinks Middenface has gone goth on us?

[Tiplodocus]

I like the new word "qarped". That sounds a really cruel thing to do to someone.

[Bolt-01]

Middenface by Shaun Thomas- Innteresting.

Charley's war- Yessss.

The Meg is absolutely awesome at the mo; it really is superb.

Bolt-01

[The Amstor Computer]

Middenface - oh, dear...

Simping Detective - hurrah!

Bendatti Vendetta - meh. The last two series of this have been dull, dull, dull. Doesn't help that it appears John Burns is illustrating Outrun in that preview...

Charley's War - hurrah!

The rest all looks good and I'm keen to see the Avengers article. The Meg's on a real roll at the moment, and it's a real credit to Alan Barnes & co. that it's remained consistently entertaining for so long.

Now all we need is for a few more collections of the great stuff that's been appearing in it - XTNCT and Anderson are on the way, but surely Simping Detective, Black Siddha, Lenny Zero and Cursed Earth Koburn are due a shot?

[Lord Running Clam]

I was meaning to ask about this,but wasn't there surposed to have been a Lenny Zero collection in the works.Was it mentioned that the last work Jock was going to do for 2000ad was as lenny Zero collection cover before the DC deal. started.Andy Diggle also said that it was to have synopses of future Lenny Zero stories.

I've got to say the megazine looks like it going to be a great read.The simping Detective cover looks wonderful.

[ukdane]

I'd like to see new Lenny Zero and Cursed Earth Koburn, before a collection is released.

 

[The Amstor Computer]

"I'd like to see new Lenny Zero and Cursed Earth Koburn, before a collection is released"

Sadly, I reckon the first is a no-go. Andy Diggle is still tied up in his exclusive with DC, IIRC (and Jock?) and there's no sign of him being in a position to write any more Zero for a good while.

I'd agree that more Koburn would be nice - a chunky, US-style collection would be preferable to yet another slim hardback.

"I was meaning to ask about this,but wasn't there surposed to have been a Lenny Zero collection in the works.Was it mentioned that the last work Jock was going to do for 2000ad was as lenny Zero collection cover before the DC deal. started.Andy Diggle also said that it was to have synopses of future Lenny Zero stories."

I don't remember anything concrete, but Jamie Boardman (ex-Rebellion trade editor) had hinted that a Lenny Zero collection was at least being considered.