I bid you welcome to the space-year 2024, Terrans, as we launch once more into another ghafflebette twelve months of Thrill-power. I trust your circuits were suitably dazzled by the Xmas mega-blast and you’ve recovered enough over the last three weeks to be ready for another scrotnig onslaught. This prog sees the final instalment of Helium: Scorched Earth and a complete Dredd story from the Carroll and Califano droids, alongside the latest instalments of The Devil’s Railroad, Feral & Foeand Enemy Earth.

Next issue, upgrade your Thrill-buffers for the return of folk-horror chiller Thistlebone in the third series The Dule Tree by the regular creative combo of T.C. Eglington and Simon Davis, plus there’s the start of a zarjaz new Dredd case, A Better World, by Rob Williams, Arthur Wyatt and Henry Flint as Accounts Judge Maitland’s social experiment to drive down crime reaches a critical point!

I think you’ll agree, my Squaxx, that we’re truly hitting the ground running in terms of 2024’s zarjazosity, and, of course, this is only the beginning — plenty of epic Thrills to come!

JUDGE DREDD // VOX POPULI

Mega-City One, 2146 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, with the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. Crime is rampant, and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!

HELIUM // SCORCHED EARTH, Part Twelve

The far future. It has been three hundred years since the Great War ended, and eighty-five per cent of the Earth’s surface now lies beneath a gaseous ocean known as the Poison Belt — a toxic cocktail of biological weapons. The survivors live above the lethal fugue, but a Professor Bloom has emerged, claiming he can make the planet habitable again. Constable Hodge is tasked with protecting him, but they’ve been followed…

THE DEVIL’S RAILROAD // Part Eleven

The Earth year 3038, and Planet Diaspora X-167 is a world that has been ravaged by war, a conflict that sees no sign of ending despite years of death and destruction. One couple, Palamon and Constance, are attempting to escape the caranage, especially now that Constance is pregnant — if the baby is born on Earth, it’ll have full Earth rights. Seeking a new life, these refugees must take a risky journey…

ENEMY EARTH // BOOK THREE, Part Four

The near future. Mother Nature has turned against the people that live upon the Earth’s surface. Now, the planet’s flora and fauna have mutated and are viciously attacking humanity. As society crumbles, and survivors seek safety, young Zoe, who has lost her own family, has rescued Jules, who’s the prime minister’s son. Now, the PM and the two youths have been captured and held in a military base…

FERAL & FOE // BAD GODESBERG, Part Twelve

It’s been over five years since the Last-of-All-War, when the Monarchy succeeded in defeating the Malign Lord. With their leader dead, his minions are scattered, fleeing retribution from the Wretchfinders. Necromancer Bode and warrior Wrath are two such beings, and were offered a deal — hunt and kill their own kind or be declared FERAL & FOE. Now, they’ve travelled to Godesberg, a stronghold that’s in trouble…