Exclusive Cover Reveal: Ben Templesmith on 2000 AD

Halloween is quickly approaching and 2000 AD has a special treat for fans. Ben Templesmith, known for his his very stylistic, horror themed art, will be drawing the cover for the upcoming 2000 AD Winter Special, which will be released on October 29th.

Horror-themed Winter Special contents are...

Judge Dredd: Sorebone by T.C. Eglington and Riccardo Burchielli

Defoe: Frankensteiner by Pat Mills and Leigh Gallagher

Terror Tales: Phantom Pains by Eddie Robson and Jeff Anderson

Anderson, Psi-Division: Horror Comes to Velma Dinkley by Alan Grant and Darren Douglas

The Alienist by Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby and Eoin Coveney

Rogue Trooper: The Feast by Guy Adams and Lee Carter

This Winter Special will be released on October 29th.

Strange that it's a winter special and not Halloween but cool either way.

@jonny_anonymous: yeah, the dating makes it even more confusing. Would you recommend 2000ad atm? Might use the current jumping on point of prog 900 to get into it. I'd be worried that the IDW series would "Americanise" Judge Dredd, so I decided to go with the original.

@maccyd: Yeah but it's pretty hard to keep up with since it's weekly, you could try the Judge Dread Megazine instead.

@jonny_anonymous: It's actually reviving the Summer and Winter Specials 2000 AD used to publish every year - the Summer one was a great success for us this year, so we're continuing the tradition! The date is purely because that's pretty equidistant between the summer special and Christmas!

@maccyd You should totally jump on board - Prog 1900 was the perfect issue and is available digitally from our webshop or iPad app. Comic book stores can also order it via Diamond!

Molch-R, 2000 AD

@molch-r: Will 2000 AD ever consider an Android app? I know you can still get digital comics from the webshop, but it'd be easier from an app.

@maccyd The droids are currently developing one, but it will be a while yet.

so is this Special going to print? or just digital?

a tad confused

@j_hickmanisgod Both! Same as 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine - in print from comic book stores (it was in Previews), DRM-free digital direct from 2000 AD, and from the 2000 AD iPad app.

@molch-r: The cover of this weeks issue was pretty fantastic.

Loving the return of the Specials, every issue I read right now makes me wish I'd never stopped reading it in my twenties, I hate having those missing years in my collection.

@jonny_anonymous It really was, wasn't it :) @tadwick Welcome home, Earthlet :)