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Announcing 2000 AD: A Visual History

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Fifty years after it exploded onto shelves and revolutionized comics forever, the visual story of how 2000 AD has evolved is to be told in a special book.

2000 AD: A Visual History 1977-2027 will detail year-by-year the evolution of Britain’s biggest comics export, the legion of legendary stories it has published, and the people who made it into a world-changing cultural juggernaut!

This new oversized hardcover will include rare sketches, test pages, character designs, and art from artists including Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Simon Bisley (Lobo), Kevin O‘Neill (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke) and Judge Dredd co-creator Carlos Ezquerra.

Publishing as part of the celebrations marking 2000 AD’s 50th anniversary in early 2027, The 2000 AD Visual History will feature newly rescanned art from original artboards to showcase the bold iconic imagery that made the comic an institution, with behind-the-scenes sketches and character designs lifting the lid on how 2000 AD was made.

Debuting in 1977, the weekly 2000 AD immediately proved to be a bombshell of a comic, irrevocably changing the publishing landscape with its bold design, intense storytelling, and uncompromising attitude.

Corralling a roster of bold storytellers and dynamic artists, editor and writer Pat Mills, designers Kevin O’Neill and Jan Shepheard, art editor Doug Church, and numerous others created a comic that would come to dominate British comics and influence culture far beyond Britain’s shores. From subverting comics clichés to crafting dark, cynical and satirical stories, it became a byword for the future and ushered in an exciting new era of British pop culture.

The self-styled “Galaxy’s Greatest Comic” would become home to some of the most popular characters of the British comics scene – including Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog, Sláine, Nemesis the Warlock, and many, many more. It also debuted many of comics’ biggest talents, all of whom would go on to revolutionise the world of comics and inspire legions of fans around the globe.

Written by Scott Montgomery, author of The 2000 AD Encyclopedia, The 2000 AD Visual History details how the legendary comic and its famous characters have been brought to life, taking readers on a voyage through the history of the long-running British comic anthology. Presented in an oversized hardcover, an exclusive slipcase edition is also available only though the 2000 AD webshop, featuring new artwork by Pris Bampoh of 2000 AD’s venerable editor Tharg The Mighty, hard at work in his Nerve-Centre!

The 2000 AD Visual History will be published January 27, 2027 – an ideal coffee-table book for fans of 2000 AD, comics, and pop culture alike!

  • Cover of the book '2000 AD: 50 A Visual History 1977-2027' by Scott Montgomery, featuring the logo and illustrations from various comics within the number '50'.
  • A hardcover book titled '54: A Visual History 1970-2020' featuring colorful illustrations and comic art on the cover, including a character with green skin and a futuristic outfit surrounded by various comic panels.
  • Illustration of the character Zenith, a superhero with a bold yellow and black costume featuring a lightning bolt design, standing confidently with a stylish jacket. The background includes sketches and notes about Zenith's backstory and context in a comic series.
  • A vibrant sci-fi illustration featuring a futuristic landscape with alien structures, a smiling yellow character, and characters in elaborate outfits, reflecting a blend of adventure and exploration in outer space.
  • Digital art of a futuristic armored figure with a dark silhouette against a vibrant orange background.
  • An illustration from a comic featuring a vampire emerging from the shadows, with a group of cloaked figures in the background. In the foreground, a terrified man pleads for his life. The scene is set in a dark, eerie environment, creating a suspenseful atmosphere.
  • A page from a comic or graphic novel featuring characters from 'The V.C.s', including various space warriors in futuristic armor with weapons, and accompanying text describing the series' background and development.
  • A comic illustration featuring a character with a large smile, raising a fist in triumph. The character is dressed in a blue jacket, while background elements depict scenes of a scientific transformation involving artificial intelligence. Medical personnel in scrubs appear in one section. Text boxes articulate the narrative about bio-enhancements and a mission.

Preview: Nemesis The Warlock Definitive Edition Vol. 1

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Nemesis The Warlock Definitive Edition Vol. 1

(W) Pat Mills (A) Kevin O’Neill, Jesus Redondo
In Shops: Dec 06, 2023
SRP: $25.95

Long regarded as one of the crown-jewel epics from the pages of 2000 AD, at long last Nemesis the Warlock is back in print and better than ever. Written by Pat Mills (Marshal Law) and drawn by Kevin O’Neill (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), this definitive series is a comprehensive collection of the complete storyline in order, and features development sketches showing the evolution of Nemesis and the Blitzspear. Termight is the ruling planet of a cruel galactic empire, an empire led by the diabolically evil Torquemada, a twisted human despot intent on purging all alien life from the galaxy and punishing the deviants. His motto: Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave! But there is rebellion and resistance to his rule in the form of a devilish-looking alien warlock called Nemesis, who represents everything that Torquemada hates and fears. Together Nemesis and Torquemada are locked in a duel which will affect the fate of humanity and each of them on a personal level as their conflict spans time and space!

Nemesis The Warlock Definitive Edition Vol. 1

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #1 Sells Out with a Second Printing to Come

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Top Shelf Productions and IDW Publishing have announced that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol. IV): The Tempest #1, the first issue in the final miniseries by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, has already sold through its first printing at the distributor level, less than 24 hours after its release on July 11th.

The Tempest has attracted considerable interest not only as the grand finale of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen saga but also as a swan song for Moore and O’Neill.

Retailers may reorder The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol. IV): The Tempest #1 using the Diamond Comic Distributors order code JUN188003.

Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill go out with a bang in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. IV: The Tempest

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After an epic seventeen-year journey through the entirety of human culture – the biggest cross-continuity ‘universe’ that is conceivable – Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill will conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comic-book careers with the series’ spectacular fourth and final volume, The Tempest.

Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes, The Black Dossier, and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow, the world’s most accomplished and bad-tempered artist-writer team will use their most stylistically adventurous outing yet to display the glories of the medium they are leaving; to demonstrate the excitement that attracted them to the field in the first place; and to analyse, critically and entertainingly, the reasons for their departure.

Opening simultaneously in the panic-stricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence, the fabled Ayesha’s lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of ‘We’ on the devastated Earth of the year 2996, the dense and yet furiously-paced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe from Lincoln Island to modern America to the Blazing World; from the Jacobean antiquity of Prospero’s Men to the superhero-inundated pastures of the present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering science-fiction future. With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories.

Commencing as a six-issue run of unfashionable, outmoded and flimsy children’s comics that will make you appear emotionally backward if you read them on the bus, this climactic magnum opus will also reprint classic English super-team publication The Seven Stars from the murky black-and-white reaches of 1964. A magnificent celebration of everything comics were, are and could be, any appreciator or student of the medium would be unwise to miss The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: THE TEMPEST.

Issue #1 is scheduled for June 2018.

Co-Published by Top Shelf Productions (US) and Knockabout (UK).

All-New League Adventure in 2014, as Nemo Heads to Darkest Berlin!

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nemo_roses_of_berlin_cover_sm_lgWhen Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill followed up their League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy with 2013’s spinoff Nemo: Heart of Ice, critics hailed it as a return to form, “a throwback to the high adventure of the initial series,” and a “late-career masterpiece, with a chiseled veneer of cracked adventure on the surface and a bubbling enthusiasm for the magic of storytelling welling up inside.”

Now saddle up your submarines and study up on your silent films, because the new Nemo is now available for pre-order from Top Shelf! Moore and O’Neill rampage through twentieth-century culture in a blazing new adventure, set in a city of totalitarian shadows and mechanical nightmares. Cultures clash and lives are lost in the explosive collision of four unforgettable women, lost in the black and bloody alleyways where thrive The Roses of Berlin.

You can pre-order it from this month’s Diamond Previews catalog, for release in March.

 

Best-selling LEAGUE: CENTURY trilogy reaches explosive finale!

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Top Shelf ProductsThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy reaches its apocalyptic finale!

“A stunning return to form.”
“Marvelously layered.”
“Among the finest works in Moore’s oevre… Fast-paced, visually dense and wildly imaginative.”

These are just a few of the rave reviews Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill have received since bringing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen  “Century” trilogy to Top Shelf & Knockabout. It’s also been Diamond Comics’ #1 bestselling graphic novel in America, with each new book — even hitting the New York Times Bestseller list!

Now, at last, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy reaches its apocalyptic finale!

In this third and final chapter, our narrative draws to its cataclysmic close in London 2009. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past hundred years has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised aeon of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended starting with North London, and there is no League, extraordinary or otherwise, that now stands in his way. The bitter, intractable war of attrition in Q’umar crawls bloodily to its fifth year, away in Kashmir a Sikh terrorist with a now-nuclear-armed submarine wages a holy war against Islam that might push the whole world into atomic holocaust, and in a London mental institution there’s a patient who insists that she has all the answers.

It’s a spectacular finish that must be seen to be believed.

Pre-order your copy now in the current April DIAMOND PREVIEWS!

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (VOL III): CENTURY (#3 of 3) “2009”
by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill
— 80-page softcover
— 6.625″ x 10.125″, full-color graphic novel
— For mature readers (16+)
— ISBN 978-1-60309-007-0
— Diamond DM code: APR12-1232
— $9.95 (US)
— Shipping to stores in June!
— Co-published by Top Shelf Productions (US) and Knockabout Comics (UK)

ALSO AVAILABLE:

• THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (VOL III): CENTURY (#1 of 3) “1910”
• THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (VOL III): CENTURY (#2 of 3) “1969”