Judge Dredd Tour of Duty: The Backlash
John Wagner has been scripting for 2000 AD for more years than he cares to remember. His creations include Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Ace Trucking, Al's Baby, Button Man and Mean Machine. Outside of 2000 AD his credits include Star Wars, Lobo, The Punisher and the critically acclaimed A History of Violence Al Ewing's work for 2000 AD has seen him hailed as a major voice in the field, bringing fresh characters, a keen sense of comedy and a startling inventiveness to the UK comics scene. Now a seasoned Judge Dredd writer, Al's other work for the Galaxy's Greatest Comic includes various Terror Tales and Future Shocks, Dead Signal and Damnation Station, while he has scripted several Tales From the Black Museum strips and Tempest for the Judge Dredd Megazine. He has also written four novels for Abaddon Books: I, Zombie, El Sombra, Death Got No Mercy and Gods of Manhattan. Rufus Dayglo started his career as an animation slave-bot, but was saved by Tharg and rebuilt as an art-droid. He now works for various publishers in the UK and US. He's since worked on Low Life, Metal Gear Solid, Judge Dredd, a number of horror books and Tank Girl with Alan Martin. Dreams can come true... all hail Tharg the Mighty! Patrick Goddard is has worked extensively for the Galaxy's Greatest Comic. He has pencilled Judge Dredd, Mean Machine, Middenface McNulty, Wardog and Sinister Dexter. Kev Walker is the co-creator of Badlands and The Balls Brothers, and has also provided artwork for Dan Dare, Judge Dredd, Future Shocks, Harlem Heroes, Mercy Heights, Rogue Trooper, Time Twisters and Tor Cyan. For the Judge Dredd Megazine, he co-created The Inspectre and has illustrated Judge Anderson, Mean Machine and Wynter. Walker has recently finished an acclaimed run on DC's L.E.G.I.O.N. and has pencilled Marvel Comics' The Eternal, as well as adapting Charlie Higson's Young James Bond novel SilverFin. Since joining 2000 AD in 1986 Colin MacNeil has worked on many strips, including Chopper: Song of the Surfer and the infamous death of Johnny Alpha in Strontium Dog: The Final Solution. He went on to collaborate with John Wagner on the award-winning America for the Judge Dredd Megazine. He has also worked on Shimura, Maelstrom and Fiends of the Eastern Front: Stalingrad, and, outside of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, provided the atmospheric artwork on Bloodquest for Games Workshop. He also enjoys creating large abstract paintings. He says it's art therapy! ...Regrets is Nick Dyer's first professional Dredd work for 2000 AD. He has also illustrated Future Shocks and Tales From the Black Museum, and his art has appeared extensively in small-press publications. Simon Fraser is best known to 2000 AD fans as the co-creator of Russian rogue Nikolai Dante, whose adventures have been a staple of the comic since his debut in 1997. Fraser is also the co-creator of Family in the Judge Dredd Megazine, and has drawn Judge Dredd and Shimura. His best-known non-2000 AD work is Lux & Alby: Sign On and Save the Universe, a collaboration with Scottish post-punk author Martin Millar. Fraser's creator-owned project Lilly MacKenzie and the Mines of Charbydis was published in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Carl Critchlow made his debut in 2000 AD working on Nemesis and Deadlock, then moving on to Batman/Judge Dredd, Flesh, Future Shocks, Judge Dredd, Mean Machine, Lobster Random and Tales of Telguuth. Outside of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, he is the creator of the hugely popular Thrud the Barbarian.