2000 AD #1446

Name: 2000 AD #1446
Brand: Rebellion
Availability: InStock

Jul 2005 · Rebellion · 1.75 GBP

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About this Issue

Prog 1446 represents 2000 AD in its mid-2000s Rebellion era, a period when writer John Wagner was deepening the emotional architecture of the Judge Dredd universe through his 'Brothers of the Blood' family arc — weaving Vienna Dredd, the clone Judge Rico, and supporting judges like Roffman and Guthrie into a sustained examination of identity, loyalty, and the cost of a life spent enforcing an authoritarian legal system. As a weekly anthology issue, it also showcases the breadth of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic's lineup at the time, pairing the Dredd continuity with the darkly comedic Sinister Dexter strip featuring Finnigan Sinister and Ray Dexter. While not a single-character debut issue, it sits within one of the more narratively ambitious stretches in Dredd's long publication history, when Wagner was consciously revisiting and retconning decades of continuity to make Dredd's family ties feel earned rather than incidental.

Contains 5 stories

Blood Trails Part 7

6 pp · Detective-Mystery, Science Fiction

Judge O'Brien

Slow Train to Kal Cutter Part 4

5 pp · Crime, Science Fiction

The Assassin Part 6

5 pp · Science Fiction

Atavar III Part 4

6 pp · Science Fiction

Northern Dark Part 4

5 pp · Horror-Suspense

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History

By 2005, Rebellion had owned 2000 AD for five years and was actively collecting its strongest recent storylines into trade paperbacks; the 'Brothers of the Blood' graphic novel — reprinting Wagner's Dredd family stories from progs 1186 through 1381 — appeared around this period, giving the ongoing strips in progs like 1446 a collected-edition context that amplified their readership. The Sinister Dexter strip, created by Dan Abnett and David Millgate and running since the 1995 Winter Special, was a well-established second anchor in the weekly lineup by this point. Specific editorial or production notes unique to prog 1446 itself are not documented in available online sources.

Trivia · 8 facts

2000 AD is a weekly British sci-fi anthology published since 1977; prog 1446 appeared in 2005 under Rebellion, which acquired the title in 2000.
The Judge Dredd content in this era was written by John Wagner, creator of the character (alongside original designer Carlos Ezquerra), and continued the 'Brothers of the Blood' family continuity spanning clones Judge Rico and Dolman alongside Vienna Dredd.
Vienna Dredd — Joe Dredd's niece and daughter of the original rogue clone Rico — first appeared in prog 116 (1979, written by John Wagner, art by Ian Gibson) and returned as an adult in prog 1300 (2002); prog 1446 falls within her ongoing role in Dredd's life in Mega-City One.
Judge Roffman, a recurring character in this period, is established as a surveillance specialist in the Public Surveillance Unit, originally transferred from the SJS after bugging a superior officer — his morally grey skill set made him a useful foil for Dredd in investigations.
Judge Guthrie is a Wagner-created supporting judge whose arc involved surviving a corrupt sector house before being returned to duty by Dredd; by the mid-2000s he was an established recurring presence in the strip.
Sinister Dexter — featuring gunsharks Finnigan Sinister and Ray Dexter operating in the futuristic Euro-city of Downlode — was created by Dan Abnett and David Millgate and debuted in the 2000 AD Winter Special 1995, making it one of the anthology's longest-running non-Dredd strips by the time of prog 1446.
Atavar is a separate 2000 AD strip also indexed in this issue; it is one of several serialised science-fiction stories that ran concurrently in the anthology's weekly format.
The 'Brothers of the Blood' trade paperback (Rebellion, ISBN 9781904265856), collecting Wagner Dredd family stories illustrated by Simon Fraser, Carlos Ezquerra, Ian Gibson, Colin MacNeil, and Charlie Adlard, provides the closest collected-edition context for the Dredd content appearing in progs around this era.