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The Beatles Cinematic Universe is still a couple years away, but we're already on the verge of a new British Invasion.

At least, that's what's come out of ComicsPRO 2026, where Judge Dredd publisher Rebellion has just made a revalatory announcement. For the first time since it was founded in 1977, the weekly scifi anthology 2000 AD series will publish officially branded comics here in the United States, specifically by Rebellion and Lunar Distributors.

In case you're looking at the 2000 AD comics you got at your local comic shop and scratching your head, here's the big difference between how the magazine is being published now and how it will be published come this May (besides location, of course).

"... the move means that rather than waiting months for copies, readers will be able to pick up issues of 2000 AD each and every week from their local comic store for the first time [...] so new readers can pick up copies from the shelf and discover a range of Thrills to reshape their reality!" reads the company's announcement.

Timewise, the 2000 AD US comics will be available in local stores just two weeks after they see publication in the UK, meaning that our friends across the pond still technically will get the jump on some of the best science fiction to ever hit sequential storytelling. But now, US fans will have easier access to those ground-breaking sagas, including not just Judge Dredd but stories like Brink, Silver, Brass Sun, The Fall of Deadworld, and more.

(A quick personal sidenote here, reader - I'm just excited to get closer than ever before to my beloved Rogue Trooper, a character introduced to me by none other than Popverse's Editor, your pal and mine, Graeme McMillan.)

And if that's not enough excitement, 2000 AD also announced that a brand new, exciting Judge Dredd story would be on the way to US comic shops this year; the Mega-Epic crossover saga. "As Judge Dredd enters The Oubliette and witnesses The Black Tower," reads the publisher's statement, "Readers will be able to pick up both titles straight from their local comic store to ensure they get the full story as a hyper-blast of electrified Thrill-Power!"

Keep an eye on Popverse for more news out of ComicsPRO 2026, and head to your local comic shop this May for some (US printed!) 2000 AD.

Get ready for what's next with our list to upcoming comics and how to buy comics at a comic shop, and our guide to all the free comics you can get with this year's Free Comic Book Day and Comics Giveaway Day.