The Megazine gets a face-lift this month – the print mag is now squarebound, with the reprint moved inside the mag itself, thereby ditching the polybag and the separate mini-trades. To mark this format change, this bumper Xmas issue is a massive 144 pages in which alongside the latest instalments of Devlin Waugh, Surfer, Storm Warning and Death Metal Planet – plus of course a complete seasonal case for Judge Dredd, courtesy of Ken Niemand and Stewart K. Moore – we’ve got two bonus stories in the shape of an eight-page Judge Dredd by Rob Williams and Will Conrad, and the debut of Mega-City 2099, a slice of retro law enforcement from Niemand and Conor Boyle, channelling that 1970s aesthetic. Elsewhere there are interviews with two comics creators that have dipped their toes into prose – former Rogue Trooper script-droid Gerry Finley-Day and cover artist John Watson – as well as writer and editor John Freeman, plus reprints of the first issues of Judge Dredd: Year One and Mega-City Two: City of Courts, both originally published by IDW, and some classic Steel Claw material. Cover: Cliff Robinson & Dylan Teague Judge Dredd - Dollman (Part 1) (Ken Niemand - Stewart K. Moore)Storm Warning - Dead & Gone (Part 3) (John Reppion - Clint Langley)Devlin Waugh - Karma Police (Part 3) (Ales Kot - Rob Richardson)Dark Judges - Death Metal Planet (Part 3) (David Hine - Nick Percival)Surfer - Book Two (Part 3) (John Wagner - Colin MacNeil)Graphic Novel: Judge Dredd: Year One (Michael Carroll - Mark Sexton)
