Weekly Weird Trigger Warnings 9

2000 A.D. Year End Roundup:

Dean Simons and Zack Quaintance of The Beat look back on 2000 A.D. Weekly and the Judge Dredd Megazine in 2025.

The 2025 best of 2000 A.D. Weekly as voted by the readers! Love the idea behind reader polls, see what the worldwide audience says here

Don't miss this epic analysis of the Judge Dredd "Cursed Earth" serial from 2000 A.D., by Tom Ewing at FreakyTrigger

2000 A.D. webshop

Son of Groth Interviewed:

Yatta Tachi

A really nice interview with Conrad Groth at Yatta Tachi, on new Fantagraphics imprint Takumigraphics, which will focus on translated comics from a variety of Asian countries (Taiwan, South Korea, Philippines). Lots of insight into the new line.

Dummy Zine "Help Mark Beyer":

I'm not sure what's going on with Mark Beyer, of Raw Magazine and "Amy and Jordan" fame. John Kelly has a whole section of his store devoted to Beyer merch with the above heading. Hope all is well with the king of existential dread.

Deconstructing Ed Subitsky:

New York Review Comics

Tim in Tokyo and Kumar from Melbourne host Deconstructing Comics #862, a podcast discussing Poor Helpless Comics: The Cartoons (and more) of Ed Subitsky (New York Review Comics). Listen here at Comicon.

Classic Jordi (Torpedo 1936) Bernet:

Comicon (negative)

Comicon has a nice long preview of The Legend Testers (Treasury of British Comics) reprinting some of Jordi Bernet's earliest work for UK weeklies. Treasury of British Comics have also reprinted UK work by Francisco Solano Lopez and Hugo Pratt.

Europe Comics Still Exists!:

Amazon

The Beat shared a link to a Europe Comics release from November 5, 2025. Making this one of only two releases from the digital translation company last year. Even more confusing, amazon lists original publisher Le Lombard instead of Europe Comics as publisher of this English-language edition. I wonder how many of their other releases I've missed the last two years?

Early Jack Kirby Comic Strips Part of New Research Project:

Heritage Auctions

Just when you thought every avenue of Jack Kirby's career has been covered, we find this post from Allan Holtz announcing a series reprinting the whole run of Lincoln Features strips. Kirby worked for the syndicate producing comic strips and panels from 1936-1939. Looking forward to this look at very early Kirby art.

Negative Burn Joins Long Line of Legacy Anthologies Resurrected:

Zoop

Heavy Metal, Metal Hurlant, A1/Deadline, and now Negative Burn! Negative Burn started in 1993 and originally ran 50 issues over four years. It featured a who's who of independent comics creators of the time (mycomicshop has a good list). Image Comics revived the series briefly in the early 2000s. Now original series editor Joe Pruett has the defibrillator out crowdfunding Negative Burn for a new generation of independent comics creators. Check out the campaign here

Miscellaneous:

New colour art by Joshua W. Cotter here

 John Freeman profiles Michael Cohen's (and the late Michael Shearman) Strange Attractors, a 90s indie comic worth remembering

Nik Dirga has the latest issue of Amoeba Adventures available as a free PDF