“We’re big fans of Rebellion and 2000 AD,” says Amanda Kruse, Good Shepherd’s head of business development and editorial. “We’re still in our early days, but building this with partners who understand the art of adaptation through media has been amazing. We’re excited to bring fans the hits they’ve come to expect, but even more excited to play with the deepest stories in the library.” This isn’t the first time Good Shepherd has worked on adaptations. In 2020 he edited John Wick Hex and is currently working on Hellboy Web of Wyrd, a game that has the collaboration of Mike Mignola.
2000 AD, which was born as a British science fiction-oriented comics magazine, has given life to very popular series such as Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper, but it is also the home of Skizz and Halo Jones, two comics written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Jim Baikie and Ian Gibson, respectively. Among the properties that Rebellion guards we also have the action detective Sexton Blake, the supervillain turned hero The Spider, who has scripts signed by Jerry Seigel (co-creator of Superman), and some curiosities such as Hewligan’s Haircut, a surreal graphic novel by Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz) and Peter Milligan.
The deal between Good Shepherd and Rebellion includes game adaptations of stories from 2000 AD, a publication that goes by number 2,334. Not only are there many characters and series such as Sláine, Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper, but there are also a large number of genres, from science fiction, sports, westerns, war, espionage, horror and mystery to adventure, humor, history , superheroes and villains. This isn’t the first time the Rebellion has tried to pull off 2000 AD adaptations, but so far nothing is known about the Judge Dredd: Mega-City One series or the Duncan Jones-directed Rogue Trooper movie.
