Battle Action Volume 2 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781837860968)

John Wagner has been scripting for 2000 AD for more years than he cares to remember. His creations include Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog, Ace Trucking, Al's Baby, Button Man and Mean Machine. Outside of 2000 AD his credits include Star Wars, Lobo, The Punisher and the critically acclaimed A History of Violence.

Rob Williams is the writer of Suicide Squad and Martian Manhunter for DC Comics, Unfollow for Vertigo and Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor for Titan Comics. His previous work for 2000 AD includes Judge Dredd: Titan, The Grievous Journey Of Ichabod Azrael (And The Dead Left In His Wake) and The Ten-Seconders, and he is currently writing Roy of the Rovers for Rebellion.

Dan Abnett is a seven-times New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning comic book writer. He has written over fifty novels, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series, the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, volumes of the million-selling Horus Heresy series, The Silent Stars Go By (Doctor Who), Rocket Raccoon and Groot: Steal the Galaxy, The Avengers: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, The Wield, Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero, and Embedded. In comics, he is known for his work on The Legion of Super-Heroes, Aquaman, The Titans, Nova, Wild's End, and The New Deadwardians. His 2008 run on The Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel formed the inspiration for the blockbuster movie. A regular contributor to the UK's long-running 2000 AD, he is the creator of series including Grey Area, Lawless, Brink, Kingdom and the classic Sinister Dexter. He has also written extensively for the games industry, including Shadow of Mordor and Alien: Isolation. Dan lives and works in the UK. Follow him on Twitter @VincentAbnett

Keith Burns is a member of the Guild of Aviation Artists, and has previously worked on Rat Pack for Battle, and the Johnny Red mini-series.

Comic artist and illustrator based on the south coast of England. Early work was on titles such as Futurequake, Dogbreath, 100% Biodegradable. Big break came in 2014 when John Wagner and Alan Grant spotted his work and offered him the chance to illustrate a new sci-fi comic called Rok of the Reds. Since then he's worked on characters including Judge Dredd, Judge Fear, Max Normal and others for 2000AD and Judge Dredd The Megazine. Also illustrated Dredd for the Cursed Earth card game and Crime Files mobile game. Recent work includes the critically acclaimed sequel to Rok of the Reds - Rok the God, again written by John Wagner, and Roy of the Rovers illustrations for their fiction novels. Continues to work with 2000AD on stories including the upcoming series Department K and a new John Wagner Judge Dredd story. He is also working with Steve MacManus on Blazer!

Chris Burnham is best known for his work on Batman Incorporated with Grant Morrison, but he has also drawn Nameless written by Grant Morrison, and Die! Die! Die! written by Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman.

Phil Winslade is a veteran of the industry. As well as his work for 2000 AD, his considerable talents as an artist have graced the pages of a variety of comics for DC, Vertigo and Marvel, including Batman, Daredevil, Goddess, Spider-Man and the legendary Steve Gerber's Howard the Duck and Nevada. As well as being the co-creator of Lawless, his work with the Galaxy's Greatest Comic includes a story for Tharg's Terror Tales, several Judge Dredd strips including a one-off Judge Dredd for Free Comic Book Day 2017.

Henry Flint, winner of the National Comics Awards for Best Comic Artist 2004, is one of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic's rising superstars. Co-creator of Sancho Panzer, Shakara, and the fan-favourite strip, Zombo, his incredibly versatile pencils have also graced A.B.C. Warriors, Judge Dredd/Aliens, Deadlock, Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, Nemesis the Warlock, The V.C.'s and Venus Bluegenes. He has even written a Tharg's Alien Invasions strip! He has also worked on several American comics, including Omega Men, Haunted Tank and Fear Itself: Fearsome Four. Away from the comics industry, Henry produced art of the cover of DJ Food's 2012 album, The Search Engine.

John Higgins is a multi-talented 2000 AD artist and writer; as well as scripting a Future Shock and Judge Dredd, Higgins has illustrated Chopper, Freaks, One-Offs, Tharg the Mighty and Time Twisters. His work outside the Galaxy's Greatest Comic is also highly respected, and he has contributed to some of the most important series of recent times, including working as a colourist on the modern superhero classic Watchmen, and on Vertigo's Animal Man, Hellblazer and Pride and Joy.

Paul J. Holden has illustrated The 86ers, Judge Dredd, Tharg's Future Shocks, Rogue Trooper and Johnny Woo for 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. P.J. lives and works in Belfast, and is married with two children.

Stewart "Staz" Johnson started his artistic career working on RPG magazines. From there he got work at Marvel UK, where he worked on weekly comic book series such as Transformers and Action Force. Having worked on the majority of Marvel's A-list titles such as Thor, The Avengers and Spider-Man, he moved over to DC Comics, working on several Batman titles. His work for 2000 AD includes Judge Dredd, Future Shocks, Rogue Trooper and the strip Killer, which he co-created with Steve Moore.

Mike Dorey joined 2000 AD following its merger with rival action comic Tornado, where he pencilled Victor Drago. Following his move to greener pastures, he pencilled several Future Shocks and a Time Twister, as well as M.A.C.H. 0, M.A.C.H. 1, Ro-Busters, Invasion!, Rogue Trooper and Tharg the Mighty.

Patrick Goddard's clean art style has graced many strips in the Galaxy's Greatest Comic. Co-creator of the Megazine series Wardog, he has penciled Judge Dredd, Mean Machine, Middenface McNulty, Sinister Dexter and took over the art duties on Savage from Charlie Adlard.