Another barnstorming bumper 100-page Xmas issue sees out the year - super-intelligent ape Noam Chimpsky tangles with Judge Dredd again in "Three Kings" by Ken Niemand and PJ Holden; Johnny Alpha has a Kreeler scientist in his sights in "Once Upon a Time in Der Vest" by Rob Williams and Laurence Campbell; Proteus Vex returns to investigate secrets from the past in "The Shadow Chancellor" by Mike Carroll and Jake Lynch; former Chief Judge Hershey's quest of vengeance continues in the next arc "The Brutal" by Rob Williams and Simon Fraser; we return to Deadworld for a series of short tales in "Visions of Deadworld" by Kek-W and Dave Kendall; the origin story of Captain Constanta is revealed in Fiends of the Eastern Front: "Constanta" by Ian Edginton and Tiernen Trevallion; and we catch up with the Survival Geeks for a one-off story, courtesy of Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby and Neil Googe.