Mike Eakins
HE WHEEL TURNS ONCE MORE: Brass Sun, one of 2000 AD’s most acclaimed series, returns to the Prog later in 2025!
Praise be to The Cog! The much-loved series Brass Sun is returning to 2000 AD in 2025 for an all-new story by creators Ian Edginton and INJ Culbard!
Set in a giant mechanical solar system, Brass Sun is the story of Wren, a young woman who realises that the bass sun that gives life to the dozens of worlds has started to slow, freezing the outer worlds and killing off the inhabitants.
Setting off from her homeworld of Hind Leg, Wren is given part of the secret of the lost key that has the power to restart the sun again. Charged with travelling across the various worlds to pick up other parts of the key which was broken up after The Great War, she alone possesses the power to save the galaxy from extinction! But the journey is long – longer, in fact, than even the creative team realised!
“The first run of Brass Sun was a great success, people really took to it, so much so that I started to doubt that I could repeat it with the next run,” says Edginton. “It was genuinely a case of performance anxiety! I was worried that it wouldn’t measure up so I kept putting it off and putting it off.”
“Eventually Ian (the other one) and I went on to do other things and Brass Sun lay fallow for years. But about eighteen months ago my teenage daughter read the whole thing and was annoyed that there wasn’t anymore, that I’d just left poor Wren hanging in limbo. I reread it myself and realised she was right and what’s more I wanted to finish telling Wren’s story, I owed it to her. I also realised that I needed to get over myself and just get on with it and so here we are!”
The new run on Brass Sun will return to Wren’s story now she’s a little older, and in her mid-twenties. After all her experiences she’s withdrawn herself from the world – but just as she tries to shut the rest of the world out, an old friend returns with a message: destiny isn’t done with her yet!
What can readers expect from the return of the critically-acclaimed steampunk series? Edginton teases that this is a world where literally anything can happen. “It’s great to be working with Ian again. I’d forgotten how much of a laugh it was. We’d start off talking over the story and script and then end up debating whether you could build a submarine out of Tofu and could a spider ride a Moped? We’re a pair of unsupervised middle aged men with far too much time on our hands!”
Look out for Brass Sun as it returns to 2000 AD this September!
